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On May 30, 2024, a New York jury unanimously found former President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Many liberals expressed relief at the verdict, which they view as a long overdue form of legal accountability, while Trump himself plans to challenge the ruling.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Ruben Navarrette questions the consistency of liberal ideals like due process, which he says seem to shift depending on who is on trial.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
It’s no wonder that the political parties and their lame and lackluster 2024 presidential nominees are doing such a great job at the moment of driving voters, especially Latinos, African Americans and young people toward third-party candidates. And that’s assuming those voters show up to vote at all. If they don’t, who can blame them?
What lousy choices we have this year. And what a sad state of affairs when people in both parties can’t remember what they claimed to have stood for just a week earlier. I’ve wondered for a while whatever happened to conservatives, where did they go?
When I started voting in the 1980s, you could count on Republicans to oppose tariffs, support police, facilitate immigration, be tough on crime and oppose a Russian invasion. Now, all bets are off.
Then, during the Trump trial in Manhattan, and as the conversation turned to all the other Trump legal dramas yet to come, including two federal trials, and one more state trial, suddenly it was liberals who seemed to turn themselves inside out in their eagerness to get convictions across the board. Suddenly, liberals were sounding a lot less liberal. Overnight, the party of Clarence Darrow turned into the party of Dirty Harry.
