Vivek Ramaswamy choked this week, delaying campaign stops due to weather, while Donald Trump decided to avoid Iowa in order to show up and campaign in Washington D.C. before a panel of judges who will rule on whether or not Trump has immunity from prosecution for crimes he may have committed before, during and after his presidency. Meanwhile, after he refused to say that he’d stick to the facts of the case and not engage in ad hominem attacks, Judge Arthur Engoron in Trump’s New York civil fraud case denied the former president the ability to deliver part of his closing arguments himself.
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Republicans have called Biden a coward for not being more available to the public and the press. That statement may have some validity to it, but it’s hard to swallow the hypocrisy of a political party that won’t admit it lost the last election, still clings to the “Big Lie” and is so cowardly that it falls on its knees in fealty to Donald Trump. Face it; The GOP is no more. You’re either a Trumplican or you’re sitting on the sidelines like Liz Cheney because you had the courage to challenge Trump.
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Nothing drives home the cowardice of Trump more than his posts on social media and his lawyers’ arguments in court about immunity. Trump seeks immunity from prosecution for the laws he may or may not have broken while president. (Remember he faces 91 felony charges in four jurisdictions). But his lawyers tried to argue Trump could use Seal Team 6 to take out a political rival and without immunity it would be “very hard for a president to enjoy his or her ‘Golden Years’ of retirement. Imagine having to be responsible for your actions like everyone else? Trump’s cowardice knows no bounds. He lies and says most Americans support unlimited immunity even as most polls show that, overwhelmingly, most Americans do not.
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