CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY AUGUST 2, 2018
THE FORMER MANAGER OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN, PAUL MANAFORT, WENT ON TRIAL TUESDAY IN A FEDERAL COURTHOUSE IN ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA. ALEXANDRIA IS A VERY LIBERAL AREA AND I AM SUSPICIOUS OF JURORS WHO CLAIMED THEY COULD BE UNBIASED WHEN IT COMES TO THE CHARGES OF FRAUD, MONEY LAUNDERING AND TAX CHEATING.
THE POSSIBILITY OF BIAS WAS REINFORCED NOT ONLY BY THE ANTI-TRUMP DEMONSTRATORS OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE, BUT BY THE JURORS. DURING THE PROSECUTION’S OPENING STATEMENT, WHICH CALLED MANAFORT EVERYTHING BUT A GENTLEMAN, JURORS PAID ATTENTION AND TOOK COPIOUS NOTES. BUT WHEN THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY BEGAN HIS OPENING REMARKS, JURORS TOOK NO NOTES AND SOME APPEARED TO BE DISINTERESTED, AND NEARLY NODDING OFF.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER MANAFORT IS GUILTY OR NOT, BUT ANYONE WHO LIVES IN LIBERAL ALEXANDRIA AND WHO CLAIMS NOT YO HAVE AN OPINION ON MANAFORT, OR PRESIDENT TRUMP, AND HAS NOT BEEN INFLUENCED BY THE DRUMBEAT OF OPPOSITION TO THE PRESIDENT IS JUST NOT CREDIBLE.
THIS IS THE FIRST COURTOOM SALVO IN THE LEFT’S ATTEMPT TO DAMAGE PRESIDENT TRUMP BEFORE THE NOVEMBER ELECTION AND GOING FORWARD TO THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL RACE. THAT IS AN UNDISPUTABLE FACT. I’M CAL THOMAS.
