{"id":18797,"date":"2024-06-06T21:31:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=18797"},"modified":"2024-06-06T21:31:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T18:31:51","slug":"convict-donald-trump-genocide-joe-and-the-enigma-of-the-november-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=18797","title":{"rendered":"Convict Donald Trump, &#8220;Genocide Joe&#8221; and the &#8220;enigma&#8221; of the November election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first former US president in history to be indicted in a criminal trial, the first to be found guilty and the first to run for (re)election to the White House after being convicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The negative connotations of &#8220;historic firsts&#8221; have begun to be more and more closely associated with the name of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides the much-vaunted Stormy Daniels case, he has even more serious federal and state trials pending against him for his role in the 2020 election tampering attempt and for the classified documents he took with him when he left the White House. House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost by announcing his historic conviction in the Stormy Daniels case, he set the tone for the Republican Party and its supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spoke of a &#8220;rigged trial&#8221;, a &#8220;corrupt judge&#8221; and a &#8220;real verdict&#8221; to be given &#8220;by the people on November 5&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His campaign website describes him as a &#8220;political prisoner,&#8221; asking voters to &#8220;take back the White House and save America.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Biden&#8217;s campaign staff made the same argument in reverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;First he questioned our electoral system. He then challenged our judicial system. And now you can stop him,&#8221; he said in a post on X, referring to a link for donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democratic leaders and members of Congress applauded the criminal justice system, emphasizing in copy-paste posts that &#8220;no one is above the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, Republican congressional, senatorial and gubernatorial candidates denounced the verdict against Trump as an abuse of power and pre-election interference by the Justice, which will backfire.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-31.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-31.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-31-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-31-768x290.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Testing the endurance of the political system<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite rallying the most extreme part of his electoral base, polls show that Trump&#8217;s conviction &#8211; which will be appealed &#8211; will turn a small but significant percentage of his voters away. But at the same time, it does not mean that the &#8220;scales&#8221; will tilt in favor of the current president, as &#8220;the non-hand&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Biden is now heavily contested because of his advanced age &#8211; he is now 81.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For his handling of the economy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For his stance on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza &#8211; with the latter &#8220;giving&#8221; him the nickname &#8220;Genocide Joe&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Big &#8220;unknown X&#8221; is the independent voters, whose role is considered pivotal in shaping the election result in the November polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A CBS\/YouGov poll shows that only 39% of them have dealt with the Daniels case, which led to Trump&#8217;s conviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Donald Trump&#8217;s conviction creates a new hurdle for swing voters: voting for a convicted felon. However, will these vacillating voters decide the outcome of the election? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dilemma, which seems to leave another crucial group unmoved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the roughest phase of Trump&#8217;s campaign yet, wealthy Republican donors have rallied around the former president, vowing to keep pumping dollars into his presidential bid.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-32.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-32.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-32-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-32-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What will be Trump&#8217;s strategy after his conviction?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will he now force every GOP candidate [representative, senator and gubernatorial] to take over the judicial system? If yes, then it will be a poisonous episode, on par with the one that preceded January 6th and the storming of the Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most critical questions also concerns how Democrats will stand in a dangerously polarized election campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the weight of the developments, the two televised debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump are gaining special interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first is set for June 27, the second for September 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many, however, may have already forgotten both by the time the polls open in November for the sequel to an election contest that few voters are really looking forward to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu seem to be waiting &#8211; each based on his own calculations &#8211; for the return of Donald Trump to the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What the US will look like under a second Biden presidency, by contrast, remains an open question, amid challenges to American power in an ever-changing world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first former US president in history to be indicted in a criminal trial, the first to be found guilty and the first to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,819],"tags":[1897,655,779,1290,215,70],"class_list":["post-18797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-american-elections","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-joe-biden","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18802,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions\/18802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}