One hundred percent result without an opponent - isn't that Joe Biden's big plan? Written by Mátyás Kohán.
Again, I have to say sad news about the American rule of law: it looks very much like one of the lawsuits against Donald Trump was put together right in the White House.
Which is roughly as if the lawyers of Karmelita met with the legal department of the Student Loan Center to elaborate some juicy little lawsuit against Péter Magyar between the EP elections and the 2026 parliamentary elections, that's for sure.
I think something like this would set off the democratic alarm bells that live in Hungarians; it's no wonder that no major candidate in the history of free Hungary's election campaigns has ever been like this.
Fortunately for the Bidens, the investigative material of the prestigious RealClearInvestigations is a big pile of legal jargon, in which the average reader loses the needle after two paragraphs.
On the other hand, it is also a terrifying indictment against the democratic administration.
It demonstrates that what Trump has been saying about all his court cases for years may be true: that the series of special prosecutor investigations, congressional investigation committees, trials and impeachment proceedings related to him is not "continuous like a mountain torrent" because the ex-president is something quite extraordinary. it would be a chicken catcher - but because democratic strategists simply wanted it that way, and the justice system has been assisting in this for years.
RCI obtained three hundred pages of material from Trump's lawyers, which were published without censorship despite the strong objections of the special prosecutor appointed by the Bidens to investigate the Trump case.
It is clear from these: even though President Biden vowed last fall that he had no hand in suing his challenger, his left little finger could still have been involved through a White House counsel and his own chief of staff.
These high-ranking employees of the White House consulted in several rounds with NARA, the agency responsible for preserving the documents of the ex-presidents - the lawsuit is about the irregular handling of classified documents - in the case of the "Trump boxes" in August and September 2021, so that NARA is also the main submits the case to the Ministry of Justice, which also performs prosecutorial duties, it should be as unified as possible.
On September 2, 2021, NARA already had an official signal ready for the Minister of Justice that some of Trump's missing files should be investigated - however, the White House's political machine, in continuous negotiations with NARA, will deal with the matter in five months before finally being allowed to go before the Ministry of Justice in February 2022.
But now: what barks like a shameless concept lawsuit, toddles like a shameless concept lawsuit, and even has a leg as big as a shameless concept lawsuit, is in all likelihood a shameless concept lawsuit.
Or at least a very specific interpretation of the rule of law, so... Putin's.
If, as part of a bombastic investigation, it were made public that the Kremlin's registrar in close cooperation with the lawyers of the Kirov wood industry company composed the Kirovles case, which binds Alexei Navalny in legal terms, no one would bat an eye. We are used to this kind of treatment from Russia: the justice system works to clear out possible counter-candidates.
But America is plowing into the world market as it has been known so far in the name of the glorious campaign of democracies against dictatorships, building a massive stone fence around Putin's Russia and barbed wire around communist China.
So we wouldn't expect that from them.
And yet it seems that this is what we get: they chose the strategy of legally incapacitating the political opponent, which every child knows is counterproductive in democracies.
Trump leads by 1.3 percent nationally and 3.2 percent in battleground states; he would carry Georgia and Arizona, which produced a confident Democratic victory in the 2022 Senate election, by 3.8 and 5 percent on Tuesday (that's how it is this Sunday in America).
It would be a great shame if the next president of the USA, thanks to the successful court work, received 100 percent of the votes in the fall election without an opponent. That would be exactly twelve percent more than Putin's, and twenty-seven percent better than the Turkmen president's 2022 freehand result. I think this would do little good for the noble cause of democracy.
Cover image: Former US President Donald Trump, candidate for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, in Rock Hill, South Carolina
Source: MTI/EPA/Erik S. Lesser
