By Robert Spencer
Donald Trump was indicted Thursday and the sun came up as usual on Friday; all this business about the United States descending to banana-republic status is just right-wing hysteria, right? Wrong. The far-Left flagship Politico thumbed its nose at patriots on Thursday, cheerfully admitting that the case against Trump is a farrago of half-truths, distortions, and lies, served up as a flimsy excuse for what is really going on: the political persecution of the chief opponent of the ruling regime.
But then, instead of standing on principle and calling for a restoration of equal justice and the rule of law, Politico threw up its hands and asked: “So what?” Yes, they’re framing Donald Trump again, and yes, they know it and they know that we know it, but they don’t care. In fact, it’s likely that this case went ahead not despite being flimsy to the point of nonexistence, but because it’s so weak.
The Politico article is proof: the weakness of the case against Trump is not something that the ruling elites are trying to hide; on the contrary, they want all Americans to notice it. They want us to see and understand the fundamental lesson of this weakness: that they aren’t enforcing the law, they’re ripping it to shreds.
The message of the flimsiness of the Trump indictment is precisely that it is a political prosecution, and that the law is being manipulated to serve political purposes. With that message comes a warning: get too far out of line, and you’ll get the same treatment, no matter how innocent you are. Don’t be so naïve, after what happened to Trump, as to think that the rule of law will protect you.
And so Politico says it straight out: “Sometimes even Donald Trump has a point. This time, it’s his claim that he has been singled out by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office for conduct that would probably not have been charged as a crime against anyone else.”