In the end, it was a jury of ordinary people who brought him down.
Convicted felon. Donald Trump, the twice impeached, former president sat through the reading of the verdict in his New York felony case, floored. According to witnesses in the courtroom, he was stunned – almost unable to believe what had just occurred. Guilty on all 34 felony counts.
Let’s be blunt: Republicans love to win. That alone could sway many of those who secretly like Trump but realize that he could lose.
This was the only trial scheduled before the November election and Donald Trump went 0 for 34. A massive downfall. But, look at it this way, Donald Trump always wanted to make history. Now he has.
Trump is the first former president to be tried and convicted of a felony. He has set a record that hopefully will stand for eternity. Outside the courtroom, he lashed out with his usual conspiratorial venom, claiming the Biden administration was after him, insisting that he was an innocent man and complaining that our “whole country is being rigged right now.”
But somebody finally held Trump accountable. His victimhood sounded hollow.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg took a case that initially had been dropped. He used a paper trail along with Trump’s own people and put together a narrative that the jurors believed: Donald Trump is guilty.
Joe Biden’s re-election campaign quickly responded: “In New York today, we saw that no one is above the law.” And reiterated the obvious: Trump will likely still be on the ballot and must be defeated in November. “The threat Trump poses to our democracy has never been greater. He is running an increasingly unhinged campaign of........