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Joe Biden’s ouster from the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate slot has invigorated the American Left. The most elated constitute the bulk of the establishment media, which has officially, for the last decade and a half, traded its journalism credentials for political and ideological activism. The other group of enthusiasts is the core institutions of the non-elected administrative state, as well as the entrenched social media and cyber systems' oligarchy. Some have labeled this powerful extension of today’s Democratic Party as a component of the Deep State and the Censorship Industrial Complex. Donald Trump is not competing against Kamala Harris. The Republican candidate and former president are challenging a well-organized and unscrupulous system.
When Barack Obama ushered in the vague and simplistically seeming slogans of “hope” and “change”, what he was referring to was a Marxist-driven soft revolution that was to be carried out in the cultural realm. Drawing from Gramsci, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Foucault, and his ideological Harvard mentor, Derrick Bell (the father of Critical Justice and Critical Race Theories), Obama unleashed cultural socialism with its identity politics stratagem understanding that law, norms, media, education, and government all draw from culture to build their institutions. This is a familiar enemy that most of the democratic West is fighting. Its global purpose is the same as it was in Marx’s day, allowing for pragmatic adjustments in ideology and implementation. The system is a stealth version of communism.
If Harris is the face representing this onslaught on democracy, Donald Trump, for all his shortcomings and imperfections, is the only option challenging this authoritarian threat. If he is to be successful, Trump and the Republican Party must adhere to the rules of engagement that are being waged against him and the American Republic. To miscalculate or underestimate the Left’s maneuvers and war plans in the 2024 election would be detrimental to Trump’s victory. Here are two essential steps that Republicans must follow.
This is the Freedom Crusade.
The Trump team can learn from President Javier Milei’s successful campaign in Argentina last November. This should not be too difficult for the Republican candidate to do. Both are nonconventional politicians who often speak unwisely and perilously off the cuff. South America’s MAGA (Make Argentina Great Again) movement was able to unseat a socialist Sao Paulo Forum government with similar goals as America’s Democratic Party. Milei’s electoral strategy was to elevate popular consciousness of the importance of freedom and the dangers of communism, and he declared a conviction to stand up for Western civilization and confront globalized Neo-Marxism.
Trump must effectively communicate to the American people, like Milei did to the Argentinians, that his opponent is merely the figurehead of a greater evil. This should also not be difficult to do. Harris is a far-left, mediocre candidate who is irrefutably linked with failed socialist policies and Marxist identity politics fanaticism. Gender Ideology and Critical Race Theory, two modern-day Marxist ideological adaptations, have no greater supporter than Harris. Two-thirds of Americans reject Gender Ideology’s state-imposed policies on education, public facilities, government, and athletic competition. Trump must intelligently and respectfully illustrate this point. To illustrate this point in simple terms, let us consider health insurance coverage mandates.
Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act (ACA), overwhelmingly defended by Democrats including Biden and Harris, makes it illegal for a private insurance company to refuse to cover transgenderism’s operations. However, on the issue of covering expenses for nuclear families that seek to have children but have difficulties, procedures such as in vitro fertilization (IVA), are not automatically covered, as per the ACA. Trump has announced that he would support public funding or insurance mandates on coverage to help families by potentially assisting women to achieve pregnancy. The worldviews that separate both presidential candidates are universes apart. Republicans must not let Harris clothe herself in moderation.
MAGA Must Broaden its Coalition.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., part of an iconic American family of Democratic politicians, has openly endorsed Trump as the lessor of two evils. This does not mean that he is only tepidly supporting the Republican candidate. Kennedy has made a scorching and accurate description of the radical nature of the institution that today calls itself the Democratic Party. Foremost in his warning is the grave threat that free speech and liberty in general are facing from the Harris-Obama-Biden ticket. Republicans must prioritize drawing all the disaffected Democratic voters that feel betrayed by their party. Ronald Reagan, it must be remembered, was once a Democrat.
Working-class families of all races, ethnicities, and religions must be sought and incorporated under the MAGA umbrella. The Biden-Harris border immigration anarchy has hurt all Americans. However, as a minority group, it has hit black Americans and Hispanics disproportionately. The social spending that has been afforded to illegal immigrants has come as a detriment to the mentioned group of Americans. Republicans must go out of their way to bring blacks and Hispanics to the MAGA tent. Both groups being socially conservative and akin to religiosity, the Republican Party would be a natural for them.
