Exclusive: Mike Pottage wonders if 2016 will have been the last honest election in U.S. history
By Mike Pottage
The New York trial of Donald J. Trump is a public lynching. Lady Justice never entered the courtroom. She was not even in the building. And the worst awaits us all.
Trump has been placed in an American version of the Tower of London to languish while the Crown’s clowns besmirch his character, and soon a minority of four jurors will convict. The judge essentially instructed the jury to convict any way it wished. It did not even have to specify a crime has been committed.
Immediately upon conviction, the Democrat Party will declare Trump a felon and his continued candidacy a threat to democracy. The party will have his name stricken from ballots; some jurisdictions may simply disqualify and refuse to count ballots cast for Trump. The internet dons may make his name and candidacy disappear tomorrow. The identical strategy works if there is a “miscarriage of justice” and Mr. Trump not convicted.
It is not just Donald Trump’s freedom that is on trial. That is why this gross abuse of the American judicial system and its politics may result in a victory for the man on trial. American voters may issue their own trial verdict and repudiate the Democrat Party campaign strategy. Last time around, Russia, Russia, Russia worked. This time it will be felon, felon, felon. We shall see.
If Trump still wins in November, the Democrats will only have one path forward. They will seek to overturn the vote of the people. The irony of that choice, the rejection of a duly elected president of the United States by the party that lost the election, may just launch America into its second civil war. Or, if allowed to stand, will erase “of, for and by the people …”
A Democrat victory after this disgraceful episode would mean America will elected all future presidents in much the same way Russia repeatedly elects Vladimir Putin.
History will take note of the irony. If the Democrat Party is successful, it will mean Donald J. Trump was the last duly elected president of the United States. That election was held in 2016. It will be the Democrats who killed democracy, or more accurately, the republic.