The notorious Judge Juan Merchan, whose daughter raked in millions of dollars off the “trial” in her father’s courtroom, sentenced President-elect Donald Trump Friday morning for his ridiculous ‘hush money’ conviction in Manhattan. The initial purpose of this trial as well as the other lawfare trials was to prevent PDJT from campaigning and to deny PDJT the White House by smearing him.
That’s what lawfare is all about, creating public perceptions and using the judicial system to advance political goals. This is the ultimate example of the wrap-up smear that Nancy Pelosi so eloquently explained to reporters some years ago.
The working theory within the Democratic Party was that the American public would never elect PDJT if he was convicted of crimes in a courtroom. That theory was just that, a theory. It was created under the illusion that the American public would walk in lockstep with whatever mis-information that Big Media created. The real world turned out to be different from the Democratic Party’s view of it. Most Americans were not that stupid.
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