Political Demonization or Legal Demonization

Which One Brings Consequences?

Shell games, like the one above. have unfortunately been very popular in Western Civilization for many centuries. The unsuspecting public often is not even aware that they have been lured in by a shell game. So it is, when it comes to discerning the difference between political demonization and legal demonization.

In this age of political conflict, it is critical to discern the difference between political vilification and legal vilification. This is especially the case when it comes to the caricatures of Donald Trump. Partisans will emphasize that Trump has been vilified by the Democrats and that “What goes around comes around” when it comes to long-overdue political retribution. When that focus is utilized the partisans, and the public as a whole, become the victim of a shell game.

Yet, if one is to be thinking in terms of structural repair, political retribution will not fix the problem. Yes, Trump was vilified by the press. But the press does not lose the ability to do business because they did it.

However, the prosecutors in all four prosecutions —along with their judiciary officials who approved of their professional misconduct — colluded with the press to demonize Trump through statements and leaks. In doing so, they committed disbarrable professional misconduct in removing his legal right to be presumed innocent.

That is where accountability resides. Leading legal commentators point to the political retribution and always miss the legal course. They, in doing so, promote the shell game. Accurately targeting the professional misconduct of the prosecutor for disbarment purposes defeats the shell game.

When the proper accountability target is missed, the result is that politics continues to be politics while the wrongdoing prosecutors get away with license forfeiture transgressions. When that happens, it is the shell game at its most effective. The press can stay in business when they demonize Trump. But the prosecutors and the judiciary and state bar officials that endorsed it cannot.  One of the keys to their success is from partisans being victimized by legal commentators by looking at the wrongs politically but not legally.

The Long View

If Donald Trump is elected president, he will have a golden opportunity to hit the target on these wrongs. It is standard operating procedure for the prosecutors and their overseers at the state bar associations and the judiciary to get the upper hand on criminal cases, like the Trump one, by previewing Trump’ guilt ahead of the trial. In doing so, they removed Trump’ legal right to be presumed innocent according to the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States of America. The major news organizations are more than happy to allow the prosecutor to use their platform to do the prosecutor’s previewing.

If elected, Donald Trump can use his position of authority to put the spotlight on this corruption so that the public can demand disbarments for all the wrongdoing prosecutors and their overseers. That way no one can be victimized again by the shell game. On the other hand, if he wins and does not take that approach the professional misconduct from this judiciary will continue to grow.

In contrast, the Biden Administration has facilitated this corruption by participating in the illicit prosecutions instead of putting the forces in play to fix it. That would happen by restoring the authority of the Fifth and the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. It would be restored by bringing back the defendant’s legal right to be presumed innocent while simultaneously punishing the wrongdoers.