Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., might be a radical leftist, but even he understands how dangerous the Democrats' lawfare strategy against Trump is for this country.
"The Democratic Party's strategy is to beat President Trump in the courtroom rather than the ballot box," he said in a statement on X after the verdicts were announced. "This will backfire in November. Even worse, it is profoundly undemocratic."
Kennedy continued, "America deserves a President who can win at the ballot box without compromising our government’s separation of powers or weaponizing the courts. You can’t save democracy by destroying it first. The Democrats are afraid they will lose in the voting booth, so instead they go after President Trump in the courtroom."
Kennedy elaborated further during an appearance on Fox News.
"This conviction is gonna backfire on the Democrats," he told host Jesse Watters. "I think every time that President Trump has been indicted, that his approval ratings actually increase — his popularity increased. I think there's a large number of Americans who are gonna see this as the politicization of, the weaponization of the enforcement agencies. And I think it's gonna hurt."
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"It's bad for our democracy," Kennedy added. "I think that [...] the DNC feels like it's like it has a candidate that cannot win fair and square in the polls. And so they have to win in the courts."
He continued:
They have to win by clearing the deck and getting their other opponents out of the race. I'm not a fan of President Trump's, but I want to win. I want to beat him in a campaign on a level playing field. I want to talk about his issues about locking down the economy, shutting down 3.3 million businesses, about running up a $34 trillion debt, about engaging in forever wars, and doing favors for Wall Street. I don't want to beat him in a courtroom. I think the Americans think it's not good for our country, and I think it's really going to backfire on the Democrats.
Kennedy then spoke of his father as an example of how to run an apolitical Department of Justice.
"You know, his first week in office, he called up all the — in 1961 — he called in all the division heads, the bureau chiefs of the Department of Justice, and he said 'Rule number one: We never — politics is out the window — we never prosecute based upon politics. We never asked whether somebody is Democrat or Republican. The reason he did that was because he understood how important it is for our country."
Kennedy then emphasized the importance of maintaining faith in a neutral judicial system, warning that if the public perceives it as politicized, it is detrimental to the country.
"We risk making ourselves look like a third-world country, like a banana republic where nobody really, actually runs the election — if there's somebody who's gonna run against you, you get rid of them one way or another."
He's right. For all of the man's faults and left-wing policies, he gets it. I suspect most leftists know that the trial and the verdict were absurd; they just don't care.
