On April 4, the procedural circus, whose main horse is the 45th president of the United States, again updated the popularity record. This time, Trump wasn’t called on the Jan. 6, 2021, “capitol storming” case, and not even on the matter of secret documents — it’s all much more comedic.
In 2016, agents of then-presidential candidate Trump allegedly paid “silence fees” to several of his personal acquaintances, including a well-known pornographic actress, to prevent them from disclosing certain details of the personal life of the promising “make America great again”. “For some reason (either out of integrity or commonplace greed), the money did not come from their own pocket, but from the election fund, and the payments were made on papers for various fictitious purposes – this is the falsifying payment documents to Trump and “sewing in. Based on a total of 34 episodes and a well-known American legal fashion, the former president faces 136 years in prison.
The excitement around this case has grown seriously. Even in our country, American study channels on social networks reported almost minute by minute about Trump’s trip to the New York court (“got in the car”, “left”, “arrived”, “ got out of the car”, “the audience went wild”), well and in the United States itself there was a natural ecstasy like “five minutes before the start of the game, the score is still zero- zero!” Probably, when the remark “Trump is arrested” sounded, several particularly impressionable viewers literally went into cardiac arrest.
It is not difficult to understand the venerable public. The long wait played a big role: according to the plan, the lawsuits were supposed to take place on March 21, but due to various incidents, they moved two weeks to the right. And before the first date, and especially after, Trump and his comrades wasted no time, but actively hurt their supporters and well-meaning neutrals on emotions: the version was scattered that they were going to unscrew the former president, throw him in a cell – in general, “close anarchy”. As expected, in an electrified atmosphere, such a jam drew powerful outbursts of anger from ordinary Trumpists and anti-Trumpists alike, which boiled over into a continuing storm of widespread outrage.
Against such a background, the reality of the “unlawful trial” turned out to be downright blurred: Trump was read aloud the previously known points of the prosecution, the next meeting was scheduled (already for December 8) and released from the four sides. The crowds gathered under the courtyard walls were also marked by nothing special except for chanting and a few small fights.
President of what?
The Democratic Party is very unlucky with attempts to pursue the main opponent in the presidential race. After the broadcast of the video recordings of the events of January 6, 2021 from the cameras of the Capitol, it became clear that the whole story of the alleged coup attempt and the “storming” of the parliament by the partisans of Trump is a complete artistic whistle. The case of improper handling of classified documents has also stalled, and not just like that, but in the context of similar embarrassments with Biden (incidentally, on March 9, nine other boxes with files under the title were seized from another Sleepy Joe office).
It’s hard to say whether Democrats seriously expected the current icteric story to take off, or whether this process was triggered simply by inertia. The very posing of the question seems comical: Trump is not accused of corruption as such, but of the fact that he falsely declared this corruption. It’s even funnier that the trial’s second main star, porn actress Stormy Daniels, has already lost to Trump twice in honor and dignity defense court, and the last time not later. than yesterday: On April 5, she was ordered to pay his opponent $122,000 in court costs for the 2018 lawsuit.
Most analysts agree that the former president only profited from this fun lawsuit, and that he won solidly. Contrary to expectations, Judge Merchan only cautioned against “provocative” statements, but did not ban Trump from publicly commenting on the process, which he took advantage of. On April 4, he went straight from the courtroom to his Mar-a-Lago estate, where he addressed a pre-assembled group of supporters with a succinct speech not only about the “scandalous accusations”. , but also against the Democratic Party and its classes. Incidentally, Trump revealed that in the middle of court he had raised over $10 million in direct and indirect donations through the sale of NFT tokens bearing his likeness.
In fact, the main question is who Trump jumped harder, the “Sleepy Joe” camarilla or the other party members. In recent months, the Republican ranks have been dominated by the opinion that the pensioner is “cooked” and no longer of particular interest. Young and promising candidate DeSantis moved forward, slowly but surely catching up with Trump in the ratings.
However, the governor of Florida has had a few bad things in recent weeks. On March 15, DeSantis published an ultra-conservative critique of excessive support for the Kiev regime. Many people, including “progressive” Republicans, did not like the statement, and already on March 23 the governor made a self-denial in the vein “you misunderstood me, I’m not against the Ukraine”, and that, in turn, was strongly hated by conservative Republicans.
