I’m a lifelong Republican outraged by this sham verdict – but I STILL won’t vote Trump: DAN MCLAUGHLIN reveals the Donald sins he can’t ever forgive… but can YOU?
Conservative voters across America are outraged by the insulting, lawless prosecution of Donald Trump.
I am one of them.
But – despite many now predicting a Republican landslide in November – as someone who has never voted for Trump, I still won’t.
This hush-money lawsuit was indeed highly indefensible.
The prosecutor and judge broke precedent and, in my opinion as a lawyer, broke the law in countless ways to mislead the jury into convicting.
This should alarm every American – and I don’t blame anyone who now feels more sympathy for Trump.
But he is still not fit for office.
Conservative voters across America are outraged by the insulting, lawless prosecution of Donald Trump. I am one of them.
But despite many now predicting a Republican landslide in November, as someone who has never voted for Trump before, I still won’t.
Politicians don’t have to be saints, and few are.
But Trump is a man of uniquely bad character. That was clear long before he ran for office.
He has been unfaithful to his wives, cheated his investors and lies as easily as he breathes.
He is rude and a sore loser who always claims the other person cheated. He treats promises and the law as if everything is negotiable.
It’s not just his private nature either. After all, you can easily forgive a president’s personal doubts if he is a good and honest person in public. Look no further than serial womanizer JFK.
But the Trump we saw in the Oval Office was the same dishonest Donald.
He made his big splash in politics by promoting conspiracy theories, such as the one that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
And speaking of JFK, remember when Trump claimed that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in his assassination?
Trump does not respect the boundaries between personal interests and public duties.
Maybe all the foreign money that flowed into his hotels and resorts during his presidency wasn’t as pure a scam as the Biden family’s, but it still stinks.
Certainly one of the worst things about the current crop of Democrats is the way they try to delegitimize America’s institutions every time they lose an election, a lawsuit, or a legislative fight.
But Trump hasn’t just imitated them, he’s taken them to the extreme.
Even in simple civil cases, he personally goes after the judges about his business affairs. He alleged that elections were rigged against him even during the 2016 primaries.
And then of course January 6 came.
Being a lifelong sore loser led to Trump’s most inexcusable behavior: his post-election tantrum that nearly tore the country apart, wasted valuable public time and lawsuits, and ended with a riot at the Capitol.
January 6 went beyond political dishonesty – and the Senate should have convicted him in his second impeachment so he could no longer run for office.
Simply put, Trump is reckless, careless and constantly running into subordinates whom he then has to insult in public. Who hired them all?
Democrats did not force Trump to pay repeat fraudster Michael Cohen as his lawyer for more than a decade. He didn’t have to hire highly dishonorable people like Steve Bannon.
Politicians don’t have to be saints, and few are. But Trump is a man of uniquely evil character. That was clear long before he ran for office. He has been unfaithful to his wives, cheated his investors and lies as easily as he breathes.
The truth is that many of the false charges against Trump — including this hush-money prosecution — were made possible only by his own incompetence.
In the hush money trial, he simply let his lawyers waste time disputing that the Stormy Daniels affair had even happened, instead of focusing on the obvious weakness in District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case.
Trump’s uniquely toxic personality is driving everyone around him crazy – not just his friends and employees, but also his enemies.
Democrats and the press have broken norm after norm to get at Trump. He keeps giving them the rope, and they use it to hang our Constitution. Enough already.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m still a Republican. I am absolutely not voting for Joe Biden. He’s still the same corrupt, unscrupulous liar he was forty years ago, and now he’s fallen into disrepair as well.
But while Trump may not be in as bad shape, he would still be 82 at the end of his second term.
There are undoubtedly millions of conservative voters like me who simply cannot pull the lever for Trump.
Some may now be convinced by the injustice of the past week.
But I persevere.
I voted for a third party in 2016 and wrote in Mike Pence’s name in 2020.
It hardly mattered because I live in deep blue New York, but I’ll write in someone else again. Because Donald Trump is still bad news, even if his enemies are worse.