The Indefatigable Donald Trump
A man who has been through hellfire and triumphed despite all the adversity is one who enters the most rarefied territory of becoming larger-than-life.
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Last Tuesday, President Trump walked out of the New York courthouse victim of a banana republic-style ambush on his fundamental constitutional rights and liberties. The presiding judge, Arthur Engoron, and prosecutor, Letitia James, have each been described as rogue operators, but in truth, they are following lockstep the orders of the Biden Justice Department, helmed by the vindictive Merrick Garland. The circumstances of the case are unprecedented in ways now obvious to so many Americans: a man who served as President, and who is well-positioned to reclaim that office again in less than a year’s time, has been systematically and maliciously targeted by his political opponents, in an extraconstitutional effort to silence his voice and remove him from the ballot for good.
The facts of the lawsuit are as egregious as the sham trial itself, and in this regard, offer further proof of the illegitimacy of the entire operation: for starters, Engoron’s assessment of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, which has been estimated anywhere between $300 million to potentially upwards of a billion dollars relative to other nearby Palm Beach properties, was appraised by His Dishonor as being worth a meager $18 million. The dramatic undervaluation was obviously intended to humiliate the President – a retributive ploy by an otherwise unknown Marxist-activist-posing-as-judge, so clearly envious of the 45th President’s fame and fortune, and bloodthirsty to trade his irrelevance for a few morsels of 45’s larger-than-life clout. That recipe was as much obviously bound to backfire.
Engoron is now staring down a potential mistrial, given how flagrantly his court flouted the basic rules of judicial ethics. As but one (of many) notable examples, his wife, Dawn Marie Engoron, was discovered making, on an anonymous X account (which has since been locked from public view), extremely offensive posts and threats against President Trump as the trial was still going on. Dawn Engoron’s X posts, which have been extensively curated and exposed by investigative journalist, Laura Loomer, run the gamut from casting aspersions on President Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, to saying “F*ck Trump” and making other incendiary remarks about the man standing trial before her husband. It is bad enough that the New York State Attorney General, Letitia James, made no pretensions about her only reason for pursuing political office: to get Trump. That alone is unacceptable impropriety – which, in a normal world, should be enough to can the whole case. But shortly after Loomer’s investigations about Engoron’s familial conflicts of interest came to light, it was reported that President Trump’s team ordered a mistrial. And while the reason for that filing has not been disclosed yet, a strong inference can be made that the order is related to what Loomer exposed in her report.
Momentarily putting aside the fact that the 45th President of the United States is the defendant, and therefore, should be afforded special dignity because of his office. The fact that the judge – the supposed fair and neutral arbiter of the law – cannot even get his own wife (and reportedly sister too) to refrain from posting the most obscene, vitriolic, and hateful remarks against the man being prosecuted – persecuted – in his own courtroom, is beyond the pale. One should be forgiven for thinking that the judge, given how poorly he has managed this entire debacle of a trial so far, might even be directing his wife to make those egregious posts on social media, perhaps to telegraph to his team that, like the Gestapo, he is dutifully following orders. Or perhaps as part of an (inevitably vain) attempt at political theatrics, as if to say, “I am the man who will be remembered for bringing down President Trump,” with that vampiric countenance, those dead eyes, that ghoulish grin.
In any case, Engoron’s behavior is totally unbecoming for his office – and that fails to take account of the numerous other abuses that have plagued this trial from the outset: for instance, additional potential conflicts of interest between Engoron’s son, Ian Engoron – who was observed sitting in the front row at the trial – and the work through his role as an “Associate Shareholder” at the activist Olshan Frome Wolosky Law Firm in New York City.
As such, the whole spectacle reeks of ethics and constitutional abuses. According to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, which stipulates the guidelines of proper ethical conduct for judges, Engoron’s behavior all throughout this trial points clearly to impropriety as well as a breach of his fundamental duties to administer fair and impartial justice in accordance with the rule of law. Indeed, Canon 2(b) of the code outright states, “a judge should not allow family, social, political, financial, or other relationships to influence judicial conduct or judgment.” Canon 2A warns of the dangers of even the appearance of impropriety, which it explains “occurs when reasonable minds, with knowledge of all the relevant circumstances disclosed by a reasonable inquiry, would conclude that the judge’s honesty, integrity, impartiality, temperament, or fitness to serve as a judge is impaired.” The prohibition against impropriety and even the appearance of impropriety applies “to both professional and personal conduct.” Canon 2B stipulates “a judge should avoid lending the prestige of judicial office to advance the private interests of the judge or others.”
