If you look carefully the new indictment against President Donald Trump has deftly told us much about where the race for 2024 stands.
Many dramatic declarations have been espoused by talk media that it all but guarantees the nomination for the former President. These views are not especially nuanced nor especially insightful since it is easily evident that they are likely correct.
The indictment, its timing, and the candidates reactions to a host of actually nuanced details are actually much more telling. The candidates are essentially hitting the long summer slog and most of the field is demonstrating that they are in the race for anything other than serving the nation for four years, without pay, 24/7/365, and doing so fundamentally because they are trying to save the nation.
When your motives aren’t pure a campaign will expose them quickly.
But nothing should supercharge your motivation to serve, to defeat evil, to obliterate those powers that seek to destroy America like watching a fellow American endure a monstrous attack.
Based on that observation alone we’ve learned some things.
Sadly, not one of the declared candidates unconditionally backed the President. After watching him endure the last eight years of open fire on himself and his family—at least one of them should have. He could have made all of the attacks against him stop if he had simply agreed to return to his quite enjoyable life in the private sector. He’s incapable of doing so, because his nation is getting ripped to shreds and he feels that he has the ability to do something about it, perhaps unlike any American has before him.
Less sadly, several of the candidates at least recognized and correctly identified the problem: a corrupt establishment government weaponizing its executive power over a single citizen in an attempt to crush his support. To that end DeSantis, Scott, Ramaswamy, Haley, and Pence get points for realizing what it is that Joe Biden is attempting through this. Remarkably none of them were able to utter anything confessionally that demonstrated that they realized that if Biden would do it to Trump—that he wouldn't hesitate for a second to do it to them. Even in their statements acknowledging the problem they remained cautious, measured, and always quick with the “when I’m President…” observation. That portion of their responses was just utterly distasteful.
Unsurprisingly, you had Asa Hutchinson call for Trump to leave the race.
Equally unsurprising loudmouth former Governor Chris Christie, whose Bridgegate scandal and double standards in office (like banning New Jersey residents from beaches while he and his family lounged upon them) have so thoroughly made a mockery of his ambitions he’s been reduced to a caricature, claimed he would need more facts.
This is the same ham-handed joke who has been telling a specific Salem radio talk show host and his producer that “Trump is scared of me, because I was his debate partner for 2016, and I know where all the bodies are buried.”
Similar to my criticism of the media on the day the indictment was handed down the GOP field deserves to be questioned on why they also ignored the arguably larger story of criminal fact from last Thursday: FBI Director Wray being forced to produce the document that demonstrates a then Vice-President Joe Biden participating in a $10 million dollar bribery scheme. Worse, the document seemingly indicates that the now President and executives participating in the crime joked about how it would take investigators at least a decade to put the dots together even if the actions were discovered.
It’s important to note that the executives involved were from the company that was under investigation for corruption. At the time of that investigation Joe Biden was caught bragging on tape about how he threatened not to deliver American aid for that nation if the government did not essentially end the investigation.
So to be clear — the current President threatened that he would withhold our tax dollars for aid to a nation unless that nation ended an investigation into one of its private companies. After they ended the investigation executives from that company bribe Joe Biden in a $10 million dollar scheme that he then splits with his son Hunter.
The FBI has the document that proves these facts and has had them for a while. Yet they are more focused on a civil “violation” of 31 documents that President Trump had? They knew he had them? They asked him to put an extra lock on the storage of them? And he complied?
The other GOP candidates know these facts. As such they must demonstrate solidarity against the lurking powers of darkness and evil that Biden and the current corrupt regime demonstrate.
Sadly to this point they’ve proven themselves too scared to do so.
One last observation of what we’ve learned since the indictment came down. If the purpose of the indictment is to soften Trump or cripple him so badly that he would have to abandon his outspoken approach to common sense, truth, and the need to rescue America—it didn’t work.
In his speech Saturday night in North Carolina—to thunderous support—he staked out the clearest reasons why America must be rescued. From national defense to the defense of America’s women and girls he made it clear that this is a fight for good vs. evil. And he’s not taking one step backwards.
His courageous demonstration while absorbing the latest round of machine gun like attacks continues to separate him from the rest of the field.
It gives Americans hope.
Hope that good can still return in these evil and destructive times.