THE UNSURPRISING SILENCE AS ISRAELI WOMEN ARE RAPED IN TUNNELS

 

The plight of Israeli women who are being held hostage is being ignored by the self same groups who ignored the October 7 gang rapes, mutilation of females’ genital parts and their subsequent murder. Ironically, the silence extends to the abuses and victimization of the over a million Palestinian women in Gaza. All this as hundreds of thousands parade in the streets glorifying the male mass murderers and hostage takers of, women, children, babies and the disabled elderly. (The organizations who fight for gender equality have to have noticed that none of the Hamas Freedom Fighters are women). All this as released Israeli women hostages claim that as they speak, “Women are being raped in the tunnels”. 

In the Hamas - Israel conflict there are thousands of victims. There is however a deathly silence from those who purport to oppose violence towards women. Initially there was a two month silence at the evidence of October 7, proudly captured by Hamas, which surfaced immediately on social media. Now, unsurprisingly the vacuum of condemnation continues at the reported sexual violations of hostages in the tunnel empire Hamas has built with money labelled for Palestinian aid. In addition the every day plight of Palestinian women at the hands-of the men of the Strip is overlooked and a romanticized image of the male sociopaths is acclaimed in the streets of the world. 

It isn’t enough that the Palestinian women are discriminated against in government, the military, education and job opportunities, they are subject to routine abuse. Jay H. Ell will outline the routine brutality towards Palestinian women before detailing the sickening abuse the Israeli women hostages are being subjected to. The latter plus Hamas’s public bragging of its gang raping, mutilation and humiliation of women lends credibility to what is reported to be happening in the tunnels. 

None of Hamas’s actions are surprising. What is shocking is that there is no condemnation of the gender based violence by the organizations that purport to support the victims of such behavior.  

THE GENDER BASED VIOLENCE OF PALESTINIAN WOMEN IN GAZA

The Israeli Defense Force, which has to be at least as credible as the Hamas Health Authority has extensive reporting, on its website, on the status of the Palestinian women in Gaza. There is no law in Gaza criminalizing violence against women, including that of a sexual nature that takes place in the family. When a complaint is made to the police it is reportedly largely ignored. There are no published figures as to the number and outcome. The general narrative is that these disputes should be resolved within the family. Where they are dealt with administratively the proceedings are public and the accusers are subjected to shame and ridicule. 

Nearly 20 percent of girls between the ages 12 - 17 reported physical or psychological sexual abuse while 50 percent of married women did likewise. One percent of the latter abuses are reported to the authorities. Honor killing is still implicitly sanctioned. Under an almost hundred year penal code if and when men are charged if they can prove that their honor has been impugned the maximum sentence is three years in prison.

As a women’s testimony is only worth half of that of men it stands to reason that they have not much chance of proving allegations. The inequality in law is exemplified by the disparity in sentences for adultery - six months for men and two years for women. 

Child marriage is rampant with 13.4 percent of young Palestinian girls under the age of 13 being victims and a total of 29 percent under the age 18. 

It is with this as a background and the fact that it took an eternity for the international bodies who fight against violence towards women to mention the desecration of women on October 7, that Jay H. Ell will bring to light most what is going on in Hamas’s tunnels. 

THE SILENCE AT THE PLIGHT OF FEMALE ISRAELI HOSTAGES

One might have hoped that there would be a crescendo of world outrage led by Women’s Rights Organizations that the hostages in the Israeli - Hamas war be released. Surely their manifestos would mandate they investigate the plight of women being detained against their will. Rather there appear to be equal numbers of women in street demonstrations in every capital of the world supporting the male Hamas terrorists. Protest at the horror of the women’s plight is non existent. 

There is ample of evidence of the atrocities of the hostages as they are being aired in “Hostage Square”, in Israel where there is growing anger and consensus that their freedom is the priority. Released hostages and relatives of those still incarcerated vented their rage in the Israeli Knesset at their plight. 