For disqualification, Canon C outlines circumstances that would require a judge to recuse himself from the proceeding. This includes all situations, as so flagrantly on display here, in which “the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” One such instance of this, as expressly noted in Canon C(d), is when “the judge’s spouse” is “(iii) known by the judge to have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding.” A situation whereby the wife of the judge presiding over the prosecution of the President of the United States is posting “F*ck Donald Trump” images and other posts attacking the defendant's counsel would seem to be the sort of disqualifying conduct contemplated by the rule.
The improprieties of this case are unmistakable. The ridiculous undervaluation of Mar-a-Lago, done for no reason other than spite, should have been sufficient proof that this whole proceeding was flawed from the very beginning. Indeed, it is well-established that Engoron has waded deep into unconstitutional waters already by allowing this trial to commence in the first place. After all, no President, let alone the decisive frontrunner for the coming year’s presidential election, has ever stood trial for alleged crimes committed before, during, or after he left office – period.
Not that there are any grounds for any of these bogus charges to begin with, which are merely a continuation of the deep state’s witch-hunt that has targeted President Trump since 2015. Nevertheless, even if such “crimes” did exist, one would presume that an administration that upwards of half the country deems illegitimate would be more careful and more wise about navigating their persecution of a political opponent. Alas, Biden’s weaponized DOJ and myriad acolytes have not even attempted to feign even the pretext of judicial impartiality – instead, they have acted with all the incompetence that would be expected of an illegitimate regime whose dementia-ridden figurehead, Joe Biden, struggles mightily to string together a coherent sentence, and then some.
The result has been an absolute PR disaster. The Left’s (and establishment Right’s) anti-Trump narrative has imploded to the point where now well over three quarters of the American people, including many Democrats, believe that the justice system has been weaponized against Donald Trump and his supporters. This is a figure that only continues to grow by the day, and it correlates perfectly with the boost of support the 45th President has received with the news of each indictment.
Four days after the 45th President left Engoron’s chambers, he was greeted to thunderous applause at Madison Square Garden for a UFC fight deep in the bowels of New York City – the city he (almost singlehandedly) helped resurrect from near-death in the 1970s and 1980s during a period of great financial turmoil, crumbling infrastructure, and runaway crime. Distressingly, that same city’s – facing yet again historic crime and economic turmoil that rivals the worst of the period when President Trump first began developing, now with an unmanageable migrant crisis on top of it – leadership has turned its back on what should be New York’s favorite son. Fortunately, regular New Yorkers know better – hence the thunderous homecoming, wherein the President paraded into the heart of enemy territory, alongside some of his top generals: Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump, Jr., Dana White, etc.
The visual was absolutely spectacular – the pomp and circumstance of the occasion decorated the legitimate President with the ceremonial respect and accoutrements he rightly deserves, in sharp contrast with the indignities he faced in Engoron’s courtroom. The image of both Trump and Carlson together, a potential Presidential/Vice Presidential pairing that would go down as the most formidable in American history, powerfully signaled that no matter what nonsense his enemies lodge at him, President Trump remains not just undefeated, but stronger than ever before.
He had the hero’s welcome because Donald Trump truly is a hero, not just of New York City, or the Republican Party, but the country. He is the personification of a type of American Greatness that is increasingly rare – a dogged tenacity that ripens with the trials and tribulations of the passage of time; one whose spirit has reinvigorated an entire generation of Americans to stand athwart all the political negativity and doomsaying, and realize that decline is not an ironclad law, but a choice – and one that with enough faith and willpower, can be reversed.
This dark moment in American history will ultimately come to pass, decline cannot go on forever. A man who has been through hellfire and triumphed despite all the adversity is one who enters the most rarefied territory of becoming larger-than-life. And one to whom history will dedicate fondly, for history always remembers the victors – and Donald Trump is our age’s greatest winner of all.
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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.