Judge Juan Marchan gave a measly contribution to a group called Stop Republicans in 2020. His in-kind gift to the outfit on Thursday dwarfed the earlier donation. In fact, it did more for Democrats at least in terms of catharsis and a campaign slogan to not elect a felon than the $93 million or so raised for the party by Marchan’s daughter. A jury found Donald Trump guilty on all charges against him in the hush-money case on Thursday. Given Joe Biden winning support from 85 percent of Manhattanites in 2020, nobody should feel surprised that people who vote like a banana republic deliver verdicts like a banana republic, too. Based on trying charges for which the statute of limitations long ago expired, allowing the defendant’s personal attorney to testify against him, withholding the crimes the prosecution charged the defendant with until after the defense rested, prosecuting alleged violations of federal law by a local district attorney’s office, and instructing the jury that they need not arrive at unanimity in certain respects to arrive at guilty, New York v. Donald Trump strikes as something less resembling a trial than masturbatory fodder for MSNBC viewers desensitized to all other known forms of pornography. If you know any loyal viewers of that channel, do not pay any unannounced visits to them during the next few days. They surely fall into the throes of excitement, followed by letdown and shame, followed by more excitement before the pattern repeats itself. Unfortunately, they will need stronger stuff after this verdict wears off. Someday, a mathematician explains how an “acting” judge not on the circuit somehow, despite donating to Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, repeatedly received the assignment of trying cases involving his political rival. Maybe someday before that a good investigative reporter does. Donald Trump famously said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose supporters. He did not consider that he could also jaywalk on the same street, and a jury in his hometown would then convict him of murder. This is not America. It’s Manhattan. The post This Is Not America. It’s Manhattan. appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.