Trump is taking one for the team

Team America, that is

The civil — well, non-criminal — Democrat vengeance trial of Donald Trump began yesterday in Manhattan. The state’s First Black Female Attorney General (and 10th consecutive Marxist AG) filed and will prosecute the lawsuit. Oh wait. I didn’t put her title quite right. She’s the state’s First Openly Black Female Attorney General. You always must get that dig in to imply that some white male was secretly a black female or whatever the First is.

New York charged President Trump with claiming his property is worth more than the amount recorded in the tax books. Only 99% of American taxpayers do that.

The trial should be as fair as the 5 wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. The judge is a kangaroo.

Fox reported, “The New York judge presiding over the civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump was blasted on social media on Monday after cameras caught him smiling for the cameras as the trial got underway.

“Conservatives on social media immediately reacted with outrage on Monday when New York City Judge Arthur Engoron was briefly shown in the courtroom smiling and taking off his glasses to seemingly pose for cameras that were filming inside the courtroom.”

Seemingly. As if.

Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote, “This isn’t a judicial proceeding; it’s a partisan farce.”

And he said, “James picked up the scraps of a case Manhattan prosecutors declined to bring. Even Alvin Bragg, who had little hesitation in bringing a preposterous business-records-falsification indictment against Trump based on a legal hush-money payment that harmed no one, refused to charge a criminal-fraud case based on decades of Trump’s financial records — the holy grail that his predecessor, Cyrus Vance, and congressional Democrats chased for years, making two trips up to the U.S. Supreme Court in the process.”

And he said, “Most significantly, the good judge imposed the corporate death penalty: putting Trump, his adult sons, and the Trump Organization out of business, taking away their state-issued business licenses, calling for the appointment of receivers to oversee the dissolution of Trump’s business entities, and continuing to subject him to monitors. And now, after all that, the trial begins.”

This is victor’s justice — if you call a government rigging an election to oust a sitting president a victory; it is a coup de whatever-the-French-word-is-for-ballot-stuffing.

The New York Times, which is as fair as it is accurate, said, “After decades of exaggerating with impunity about the value of his properties, former President Donald J. Trump will go on trial Monday in New York to face a lawsuit that accuses him of inflating his riches by billions of dollars and crossing the line into fraud.

“The trial, set to begin at 10 a.m. in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, will be the first of several government trials that Mr. Trump will face in the coming year, a procession of high-stakes courtroom battles that coincide with his third White House run.”

Presumption of innocence has gone the way of objectivity in journalism. That is unsurprising evidence of the fascist state we live in where government gets private businesses to do its dirty work. The Twitter Files show this happened in suppressing the Hunter laptop scandal. Bags of tax money explains Matt Drudge’s 180 on Trump shortly after his presidency began.

When I blogged, I told readers they would destroy him, his empire and his family to serve as a warning to any who may dare challenge the regime that now rules the nation. Elon Musk better watch his assets.

2,200 years ago, Romans did to Hannibal what Democrats want to do to Trump. Unlike the Democrats, Romans had testosterone. They had defeated Hamilcar, Hannibal’s father, in the First Punic War. A fatigued but undefeated Carthage ceded Sicily to Rome. The Romans took Sardinia and Corsica as well.

Hannibal sought revenge. He almost pulled it off. Having 37 elephants cross the Alps was the most famous of his clever tricks.

Encyclopedia Britannica reported, “Hannibal spent the summer of 217 BC resting at Picenum, but later he ravaged Apulia and Campania; meanwhile, the delaying tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator’s army allowed only skirmishes between the two armies. Suddenly in the early summer of 216 BC, Hannibal moved southward and seized the large army supply depot at Cannae on the Aufidus River. There early in August the Battle of Cannae (modern Monte di Canne) was fought.

“Hannibal chose the ground wisely; he commanded the water supply of the Aufidus, and he forced the numerically superior Romans into a narrow plain bounded by the river and a sizable hill. He also positioned his army in such a way that the Romans had to engage it by facing into a hot summer wind carrying dust that irritated the eyes and reduced visibility.

“When battle commenced, the Gauls and Iberian infantry of Hannibal’s centre line yielded (without breaking) before the drive of the numerically superior Roman infantry. The Romans continued their advance, exposing both of their flanks to the Spanish and Libyan infantry that comprised the Carthaginian right and left. Boxed in on three sides, the Romans’ avenue of retreat was closed when Hannibal’s cavalry returned after completing its rout of the Roman cavalry. The compressed Romans were butchered by Hannibal’s army.

“Polybius gave the number of Roman dead at 70,000, while Livy reported 55,000; either way it was disaster for Rome. Virtually 1 in 5 Roman men of military age were slaughtered, and households at every level of society were affected. Dozens of senators were killed, as were many patricians and over 200 members of the equestrian class (Roman knights). Rome was now justifiably terrified of Hannibal, and he became a bogeyman to Roman children.”

However, eventually, Rome won by the sheer size of its force. The myth holds that Romans then destroyed Carthage and salted the land to make it infertile. Given the value of salt in those days and the lack of evidence, most historians dismiss this as fantasy.

Democrats, RINOs and other fascists fantasize about doing this to The Donald. Their witch hunts of him continue. Hate has devoured them. Sadly, 43% of the nation will do The Establishment’s bidding, including most of New York.

Since it impossible to have a fair jury trial, we should try alternative means of determining his guilt. Courtesy of the History Channel, I offer these suggestions.

The Swimming Test. Throw him in the East River. If he floats, he’s guilty. If drowns. he’s not.

The Prayer Test. If he stumbles or gets nervous reciting the Lord’s Prayer, he is guilty. If he recites it perfectly, it is a devil’s trick and he is guilty.

The Touch Test.

The History Channel reported, “The touch test worked on the idea that victims of sorcery would have a special reaction to physical contact with their evildoer. In cases where a possessed person fell into spells or fits, the suspected witch would be brought into the room and asked to lay a hand on them. A non-reaction signaled innocence, but if the victim came out of their fit, it was seen as proof that the suspect had placed them under a spell.”

There are other tests to determine guilt as well. We scoff at these old ways but how is it less absurd than having a Republican’s guilt determined by a Democrat judge who is enjoying his moment of celebrity?

But the U.S. Supreme Court gave hope on Monday by tossing a challenge to Trump being on the ballot because the media keeps calling him an insurrectionist. I see that as a signal that due process still has meaning in the banana republic.

Donald Trump is taking one for the good guys, Team America.

Real Americans — not the warmongering drones on the federal teat — know this. They rally behind him.

Just the News reported, “Former President Donald Trump has increased his lead over his Republican rivals following the second Republican primary debate, which he did not attend.

“Trump took the support of 50% of respondents in the latest InsiderAdvantage survey. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis placed second with 15% while former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley narrowly trailed him with 14%. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie placed fourth with 5% while tech mogul Vivek Ramaswamy earned 3% support.”

Will we prevail? That is the wrong question. Will we do all we can to return him to the Oval Office?

As Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote in his 1854 poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade:

   Someone had blundered.

   Theirs not to make reply,

   Theirs not to reason why,

   Theirs but to do and die.

   Into the valley of Death

   Rode the six hundred.

And ours is but to vote. Duty calls. Saddle up. We have no choice. We cannot allow the Stalinists to destroy the billionaire who dared to stand up to them because once they eliminate him, we’re next.