{"id":31922,"date":"2024-06-01T17:55:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T21:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/?p=31922"},"modified":"2024-06-03T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:07:07","slug":"may-30-the-day-justice-prevailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/may-30-the-day-justice-prevailed\/","title":{"rendered":"May 30: The Day Justice Prevailed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"TrumpO<\/span> frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.<\/strong><\/em> Thirty-four criminal charges and found guilty for every one<\/em> of them. Thirty four!<\/strong> Of course, I don’t have to tell you the name of the person, since the whole world knows whose recent court case I’m writing about. And have been celebrating about, ever since the verdict came in.*<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

May 30, 2024, was a historic day everyone will remember like they remember 9\/11, the day Kennedy was shot, and the day the Canadian hockey team beat the Russians: it was the day when American justice was not<\/em> subverted by the radical right and instead prevailed, showing that everyone is still equal under the law, at least in New York. Privilege does not exempt anyone from justice. Yet<\/em>. That will change if the Felon-in-Chief gets re-elected, of course. He has, after all, promised retribution against his opponents. He will out-Putin, out-Hitler, out-Stalin those dictators he loves.**<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The guilty verdict was the first good news coming from the USA in a long time; we’ve had years of Repugnican states banning books, banning abortions, banning voting, banning education, repressing women, cutting government services and support, banning unions, closing libraries, pushing racist narratives, giving corporations and billionaires tax breaks, repealling environmental and child labour laws, and making life miserable for Americans but cozy for the elites while pandering to the pseudo-Christian Talibangelists (aka Christian Nationalists, or Christofascists). And singing hymns to their Putin-loving Lord and Leader and neo-Jesus, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\"Trump<\/a>The day after the verdict, Trump said in a rambling, often incoherent<\/a>, combative, lie-rich, self-indulgent, grievance-dense I’m-the-victim speech<\/a> from his hotel.<\/p>\n

“If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone,” he said. Which is the whole point of a fair, equitable justice system. And an absolutely transparent lie from Trump. The verdict clearly said: no one is above the law<\/strong>. Trump believes that he \u2014 and he<\/em> alone \u2014 should be. He used that speech to blame his crimes on the judge and the legal system, violated his gag order, blamed his convictions on Washington, called the current president a fascist and claimed “we are living in a fascist state,” attacked immigrants<\/a>, and made many, many lies<\/a>, as he always does. No one who saw or listened to that speech can help but question his sanity. Or his deep allegiance to Putin.<\/p>\n

Trump also said, “It’s a very unpleasant thing, to be honest, but it’s a great, great honor.” As if he has ever been honest for even a minute in his life: US media counted more than 30,000 lies from him<\/a> in just his four years in office. By his final year he was making an average of 39 lies a day. And for all his whining, he has never taken responsibility for anything he has done, aside from having Roe v Wade overturned. Like all political cowards, he refused to take media questions after his speech.<\/p>\n

(He also went on a racist tangent to bash migrants, complain about immigration, and insult immigrants speaking foreign languages.)<\/p>\n

And if you followed the trial, you know that Trump himself was too cowardly to testify<\/a> even though he promised he would (just one of the hundreds of promises he has broken),. He was unable to bring a single credible witness to support him, not even his own family members (and his “star” witness was a disaster who antagonized the judge<\/a>). Neither his lawyers nor his witnesses ever tried to deny his adultery or the payment for Daniels’ silence.<\/p>\n

(Where was Trump’s wife all this time? Why didn’t she want to sit in court as a visible sign of her support for the husband who cheated on her with a porn star?)<\/p>\n

And, of course, in daily comments to the media outside the trial, Trump attacked the justice system that eventually convicted him because he has always openly despised the legal system that doesn’t give him special privileges. In his flaccid attempt to cast himself as the victim<\/a>, Trump whined that “Mother Teresa could not beat those charges.” And now he’s nicknamed MAGA Teresa. Sarcasm aside, it fits because some of his hard-of-thinking cultists are comparing Trump to Jesus<\/a> simply because Trump has compared himself to Jesus<\/a>. And you’ll notice his pseudo-Christian Talibangelist backers haven’t risen up in outrage over it.<\/p>\n