From the Washington Post.
Friday 26 July 2024
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American oligarchy
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'There was silence at the other end of the line. Finally the female voice said: “Could you think of another word?” It was then that the professor realised that manliness has become a dirty word. And if “displaying qualities considered admirable in a man” (as the dictionary has it) has become unacceptable, then presumably being a man is unacceptable, too. Wondering how this could be, he
Wednesday 17 July 2024
Happy birthday, sir!
Monday 15 July 2024
Joe Biden in 1997 said that the only thing that could provoke a "vigorous and hostile" Russian response would be if NATO expanded to the Baltic states
Sunday 14 July 2024
After the attempts to kill them, Reagan told John Paul II 'We were saved for something.' The Pope replied 'I know what it is. To free Poland'
"The US Came Close To Having TWO Presidential Candidates With No Brain."
Tom Foley
Brendan Cox whose MP wife Jo was murdered because of her views on immigration and Brexit condemned the attempt on Donald Trump's life but said "Donald Trump also has some culpability in creating an environment where violence is more likely." This is the first person I've seen who blames Trump. He'd hate it if somebody said his late wife's speeches had some culpability for creating an environment where murder is more likely.
"One can judge a man by how he reacts to being shot. In 1835, a house painter attempted to kill President Andrew Jackson, Trump’s hero. Both his pistols miraculously misfired; Jackson, despite being 67 and in ill-health, charged the villain with his cane. In 1912, Teddy Roosevelt – to whom Trump bears closest
Attempt to murder Donald Trump
"Most importantly, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, Trump is a threat to this nation." Joe Biden yesterday
"The assassination attempt on Donald Trump comes as 10 per cent of American adults said violence was justified to stop him from retaking the White House. Robert Pape, a professor in terrorism threats at the University of Chicago, carried out the survey in June which also found that a third of that number carried guns." The Sunday Telegraph today
Trump is not badly hurt. Soon journalists will start blaming him for the attempted assassination
Donald Trump has been shot.
Saturday 13 July 2024
From Ed West's latest newsletter
'Successful late bloomers are all around us. Morgan Freeman had his breakthrough roles in Street Smart and Driving Miss Daisy in his early 50s. Colonel Harland Sanders started Kentucky Fried Chicken in his 60s. Isak
Talking about Joe Biden
Victor Davis Hanson
'Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f--- things up.' Barak Obama, according to an anonymous Democrat speaking to Politico in 2020
Friday 12 July 2024
From an article in Responsible Statecraft by Blaise Malley: Declassified Docs: US Knew Russia Felt 'Snookered' By NATO
'“Russian opposition to NATO enlargement is unlikely to yield in the near or medium term to some kind of grudging endorsement; Russia’s opposition is deep and profound,” Lake wrote. “For the period ahead, the Russian leadership will do its level best to derail our policy, given its conviction that any eastward expansion of NATO is at root antithetical to Russia’s long-term interests.”
'Two years later, as Washington and Moscow were entering negotiations on the future of NATO-Russia cooperation, State Department official Dennis Ross wrote what the Archive calls an “astute and empathetic analysis” of the Russian position on NATO expansion.
'“To begin with, the Russians for all the reasons you know see NATO expansion through a political, psychological, and historical lens,” Ross wrote in a memo to Strobe Talbott, then the Deputy Secretary of State.
'“First they feel they were snookered at the time of German unification. As you noted with me, [former Secretary of State James] Baker's promises on not extending NATO military presence into what was East Germany were part of a perceived commitment not to expand the Alliance
Quotations
"I think that Biden debated as well as Abraham Lincoln, if you dug him up right now." Stephen Colbert
"Most reasonable people, because they are reasonable, cannot believe that the goal of the far left is to end America." Elon Musk
"75 years ago, NATO was created as a peace project. On behalf of Hungary, I will argue that we should preserve NATO as it was meant to be: a defence alliance." Viktor Orban
Biden has Parkinson's
A Parkinson’s disease specialist (who's a Democrat) told NBC that Biden clearly has the disease.
