The vast majority of voters don’t want President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump to be the next president. A lot of those voters simply are not going to vote. This is going to be an election determined not by who swing voters may or may not choose but by who can best motivate their voters to go to the polls.
And that is why Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s conviction of Trump is such a huge gift to the Trump campaign.
Bragg is a George Soros-funded prosecutor who routinely lets violent criminals back on the street and yet promised on the campaign trail to “hold Trump accountable” for “a pattern of lawlessness over 20 years.”
The judge who oversaw the Bragg prosecution is a Biden donor whose daughter works for the Biden campaign. Throughout the trial, the judge repeatedly prevented key witnesses from testifying, most crucially a federal election witness who would have testified that Trump committed no crime when labeling his payments to lawyer Michael Cohen as legal expenses.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who has said Trump shouldn’t be near the Oval Office, called Bragg’s case an “obviously political” “abomination.” CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, a liberal critic of Trump, said, “I doubt the New York indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump.”
In 2022, the Federal Election Commission fined former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign $113,000 for falsely reporting how it paid to create the Steele dossier, a document whose false claims about Trump would eventually lead to then-special counsel Robert Mueller’s failed Russia investigation. But at no point has the FEC ever held that Trump’s payments to Cohen were an election law violation, which is the foundational assumption of Bragg’s case.
Trump committed no crime here. And yet Bragg, his corrupt judge, and a rigged jury delivered the verdict that Biden and the Democratic Party so desperately wanted.
This Bragg prosecution has been a complete and total witch hunt from the beginning, and that is obvious to all but the most partisan Democrats who wanted a guilty verdict, any guilty verdict, for emotional release.
But Bragg’s obvious and systematic abuse of the criminal justice system for completely partisan ends has awakened a giant. Immediately after the verdict was read, Trump’s campaign donation site crashed as millions rushed to show their support by giving Trump money.
The wealthiest and biggest donors who have been hesitant to give to Trump in the past are suddenly rushing to show Trump support.
Trump’s connection to the electorate has never been about logic or reason. It is about passion and frustration. Frustration with a system many people believe is corrupt and rigged against them. That same system has now gone after Trump in the most corrupt and rigged manner possible.
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People identify with the persecution of Trump. They feel the injustice Biden, Bragg, and the Democrats have perpetuated against Trump in their bones. And they feel they can fight back against that systematic injustice by voting for Trump.
Bragg has forged strong new emotional ties between Trump and millions of unhappy voters. He and the Democrats will eventually regret this prosecution, and possibly sooner than they think.