by Dinesh D’Souza, American Thinker:
This article is about three types of assassination.
The first, which President Trump has endured nonstop since he first entered the political arena, is character assassination.
The second is legal assassination, sometimes called “lawfare.” The term is appropriate, because it is derived from warfare. This is the attempt to lawlessly, but under the guise of law, bankrupt, ruin, defame and even imprison a dangerous political opponent. In extreme cases, this opponent might even face life imprisonment, which is a legal equivalent of the death penalty. (Murderers are often given the death penalty or life in prison, which some people say is a fate worse than death.)
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And finally, when all else fails, there is actual assassination.
These three types of assassination are connected, and typically one leads to another.
During the English Civil War, King Charles I, who admittedly was a tyrant, was subjected to a lengthy volley of complaints and accusations. This was character assassination aimed at producing his overthrow — political assassination. Then he was tried by the Rump Parliament, but it was a bogus trial, mainly consisting of crimes that were made up solely in order to convict him. Charles was only guilty of laws passed ex post facto by the Parliament; he was then retroactively found to have violated those laws.
Finally, Charles was executed, a supposedly lawful penalty for his crimes, but since the crimes themselves were bogus, the execution amounted to an assassination.
The point is that while Charles was indeed a tyrant, the process of his deposition and murder were no less lawless — no less tyrannical — than Charles himself.
More recently, and closer to home, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865. The Southern Democrats who led the Confederacy had been blackening Lincoln’s character for years, calling him a “gorilla” and a “tyrant.” Secession itself amounted to a kind of lawfare, not only because it had no legal or constitutional basis — Lincoln’s only “crime” was that he had won the 1860 election, and secession was nothing more than a spurious attempt to invalidate the result of that election. And of course, secession led rapidly to war: lawfare became warfare!
Finally, Booth murdered Lincoln, as part of a plot to kill the president, the vice president and the secretary of state. Booth and his co-conspirators were Confederates. Their minds had been poisoned by years of propaganda. Booth genuinely believed Lincoln was a tyrant. His political motive was to get rid of Lincoln and energize the Confederacy to fight on even after the surrender at Appomattox less than a week earlier. After shooting Lincoln, Booth jumped to the stage of the theater and shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis,” which means “So it goes with tyrants.”
With Trump, character assassination came first. When it proved insufficient, it metamorphosed into lawfare. We see this with the Stormy Daniels matter, which began as a sex scandal, aimed at showing Trump to be a philanderer and low-life. Later, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg used the same set of facts — Trump’s lawyer paid Stormy Daniels to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement or NDA — to concoct a two-tiered crime: alteration of business records (a misdemeanor) and an attempt to violate federal campaign finance laws (a felony).
One might wonder how Bragg gets so much out of so little. But he got a jury conviction out of it, and for this entirely legal and legitimate transaction — NDAs are perfectly legal and wealthy individuals and businesses do them all the time — Trump faces 34 felony convictions and potentially many years in prison. For a man of his age, this would be tantamount to a life sentence, a legal assassination.
But even that was not enough, because just a few weeks ago Trump was the target of an assassin’s bullet that should have taken his life but almost miraculously only grazed his ear. Then, soon after, a second attempt.
One might say that the wicked and lawless regime that has been out to get Trump from the outset is taking no chances. This regime — run by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the whole Democratic gang — represents precisely the tyranny and lawlessness that Lincoln warned about in his 1838 Lyceum speech. The only difference is that the regime now controls the levers of law. So it deploys law itself to abuse the process of law. It is a legal abomination.
And when even this fails, it does what the Confederacy did with Booth: it poisons the minds of unstable and disturbed individuals so that two of them, on two separate occasions, took the law into their own hands and attempted to kill the former and potentially future president.
Whatever the ideology of these two men, their motive quite obviously was to get rid of a man they believed to be a danger to democracy and to the country. They had obviously heard the libelous propaganda: Trump is Hitler circa 1933. Quite likely they saw themselves as intrepid soldiers who had the foresight to take Hitler out before he could unleash a world war and murder millions of Jews as part of his “final solution.” In other words, the would-be assassins believed the lie that Trump is like Hitler, like Caesar, like Napoleon. They, too, sought to make the point that Booth did — sic semper tyrannis.
In a way, the two assassins were more sincere than the Democrats whose evil slander they had absorbed. Immediately following the two failed assassination attempts, leading Democrats all offered “thoughts and prayers” to Trump. They said they were “glad” he was safe, or hoping for his quick recovery; they disavowed political violence.
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