Due Process Denied

President Trump embodies true glory and greatness, once so commonplace in the statesmen of America’s now distant past, that is scandalously absent in our politics today. That's his one and only crime.

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President Trump received news on Monday that his First Amendment rights would be further violated by yet another rogue federal judge with well-documented radical left-wing sympathies, as well as an obvious personal vendetta against him.  This time it came from Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, who committed election interference – running roughshod over the Constitution along the way – by silencing the 45^th President from being able to publicly comment about his case or defend himself through social media posts. 

Not only does Chutkan’s actions demarcate a flagrant violation of President Trump’s free speech rights, which is a travesty by itself, but these developments are made all the worse by the fact that many polls show the 45^th President as not just the leading nominee for the Republican Party, but increasingly (and by widening margins) the favorite in reputable general election polls against Biden, too.

President Trump’s censure is extraordinarily distressing on its own terms.  It represents a bald-faced and unacceptable subversion of constitutional due process, the rule of law, equal justice, free speech, and a litany of other violations by a corrupt justice system, that would be unconscionable treatment for any ordinary citizen, let alone a duly elected President.  But President Trump’s case is made even worse by the fact that it is part of a concerted effort among radical district attorneys and judges – conspiring alongside Merrick Garland’s DOJ, which has already labeled tens of millions of American parents “domestic terrorists” for the “crime” of speaking against woke indoctrination in schools – to unduly prejudice the case through judicial chicaneries, all because those actors within the justice system now persecuting a political opponent harbor deep-seated enmities against President Trump, the MAGA cause, and his supporters.

A handful of remarks made by Judge Chutkan at trial, the DC federal judge who is in lockstep with the equally subversive views of Special Counsel Jack Smith, that were nicely curated by Julie Kelly in a recent article for Real Clear Investigations, illuminate the latter point.  Judge Chutkan has made it clear that she believes the 2020 presidential election was not stolen, and that anyone who holds the contrary view, despite a critical percentage of the population who think – and have strong reason to believe — otherwise, are dangerous “conspiracy” theorists, who deserve to be scolded, censured, and if sentenced, be given unusually long prison terms (indeed, as Kelly further noted, Judge Chutkan’s sentences have been quite severe: “In several cases, she has given defendants longer prison terms than recommended by prosecutors. In at least two cases she sentenced defendants to jail time when prosecutors only sought probation”).

Judge Chutkan follows the lead of other far-left judges and district attorneys throughout the country, many of whom, like Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg, are directly backed by George Soros and other treacherous, dark-money influences, in using the pretext of the justice system to continue a witch-hunt – the persecution of their most hated political opponent – in Donald Trump.  One notable example being New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is so radical that even former Governor Andrew Cuomo, no moderate himself (and certainly nobody’s idea of a Trump-ally), took actions to file an ethics complaint against her last year for James’ egregious misallocation of state resources to pursue a separate personal and racist vendetta against him.

Laura Loomer recently investigated, in a brilliant Substack piece, Letitia James’ sequence of abusing the privileges of her office, where she revealed the details of a dark money loan James secured personally for herself, among other unethical conduct. This story, one that likely scratches the tip of the iceberg of abuses, shows that in many cases the actors behind the witch-hunt against President Trump are projecting their own personal and professional transgressions onto him. 

No better example of this can be seen than in New York State Judge Arthur F. Engoron’s, who presides over President Trump’s civil fraud trial, utterly ridiculous valuation of Donald Trump’s lavish Mar-a-Lago property, at $18 million.  This arbitrary and capricious price tag, itself an unlawful abuse of the judiciary, is estimated to be sixteen to sixty times lower than the real valuation of the historic Palm Beach estate, which in reality ranges between $300 million and $1 billion in value.

That degree of blatant unscrupulousness from a judge presiding over a trial presumably centered on allegations that the President exaggerated property valuations to secure loans says everything. The theory of the case then collapses upon its own slipshod logic, which was never based on facts and the law, but purely on the animosities of a Trump-hating judge who was bolstered by a Biden and Garland-backed deep state.  If Judge Engoron sincerely believes Mar-a-Lago’s value is just $18 million, he is so far removed from reality that he loses all credibility — justifying dismissal of the entire case in toto. 

On its face, Engoron’s legal theory does not even make sense: it is not as though a private individual, particularly someone with the level of scrutiny President Trump has garnered over decades of being in the public eye, would be able to secure a major loan (which court records proved was entirely paid back in full plus interest), let alone an institution with Deutsche Bank’s reputation, without a comprehensive appraisal process.  Simply because Judge Engoron personally lacks the vision and financial resources to execute the sorts of impressive construction feats that defined President Trump’s career in the private sector does not mean that he – and anyone else who takes inspiration from the 45th President’s pursuit of the American dream at a grand scale – should have to face the consequences for Engoron’s natural ineptitude. That level of political grievance is the textbook definition of communism.

President Trump’s ability to endure each and every one of these criminal and civil lawsuits, all groundless in their purported constitutional logic, to say nothing of a colossal distraction – both in time and resources, from an extremely high-stakes presidential campaign – is the ultimate testimony, and principal reason, for why his enemies so resent his success. 

President Trump is the embodiment, perhaps the last of its kind, of a type of glory and greatness once so commonplace in the statesmen of America’s now distant past, that is scandalously absent in our politics today.  The communist-types who have wriggled their ways into the justice system are patently undeserving of their posts – indeed, their resentment is partly fueled by a self-awareness that reminds them deep down that they are not entitled be in those positions of power.  Nature’s gods do not ordain it.

Donald Trump’s achievements, which shed a harrowing light on their own inadequacies, is sufficient cause to catapult them into hysterics – and that they do, Constitution and Country be damned, to the detriment of us all, as viscerally observed in our society’s dizzying freefall into banana-republicanism.

When justice loses sight of the higher good, it gets reduced to a savage contest pitting those in power against those out-of-power.  The American experiment was designed to be the exception to most other regimes in world history, the overwhelming majority of which forfeited the possibility of natural right – and the attendant freedom that came with it – for rule of might, because the level of discipline, virtue, and responsibility necessary for self-government was too burdensome for most peoples in most times. 

Thus marks the great achievement that was – and no longer really is – the United States of America. Now, that achievement’s fate is on trial – its outcome, whether freedom will any longer be possible here on these shores, is inseparable from the outcome of President Trump’s trials, and contingent on their success.  For his cause ultimately represents the cause of American freedom, and his fate the fate of a nation.

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Paul Ingrassia is a Law Clerk at The McBride Law Firm, PLLC. He graduated from Cornell Law School in 2022 and is on the Board of Advisors of the New York Young Republican Club. He is also a two-time Claremont Fellow. Follow him on Twitter @PaulIngrassia, Substack, Truth Social, and Rumble.