Roy Cohn said it: “I don’t want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.” Donald Trump, arguably Roy Cohn’s second most infamous client has learned this lesson well. Some people believe the selection of Judge Aileen Cannon to preside over Trump’s arraignment hearing and trial for violating the Espionage Act was random. As Leroy Jethro Gibbs played by Mark Harmon in the original NCIS often states: “I don’t believe in coincidence.” In truth, the statement belongs to Juliette Binoche, but do we live in a world where facts matter? We will soon find out.
In actuality the judge in this case are American Citizens, a title Thomas Jefferson considered the greatest title of all. This title, by virtue of birth on American soil is given to everyone, and Donald Trump pledges to change that.
Is it possible I agree with Trump on something? The facts on Trump violating the Espionage Act have been made clear to the American Public. Any American Citizen can read the indictment online. And Trump if imprisoned, will not be the first candidate to run for office from jail. That honor belongs to Eugene Debs, imprisoned for violating the Espionage act for having done much less than Donald Trump. Debs won 3.4% of the vote in the 1920 election, about half of what he received when running in 1912 when he was not in prison.
The question is: Should being born in America be enough of a reason to grant citizenship? Should every person who wants to be an American citizen be required to take and pass the same exam immigrants seeking American citizenship are required to take? I say yes.
As evidence, I quote all these informed folks out there saying Trump’s arrest violates the Constitution. Kevin McCarthy calls Trump’s indictments “an abuse of power.” Really Kevin? Can you support that statement? How do Trump’s indictments violate our Constitution? Why has no one challenged the House Speaker to put up or shut up? Marjorie Taylor Greene believes the Constitution does not call for a separation of church and state. And these are current lawmakers. Just imagine how uninformed the people who believe them are.
MAGA has used social media analysis to target such groups as the “White Male, rural Ford Truck Driver” to spread their propaganda and manipulate a population. This small segment of the population is an audience similar in size to Hitler’s base. And Hitler’s base also was those who found themselves on the bottom rung of the economic ladder. History teaches the danger of not responding.
Trump is a man who has called for the termination of the United States Constitution. If re-elected, he will surely seek to do that. The American people will be the ultimate judge with their ballots. For now, though, we must remember, our first patriots had no constitution. They had no standing Army. We called them Minutemen. And now we, people like you and me, must be the Minutemen who respond to every call for Trump’s acquittal based on ……… It’s 2023. Social Media is the Lexington Green. We must defend our citizenship, our constitution, from those who have no understanding of what it means to be an American Citizen. By doing that, we will demonstrate our right to be American citizens, we will earn our title. It would be a terrible coincidence if you, I, and the American judges like us, allow history to repeat itself and see a democracy with a constitution be destroyed.