Donald Trump, found guilty of 34 of 34 counts of felony fraud, slumped out of the courtroom on Thursday afternoon and did what defeated losers are usually warned by their mothers not to do.
He played the victim. He blamed everyone but himself.
He blamed the judge. He blamed President Biden. He blamed George Soros. And because he always does, he blamed immigrants.
“Our country’s gone to hell,” he said. “We don’t have the same country anymore. We have a divided mess. We’re a nation in decline — serious decline. Millions and millions of people pouring into our country right now from prisons and from mental institutions, terrorists, and they’re taking over our country. We have a country that’s in big trouble.”
“We didn’t do a thing wrong,” he added. “I’m a very innocent man.”
Speaking for a national organization of immigrant workers, I can say in all honesty to the former President: It wasn’t us! We didn’t dream up these charges or direct the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to bring a case against you. We don’t know Stormy Daniels, Allen Weisselberg or Michael Cohen. We don’t really move in your circles, in Fifth Avenue penthouses and country clubs in New Jersey and Palm Beach.
We’ve been too busy working and supporting our families to concoct false charges against you.
And speaking of false charges — you are lying about immigrants. It’s wearying to have to keep saying this, but it needs to be said. You and your followers and your echo chambers in right-wing media are telling Hitler-sized lies about nonwhite people from other countries: making demons of us, libel us as subhuman, as criminals and disease carriers. You are lying about us. First to gain power. And now to save your own ass.
The country is better off for its immigrants, and is lucky to have them. We counterbalance a lot of the damage done by robber barons, demagogues, and criminal felons like you.
The profiteering media might no longer be shocked or disgusted by your lies, but we are. We are watching closely, anxiously, but also with great determination. We are determined not to let you take power again. We are determined to defeat you and all you stand for.
We are fighting to protect ourselves against the possibility that you and your disciples might take office next year and enact your fascist, racist agenda. You have promised to attack the country’s democratic institutions, the rule of law, your political adversaries, and people born in other countries. You are promising deportations of immigrants on a scale never before seen. You have sworn to tear millions of families apart and seek revenge on your many enemies.
As a member of a group that you have constantly attacked, over and over, for years, let me say this again. It wasn’t immigrants who charged and tried you. It wasn’t immigrants who convicted you. It was a jury of your peers that looked at the evidence, listened to the testimony, and decided that you were guilty. They decided it 34 times:
Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.
In a way, we immigrants feel your pain. We know what it’s like to feel that the justice system is out to get us. But in our case, this happens to be true. Unjust laws and unjust law enforcement are making immigrants suffer needlessly, in all parts of the country.
But in your case, the system seems to have worked quite well. In your case, you were found guilty of illegally falsifying business records to fraudulently win an election.
In your case:
What part of “illegal” don’t you understand?
Author: Pablo Alvarado