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He didn't do as badly as he might have at the Nato press conference last night.
He introduced Zelensky as Putin and referred to Kamala as Vice-president Trump but we expect things like that.
They are the mistakes anyone might make. They don't show he has dementia, but in the context of the debate with Trump they looked very bad.
He was 45 minutes late, of course used a teleprompter for his opening speech, answered or failed to answer softball questions, made a mess of what he wanted to say in places, but all this is normal for him.
President Ford made similar slip ups, but much less often.
Vice-president Dan Quayle too, but he was a halfwit.
The point is that the media has (inevitably) decided that the impending fall of the House of Biden is the story.
Ian Bremmer, who attended the summit, said none of the leaders he encountered "think he [Biden] can serve another four years."
George Stephanopoulos, who interviewed him last week, told a passer-by in the street who asked him that he doesn’t think Joe Biden can serve four more years.
Here is Biden to NATO earlier this week: ‘The allies in this room... Not only share a common language... DON’T share a common language... We do... Not share a common border... But we are neighbours...’
In the 2020 Democratic primary debates, Julián Castro and Cory Booker mocked Biden for his inability to remember things, and pointed out his cognitive decline. That was four years ago. But now the media are shocked, shocked.
Glenn Greenwald says it well:
'It's been incredibly creepy watching every liberal media figure mindlessly recite: "Biden is a good, decent man of high values. But what evidence is there for that? The many wars he cheerlead? The addicts he threw in jail until his son become one? The pathological lying?"'
I agree - he finances what seems a pointless slaughter of tens of thousands of Arab civilians intended to keep Netanyahu out of prison, he provoked Putin to invade Ukraine, he is accused of rape and of unpleasant attentions to his own daughter.
That's before we speak of influence peddling.
And I completely agree with this tweet by Glenn Greenwald three days ago: 'Democrats slowly coming to terms with the fact that Biden is a full-scale narcissist who has shown throughout his adult life that the only thing he cares about is chasing power and titles, and there's no way someone like that would give that up voluntarily.'
Thursday 11 July 2024
Biden must not be allowed to win in November
By not doing so they gave him the chance to seize the initiative.
The Republicans meanwhile are saying - not - a - word.
Many Democratic journalists call for Biden's defenestration - because they do not need his patronage and because they have been shown to be guilty of hiding the truth.
In fact, though, there is a real possibility that Biden could win, which would be a calamity for the whole American empire.
Wednesday 10 July 2024
35 Americans killed by Russian forces in the Crimea
This is a very important news item on John Helmer's blog which has been ignored completely by the media outside Russia.
Canadian Helmer is the longest serving foreign correspondent in Moscow, a left-wing writer who has lots of interesting things to tell and sometimes indulges in speculations that seem absurd, like the US being behind the attack in the concert hall complex in Moscow in March for which Islamists claimed responsibility. Four Tajiks were found guilty.
Tuesday 9 July 2024
The background to Ukraine and Taiwan
This passage is from an article by Anatole Lieven in Responsible Statecraft.
The promise of NATO membership to Ukraine and Georgia in 2008 was another, far more disastrous case where West European opposition bowed (albeit in qualified fashion) to U.S. dictation. It brought NATO into direct confrontation with Russia’s determination to maintain a sphere of influence and security zone in its immediate neighborhood, in areas where the Soviet collapse (as with the end of most empires) had left behind actual or potential ethnic and territorial conflicts.
And yet at the same time, [neither] NATO nor its individual members, had a plan or actual desire to fight Russia. Repeated warnings that NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia would mean war were literally laughed away by Western diplomats. As a former officer attached to the NATO Secretariat told me, the Secretariat did not even discuss contingency plans for a war between Georgia and Russia after — on U.S. orders — it threw its weight behind NATO membership for that country.
As he explained, NATO expansion had been sold to Western parliaments and publics on the premise that it would involve no costs and no risks. Even to discuss the possibility of war was therefore taboo. As a result, NATO’s European members acquiesced in a program of expansion that they had been warned repeatedly would lead to war, while making no preparation for war, and continuing to rely for energy on imports of cheap Russian gas.
