Trump indictment is justice delayed
Hopefully it won't be justice denied
Issue #292 OpEd April 3, 2023
So the Big Story is supposed to be that Donald John Trump, former President of the United States, became the first-ever President of the United States to be indicted. Spiro Agnew was indicted too, but he was just the Vice President (damn that title seems appropriate in retrospect, doesn’t it?) for the President of Vice Himself, Richard Nixon.
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But the story isn't that Trump got indicted; the story is that he got away with being a professional con man and master criminal for nearly half a century and is only now facing the possibility that maybe - just maybe - he might finally face some consequences for all that he has done. And he has done a lot. This man deserves to be in the Thug Hall of Fame as the Thug Supreme. Consider the following from Citizens for Ethics:
As of November 2022, Donald Trump has been credibly accused of committing at least 56 criminal offenses since he launched his campaign for president in 2015. That total only reflects allegations relating to his time in or running for office and omits, for instance, Trump’s criminal exposure for fraudulent business dealings.
And if you’re at all interested in what those fraudulent business dealings were, feel free to check in with New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James, when she filed her lawsuit against the Trump Organization on September 21, 2022:
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, senior management, and involved entities for engaging in years of financial fraud to obtain a host of economic benefits. The lawsuit alleges that Donald Trump, with the help of his children Donald Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump, and senior executives at the Trump Organization, falsely inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to induce banks to lend money to the Trump Organization on more favorable terms than would otherwise have been available to the company, to satisfy continuing loan covenants, to induce insurers to provide insurance coverage for higher limits and at lower premiums, and to gain tax benefits, among other things. From 2011-2021, Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization knowingly and intentionally created more than 200 false and misleading valuations of assets on his annual Statements of Financial Condition to defraud financial institutions.
OH. And let’s not forget all those rape accusations. From The Business Insider:
At least 26 women accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, including assault, since the 1970s.
A deluge of women made their accusations public following the October 2016 publication of the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Trump was heard boasting about grabbing women's genitals in 2005. Some of Trump's accusers made their stories public months before the tape's release, and still others came forward in the months following.
Trump has broadly dismissed the allegations, which include harassment, groping, and rape, as "fabricated" and politically motivated accounts pushed by the media and his political opponents. In 2016, he promised to sue all of his accusers. In some cases, Trump and his lawyers have suggested he couldn't have engaged in the alleged behavior with certain women because he wasn't physically attracted to them.
One of those women is E. Jean Carroll, who filed suit against Trump in November of 2019, accusing him of raping her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store nearly three decades ago. Trump later insulted her when he was forced to testify in a deposition in October of 2022. He claimed she was lying and threatened to sue both her and her attorney - but he never did because a judge not only blocked his attempt to countersue but let him have it with both barrels for even trying. Carroll filed an updated lawsuit against Trump on November 24, 2022, “minutes after a new state law took effect allowing victims of sexual violence to sue over attacks that occurred decades ago” according to a CNBC report. That trial is scheduled to begin in a matter of weeks.
And now consider this; if Donald Trump had not run for president and won, he might still be getting away with damned near everything because his hit parade of crimes would not have been headline news each and every day for close to eight years. Trump’s criminal activity is in the spotlight because he put himself where he most loves to be; in the spotlight of the biggest spotlight on Earth, the presidency of the world’s most powerful nation. He became legitimate target practice for an army of journalists and investigators who otherwise may well have had better things to do if he had lost his bid to Hillary.
But this is also about the textbook definition of rich white male privilege because it goes without saying what would have happened to President Obama if someone had even whispered a rumor in a basement somewhere that they heard someone’s buddy say that his other buddy thought he saw this Black guy who maybe looked like Obama jaywalking - in broad daylight.
“I mean the nerve of that negro not obeying traffic signals! Doesn’t he know negroes are supposed to obey whatever we tell them to obey? Period? Lock him up!”
This is about a nation where an active and vocal white nationalist minority - empowered by a silently supportive super minority of other white people afraid to get their hands dirty - became so infuriated with the reality of even the most perfect and acceptable Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner-quality Negro being elected POTUS - with the massive support of obviously misguided race traitor white folks - that they stormed the polls in 2016 to ensure that a craven white criminal/rapist/con man be his replacement. That’ll show ‘em. Because that’s what it would take to wash the distaste of a too-powerful negro out of their screaming mouths.
Because even the worst, most despicable white man on Planet Earth is considered more deserving of the presidency than a nigger, especially one who wasn’t even born in America.
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