The preservation of our democracy demands that Trump and his minions be prosecuted, fully! Yet instead of accepting this unavoidable fact, far too many Americans, incorrectly, think that the prosecutions are political. Are they just stupid, blind, brainwashed or half-awake? I'm betting for many, it's the brainwashed and misinformed by media, whether it's right wing media or media owned by the very wealthy. Regardless, it points to a much bigger problem we all face in saving and preserving our democracy!

Big Lie Two Is Here, and It’s Far More Insidious Than Big Lie One
https://newrepublic.com/article/175481/trump-trials-election-interference-2024?

#TrumpIsGuilty
#TrumpIsADangerToDemocracy

"Trump goes into his trials era with a big advantage—a majority of Americans incorrectly believe that the charges against him are politically motivated.

The Big Lie, as it quickly became known, was that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election. He’s still out there peddling this nonsense, and a lot of people still believe it, though thankfully, they constitute a clear minority of voters.

But now there’s a new lie being peddled. Call it Big Lie Two. Trump has been hawking this one for a while too, but it has been, to my mind, oddly little remarked-upon. That needs to change: Big Lie Two is more insidious and dangerous than Big Lie One, for two reasons. First, it has nothing to do with the settled past, but rather with the unsettled present and future. And second, unlike Big Lie One, a majority of Americans believe it.

The lie is that the indictments against Trump represent a collective effort to stop him from running for president. Trump talks of this all the time; “election interference” is the phrase he often uses. They can’t stop me legitimately, he says—they know I won in 2020, and they know I’ll win again, so this is how they’re trying to block me.

It’s not true. What’s true is this. Credible evidence has emerged on a number of fronts that Trump may have broken the law: that he absconded with boxes of sensitive, classified documents to Florida; that he approved a hush-money payment to a woman with whom he’d had sexual relations; that he tried to influence officials in Georgia to rig the 2020 election; and that he led or directed an insurrection against the government of the United States.

He is presumed innocent until proven guilty in all these matters. Yet in each of them, there is ample enough evidence of guilt on these fronts for prosecutions to proceed, and a lot of that evidence is, as Orwell might put it, right in front of our noses. We’ve seen the photographs of the boxes of classified documents, and we’ve heard that audio tape of him admitting that, contrary to his public statements, he knew that as an ex-president he could not declassify them. We have the testimony of his former attorney that Trump ordered him (Michael Cohen) to cut the check to Stormy Daniels. We have the tape of him badgering Brad Raffensberger to find him 11,780 votes. And we have video evidence, as well as congressional testimony from former aides, speaking to the idea that Trump encouraged the January 6 violence and was enjoying it—and even, from Cassidy Hutchinson, that he so desperately wanted to go to the Capitol while the rioting was taking place that he reached for the steering wheel and lunged at the Secret Service man who blocked him.
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What prosecutor would not bring charges in these cases?
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In the other three, the alleged crimes are profoundly serious and much more urgent, and the evidence—or at least some significant portion of it—is right there for all the world to see. Trump is being prosecuted in these cases because there is very good reason to believe he broke the law. Period.

But most people don’t believe it.
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But the depressing reality is that three out of five Americans apparently believe that these indictments are politically motivated. About half of those, probably a little more, believe every word Trump says. I suspect some portion are Democrats—31 percent of whom agreed with the overall majority—who think they’re political and simply don’t disapprove. But a lot of them are jaded, cynical people who think everyone’s corrupt.
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But for now, it’s tragic from a democratic perspective that so many people believe something that isn’t merely untrue but is the opposite of the truth. Trump is being prosecuted because of what he did, not because of what he is doing today or might do tomorrow.
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If people can’t see this utterly lawless man for who he is, or if they allow their cynicism about the system to overpower their distrust of him, then we will wake up next November 6 counting our brittle democracy’s numbered days."

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#RICO #TrumpIndicted #TrumpIsGuilty #Georgia

CNN got the Trump tape of him showing the classified attack plan for Iran to... Mark Meadows' ghost writer, I think. Have a listen. It's absolutely as bad as reported. #Trump #Indictment #TrumpIsGuilty

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/politics/trump-classified-documents-audio/index.html

The indictment actually has recordings of him showing classified info to people not authorized to view it.

"Secret. This is secret information. Look. Look at this."

"See, as President, I could have declassified it. Now I can't, you know. This is still secret."

#indictment #Trump #Traitor #Trumpisguilty

Oh my gawd, TFG finally has been formally indicted!!! I’m kinda peeved I didn’t buy Oreo ice cream sandwiches when I went to the store this afternoon! #TrumpIsGUILTY

Oh my gawd, TFG finally has been formally indicted!!! I’m kinda peeved I didn’t buy Oreo ice cream sandwiches when I went to the store this afternoon! #TrumpIsGUILTY

Oh my gawd, TFG finally has been formally indicted!!! I’m kinda peeved I didn’t buy Oreo ice cream sandwiches when I went to the store this afternoon! #TrumpIsGUILTY

RT @DarkVivianX@twitter.com

@MuellerSheWrote@twitter.com Summer of Justice!
#TrumpIsGuilty

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DarkVivianX/status/1662190751122604032

Special Counsel Jack Smith is going to indict the shit out of Trump. The dominos just keep falling. Given all that's publicly known, it would be a travesty of justice not to indict him. The only question now is, who is going to indict Trump first? Jack Smith, or Fanni Willis? We can be fairly certain that Willis is going to indict Trump in August, but Smith could beat her to the punch.

#TrumpIndictment #JackSmith #FanniWillis #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #TrumpIsGuilty

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/prosecutors-investigating-whether-trump-staff-had-dress-rehearsal-to-hide-boxes-of-mar-a-lago-documents-from-feds

Trump's lawyer, Habbabobb, is proudly proclaiming that Trump will continue to subvert the legal process by attacking the judge and his family despite the judge's admonition, and warnings. Someone with this much contempt for the American judicial system cannot be allowed to step foot in the White House.

#GOPfascists #RepublicansAreTheProblem #trumpisguilty

https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-lawyer-tells-cnns-kaitlan-collins-no-trump-will-not-lay-off-attacks-on-this-judge-after-order

@uspolitics
Light him up!
#LockHimUpAlready #TrumpIsGuilty

Trump Will Offer No Defense in Rape Trial, His Lawyer Says

Well, let's face it. Everything about Trump, up to and including his existence, is pretty much indefensible. #trumpisacriminal #TrumpIsGuilty

https://nyti.ms/3p4UZeQ

Trump reports to prison.

#SouthCarolina #TrumpIndicted #TrumpIsGuilty #LindseyGraham

#TrumpIsGuilty
#Trumpisaloser

"CNN arrayed its analysts on blue directors’ chairs outside the Manhattan courthouse, as if setting up for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade."
- Washington Post

Somewhat appropriate as that, too, features a fat Goofy blimp full of hot air.

#TrumpIndictment #trumpisguilty #TrumpLies #gopclownshow

Dear NY Times. A president that ignores the laws is taboo. Holding the lawbreaker to account is justice. Y’all reversed this in your news article today. #NYTimes #TrumpIsGuilty

HAVE YOU THANKED A PORN STAR LATELY?! #LockHimUp #TrumpIsGuilty #indictment

#politics
Translation: Some of what I did wasn't illegal.
Keep talking, #pab; you're doing great.
#TrumpIsGuilty

Where is Mark Meadows??🤔 *crickets*
👀 #trumpisguilty