Disgraced tycoon's love letter to Trump gloats that Dems are in '5-alarm panic'

Disgraced media mogul Conrad Black, who was pardoned by Donald Trump in 2019, penned a gushing column praising Trump Monday — and said the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nominee has the left in a "five-alarm panic"

Black, a Canadian and British former newspaper tycoon who was convicted of fraud in 2007 and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in federal prison, wrote his column in The New York Sun — of which he is a founding director.

He went to prison after being found guilty in 2007 of scheming to siphon off millions of dollars after selling newspapers. He was fully pardoned by Trump in 2019.

Black wrote that Trump had, "Vastly improved his tactical game to ensure less abrasiveness and he has added greatly to his stature by fighting legally against grossly illegal oppression."

The way Trump has faced down his legal issues proves that he's poised to become POTUS again, he wrote. And for Black, it's a "better look" and, compared to 2020, Trump is "a much stronger candidate".

The reasons are both obvious and more subtle, he wrote.

The legal woes and the fight to upend the 2020 election results all are boosting Trump's voting stock, he wrote.

"President Trump has the incomparable legitimacy of having probably won the 2020 election, and of having been the victim of an absolute refusal of the judiciary at any level to weigh on the merits of the constitutional questions about the integrity of the 2020 election result," he wrote.

And this go-around, Trump has established a sound ground game with trusted people who can tune out the noise.

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"All the deluded advice of the past four years from anti-Trump commentators telling the Republicans to show more courage and less interest in Mr. Trump’s endorsement confirms that they have been somnambulating through a political fairyland. This must finally be ending," he wrote.

He said Trump's success in polls has his opposition desperately trying to think of ways to rescue his campaign. He compared it to when Biden lost the New Hampshire and Nevada primaries to Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) in 2020 and made a major stand in South Carolina to breathe life into what seemed like a dead donkey.

"All indications are that the Democratic bosses who rescued Mr. Biden from the ditch where he had been left by the New Hampshire primary four years ago and parachuted him in ahead of the unelectable socialist, Senator Sanders, who was placated by the adoption of his socialist platform, are in a state of five-alarm panic," he wrote.