Mass Hatred of Trump Approaches Threshold of Psychosis

Trump Derangement Syndrome makes me long for the days of Bush Derangement Syndrome. I have never seen a politician treated so unfairly.

Two interesting items from recent news stories:

1. Leftist “journalists” are seriously suggesting the First Lady’s short absence from public view was due to wife-beating injuries,

2. Robert Muller, the new Torquemada, is trying to get Paul Manafort jailed simply because he texted potential witnesses.

During her divorce from Donald Trump, Ivana Trump, who was working hard to get money out of her then-husband, said something about an episode of rough sex that left her feeling violated. It was pretty vague, and it came from a woman whose husband cheated on her with a younger woman. She no longer stands by the story. From this, we accelerate to, “Trump beats Melania and hides her from the public.”

I understand why Trump, who is still much more transparent than secretive Obama, limits his exposure to hostile journalists and political opponents. There is no way for him to win with these people. When he does something dumb, they are ruthless, they never stop criticizing, and they lie and exaggerate about it. They never forgive. When he does something fantastic, like forcing Kim Jong-Un to negotiate, they tells us it’s actually a bad thing. When he does nothing at all, they make bad things up.

One day God will remove his remaining children from the earth, because there will be no point in leaving us here. The majority of the people of earth will have become so vicious and dishonest, we will be unable to reach them no matter what we do. What Trump is going through reminds me of this.

God told me this, and I love repeating it: “Hell isn’t full of sinners. It’s full of people who don’t listen.” God doesn’t give up on people because they sin. He gives up on them because he knows there is no longer any point in trying to change their minds. The existence of vile people is vexatious to God; he only tolerates it because an acceptable number of those people will eventually be changed. When the investment of suffering ceases to generate an acceptable return, the investment will stop.

The same principle applies in secular affairs. There is no good reason to keep working on someone who is determined to hate you and who doesn’t care about the truth.

As for Robert Mueller, he is “asking” Manafort acquaintances for their cell phones, and he is trying to get Manafort jailed for witness tampering. A lawyer who hates Trump, Paul Rosenzweig, looked at Mueller’s filing and said the allegations didn’t support charges of witness tampering. Manafort contacted some people, and he gave one of them a “heads up.” That’s what Mueller, Manafort’s worst enemy, said to the court. That’s all he could come up with.

Here is an excerpt from Rosenzweig’s article on the matter:

Study that exhibit and you will see that Manafort was successful in speaking to one witness (Person D1) for exactly 1 minute and 24 seconds. He attempted three other phone calls that did not connect and he sent two WhatsApp messages—one a link to an article describing his indictment and the other saying “we should talk.” When asked about the contents of the conversation with Manafort, according to paragraph 14 of the FBI declaration, Person D1 said that “Manafort stated that he wanted to give Person D1 a heads-up about Hapsburg” and “D1 immediately ended the call because he was concerned about the outreach.”

And that’s it. Really. The other part of the allegation is that someone else, Person A, reached out to Person D2 and told D2, in a series of texts that “P” (presumably Paul Manafort) was trying to reach D1 to brief him and that “Basically P wants to give him a quick summary that he says to everybody (which is true) that our friend never lobbied in the US, and the purpose of the program was EU.” A month later, Person A reached out directly to D1.

When D1 heard from Manafort, he, without evidence known to Mueller, felt that Manafort was trying to tamper with him. He shut off the conversation before it started, so he has no way of knowing what Manafort wanted to say. His subjective guess can’t be grounds for action against Manafort.

If I call you on the phone, and I say I need to talk to you about someone we don’t like, and you hang up because you think I want to plot to murder him, it doesn’t make me guilty of conspiracy.

When I first saw the tampering story, my first thought was, “Manafort is an idiot.” Then I thought about Mueller, and I thought, “I’ll bet he doesn’t really have anything.” Looks like Trump critic Rosenzweig, who actually did some research, has a similar impression.

Here is what real witness tampering looks like: “Let’s get our stories straight! They can’t prove anything if we stick together! Here’s what I’ll say happened!” Merely contacting a potential witness is not tampering. “But Manafort used encrypted methods to contact his cronies!” Doesn’t matter. Still not tampering, unless you have some solid information about the content of the communications.

Similarly, real obstruction of justice looks like this: you get in trouble for using an illegal private email server, and then before handing everything over to investigators, you pay a firm to wipe the hard drives clean. But that’s tangential.

The potential witnesses are afraid of Mueller, with very good reason. He can’t use the rack or the thumbscrew to coerce people, so he looks for ways to push people to commit new crimes so he can make them his slaves. They don’t want to be set up with bogus charges of obstruction, perjury, or anything else. They just want him to go away. They gave him their phones not because they had been properly subpoena’d, and not because Mueller had solid grounds to compel them, but because they were afraid of going near a toxic prosecutor who turns innocent people into defendants. The fact that they gave Mueller the phones suggests they know there is nothing incriminating on them. Had there been, they would probably have hired lawyers and resisted.

Engaging with Robert Mueller is like giving Hannibal Lecter your home address.

I read an interesting statement the other day. Someone claiming to be knowledgeable said investigators and prosecutors don’t ask suspects to come in and talk because they think the suspects have information. They ask them to talk because the investigating is done, and they want to see if they can get the suspects to lie and be charged with new crimes.