Hostages that were released were witnesses to regular abuses. They claimed that the Hamas terrorists treated the women like dolls. They dress “the girls” in inappropriate clothes and do whatever they want. 

A former hostage pleaded, “I can’t deal with it, it’s too hard…. I’m still there. My body is there. The boys also go through abuse - what the girls go through. Maybe they don’t get pregnant……". The hope was that women who were no longer experiencing their menstrual periods were unable to fall pregnant rather than that they already were.

As a women hostage exclaimed while this protest In Israel was occurring women were being raped in the tunnels. The world, particularly the bodies that fight gender based violence, have remained unsurprisingly silent.

THE STATEMENT ON THE VIOLATION OF WOMEN BY BIDEN’S SPECIAL ENVOY TO COMBAT ANTI SEMITISM AND THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE  OF THE UN COUNCIL OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

In an op-ed piece in The Guardian following the original violence of women on October 7, Michelle Lipstadt, (Special Envoy), and Michelle Taylor, (UN Human Rights Council Member), stated the following. It is as applicable to the violations in the underground world of Hamas..

“The silence that followed was more than just concerning. It suggests a deeper issue of antisemitism that must be acknowledged and addressed. This apparent reluctance to believe the accounts of Jewish women, a stark deviation from the global commitment to believing survivors and condemning such acts, mimics patterns of Holocaust denial…. Such denial of Jewish women’s experience is a significant anomaly and needs to be called out for what it is….women and girls have suffered horrific sexual violence from Hamas.Where is the outrage”.

And of course it is not relevant to address what the male Hamas “Freedom Fighters” are inflicting on the female population in Gaza.

AT THE END OF THE DAY

The decisions of the International Court of Justice, (BLOG: Iran’s Newest Proxy, South Africa, libels Israel as Genocidal”), demand actions of both parties in the war. Significantly the Court did not demand a cease fire. Israel have to report in a month on their actions they are taking to provide humanitarian aid and to limit civilian collateral damage. 

Surprisingly Hamas have been instructed to release the hostages unconditionally. The chances of that happening are between nil and zero. Hamas were not instructed to stop committing crimes against humanity nor were they asked to submit a report as to whether they have stopped raping women in the tunnels. The instruction to Hamas has been barely been reported on nor has there been a mention of the violence towards women that is taking place daily. 

Nothing is unsurprising anymore. Certainly not the fact that United Nation Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA), employees took part in the October 7 barbarism. Hamas military operations have been found in their “shelters”. Are UNWRA workers perpetrators or complicit in the sexual violence? Secretary General Gutierrez has been unsurprisingly silent on this matter. 

And where have the UN Human Rights Division been on the abuses of Palestinian women in Gaza - the same place they have been on the October 7 gender barbarism and the rape of Israeli women in the tunnels - silent.

IRAN’S NEWEST PROXY, SOUTH AFRICA, LIBELS ISRAEL AS GENOCIDAL

 

On October 7 Hamas, a proxy of Iran, inflicted a brutal savage physical attack on Israeli citizens. Israel predictably retaliated so Hamas, by its wanton evil acts, ensured their hoped for propaganda coup which was the high death rate of Palestinians. The latter was  inevitable as their whole military operation is embedded in civilian structures. The focus was no longer on Hamas's barbarity but rather on the "neo colonial apartheid aggressors".

South Africa, Iran’s newest proxy, prowess at disinformation skyrocketed following their obscenely leveled charge of genocide against Israel. Skeptics speculated whether Israel’s devastating rebuttal against the tendentious charges could positively impact public opinion. They proved correct as hundreds of thousands of protestors flooded the streets of the capitals of the world in anti Israel rallies after the International Court of Justice's proceedings. 

