June 14, 2023

As Jonathan Swift put it in  “Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting”: “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”

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The framing of Donald Trump continues. Fear and loathing are motivators, but, most importantly, the hope is to lash Trump to the ground so that he can’t rise to the presidency in 2024. Multiple indictments are the ropes.  

Convicting Trump would be icing on the cake, but keeping him sidelined is critical. Trump has now run afoul of the Espionage Act, say federal persecutors. It might as well be the Escargot Act. Does it matter, finally? As establishment mouthpiece Rachel Maddow suggests, federal charges can disappear if Trump scrams from the presidential contest. Fat chance, knowing Trump.

The federal indictment is a needed distraction. The burgeoning bribery scandal involving stumblin’ Joe Biden and his knockoff Ma Barker clan should lead to an impeachment and indictments, but that would take guts by House Republicans, for starters.

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Grasps the establishment: A Trump presidency would be all-out war on their power and prerogatives, a war they worry they’d lose. More and more Americans are against them. That’s where the fear and loathing of Trump comes in because they know that Trump 47 has every incentive to carry the fight to them.  

Part Two of “Framing Trump” occurred last week, when dour, pinch-faced Jack Smith was named by hack, chicken-necked U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland as special counsel to render justice concerning the former president. We all know that Biden and his DoJ thirst for justice.

Going from the literary to theatrical, if Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is restaged, boy, do we have a role for Smith, summed up nicely by SparkNotes:

 Reverend Parris

The minister of Salem’s church. Reverend Parris is a paranoid, power-hungry, yet oddly self-pitying figure. Many of the townsfolk, especially John Proctor, dislike him, and Parris is very concerned with building his position in the community.

Smith’s paranoia and self-pity are conjecture. Chances are, like much of the establishment, Smith is arrogant and sanctimonious, along with being cynical and power-hungry, making him a fit to play Parris. Those four qualities are prerequisites for establishment players, anyway. His lengthy, vacuous indictment of Trump is worthy of Alvin Bragg.