Trump a victim?

by Bob Williams, Stevensville

On April 4, 2023, Donald Trump was arraigned and fingerprinted. The Grand Jury impaneled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Donald Trump on 34 felony charges.

It’s important to note here, also in the concluding paragraph, that Trump attorneys will present evidence of how felony charges should be reduced to misdemeanor charges.

Two other events of 4/4/2023 may have more consequences than the arresting of Donald Trump.

Washington D.C. federal appeals court ruled that certain top aides to President Trump must appear, or re-appear, and present documents to the Federal Grand Jury investigating complicity in the January 1, 2021, insurrection, and obstruction of Congress. Including top aide Stephen Miller, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe.

Also on 4/4/2023, by an 11-point margin, the voters of Wisconsin elected Milwaukee Judge Janet Protasiewicz to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Janet Protasiewicz will vote to protect the rights to abortion, and fair elections. And vote to reduce gerrymandering in Wisconsin which has the most extreme gerrymandering of any State. 

Wisconsin 2024 Electoral College votes may go to a Democratic presidential candidate.

Keep an eye on how those three events might develop and change the way you, and other  people, will vote in the 2024 Federal Election.

Here’s something else to think about. You might have read about, or have seen, what former Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance recently had to say. That, in 2019, under Attorney General William Barr, the DOJ Southern District of New York told Vance to “stand down” and not investigate President Trump who told his attorney Michael Cohen that he would reimburse him for paying hush money to a porn star. In October of 2020, Cohen paid her $130,000 in exchange for her agreeing to not communicate about one sexual encounter she had with Trump when Melania Trump was taking care of their four month old son.

What if Cyrus Vance investigated, and revealed, as DA Bragg has, that President Trump actually made $420,000 of payments to reimburse Michael Cohen. That way Cohen got enough money to pay, at his high income bracket, income tax on the $420k he received from Trump. Reportedly, Cohen’s yearly income from Donald Trump was $1 million.

President Trump falsified his business records, claiming the $420,000 was for legal fees and a retainer fee.

(In my opinion, if Trump committed that New York state misdemeanor, with intent to commit another New York state misdemeanor, or felony, then his falsifying his business records can constitute a felony charge.)

If Cyrus Vance did not stand down, but investigated and revealed such information, the media might have connected the dots and told the story of how Trump had sexual relations with a porn star once and paid $420,000 to cover up that singular event.

And screwed we the people by depriving us of need-to-know information about candidate Trump. And violated federal campaign finance laws, disallowing such a large, unreported, campaign payment.

Such a media portrayed story maybe, perhaps, could have turned off the people that Trump endeavored to turn on to obstruct Congress from certifying that Biden-Harris won the 2020 Presidential election.

Such a story might have prevented Trump from acquiring accomplices to help him steal many boxes of government documents belonging to the National Archives.

Such a story might have protected classified documents from the risk of espionage.

In my opinion, if DA Bragg wrongly charged felonies, and if Trump attorneys introduce compelling evidence, the Grand Jury may convert felony charges to misdemeanor charges. Such events might well cause voters to see Donald Trump as a victim. And cause voters to be inclined to support Donald Trump.