The journalists who work for the mainstream press, are quite gleefully reporting that the Supreme Court has agreed to ‘’expedite’’ the request of the ‘’Special Prosecutor’’, to rule on the ‘’Trump immunity claims’’. In fact, the Supreme Court gave the lawyers who represent Trump, until December 20, a mere week, to respond.
Those same journalists refer to this as a ‘’big deal’’! I could argue that this falls under the heading of ‘’somewhat exceptional’’, rather than a ‘’big deal’’, but then, that would be pointless. Besides, ’’simple minds are easily amused’’. Perish forbid that I should ‘’rain on their parade’’! Still, there is a reason for their excitement. This requires a little explanation.
If the common people are confused by the various charges, as well as court appearances, of Trump, it is completely understandable. For the last two months, the press has been focused on his trial in the State Supreme Court of New York, in Manhattan.
In the case of that trial, the New York Attorney General, Letitia James, alleges that over a period of 20 years, ‘’the Trumps grossly inflated the former president’s net worth by billions of dollars’’, and of ‘’cheating lenders and others with false and misleading financial statements’’.
This is a ‘’civil lawsuit’’, so that no charges have been placed. This lawsuit accuses Trump and his firm, of ‘’persistent and repeated business fraud’’. So the Attorney General is seeking a ‘’$250 Million judgement from Trump, for defrauding lenders, and others’’. She is also asking the Court to ‘’prohibit any of the Trumps leading a company in the state of New York’’.
Here we have a very clear cut example, of the ‘’double standard’’ of the judicial system! The ‘’authorities’’ are alleging that Trump and his family have been committing fraud for 20 years, and yet neither Trump nor any of his adult children, are facing any criminal charges! The Attorney General is seeking to have the judge ‘’slap their hand’’, and perhaps even give them a good ‘’tongue lashing’’!
Instead of charging any of those billionaires with any criminal charges of fraud, as is her duty, she has resorted, in the finest tradition of the bourgeois, to ‘’passing the buck’’! According to press reports, she has ‘’referred her findings to federal prosecutors in Manhattan’’, who could possibly ‘’open a criminal investigation into bank fraud’’. Let someone else handle that political ‘’hot potato’’!
As I write this, the court has adjourned for possibly a month, with ‘’closing arguments’’ scheduled for January 11, 2024. The judge is expected to ‘’issue his ruling’’ several weeks later. That ‘’ruling’’ will be concerned strictly with the amount of damages to be paid.
That is merely one court trial that Trump has to face. There are four other trials scheduled, which concern the felony charges against Trump. For that reason, these trials are referred to as ‘’criminal trials’’, which can involve prison time, as opposed to civil trials, which do not.
As is well known, Trump is currently facing 91 felony charges! By definition, a felony charge is quite serious, and can result in a rather lengthy prison sentence, if convicted. It is equally well known that Trump appears to be completely unconcerned, with the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison. There is a reason for this. Trump is not the slightest bit worried about going to prison!
Trump is a billionaire! The laws do not apply to billionaires! Only to common people! The billionaires can do as they please, and get away with it. And they do! Trump is living proof of that!
Donald Trump is making American history! The journalists are practically in awe, as they report that, ‘’over a five month span, former President Donald Trump was charged in four criminal cases. In Washington, D.C., he faces four felony counts for his (alleged) efforts to overturn the 2020 election. In Georgia, he faces 13 felony counts for his (alleged) election interference in that state. In New York, he faces 34 felony counts in connection with (alleged) hush money payments to a porn star. And in Florida, he faces 40 felony counts for (allegedly) hoarding classified documents after he left office and impeding the government’s efforts to retrieve them’’.
American history has a long and distinguished list of famous individuals. These include Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Cole Younger, Wes Hardin, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Scarface Al Capone, Dutch Schultz, Sammy the Bull Gravano, and Teflon Don John Gotti. All of these people had one thing in common. They were leaders!
A great many people followed these leaders. To prison, to the gallows, to the grave! Yet none of those psychos could ‘’hold a candle’’ to Trump! He is in a league of his own! He is not following in their footsteps! He is blazing his own trail! That is the trail to his own fascist dictatorship!
In an attempt to stop Trump and the fascists, the Special Prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice, Jack Smith, is ‘’investigating Trump’s (alleged) role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack and Trump’s (alleged) mishandling of government records, including classified documents.’’
This has given rise to plans for two trials against Trump. The first is scheduled to take place on March 4, 2024, in the District of Columbia. In that trial, Trump is facing a ‘’four count indictment’’, or four felony charges, to put it in simple English.
The second trial is scheduled to take place on May 20, 2024, in Florida. In that trial, he is facing ‘’37 felony counts’’, or in simple terms, 37 charges of various felonies.
As well, in New York City, the borough of Manhattan has ‘’indicted the former president on 34 felony counts related to (alleged) hush money payments to an adult film star’’. That trial is scheduled to begin sometime in March.
Lest we forget, Trump is also ‘’facing possible charges from the top prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia’’, concerning his (alleged) efforts to ‘’reverse the outcome of the presidential election in the state’’.
All of that is in addition to ‘’a separate civil case’’ against Trump, brought by the New York Attorney General.
No wonder the public is confused!
It is the plans for the criminal trial of March 4, that is creating such a commotion, among the mainstream journalists. The reason for this is that Trump has instructed his lawyers to stall all criminal trials, at least until after the next federal election, scheduled for November of 2024. At that point, he fully expects to be elected as the President Elect, soon to be President.
