Sudden Turn of Events Derails Trump Indictment
Rumors have been circulating throughout the United States for about a week that President Donald Trump was about to be arrested for “hush money” he paid to an American pornographic film actress.
Trump denies allegations of adultery with Stephanie Clifford but admits that his lawyer paid Clifford $130,000 to keep her from going public with extramarital affair claims. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wants to arrest and indite Trump for violating campaign finance law by presenting the “hush money” payments as legal fees for his 2016 presidential campaign. Yet now it looks like District Attorney Bragg may have broken the law.
Hiding evidence: District Attorney Bragg told the grand jury weighing potential charges against Trump to stay home on March 22 after a witness told jurors that Bragg was hiding hundreds of pages of evidence showing that Trump was not guilty of campaign finance violations. This allegation may or may not be true. Yet if it is true, Bragg may be charged with prosecutorial misconduct and put on trial himself. You are not allowed to cherry-pick six documents out of a trove of hundreds and make a legal case that President Trump broke the law.
Media cycle: District Attorney Bragg will likely drop his case against Trump to get away from this situation as fast as possible. But in many ways, the damage to Trump’s reputation has already been done. Millions of Americans have seen the news coverage of allegations that Trump committed adultery with a pornographic film actress and then violated campaign finance law to cover it up. They will assume the allegations are true even though Trump never went to trial. So like the Federal Bureau of Investigation raid on Mar-a-Lago last year, this case is an example of weaponized intelligence agencies targeting Biden’s political rivals.
Double Standard: America’s founders believed that the rule of law was the first principle of free government. That is why Samuel Adams wrote, “There shall be one rule of justice for the rich and the poor; for the favorite in court, and the countryman at the plow.” True freedom cannot exist when leaders refuse to govern people according to set legal principles and instead prosecute their enemies based on fancies or whims.
Yet America today is governed by the Biden administration’s fancies and whims. The “deep state” is covering up hundreds of pages of evidence documenting Hunter Biden’s 459 violations of state and federal law while trying to arrest Donald Trump for a campaign finance violation he may not have even committed.
Of course, adultery is a major moral failing if Trump indeed did that, and Americans should question whether they want a man who has committed such a serious moral sin in the White House. But adultery is not a prosecutable crime in the United States, so Bragg’s prosecution is a clear-cut case of U.S. leaders having one standard for the “favorite in court” and another for “the countryman at the plow.”
Learn more: Read “The End of America’s Constitutional Republic,” by Trumpet executive editor Stephen Flurry.
