Dear Reader,
As you read what follows, please keep this question in mind: Is this analysis on the mark or unhinged? Let’s go: Two world leaders made great strides in destroying their opponents last week.
In Russia, Vladimir Putin dealt a punishing blow to his country’s already weakened resistance when his extraordinarily courageous nemesis, Alexei A. Navalny, was reportedly found beaten but assuredly dead in his gulag prison cell.
In New York, President Joe Biden’s chief rival, Donald Trump, was edged toward ruin when a judge fined him more than $350 million – the penalty could reach $450 million with interest – after deciding Trump inflated the value of his holdings to secure commercial bank loans at a slightly lower interest rate – loans that were paid back on time.
Democrats lack Putin’s quick-strike capability. Their hope is that the politically charged lawsuits executed by party members in New York City, Georgia, and Washington, D.C., and their ballot disqualification case now before the Supreme Court will finish the job.
The unjustness of it all seems obvious – multiple cases launched by Democrats targeting the Republican party’s presumptive nominee. Trump did not shoot a man on Fifth Avenue, as he famously quipped, so every action is an exercise in prosecutorial discretion. Even liberal outlets agree that the campaign finance/hush money case brought in New York City and Fani Willis’ effort to prosecute Team Trump’s effort to challenge the 2020 election results in Georgia by exploiting RICO statutes typically used against organized crime stretch the law. They might........