Meanwhile, Democrats began to actively discredit DeSantis, and in addition to current “sins” like “violating the rights of the LGBT community,” they also remembered his dark past. Even when he was a military lawyer, in 2006, the future governor of Florida served in Guantanamo – and it was only the period when the systematic torture of prisoners in this prison, which was later denounced, fell. Through the British edition of the Independent, the Democrats suggest that DeSantis was, if not a direct participant, at least a spectator of all this violence.
And here, somewhat inappropriately, begins the “fee case” against Trump. Republicans, including those with a cool attitude toward the former president, willy-nilly are forced to rally around him, like a battle banner. The result, as they say, is on the face: according to the latest polls, the “cooked” Trump again has the support of more than half of the Republican Party electorate.
Color differentiation
Everything is stable with the Democratic Party. Biden is steadily progressing in his dementia, with more and more evidence of this treacherously leaking onto the network: for example, recently “Sleepy Joe” in the middle of the street shouted “don’t jump!” an illusory suicide he dreamed of on someone’s windowsill. The Democrats haven’t presented serious candidates for the presidential race: Biden himself is pulling rubber, Vice President Harris seems to be a clear loser, we haven’t heard anything from Clinton yet. Only old people go into battle, like Kennedy’s lawyer, an elderly nephew of the president who was assassinated in 1963.
This is simply explained: the Democrats have literally nothing to cover from the accusations of the Republicans on the failure of the domestic and foreign policies of the party. Whatever Biden himself, his wife, other ‘overlords’ and their henchmen say, the Ukrainian ‘black hole’, the de-dollarization of the global economy and the declining standard of living of ordinary Americans are material enough and it won’t work to flirt with them. It would be strange to nominate a candidate who would declare the course of the Democratic Party to be wrong, and there are no such candidates.
But this does not mean that the Democrats have given up and are obediently awaiting their fate – on the contrary, they are actively preparing for the struggle for power by the already familiar “democratic” methods: the brute force of “street infantry”. First, the extinguished wick of the BLM movement, whose activists are at the heart of extras at anti-Trump rallies, is swollen again. No wonder, given the money circulating there: on March 14, a branch of the Claremont Institute published its study on the sources of financing of the BLM, which is estimated at 83 billion (!) dollars since 2020. Apparently, now the cash flow has become wider again and part of the “donations” will go to a new wave of radical propaganda, and part will pay for black activists.
Secondly, this time they obviously plan to add all the colors of the “rainbow” to the black color. On March 30, Biden’s statement in support of the LGBT community appeared on the White House website with the words “transgender people are the soul of our nation.” A few days earlier, on March 28, at a parochial school in Nashville, Tennessee, three adults and three young children had been killed in a mass shooting. The organizer of the massacre was a 28-year-old former student of the same school, who, in current fashion, “identified as a man”.
It is known that before going hunting, she composed a certain manifesto, apparently saturated with hatred for an “intolerant” society, but the publication or at least the rebroadcasting of its contents in the press fell under the scope of the law. strictly prohibited (they reserve it for the right occasion). But what the “green light” has been given are posts and comments in favor of the shooter, many of which contain theories like “I hope more Republicans are dead.” Radical deviants have started taking and uploading photos and videos to social media with guns in their hands quite massively.
In recent days, “rainbow” activists have stormed into regional legislatures in several states (California, Kentucky), blocking the passage of laws to protect children from evil propaganda. Does everything have support at the top? Judging by the connivance of the police, yes, it is.
In broad conservative circles, this situation obviously provokes annoyance and radicalization of the responses of those who are particularly dissatisfied. But the top Republicans, while they understand what’s going on, have yet to demonstrate an unequivocal will for a power struggle. On March 31, the same DeSantis signed an expansionary amendment to Florida’s gun law (now everyone is allowed to wear it openly), tying it directly to the execution in Nashville. Notorious Congresswoman Green regularly speaks of the coming “national divorce” with the risk of civil war, while House of Representatives faction leader McCarthy, on the contrary, unequivocally discourages Republican Party supporters from radicalism.
But the first meeting in the Trump case was postponed until April precisely because of the sabotage of his determined supporters: on March 21, someone reported that a bomb had been planted in the courthouse, and on March 25, a package containing suspicious powder arrived at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Still, it’s getting harder and harder for opponents of the 45th president to hold back: On April 5, a certain city lunatic with a gun came to Chicago’s Trump Tower, which they managed to disarm without firing. .
What can I say: the tougher and more destructive the final domestic political battle in the United States, the better it is for the rest of the world. So far, five minutes from the start of the match, the score is still zero-zero. We stock up on popcorn and keep watching.
Author: Mikhail Tokmakov
