“This sentencing decision by Merchan is, in my opinion, based upon pure spite.”
—-Nina Bookout, one of several conservative female pundits who populate the “Victory Girls” blog, correctly assessing the planned conclusion of one of the many contrived “lawfare” cases against Donald Trump that ultimately failed at their mission, which was to stop him from returning to the White House even at the price of emulating totalitarian regimes.
Gee, ya think, Nina?
There has been a lot of spite emanating from the Angry (and justly humiliated) Left lately, with Biden giving civilian honors to the likes of Liz Cheney, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros. The latter, among other revolting uses of his billions, funded anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian/pro-Hamas/pro-terrorism demonstrations on college campuses. Bookout’s particular focus regarding spite is New York’s Judge Merchan ruling last week that President-Elect Trump will be sentenced on January 10, less the two week from his swearing in as POTUS. Merchan also made it clear that the sentence will include no jail time, an “unconditional discharge,” which is what New York criminal courts call a non-jail and non-probation sentence that carries no other obligations.
The objective, Bookout surmises, is so the resistance, Democrats and the corrupted mainstream media (the cabal that Ethics Alarms refers to with the term, “The Axis of Unethical Conduct, or “Axis” for short) can continue to deride Trump as a “convicted felon” and the “first U.S. President to be convicted of a felony.”
I’m not going to dignify this particularly despicable conviction by listing all of the other Presidents who undoubtedly committed real felonies that they were never charged with (Thomas Jefferson, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter all probably committed treason, for example). Merchan’s lawfare kangaroo court shouldn’t be dignified by accepting its results as a conviction. Even most of my Trump-Deranged lawyer friends admitted that it was, in technical terms, crap. I filed any pundit, Democratic official or journalist who liked to describe Trump as being convicted of “34 counts of falsifying business records” under “unforgivable hacks.”
Manhattan D.A. Bragg, an elected Democrat, contrived a selective prosecution of Trump when he emerged as the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination. Falsifying business records is a misdemeanor, but doing it to cover up another crime is a felony. Bragg argued that Trump giving “hush money” to fallen flower Stormy Daniels was part of an illegal scheme to hide the potential sex scandal from voters before the 2016 presidential election, although the parallel motive of not wanting his wife to find out was obviously sufficient motive for the pay-offs as well. (This is why John Edwards escaped any legal consequences for paying an aide to pretend to be the lover of Edwards’ mistress when the former Senator and trial lawyer was running for President.) There was so much irregular and outrageous about the trial and the case against Trump that Jonathan Turley was driven to near apoplexy on his blog, with posts like this one and this one among many others.
Then there are Merchan’s conflicts of interest. After he issued a gag order, his daughter, a Democratic consultant and activist, posted a picture of Trump behind bars. She went on to make millions of dollars consulting for prominent Democrats, and her father the judge had donated to an organization called “Stop Trump” before he presided over the trial. Trump being Trump, he has said that Merchan is the most conflicted judge in history. That’s not true, but his various rulings in the trial certainly support the theory that he was determined to see Trump convicted. And with this intentionally-timed sentencing, even if the verdict is eventually overturned on appeal, Merchan “will supply the talking point for the inauguration coverage as reporters repeat the mantra of the historic status of Trump being sworn in as a convicted felon,” as Turley tweeted last week.
I find myself wondering if the objective of all this spite being thrown Trump’s way by Biden, his party and its minions is to goad Trump into wrecking his Presidency by pursuing vendettas against the worst authors of the 2016 Post Election Train Wreck so he can’t do what he was elected to do. The incoming President is certainly vulnerable to such impulses. For the good of the nation, we can only hope that for once he exercises self-restraint. Trump has said at various times that winning is the best revenge, and the reactions to his victory by his foes so far validates that belief.
We shall see if he is capable of acting accordingly.
Ethics Alarms 
The now-outgoing administration was all about spite from day one, when Biden sat at a desk in a mask unsigning every executive order Trump had signed. Now the gloves are completely off, and Biden, or whoever is pulling the strings, is taking advantage of immunity for official acts to mess up and further divide this country as much as possible, since there can be no consequences for what they do. I think either you or someone said something to the effect that ethics is what you do when there are no consequences.
Has anyone been able to find a source that confirms whether Merchan ever legally became a US citizen? Has anyone raised the question? Wikipedia isn’t even sure of his birth year.
Even if it doesn’t matter, if the answer is “no”, the optics would look very bad for him and the dems.
When you look up “little tyrant trial judges” in the dictionary, this guy’s photo is the picture.
By the way, Francis Menton over at the Manhattan Contrarian has very nice takedown of Merchan’s excessive waste of taxpayer dollars – in what was a sham trial that may have cost a number eight figures long – that has fizzled to essentially, “unconditional discharge” as the apparent sentence.
Wow.