Jews should be offended by the Democratic Party’s support for Islamism. It has been, not only, the emotional siding with the genocidal calls for Israel’s elimination by Islamist-Marxist groups. The support that Iran, the overseer and financier of the October 7 invasion, has received from Obama and then Biden-Harris has enabled Islamism’s attacks on Israel and the West. The unprecedented peace that the turbulent Middle East lived through under Trump’s four-year presidential watch was not a coincidence. It was the causal effect that reflected a successful foreign policy strategy.
Women have been under attack by the incursion of men (who claim to be women) into ladies’ sports, bathrooms, prisons, and public spaces. This has been a direct result of policies that follow Marxist dogma and have been implemented by Democrats. Harris and Tim Walz, her vice presidential partner, are true believers in the cult of transgenderism. For the Democratic ticket, trans rights are more important than women’s rights. Trump must reach out to the female population. This is where Republicans are most vulnerable.
The issue of abortion, like identity group politics, has been a tool that the Left has seized upon. Lie after shameless lie, Democrats speak as though abortion has been made illegal across the country. This is not the case. Each state, according to the whims of its citizens, has the power to craft the legal timeframe for the ending of a fetus’s life. Without going deep into the moral aspects of whether a woman is entitled to do with her body what she wishes, including ending another human life, upholding facts should be something Republicans must harness. Roe v. Wade is dead. But women can still get an abortion.
After addressing the above-mentioned campaign routes, the Republican Party must be ready and able to defend the integrity of the 2024 elections. A lawyer at the service of the GOP must be present at every single precinct, in every relevant swing state polling center. Early voting, absentee ballots, and mail-in voting are here to stay, for the most part. Republicans must capitalize on these initiatives and use them to the GOP’s advantage. Get-out-the-vote efforts should be amplified. Leaving the option to vote exclusively on election day could hand the Democrats the victory. Republicans must learn from the Democrats’ playbook. Not on morals, virtues, or policies. Lincoln’s party must imitate their power schemes, cunning ability to use the courts in conservative jurisdictions and break the wall of traditional Democratic voters. This election is far too important.
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Julio M. Shiling is a political scientist, writer, columnist, lecturer, media commentator, and director of Patria de Martà and The CubanAmerican Voice. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. He is a member of The American Political Science Association, The PEN Club (Cuban Writers in Exile Chapter) and the Academy of Cuban History in Exile.
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The American Left is aspiring to implement Barack Obama's fourth presidential term. Or, better expressed, the goal is another opportunity to deepen the socialist revolution he launched in 2008, which Donald Trump had the audacity to interrupt and, within certain limits, reverse or slow its advance. It is what the German Marxist philosopher Rudi Dutschke labeled the “march through the institutions.” In the U.S. context, this radical model is a hybrid composition of Neo-Marxist epistemological foundations (Frankfurt School’s “Critical Theory,” Gramsci’s “Cultural Hegemony,” and Lukacs’ “Reification”), Fabian socialist methodology, and postmodernism’s structural determinist framework. There is no one better suited to expand this revolution against the American exceptionalist sociopolitical system than Kamala Harris.
Joe Biden served the leftist cause well, or as best he could. Never being very brilliant, even at the height of his long political career, he did manage to fill the task by offering both an image of moderation and servitude. This was essential for those who have been really running Biden’s administration and campaign: Obama’s shadow government, which evolved into a regime by the time the 46th president entered the White House in 2021. The Democrat’s June debate debacle and Trump nearly getting killed because of the bizarre and gross negligence of the Secret Service and other intelligence agencies were Biden’s last chance. A palace revolution, with the skill that only Democrats know all too well how to perform, took place, and now the dagger is passed on to Harris.
Kamala was always Obama’s favorite out of the 2020 Democratic presidential choices. There is a good reason for this. While Biden could be made to follow and abide by the established norms of American leftism, for Harris, this is, literally, a genetic disposition. Kamala’s deep-rooted connectedness with Neo-Marxist dogma and praxis, is a matter of fact. Biden’s current vice-president and former senator and prosecutor will not bring moderates to the voting booth, but she is a true believer in Obama’s soft socialist revolution.
Harris, fervently and faithfully, is a gender ideology pronoun promoter and practitioner. This delirious and subversive postmodern language scheme seeks to alter the perception of reality by distorting and denaturalizing speech, symbols, and concepts. It is fundamental to Marxism’s campaign to censor, make the absurd possible, and directly promote Gender Ideology (GI) and Critical Queer Theory (CQT). The 2021 executive order adaptations of Title IX exemplify the Biden-Harris administration’s conviction to gain ground with Marxist tenets that focus on reformulating culture.
