On Mar. 16, Canada’s National Post published an opinion piece by Conrad Black indicting a recent editorial in The Globe and Mail as just so much political bias further energized by personal loathing. The target of the Globe article, of course, was Donald Trump. After clarifying his past relationships with both the owners of the Globe and Trump himself, Black proceeds to provide a good deal of Factual Evidence demolishing the article’s claim that in the upcoming election “a victory for Mr. Trump would be a victory for a “neo-autocratic” xenophobe who attempted to perpetrate an “insurrection” after the most recent election.” Black says emphatically that “Trump did absolutely nothing when he was president” to justify such charges. The remainder of his article would seem to offer inarguable evidence that the former president’s reputation as an Enemy of Democracy is no more than a lie propagated by those who simply hate him.
Black says he is not unaware of Trump’s “limitations,” as his book “A President Like No Other” clearly indicates. That the former president frequently exudes an unrestrained arrogance in expressing himself is hardly an endearing quality. But while I would certainly not seek out his friendship, I would contend, and Black would no doubt agree, that it is not his personal charm that is at issue but the legality of his actions while in office. On this subject, Black not only shows that a good many of the accusations hurled at Trump are specious, but that Biden’s abuse of various branches of America’s Justice Department to launch those attacks represents a disdain for the Rule of Law which itself is fundamentally “undemocratic.”
An attempt to impeach Trump followed upon the discovery of his 2019 questioning of the Ukraine’s President Zelensky from whom he sought information regarding the nature of Hunter Biden’s business dealings there. The action implied, of course, that Trump had abused his authority in an effort to blacken the Biden family name and assure his victory in the upcoming election. A transcript of the conversation in question, however, showed that Trump had in no way attempted to bully Zelensky, but had merely asked a number of questions. In the light of this evidence, the impeachment effort was ultimately dismissed, leading Republicans to wonder why it had been launched in the first place. At the same time, a good deal of evidence shows both that Joe had lied in denying his involvement in his son’s foreign business dealings, and that those dealings had in fact profited the family millions of dollars. Conrad Black suggests laconically that if Trump had so abused his influence while president, the denunciations of his greed, dishonesty and arrogance would have been both deafening and relentless in the mainstream media. Indeed he suggests he would have been “tarred and feathered” before being sent to prison for life. But even more distressing than the bias of the media, is the fact that the present Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, apparently incited 51 intelligence officers to sign a statement, as the 2020 election approached, declaring rumors of the utterly inappropriate nature of Vice President Biden’s involvement in Hunter’s foreign business ventures, were just so much “Russian disinformation.” That this has since proven to be false suggests the corruption of the mainstream media has been surpassed by the even more distressing corruption of America’s institutional organs of Justice.
The next accusation levelled against Trump which Black seeks to discredit is the endlessly repeated lie that he incited an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government on Jan. 6 of 2021. That he asked his supporters to demonstrate “peacefully and patriotically” while also requesting reinforcements for the Capitol Police are indisputable facts. At the same time, his feeling that the election may have been stolen from him was not entirely irrational given the intense loathing for him cultivated by a biased media coupled with the increased possibility of voter fraud engendered by the slack protocols of the Mail-in-Balloting sanctioned by many Democratically run States in response to Covid. No doubt, Black says, if there was any chance of convicting Trump of sedition, he would have been charged with such. This has not happened because it is simply not true. At the same time, he declares, even Democrats such as lawyer Alan Dershowitz are willing to admit some of the various other charges levelled against him are politically motivated. His prosecution in 2023 for mishandling classified documents, for example, was outrageous in that Biden was undeniably guilty of the very same thing! Yet the Globe article not only leaves Joe unscathed, it actually lists the many wonderful accomplishments of his administration, while conspicuously failing to explain why he is in fact trailing the loathsome Mr. Trump in the polls. No mention, Black points out, is made of the obvious ways in which the quality of American life has declined under Biden, the chaos wrought by the invasion of approximately 10 million illegal aliens, for example, being an utterly avoidable debacle which could never have happened under Trump.
No one is suggesting Donald Trump to be an ideal voice for “conservative” values and views. But while his ongoing prosecution in N.Y. for falsifying business documents may have some merit to it, it is undeniable that it was launched for purely political reasons. I have read a number of statements, not all by supporters if Trump, pointing out significant irregularities in the case which is clearly designed to keep him out of the upcoming election.
Comedian Bill Burr “joked” a few months ago that America would be lucky if both Trump and Biden were to die before the upcoming election. There is some logic to his warped quip. But given the options likely open to them, Americans must cast their votes for the candidate most fully committed to the Principles of Democracy, and that, in spite of the drivel spewed by the contemporary Left, is Donald Trump. This is the point of Conrad Black’s closing paragraphs where he says that while many may hold their nose as they vote for Trump, an increasing number of Americans “are more alarmed at the threat to constitutional democracy posed by the politicization of the justice system” which the sanctimonious Left seems to feel is a perfectly valid way of achieving its noble ends.
A gift from the gods, I have just learned that former Hawaiian Democrat Tulsi Gabbard has published a book entitled: “For Love of Country: Leave the Democratic Party Behind.” Now an Independent, she expresses her disdain for the contemporary American Left as follows: “Guided by their belief that the ends justify the means, the Democrat elite are using the power of law enforcement to target political or personal opponents, undermining the essence of the Rule of Law and expressing their contempt for the American people and democracy.”
Trump supports maintaining the integrity of America’s borders and the Left, rather than discussing the legitimacy of that aim, simply dismisses him as a Racist. That’s the way it operates these days. And when he reacts with his usual disdain and anger, justifiable though it may be, he is of course denounced as an enemy of Democracy. Truly Absurd!