Tea at Trianon: The Trump Indictment: There is No Coming Back

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, March 31, 2023

The Trump Indictment: There is No Coming Back

From Fox News:

American politics was thrown into complete chaos, perhaps permanently, about three hours ago when a grand jury in Manhattan, one of the most liberal cities in America, a place where 80% voted for Joe Biden in the last election, decided to indict Biden's political opponent in the upcoming election, the Republican front-runner, a man who leads by 30 points in polls, Donald Trump. The jury did this at the urging of a man called Alvin Bragg. He is the Manhattan district attorney who has been famous so far by making the city much more dangerous, by refusing to enforce laws against crimes like robbery and rape...Either way, the net result is Donald Trump is the first former president of the United States ever to be indicted. So, no matter what happens next, we can be certain there is no coming back from this moment. There could be retaliation from red states. The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, has already issued a statement saying that he will not participate in any extradition of Donald Trump to New York. That's apparently scheduled for next week. As you can probably tell, we're not certain of the full outlines of the story, but we know this moment is a historic one.(Read more.)

From Breitbart:

Taylor Budowhich, CEO of Make America Great Again Inc, called the news “the indictment of a failed nation” in an emailed statement:

This is not an indictment of a crime—there was no crime—instead, this news is the indictment of a failed nation. President Trump is promising to peacefully end the war in Ukraine, dismantle the deep state, and save our country by putting America first. For that, the political elites and powerbrokers have weaponized government to try and stop him. They will fail. He will be re-elected in the greatest landslide in American history, and together we will all Make America Great Again.
(Read more.)

From Just the News:

Dershowitz said that this case will not stop the 45th president from running for re-election in 2024.

"It can't prevent him from running, even if he's convicted," he clarified. "And even if he's jailed, the Constitution provides only specific criteria for a president and he meets all the criteria. So he can run. I think Eugene V. Debs ran for president in the 1920s from a prison cell."

Legal experts have derided the case as baseless and Trump's new personal attorney, Joe Tacopina, has asserted that the payment to his then-lawyer Michael Cohen was, in fact, a legitimate legal fee. Read more.)

More HERE and HERE.