The aforementioned "Newspaper of record" summarized the indictment as such: [A]s the indictment methodically documented, Mr. Trump was told over and over again by his own advisers, allies and administration officials that the allegations he was making were not true, yet he publicly continued to make them, sometimes just hours later.
As one senior campaign adviser put it at the time, it was "All just conspiracy" garbage "Beamed down from the mothership." Ultimately the charge against Trump comes down to an unwillingness to share the public opinion of advisers and various government officials.
A refusal to respect the sanctity of the American political process.
On one side, Smith can be fairly viewed as a defender of longheld political norms, a champion for the belief that even presidents can be held liable for their actions, and a rare man of action in a time where most political rhetoric only serves as a means to grift off the passions of outraged voters.
Trump weaponized his cult of personality against the hallowed grounds of the US capitol and sought to maintain a hold over political power after the people soundly rejected him in the ballot box.
On the other, you have an America that views Smith as a mere agent of an evil regime, trying to destroy a man for the crime of awakening millions to an illusionary political reality that has captured American life.
The ever-growing list of legal indictments against the former president poses great risks to Donald Trump, the man; the continual legal escalation from Biden's prosecutors and their state-level allies has greater significance for the political realities of modern America.
Given Trump's lingering unpopularity with a large swath of the voting public, it is not unreasonable to view each new criminal charge as an in-kind donation to the former president's current presidential campaign.
Ludwig von Mises defended the mechanism of democracy as a means to promote political stability by allowing for a clash of political visions to be heard via the electoral process.
Already, the political season has devolved into the sort of unserious political theater that has become normalized in national democracy.
The noise and stupidity that will capture screen time of the declining corporate press and social media are likely to serve the dull the senses and create widespread political exhaustion for those who are serious about the real issues plaguing the nation.
https://mises.org/power-market/united-states-vs-donald-j-trump
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