The horse has bolted, taking the door with it.
After weeks of speculation (and cynical politics on both sides), a grand jury in Manhattan voted to indict former President Donald Trump in a case pushed by
Soros-backed
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg surrounding alleged
hush money
paid to Stormy Daniels, a porn star.
George Washington would be so proud.
The general response has been
as you would expect
: celebration on the Left, fury on the Right, and a mild condemnation in the middle.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
condemned
the weaponization of “our sacred system of justice against President Donald Trump.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a 2016 rival of Trump,
said
that “the ‘substance’ of this political persecution is utter garbage.”
And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a devotee of team Trump,
declared
that Trump’s opponents “know [he] did not break the law.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) provided us with the most 1984-esque statement in the history of Twitter,
writing
that “no one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence.”
Prove innocence, huh?
But the problem here, as is so often the case when Trump is involved, is that Trump sucks the oxygen out of every matter, acting as a political black hole with an ever-approaching event horizon.
Let’s be clear: We don’t know whether Trump is guilty or not, either entirely or in a court of law (and yes, there is a difference). The indictment has been filed under seal and will reportedly be announced in the coming days. We don’t know the charges and so can’t reliably declare Trump’s innocence or guilt.
But Trump’s innocence or guilt isn’t really the point.
The point is that this has absolutely nothing to do with justice and everything to do with vengeance.
If we agree that no one is above the law, then we agree that the law is based on some sort of objective standard. But the opposite is true. District attorneys and other servants of “justice” across the country, many backed by openly partisan actors such as
George Soros
, are themselves partisan actors. Their goal is to achieve justice — for their enemies.
During his 2016 campaign, Trump famously quipped that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and wouldn’t lose any voters. Ironically, under district attorneys such as Alvin Bragg, public violence goes unpunished far beyond the ballot box in New York City — all in pursuit of a higher political game.
Meanwhile, the same people who declare that “no one is above the law” do so from a balcony thousands of feet above the law.
Let’s not forget that Hillary Clinton, whose defeat began this yearslong witch hunt against Trump, escaped criminal charges surrounding her emails scandal simply because James Comey (the director of the nation’s principal federal law enforcement agency, the FBI)
invented
the need for “criminal intent.”
And what about the utter disinterest in the multiple Biden children who
received
$1 million from China?
At this point, it’s beyond obvious that the justice system is entirely corrupt when it comes to matters of politics. But there’s another layer here obscured by Trump himself: He’s not in danger.
Trump, like most of his peers, has the resources to fight these kinds of attacks. But the same cannot be said of the average citizen.
While the indictment of Trump is almost certainly a symptom of the rot deep within our justice system, be careful not to believe that he stands as the only symptom.
Trump can at least afford a cure. We can’t.
Ian Haworth (
@ighaworth
) is the host of
Off Limits with Ian Haworth
.