SOUTH AFRICA BECOMES A PAID PROXY OF IRAN

Almost immediately following October 7 the South African Foreign Minister visited Teheran. After that liaison the ANC government made an ostentatious presentation in support for Hamas. That visit was followed up, in December, by a Hamas delegation to South Africa. Also in attendance was the Hamas representative to Iran. Within a short space of time South Africa made an urgent application to the International Court of Justice to rule on Israel’s alleged genocide. As conclusively proved at The Hague last week South Africa in their rush to proceed flouted procedure by not having the statutory dialogue with the respondent in an attempt to resolve the issue. On this point alone their case should be thrown out. They did not care because this gambit was all about post truth.

According to Dr.Frans Cronje, former head of The South African Institute of Race Relations, South Africa has sold the direction of its foreign policy to Iran just as it has done with other state assets. The ruling ANC was bankrupt and their headquarters in Johannesburg House, the iconic Luthuli House, was about to be handed over to the creditors. Behind in the polls there was speculation as to how on earth the ANC would be able to pay for an expensive political campaign especially as the opposition parties had coalesced. But lo and behold before the sequestration in November the ANC payed its debts, announced that it has enough money to finance its election campaign, as well as finance a troop to go to the Hague for a full court presentation.   

South Africa is the ideal attack dog in this situation. Who better to accuse Israel of being an apartheid regime capable of genocide than the country who was subjected to a racist apartheid regime and who overcame neo colonialism? Who could question the credentials of the leader of Mandela’s African National Congress, Cyril Ramaphosa, who was in the vanguard of the transformation of the “New South Africa”? 

Thus in the most audacious cynical maneuver, South Africa with malevolent intent accused Israel of genocide in defending itself against a self confessed genocidal terrorist organization. The Israeli Prime Minister, for example, was not impugned because he was a narcissistic wannabe authoritarian but rather because he was a Jew. (He is an easy target because it has to be hard to imagine him acting solely in the interests of his country).

THE OVERALL PICTURE INVOLVED IN THE CHARGE BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE, (ICJ), IN THE HAGUE

South Africa has accused Israel of committing genocide In the war precipitated by Hamas’s breach of Israel’s sovereignty on October 7. Anyone, with a legal mind, who listened to the six hours of court proceedings at The Hague has to come to the conclusion that there is no basis in fact and international law to support the accusation. No one is more aware of that fact than the South African plaintiffs. They are aiming rather for the handing down of a “provisional order” from the court that will politically suit their aims and that of their newest best friends Russia, China and Iran. To succeed in that mission there is a very low bar as all that has to be demonstrated is to show that there is enough “evidence” to investigate an allegation of genocide. The litigants are also aided by the fact that the relevant statute does not allow to take into account the precipitating cause for the alleged genocide.

In spite of the fact that the South African arguments were demolished by a highly sophisticated team including experts in international law, the conventional view is that The Court will come to a compromise verdict and issue “provisional orders” just short of demanding a cease fire as the latter would deprive Israel of their legal right to defend themselves. They may well instruct Israel to do what it is already doing, namely providing humanitarian aid and other seemingly obvious ways of conducting warfare. Needless to say Hamas will be asked to do nothing. In fact if you only watched the South African three hours of oral argument you would swear that Israel was the only combatant in this war. 

Opinion is currently against Israel for waging this “devastating flattening of Gaza and its inhabitants”. Israel as the stronger country is the victimizer against the victim, allegedly all Palestinians. Only the war is against a terrorist organization Hamas who seized power in 2007 and has an army of 30,000 trained warriors. They have spent billions of aid dollars in arms purchases, rocket launchers and the most sophisticated underground tunnel system in history. 

Onto the merits of South Africa’s referral to the IJC, a referral that has been declared “meritless” by the European Union, the USA and Canada for starters. 

SOUTH AFRICA’S CASE OF GENOCIDE - THE INTENT

Briefly South Africa, a third party, has intervened on the side of Hamas although it claims that the war is in effect against the 2.2 million Palestinians. The thrust of their argument is couched in 8 pages of quotes of individuals, some very important, which were mostly made immediately after October 7. 

