OPINION:
Donald Trump sat in a New York State courtroom next to his attorney as cameras flashed in his face and video captured both the stony stares of the politically charged globalist-funded attorney general, Letitia James, who’s prosecuting the former president, and the smiley-faced primping of the judge, Arthur Engoron, as he posed for the pictures.
Yes. The judge posed for the cameras. That’s not just biased and unprofessional. That’s a circus act.
Democrats think they’ve got Trump just where they want him. Reality check on that; if Trump’s mug shot from his arrest yielded multimillions of dollars to his campaign for the White House — and scored even more for capitalistic conservatives who saw a goldmine in the photo and went for it — just think what b-roll and still shots from his court expressions will bring.
This New York banana court case will be the reelection campaign kicker of American history. Never mind the coffee mugs. Think of the reelection pins and buttons.
It’ll be like the Chairman Mao Zedong buttons of China’s cultural revolution days, only more so.
MAGA types really need to start sending Democrats the thank-you notes now. It’s not every presidential candidate, after all, who secures the White House so very early in the campaign season. Most contests go down to the wire.
“Before leaving the courtroom, the camera operator appeared to capture Judge Arthur Engoron by surprise, who took the camera angle in humor, smiled, and shrugged his shoulders for all to see,” Mediaite wrote.
Nicely done, judge.
One small primp for media-kind, one giant leap for kangaroos in the court everywhere.
Exactly why were cameras allowed in this courtroom?
Engoron is a product of 1960s Columbia University; an admitted participant of “huge, sometimes boisterous, Vietnam War protests,” as The Associated Press wrote; an active American Civil Liberties Union member for more than two decades; and a legal mind who mixes popular music and culture with his rulings. He’s not exactly unbiased — as even The New York Times noted in a story about Trump’s $250 million civil suit being adjudicated by bench trial, not jury.
“Engoron, a Democrat, will play a far more prominent and consequential role than a judge would at a jury trial, not just during the proceedings, but in the ultimate outcome — unless he is overturned on appeal,” The Times wrote.
Meanwhile, James is the product of George Soros-tied money. An example? On just a single day in October of 2022, James received three separate donations from Soros family members: $4,000 from Jennifer Allan Soros, the wife of Jonathan Soros who is the third son of George Soros and the co-founder of the Friends of Democracy super PAC; another $5,000 from Jonathan Soros; and another $1,000 from Jennifer Allan Soros, Open Secrets found.
“Beware of George Soros’ Trojan horse Prosecutors,” The American Conservative warned in September 2020.
That story went on to report that it’s “no wonder that Soros-funded prosecutors like New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., have harassed President Trump with never-ending investigations and subpoenas.”
Yes, no wonder.
They’re doing the bidding of their Soros family overlords.
Thus, the cameras in the courtroom.
Thus, the courtroom charges at all.
This suit is the one that calls out Trump for supposedly deceiving banks about the true worth of his holdings and investments and finances. Engoron has already found Trump guilty of fraud. Trump has called the entire case a “scam.” And he has a point.
“This highly partisan Democrat ‘Judge’ … ruled that Mar-a-Lago was worth just 18 Million Dollars when, in fact, it may be worth 100 times that amount,” Trump wrote on social media.
Yes. There’s appraised value. Then there’s market value. And they’re both open to interpretation.
“When I teach real estate,” said Eli Beracha, the director of Florida International University’s Hollo School of Real Estate, on CBS News, “we never look at county appraisal as reliable guidance for what the property’s worth. We always do a market analysis. … [and[ the more unique the proper is and the longer it is owned by the current owner, the higher the likelihood that the gap between what it’s actually worth and what the county says it’s worth is large.”
Meanwhile, one Palm Beach real estate broker speaking on condition of anonymity told the New York Press that a listing of Mar-a-Lago today would start at $300 million, at minimum.
The delusion of Democrats grows deeper and deeper.
Trump Derangement Syndrome spreads wider and wider.
But if Democrats truly believe photobombing Trump in court will cause the average voter in America to gasp in shock and flee Trump’s side — they’re quite wrong. Voters may gasp in shock at the sight of Trump in court.
But it’s a shock that shows anger at Democrats.
America’s justice system is not a playground for the Soros sycophants.
Voters do not like the weaponization of legal and political systems.
And all the MAGA types go, more mug shots, please! Democrats are truly one handcuff picture of Trump away from losing any chance of political leadership for the next decade or longer.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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