Title IX is a part of the Education Amendments of 1972, which modified the Higher Education Act of 1965. On day one, Biden issued an executive order revising regulations for implementing Title IX to prioritize gender equity, a hallmark of Marxist GI. Harris has been the point person on this revision of the 1972 amendment, which undermines equality and, specifically, women’s sports, education, and activities. The current Democratic presidential frontrunner (apparently) has persistently argued against equality and in favor of equity. This is not a question of semantics.
Equity is the antithesis of equality. Its implementation requires inequality, discrimination, and segregation. Equity is a potent tool to wage war in the oppressor/oppressor dichotomy that Marx and Engels invented and cultural Marxists perfected. It is not just GI and CQT that conceptually employ equity to propel Marxism. Critical Race Theory (CRT), Critical Postcolonial Theory (CPT), and Critical Feminist Theory (CFT) are some other communist premises adapted to the cultural hegemonic pretension that depends on equity to camouflage its liberticidal project. In the American workplace, it is the “E” in DEI, or “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” These are basic trojan horses that speak about equality and harmony while instituting racism, sexism, sexual relativity, minority supremacy, and censorship through “hate” speech or “unsafe” realms.
One of Harris’ first stops as the crowned Democratic heir, was to address the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the country’s second-largest teacher’s union and a firm apologist for far-left curriculums and militant Marxist indoctrination policies (GI, CQT, CRT, CPT, and CFT). There, she assured AFT members that gender ideology and sexual practices material would be “protected” in the children’s classrooms. Parents’ rights would be circumvented by giving primacy to schoolteachers, counselors, and other GI and CQT commissars.
During the 2020 Marxist revolt across the U.S. led by Black Lives Matter and Antifa, Harris was one of the most ardent defenders of the communist saboteurs. Raising money for the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a far-left organization that paid bail to get the rioters out of jail, which included violent criminals, accused murderers, and rapists, was only one of her actions. Throughout the long summer of looting, murder, arson, and attacks on American democracy, Harris made constant references to the underlying causes that produced this response from the Marxist rioters.
Defunding the police, a key objective of all communist movements, has found enormous and consistent support from Harris. Marxists understand that local law enforcement is the first line of authority that protects the prevailing order. Debilitating this point of defense is crucial to the Marxist endgame of igniting chaos and crisis. Those conditions typically precede demands for regime change.
Mass immigration to breach national sovereignty, as well as invigorate cultural hemorrhaging, is one of Western civilization’s biggest threats. True to Fabian socialism and its adherence to global governance and socioeconomic arrangements, Harris has adamantly supported and is responsible for the anarchy at the southern border. From arguing for the dismantlement of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and equating this important federal agency to the white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan, to the espousal of decriminalizing illegal border crossings, Harris is one of mass immigration's biggest advocates. This is the case in theory and in practice.
Radical environmentalism, or eco-socialism, as others refer to it, has found an enormous political and moral buttress in Harris. As cosponsor of the Green New Deal, the American far-left project in step with globalist, unscientific environmental extremism, the former California senator and Biden’s vice president has gone to the fringes of climate alarmist zealotry. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the technique used in the oil and gas industry to extract natural gas and oil from deep underground rock formations that have aided American oil supremacy, has found an ardent opponent in Harris. If elected, she proposes to ban it.
Abortions in the U.S. are now in the hands of the states. Harris cosponsored the titled Women's Health Protection Act of 2021. This piece of legislation sought to extend abortions on demand without any limitations. This includes the full timeframe of any pregnancy. Such a radical position, even among abortionists, has been sustained by Harris. Surely, she would do everything in her power to demolish America’s democratic setup as outlined by the Founding Fathers.
Kamala Harris was born into a trained Marxist household. Donald Harris, Kamala’s father, was an acknowledged Marxist who taught economic theory and policy at Stanford University in California. Together with Shyamala Gopalan, Harris’ mother, the Democrat’s parents both belonged to ultra-left student groups such as the Afro-American Association while studying at the University of California at Berkeley. Undoubtedly, the 2019 designation of the most left-wing senator issued by GovTrack, a nonpartisan website that monitors the voting record of politicians and rates them, accordingly, was well deserved. Obama’s dream of having Harris in the Oval Office would be horrific. Marxism must be stopped.