Every time Biden speaks he seems unfit to rule the world
According to the log kept by the White House Dr. Kevin Cannard, a specialist in Parkinson’s disease, visited the White House eight times between August 2023 and March 2024 and on January 17 met Mr. Biden’s personal doctor and two unidentified individuals.
Here is the old man's attempt to reassure Americans.
CNN and the Democratic press have decided he must go.
Great is the truth and shall prevail, this time at least.
Monday 8 July 2024
David Lammy, the UK's new foreign secretary, when he was on the BBC's quiz programme 'Celebrity Mastermind'
The very best political comments over the weekend carefully selected
France heads back to its postwar era of ungovernability
Good advice for me
"I am staying drunk on writing so that reality cannot destroy me, because it can, and it will if it gets even half a chance. I'm not going to let it." Ray Bradbury
"My parents went to see Ray Bradbury give a talk in Santa Barbara. He showed up drunk. They got their money back." FOPTIMUS_PRIM
Sunday 7 July 2024
Three grave Biden scandals
'Nuzzi detailed a reception before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner earlier this year when she saw Biden in person for the first time in several weeks.
'"Up close, the president does not look quite plausible. It’s not that he’s old. We all know what old looks like. Bernie Sanders is old. Mitch McConnell is old. Most of the ruling class is old. The president was something stranger, something not of this earth," she wrote.
"His thin skin, long a figurative problem and now a literal one, was pulled tightly over cheeks that seemed to vary month to month in volume. Under artificial light and in the sunshine, he took on an unnatural gleam. He looked, well, inflated," she continued. "His eyes were half-shut or open very wide. They appeared darker than they once had, his pupils dilated. He did not blink at regular intervals."
'Nuzzi said she tried to make eye contact with Biden but "it was like his eyes, though open, were not on."'
Why did she and the rest of the White House press corps keep quiet?
The first scandal is that Biden is about to be nominated as Democratic candidate - except he is not.
The second is that he is still in office.
The third is that the legacy media knew he was suffering from dementia - even more than did right-wing bloggers, tweeters and alternative left and right wing media (whom the left does not read) but wanted to suppress the story. Now they are found out they are hurrying to demand his resignation, like Claude Rains in Casablanca saying 'I'm shocked, shocked, to discover that gambling has been going on on the premises'.
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright
Sunday Times:
A poll by JL Partners last week put Reform in second place behind Labour among 16 and 17-year-olds, with 23 per cent saying they would vote for the party. Among boys of that age, they were tied for first, polling at 35 per cent.
...Over the course of the campaign, as schools held mock elections, several reports emerged of Reform victories. At Emily Howes’s 14-year-old son Kit’s school in Walthamstow, east London, Reform — in Kit’s words — “absolutely barbecued the other candidates”.
“He’d been telling me for quite a while that Reform are what the kids like at school,” says Howes. “I’d assumed he’d got the wrong end of the stick. But he said ‘Just you wait, because when the kids can vote they are all going to vote for Reform. It’s going to be a wipeout’.”
We should declare independence
Why the British Conservatives were reduced to a rump
Can Trump make peace in Ukraine? I hope so
Putin welcomes Trump's desire to end the war in Ukraine. Why does Biden not try to negotiate peace? Partly because he is not compos mentis but by Biden I mean the Anglo-American deep state.
Reagan at 73 was superb but by 75 he was showing early signs of dementia - though nothing as bad as Biden exhibits now at 81
"I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience," Ronald Reagan during the 1984 presidential debates when asked if, at 73, he is too old to be President.
Someone should write a play.
Interviews with old man Biden are generally white knuckle rides. Yesterday's contained this serene wisdom. 'Asked by Stephanopoulos how he would feel if he had to turn the presidency back to an opponent he and his party loathe, the president said: “I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about.” I know dementia is sad not funny but I'm afraid I can't stop laughing.
Friday 5 July 2024
Godless
Chamberlain was a Unitarian but instead of believing in God though not in the divinity of Jesus he described himself as a reverent agnostic.