So what was said by individuals as there was cheering and jeering crowds in the streets of Gaza as raped bleeding women were paraded and as the atrocities of October 7 became more and more evident, is the basis for Israel's genocidal intent and the issuance of "provisional orders". Jay H. Ell will detail some of these incidents as they are the burden of South Africa’s argument. Apparently cooler heads should have prevailed in the wake of the barbarism.

First and foremost there was the statement of Israel’s Prime Minister to remember the biblical Exodus when the “Hebrews” were attacked by the Amalakites. The enemy were to be “smite” down to the last soul. The problem with the quote was that it left out the first bit where Netanyahu specifically addressed this to the Hamas terrorists. To show how this was an injunction that was translated into action the South African litigants ran a video of one soldier repeating the biblical exhortation. Then there was President Hertzog who blamed all the citizens of Gaza on October 15 when it became evident that non combatant Palestinians ran across the border plundered and took hostages like the rest of them. He recanted soon after when cooler heads did indeed prevail.

Both Defense Minister Gallant and Netanyahu in fits of rage when the extent of the hostage taking became apparent stated that their would be a siege of Gaza till they were all returned. That too didn’t last long.

Of course extremists such as Smotrich and Ben Gvir were shouting the odds and years back Minister Katz was also talking about Gazans who should “voluntarily leave”. All have either retracted or been discredited. In case anyone missed it the Netanyahu Government of extremists has approval ratings round about 15 percent. 

So inflammatory rhetoric in the aftermath of the unspeakable carnage of October 7 was the central basis of Israel’s intent to cause genocide. Countless opinion pieces were written merely quoting South Africa’s 8 pages as the basis of finding a prima facie case of genocide against Israel. A classical example of this type of polemic appeared in The Guardian, January 13, 2024 authored by Owen Jones, entitled “The Brutality and inhumanity of Israel’s assault is no surprise. It was just what Israel promised”. Not one other fact was offered just these statements which did not reflect policy.

ISRAEL’S ANSWER TO INTENT

Professor Malcolm Shaw a foremost authority on international law appeared on behalf of Israel to answer allegations on intent. He put the above statements in their context stating that individual statements do not constitute policy. The decision makers as to Israel’s intent are the tiny War Cabinet and the Security Cabinet. He then quoted from policy decisions by those bodies which specifically stated that the military must act in terms of international law and take humanitarian considerations into their actions. In outlining this the Counsel not only negated the accuser’s contention they proved that the policy was in terms of international law. Again and again the relevant bodies had documented resolutions to that effect both in deliberations and publicly. Israel had every right to defend itself as a result of the unholy aggression of October 7. Shaw extensively referred to IJC Court precedents that flew in the teeth of the outcomes sort by South Africa.

Dr. Giliad Noam from the Attorney General’s office detailed the extensive protocols with regard to the Israel Defense Force’s, (IDF), behavior which was to follow international law. He stated that the officer in IDF that was in charge of the conduct of military operations was independent and second in rank only to the Chief of the armed forces. 

Dr. Staker another expert on international law took apart all nine provisional measures that the plaintiffs wanted the court to urgently put in place. He argued that the requests were designed to protect Hamas from attack and if enforced would act as an encouragement to terrorist groups. 

OTHER ACCUSATIONS 

Dr. Galit Ragan  dealt with the unfound allegations one by one regarding the situation of the Palestinians. None of these were substantiated by facts. They were just wild sometimes tautologous assertions. For example Israel was accused of displacing large segments of the population when they were falling over backwards to comply with international law to warn civilians of impeding danger. She listed the procedures from phone calls to leaflets to maps not to mention a three week pause before attacking so as to exhort Palestinians to get out of the immediate battlefield.

