Deep State Goes After Trump and Musk’s Financial Assets–Who’s Next?
The left is abusing power in an unprecedented way to go after its political enemies–it’s become quite the habit.
Is America as we know it, over? Are we in the middle–or perhaps the end–of the transition from a national republic to a single party regime that rules by fiat instead of law?
If we look at what’s happening to two, high-profile cases, the answer is less than comforting. It is becoming difficult to argue that the U.S. judicial system has not become a political arm of the democrat party.
The Left Waging Political Lawfare
Nations are either based on the rule of law or the rules dictated by the powerful. The former is meant to restrain, or better said, eliminate the possibility of the latter. But, as we’ve witnessed with the relentless political persecution of former-President Donald Trump and lately, of Elon Musk, laws only work when they’re fairly applied and enforced.
Neither of those things are happening with Trump or Musk. Trump was found guilty of fraud by an activist, left-wing judge who determined, without considering or despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. The New York Attorney General Leticia James accused Trump of over-valuing his real estate that was used as collateral for the loan.
Coincidentally, James ran for the office of attorney general in 2018 with the campaign pledge to go after Trump, showing clear political animus to Trump. What’s more, Judge Arthur Engoron has been accused by Representative Elise Stefanik of New York of violating “political giving rules with financial contributions to Democrats as recently as 2018, and ignored a decision on the appropriate statute of limitations in the case.” James prosecuted Trump in civil trial, which was by design; criminal court cases require a trial by jury and proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Somehow, Deutsche Bank was “defrauded” by Trump into lending him hundreds of millions of dollars on a property, the value of which the bank determined by their own analysis. Talk about shifty business dealings. Then, after a period of time, the former president had the audacity to sell the property at over $130 million profit and then pay loan back, with interest. The “fraud” was so complete that Deutsche Bank executives told the judge and the attorney general that they would happily do business with Donald Trump again.
Despite all of this exculpatory evidence that showed no fraud and no money loss or any other determinable damages, the judge refused to allow Trump to give his closing argument in his own defense, and found him guilty of fraud, fined Trump $464 million and forced Trump to forfeit the profit he made on the deal with Deutsche Bank. Trump was also ordered to pay $111,000 per day in interest. The financial penalty is excessive under the Eighth Amendment, which disallows “excessive fines,” which is the case. because it doesn’t reflect the value of the “damages,” which are nil, nor the profits he made.
What’s more, Trump is barred from doing business or getting loans in New York for three years, as are his three oldest children, two of which are also barred from their executive roles in the Trump Organization for two years. All of this for paying back loans on properties which the bank made willingly, according to its own value assessments and profited from.
Court Void Musk’s Payday
Meanwhile, A Delaware judge voided Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla (TSLA.O) pay out. The judge arbitrarilydetermined that the record-breaking $56 billion compensation granted by the Tesla board as an “unfathomable sum" and was “unfair” to shareholders. The payout was the result of a 10-year pay plan that the board agreed to with Musk back in 2018.
Musk is not only an entrepreneur extraordinaire, he’s also a fan of America and our constitutional right of free speech. He attracted the left’s wrath after acquiring Twitter (renamed X) and making it a bastion of free speech for conservatives that were formerly censored by Twitter and other social media outlets. In short, Musk single-handedly broke the stifling monopoly on speech and thought control the left had in close coordination with the federal government, prior to the acquisition.
The rationale for the judge’s unlawful decision was that the board was, in some way, “beholden” to Musk. Kathaleen McCormick of Delaware's Court of Chancery, speculated if the payout plan was necessary in order to keep Musk involved in Tesla and achieve the EV maker’s business goals. By that logic, the entire EV market is “beholden” to Musk since he is the single biggest influencer in the industry. There is no indication that the judge has a seat on the Tesla board or is possesses expertise in the Tesla business model or investing strategies.
So far, Musk’s response has been to begin moving his companies out of Delaware, to business-friendly states of Texas and Nevada.
The World’s Largest Banana Republic
As unfair and anti-American as those two prosecutions undoubtedly are, they point to a more fundamental development in our national government, which is the undeniable breach of the walls that form the separation of power between the executive, judicial and legislative branches on which our republic was founded.
Of course, these aren’t the only examples of unconstitutional behavior by the left. The Biden administration is still holding American citizens in jail without charges from the events of January 6th, 2021, and has arrested journalists for being present, reporting on the incident, and providing evidence that conflicts with the Justice Department’s version.
Sadly, thug rule is becoming more common, not less. So is the celebration of it in the mainstream media. Persecuting political enemies through lawfare and unlawful asset seizure is the stuff of communist regimes, dictators, banana republics and, apparently, of the United States of America.
Imagine, if the legal system can be used to go after a billionaire former president and the most innovative and wealthiest man the planet without due process of law, imprison people without charges, arrest reporters for reporting the fact, the question that comes to mind is simply, “Who’s next?”
