Eating Humble Pie Is On The US Menu In 2025
Thyagaraj Markandan’s jaundiced attempt at psychoanalysis of Donald Trump and his earnest regurgitation of bogus charges is a tribute to the efficacy of the mainstream media’s ability to dictate narratives (The Mercury, November 8). Not surprisingly, Markandan is an unwitting victim of that process.
Following the failed attempts of the Washington oligarchy to destroy Trump’s presidency by alleging Russian collusion and by impeachment, their strategy was to weaponise the justice system so as to produce convictions damning his eligibility to hold political office. By referring six times in his letter to Trump as a ‘felon,’ Markandan reflects the success of that strategy.
Yet each of the five cases against Trump is baseless. For an alleged affair which she denied for years after 2006, the statute of limitations rules out the Stormy Daniels case. But resurrected in 2018 in an attempt to disparage Trump, it has dragged on. It suits Trump’s detractors because the alleged 34 charges of felony serve to sustain their objective of reputational damage.
The Fulton County case in Georgia is a monument of baseless lawfare. Trump had every right to question the vote tally on the basis of reports of improper procedures. His concerns have subsequently been vindicated by an investigation of 17,852 ballots which uncovered duplicate images suggesting ballots had been scanned twice. As reported in the Atlanta News First of May 7, 2024, Georgia’s Secretary of State has reprimanded Fulton County for this.
What makes the Fulton case even more pathetic is the election precedent in Florida in 2000. Al Gore and George Bush, in their rightful quests to claim Florida’s 25 Electoral College votes needed to clinch the presidency, stridently resorted to suing counties. Gore demanded the extension of counting deadlines. Bush demanded a halt to all manual recounting. Yet neither candidate was accused of improperly trying to influence the election outcome.
The charge that Trump inspired an insurrection on January 6, 2021 has been thoroughly debunked. Information obtained in Congressional hearings proves that General Milley was responsible for blocking Trump’s request for 10,000 National Guardsmen in order to allay trouble. Nancy Pelosi has admitted she was complicit in rejecting Trump’s request. Information obtained as a result of a lawsuit by Judicial Watch found that more than 200 undercover CIA/FBI agents were embedded amongst Trump’s supporters to provoke violence.
Significantly, Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, whose appointment the Senate never approved, is now backing away from the case which has wasted $50 million on bogus charges. His other case alleging 40 counts of unlawful retention of documents of national security is a laugh when one peruses some of the charges. As President, Trump had the right to declassify the documents. Besides, unlike Biden, he co-operated fully with the National Archives.
The civil case alleging Trump inflated the value of his NYC properties has been ridiculed by legal experts because there was no victim and the banks associated with it expressed satisfaction with the deals.
2025 promises a whirlwind uncovering of dark interests and political corruption. Accountability and eating humble pie is going to be big on the US menu.
