Trump needs to learn that no one is above the law.
The short break from the Donald Trump nightmare is over. The 45th president of the United States of America is in the headlines once again.
And how. Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post ran the headline, “DAY OF THE DON” with gusto and in large type.
And it wouldn’t be Trump if this “Day of the Don” wasn’t about sex, a porn star, hush money and improper use of campaign money.
Specifically, everything revolves around an investigations by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg into matters of hush money payments to former porn star Stephanie Gregory Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) and model Karen McDougal. Trump is accused of paying $130,000 to Daniels through his attorney Michael Cohen during the 2016 presidential election for her silence about a extramarital affair. Now the court will have to determine if Trump broke any laws by making the payment. It’s long been known that Trump doesn’t take the truth or the law all too seriously; with lies, tax evasion, improper use of funds from the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
What weighs most heavily, however, is his contempt for the democratic process. After the 2020 presidential election, Trump tried to exert pressure on Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger saying, “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.”
And then there is the small matter of the 2021 attack on the Capitol, in which Trump’s role has yet to be clarified.
The hush money payment in a sexual affair seems almost adorable in contrast to these accusations.
Trump’s sexual liaisons bear comparison to the Bill Clinton and the misdemeanors he was charged with after the Democratic president gave false testimony under oath in 1998 about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. It also recalls Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who was acquitted of violating campaign finance laws in 2012 when he covered up an extramarital affair.
There is, therefore, definite criticism of District Attorney Bragg within the Democratic Party, because if this case should go badly, we have to ask what that would mean for the other much more serious cases that Trump is still facing.
On the other hand, the courts must treat everyone equally, and even a former U.S. president is not above the law.
No one in the U.S. needs to learn this lesson more urgently than Trump.
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