Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
As the noose tightens around Trump's neck, he and his paid liars are of course resorting over and over again to just denying that what we know is sufficient proof of his criminality. At this point, if Jesus Christ himself appeared in court to testify against Trump, Republicans would just insist that since his caring for the poor is a Democratic position, anything he says must be disregarded. So it is important, I think, to consider at what point we can actually say that the case against him is proven. I have two points to make about the inevitable Republican claims that Trump has not been proven to be a traitor beyond a reasonable doubt. First of all, that standard is for a jury in a trial; the American people are entitled to form their opinions any way they want. For Republicans it is just fine to assert all sorts of criminality over Hillary's e-mails, Benghazi or the Pizzagate scandal, even though these absurd smears have been disproven again and again, but i...