For people like professor Eddie Glaude in this video by Greg Foreman, who hammer Trump, if their first charge is that he’s “a 34-time convicted felon”, I would ask them this: “what is the felony that he was convicted of?”
If they answer: “I can’t possible remember all 34 counts”, remind them that it’s actually ONE count, that’s been sliced like salami into 34. So again: “what’s the felony?”.
After all, if it’s a serious felony, like murder, or theft, or robbery, or blackmail, they ought to be able to say so, pretty smartly.
If they say “hush money payment”, you can respond swiftly, “oh no, hush money payments — aka payments for a Non Disclosure Agreement — are common and widespread. They are not illlegal. Even if made to an escort.” And you’d be right.
If they then retreat to “it was cover up of election related payments” you can again confidently respond “no it wasn’t that either”.
Now, at this point you really need to research yourself just what felonious activity Trump was found guilty of. You can be sure that you’ve lost the Glaudes of the world by this stage. For as Harvard 60-year Law professor, lifetime Democrat, Alan Dershowitz, who has written 25 books on criminal law, admits “I don’t know how to describe the crime”. It’s that complicated.
My effort: it was an alleged violation of State Electoral Commission guidelines, (a misdemeanour which was in any case past its use-by date) to cover up one of four alleged crimes, which were felonies still within the statute of limitations, which the jury was allowed to pick one or another, any one, and didn’t need to be unanimous. The jury did not have to specify which of any they’d chosen according to Jury Directions which most legal scholars found deeply sketchy. Essentially the judge demanded a guilty verdict, which the jury duly delivered.
Even left wing stalwarts, like Fareed Zakaria of CNN said of the case “this would not have been prosecuted if the defendant had had a name other than Trump.”
And that’s called justice?
What this Glaude character is angry about is that the American electorate, bless their suspicious souls, saw through this confected nonsense and refused to give it any weight. They ignored it.
In essence what Glaude is demanding is “we worked hard to get those bullshit felonies pinned to Donald Trump, and now you don’t give them any weight? How very dare you?”?
