Former U.S. President Donald Trump now faces three separate indictments with 78 felony charges. This places our nation's legal system and our country overall, in unprecedented times.
Congressional committee investigations, and their accompanying hearings, have produced voluminous information about substantive alleged corruption of current President Biden and his family.
Now with Biden seemingly enjoying a beach vacation and Congress in its August recess, the American people get a "break."
Perhaps, this allows us to digest and think about what’s going on.
Because there's no matching precedent for much of this, it’s necessary to approach all of it as objectively as we can; absent hysteria: to the very best of our ability.
Yes, this a legal battle.
But it's more.
It's between the administrative elite-deep state who want to keep and aggrandize their power, and the people who want fairness and equal opportunity.
Trump has to be eliminated or destroyed, so contends the administrative, elite deep state.
Previous efforts in this regard to stop Trump, vis-a-vis through U.S. Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller's investigation about collusion with Russia, and two subsequent impeachment attempts failed.
Is the battle more vicious now because Biden and the deep state are cornered?
They know that if Trump wins re-election, he will have lawbreakers prosecuted, and turn over Washington’s money changing tables that provide kickbacks from Ukraine and from other U.S. foreign aid recipients.
Also, Trump will certainly close the southern border and stop the illicit flows of money from criminal cartels’ drug, child, and sex trafficking.
The strategy to destroy Trump has its compelling components.
Trial-by-media follows an old playbook.
With three indictments overkill, the strategy is to crowd out and diminish media coverage of the Biden scandals while flooding the media with coverage of Trump’s legal woes, thus attempting to amplify his alleged wrongdoing and guilt and subliminally influence people to conclude that with Trump there is so much smoke from different cases and jurisdictions, there must be multiple fires.
Second, deep state Democratic Party lawfare is designed to drain Trump’s campaign resources by forcing him to pay high legal bills while keeping him off the campaign trail with time-consuming legal requirements.
Yet, Trump’s poll numbers and fundraising are increasing!
The real judge and jury on Donald Trump should be the voters. Period.
When the average American compares what we have learned and experienced in the last two-and-a-half-years with what people experienced under the Trump administration in pre-COVID-19 years (2017-2020) there are incredibly stark and clear contrasts:
First, note the difference between Trump’s undeniably genuine patriotism and love for America, compared with Biden who fluctuates between authoritarian vindictiveness and ambivalence toward America — and all it stands for: its flag, culture, heritage, freedoms, etc.
The starkest contrast in character is between Trump’s magnanimity to forgo compensation while serving as president, and Joe Biden’s exploitation of public office, wherein he allegedly received millions through son Hunter’s payoffs for providing political access to his father; his shakedown of figures, both from unsavory foreign countries, including Ukraine, Russia and America’s numbe one enemy — China.
There is also sharp contrast between Trump’s commitment to building a wall to secure America’s border, and Biden who immediately stopped that wall construction and issued an executive order to liberalize immigrant entry, thus opening the floodgates of illegal migrants.
Let's also consider, migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border during the first year of Trump’s administration reached the lowest levels since the 1970s, whereas Biden’s first year migrant encounters at the border reached the highest level on record.
In Trump’s last year in office — 2020, fentanyl deaths in America reached about 55,000, but by Biden’s second year — 2022, fentanyl deaths doubled to 109,000.
In his first year in office, President Biden singlehandedly turned Trump’s achievement of low gasoline prices and energy independence achieved in 2019 (the first time since 1957) into dependence on foreign oil, a 40% depletion of the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve that negatively affects U.S. military readiness, and causes dramatic inflation in fuel costs rippling throughout the entire American economy.
In his first year, like a giddy college freshman, Biden blew the inheritance from Trump’s rebuilding the American military by his colossal failure in retreat and withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left behind some $85 billion in advanced U.S. military hardware, and cost 180 lives — including 13 U.S. service members.
In 2022 Biden got the U.S. into war in Ukraine without clear objectives in contrast to Trump who, for his entire term, kept the U.S. out of war, while quickly defeating ISIS and keeping enemies at bay through surgical strikes against the Syrian air force and General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC).
On the domestic front, violent crime has dramatically increased across the country in most major cities under Democrat control and exacerbated by Biden’s open border policy, compared to the relative stability of Trump's administration pre-COVID-19.
U.S. public schools, already underperforming, are facing a crisis of epic proportions since Biden became president, seen in new low performance scores but also visible in widespread protests from parents about the indoctrination of their children.
Americans with a variety of beliefs and different political affiliations recognize that conditions in America have deteriorated dramatically from where they were in the first three years of the Trump administration, before the so-called COVID-19 pandemic.
The American people well-know the difference between Trump's actions, versus Biden's mere quickly evaporating words. They also know to wholly ignore media spins.
The real judge and jury adjudications on Donald Trump should not be made in biased courts by politically driven prosecutions, the media, and left hysterics, but by voting citizens who are fully capable of assessing comparative results on their own, absent "help" from the federal leviathan.
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Scott S. Powell, a member of the Committee on the Present Danger: China and senior fellow at Discovery Institute, is the author of "Rediscovering America," a new release in the history genre. You may reach him at scottp@discovery.org. Read Scott S. Powell's Reports — More Here.
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