{"id":51749,"date":"2023-08-29T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T14:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51749"},"modified":"2023-08-29T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T14:14:56","slug":"summing-it-all-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51749","title":{"rendered":"Summing It All UP"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, Don Surber at Substack<\/a> posted an article putting President Trump’s mugshot in perspective. The article compares the mugshot to another mugshot from 2005 of Tom DeLay where Tom DeLay was smiling. I need to mention that the mainstream media was very upset with the fact that he was smiling. I also need to mention that a jury trial found Tom DeLay innocent. Of course the accusations ruined his career (just as they ruined the career of Bob MacDonald whose guilty verdict was overturned by the Supreme Court). There is a pattern here–it’s called lawfare and is used by the Democrats to get rid of their political opponents. President Obama used a variant of it in 2004 when he managed to get the messy divorce records of his main primary opponent unsealed and leaked to the press. I have no doubt that somewhere behind all of the prosecution of President Trump you will find puppet strings pulled by President Obama or his associates.<\/p>\n

Don Surber notes:<\/p>\n

Craig Smith wrote in Newsweek<\/a>, \u201cIn the early \u201990s, I was a militant activist and bank robber. I saw myself as a black Robin Hood, stealing from white-owned banks to fund black cultural events. I was caught and sentenced under then-Senator Joe Biden\u2019s 1994 crime bill to an unheard of 52 years, though I was a first time offender and no one was hurt during any of my robberies. And I was released by Trump’s 2019 criminal justice reform bill, the First Step Act, thanks to Trump\u2019s prodding of Congress to reverse many of the draconian laws written and supported by our current president.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe former president freed 5,000 incarcerated people like me from outrageous sentences. Yet he is now facing the possibility of serving a sentence of his own. As I watched former President Donald Trump get perp-walked and mugshot at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia, I couldn\u2019t help but notice the deep irony: The same criminal justice system that Trump made radical reforms to is now being used to discredit him and hamper his chances of winning the presidency for a second time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNone of us who have benefited from Trump’s radical reform of the criminal justice system under the First Step Act are blind to that irony. But it goes beyond that: Trump’s repeated run-ins with the law, and what seems like an unfair obsession with catching him and punishing him disproportionately for his so-called crimes, reminds a lot of us of what was done to us.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Smith ended his column, \u201cAt the end of the day, these repeated arrests may end up having a very unintended consequence. Instead of proving to the country that Trump is unelectable, it may have removed a barrier in the form of him being unrelatable. These arrests have made Trump relatable to the 5 million people in America under some form of supervision by the U.S. criminal legal system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2020, President Trump got the votes of 18% of black men. Don’t be surprised if he gets more in 2024 if he’s the GOP nominee for president. Now that he’s suffered the indignity of what Joe Biden’s crime bill put so many of us through, he will be an even bigger champion of our cause.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The defiance in Trump\u2019s mugshot has turned the tables on the press and the rest of the sociopaths who want Trump and his supporters dead. He has become Liam Neeson in Taken<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s time for Americans to wake up and see what has happened to justice in this country.<\/p>\n

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