Margot Cleveland at The
Federalist puts the indictment of President Trump into the larger context:
Manhattan grand jury has indicted
former President Donald Trump, a spokesman for the district attorney’s
office confirmed following late-Thursday media leaks. While
the indictment remains under seal, one thing seems certain: America has now
entered the era of “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” politics.
The Democrat district attorney,
Alvin L. Bragg, breathed new life into the infamous boast of Joseph Stalin’s secret police chief,
Lavrentiy Beria, when the Manhattan prosecutor targeted the former president in
connection to a 2016 payment made to Stormy Daniels. Bragg’s decision to push
for an indictment against Trump, presumably for falsifying business records,
promises to herald in a new political age — one in which local prosecutors will
target partisan enemies, big and small, making a mockery of the criminal
justice system in the process.
The fact that news of the charges
leaked to the left’s favorite scribes at The New York Times, while the indictment
remained still under seal, punctuates perfectly the Sovietesque times in which
we live: The legacy media may not be state-run, but they peddle propaganda
nonetheless.
And Ms Cleveland concludes:
. . . if the indictment contains no new
details, the piling on to reach the reported 33 counts against the former
president doesn’t make Trump look more guilty — it makes Bragg look more like
Beria.
Much more at the link here.
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