During the 1930’s, Hitler and Stalin competed with one another to see how firmly they could consolidate their grip on power. Both utilized show trials to intimidate potential opponents. They identified their enemies and then publicly found them guilty of political crimes before executing them.
Needless to say, the outcomes of these prosecutions were predetermined. The victims were usually tortured beforehand so as to make sure they confessed to offenses they had not committed. This way the public could rest assured that their leaders were ferreting out subversives and making them pay for their sins.
Nowadays in America, the Democrats have updated this ritual. They too are using quasi-legal proceedings to destroy their enemies. For them, as for the dictators who preceded them, the rule of law is a hindrance they readily dispense with.
Act I in this political show trial was the Mueller investigation. It was begun under false premises and continued in ruthless secrecy. Just as happened in Germany and the Soviet Union, the guilt of the target was determined ahead of time. In this case, it was Donald Trump and any one associated with him.
To this date, we do not know who initiated the inquiry into supposed collusion with the Russians. It begins to look more and more that it was fervent Democratic partisans in the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the CIA. The trail of breadcrumbs may even lead to the Obama White House.
In any event, the evidence that Trump and his team had done anything wrong was extremely thin. This did not matter to the moving lights of this probe. Their goal was never the truth or the protection of the nation. It was always to prevent Trump from becoming or remaining president.
Then, after the investigation was launched, the methods employed were unsavory. Potential witnesses were not physically tortured, but they were browbeaten to extract phony confessions. These admissions, however, did not develop as desired because there was nothing to confess.
Happily, people were not taken out and shot. They were merely stripped of their assets or had their careers ruined. Individuals, who did nothing wrong, were treated as if they had. As with the Nazis and Communists, it was “first comes the punishment and then the conviction,” which in this case never came.
The Democrats decided that the rule of law demands “guilty until proven innocent,” rather than the other way around. So certain were they of their righteousness that anyone who ran afoul of their ability to control the government had to be convicted of some kind of felony. Evidence was irrelevant.
The appearance of the Mueller Report confirmed this. Although the narrative asserted that there was no collusion, Democrats rushed to the airwaves to declare that this was only in legal terms. There had been collusion, it simply didn’t rise to the level needed for conviction.
If that was so, they had a remedy. They would move the trials into the halls of congress. Now they would take advantage of Mueller’s ambiguity about whether Trump committed obstruction of justice. There was still be a crime; only it shifted its location.
The idea was to keep accusations of Trump’s misconduct front and center. Evidence would still be unnecessary as long as uncorroborated claims made the president look sleazy. This would be Part II of the show trials and play out on television.
But back to Mueller. He could have left out the part of his report that discussed obstruction of justice. Since he did not settle on a finding in this area, he could have left it at that. He could also have included exculpatory information, but chose not to. So far as I can see, this is evidence of his guilty mind.
So too was how Mueller composed his legal lineup. These lawyers were all rabid Democrats. They hated Trump and hence even though they could not find guilt, they could—and did—write up conclusions to make him seem corrupt.
Thank goodness this is the United States of America. Had it not been, the Mueller hit squad would literally have drawn blood. There would have been actual executions had our traditions allowed this. As it is, the potential assassins were able to engage in propaganda slayings.
This should be a warning of what our politics might become. Clearly the Democrats had few red lines they were unwilling to cross. It is why the rest of us must be vigilant that they do not.
Melvyn L, Fein, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Kennesaw State University
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