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The fact that Donald Trump won a landslide Iowa caucus endorsement vote and is decisively leading all opponents in primary and general election polls doesn’t eliminate the possibility that his candidacy could be terminated by one of numerous predatory lawsuits litigated by a politically selected judge and jury.
This being the case, a Trump loss orchestrated and determined at the hands of a few agenda driven un-appointed officials and randomly selected jurists will certainly throw the nation into civil chaos, whereby all pretenses of adherence to the "will of the people" will have become meaningless.
Also bear in mind that — either way — what happens to Trump will serve as a precedent going forth for all presidential contenders of both parties.
Most insidious, individual prosecutorial assaults on Trump appear to be coordinated efforts among high level private entities and public agencies we have traditionally relied upon to ensure process openness.
Just for a few examples, recall the 2016 Hillary campaign’s Trump Russia collusion media hoax, a "confidential project" that was spearheaded by Jake Sullivan who now serves as national U.S. security director.
This occurred around the same period when the Obama White House — including then-Vice President Joe Biden — had instigated the "Clinton plan" on Aug. 31, 2016, that authorized FBI Crossfire Hurricane spying on the Trump campaign based on false FISA court filings.
That was followed by FBI-media collusion in attributing Hunter’s laptop from hell to Russian disinformation throughout the 2020 elections supported by 51 disingenuous high-level intelligence officials in a letter engineered by Joe Biden’s senior campaign adviser and now Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Remember the eye-bleeding double standard optics of an early morning armed FBI raid on the private home of former president Trump seeking authorized classified documents with scant interest in those warranting no such leniency found in Joe Biden’s unsecured garage next to his classic Corvette, in his residence, and in a Penn Biden Center closet, a think tank previously headed by his CEO Blinken.
Contemplate a very different media reaction if a Trump family member received the loving IRS sweetheart deal that offered Hunter immunity from jail time after allowing the statute of limitations to expire on tax charges involving profits on millions of dollars from foreign sources when his "pops" was vice president.
Remarkably, all this duplicity accompanied with two impeachment charades haven’t finished Trump’s ascendancy, and four indictments with 91 felony counts based on untested and unchartered claims during the runup to a presidential election have only caused more to rally at his side.
Nevertheless, Democratic opposition efforts unceasingly seek to keep Trump off the campaign trail, muzzle, and possibly bankrupt him.
New York State Democratic Attorney General Letitia James wants to confiscate all of Trump’s New York properties and cancel his licenses to conduct business there based upon allegations that he overvalued his extensive Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida when applying for business loans which he subsequently paid fully back on time.
Now add recent purported evidence that Trump’s federal and regional prosecutors may have also been coordinating with Biden White House officials.
As reported by Breitbart. com, Atlanta prosecutor Fani Willis met with Vice President Kamala Harris before indicting Trump on racketeering charges, and according to The New York Times report of Jan. 11, 2024, her lead attorney on the case, Nathan Wade, conferenced with the White House Counsel’s Office on May 23, 2022.
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel Jack Smith’s original scheduling of a Trump trial on charges of inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot to begin on March 4 also does nothing to dispel widespread concerns over the viability of U.S. elections.
This is the day the day before March 5 GOP Super Tuesday contests, when Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Vermont vote to select a nominee.
Trump’s lawyers have called on the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the former president is immune from prosecution as he faces two criminal indictments — a federal prosecution brought by U.S. Special Counsel Smith, and a racketeering case brought under Georgia law by Atlanta District Attorney Willis.
Regarding the federal case, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan had rejected Trump’s argument of immunity and set a March 4 trial date, intentionally pausing that timeline so that her decision could be appealed.
Hoping to bypass a federal appeals court to expedite the case, Special Counsel Smith unsuccessfully requested that the Supreme Court intervene to fast-track the presidential immunity question, leaving it first at the hands of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit with initial arguments set for Jan. 9.
Meanwhile, America’s top court has also agreed to review a majority 4-3 Colorado Supreme Court ruling to disqualify Trump from their state’s primary ballot based upon Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, an archaic Civil War remnant enacted to keep former Confederate officials from gaining power during Reconstruction.
All this underscores extreme far-left desperation efforts to replace fair selection of leadership by a constitutional democratic republic with a decidedly undemocratic banana republic.
This is still America, so let the voters decide.
Larry Bell is an endowed professor of space architecture at the University of Houston where he founded the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture and the graduate space architecture program. His latest of 12 books is "Architectures Beyond Boxes and Boundaries: My Life By Design" (2022). Read Larry Bell's Reports — More Here.
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