To the accusation that Israel was deliberately starving the Palestinians, testimony and documentation was produced to the effect that Israel had an agency specifically designed to meet Palestinian needs. They were situated at the Karen Shalom crossing which Hamas obliterated on October 7 killing workers and taking others hostages. Now that this crossing has been repaired more trucks containing food than entered in “peace time” were going into the ravaged strip in an attempt to avert furthering the humanitarian crisis

Jay H. Ell is not going to exhaust the list she comprehensively answered referring, as did all the Israeli counsel, to the extensive documentation provided to the court. The libel that Israel were bombing hospitals was untrue. Every hospital indeed was invaded by IDF troops and each and every one was shown to be involved in Hamas operations. In order to meet the crisis Israel had created four field hospitals in South Gaza and a floating facility, had sent in a fleet of ambulances and had provided incubators. 

One final point, the Hamas health agency mortality numbers, such as they are, don’t take into account that at least 8,500 are terrorists, the number killed by 2,000 terrorist rockets that fell into Gaza and deaths caused by civilian shields, booby traps, mines and buildings collapsed because of tunnels.

AT THE END OF THE DAY

Anti semitism is alive and well and living on planet earth. 

It is time the politicians in Israel axe Netanyahu and do a deal to get back all the hostages. It is an irony that The Israel  the respondents painted before The Court is the very Israel the Prime Minister would eliminate to keep out of jail.

 Israel should charge South Arica in the IJC for "Giving comfort to genocidal agents".

One little reported statement made by Tan Becker, Israel’s lead off attorney, was, “If Hamas surrenders and returns the hostages, Israel’s hostilities would end”.

THE AGE OF POST TRUTH “DELUSIONAL” TRUMP

In 2016 the Oxford Dictionary named Post Truth as The Word of the Year. The Oxford Dictionary establishment takes The Word of the Year pretty seriously with over 30,000 voting and finally decided upon by a team of language experts..They defined “post truth”, an adjective, as follows, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”. Although he has not the monopoly on Post Truth the greatest exponent of the genre in the twenty first century is America’s own Donald J. Trump. It was a hall mark of his first campaign by labelling the legitimate media as “Fake News” expanding the Post Truth concept to herculean heights in his third campaign. 

What is not included in the Oxford Dictionary definition is intent - what if Trump is deluded and actually believes his life long tens of thousands of lies. Trump’s legal woes relating to January 6 whether he is aware or not of his lies is crucial to his culpability. 

SIXTY PERCENT OF THE “GOP” BELIEVE THE BIG LIE

It is obvious that the 45th President’s political base, who represent over 60 percent of the former “GOP” has accepted his world view, particularly in regard to the result of the 2020 election - “The Big Lie” .Their gut feeling is ad idem with Trump regardless of the facts. As Trump’s central plank in his 2024 election platform is that he won the 2020 election and he did not cause an insurrection it makes him run away favorite to be the “GOP’S” nominee for 2024. 

  

Trump’s post truth is negated by fact finders such as the bipartisan January 6 House of Representatives Investigation Committee, at least eight Federal Judges, State Officials and a slew of his own administration. But legally it matters whether Trump had the intent to reverse the 2020 election and the prosecution has to prove that he did. He  is sticking to the fact that he genuinely thought he won the election and used his free speech to proclaim this. Further he is not responsible for the behavior of others. In addition as President he is immune from prosecution. All this is absurd on its face but sixty percent of those who call themselves "Republicans" believe it. 

TRUMP AND POST TRUTH

Post Truth is synonymous with the ascension of Trump to the Presidency. He has been and still is exemplified, personified embodied, typified and wrapped around in a shroud of post truth. His 2016 Presidency culture was introduced by his closest connection to Goebbels, KellyAnne Conway, who told Anderson Cooper that the Trump outfit, “had their own truth”.

Trump trades on the worst of emotions and he is the grandmaster of hate of the other, bigotry, sexism, paranoia, victimhood, anti science while he promises to be the redemption of those who he has inspired to wallow in self pity. He confirms to those who perceive that they have not “made it” that it is because the cards are stacked against them by the dark state elites who are incidentally “out to get them”.Only he stands in the way. All this garbage without a fact to support him. 