British election bloodbath
The Tories have lost the seats held by recent former leaders Michael Howard, David Cameron, Theresa May, and both seats held consecutively by Boris Johnson.
I was delighted to see Liz Truss narrowly lose her very safe seat just now.
Former leader Ian Duncan Smith and current one Rishi Sunak held theirs, the former very narrowly only because a Muslim candidate split the Labour vote after being deselected for no good reason by Keir Starmer after the election was called.
Liz Truss's Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey lost her seat.
In England the Labour Party scarcely won more votes than last time when they lost to a Tory landslide and got 5 percent less of the vote then in 2017 under Jeremy Corbyn.
The electorate voted against the Tories (and the SNP), not for Labour or the Liberal Democrats.
Labour was what they knew they were getting. There is no other way to get rid of the Tories than to have a Labour government but there seems to be little enthusiasm for or excitement about the new government, very unlike in 1997.
The Labour victory is a house without foundations.
Thursday 4 July 2024
Socialism is a terrible idea but the worst thing about socialists is that they are liberals too.
'Change? Why do we need change? Aren't things bad enough as they are?' Attributed to the great third Marquess of Salisbury. Highly relevant in England today when the Conservative Party is going to be smashed at the election.
'They're not making conservatives any more. Very few people are growing up conservative.' Peter Hitchens
Today the Americans celebrate independence from England and American values
"If.... the Germans had succeeded in exterminating their Slav neighbours as the Anglo-Saxons in North America succeeded in exterminating the Indians, the effect would have been what it has been on the Americans: the Germans would have become advocates of brotherly love and international reconciliation.” AJP Taylor
Wednesday 3 July 2024
Tuesday 2 July 2024
Kamala's moment has probably arrived
Tucker Carlson thinks Kamala will be the Democratic candidate and it would be best for the Democrats if she becomes President now.
This is probably right, if she is going to be the candidate. She would have the advantage of being the incumbent and she could be President in more than name.
Will Jill move aside?
Monday 1 July 2024
History teaches no lessons or rather teaches bad ones
"What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it." Hegel
Exactly. I have absolutely no patience with anyone who talks about the lessons of history. There are none. I studied history and can vouch for this.
"The only lesson history teaches is that history teaches no lessons." A.J.P. Taylor
The lessons drawn from history and put into practice are always mistaken. For example the lesson we have drawn from the Nazis is that ethnically mixed societies are ipso facto good things rather than ipso facto volatile things.
George W. Bush drew the wrong lessons from World War II by attacking Iraq, as did Eden over Suez, but Eden was very much less wrong than Bush.
Perhaps the difference between drawing the right and wrong lessons is how things turn out after you put the lessons into practice.
As A.J.P. Taylor also said, we learn from the mistakes of the past to make new mistakes in the future.
Sir Max Beerbohm in 1896:
“'History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.'"
Happy Canada Day!
Anthony Burgess called Canada the colony that stayed at home to look after mother.
It was always soulless and boring but instead of being Anglo-French it is now 'the world's first post national nation' according to M. Trudeau.
Sunday 30 June 2024
European leaders saw Biden was deteriorating badly
This is the huge story this morning. It's in the Wall Street Journal but this link gets you past the paywall.
"Two senior European officials cited a European Union-U.S. summit in October in Washington at which Biden struggled to follow the discussions. Both said he stumbled over his talking points at several moments, requiring Secretary of State Antony Blinken to intervene and point out the lines he should use."
DW TV's American correspondent last night was quite certain that Biden will be the Democratic candidate in November, which made me happy. For all his grave faults and the way he left office President Trump offers hope of peace between the USA and China.
Saturday 29 June 2024
America will not tolerate threats to its hegemony
"Russia today is a preeminent global actor in both the economic and political spheres. Yet for the Ruling Strata in the U.S., equal status between Moscow and Washington is out of the question. The Cold War mentality still infuses the Beltway with the unwarranted confidence that the Ukraine conflict might somehow result in Russian collapse and dismemberment." Alistair Crooke.
