Call it the Trump Effect.

A remarkable development in American history and politics currently embodied by two quite different people: New York Judge Arthur Engoron and defeated GOP House Speaker candidate Tom Emmer.

In the case of Engoron, the judge, who is presiding over a Trump trial, has quickly revealed himself to be a corrupt show boater. Mugging for the cameras and scolding Donald Trump for bringing attention to a member of his staff, clerk Allison Greenfield.

In fact, Trump was bringing attention to witness and ex-Trump aide Michael Cohen. He had earlier posted a photo of Greenfield with New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader. 

But had he been singling out Greenfield … so what? Greenfield chose — say again, chose — to enter public service. She is paid, like all other public servants at any level of local, state, or federal government, by the taxpayers. The very first word in “public service” is “public.” And public service entails taking criticism from the private citizens whose government they serve. As a personal note, I myself have served on the staff of a state senator, a congressman, a U.S. senator, a president, and a Cabinet secretary. Along the way in this or that situation, my name has been out there. And so? Again, as Democrat President Harry Truman used to say, if you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

Be that as it may, Engoron was so terrified of the former president’s constitutional right to free speech that, in complete and decidedly corrupt violation of his oath of office, Engoron issued a so-called “gag order”. Its purpose was crystal clear: to stop the Trump Effect that results from an outsider president speaking truth to power — in this case, the corrupted power of Engoron and his staff.

Even the left-wing ACLU was so appalled that the group issued a statement condemning the judge for trying to silence the former president’s constitutional right to free speech. This from a group that had taken issue with then-President Trump some 400 times during his presidency. Yet it is — correctly — so appalled at this attack on his constitutional right to free speech that it has stood up for him.

Then there was yet another instance of just why Engoron is so terrified of the Trump Effect.

In the battle to succeed GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, for a brief moment GOP House Whip Tom Emmer appeared on the verge of winning the speakership.

And then.

The Trump Effect.

The former president, decidedly aware Emmer was a leader of the decidedly Establishment anti-Trumpers, issued this statement as the vote on Emmer approached. As I headlined here in this space at The American Spectator:

Trump Condemns GOP Speaker Nominee Emmer 

The Trump Emmer statement said this: 

I have many wonderful friends wanting to be Speaker of the House, and some are truly great Warriors. RINO Tom Emmer, who I do not know well, is not one of them. He never respected the Power of a Trump endorsement, or the breadth and scope of MAGA-MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! He fought me all the way, and actually spent more time defending Ilhan Omar, than he did me – He is totally out-of-touch with Republican Voters. I believe he has now learned his lesson, because he is saying that he is Pro-Trump all the way, but who can ever be sure? Has he only changed because that’s what it takes to win? The Republican Party cannot take that chance, because that’s not where the America First Voters are. Voting for a Globalist RINO like Tom Emmer would be a tragic mistake!

I added:

My own thought? Mr. Emmer has a problem. A big one.

He did.

In a veritable blink, the Trump Effect kicked in. And Emmer’s bid for the speakership collapsed, completely and utterly.

So what do we have here? What we have is a corrupt judge making it his business to silence the former president. Why? Because, as evidenced in the collapse of the Emmer speakership bid, Americans pay attention to the former president. And the judge can’t stand it.

In both instances, this is the Trump Effect at work. A corrupt judge is so terrified of the Trump Effect that he seeks to impose a gag order to keep the former president silenced. And in Washington, the former president’s statement targeting almost-Speaker Emmer abruptly collapses Emmer’s election hopes.

All of which is to say that there are millions of Americans out there who have had it with the corrupt American political establishment and who believe that it is Trump who has the courage to stand up and take on that establishment, in whatever form that might appear.

Message to the GOP Establishment and corrupt Trump prosecutors and judges?

Beware the Trump Effect.