Former US president Donald Trump’s conviction in the hush money case, which has delighted Leftists all over the world, underlines a disturbing fact: even though the ideologies they believed in, communism and socialism, were globally discredited more than three decades ago, their influence continues to date. The success of Alvin Bragg, the radical Leftist politician and Manhattan Attorney, against Trump proves that.
Consider this: a billionaire former US president, who seems to be on a comeback trail, has been convicted for a ‘crime’ that has no victims. By no stretch of imagination can his action of paying hush money, even if he did that, to a pornstar can be called an offence serious enough to attract four years of imprisonment. The only person who should be worried about a man’s dealing with a pornstar could be his wife, but that is beside the point. The Leftists running the ruling Democratic Party in the US are keen to somehow keep Trump away from office—by hook or by crook. Ends justify means; hence the travesty of justice called Trump conviction.
Leftists hate Trump because he loves America. He wants to make it great again by checking illegal immigration, cracking down on crime, boosting re-industrialisation, galvanising the economy, restarting conventional oil production, and upholding free speech. The Left cannot stand this. It wants to promote their dubious and dangerous doctrines like the critical race and legal theories, transgenderism, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), controls on economy and free speech, open borders, systemic racism, and defunding the police.
So, the Democratic Party and President Joe Biden, under Left influence, are promoting policies that ignore or downplay the real issues like high inflation, growing violence by radical groups (as evident from the recent unrest on university campuses), continuous flow of illegal immigrants, and soaring crime rates, especially in Democrat-run states.
All this is not accidental; this is the result of bad karma. Like many other Democrat politicians, Bragg is notoriously soft on crime and criminals. He was not just zealous in prosecuting Trump for what was at worst a financial misdemeanor; the DA was equally insistent two years ago in imprisoning a convenience store employee for killing an ex-convict in self-defence.
Jose Alba, 61, was charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Austin Simon, 35, despite the video clip clearly showing the six-foot Simon shoving and attacking Alba. “The video in this case speaks for itself: Mr. Alba was simply doing his job when he was aggressively cornered by a much younger and bigger man,” Alice Fontier, a spokeswoman for Alba’s attorney, told the media. Thankfully, the judge dismissed the murder charge, but Alba still had to spend time in prison.
All this because he had the temerity to ask Simon’s girlfriend to pay for the items she had taken from the store. She came back with Simon and, during the scuffle in which he died, she also stabbed Alba. But, typically, Bragg refused to prosecute her for the stabbing.
Bragg also ensured that a felony robbery charge against the violent criminal Christian Hall was reduced, resulting in his release in January 2022. A month later, he was arrested again after he assaulted a city sanitation worker in the same neighborhood.
The pro-criminal approach of Bragg—and of other politicians—is predicated upon critical legal theory. A counter-Enlightenment theory, it is predicated upon the dogma that jurisprudence in the US and other democracies operates in a sanitized universe that doesn’t take social biases into account. Leftists contaminate the conventionally accepted jurisprudence with the toxicity of social justice, and deliver critical legal theory.
For them, executing such devious doctrines is a religious duty. They are equally passionate in destroying anyone who is a threat to beliefs and authority. Hence the relentless demonisation of Trump—right from the day when he announced to run for presidency to his presidency, and to date. A zillion accusations have been made against him—Russian collusion, racism, xenophobia, financial fraud. Nothing stuck till the recent past; somehow, though, his enemies managed to convict him.
They are as zealous in maligning and defaming Trump as they are fervent in shielding the man they believe can stop him coming back to power—Biden. The entire Left-‘liberal’ establishment, including academics, the mainstream media, and activists, has closed their ranks behind the incumbent US President. The US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability found last year that “the Bidens and their associates have received over $20 million in payments from foreign entities.” In September 2023, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said, “Bank records show that nearly $20 million in payments were directed to the Biden family members and associates through various shell companies.”
The fact-check exercise by a prominent ‘liberal’ news channel came up with Biden’s defence that his most competent PR man would have been proud of: “This is true about Joe Biden’s family and associates, but there is no public evidence to date that the president personally received any money.”
If the family and friends of a powerful politician financially benefiting because of his office is not corruption, what else is? And such a lenient definition of bribery is accepted, few Indian politicians can be corrupt.
The Left-‘liberal’ establishment has created a milieu in which something that can at worst be described as a financial misdemeanor is punished with prison and acts of gross venality are given for the benefit of the doubt. Trump’s plight was best expressed in Urdu by Akbar Allahabadi: “Hum aah bhi karte hain to ho jaate hain badnaam/Woh qatl bhi karte hain to charcha nahin hota (Our slightest infraction brings us opprobrium/And they get away even with murder).”
The author is a freelance journalist. Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect News18’s views.
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