Hence “they” rigged the election against him which he really had won hands down. Trump had 61 failed court challenges on alleged election interference. Now the current “corrupt crooked” President Biden has weaponized his Justice Department to “get him”.

In truth Trump’s whole life had been post truth. His business life from the get go was based on smoke and mirrors. Early on he learned that you could make fortunes manipulating the legal system with the vast sums of money his father had left him. This did not avoid his companies going bankrupt no less than six times. Even though this is in the public record he denied it when Hillary Clinton confronted him in a Presidential debate.

In an earlier post truth mammoth play to bigotry, even after it had been conclusively proved that five youths of color had been wrongly convicted for a gang rape and murder, he argued that they should get the death penalty. To this day Trump won’t apologize. He took out a full page advertisement in the NY Times peddling his lie with one objective in mind, racism.

With this history there has to be a strong argument that he is delusional and really believes the lies he espouses. But in his political life there have been two occasions where he had to recant, 

TRUMP’S TWO APOLOGIES IN A LIFE TIME OF POST TRUTH

Trump has recanted or half apologized only twice in recent memory. Bearing in mind that the Washington Post documented that Trump, had lied 30,753 times during his four year Presidency and has accelerated the pace in the last three years. There has been on a non stop rampage surrounding “The Big Lie”. He trots out his untruths with apparent sincerity day in and day out.

 In 2011 he propagated the most implausible lie which the Post Truth news channel, Fox, helped him perpetuate, namely that Barack Obama was a Muslim, hadn’t been born in America and whose birth certificate was suspect. He fed America with a steady diet of this monumental lie for five years only to finally grudgingly concede that Obama was born in America. On this occasion he defied his dictum never to back down on his lies but rather to double down and spin an even big web of falsities. Politically it was untenable for continue. He often reflects back regretfully that he hadn’t made that concession. 

With his 2016 campaign on the line Trump, having bragged about his pattern of sexual assault of women, apologized in a press release, video recording and presidential debate for his disgusting braggadocio. This episode was labelled “The Access Hollywood Incident”.He has subsequently denied that he  apologized. 

There is good reason why Trump regrets his acknowledgment and half apologies and that he couldn’t stick to the advice that had served him so well all his life from his disembared lawyer and reputation destroyer the sociopath and McCarthyite inquisitor Roy Cohn. These deviations from the norm give the lie to the fact that he is clinically delusional.                   

Trump once again is facing the Courts with post truth arguments in the public arena. 

TRUMP’S LEGAL JEOPARDY. AND THE SUPREME COURT

For the most part it will be The Supreme Court who will control Trump’s eligibility to even  be a candidate and whether he has Presidential immunity. The Robert’s Supreme Court with the lowest ratings ever need this like a hole in the head but a third of the Court shouldn’t complain since they are there thanks to him. The other two radical jurists, Thomas and Alito, are under an ethical cloud but are shameless.

Truth be told Trump’s cases before the Court should pose no challenge. The Court has ruled  as “Constructionists”, that is strictly on the basis of what the Constitution meant at the time it was written. It is clearcut that he shouldn’t even be on the ballot. 

Trump appears fearful that in fact the Supreme Court led, by one of his appointed Justices, Bret Kavanaugh, will author an overwhelming majority decision to keep him off the ballot. Hence his legal counsel has publicly called upon Kavanaugh to “do the right thing” as he, Trump, fought extremely hard to get his nomination confirmed .If in fact Trump’s fears are realized then he has one last hope - amnesty from Congress. He needs a two thirds majority of both Houses to pardon him. In order to do that he will need Democratic votes which he may well get because in accepting a pardon means he admits guilt as do the “GOP” and this does not absolve him from criminal liability. 

Trump’s immunity claim is ridiculous. He literally claims what he swaggered in 2015 that if he shot anyone on Fifth Avenue in New York he would get away with it. 