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Julio M. Shiling is a political scientist, writer, columnist, lecturer, media commentator, and director of Patria de Martà and The CubanAmerican Voice. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. He is a member of The American Political Science Association, The PEN Club (Cuban Writers in Exile Chapter) and the Academy of Cuban History in Exile.
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On Saturday, July 13, during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, there was an effort to kill Donald Trump. The 45th president and Republican candidate in the 2024 elections survived the attack. Many things that should never have happened occurred, and other factors that should be inherent in a democracy were dismally absent. Here are some of the seminal lessons that one can take away from this tragic event.
The Left and the Biden-Obama Regime Bear Responsibility
Since June 16, 2015, when Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency in the 2016 election, the Left has targeted him. Initially, the Democrats, corporate media, the oligarchic social media class, the deep state, and elite globalist moguls believed they could use him to alienate and divide Republican voters. Once they realized their strategy failed and Trump won his party’s nomination and challenged Hillary Clinton, the Left conspired with heavier guns.
The Obama administration used state institutions like the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice (DOJ), with financing from the Democratic National Committee’s election war chest, to construct false narratives that tied Trump with Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin. Obama government officials went so far as to commit fraud on applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on the Trump campaign. When that character assassination attempt against the Republican candidate failed and Trump won in 2016, the war against him heightened.
The Russia hoax, the sham impeachment accusations (the second while out of office), the media Biden corruption coverups, and the Chinese pandemic with its consequential electoral systemic overhaul disrupted Trump’s first term. The pandemic-altered, bizarre 2020 election, plagued with gross irregularities and statistical inconsistencies, handed the presidency to Joe Biden. From then on, Obama’s third term was initiated, and the persecution of Trump and conservatives, pejoratively labeled by left-wing zealots as “MAGA” Republicans, took on new heights.
Marxist dogmatic proposals were fed into the American cultural means of production by the Biden-Obama regime. For this sinister project of making America socialist to succeed, the fascist classification had to be firmly attached to Trump and his vast following. This broad coalition, dubbed “extremist” by the Left, consists of moderate and conservative Americans with one principal binding denominator: a rejection of globalist left-wing political and social objectives. For over three and a half years, the Biden-Obama regime has used the FBI, CIA, DOJ, and other agencies of the federal government to persecute Trump, “MAGA” Republicans, and Christians and Jews with deep religious convictions that put them in conflict with cultural Marxist policies.
The Democratic Party’s 2024 election platform has consisted of making Americans falsely believe that Trump is a “threat” to democracy. That is basically it. For this, they have used, since Biden’s ascension to power, the judicial system to levy charges and convictions against Trump and people close to him. Innocent Americans have been made into political prisoners with ludicrous sedition accusations and charges stemming from the January 6 Capitol Building riot. Parents and traditional Catholics have been investigated as potential domestic terrorists. This has been part of the Left’s fascist, white supremacist/nationalist conspiracy lie that remains their campaign banner.
The grand failure of the Biden-Obama regime’s extreme-left politics is evident in the southern border anarchy, skyrocketing crime in Democratic-run cities, hyperinflation in certain sectors, and the promotion of Marxist dogma (Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, Gender Ideology, Postcolonial Theory) in key institutions (public and private). The vitriolic hatred against Trump has been built up out of necessity. The Left can only win and maintain a following if they scare people. For years, they have consistently, relentlessly, and irresponsibly compared Trump with Adolf Hitler, a national socialist mass murderer. By making the former president out to be a monster whose mission it is to destroy American democracy, an assassination attempt, whether unintentional or otherwise, was in the brewing.
Serious Failures in the Secret Service Performance
The fact that someone with a rifle was able to climb on top of a roof at 130 yards (0.12 km) distance from the podium where Trump was speaking and take a shot raises serious concerns. Either the Secret Service was grossly negligent and failed epically in basic rudimentary protection, or there was a mole within the department that facilitated the lapse in protocol. There is no way this can be understood. Kimberly Cheatle is the Biden-appointed director of the Secret Service. Despite having PepsiCo as her last previous employer, she worked for 27 years in the Secret Service, including being assigned to protect then-Vice President Biden. In other words, Cheatle knows the intricacies of protecting high-profile political figures.
