Three Key Takeaways:
- Daniel McCarthy’s column draws disturbing parallels between the use of lawfare in America and France, warning that Democrats’ legal attacks on Trump mirror efforts to disqualify political opponents like Marine Le Pen through judicial means.
- The Democrats’ lawfare strategy has not only inflicted financial damage on Trump and his supporters but has also weaponized the legal system, creating a deterrent for Republicans considering public service.
- McCarthy warns that lawfare is far from over, predicting that if Democrats regain power, they’ll use their legal and investigative powers to target political opponents, but the ultimate remedy remains winning at the ballot box.
Donald Trump is making Democrats pay for their years of legal attacks.
The Left never expected their strategy would backfire so dramatically.
And Donald Trump just turned the tables on Democrats after their lawfare strategy blew up in their faces.
Top conservative columnist reveals alarming parallels between France and America
A scathing column in RealClearPolitics by Daniel McCarthy exposed how America is following France down a dangerous path of using courts to override voters.
McCarthy points to the disturbing case of Marine Le Pen, who was recently disqualified from running in France’s Presidential election by judicial decree despite leading in the polls.
“What a judge in France has just done by disqualifying Marine Le Pen from running in that nation’s next Presidential election is what Democrats dream of doing here,” McCarthy warns in his hard-hitting analysis.
The controversial French politician was barred over allegations of misusing European Union funds – charges she denies. But unlike in America, French voters won’t get to decide her fate at the ballot box.
McCarthy argues this mirrors exactly what Democrats attempted to do to Donald Trump through their multiple prosecutions, particularly Alvin Bragg’s case in New York.
McCarthy exposes the true cost of Democrats’ legal warfare
According to McCarthy’s column, the Democrats’ lawfare campaign has already inflicted severe damage on America’s political system, even though Trump ultimately prevailed at the ballot box.
“The price of serving in a Republican administration has gone up,” McCarthy writes, citing an NBC News report that incoming Trump staffers are urged to buy legal insurance.
A former Trump administration official told NBC News in January: “It’s edging into absolute requirement territory. It would be reckless if you have any assets to protect – the house, college funds, whatever.”
McCarthy points out that the enormous legal bills from complying with investigations can be financially ruinous, creating a powerful deterrent for anyone considering government service under Republican administrations.
“Lawfare isn’t just a legal weapon, it’s economic warfare,” McCarthy explains, “and the threat of it is a deterrent to anyone considering working for Trump.”
McCarthy highlights how the legal establishment joined the lawfare campaign
McCarthy’s analysis goes deeper than just prosecutions. He exposes how the legal establishment itself became weaponized against Trump and his supporters.
“Some of the most powerful institutions of the legal establishment not only supported the lawfare against Trump but also, after the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, punished lawyers who dared represent anyone questioning the 2020 election,” McCarthy wrote.
He contrasts this with American history, noting that “John Adams went to court to defend the British soldiers who perpetrated the Boston Massacre” because “even they deserved respectable legal representation.”
McCarthy explains how Trump has responded by pressuring law firms that participated in this legal warfare, threatening them with loss of government privileges essential for their lobbying operations.
Major firms like Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps quickly came to agreements with the President about changing their practices.
McCarthy warns the lawfare war is far from over
Perhaps most alarming is McCarthy’s warning that America’s lawfare battles won’t end with Trump’s victory.
“Had he lost last year’s election, Trump would likely have been sent to prison by his enemies, and other Republicans would have been next on the legal hit list,” McCarthy cautions.
He predicts that if Democrats win back the House next year, “they’ll use Congress’ investigative powers to turn this administration inside-out,” and if Republicans lose the White House in 2028, political prosecutions will return with a vengeance.
According to McCarthy, the lawfare Democrats unleashed has turned America’s legal system into a “Mad Max wasteland” where even they now find themselves unable to secure adequate legal representation.
McCarthy concludes that while “Trump is right to pressure the law firms,” Congress must also act by “codifying into law the Justice Department’s guidelines against political prosecutions.”
But ultimately, he believes that “the only sure and lasting remedy for lawfare is to beat it at the ballot box,” a luxury Americans still have that the French are losing.
