Who would have thought Donald Trump could be arrested earlier than Vladimir Putin?
Or Hunter Biden.
But it surely occurred.
And in contrast to Putin, who, holed up within the Kremlin, has adopted a “come and get me” stance, Trump not less than had the decency to point out up for his arraignment Tuesday.
He might have held out at his Florida Mar-a-Lago headquarters protected by his Secret Service element, like Putin is doing in Moscow.
Or he might have mentioned that his antagonist, Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg had no jurisdiction over him.
That what Putin’s response when he was indicted for warfare crimes in March by the Worldwide Legal Courtroom (ICC) within the Hague. He joins such firm because the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi who ended up lifeless in a ditch.
Putin virtually snarled on the ICC, in essence asking, “What number of divisions does the ICC have?”
Which is what Soviet Union dictator Joe Stalin mentioned in regards to the Pope when he was instructed the Vatican needed to play a job within the ending of World Struggle II. “What number of divisions does the Pope have?” Stalin mentioned cynically.
It was Lavrentiy Beria, head of Stalin’s secret police, who mentioned to Stalin, “Present me the person and I’ll present you the crime.” That’s how Stalin removed opponents.
These phrases have turn into the mantra of the progressive and woke Democratic Get together which has turned the U.S. justice system on its head.
The Democrats of their worry and loathing of Trump have so politicized the justice system that it’s turning the best nation on the earth into a 3rd world nation.
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, commenting on the Democratic politicization of the U.S. legal justice system, mentioned, “Sadly, it is extremely arduous for U. S. overseas coverage to make use of arguments equivalent to ‘democracy’ and ‘free and truthful elections,’ or attempt to condemn ‘political persecution’ in different nations to any extent further.”
Earlier, when the Biden Administration raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, Bukele mentioned, “What would he U.S. authorities say if our police raided the home of the primary attainable contender of our 2024 presidential election?”
You recognize the usis in bother when it will get a lecture on democracy from El Salvador.
Putin is a warfare legal who launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. He has been rightly indicted for killing untold numbers of girls and youngsters in addition to kidnapping hundreds of Ukrainian youngsters from Ukraine to Russia.
Trump is a former playboy and philander who turned president of the USA and who’s working once more. He’s being destroyed.
He has been arrested and arraigned on pathetic fees that he inappropriately paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush cash to purchase her silence over an alleged affair. You convey fees towards a former president over that?
It is a case the place even Bragg’s predecessor Cy Vance handed on, as did the U.S. Justice Division.
But it surely was introduced on by Bragg, who is just one of 62 district attorneys within the state of New York, one for every county.
Had Trump lived within the Bronx or Brooklyn below a distinction district lawyer, slightly than in Manhattan, the place the rogue Bragg has jurisdiction, the case wouldn’t have seen daylight.
There are millions of district attorneys and assistant district attorneys throughout the nation. A lot of them are Republicans.
Now that the precedent of arresting and indicting a former president has been established, there’s nothing to cease a Republican district lawyer from going after a Democratic president, like Joe Biden.
The Democratic Get together has fractured the nation.
However what goes round certainly will come round.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.