You may think people who get indicted must be guilty of something. It’s important to remember the presumption of innocence, which frequently turns out to be factually correct.

Indictments don’t come from committees of fair-minded experts. They come from grand juries. A prosecutor stands in front of a bunch of ignorant people and tells them so-and-so violated this or that law which they don’t understand, he doesn’t give the accused a chance to respond, and then he pushes the jurors to indict. Grand juries decisions don’t have to be unanimous, making wins easier for people like Mueller, and they have a very low standard of proof: probable cause.

It’s tee-ball for prosecutors.

In a trial, prosecutors and defense attorneys choose jurors. This is very important. You can make a very nice living simply helping lawyers pick jurors, because biased jurors help lawyers win. A jury of black racists selected by Johnny Cochran and his buddies let O.J. Simpson murder two people without consequences.

Guess who picks grand jurors? Prosecutors and defense attorneys, right? NO. Just prosecutors, with some help from judges. Potential defendants, a term which includes anyone Bob Mueller wants to question, have no protection. Before your case even gets to the jury, the prosecutor gets to stack the deck. Getting groundless indictments from grand juries is considered very easy.

Many states don’t use grand juries, precisely because the whole business is rigged against defendants. They use preliminary hearings at which defense attorneys get to speak.

Prosecutors aren’t always fair. George Zimmerman’s prosecutors perjured themselves in their efforts to get him charged. That case didn’t involve a grand jury, but it demonstrates the point. Things like that happen.

Mueller’s end run around the warrant process was brilliant, albeit unethical, cruel, and frightening. In our justice system, prosecutors aren’t supposed to be able to get materials they’re not legally entitled to, from people who haven’t been shown to be guilty of anything. If Robert Mueller calls you tomorrow and tells you he wants to read your diary, and he says the full weight of the law is behind him, you can tell him to drop dead unless he shows you a warrant or threatens to charge you with a crime you have already committed.

Mueller probably could not have forced any of these people to produce their phones. The judge probably would have rejected his requests for warrants. A prosecutor can’t say, “I want to search Bob’s house to see if he did anything wrong.” He has to say, “Here is strong evidence that Bob’s house contains evidence of wrongdoing,” and a judge has to agree. Digging around without probable cause is called “fishing,” and if Mueller asked for warrants, he would probably be told he was going on a “fishing expedition.” Through intimidation and abuse of power, Mueller bypassed the judge and the constitutional protections of the defendant and his acquaintances.

Cops do this kind of thing.

“Let us search your car.” “No.” “Okay, we’ll stand here all night until we get a warrant, and then if we find (or plant) anything, we’ll say you didn’t cooperate.”

“Answer some questions.” “I want to talk to a lawyer.” “Okay, but you’ll sit in jail over the weekend.”

Imagine how Mueller’s people could pressure innocent people.

“Give us your phone. Please.” “No.” “Okay, but we’ll charge you with obstruction. Can you afford a criminal lawyer? Do you like owning your own house?” “I’ll send you my phone.”

Constitutional rights mean nothing if you can’t use them without being punished.

Mueller probably did what he did because the judge doesn’t like him. The Judge, T.S. Ellis, has stated that he thinks prosecutors are out to “get Trump.” Mueller probably realized he wasn’t going to get rubber-stamp warrants out of Ellis, so he avoided the constitutional process and got them through intimidation. The judge can’t do anything about it. He is aware Mueller undermined him deliberately, and I’m sure he doesn’t like it. I hope that works in Manafort’s favor. Ellis may be looking for some payback for the disrespect. If he is, he will find a way to get even.

I don’t even care if Manafort is guilty of the trivial things he is charged with. What Mueller is doing is much worse. I hope Manafort gets off and Mueller retires permanently before he can ruin more lives.

I know people who have gotten away with wife-beating, murder, and rape. I’m over it. I don’t care about a man who failed to observe obscure, rarely enforced laws regulating people who deal with foreign governments.

I am very grateful to Trump. Look what he subjects himself to every day. He is a very special man. I couldn’t begin to deal with the persecution he, his family, and his associates endure. The more torments are heaped on them, the more I like Trump.

It’s great that we have a billionaire president. Leftists use lawsuits to impoverish or intimidate innocent conservatives and drive them from office. They got rid of Sarah Palin (did nothing wrong, Newt Gingrich (later proven innocent), and Tom DeLay (later exonerated) that way. Trump doesn’t give a crap about lawsuits. When you’re worth 9 billion dollars and have incredible earning power, you can afford to lose a stack of $10 million lawsuits, and it won’t affect your standard of living in the slightest.

Leftists have a pathological disdain for conventional morals, and that includes the truth. They seem to think being honest and playing by the rules are for the naive and weak. They don’t understand the damage they themselves sustain because of their malice and dishonesty. It’s tragic. They are dragging themselves and their children down into defeat. They are headed for a paradigm in which it is no longer possible to help them because they have a policy of denying fault. God wants to change everyone, including the BLM, Occupy Wall Street, and Antifa crowd. But he can only help people who are not impervious to truth.

They are pushing God to withdraw his missionaries from this infected planet, and they will eventually succeed. Eventually God’s children will go to be with him, and after that, Satan’s children will be forced to join their own father, permanently.

I wonder what will turn out to be more sickening: the insane abuse we see heaped on Donald Trump now, or the repulsive fawning the next Democrat president will receive.