They don’t even try to hide it anymore.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday escalated her criticism of former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, a week after polls did not put the Biden-Harris vote where Democrats had hoped. He was convicted on 34 suspected felony counts.
According to Politico, Harris’ speech at a Democratic dinner in Detroit on Saturday gave Harris the opportunity to speak out about what she called Trump’s “attack” on the judicial system.
“You know why he’s complaining? Because the reality is, cheaters don’t like getting caught,” Harris said in a copy of the speech that Politico reviewed in advance.
Politico noted that the vice president “has long highlighted her prosecutorial record and service as California’s attorney general on the campaign trail, outlining in her speech how a jury unanimously decided to convict the former president on 34 counts of falsifying business records. conviction.
“She noted that Trump’s defense attorneys were able to participate in selecting jurors and witnesses as a way to denounce the accusation that he was not treated fairly.”
“In short, Donald Trump believes he is above the law,” Harris said in her speech.
“This should be a disqualification for anyone who wants to be president of the United States.”
And, in response to conservative accusations that the Biden administration has been trying to influence the outcome, Harris called them “lies.”
Since we expect to hear claims like this a lot in the coming months, we should probably take a closer look at why this is gibberish.
First, a defendant who believes he has been unfairly convicted has every right to speak out against his conviction. In this case, it’s a politicized case that could have been filed at any time over the past few years, but surprisingly happened to happen in the thick of the presidential election season. No coincidence.
However, the Biden administration continues to insist that Trump and his allies accept the Manhattan kangaroo court ruling, saying Trump only disputes it because “cheaters don’t like to get caught.” These things happen in nominally democratic dictatorships and countries run by evildoers, not in the United States of America.
As for the fairness of the trial, yes, Trump’s lawyers were given the same rights as any other defendant – I mean, short of an overtly politicized prosecution that only established that a significant portion of the alleged crime was actually How was it. used to be In the final stages of the trial, the openly biased judge instructed the jury that jurors did not even need to agree on the crimes Trump allegedly committed to find him guilty, and that the venue was one of the most virulently anti-Trump locations .
but besides That …
Meanwhile, as to whether the Biden administration is involved, we haven’t been given a proper explanation as to why Justice Department officials under Biden joined Bragg’s prosecution team directly from the Justice Department. Or why the White House held a rally near the court and invited actor Robert De Niro as an attorney.
Well, as for this “disqualification,” it’s clear that Kamala’s expertise is prosecution, not constitutional law. Being convicted of a felony does not disqualify one, especially if there are good grounds for appeal, if one wants to run for president. Most famously, socialist Eugene Debs ran for president out of prison in 1920 and received 4 percent of the vote.
This was a characteristic, not a bug, of our founders: they were aware of the possibility of weakening political opposition through political prosecution. In retrospect, we should probably be shocked that it took over 200 years for one government to actually muster the courage to do it.
Now, as for Why Kamala is trumpeting how the verdict is “disqualifying,” and she and others in the White House are seeing the first wave of post-conviction polls, and it doesn’t look good for the vote — in fact, it looks Looks like an election.
Of particular concern for the Biden team are two polls in Nevada and Virginia, two marginal swing states that tend to favor Democrats in presidential elections. In the Fox News poll, Trump leads by five points in Nevada and the two are tied in Virginia.
The polls in both cases were conducted after the guilty verdicts in Manhattan. they emphasize how
You can guess why these lies played out like an Obama-era gun-running scheme: a life-or-death affair.
In other words, all of the Vice President’s rhetoric will ring hollow to any non-believer. For the rest of us, it’s a colossal waste of time, resources and democratic credibility.
But now, she has no other choice. This is what should be disqualifying.
This article originally appeared in Western Daily News.
