Such a smart plan, it was. Get a blue state Soros D.A. like the undistinguished Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg to indict 45th and 47th President Donald Trump on something or other. On what? Who cares what? Indict on charges of Whatever. Pick something whose limitations statute has expired. Add some mayonnaise, some pepper, some paprika — you always add paprika — and file the indictment. If you are still too lazy or stupid to make up a valid crime, just leave it out. If you get an anti-Trump judge and an anti-Trump jury, you don’t need a crime. They will convict him anyway on 34 counts of Whatever. The Democrats’ brilliant foolproof lawfare strategy was structured to tie up Trump through November and pile on him guilty verdict after guilty verdict. So they get a judge who donates his own money to anti-Trump Democrats and whose daughter becomes a million-dollar-baby off anti-Trump merchandise. Then you get a Manhattan jury. Remember: a guilty verdict on a criminal case must be unanimous (except in Braggland). That means if you are on that Manhattan jury, and the jury fails to convict, you must go back to your job in Manhattan the next day and explain why you screwed up and let Trump get away. Then you have to answer to your Manhattan neighbors, your Manhattan church friends, your Manhattan clients or patients, your Manhattan family. So you avoid the hassle, vote to convict for Whatever, and call it a day. (READ MORE from Dov Fischer: American Lawfare? Time to Bean Them With a High, Hard Fastball) Witnesses? You don’t need real witnesses in Braggland. Heck, just pull some people who knock on people’s doors every Sunday morning and who hand out The Watchtower — people who call themselves “J Witnesses.” You want more? Well, let’s get a stripper and hooker. That will guarantee a worldwide audience. And, after all, if you cannot trust a hooker who can you trust? And, just for good luck, bring in a convicted conman, crook, and perjurer, and make him your star witness. Made for TV, based on a true story. Not enough? Put a gag order on Trump, but let everyone else defame him. Deny his main witnesses the right to testify in their areas of expertise. Yell at one of his witnesses and threaten to throw that guy in jail because you don’t like the way he is looking at you. And tell the jury in that criminal case that they don’t have to be unanimous. OK, that is Democrat Lawfare Step 1. So they put on their show, get their hooker, get their bag man, get their 34 counts of Guilty-of-Whatever in a day.  And Trump’s supporters start donating so many tens of millions so fast that even Michael Cohen would not be able to collect and tally it all, and take half of it for himself.  Even “Never Trumpers” were driven to donate to Trump because the Trump campaign is no longer neatly something that “Never Trumpers” can oppose with gusto. They are now forced to fight for the future of their democracy. It may be fun to virtue signal and say, “I am a Republican, but I will not vote for a dictator.” Lovely. But now they come face-to-face with the unappetizing reality that, with Democrat Lawfare like that of Stalin’s NKVD and KGB, and like Hitler’s People’s Court under the Honorable Judge-President Roland Freisler, tyranny is here. Bragg and Juan Merchan got their verdict. And Trump cashed in. But what do the polls say? How badly has this hurt Trump? The polls are okay but do not matter anyway. Elections are five months away. In October, no one will remember Juan Merchan or his 34 counts. Remember how much people were exercised about Putin invading Ukraine? No one cares about that now, except for those on both sides of the aisle who have focused on it passionately from Day One. Remember all the tears for Israel after the October 7 massacre? No one cares about that now, except for those on both sides of the aisle who have focused on it from Day One. Honestly, do 90 percent of Americans know the differences among Jabaliah (a New Orleans food?), Khan Yunis, and Rafah? (The Philadelphi Corridor? I didn’t know Gaza was in Pennsylvania!)   Remember how every day everyone on TikTok talked about nothing but Taylor Swift? She is so “yesterday.” Now it’s all about Caitlyn Clark. And when was the last time anyone mentioned Cardi B? Thus, Democrats who passionately hate Trump will carry the 34 verdicts to November. Those who support him will donate 34 times as much money to him as they ever did before. And the vast middle ground of Undecideds and Independents will wonder whether gasoline under Biden will hit $34 a gallon and whether illegal immigration will hit 34 million. The Democrats’ brilliant foolproof lawfare strategy was structured to tie up Trump through November and pile on him guilty verdict after guilty verdict. So what has unfolded? The crooked “January 6 Prosecution,” run by a Democrat who has a partisan record, is all tied up itself. Procedural and substantive appeals have jammed it on hold, while the Supreme Court first must decide on the boundaries of presidential immunity, and determine whether and how the real law distinguishes between a president’s “private” acts and his “public presidential acts.” They will figure it out and eventually hand down their decision. My predictions on that one: Sotomayor is a political hack and will hold that Trump can be prosecuted for everything and forever — even for Whatever. She Who Cannot Define a Woman also is a hack and will join with Sotomayor, as she always does.  