Is the left glad that George Floyd died?
On the one hand, it seems indecent to ask the question. You never want to accuse anybody of being glad that someone lost their life. On the other hand, liberals enjoyed a financial and political windfall when Floyd died in 2020 while being arrested in Minneapolis. In their callous hearts, isn’t it possible that the left likes the fact that Floyd was killed, becoming a martyr for the cause of socialism?
I think the answer is yes. I was thinking about Floyd recently when I rewatched the great 1955 movie Trial. The movie is one of the ones that will be included in the 2026 Anti-Communist Film Festival. One of the things that is amazing about films like Trial, or I Was a Communist for the FBI, or I Married a Communist is that they have insights into today’s left wing that modern Hollywood is afraid to touch. Trial is actually more relevant in 2025 than anything coming out of the major studios. It depicts communists as wretched souls who will even obstruct justice if it means a payday and creating a martyr.
The story follows a young, inexperienced attorney named David Blake, played by Glenn Ford, who is hired by attorney Barney Castle to help represent Angel Chavez, a Hispanic 17-year-old accused of killing a white girl. Chavez is innocent, but it soon becomes clear that the communists want Chavez as a money-making martyr and that race evidence is irrelevant. Blake tries to save Angel’s life while Barney, not a liberal but an actual hard-core communist, plans to let the boy hang so he can use his death as a fundraising tool for the party. Adopted by Don M. Mankiewicz from his prize-winning novel, Trial is, in the words of critic Clyde Gilmour, “a hard-hitting realistic drama which shows with disturbing clarity how political racketeers skilled in the black arts of showmanship can flourish under the protection of the very laws they despise.” Black Lives Matter, anyone?
Revisiting Trial was thrilling, an exposure to a genuinely brave piece of filmmaking that was not afraid to call the left what they were – and are. It’s impossible to imagine a contemporary treatment of the modern racketeers at, say, the Bulwark or the Lincoln Project. Or Michael Avenatti, a genuine criminal who was a hero to the media and the DNC and is now in prison for extortion and stealing money from clients. Watching Trial I was astounded at how much the communist attorney Barney Castle (played by Arthur Kennedy, who was nominated fir an Oscar for the role) reminded me of Avenatti.
Or, for that matter, Christine Blasey Ford. I recently wrote on Hot Air that I know I’ve written a lot about the Brett Kavanaugh nomination circus in the last few years, but I have done so not to return to a nightmare I was a part of, but to prevent the left and the media from trying to reshape the narrative. My work has even made a New York Times reporter (almost) come clean. I’m still waiting for the opposition researchers, high school pay-backers, FBI operatives, and unscrupulous grifters to come clean.
That includes Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault in high school and further claimed that I was in the room when the attack took place. One question that has never been answered is what Ford did with the $850,000 she raised on GoFundMe in 2018. Ford has claimed that the money went to security and organizations that help the victims of abuse, but no one has seen any receipts. As Paul Sperry wrote on Real Clear Investigations, “the potential seven-figure windfall, which she says she intends to cash in on – while still asking donors for more money – has some questioning her motivation for accusing the conservative judge after 35 years of silence, and whether it goes beyond personal or even political justice. Others worry the largesse sets a dangerous precedent: Crowdfunding, which unlike political donations is unregulated, could be routinely used in the future as a bounty for providing political dirt on opponents.”
Even liberals have questioned what Ford did with the money. Writing in Slate, Christina Cauterucci even sounded angry:
If Ford isn’t part of the 1 percent, she’s darn close, and it’s highly probable that the majority of her patrons have less money than she does. The donors to these campaigns were surely motivated by feelings of helplessness and anger. For some of her backers, Ford was an avatar of their painful memories of sexual exploitation; for others, she represented their fears of women’s fate under three Republican-controlled branches of government. They couldn’t not do something after witnessing the all-male GOP contingent on the Senate Judiciary Committee defend an accused sexual abuser instead of simply nominating an equally conservative replacement. They couldn’t give Ford a hug, a pep talk, or the power to make Kavanaugh supporters care. All they could do was give her money. But if Ford ends up making a hefty profit once her expenses are covered, which it looks like she almost certainly will, that will be a major loss for the anti-rape organizations that could have bankrolled survivor support programs with those funds. Ford’s acceptance of the money also feeds into the time-honored canard that women lie about sex crimes to get money and fame.
Well, yes. Trial – a film which is 70 years old – is the only dramatization I have seen that captures the dark, criminal forces that were allied against me and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. I’ll never forget Avenatti (and others) trying to extort me, the threats and honey traps, and when Senator Mazie Hirono, a modern-day Barney Castle, was caught sending out a fundraising email the morning Kavanagh testified.
So what did Ford do with the money? It may take an attorney with the guts and integrity of Glen Ford’s David Blake. A man who is not glad that George Floyd lost his life.
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