One small glimmer of good news hit us yesterday when Judge Juan Merchan slapped back Benedict Donald's bid to dismiss his 34 hush-money convictions in the Stormy Daniels case.
The results of the 2024 election — and the hideous decision by SCOTUS on Presidential immunity — have no bearing on the fact that 12 New York jurors found Trump guilty, Merchan said. Trump's "decidedly personal acts of falsifying business records pose no danger of intrusion on the authority and function of the executive branch," he declared.
Judge Merchan's 41-page decision made us think of another famous quote: "It would not make sense of the past."
That's what King George VI said when he denied a request from his abdicated brother the Duke of Windsor to grant the Duke's oft-divorced wife, Wallis Simpson, the title of Royal Highness. Just as dismissing the Daniels case would amount to an undeserved erasure of Trump's transgressions, the King felt giving a title to Mrs. Simpson was illogical since, at the time, the Royal Family did not allow divorced persons in its ranks. (Of course, as we know, things do change, and may yet in the case of Trump. But so far, that's an ordeal yet to come.)
Aren't historical parallels fun? Particularly since George VI was talking about a couple of Nazis at the time. We cats PURR (and HISS a little).
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