Kagan will write an honest, thoughtful liberal opinion. Roberts probably will go with her to prove that there are no Obama Judges or Trump Judges. And the other five probably will rule that a president has some immunity but not absolute immunity. So the case will go back to Jack Smith, and he probably will not have enough time to prosecute it before the November election. Thus, Lawfare Step 2 has become a nullity. Nonetheless, Trump will be able to raise more money off it and gain more sympathy from Independents. And what about Lawfare Step 3, the Florida Documents Case? That judge is being deeply judicious, making contemplative decisions on pre-trial motions, and that case probably will not go to trial before November. The Democrat Lawfare Mafia are going insanely crazy — bat-feces crazy — over that one. Every day now, another left-wing newspaper or online magazine publishes an op-ed article or generates a “news” story quoting a frustrated source, ruefully fuming that the “case” won’t make it to trial before elections because the judge overseeing it is incompetent and an idiot. The judge, the Hon. Aileen Cannon, has issued a ruling indefinitely delaying the trial, and all the left are ganging up on her, saying she is an idiot incapable of making up her mind. (If Republicans said that about a female Obama Judge, they would be called misogynists and mansplainers. And, since she is of Colombian parental heritage, Dems also would call her critics anti-Latinx.) (READ MORE: A Disgusting, Filthy Corruption of American Justice) Well, is Judge Cannon really that much of a moron? Maybe. All I know is that she graduated from Duke, then from University of Michigan Law School magna cum laude and Order of the Coif. That’s as good as it gets, and that law school regularly is ranked in the Top Ten out of 196 American law schools.  Then she was an attorney at a Top 15 national law firm Gibson Dunn, then served successfully as a federal prosecutor for seven years. So, waddya think? Maybe she’s a dope? In order to prove that Judge Cannon is a Latina dummy, virtually all media go to the same one guy for juicy quotes, attacking her. Their pit bull is a retired, ex-state court judge. MSN quotes him. CNN digs him up. Huffington Post, too. Also Salon. And Newsweek. And Mediaite. And Yahoo. A retired guy could make a nice side income just on the residuals for attacking her. Ah, and that leaves the best for last: Lawfare Step 4 — the Fani Willis Circus in Georgia. You know: the one with the married-to-another-woman guy, Nathan Wade, who spent time with Fani when the bedroom lights went out at night in Georgia. Oral argument on the motions to disqualify her or even to throw out the whole “case” is scheduled for October 4. Briefs will be filed. Appellate judges will deliberate. Draft opinions will be circulated among the judges before a final version is published. Text will be tightened. Spelling and grammar will be checked and improved. Cases will be Shepardized to make sure all citations are kosher and not mischaracterized or ChatGPT ideations. So that one will not be tried until after elections. Thus, the Biden Lawfare Scheme. As with Biden himself — too smart by half. The Lawfare cases will not be tried before elections, after all. Just the one Bragg-Merchan case. That was the one that led to Trump raising $53 million in 24 hours, for a total of $141 million in May (as compared to $76 million the month before, which itself was his all-time high until then, powered by that month of Braggadocio). And along the way, while physically confined to New York for the trial Trump’s handlers were practically forced finally to schedule him for speeches and huge campaign events in black-majority Harlem, and Hispanic-majority South Bronx, shocking nay-sayers that Trump has enormous support there, too — much more than imagined — among American blacks and Hispanics. Or, as Biden would say to America’s African Americans: “If you’re for Trump, you ain’t black.” It is fascinating to watch the corruption of justice turn on its corrupters. The post Biden’s Lawfare Against Trump Ain’t Following the Script appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.