Witnesses and video recordings make the case that Secret Service personnel and Butler Police had knowledge of the gunman’s presence. Thomas Matthew Crooks, the former president’s would be killer, was cited on the rooftop with the rifle as Trump was delivering the campaign speech. Secret Service snipers were seen pointing to Crooks, yet not neutralizing him preemptively. They fired only after the assassination attempt was executed. Why the delay?
Can Biden’s FBI and DOJ be Trusted with the Coming Investigation?
After over at least five years of the wanton political misuse of the FBI and the DOJ by, both, Obama and Biden, can Republicans trust that a fair and comprehensive investigation into the attempted assassination of Trump? The answer is no. The empirical evidence should convince any skeptic that under the political watch of the Biden White House, the judicial system has only used its legal and law enforcement muscle against conservatives and right-leaning activists. Antifa, Black Lives Matter, pro-Hamas and other Islamist-Marxist groups have fared with generous immunity under the current system of law. Trump and Republicans should invest in private security operatives, in addition to using the available public venues, at least until the 2024 election.
The Assassination Attempt favors Trump and Republicans
The fact that Trump survived the attempt to permanently silence him, and the manner in which he did it, will definitely benefit his candidacy. Just as the levying of unfair criminal charges raised support from many undecided or centrist voters, this horrific intent to kill Trump and the gracious and brave attitude displayed in the literal line of fire, will most certainly add votes in his favor. It appears safe to bet that the assassination attempt will elevate Trump and show Americans, not that he is an “existential threat to democracy”, but rather that murder was a path that his opponents were expected to take at some desperate point. This would be consequentially logical if the Democrats' claim and discourse were to be taken with merit.
Divine Intervention Saved Trump and the Nation
Last, but most important, God’s hand was ever present in saving Trump from death. It is extremely rare that a bullet from an AR-15-style rifle just grazes a piece of skin. The slight movement of the head in the pivotal second before the bullet was about to obliterate Trump’s brain is exceptional. The reflex exhibited by the 45th president, a non-military man, was formidable. God has His reasons for doing things. As Psalms 19:9 tells us, “The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
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Julio M. Shiling is a political scientist, writer, columnist, lecturer, media commentator, and director of Patria de Martà and The CubanAmerican Voice. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. He is a member of The American Political Science Association, The PEN Club (Cuban Writers in Exile Chapter) and the Academy of Cuban History in Exile.
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Lavrentiy Beria, the longest-serving head of Joseph Stalin’s secret police, is infamously credited with noting that he could prove criminal mischief even among the most innocent of men. The paramount overseer of the Soviet Union’s Gulag prison system and key architect of the political repression between 1938 and 1953 once bragged, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg, who was elected in 2021 to his current position on the campaign pledge to go after Donald Trump, claimed mission accomplished with the guilty verdict on all 34-state felony counts his office received on Thursday May 30. The George Soros-funded DA had structural assistance in this dastardly legal scheme from the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ), the judge overseeing the trial, and a targeted geographically tiered judicial pool that is ideologically entrenched. Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln would have all been found “guilty” under a similar authoritarian, kangaroo court setting.
Of the four legal trials against the Republican Party frontrunner since his candidacy was tacitly evident, this is the most barefaced. The meddling from the political pulpit in the 2024 presidential election to attempt to assure a Democratic Party victory is being done out in the open. The courts are one of the Trojan horses used to mask their illegitimacy. The utilization of the justice system to silence opposition and influence election results is nothing new. Non-democratic regimes have always done it this way. Every single person sent to Russia’s, China’s, or Cuba’s gulags was done so under the auspices of the “law.” Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia eliminate opposition leaders by levying criminal accusations.
The Biden-Obama regime is knowingly following the scripts established and practiced by experienced dictatorships, adapted to the American model. The U.S. path to non-democratic rule is rougher and requires special considerations, given the intricacies of its federal system of government. This is why socialist-hospitable enclaves like New York City and Washington, D.C. (among others) are the preferred legal venues to fabricate crimes to achieve the ends they seek. When there exists a two-tiered legal system that is politically and ideologically predetermined, then the rule of law becomes a capricious element of structure based on where you live or if you fall within the federal grasp of Biden’s DOJ.
