As to the conviction, if it is not reversed, the US will eventually fall to the status of a declining banana republic.

It indicates that the Democratic Party has forgotten lessons painfully learned from abandoning slavery and then segregation.

ALIEN

The Party is now increasingly under the influence of an alien ideology, new-Marxist or new-communist. It is rejecting the principles in the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and its Constitution.

Unsurprisingly, the conviction of Donald Trump not only gives solace to the enemies of the West, it delights them. They see it as liberating them, at least unless and until Donald Trump returns to the White House.

Indeed, one significant Washington authority warns that this increases the possibility that communist China will invade Taiwan.

The media only occasionally admits that during Donald Trump’s previous term, the members of the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran-Pyongyang Axis were on self-restrained good behaviour.

Little wonder that an Australian authorised group nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. (I must admit to being convenor.)

Although he deserved it, doing more for peace through such initiatives as the Abraham Accords between Israel and formerly hostile countries, and being the first president for many years not to have a war during his term, we never expected him to be awarded the Prize.

Donald Trump could easily enjoy the life of those who are rich and famous, flying in his private jet, sailing on his yacht and engaging in useless virtue-signalling about climate change.

Taking no salary last time he occupied the Oval Office, his interest is in doing good, as he sees it, for Americans, the West and indeed the world.

Exuding strength, he is a great communicator, reaching the American rank and file across the Latino and black communities.

He remains commendably intolerant of fashionable ideologies, openly dismissing global warming theory as the hoax it so obviously is.

Accordingly, in this election, emerging as one of the great Western leaders, he is the hope of believers in maintaining and enhancing Western civilisation.

Little wonder then that he has so many enemies, foreign and domestic.

Little wonder, too, that in attacking him, his domestic enemies are prepared to use weapons which flout the US Constitution and, especially, the Declaration of Rights.

ILLICIT

Returning to an assessment of his May 30 conviction, no other Western democracy has so far had its judicial power used in a clearly illicit scheme to damage its opposition leader in a coming election.

Nor has any democracy had the equivalent of a prosecutor like New York’s Alvin Bragg, who campaigned for office on the basis that he would “get” Trump.

And no democracy has seen a judge play a complicit role in such a scheme, as did New York’s Juan Merchan.

Of several constitutional outrages, the one mounted by District Attorney Bragg, the one delivered to benefit Joe Biden could usefully be described as “Operation Convicted Felon”.

This was to ensure that two letters were figuratively stamped on Donald Trump’s forehead in the 2024 election campaign: CF, convicted felon.

Just as with all the other schemes to affect the vote improperly, including “Russian collusion” and the claim that reports about the Hunter Biden laptop were “no more than Russian disinformation”, referring to Donald Trump as a “convicted felon” will be treated as the definitive unqualified truth by most of the mainstream media.

This case was crucial to the conspirators.

This is because this election is essentially about Donald Trump.

Broadly speaking, people vote for Donald Trump because they want him. People vote for Joe Biden because they don’t want Trump.

Absent the verdict on May 30, Operation Convicted Felon could not have been achieved in time for the elections

It does not seriously matter to Bragg, Merchan or the White House, that the scheme is likely to be reversed on appeal.

Bragg and Merchan, as lawyers, know this is what should happen.

But such is the descent of the US into banana republic status that influential broadcaster Mark Levin warns that some New York appellate court judges will be terrified to rule in Trump’s favour.

Levin has also passionately called for Trump’s lawyers to make an exceptional direct Supreme Court appeal.

Normally the Supreme Court would refuse to hear this.

But as Levin recalls, the Court did agree to intervene in Bush vs Gore in the 2000 election. But, in my view, a premature application could be unwise.

Much depends on the sentencing hearing on July 11.

In the war of nerves, it is no coincidence that this is only four days before the Republican National Convention, where Trump is expected to be confirmed as the Party’s presidential nominee.