We do not desire something because we judge it good, but we judge it good because we desire it”, wrote Baruch Spinoza. The lucidity of that philosopher, as immense as the solitude that his expulsion from Judaism imposed on him, opens a window towards certain fanatical political adherences, despite what is evident. It’s always about adhesions to personalist leaderswho resist the evidence thanks to the denial of what is in sight.
Leaders who display turbulent imbalances or rack up corruption lawsuits are revered by crowds willing to view criticism and denunciations as part of a conspiracy. no matter how contrary to common sense There are those conspiracy theories. As delusional as they may be, they always achieve shielding in the reasoning of those who worship personalist leadership.
donald trump he calls a “witch hunt” what Latin American leaders, also harassed by legal proceedings, call “lowfare”. By the way, there are cases of true “witch hunts” or “lawfare”, but all leaders prosecuted for corruption use the same argument. and all the political congregantsleft and right, believe in these arguments with the same faith as believers in theological dogmas.
The New York tycoon accumulates legal cases and convictions for crimes of a business, political and sexual nature.
But his followers continue to believe his devalued word. They believe that all the complaints are hoaxes of the “political establishment” (in these latitudes called “caste”) to get him out of the game, precisely because he “has arrived to change everything and give people back the power they took awayThe representative system and the media.
They do not stop to think, or are unaware, that many populist leaders of the Latin American left with causes for corruption use the same story to victimize. And there are few cases in which there is real legal persecution for political purposes. In the majority, as is the case with Trump, what there is is corruption and political trickery to unduly conquer, accumulate or retain power.
Baruch Spinoza, the philosopher who in the 17th century explained ethics using geometry, would explain to the obstinate Trumpists that they do not “will” believe in trump because they “judge it good,” but they judge it good because they want to believe in it. And they want that because they want a Germanically white, filthy rich, and darkly conservative leader. A leader who, like them, feels and expresses racial and religious supremacism.
Now, the former president has added the accusation that could lead to a charge of “treason.” A miami court investigates why he took home more than a hundred documents labeled “secret” and “top secret” and this new accusation strengthens the incredible record of legal cases that separates him from the rest of the presidents that the United States had, from George Washington to the date. But the horizon that it opens is even more disturbing.
It happens that the trial for the theft of documents could refer to an investigation, which was left halfway, on the link between Trump and Russian interference in the electoral process that made him president. The umpteenth case against him began with another unprecedented event in American history: the raid carried out by the FBI in Mar-a-Lago, his mansion in Florida.
The home of a former president had never been raided, but what they found is even more surprising: a hundred classified documents that the conservative leader had removed from the White House and had not returned.
Documents with information about the nuclear arsenals of the United States and some crucial allies cannot leave the White House without extraordinary security measures. Trump assured that he had “declassified” thembut his lawyers did not dare to ensure the same.
He is not the first president to take out documents of this type, but he is the first to refuse to return them. The suspicions that arise from the finding could lead to the investigation that began in 2017. robert müller.
This former FBI director was appointed “special prosecutor” to investigate Moscow’s interference in the 2016 electoral process, attacking the campaign of Hillary Clinton with squads of hackers and battalions of trolls. Those investigations by Mueller verified links between the environment of the New York tycoon and representatives of the device armed by the Kremlin to help him beat Clinton.
What the special counsel was unable to obtain was evidence that Trump himself knew of or ordered these contacts. That it can be inferred does not mean that it can be proven. Even so, with the Russian interference proven and the contacts with the entourage of the then Republican candidate proven, the growth of suspicion about Trump The technicality that he failed to fill in to sit him on the defendant’s bench could not stop him.
Why could the secret documents that Trump had taken from the White House have a connection to the case investigated by Robert Mueller? Because some of the folders have strategic military information and other crucial issues for the security system.
A possible explanation that the then president was so interested in these issues as to take the folders home, could go through the dark link that links him to the foreign leader who interfered in those elections, to help him reach the White House: Vladimir Putin.
Specifically, in the process suspicions could arise that Trump stole state secrets in order to deliver them to the head of the Kremlin, as political payment or because, for other obscure reasons, Putin has them under his control.
In fact, since the invasion of Ukraine, everything Trump had done to weaken NATO and also the historic Washington-Europe link shows functionality to the designs of the Russian president.
Since the origin of the United States, there has been an obsessive fear that someone controlled by another power or by some dark power will rule. It was shown in the eighteenth century by Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist and also by Richard Condon in “The Manchurian Candidate”, the novel about the rise to the presidency of a Korean War veteran who had been captured and brainwashed by the Soviets. , making him an agent of Moscow.
The new accusation may revive that ghost that flew over Washington when Trump occupied the Oval Office.
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