Amanpour & Company: George Conway: 'Donald Trump Deserves To Spend The Rest of His Life in Prison'

Source:Amanpour & Company talking to Conservative Washington lawyer George Conway.

"Former President Trump continues to ricochet between the courthouse and the campaign trail. This morning, he was back to face a trial for his statements about former columnist E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault allegations in 2019. Meanwhile, just ahead of the New Hampshire primary he got a boost from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who decided to drop out of the race and back Trump. Conservative lawyer George Conway joins Michel Martin with incisive analysis of Trump's legal woes and how they are shaping his campaign." 

From Amanpour & Company

I'm not one of these anti-Trumper's who argue that Donald Trump is an idiot. I think there's a real level of street intelligence and even education as far as how laws works in America and how can take advantage for them. His whole career in business and using the tax code to his own advantage are perfect examples of that. 

Donald Trump knows that if he's not reelected in President in 2024, he's going to prison because he'll be convicted this year, if the Supreme Court simply declares the obvious here and that no American, including sitting President's, as well as former President's, are above the law and are bound to follow the same laws as the average Joe or Mary citizen on the street. 

The only reason why Donald Trump as a 77 year old man is running for President again at all, instead of trying to enjoy his golden years in private life, is because his golden years are over. He stays as a free man as President for 4 years, or goes to prison after conviction, barring some future Republican President pardoning him perhaps in the early 2030s, which is down the road and perhaps too late for him.

As far as why Donald Trump's loyalists never leaving him: (and I'm talking about his loyalists on the street. Not politicians who kiss his ass for their own political futures) it's because Donald Trump represents basically the old America. The America that was dominated by blue-collar, Anglo-Saxon Protestants and other Northern European Americans, who come from small towns and other rural areas in America. Who believe that their America is disappearing and has been going downhill since the 1960s with the civil rights laws, the new immigration laws, that allowed people who weren't just from Canada, or the United Kingdom, or Northern Western Europe, to immigrate to America. 

The MAGA movement sees a man whose from Queens, New York, who made his career in Manhattan, New York, is about as yippie and white-collar a place that you'll ever see anywhere in the world, who claims to be a billionaire, as their blue-collar hero, who who will bring their old America back and take the power away from the new Americans, who are people who didn't come here on the Mayflower. That's all their support is about. 

This has nothing to do with defending individual freedom, because they don't believe in that. Or defending the U.S. Constitution, because they don't believe in that either. This is not about defending the rule of law, obviously, because their cult hero has 91 indictments against him and plenty of evidence to convict him on everything. This is about taking down the new America bringing their America back. And they see Donald Trump and his MAGA movement as the people to accomplish that for him.  

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