Former President Donald Trump may have been found guilty of all 34 felony counts levied against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, but the only real crime is not Trump’s supposed falsification of business records — it’s the rigged verdict resulting from a kangaroo court that ought to offend our sense of common decency.
Trump was not judged by an impartial jury of his peers but rather by a bench stacked with New York Times subscribers and TikTok stans from an electorate that favored President Joe Biden in 2020 by a 53.5-point margin. The verdict was not based on witness testimony by paragons of virtue and honesty. Spearheading the prosecution’s case was Michael Cohen, the convicted perjurer. Stormy Daniels, the porn star who parlayed her one-night stand with the then-married Trump from a jovial cash cow that brought her income from a media blitz and nationwide strip-club tour, transformed her tawdry tale on the stand into a sob story, intimating that this consensual case of adultery was actually an abuse of power.
