On Friday, May 31, 12 fresh Yorkers decided that erstwhile president Donald Trump was guilty of all thirty-four charges against him.
For the first time in U.S. history, the president was declared a criminal. Trump was shown to hide during the 2016 election run the fact that he paid porn stars to keep quiet about their affair – while he had the right to pay, but he had no right to lie and fake books. Media and Democrats celebrate, hoping the verdict will warrant Joe Biden a win in the November elections. Are they right?
"It wasn't a court trial, it was a political trial," commented talker controlled by Republican home of Representatives in Congress, Mike Johnson.
Senator from Maine, Susan Collins, who voted for Trump's impeachment after post-election riots of January 6, 2021, and until recently, she swore that she would not vote for Trump this year, declared that the verdict of the court was politically motivated. The same is actual of Mitch McConnell, who is inactive the leader of the Republican number in the Senate. It's worth remembering that by mid-2016 McConnell had mocked Trump and personally inactive thinks him a clown.
Still, Trump managed not only to win the presidency, but to last two attempts at impeachment and accusations of ties to Russia, from which he was cleared.
Already the first polls at the end of the process show that 85% of Republicans inactive intend to vote for Trump (this is just 2% little than a fewer weeks earlier, at the beginning of the trial). Among the independent voters on Trump, 42 percent of the respondents are going to vote. This somewhat increases Biden's lead, from 0.7 to 1.7 percent.
After a verdict, Trump supporters declare only greater enthusiasm, claiming that the erstwhile president is simply a martyr. force in the event of Biden's triumph is rather probable, due to the fact that the Trump right defender is that erstwhile the chief calls, they will catch the weapon – and unfortunately, it is not a metaphor. "If they can convict me, they can convict anyone," Trump repeats, adding that the actual verdict will be given on November 5, on election day.
“This is simply a witch hunt,” Trump repeated many times, but it must be unpleasant for him to be convicted in his own city. “I am a very innocent man” and “no 1 has always seen anything like it” – these are just a fewer last comic quotes from Trump. Although Trump emphasizes that the justice was “corrupted”, he was actually found guilty by 12 fresh Yorkers, which shows one more time that fresh York remains, if not progressive, at least liberal.
Mainstream media, from the fresh York Times to the BBC, triumph, spending quite a few time monitoring all decision in the courtroom. In their view, the verdict shows that no 1 is above the law and that democratic institutions are inactive functioning. If Trump wins, it will be the end of democracy – they repeat, not noticing that the US was never a democracy, but simply a miserable republic dominated by the having classes.
Perhaps that's why the left-wing media, including portals specified as Jacobin and Common Dreams, practically dropped the subject, focusing attention on the genocide in Gaza and on the situation of the American Precariat. They rightly consider that a juicy reality show with a porn star in the lead function does not substance to American citizens. More than that, it is simply a slap on the face of citizens who, alternatively of politics about us and for us, must be satisfied with the interior games of the elite, which belong not only to Trump, but besides to the politicians of the Democratic Party.
A progressive left to the election most likely won't go, like a large part of independent voters, feeling that the difference between democrats and Republicans is tiny and that Trump is showing the planet the actual face of America, well known throughout the world. It would besides be good for us to remember that if Poland and Ukraine are (for now) among the "friends and allies" of the United States, this is simply a substance of chance, driven by common hatred of the powerful urges of Russia.
There is besides the question that if any disputes, ambiguities or suspicions of falsification of elections arise, the next president will not be decided by voters, but by the ultimate Court, as was the case in 2000. If that happens, Trump's win is brick.
Don't get me wrong, Trump is simply a fraud and a criminal who is cheered for by the far right ultimate Court. but neither the State Department nor the Department of National safety under the regulation of politician Biden are much better looking. And in fact, it's kind of weird that even though virtually all president of the United States could prove work for war crimes, individual who tried to hide that he was sleeping with a porn star while his wife and his newborn kid were waiting for him at home. In the end, what do we care?
For the average American, accustomed from childhood all day to curse allegiance to the American flag and inactive reasoning that the remainder of the planet is simply a bunch of dirtbags, the issue of U.S. abroad policy has absolutely no meaning. But for people all over the world, it's the most crucial thing.
We had the chance to compare the effects of Biden and Trump's presidency. The 2 have already held power for 4 years, and with all this different rhetoric, the differences in abroad policy, including migration, are minimal. Trump moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, that's true. But now Biden is helping Israel's right-wing government execution Palestinians in Gaza, where according to current data since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, at least 35,000 people, most civilians, have died.
Since its inception, the U.S. government has intervened in sovereign states more than 390 times; 72 times since 2000. Under Kennedy, Jackson and Nixon, Americans murdered between 35 and 75,000 civilians in Vietnam, mainly in bombings. During the Korean War (for president Truman) only 1 and a half million civilians were killed in North Korea. As a consequence of the invasion of Iraq, 300,000 civilians were killed.
This includes thousands murdered in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti, Cuba and Panama. Since the start of the war in Afghanistan (for which Bush is liable as well as Obama) 70,000 civilians have been killed – only to guarantee to give power to the Taliban in 2021. no of these presidents, like no at the Pentagon, have been settled. But lying to an American voter about having sex with a porn star – that can't be forgiven!
None of this matters, of course, to the average American unless he came from 1 of these destroyed countries and was relieved to find a roof over his parents' murderers.
What precisely can happen in abroad policy if Trump becomes president again? Despite threats, it will not solve NATO, although it will blackmail and strangle Europe to pay its American bodyguard for protecting Russia. I'm sure. Ukraine will be in a worse situation, due to the fact that at least initially Trump will effort to deal with Putin and end the war – possibly for giving up the east of Ukraine and guaranteeing Russia to keep military power in Crimea.
It seems to us Poles, of course, to be the end of the world, but let us not be amazed that the remainder of this large globe has its own and bigger problems. possibly Trump will effectively live the Republican dream of a large war with Iran. There will be no change in aggressive policies towards China, the mediate East, or immigrants on the confederate border of the US. Nothing will change seriously – and the tragedy in Gaza will continue, due to the fact that it is guaranteed by all possible presidency.
