Look, I am no Donald Trump cheerleader. He's clearly a dishonest man, a crooked businessman – what billionaire is not – is probably unfit for high office, he has a disgusting attitude to women and I think it's deeply wrong that he failed to concede the 2020 election, with losers consent being a central plank of democracy.
It's worth pointing out though that Hillary Clinton did not initially accept the presidential result in 2016.
And there may have been irregularities in voting patterns in 2020, which is critical to be addressed. For example, I think postal votes are a disaster and shouldn’t happen anywhere. If it was good enough for the public to only be able to vote on the day 50 years ago, why not now?
In the US there are valid concerns about alleged dodgy voting machines and bags of voting slips being delivered to electoral counts in the dead of night.
It might be above board, but let’s be polite and say it is open to corruption. The truth is that millions of Americans now no longer believe in election results delivered. That is a profound problem.
But this latest kangaroo court in New York demonstrates that it's not only America's democracy which is suffering a crisis of credibility, but the legal system too, with this former president, dragged over hot coals for what amounts to an accounting oversight and about how funds in the region of £150,000 were allocated following Trump’s relationship with a porn star.
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This case took place in Democrat-supporting New York, in a court led by a democratic supporting judge, and a likely Democratic-supporting jury, given NYC is a blue state. Did he get a fair trial? You tell me.
It’s still not clear what exact crime Donald Trump committed and the prosecution’s key witness was Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, who admits stealing from the former president. And still, Trump lost.
The guy had no chance, and whilst I only agree with him every leap year, Boris Johnson is right to call this court verdict a political hit job.
Meanwhile, the once great actor, and now a victim of the woke mind virus Robert De Niro ranted outside the court, bizarrely saying that Trump will destroy the world if he wins and that Trump will never leave office if elected.
De Niro wishes that Trump does not re-enter the White House. Well, I wish Robert De Niro hadn't made flop comedy sequel Meet the Fockers – two hours of my life, I won’t get back. Schindler's List had more laughs.
Mr De Niro is a victim of something called Trump derangement syndrome, similar to its UK cousin of Brexit derangement syndrome in which your tribal antipathy to something is so all-consuming you can no longer see rationality or the facts.
You can't see that the current president Joe Biden is so frail he gets lost going into his own house, he can’t finish sentences and he now has more nurses than security personnel.
You can't see that Joe Biden presided over America's humiliating and extremely dangerous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left the Taliban – a motley crew of hateful, dangerous thugs - with billions of pounds worth of military equipment.
You can't see that Joe Biden has further imperilled the long-term stability of the US economy – which is essentially a massive pyramid scheme – with yet more borrowed billions, or that under Biden, toxic, divisive wokery has infiltrated America’s public institutions.
And you can’t see that whilst President, Donald Trump didn’t start a single war, he grew the economy, and reached out to international tyrants like Kim Jong-un of North Korea in pursuit of peace. Trump's legal problems – his supporters argue, are based upon a desire to prevent him from becoming president once again.
A left-wing establishment stitch-up of this flame-haired populist, this fearless anti-woke man of the people. The great irony is that if this concerted campaign against Trump is designed to destroy him, it will have the opposite effect. His opponents thought they’d put him in jail, instead, they’ve put him in the White House.