Invoking similar arguments by fellow columnists laughably likening the legal travails of Donald Trump to that of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, James Zumwalt found a different repressive country to invoke in portraying Trump as a victim in his Feb. 22 WorldNetDaily column. Noting how an Iranian council controlled by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blocked former president Hassan Rouhani from running for office, Zumwalt insisted this is pretty much like what’s happening to Trump:
Although not as direct, Democrats seem to be playing their hand in controlling our upcoming presidential election. One need only look at what former President Donald Trump, who is most likely on course to secure the Republican Party’s nomination, is experiencing.
Democrats who impeached Trump while he was in office now have Democrat attorney general proxies doing all they can to disqualify him from running this year. Democrats, rightfully so, fear the Trump train is on track to win, absent a derailment. They are looking to provide that derailment as evidenced by a total of 91 criminal felony counts filed in two state courts and in two different federal courts against him. A conviction on any of these charges could possibly lead to imprisonment. Additionally, a civil suit finding of fraud in New York appears – at least for the moment – to be taking the wind out of the sails of Trump’s business empire.
A question has arisen about two Trump prosecutors meeting separately with White House legal staff before filing their actions as no conceivable reason existed for them to do so. This then begs the issue whether the filings of criminal counts against Trump were coordinated beforehand with the Biden administration in an effort similar to that of Iran’s Khamenei to remove the competition.
It’s not similar at all, actually — Trump is simply facing accountability for the crimes he has committed. Zumwalt offered no explanation why he should be above the law, nor any actual evidence that prosecutors are operating under direct edicts from Biden in prosecuting Trump. Still, Zumwalt concluded with more Biden-bashing:
Such a ploy by Khamenei is not surprising. Based on Biden’s weaponization of federal agencies, his designation of pro-life Catholics as domestic terrorists and efforts to favor teachers over parents in raising their children, perhaps we should not be surprised that he has stooped to this level as well.
Zumwalt is lying. The government did not designate “pro-life Catholics as domestic terrorists” — the FBI had merely looked into certain non-mainstream “radical-traditionalist” Catholic organizations for links to far-right white nationalist movements that was largely limited to a single FBI field office (though right-wingers want you to believe it was far more expansive than it actually was).