Trump recently ‘’doubled down’’ on his plan to declare himself ‘’dictator on day one’’, of his presidency. Trump is not joking. The people who will fill all government posts, within his anticipated administration, are currently being selected. Their duty is to make sure that no one opposes the ‘’Will of Trump’’. This is referred to as fascism. Fascist dictators do not worry about criminal charges!
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is well aware of this. In an effort to combat this plan of the ruling class of billionaires, to set up a fascist society, with Trump as the figurehead dictator, Smith is taking action.
In particular, Smith has asked the Supreme Court to rule – urgently! – on whether Trump has legal immunity, as the ex-president claims. That trial is expected to begin March 4, in Washington, D.C., but the lawyers for Trump have asked the district court to pause the proceedings while he pursues his appeal.
The journalists are quite enthusiastic, as Smith moved to ‘’bypass the Court of Appeals’’, and go directly to the Supreme Court, for a decision on a ‘’fundamental issue’’. He wants the Supreme Court to issue a ruling immediately, on whether Trump is immune from criminal prosecution. Trump maintains that a sitting President is above the law, so that everything he did, while President, including the ‘’events of January 6’’, was legal.
In response, the Supreme Court agreed to ‘’speed up consideration’’ of Smith’s request, and directed the lawyer’s of Trump, to submit a response to the request by December 20.
This is their idea of working at lightning speed!
Smith has also asked the Supreme Court to consider Trump’s argument that he is ‘’constitutionally protected from prosecution’’, because he was impeached by the House of Representatives, and acquitted by the Senate, while charged with similar crimes.
It is clear that Jack Smith is opposing the plan of Trump and the billionaires, of setting up a fascist society. It is also very likely that the justices of the Supreme Court are also doing their part, to combat this fascist threat.
This is significant, as it means that the middle class is joining the working class, in the revolutionary movement. I say this because the lawyers for the prosecution, such as Jack Smith, and all justices on the Supreme Court, are members of the middle class.
While significant, it is also strange that those same middle class legal experts, do not go right to the heart of the matter. This is to say that they should go straight to the Supreme Court, and challenge the validity of the 2020 federal election, on the grounds that it did not follow the procedure laid out in the Twelfth Amendment. At the same time, they should request that the Supreme Court order the upcoming 2024 federal election, follow that Constitutional procedure.
The fact that these experts on Constitutional law are not doing this, is perhaps because they are still trying to preserve the ‘’Two Party System’’, while opposing the plan of the billionaires, to establish a fascist regime, with Trump as the figurehead dictator. If that is the case, they are ‘’living in denial’’.
To such middle class people, I have two words of advice. Wake Up! Your middle class days are numbered! The ruling class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, have recently declared war on the middle class! All businesses but five are ‘’Too Small To Succeed’’. The assets of all of those businesses -Yours!- are about to be picked up by the billionaires! You are about to be ruined! Forced into the ranks of the proletariat! The billionaires have already decided to force all middle class people into bankruptcy.
They have also decided to change their method of rule. The ‘’Two Party System’’ is not working, so they have decided to establish a fascist society.
The attempts of well meaning, middle class intellectuals, to oppose this fascist society, while preserving the Two Party System, are somewhat touching, but hopeless. Not about to happen!
Allow me to stress the fact that your standard of living is about to nose dive! Through no fault of your own! The billionaires have declared war on you! Cut your losses! Join the working class, the proletariat, in the war against the billionaires! In the war for Scientific Socialism! Revolution and the subsequent Dictatorship of the Proletariat! You have no future under monopoly capitalism. You have a bright future under Socialism.
Only the working class, the proletariat, can succeed in overthrowing the ruling class of billionaires. The only way that can happen, is through revolution. We need to raise their level of awareness, to the level of true Marxists, Communists, those who call for Socialist Revolution! The Dictatorship of the Proletariat!
On that subject, I am reminded of a statement someone made, many years ago. He was an actor, who became supremely successful, a ‘’Movie Star’’, a ‘’celebrity’’. He said that as soon as someone becomes a celebrity, two very strange things happen. The first strange thing, is that people ask these celebrities questions, concerning a subject upon which they know nothing. The second strange thing is that these celebrities answer those questions!
I would add, that a third strange thing happens, the strangest thing of all! People listen to those celebrities! Especially the ‘’Movie Stars’’!
No one can explain this, but it does help to explain the reason that Trump is so popular! He is a celebrity! A Movie Star!
I can only suggest that the lawyers continue to fight Trump and the billionaires, in court and outside court, against fascism. At the same time, use celebrities, preferably ’’Movie Stars’’, to explain that which is happening.
Professional middle class writers can prepare the script, and professional middle class entertainers can prepare the presentation. The more entertaining the video, the more beautiful and popular the actors, preferably Movie Stars, the better! Their fans will pay strict attention to that which they say! Watch how fast the working people abandon Trump and his calls for fascism, and embrace the Movie Stars! Feel free to call for Scientific Socialism, Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! They will listen to Movie Stars!
In previous articles, I have documented other ways to fight this plan of the billionaires, to set up a fascist society, through Councils and training working class people, in preparation for the revolution. There is no need to repeat it here.
Also as previously mentioned, now is the time to form a true Communist Party, Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Another job for middle class intellectuals, urgently required.
The alternative is the ruin of the middle class, the end of the democratic republic, and subsequent fascist rule, led by Trump.
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 