The criminal trial taking place in New York, in which Donald Trump is accused (photo) of 34 crimes, exposes the deterioration of American institutions and the crisis of the political system with which they intend to teach the rest of the world. The plot of the litigation exhibits the most explicit evidence of the right to impunity and combines it with the license to lie, corrupt and deceive. The presentation of charges made by the New York prosecutor’s office a week ago seeks to be used by the Republican candidate to victimize himself and transform his position as an accused into an input for his electoral campaign. The American political system and the judicial, media and intelligence framework that covers it strive to visualize the triad of real power on which its corporate institutionality is structured: the military-industrial complex, transnational corporations and investment funds. These three collective actors are the ones who – ultimately – will be in charge of rejecting or enabling your candidacy.
Trump accumulates more than thirty charges in four trials. Two of a federal nature, one in Georgia and the other in New York, where the appearances of witnesses began last week, under the accusation of concealment and falsification of accounting records with the aim of hiding his extramarital ties with an actress of porn movies and a Playboy magazine model. The lawsuit against Trump, which is taking place in Manhattan in front of the presence of twelve jurors (seven men and five women), began with the swearing-in of the latter on Friday, April 19. Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo was in charge, on Monday, of presenting the charges to the judge and jury, warning that: “The defendant orchestrated a criminal plot to falsify the 2016 presidential election. He then covered up that criminal conspiracy by falsifying his commercial records to bribe and silence those who could dirty his electoral campaign in 2016.”
The accusation against the former president includes the purchase of media influence to cover up his own irregularities, and operations to tarnish the reputation of his political competitors. In the last week, the former director of the magazine testified as a witness National EnquirerDavid Pecker, who took responsibility for having bribed the model Playboy Karen McDougal to cover up her affair with the then-Republican candidate. The same director of the publication was in charge of assuming responsibility for paying 30 thousand dollars to the doorman of the Trump Tower, to prevent the meetings with two dozen women from becoming known.
In another part of the trial, Judge Juan Manuel Merchán took note of how the defendant’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, transferred $130,000 to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels to guarantee her silence. Pecker assumed in front of the jury that his publications carried out the so-called “checkbook journalism”, consisting of praising or elevating the contributors and, at the same time, demonizing their contenders, an operation naturalized and common within Western propaganda corporations. which did not seem to cause astonishment among the journalists accredited before the court.
The information distortion on which a large part of the American media show is mounted – of which Latin America is also a tributary – includes the prominence of the social networks. The magistrate ordered several silence orders for Trump to avoid harassment and harassment of jurors, prosecutors and his family, promoted from his platform. Social Truth. Trump attacked Judge Merchan’s daughter on two occasions and – according to the prosecution – violated the required discretion on ten occasions. The defendant’s defense, carried out by Todd Blanche, appealed the measure, arguing that his client had only reposted third party texts.
Trump was found guilty, during the last year, in three civil trials, without these prosecutions interfering with his candidacy: he was sentenced to pay 355 million dollars for inflating the value of his properties, he was ordered to pay five million dollars in compensation for sexual abuse against the columnist Jean Carroll, and he was fined 85 million dollars for defamation and slander against the latter journalist.
Donald Trump boasted years ago that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without it leading to the loss of electoral capital. In the late 1920s, a German army corporal wrote: “It makes no difference whether we are laughed at or vilified…whether we are portrayed as clowns or criminals; The main thing is that they mention us, that they care about us again and again…” However, it was Marcus Tullius Cicero who probably most accurately characterized the historical stage we are going through: “The closer an empire is to the fall, the crazier its laws.”
