Last week I watched Miranda Devine’s interview of Robert Costello concerning his service as Rudy Guliani’s lawyer. From this interview plus recent testimonies before Congressional committees, I drew the following conclusions.

By March 2020 FBI officials were fully cognizant of material in the Hunter Biden laptop that would have been absolutely devastating to the Biden Presidency, yet they sat on it. Months later theylearned that contents of the laptop were to be revealed in the press, and they warned mainstream news purveyors to expect a Russian disinformation campaign.  When material  from the laptop was actually exposed by the NY Post, the Biden administration suborned current and former intelligence officials to falsely label the laptop as probable Russian disinformation. DOJ and FBI officials, though knowing the truth, remained silent.  So did the mainstream media. Biden then managed to win the election.  Even with all the machinations and probable electoral chicanery, it was a very close thing.  If the truth had come out, hid defeat would have been assured.

When President Trump chose to challenge the 2020 election results, Democrat politicians and their media friends accused Trump of knowing that he had lost the election, but, despite this knowledge, he attempted to subvert the will of the American people.  That accusation was untrue.  Trump honestly believed and continues to believe that he was cheated of victory, and he had every right to contest the election so long as there was some legal path to do so.  There was nothing criminal or illegal about his challenge, but the Democrats wished to treat it as a criminal act and charged Trump and his election deniers with subversion.

The January 6 riots were disturbing, but the Democrats blew the event all out of proportion and used it to cudgel the Republicans.  Several thousand Trump supporters entered the Capitol building that day, but it appears that only a few hundred persons charged the Capitol with malevolent intent and engaged in serious mayhem. Certainly, it was no insurrection, and it was not called for or supported by Trump.   Nevertheless, Democratic leaders and the DOJ chose to regard January 6 as the most horrendous, nation-threatening event since the Civil War, and they treated anyone who entered the capitol that day as a criminal, even if they only came to observe or pray.  Some of the intruders were guilty of violence, but the great majority were not. These unfortunates were pursued and prosecuted mercilessly over the next several years, much to the everlasting shame of the American justice system.

Following January 6 came the second impeachment trial of President Trump.  Even though Trump was now out of office, the Democratic Party controlled House of Representatives eagerly voted to impeach him because of his challenge of the 2020 election results, culminating in the January 6 affair.  Democrats realized that there was no chance that impeachment would receive the two thirds vote in the Senate required for conviction.  That proved to be the case, but the Democrats hoped that the second impeachment had seriously wounded Trump and possibly removed him as a future political threat.

Next came the January 6 Committee in the House.  Nancy Pelosi disregarded all precedents by creating a special committee without real minority party representation.  It was a star chamber-like proceeding, and anything coming out of that committee should have no legitimacy.  The testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson is illustrative.  Ms. Hutchinson made serious allegations about President Trump’s actions on January 6^th based entirely on hearsay.  Committee leaders knew that contradictory evidence existed, but they chose to suppress it.   

Even as the committee trampled on precedent and judicial fair-play, Biden’s Department of Justice and its subordinate FBI knew no bounds in their continuing attempt to destroy Donald Trump and his chief supporters.  They were aided and abetted by a Democrat controlled House of Representatives and partisan Democrat judges and prosectors at various levels.  It was all-out legal warfare of the most brutal kind. 

In Washington, D.C., the DOJ’s special prosecutor charged Trump with various crimes, including illegally possessing classified documents.  Pursuit of this charge resulted in an unprecedented raid on the former President’s Florida home and a gross violation of the family’s private quarters. The documents charge was eventually dropped. As for the other Federal charges, the United States Supreme Court came to his rescue by declaring his acts as President immune from prosecution.

In New York, state and local prosecutors and judges tried to bankrupt Trump’s family business enterprises and send Trump himself to jail.  The prosecutors’ modus operandi appeared to be a takeoff on the old Beria maxim,  “Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime.”   New York prosecutors were very creative.  They managed to charge Trump more than a half-billion dollars for a business swindle in which no one was swindled.  Elsewhere in New York, he was charged with 34 felonious acts for repetitive so-called bookkeeping errors which, at worst, should have been classified as misdemeanors and excluded from prosecution by the statute of limitations.  Nevertheless, a partisan jury convicted him. In another New York Court, a woman managed to get a jury to convict Trump of sexual harassment even though Trump denied it, the woman couldn’t remember the year when it happened, and there was no corroborating testimony.   The entire Trump family was fair game in the state’s legal and political environment, facts be damned.  All over the state, Trump supporters and enterprises were under attack.  Eric Trump lost track of the number of subpoenas.  Legal expenses were enormous.

In Georgia’s Fulton County, Trump was charged with election interference.  A corrupt prosecutor attempted to indict Trump and his supporters with RICO violations for simply questioning the legitimacy of Georgia’s elections.  A few pleaded guilty to avoid further harassment and legal costs, while others were litigated into bankruptcy.  Trump alone had the fortitude and the resouces to fight them. Eventually, the prosecutor’s own serious malfeasance was exposed, and the prosecution’s case collapsed.

As we review these facts, I believe that most of us will agree that great damage has been done to the American legal system by the Democrat’s insane hatred and fear of Donald Trump.  They proved themselves willing to subvert all truth and justice in their attempt to destroy him, and in this process they eroded American citizens’ confidence in our government and in our courts.