 The Court may find some bizarre reason to keep Trump on the ballot and in all solemnity debate whether he is immune or not before deciding that he, like everyone else, is responsible for his criminal actions. 

There are also two other State cases besides his perennial  civil litigation for repeated calling his rape victim a liar as well as other civil liability one in which he stands to lose his business license and be fined hundreds of millions of dollars.  

Incidentally the criminal litigation against Trump for stealing of secret documents and obstruction of justice, doesn’t require what the legal fraternity label, “Mens rea” - the intention or knowing of wrongdoing - as the failing to return them is sufficient for conviction.. His lawyers warned him that if he didn’t return them he would be guilty. There are tapes and witnesses that he tried to hide them,,,, tra la la. 

Trump’s defense once again is delusional, namely that as President he was entitled to steal secret documents. The reason that this criminal case is not relevant to this discussion is that the Judge overseeing this case is charitably a rookie and doesn’t quite know what she is doing. She has had two admonitions from a highly Conservative Appellate Court for patently wrong decisions favoring Trump. It is conventional wisdom that one way or another this trial will not start prior to the 2024 Presidential election. 

 Trump’s defense for January 6 is dependent on whether the Special Counsel can prove that he was lying in his ongoing illegal attempts to remain in office.

IS TRUMP LEGALLY INSANE I.E. DIDN’T KNOW THAT HE LOST THE 2020 ELECTION

The onus on the Special Counsel Jack Smith to prove that Trump knowingly did what he did. No good saying -“You lost 61 Court Cases get real”. Trump has stuck to his guns about everything and anything. He has not budged from his position that the election was stolen, that January 6 was not an insurrection and even if it was he didn’t cause it, that he has already been tried in his impeachment and found not guilty and trying him again is double jeopardy, and even if he did attempt to subvert the 2020 election result he would be entitled to because he had immunity as President. 

The world knows that Trump knows exactly what he was doing because, besides everything else, on two situations in order to politically survive, as outlined above, he recanted. However those denials are peripheral to his litigation. What is germane to  his double jeopardy plea is the fact that in his second impeachment trial where it was touch and go that seventeen “GOP” members would join the Democrats and vote that he could never occupy an office of the country again, he argued that he was already out of office and could be subject to criminal law. He cannot go back on that admission 

With regard to his intent in the January 6 litigation, Jack Smith has a string of witnesses including his own lawyers, WhiteHouse Administrative Staff and reportedly his former Chief of Staff that will testify that he knew that Biden had won and therefore he knowingly attempted to prevent the transfer of power. 

Now knowing that Trump is not legally insane or clinically psychotically delusional, the big question is whether his January 6 trial will take place prior to the election. Jay H. Ell believes it will even though the Supreme Court refused to take it up immediately. Following an expedited ruling from the Appellate Court it will set a March date to hear whether or not Trump must face the criminal charges. So even if that crucial trial is put back three months it will be heard in a milieu where post truth is not a defense.

Before even that Trump has obviously reason to believe that he will be removed from the ballot by the Court.

AT THE END OF THE DAY. 

Trump has proved George Orwell’s prophesies. He is the democrat and Biden is the authoritarian. He is honorable and Biden is crooked. He didn’t try and steal the election the election was stolen from him. The convicted insurrectionists are true patriots, presumably like him…….Then he easily holds two opposing thoughts at the same time- he can be criminally liable, (Second Impeachment trial) and he can't have a criminal trial after the impeachment as that is double jeopardy!

As reality beckons he grows more and more desperate and unhinged. He has innumerable civil and criminal trials over the election cycle. Sadly he has convinced thirty five percent of the country that they are victims like him. 

This is not only the age of post truth “delusional” Trump it is The Age of Trump period. The media obsess over his every action then wonder why Biden can’t get his message out!. On the same day that Biden launched his campaign in this fateful time the headlines were either that the Supreme Court had taken up the issue whether Trump was disqualified for causing an insurrection or that he was attacking Biden's speech