Chattanooga Times Free Press

PROSECUTIO­N GIVES TRUMP CHANCE IN ‘24

- Contact Ron Hart, a syndicated op-ed satirist, author and TV/radio commentato­r, at Ron@RonaldHart.com or @RonaldHart on Twitter.

The right-wing “conspiracy theorists” have been saying that COVID originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and Anthony Fauci was involved. They insist the arrests over Jan. 6 were unjust, Hunter Biden’s laptop was not “Russian disinforma­tion,” and the “Deep State” is out to get Trump. For those keeping score at home, conspiracy theorists are leading the media about 25 to 0.

It seems to be common knowledge that the left-wing DA in Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, is going to try to arrest Donald Trump for some manipulate­d charges from 17 years ago connected to his paying stripper Stormy Daniels money for a nondisclos­ure agreement, which she broke. Wow, if you can’t trust a stripper, whom can you trust?

Non-disclosure agreements, as Tiger Woods is finding out, are only good if they can’t make more money trashing you.

Meanwhile, Trump flew to Florida to play golf ahead of the anticipate­d New York arrest. Perhaps Trump could join the worst golf foursome ever: O.J. Simpson, Stormy Daniels, Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton. O.J. is a slicer, Stormy a hooker, Ted Kennedy cannot drive over water, and Bill Clinton can’t remember which holes he has recently played.

No one is better at using whatever power he or she has in elective office to go after political opponents than today’s Democrats. The fact the hyperblue political offices of Manhattan and Fulton County (Atlanta) district attorneys are the ones most rabid to arrest Trump tells you all you need to know.

All the excitement of the media every time they report on a purported indictment of Trump gets pulled away from them like Lucy did with a football to Charlie Brown. In the last seven years, media reports of rumored charges against Trump have come and gone more often than the McRib.

Instead of trying to win over voters by putting forward the best thinking in the marketplac­e of ideas, Democrats use government to force people to do what they want them to do. If they don’t, the Dems use intermitte­nt control of government’s brute force and perpetual control of “Deep State” bureaucrac­ies to go after their enemies.

They go from the Russian hoax/ Mueller investigat­ion to a series of impeachmen­ts of Trump for trivial matters, to the Jan. 6 show “hearings” and throwing people in jail with no charges for months over the “insurrecti­on.” I have seen more violence at Walmart entrances on Black Friday.

Elon Musk pointed out in a Tweet about the “Brave Heart” buffoon who walked through the Capitol: “Chansley got 4 years in prison for a non-violent, police-escorted tour!?” Musk said, repeating the same language Fox News host Tucker Carlson used in the clip. “Dave Chapelle was violently assaulted on stage by a guy with a knife. That guy got a $3,000 fine and no prison time.”

These politicall­y motivated prosecutio­ns should scare us all, and they are why Trump has a chance in 2024. While I am a DeSantis man (Trump’s policies in a palatable personalit­y), Trump does represent the biggest threat to the permanent political class in Washington. Any trumped-up arrest of the former president only helps him.

Telling people that this potential arrest is not politicall­y motivated works about as well as baptizing a cat.

The politicall­y controlled DOJ failed on its 30 machine-gun-toting federal agents raiding Mar-a-Lago for classified documents. Then they found even more classified documents at President Joe Biden’s and former Vice President Mike Pence’s houses. If they raided Hillary Clinton’s Chappaqua home, I bet they would uncover boxes full of classified, pre-written suicide notes.

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