“I have to admit: none of this is playing out like I thought it would,” Fareed Zakaria told viewers of his CNN program last weekend.
“Trump is now leading in almost all the swing states,” Zakaria noted, adding that he is “someone worried about the prospects of a second
The host’s opening monologue on Fareed Zakaria: GPS went on, complaining that, “The trials against [Trump] keep him in the spotlight, infuriate his base — who see him as a martyr and even may serve to make him the object of some sympathy among people in general who believe that his prosecutors are
Leave it to the Democrats to turn Mr. Trump into a sympathetic figure … with Zakaria then agreeing that these prosecutions are politically motivated.
“This happens to be true, in my opinion. I doubt the New York indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump.”
And Fareed is not alone, even at CNN, where Elie Honig also acknowledged that, had the prosecution been brought in a less rabidly Democrat area than New York City, “there’s no chance of a conviction.”
No statement is more compelling in a court of law than what is known as a statement against interest, the admission of facts that do not serve the person so conceding or that person’s side. That’s what we now witness … as even CNN commentators recognize that the former president is being
No one is above the law. That phrase loses some punch, however, when “the law” sinks so low.
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