If Trump Isn’t Guilty, Why Is He Asking for Immunity?
/Where’s Marshall Matt Dillon when we need him?
Growing up in the golden age of TV, western shows greatly affected boys of my generation. While millennials grew up watching The West Wing, kids who grew up in the ‘50s and ’60s sported toy six guns and had a steady diet of TV Westerns like The Rifleman, Have Gun Will Travel, Wyatt Earp, and of course, Gunsmoke.
The hell with wanting to be President, I wanted to be U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon.
For 20 years as Gunsmoke’s starring lawman, he dispensed justice and fought on the side of right in Dodge City, never losing his cool or a gunfight. His sidekick, Chester always had his back and the adoring saloon keeper Kitty waited for him, ever beautiful and welcoming.
In addition to being the fastest gun around, Marshal Dillon dispensed justice with all the wisdom of King Solomon, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Theresa, and all nine SCOTUS justices put together.
Well, maybe not the current justices, but you know what I mean.
I learned a lot of lessons from Marshal Dillon. Respect for law and order. Honor. Duty. The importance of truth and justice when pursuing the bad guys, who in those days were easy to spot because the bad guys wore black hats and the good guys wore white ones.
“Chester,” he once said, “An innocent man runs just as hard and fast as a guilty one.”
This should make me more sympathetic to the plight of Donald Trump, who is facing 4 Federal indictments and 91 criminal charges, all while fending off the New York Attorney General who wants to kick his business out of the state, and E. Jean Carroll who wants all of his money for his defamation of her character.
People seem to forget that he has already been found guilty in the New York Case. They’re just trying to determine how much he has to pay. And, the court already determined that he sexually assaulted Ms. Caroll. They just had to decide how much money he should be paying to keep the scales of justice balanced.
Apparently, it’s $88 million. That’s what the Judge finally ordered.
All of this is small potatoes in his problems with the courts. But he’s used to it. Since 2016 he and his businesses have battled over 4,000 civil lawsuits.
Now there is the little matter of election tampering, and trying to overthrow the government. But who is counting?
And through it all, Trmp keeps claiming that as a former President of this United States, he should be granted immunity from, well everything! I guess that includes parking tickets and jaywalking. Just wondering how he’ll handle shoplifting if his rule of shooting them on sight goes into effect, but I guess he has Secret Service agents to protect him.
I have to say that Mr. Trump LOOKS and SOUNDS guilty. But then I remember Marshal Dillon’s lesson, and that we live in America where an accused is innocent until proven otherwise.
But I have one small problem with Marshal Dillon’s lesson.
Why is Trump concurrently trying to get immunity? He’s a great American, remember? If he’s not guilty, then why wouldn’t he want his day in court to prove it? What’s he got to lose if he’s not guilty?
And, by the way, after all, it’s almost assured that if he’s found guilty of trying to overthrow the government, he’ll be pardoned by the next president anyway. Think Gerald Ford and Nixon.
Or Donald Trump and Donald Trump pardoning himself. It’s a pretty sweet deal.
I just can't seem to wrap my head around him being innocent of everything he claims to be.
Where’s Marshal Dillon when we need him? Maybe I should be President when I grow up instead.
