The legal assaults against Trump must end

If Donald J. Trump survives his current judicial gauntlet and emerges as President again in 2025, he must work to re-establish the rule of law and the constitutional enforcement of it.

The first instinct will be to get revenge, given the vicious dishonesty at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency – and the abuse of prosecutorial power by the Justice Department and prosecutors in Georgia and New York.

However, if Republicans start using lawfare and abusing the courts to punish Democrats, the destructive, dangerous cycle would only continue – and America would be in peril.

The Founding Fathers were keenly aware of this danger. British judges had been agents of the Crown. Rather than defend the law and seek truth and justice, they more often did King George’s bidding. In fact, court reform was the second most frequent demand of the American revolutionaries.

After the American Revolution succeeded, the country had to devise a new system of government. It had to be powerful enough to protect America from European colonial powers who sought to regain their control. But the new government also had to be limited enough to not oppress the people it was supposed to protect.

When the Constitution was adopted, several of its supporters felt there were not enough safeguards to protect citizens from the government. They insisted on a Bill of Rights which enumerated the liberties of the citizens and limited the reach of the government. Consider these restrictions on government abuse of citizens as you watch the legal system attempt to destroy Mr. Trump.

Note that five of the 10 amendments of the Bill of Rights specifically limit the power of courts – and many of them have been violated over the course of the establishment left’s assault on Mr. Trump.

The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure – and requires that warrants be attained with probable cause. Recall that the entire Russia collusion hoax was based on FISA warrants which the FBI obtained with knowingly false information.

The Sixth Amendment states citizens have the right to a speedy, public trial, by an impartial jury. In the case of Trump’s recent fake conviction, District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought an accusation for which the statute of limitations had expired. How is that speedy?

Further, there was no way the jury in that trial was impartial. The Sixth Amendment also guarantees a citizen’s right “to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor.” Throughout the New York case, the court routinely blocked Mr. Trump’s attorneys from calling favourable witnesses.

The Eighth Amendment bars courts from levying “excessive fines.” Recall Mr. Trump’s $454 million bond in the other New York case concerning his property valuations. This bond was, of course, reduced – but its initial implementation is an indication of the disregard the establishment left has for peoples’ rights.

The next Trump Presidency should reassert the Bill of Rights protections for all Americans. It should investigate violations of the rule of law and conspiracies to use the law as a form of warfare.

It should make public all the documents and communications that show the level of conspiracy from 2015 to today to destroy Mr. Trump as a candidate and later as President.

Trump administration officials should offer to cooperate with Congress in investigating what happened and in seeking changes in the management of the entire legal system to make it much harder to abuse in the future.

The next Trump Presidency should explore dramatically reforming – and possibly even dismantling – the FBI. It should establish new standards of transparency and accountability throughout the Department of Justice.

The goal should be to strengthen the rule of the law and reinforce the inviolability of the Constitution – not to use the law against political opponents.

America’s survival depends on this effort. It should be a key principle of the next Trump Presidency.