Santos Cerdán maintains that he is the victim of a political witch hunt. We note, as a curiosity, that artificial intelligence has expanded the catalog of excuses offered by (allegedly, always alleged) corrupt politicians: they can now claim they don't recognize their voice when they hear it on a recording, because it may have been simulated or recreated by an AI. Meanwhile, the defense of the former secretary of organization of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) and Pedro Sánchez's right-hand man also questions the credibility of the reports from the UCO (Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard), a line that is amusing because it still has a certain pro-independence and leftist flavor, and which refers to lawyer Benet Salellas. Indeed, we have seen senior officers and dozens of officers from the Benemérita (Benemérita) giving false testimony in the Proceso trial, and we also know of the existence and actions of the patriotic police for years and years, with numerous false reports seeking to incriminate specific individuals and organizations. We've also known judges who issue prison sentences without bail at supersonic speed depending on who the suspect is or what political party he belongs to, as has now happened to Santos Cerdán. The existence of the state's sewers is beyond doubt; what's even more doubtful is whether they can exonerate Santos Cerdán from his own (and presumed, always presumed) sewer. We've long known that the same argument, in properly skilled hands, can serve to defend both one thing and its opposite.
The infamous Carlos Mazón, who remains president of the Generalitat Valenciana (without even making public the El Ventorro bill, or even explaining what he did on the afternoon of October 29), has also repeatedly declared himself the victim of a witch hunt. This Monday (eight months): eight months of reconstruction in the areas destroyed by the DANA (National Flood Damage) with €29 billion in the air, some of which he has already distributed among companies affiliated with the Valencian PP or involved in some of the party's many corruption scandals. All this despite citizen protests, which also continue eight months after the disaster and which this Sunday saw between five and fifteen thousand people (depending on who counted) take to the streets of Valencia in the midst of a heat wave, demanding Mazón's resignation.
In our review of leaders besieged by witch hunts, we cannot overlook Isabel Díaz Ayuso and her partner, Alberto González Amador, victims—according to her—of a "state persecution" that, curiously, so far, has only resulted in the State Attorney General, Álvar, committing the crime of revealing secrets. And we must end by mentioning the Trump-Netanyahu tandem, who have elevated victimhood and cynicism to the extreme of basing them on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the memory of the Holocaust. Now we have seen Trump trying to pressure the Israeli justice system to "free Bibi" (as the Israeli prime minister's friends call him) from the corruption charges against him: Trump claims that Netanyahu—like himself—is the victim of a political witch hunt.