This is how the Left pulled off this Berian-like conviction in New York’s “hush money trial.” The whole court proceeding lacked elemental due process and followed a pattern of stretching the law and establishing precedents beyond the scope of accepted norms. Truly, this is the Marxist dream of postmodern law. The thirty-four counts all relate to one single occurrence: a bookkeeping infraction, at best, concerning a $130,000 payment under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) (perfectly legal) paid to a porn movie actress for sexual services (Stormy Daniels) in an alleged one-night stand that supposedly occurred in 2006. The prosecution’s key witness was a convicted perjurer (Michael Cohen) who, additionally, admitted to having stolen $60,000 from the Trump real estate conglomerate.
The judge umpiring the case, Juan Merchan, was the prosecution’s enabler. Medullary a Democrat, Merchan has donated to the Democratic Party and anti-Trump causes. Additionally, the judge’s daughter is a wholly committed employee of the Democratic establishment, making a living fundraising for Democratic political candidates. The trial that her father presides over has generated enormous sums of money, which she has benefited from financially. By working as an executive director at a top-notch Democratic firm that is connected directly with is Adam Schiff, the Democrat National Committee, Democratic Senate Majority PAC, and even Biden, Merchan’s daughter’s employment is grounds enough for him to have recused himself on conflict-of-interest grounds.
Perhaps the most influential entity on the prosecuting team was Matthew Colangelo, the number-three official at Biden’s DOJ, before transitioning to Manhattan’s DA office. Acting as the lead prosecutor, Colangelo laid the groundwork for the concocted legal theories that were explored to criminalize Trump’s legal actions. He served as the natural bridge between New York and the White House, in other words, between the Manhattan DA and the DOJ. Additionally, he has served as a paid political consultant to the Democratic National Committee. Fundamental to the prosecution’s strategy was to make the charges against Trump a felony since bookkeeping issues are a misdemeanor.
Colangelo and Bragg introduced novice, unchartered legal theories by arguing that New York voters had been “defrauded” in the 2016 election by Trump’s actions. Logically, this would place the jurisdiction in federal terrain, since the allegation involved supposed campaign finance violations. To neutralize the burdensome task of overriding logistical challenges that this judicial hypothesis would present, the cooperation of the presiding judge would be a prerequisite.
To ensure that the outcome would, ultimately, be what it was, Judge Merchan effectively prevented key witnesses for Trump’s legal team from testifying by micromanaging what the defense could ask and what the witness could answer. One such example was election law expert Brad Smith, a former member of the Federal Election Commission. This witness was most important for the former president’s case. However, Merchan’s draconian limitations would render his testimony mute. The judge demanded to previously see in writing what the likely testimony would be.
The final and fatal blow to due process and Trump’s chance of a fair hearing was the unprecedented jury instructions given by Merchan to the 12 jurors. One of the hallmarks of American jurisprudence in criminal cases is the prosecutor’s burden of having to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. In other words, to render a guilty verdict, the jury must be virtually certain of the defendant's guilt. Here, the judge would leave nothing to chance. A guilty verdict required that the jurors determine, by unanimity, that Trump falsified business records with “intent” to defraud. Furthermore, the payment made to buy silence for the alleged sexual favors was part of a “conspiracy” by “unlawful means” to elect Trump in 2016.
Merchan broke with judicial protocol and tradition and established special rules for the jury to deliberate on. The left-wing judge allowed the jury to freely decide for themselves, according to their own personal standards, what those “unlawful means” were. In other words, they were free to imagine any path possible to arrive at the “unlawful” characterization. Clearly, this judicial curse epitomizes injustice and is a mockery of the rule of law. Considering the ample manipulation of the trial in the prosecutor's favor and the fact that the jury body consisted of one of the most hard-core Democratic Party populaces in the U.S., there was no way a different outcome could have been expected.
The utilization of the American court system to persecute, silence, and keep a candidate from competing in an election is an act of despotism. The radical Left will use all its resources to stop Trump from winning the 2024 election. It should be noted, however, that if the Republican candidate were any other non-globalist, conservative, anticommunist person, they too would face similar illiberal, antisystem wrath. Republicans, Independents, and centrist Democrats must realize that the American Republic undergoing an existential threat. God willing, Trump should win in November. It will take a brave course of restorative justice to return normalcy to the U.S. Those responsible for this authoritarian power grab must be held accountable. We all know who the suspects are. No one is above the law.
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Julio M. Shiling is a political scientist, writer, columnist, lecturer, media commentator, and director of Patria de Martà and The CubanAmerican Voice. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. He is a member of The American Political Science Association, The PEN Club (Cuban Writers in Exile Chapter) and the Academy of Cuban History in Exile.
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