The Patriot Post® · The Danger of a Rigged Town

There’s a line in the 1987 film “The Untouchables” where the old Irish cop, Sam Malone, played by Sean Connery, mutters, “This town stinks like a [house of ill repute] at low tide.”

Malone was speaking of Prohibition-era Chicago when Al Capone ran the show, but the more we think about it, the more we’re convinced that he could’ve said the same thing about today’s Washington, DC.

Whereas 1930s Chicago was rigged for Capone, 2024’s Beltway is rigged for Democrats.

According to the UK’s Daily Mail, Census Bureau data indicates that nine of the nation’s 20 wealthiest counties are suburbs of DC. And the rest of us are funding them.

How rigged is DC for the Democrats? This rigged: In 2020, Joe Biden got 92.1% of the vote, while Donald Trump got 5.4%.

In 2016, it was 91% to 4% for Hillary Clinton over Trump. In 2012, it was 91% to 7% for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney. In 2008, it was 92% to 7% for Obama over John McCain. You get the idea. No wonder the Democrats keep pushing for DC statehood. If they succeed, they’ll not only screw up the American flag, but they’ll have two additional U.S. senators in perpetuity.

But think about what this grotesque imbalance means for jury pools and jury trials.

Swamp-dwelling Democrat super-lawyer Mark Elias has no doubt thought about it, and he said as much recently in the wake of Nikki Haley’s DC primary victory over Donald Trump. “In a city of 700,000,” he posted, “Donald Trump got 676 votes in the GOP primary. A tough jury pool….”

A tough jury pool indeed. This is what’s known as a gaffe — that is, as political columnist Michael Kinsley once said, accidentally telling an inconvenient truth. As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman writes:

Left-wing election disrupter Marc Elias admitted Sunday that former President Donald Trump cannot get an impartial jury trial in Washington D.C. The Biden Department of Justice is trying to throw Trump in jail on multiple charges, including charges related to his speech about the 2020 presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021.

Of course, it’s not just Trump. It’s Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko — two Spygate suspects who seemed guilty as hell and yet walked out of DC courtrooms with nary a slap. It’s the Proud Boys, whose leaders got 20 years for “seditious conspiracy” for their roles in the January 6 Capitol riot — a riot, by the way, that Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio didn’t even attend. Heck, he wasn’t even in DC that day.

And it’s certainly the thousand-or-so anonymous Americans — the overwhelming majority of them Capitol building tourists — many of whom were subjected to heavily armed pre-dawn FBI raids and thrown in a DC jail, there to be routinely and repeatedly abused by Trump-hating staff.

Anyone who doubts that we have a rigged jury system in our nation’s capital and a two-tiered justice system as a result need only consider the rioting that took place during Trump’s inauguration in 2017, after which 214 people were indicted on felony rioting charges that carry a maximum sentence of 10 years and a fine of up to $25,000. This seemed altogether appropriate for the antifa thugs who “smashed storefronts and bus stops, hammered out the windows of a limousine, and eventually launched rocks at a phalanx of police.”

Six cops were injured that day, but, as the Associated Press reported more than two years later, the government dropped the charges against every last one of the rioters.

As we’ve noted before, this imbalance bodes ill for Rule of Law and impartial justice in our nation’s capital. Democrats will likely become even more brazen in their dirty tricks.

So sue us, they’ll laughingly sneer.

As for Trump’s infinitesimally small chances of finding an impartial jury for his “election interference” trial in DC, Lyman adds: “The Supreme Court acknowledged in the 1971 case Groppi v. Wisconsin that there are some cases where ‘only a change of venue [is] constitutionally sufficient to assure the kind of impartial jury’ required by both the Sixth and 14th Amendments.” Think about that: Trump is being charged with election interference in a trumped-up criminal trial that is in and of itself election interference.

We’ve written about the switcheroo of the two political parties — about how the Democrats have devolved from the party of blue-collar Middle America to the party of woke, wealthy, coastal elitists. This is certainly manifested in the deeply Democrat monoculturalism of our nation’s capital.

It sure seems to be getting worse, not better.