Larry Hogan does not have the easiest path to serving in the U.S. Senate. He shouldn’t make it any harder than necessary.
That’s unfortunately what the former Maryland governor did when he made an unforced error last week, saying Americans should “respect” the results of the unprecedented Democrat show trial in New York targeting the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump:
It’s absolutely true that the rule of law made this nation great, which is why what he said was so heinously wrong.
The New York City trial of Trump bore more resemblance to a Soviet show trial or a third-world kangaroo court than the American system of justice. The case was brought after a law firm connected to Joe Biden and the Democrat Party lent some of its top attorneys to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Bragg campaigned on pledges to go after Trump. When they were first filed, the 34 felony indictments were roundly derided by even Democrat partisans as weak, inappropriate, and corrupt. Only after a series of other Democrat efforts to imprison Trump began to falter did they rush to rehabilitate this case.
Still, even legal experts at the end of the trial were unclear on exactly what laws Trump was alleged to have broken and how. Neverthless, a jury comprised of Manhattan residents — one of the country’s most anti-Trump jurisdictions — took hardly any time at all to find Trump guilty on each of the nebulous charges.
Judge Juan Merchan ran a
