Jim Watkins | May 30, 2024
Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts. He will find out in a few months what his sentence will be when Judge Merchan reconvenes. Perhaps the judge had a pre-planned vacation he get couldn’t get out of.
Predictably, those who oppose Trump see this as Democracy being saved. Surely, they say, “no one can vote for Trump now that he is a felon, can they?”
Those who see the trial for what it is, understand the gravity of the transgression.
And it was a transgression.
It is clear the current Biden administration found a way to get Trump convicted for attempting to change the outcome of the 2016 election (through hush payments), just as they are now influencing the 2024 elections by knee-capping the former president.
What remains to be seen is just how effective this strategy will be.
People who hate Joe Biden today are incensed because they see the shallowness of what has been done. Watching Biden (and the left-wing media) gloat about it will turn American rage intward, unlike what happens on the Left when things don’t go their way and they start burning things down.
Eventually the conviction will be overturned. It is obviously clear to any first-year law student that Trump was railroaded in this trial. Key evidence for the defense was withheld and suppressed, the jury clearly did not truly represent “his peers,” and the Judges’ own conduct could end up getting him kicked off the bench. His exhortation to the jury alone violated every judicial norm that undercuts due process.
But from the outside looking in, this is a sad day for the world. America is supposed to be better than this. Justice, law, due process, the right to a fair trial, these are the benchmarks to ensuring the power of government can never crush the rights of the citizen, the right to access to fair justice.
To the Left they declare a victory; to those who understand the end goal of the Deep State – which is govern every aspect of our lives, what happened today just shows how the State is operating against the people. If you are a threat to their power, they will take you down.
“They mean well, but they mean to govern,” said Daniel Webster, “they desire to become our Masters.”
To Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Ayatollah Khamenei and other global despots, they also share the victory with the American Left; they also know America will remain weak for the time being, especially if Biden manages to eek out a victory in November, provided his party doesn’t choose another path.
To our enemies, America sank to a new moral low. We became a weaker nation today.
But as an American I understand that the power of the Deep State will never cease to expand. I am sorry my brethren fail to understand the beginnings of tyranny are occurring now. Our grandchildren, who will live a much diminished future state run by the corporate deep state complex, will one day hate us for allowing it to happen.
When they someday observe backwards and ask when the fall of America really began, they will know it started on May 30th, 2024.
Jim Watkins is the host of America Today on the Talk Media Network and the host of Speaking Out with Jim Watkins on Spotify. Follow him on X @realjimatkins1
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