WHAT a farce.
That was my instant reaction as I left the recording of Thursday night’s BBC Question Time to hear the bombshell breaking news that Donald Trump had been convicted on all counts in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial.
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And my feelings only intensified on the journey home into utter incredulity that such a stinking, stupid, senseless act of self-harming partisan political claptrap had been allowed to happen.
Trump’s no angel, we all know that.
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Even HE knows that!
But for America to drag one of its 46 presidents through a criminal court over this tawdry, tacky, pathetically trivial case is so damaging to the country’s reputation.
Frankly, who cares if Trump did or didn’t have a one-night stand with a porn star 18 years ago, and then paid her off to keep quiet about it?
Is that any worse than what Bill Clinton did when he had ‘sexual relations’ with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office and then lied to the American people about it, or paid Paula Jones off with $850,000 to settle her sexual harassment case against him?
And don’t even get me started on JFK and all his sexual shenanigans which included one of his myriad girlfriends Judith Exner passing classified CIA plans for the assassination of Fidel Castro to Chicago mafia boss Sam Giancana.
There’s a sickening hypocrisy behind the Democrat campaign to beat Trump in the 2024 election by trying to incarcerate him for doing far less serious things with Stormy Daniels than their own presidents did with women.
And Trump’s conviction sets a horribly dangerous precedent for US political parties to weaponize the justice system against their opponents.
More popular martyr
But the reason it’s so dumb as well as dangerous is because it will inevitably make Trump an even stronger candidate to win back the White House against an ageing, ailing, deeply disliked President Biden.
Within hours of the verdicts, his presidential campaign received a staggering $34 million in donations, nearly doubling its single-day fundraising record.
Money talks in elections, and Trump’s enraged support has never looked more fired up, or more determined to see him re-elected.
Even if he’s jailed when he’s sentenced in July, it will only make him a bigger and more popular martyr.
The Democrats think they scored a big win by finally making a crime stick against Teflon Don, but come November, I suspect Trump will have the last vengeful laugh.
