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The GEOFOR editorial board asked Paul Craig Roberts, chairman of the Institute for Political Economy, USA, PhD in economics and U.S. undersecretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration to comment on the prosecution of Donald Trump, and to find out whether it could lead to the former president’s actual incarceration, and how it would affect the presidential election in 2024.
GEOFOR: Dear Mr. Roberts: At the beginning of the 20th century, Eugene V. Debs already ran for president of the United States while in prison. In the 21st century, they are trying to exclude Donald Trump from the presidential race in every possible way. To what extent will the ongoing investigation hinder him in his quest to occupy the Oval Office and what consequences can Alvin Bragg’s desire to put the ex-president behind bars lead to?
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Dr. Paul C Roberts: If Democrats thought they could defeat Trump in the next presidential election, they would not go to so much trouble to prevent him from campaigning. The Democrats know that Trump won reelection and that the election was stolen from him in so-called “swing states” where Democrats control the large cities and thereby control the election procedures and vote counts. As Biden currently only has 37% support, Democrats know they cannot again steal the election.
The Democrats’ plan is to keep Trump tied up in court procedures so that he cannot campaign. The Democrats know, and many expert attorneys and former prosecutors have told them, that they don’t have a real case. But New York is totally in Democrat hands and is very corrupt. It is even possible that a NY jury would convict Trump based on the personal animosity Democrats feel toward Trump. However, the conviction would be overturned. Moreover, it is impossible for a state to put a former president in prison. Federal law requires former presidents to be protected by Secret Service agents, and the Secret Service agents cannot be put in prison.
Bragg is a NY state prosecutor. He charges Trump under NY state law for misreporting the payment to the porn star who extorted Trump with the threat to make public accusations during his first presidential campaign. Trump’s lawyers advised to just give her the money. Bragg says the money was reported as a legal expense to one of Trump’s companies and that it should have been reported as a Trump campaign contribution to his campaign. There is no proof that Bragg is correct. It is just his personal opinion. Under NY law misreporting is a misdemeanor, not a felony. The felony charge is a federal one that Bragg has not revealed. So it is an indictment based on an unrevealed charge, which makes no sense. Moreover, it is not possible for a state prosecutor to prosecute a federal offense. That requires a federal prosecutor in a federal, not state, court. The prosecution has the real possibility of backfiring on the Democrats and ruining Bragg.
In other words, the charge is no more real than Russiagate, the failed impeachments, Insurrection gate, documentgate, and now strippergate. The Democrats get away with this because the TV and print media are aligned with the Democrats.
Also aligned with the Democrats is the national security state apparatus–CIA, NSA, FBI, Pentagon and military industries. They are aligned with the Democrats against Trump, because one of Trump’s two main goals was to “normalize relations with Russia.” To the military/security complex, that means taking away the enemy threat that justifies their budget and power.
It is not yet clear, but Bragg’s prosecution might be hurting Democrats and helping Trump. Trump’s supporters know that how an expense is reported is not a prosecutorial offense and that what is happening is just a continuation of the orchestrated attacks on Trump. Democrats have been conditioned by media to hate Trump, and their opposition to him is based on personal animosity, not on issues.
I believe that there is a deeper element in the Democrats’ attacks on Trump. The ruling elites are teaching all future presidential candidates as well as candidates for the House and Senate what happens to those who attempt to represent the people instead of the ruling elites. The Republican Party itself is an establishment party, and for the most part its members want rid of Trump, who is destabilizing for the elites who control the narratives. Essentially, the elites don’t want any leaders. They want puppets like Biden and Obama. If the Kremlin thinks Biden is America’s leader, the Kremlin is mistaken. Biden is a puppet of the oligarchy.
GEOFOR: Experts today are increasingly talking about a deep split in American society, I mean the likely struggle between Trump and Biden for the presidency in 2024. Recent BBC News polls have shown that the population would like to see new faces in the race for the White House. Tell me, so what is the real situation in the United States and what can the world expect from the upcoming election campaign?
Dr. Paul C Roberts: Polls such as the BBC poll are concoctions to plant the idea in the people that it is “time to move on.” The hope is that it will affect the less fervent Trump supporters and erode some of Trump’s support. Few polls are real. The Rasmussen Poll tends to be more honest and thereby more reliable.
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