Republished with permission from D. Earl Stephens
In a span of 15 hours, the world got another close look at our so-called “justice system” in America, and has sentenced us to death.
The morning after we discovered that nearly half our Supreme Court believes that one man is above the law to do whatever the hell it is he wishes in our country, another court sentenced Donald J. Trump to absolutely nothing after being found guilty of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records to cover up a lewd sex scandal that threatened to end his 2016 presidential campaign.
Read that again.
It somehow gets worse, because all that jarring jurisprudence can now be piled atop the abhorrent disregard our Justice Department paid to the America-attacker for stealing top secret documents, and then leading a violent insurrection on our Capitol January 6, 2021.
The world said it expects America to officially be pronounced dead “sometime within the next four-to-eight years.”
Judge Juan Merchan’s decision Friday was not wholly unexpected because he sadly tipped us to it days ago.
Essentially, this guy decided that a man whose character references include—but are not limited to—being a compulsive liar, an enemy of America, a tax cheat, a multiple women-abuser, and a twice-impeached racist didn’t even deserve a slap on his fat little wrist for being convicted by a jury on 34 felony counts.
Worse? There is absolutely no legal precedent for Merchan’s disregard for the law, proving yet again that the inmates run our courts in America.
Here is how The New York Times reported on that bit this morning:
Mr. Trump, who was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal, had originally faced probation or up to four years in prison, and a New York Times analysis revealed that Justice Merchan had ample ground to consider incarceration.
Since 2014, a third of defendants sentenced to the most serious charge of falsifying business records in the first degree in Manhattan received jail time, amounting to less than a year behind bars.
Other defendants received prison time—more than a year’s incarceration—or were sentenced to probation, conditional discharges, community service or fines.
No other defendant in the cases examined received an unconditional discharge.
This is completely insulting and defies any rational explanation.
Understand this, good people: Trump is above the law, precisely because he was carefully placed there by a justice system in America that is so perverted, so dishonest, and so bought-off it is completely untrustworthy and worthless.
I typed the following last week in excoriating Attorney General Merrick Garland for his criminal behavior by not protecting America from yet another attack, and will place it here again for emphasis:
The real hard truth here is that we are a country where people with money enjoy their lives 30,000-feet above the law, and people without money are dragged along gravel runways toward our overflowing jails in record time.
Our legal system is a damn, corrupt mess.
The rich shop for judges, like the rest of us shop for groceries.
Again: Trump covered up a lewd sex scandal by illegally falsifying business records so that he could protect his run for the most powerful office in the world. A jury of his peers heard the evidence and found him guilty of 34 felony counts.
The judge sentenced him to absolutely nothing.
The night before that so-called sentencing, four members of our reprehensible radical-rightwing Supreme Court voted that he shouldn’t have to face sentencing at all for his crimes because he is above the law, like some damn king …
The evidence speaks for itself, and our justice system is guilty as charged.
Hey, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the world’s wrong. Maybe we will somehow survive this unrelenting onslaught.
No matter what, the “rule of law” in our diminishing country can be accurately defined this way: “Money talks, and bullshit walks …”