I'd love the Russian Federation to dissolve spontaneously but not because of American chicanery. I'd like the Iranian regime to collapse but not because of America. At the moment America is the biggest threat to peace, because it is anxious to assert its will everywhere.
Friday 28 June 2024
Great is the truth and shall conquer
I whooped, something very rare for me, when I turned fron the Telegraph Obituaries page (nobody interesting died yesterday) to the News.
I hope they don't shoot Trump's fox even though a Democratic Party civil war would be, in Professor Stanley Unwin's phrase, deep joy.
Wednesday 26 June 2024
Coffee, alcohol and blood
'Coffee is the common man’s gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility.'
Sheik-Abd-al-Kadir
'Terrence Kilmartin the great literary editor of the Observer never went to the office but ran the books pages from Soho pubs (hiring taxis to take the page proofs to Fleet Street). All kinds of young literary types hung around him, and the price for being in his company was they had to drink a great deal. One day one came to him and said, "Terry, I've met this girl." "Good for you," said Terry. "We're going to be married and I can't spend all day and night drinking in Soho anymore. But I want you to know, I'm not stopping because she's made me stop. The truth is I just don't enjoy it anymore." Kilmartin raised his haggard face and his bloodshot eyes bored into the ignorant whelp. "Do you think," he bellowed. "Do you think that any of us do this because we ENJOY it ?"'
Nick Cohen
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
Joyce Carol Oates
Sunday 23 June 2024
"If you started measuring world temperatures from medieval times there's been a general cooling of about four degrees.”
“If you started measuring global temperatures from medieval times there's been a general cooling of about four degrees.”
Saturday 22 June 2024
Former British Ambassador to Israel Asks Has Hamas Won?
Sir Tom Phillips, former British Ambassador to Israel and Saudi Arabia, wrote an article which is very insightful and still as topical as when published in Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz on April 9, 2024. I quote from it.
Has Hamas Won?
'Hamas has flipped the script of a militarily invincible Israel and exposed the fragility of its international support, prompting hard questions about its long-term sustainability. It is up to the West, moderate Arab states, Israel and the Palestinian Authority to deny them any kind of final victory
'It's possible that Israel's ongoing military campaign in Gaza will eventually eliminate Hamas's military leadership there, either by killing figures such as Yahya Sinwar and others or forcing them into exile. But it is equally arguable that Hamas has already won the first round in the struggle sparked by its appalling October 7 attack.
Quotations
"Desire is the essence of man." Spinoza
Thursday 20 June 2024
Quotations
Comedian Nish Kumar after Mr Sunak was criticised for leaving the D-Day commemoration early. “The only person who's had a worse D-Day is Hitler.”
Cyril Connolly: “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
Claude Cockburn: "Failure, so despicable in others, in oneself the only dignified thing." I got those two CCs mixed up.
High Tory journalist and biographer of Mrs Thatcher Charles Moore, making the left-wing case for Brexit on June 16, 2016. Jeremy Corbyn's hard left mentor Tony Benn might have said the same thing. "The euro is just such a [bankers'] ramp. It was imposed without democratic endorsement and cannot be unstitched by democratic rejection. Hence perma-slump in large parts of the eurozone, 50 per cent youth unemployment in the worst bits, and German domination of the whole. Never, since the age of the dictators, have the workers been further from control over the means of production, distribution and exchange than they are in the EU today."
Tuesday 18 June 2024
God save the King and Queen!
How well they look. The King has the sort of expression Peter Ustinov used to use for anecdotes about elderly aristocrats.
Quotations from Sir Martin Amis
(He accepted a knighthood from the King which was dated to the day before he died.)
“Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.”"An artist is a person who is most alive when alone.”
Porsche
'When a problem has no solution, it ceases to be a problem and becomes a fact.' Ferdinand Porsche, the car manufacturer.
He was a Sudeten German with no engineering education who became a Czechoslovakian and in 1934 at the National Socialist government's urging a German. He was commissioned to design the Volkswagen, joined the National Socialist Party and joined the SS. He was on friendly terms with Hitler and his company like other German manufacturing companies used forced labour by prisoners of war.
