Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
We grew up in a different educational system, is the upshot of that. I had a textbook in high school called "A Rhetoric of Argument," that taught how to write opinion pieces. One of its conventions was that you don't keep saying "in my opinion," when it is an obvious opinion piece.I tend to be very careful about what I state without reservation. An intelligent man should be in my opinion. Among other things not doing so often leads to conflating opinion and facts. This leads to the begging of questions as well as several other fallacies.
Frankly, I'd rather be the guy that states his opinion in a factual tone than the guy who states "facts," that are not true.
In my opinion (see what I did there?), you are much too intelligent to really believe that.What I am willing to state is that I think Jack Smith is prosecuting Donald J. Trump because he believes that Trump violated criminal statutes. Not because of politics.
That is my position. Nothing more nothing less.
Of course not, that would be silly. What I do imagine is that Trump running does not factor in his decision to prosecute Trump.
Did I say "the charges are meritless?" I stated that I haven't seen evidence connecting the dots from a criminal statute to an action by Trump that violated that statute.I will now ask a question of my own. You content that it's alright for Trump to use what you consider as a layman to be "weak arguments" ,in order to delay the trial. Because the prosecution amounts to "election interference." You further state that you know the charges are meritless.
Your assumption is that the trial will be perfectly fair and that an innocent man has nothing to worry about. I don't know what polyanna country you think the trial will take place in, but as far as I know it is slated to go forward in the highly politicized, highly divided United States.So here's the question. Why want to delay the trial at all? Being found not guilty for crimes would basically guarantee a second Trump term in my opinion. It would actually give some validation to the argument Jack Smith is prosecuting for political reasons.
So, why would an innocent man. With the funds too hire very competent legal representation. Not be willing too ensure political victory by actually having his day in court to disprove what to you are obviously bogus charges? Why not demand the quickest possible trial date.and defeat the charges?
Anyway, a trial takes time. Trump has an election to win. A presidential election is far more important that the trial of one individual - no different from any other defendant, according to your interpretation of Jack Smith - for such petty crimes as not fully complying with a subpoena.