The Initial Impact of Trump’s Conviction & American Traitors - Top 3 Takeaways – June 3rd, 2024
- The enemy from within. Over the weekend the 45th and potentially 47th President of the United States, in an interview with Fox and Friends Weekend, described the lawfare carried out against him as “the enemy from within”. And that’s exactly what it is. When you have a political establishment, in this case the Democrat Party, that is willing to use the judicial system to attempt to eliminate its political competition, that political establishment and specifically those within it directing the lawfare campaign are “the enemy from within”. I have never believed in pitting one group of Americans against another group of Americans. This has always upset me when politicians, regardless of party, have done it. We have enough enemies from the outside who wish to do us harm and whose end goal is to end liberty in this country...Americans infighting only helps that objective. But on occasion you have enemies from within that must be dealt with... Benedict Arnold, Aldrich Ames, the Tokyo Rose campaign, Julius and Ehtel Rosenberg, Robert Hanssen, Adam Gadahn, John Walker Jr. Those happen to be the biggest known traitors in American history. People who attempted to undermine this country from the inside. Many may only know the name Benedict Arnold – or perhaps have heard the name Tokyo Rose, but don’t know what it was or those who were behind it. That’s kind of the point. Historically most of this country’s biggest enemies weren’t and aren’t household names. But they needed to be dealt with. Trump’s biggest failing during his first administration was failing to understand the extent of what became known as “the Deep State” until it was too late for him to appropriately identify the people he needed within his cabinet that would work to eliminate it. Systemic political corruption by government entities in this country has become as real as what we often see in third-world countries. This was evidenced by the planting of the bogus Trump-Russia collusion narrative eight years ago and the lawfare being carried out today. Given that there’s a complicit administration running this country, the enemies that are within can and only will be eliminated by Trump and his fellow Republicans by...
- Decisively winning elections. That’s the only potential fix here and given the pervasiveness and audaciousness of what we’re bearing witness to, Donald Trump is right that this is the most important election in our lifetimes. And frankly, it’s probably the most important since Abraham Lincoln’s election as president in 1860. Fun fact. Did you know that Lincoln won the election with under 40% of the national vote? In a field of four candidates that pulled in over 10% each Lincoln’s share of the vote was only 39.8%. So, about that. We’re now only a little over five months away from Election Day. Many in this country are still wondering why and how the former and perhaps future President of the United States could have been convicted in the politically motivated New York criminal case, by a George Soras backed DA, and a Biden donor judge whose daughter raised over $100 million for Democrats across the country on the back of Donald Trump’s criminal indictments. Objectively, those facts alone, that the judge who presided over the case is a Joe Biden donor who has a daughter who was able to raise over $100 million for Democrats in large part off of her father’s case – meaning that she has significantly personally profited from this political persecution – seems far worse from a legal standpoint than any possible accounting for a $130,000 Non-Disclosure Agreement from eight years ago. As I discussed on Friday, this is the result of a two-tiered system of justice and is but the latest example within it. Last week, prior to deliberations, Donald Trump implied that the deck had been so stacked against him in the proceedings that Mother Terresa couldn’t have beaten the charges. He was probably right. It’s simply not possible for a fair-minded person to see the conviction of Trump in New York City against the backdrop of those realities as anything other than a farce aimed at doing one thing...attempting to keep the former President of the United States from becoming the next President of the United States. But that only works if you let it work. Over the weekend we received our...
- First real temperature check regarding the potential political impact at the polls. We received three accredited polls which is a good sample to glean first impressions and initial impacts of Trump’s conviction. Those three were the Reuters/Ipsos, Forbes/Harris X and Morning Consult Polls. All three had complete post-conviction samples. With Reuters/Ipsos the race was tied in their previous poll and Biden showed a 2-point lead with the most recent one. With the Forbes/Harris X poll the race went from a tie to a 2-point Trump advantage. With Morning Consult the race went from a two-point Trump advantage to a one-point Biden advantage. That’s two polls with a two-point swing and one poll with a three-point swing with the averaged net impact being a gain of one-point for Joe Biden in the presidential race. That kind of muted response is no surprise. As I mentioned in Friday’s Q&A... The case is high drama given the legal stakes of the case and frankly what’s to become of this country if this miscarriage of justice is allowed to stand but perhaps likely not so much regarding the outcome of the presidential race. Who might this guilty verdict matter to? The 5%. Right now, in an average of all current accredited national polling with third-party options provided only 5% of voters say there are uncertain of who they intend to vote for. That’s the lowest total of undecided voters at this stage of a cycle since the onset of the polling age in the 1930’s. It’s also unlikely the historically small pool of undecided voters would break all one way (as a result of Trump’s guilty conviction). Frankly, what we’ve seen from the first three pollsters with an average loss of only 1% support is a pretty good result from the Trump camp perspective. The next two unknowns are these. How will Trump be sentenced and if it’s jail how will that impact perspectives of the 5% (if at all)? Will the conviction be overturned on appeal prior to the election and how might that impact perspectives (if at all)? If this minor move is the extent of the impact on the race, which is very much an “if” at this point, it’s good news for team Trump – and frankly for the future of this country and the free world. He can win with numbers like these.