Friday 14 June 2024
Quotations
Father F.W. Faber - Kindness. "The standard of the last judgment is absolute. It is this - the measure which we have meted to others. Our present humour in judging others reveals to us what our sentence would be if we died now. Are we content to abide that issue? But, as it is impossible all at once to stop judging, and as it is also impossible to go on judging uncharitably, we must pass through the intermediate stage of kind interpretations. Few men have passed beyond this to a habit of perfect charity, which has blessedly stripped them of their judicial ermine and their deeply - rooted judicial habits of mind. We ought, therefore, to cultivate most sedulously the habit of kind interpretations."
William S. Burroughs: “There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.”
From That Victory They Never Recovered: The Strange Death of Conservative England
Thursday 13 June 2024
Quotations
From the Daily Telegraph's obituary of journalist Graham Turner
He soon became one of Mrs Thatcher’s favourite interviewers and, rather to his amazement, a confidant and adviser. On one occasion he told her that he had been canvassing her Cabinet for a piece about her, and she demanded to know what they had said. “‘They say that you shout at them.’ ‘Shout at them?’ she bellowed, at a volume which would have made the rafters ring had there been any rafters. ‘THEY shout at me!’
Monday 10 June 2024
Like wrestling with a fine woman
"Of all the pursuits open to the human person, the search for wisdom is more perfect, more sublime, more profitable and more full of joy.” St. Thomas Aquinas
Sunday 9 June 2024
Breaking news
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In the wake of poor results for his party and other mainstream parties in European elections President Macron calls fresh elections for French National Assembly. Looks like Sunak 2.0 to me …
At least Macron was at the last night of the D-Day shindig. That might not be enough to swing the election for him.
Unlike Mr Sunak, President Macron will remain in power up to a point if his party loses the election and elections for the National Assembly constituencies are in two rounds, so in the second round voters who voted for smaller parties in the first round can prevent the National Rally winning.
The National Rally's therefore pretty unlikely to win an absolute majority, but people (I included) thought Remain would win the Brexit referendum.
If he did appoint Madam Le Pen Prime Minister I presume he would do so so that she would disappoint her voters, either by tacking to the centre like Signora Meloni or (less likely) by not doing so. He could then, once twelve months have elapsed, dissolve the National Assembly again.
The British general election is being fought on Omaha beach
The 40th anniversary of D Day was a very big affair because many veterans would not be there on the 50th anniversary. I remember it well, just after I came down from the university and before life began.
Wednesday 5 June 2024
Nigel Farage's Big Adventure
"The argument that Nigel Farage is a political dud because he has lost seven parliamentary contests is wrong. He is the most consummate politician since Tony Blair. He commands politics. He taps into what a significant minority of voters think. He predicts, and then moulds, the debate. He was the first to raise the migrant crossings in the Channel. He anticipated the West’s move against China. He campaigned for Brexit for two decades before it happened."
Freddy Hayward, in The New Statesman this week
"...in the new media and internet age, power stems not from politics or the law. It comes from fame and the ability to draw an audience." Freddy Gray, in The Spectator this week"They [Ukip, Nigel Farage's former party] make a good fit for Clacton. Somebody has to represent the static caravans and holiday villages, and the people and places that for no fault of their own are not getting where a 21st-century Britain needs to be going.
"...Clacton-on-Sea is a friendly resort trying not to die, inhabited by friendly people trying not to die…
Monday 3 June 2024
Quotations
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.
Anthony Storr
A culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.
Musk: 'Hard to view this as anything other than abuse of the law for political purposes'
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice. -Montesquieu
I have been a sharp critic of Donald Trump, and unlike the corporate media, for good reasons. This is an utter disgrace to a professed free society. This conviction is the result of one thing: The shadow government attempting to stop him from becoming President again.Libs of TikTokObama illegally spied on Trump's campaign while he was in the Oval office. No charges, no trial, no conviction. YET.
I think this will convince you, even if you hate him, as you probably do, that Donald Trump's conviction was the result of a very dirty political game by a Democrat judge.