Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

John Gotti had Bruce Cutler. Forget Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump has William Barr; with apologies to Bruce Cutler for the comparison, of course. Barr is Trump's personal Attorney General, political operative, and real defense lawyer. In essence, the United States has no Attorney General looking out for it. Barr sees it at his job to look out only for his boss of bosses. Therefore, the United States is operating without a defense attorney.

The 1980s trials of John Gotti were known for witness intimidation and bribery. Sound familiar? Of course it does. The more we hear, every day, about Trump, plus Barr's efforts to protect him from justice, the more familiar sounding it gets. Cutler got 3 acquittals of his client. In one case, the bribery of a juror was proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt, as they say. Cutler and Gotti were quite a team. In the case of Trump's farcical impeachment trial, Trump went one step further than John Gotti (Let that sink in). Trump just went and had the jurors over to his house, in full view of the public. He told them how they would decide and why, and then asked the jurors if there was anything they had need of, and he then provided it. It seems apparent that Mitt Romney, though in no way a saint, was the only one of the 53 jurors that would stand up to intimidation and bribery. The others arrived at the White House with both hands out and a bag.

None of this bothers William Barr though, not one bit. Trump is his guy all the way. Last week Barr even decreed that any politically sensitive investigations, in other words investigations of Trump and the rest of his crime family associates, must be approved by him. Imagine if the investigations of John Gotti and his associates had required Gotti's approval before getting the go ahead. Last week, Barr even complained to his boss of bosses that his compulsive tweets were making his job "impossible." In other words, "How can I be your fixer when you keep making your crimes more obvious and impossible to cover up?" Barr did this in the most public and brazen way possible, other than buying live TV time and doing it that way.

Cutler tried to get his client acquitted a fourth time in 1990. That was for the Big Paul Castellano murder trial. However, Cutler was disqualified as Gotti's defense attorney by judge I. Leo Glasser who cited evidence that Cutler and his staff probably knew about details of Gotti's criminal activities, thus making Cutler and his staff part of the evidence against their client. The parallels are uncanny. All that's missing is for Trump to kill somebody (on Fifth Avenue?) or have somebody killed if he hasn't already done that at some point in his sordid past. Certainly, he has tried to incite murder. Just look at the Florida pipe bomber or, even more recently, his threatening tweets, especially the one about Rep. Adam Schiff ("He has not paid the price, yet").

It's clear that, thanks to his acquittal by the $enate, Trump is acting in the belief that the laws and the legal system do not apply to him. It's also clear that republicans agree with him. Trump isn't the first person or even president to think that but no one that has subscribed to that belief has ranked higher in our society and stretched the limits of contempt for the judicial system further or been more outwardly brazen about it.

John Gotti ended up in a federal penitentiary. When he wanted a shower, he was wheeled to the showers in a cage and stayed in that cage while he washed. Sadly, we're too hypocritical as a society to do that to our dirtbag politicians. If we did do such correct things, we might have better politicians. As it is, we get what we deserve because we do not act when the times call for it. They call for it now, more than ever.