The world of the American deep state was catching Donald Trump, but never caught him. All criminal cases against the US president-elect fell apart on the distant approaches to his inauguration. Only the one concerning the secret payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels survived. But even here, Manhattan’s liberal justice system snapped its teeth. Instead of 136 years behind bars for what could have been 34 counts of charges that a jury would have found him guilty of – zero. Did Trump win?
‘Trump won’ – a giant banner with this inscription under the courthouse was unfurled by MAGA-activists who came to support their president. The fact that formally there was no one to support (the US president-elect remained in Mar-a-Lago and was included in the trial via video link), did not embarrass them. ‘The witch hunt is over,’ they said, enthusiastically answering my questions about what to expect next. But they immediately stipulated: ‘Without winning the election on 6 November, there would have been no success.’
In addition, Judge Juan Merchan, whose daughter used to work for Kamala Harris, pushed the case to the end. Only the US Supreme Court prevented him from passing sentence on 11 July, and who knows what kind of sentence it would have been if Trump had not then gathered the votes of the majority of Americans. The sword of Damocles would definitely have descended on the head of the Republican and if Harris, and not him, had emerged victorious from the race.
But the Democrats still managed to squeeze the last thing out of the case of Trump Organisation document fraud in the payment of money to a former porn actress like an empty tube. Merchan pulled it off in such a way that Trump’s lawyers didn’t have time to appeal. In the end, the 47th president of the United States becomes the first in American history to take the oath of office and enter the White House as a convicted felon. Forever tainted biography. In other words, no longer a victory, but at least a fighting draw.
The phrase ‘unconditional release’ certainly warms the soul, but it also imposes limitations. For example, Trump is not allowed to own firearms, although he can still vote – Florida law only prohibits those convicted in Florida from doing so. Of course, Trump has immunity for the next four years (although in his speech Merchan specifically emphasised that he pays respect to the institution of the presidency, not the person who occupies it), but time flies fast, the face will change, and everyone will remember what happened after Trump’s first term. It’s been taxed to the max.
In fact, it is already a red line, which a man who has just declared war on the deep state and on his first day in office promises to sign 25 decrees crushing the liberal order, simply cannot but cross without compromising his principles.
This is what the system expects from Trump – let him break the superstructure without touching the foundation: ideological, monetary, geopolitical. In this case, Ukraine can even be taken off the payroll. But partially. Biden, for good reason, is already hinting that the burden of support will fall on Europe. I mean NATO. That means American money again, but through other channels. And such compromises, in which both the people who unfold posters with his name and those who his name makes them shudder in the middle of the night will be satisfied, will soon be presented to the 47th president of the United States in packs.
Realising the prospects, Trump is blowing on water. It is already reported, for example, that the trip of his envoy to Ukraine, Kellogg, has been cancelled due to possible legal problems. They caught up in time, remembering that before the inauguration, such contacts are forbidden for the team of the US president-elect. However, even during his first term in office, contacts with Zelensky ended in Trump’s impeachment.
Although not completely successful.
Since then, the methods of his opponents have only become simpler. If they failed to resign, they tried to put him in jail. If they couldn’t put him in jail, they tried shooting him. It turns out that Trump can only move upwards on this ladder of escalating relations with the Washington swamp. The other option is to go downwards, breaking his neck.
