Donald Trump arrest: Why should we even care?
Quin Hillyer
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This whole Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels-Alvin Bragg scene is just boring. Far too many people are hyperventilating, or worse, about a cast of unworthy characters in a make-believe drama.
The three main actors, the very embodiments of one-trick ponies, are doing what they know how to do. Daniels seems willing to do just about anything for money and attention. Bragg campaigned on a promise to get Trump and then searched for a crime to fit the man. Trump has lived his entire life creating tawdry spectacles he can monetize and in which he can play the victim. By now, all these acts are throat-cloggingly stale.
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Daniels may be the savviest of the three. She got paid $130,000 to hush up something she already had spent years putting into the public domain. What’s next in 2023 — the John F. Kennedy estate paying off Marilyn Monroe’s estate to bury evidence of their affair? Richard Nixon’s heirs paying Woodward and Bernstein not to report anymore on Watergate? Bag, meet escaped cat. Barn, meet rampaging horse. Bottle, meet mischievous genie.
Meanwhile, Trump is in his favorite briar patch. Getting caught with his own pants down is one of his preferred amusements. Committing adultery with beautiful women is part of how he built his brand. If Caesar can’t provide circuses, he can at least give the people Shark Week and pornography instead. For Trump’s first actual indictment to involve consensual sex must seem like a godsend to him when he has done so many things in his life that hurt so many more people than the nearly victimless crimes he allegedly committed here.
By playing the victim of unjust prosecution, he wins a political “rally-’round-the-Trump” effect. He is using this to raise millions of campaign dollars. Far better for him to finally face charges on this than for employing illegal immigrants and then underpaying them; or underpaying contractors as a standard business practice; or repeatedly manipulating bankruptcy laws while leaving literally thousands of small-business vendors and creditors in the lurch; or reporting different income amounts to tax agencies than what he reported to lenders; or creating a fake “university” and personally lying to its enrollees; or withdrawing medical benefits for his own disabled grandnephew.
Or, of course, ignoring U.S. law while trying to bully a foreign leader into a bogus investigation of a political opponent that his own Justice Department rejected; or inspiring a mob to storm the Capitol to overturn a valid election.
By now, if something involves what for Trump is a small amount of money connected to sexual hijinks, it’s yawn-inducing. Why are people on all sides getting so worked up? After all, the legal system is eventually going to work as designed. This week’s sound and fury truly does signify next to nothing.
As for Bragg, he may or may not technically have the legal goods on Trump. Still, after the way he campaigned on a “get Trump” platform, anything he does in this case is suspect. One-upping the queen in Alice in Wonderland saying, “Sentence first-verdict afterwards,” Bragg essentially said, “Verdict first, allegation afterwards.” Knowing Trump, Bragg’s allegations of what seem like relatively minor offenses may well be true, but largely in the sense of the old saying that grand juries are so malleable that most district attorneys could convince them to indict a ham sandwich.
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Additionally, Bragg has pushed so close to or beyond the statute of limitations that the sandwich bread is moldy and the ham is rancid.
The American public should ignore this food fight, and none of its slop-stained contestants should be anywhere near the presidential arena.