New York Court of Appeals Hearing | Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Part XX of the “United States 2024 Election
Last Wednesday, May 29th, this journalist posted in his Facebook Timeline and several Facebook Groups note:
“HISTORY will be made when and if the 12 jurors find Defendant Donald J. Trump guilty of one or more of 34 counts of violation of business norms and reportorial requirements, income-tax evasion, and violation of Federal Election Commission’s regulations. There will be many first-person narratives (and book deals as well) among the jurors of their deliberations and decisions. It will be historic because, for the first time in American history, a jury will declare a former POTUS guilty of a criminal offense(s). Yes, Mr. Trump, the jurors, the presiding judge, and lawyers from the People of the U.S. and the defense team will have their 15-minute or more historical fame.“
This columnist felt that perhaps the next day, May 30th, was a good day for the 12 jurors to unwittingly “Write 30.” Yes, “XXX” — in its proverbial but journalistic meaning. It theoretically ended the career of a man who spent virtually all his adult life (and some years as a senior citizen and even while as POTUS) stiffing ordinary workers, minority renters, casino employees, and small-time contractors. And even milking business partners, lawyers, banks, financial institutions, and the public treasury — even if he never engaged in the dairy industry.
This columnist wrote before that, like many Texan Republican leaders, Mr. Trump is “all hat and no cattle” to use a Lone Star adage.
Thus, the decision by the jury to find Defendant Trump “guilty” of 34 counts of criminal conduct last May 30th is like poetry in motion. If not, “poetic justice” in its very best format. Really?
“Overwhelming numbers of Americans—even among the ordinary Republicans or Democrats—are law-abiding, faithful taxpayers who work for the common good. They also believe in justice, a sense of propriety, honesty, morality, decency, and service to the country, especially its military.”
Overwhelming numbers of Americans—even among the ordinary Republicans or Democrats—are law-abiding, faithful taxpayers who work for the common good. They also believe in justice, a sense of propriety, honesty, morality, decency, and service to the country, especially its military.
If there are Americans who still see Mr. Trump as a paragon of virtues and values, perhaps they are color blind, if not totally blind and possibly deaf.
The jurors decided to finish their deliberations and voting just three days after Memorial Day. It was also poetic justice to the kin of prisoners-of-war (POW), and the service men and women that died in combat or from the result of battlefield injuries that Mr. Trump insulted, Yes, he defamed them by calling the said military veterans “dumb.” And to think that he was the most famous “bone-spurs” draft dodger in American history.
Years ago, even before Mr. Trump became president in the 2016 election, this writer cum humorist suggested an epitaph should he go to the Great Beyond, God forbid. The suggested writing on the tombstone may read, “Here LIES the most-honest President that always told the truth.”
With apologies to John Donne, indeed, “No man is an island.” However, some New Yorkers are destined to serve on Rikers Island.
