Since the November polls for the 2024 general election, the Democrats have been on red alert, searching for a way to replace Biden in the election. Much of the angst by Democrats over Biden was due to how well Trump survived the onslaught of politically motivated prosecutions. None of federal prosecutor Jack Smith’s attacks on Trump worked, while many of them have backfired.
The federal judge in the Florida Mar-a-Lago case rebuked Biden’s henchmen for wasting her time with their antics, and she suspended the schedule in that case. It is widely expected now that a trial in that ill-advised prosecution will not occur before the election, which removes it as an obstacle to Trump’s reelection.
Federal prosecutors indicted two of Trump’s low-level aides who did not turn against Trump as Biden’s henchmen hoped. The premise of that prosecution was that Trump was endangering national security at Mar-a-Lago, an absurd allegation unsupported by the evidence.
These events left the federal prosecution of Trump in the anti-Trump venue of D.C., which remained as Biden’s last remaining card to play against his opponent. But that case, which was supposed to be smooth sailing for the Trump-haters, hit rocky waters too.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith demanded and obtained a severely improper gag order to prohibit Trump from disparaging Biden’s hired guns. Trump echoed the views of many and called Jack “deranged” and a “thug,” who then persuaded the Obama-appointed judge to censor Trump despite strong objections by the ACLU to this infringement on the First Amendment.
But the D.C. Circuit eventually suspended the gag order, thereby enabling Trump to speak freely again. Trump’s attorneys filed a compelling motion to toss the entire case out based on the presidential immunity that protects Trump against the allegations concerning actions he took on January 6, 2021, when he was still the president.
The liberal smear campaigns against former President Trump bounced off of him. The Democrats’ lawfare agenda only put more eyes on Trump, portraying him as a victim unjustly targeted by politically motivated lawsuits. Since the Democrats were not able to tear Trump down, they turned their sights instead to replacing Biden.
This post originally appeared at https://www.phyllisschlafly.com/liberalism-and-conservatism/lawfare-fails-on-trump/
