Coming soon to a theater near you – another Trump indictment
Determined prosecutors can indict anyone. And they can convict anyone if they have judges and juries simpatico to their cause.
Whether or not this was always true I’m not sure. But it’s my impression – and I’ve lived a long time and observed a great many cases – that although it has been somewhat true for a long time, the problem has increased exponentially and more and more involves the prosecution of politicians on the right.
Trump is not the first politician to which this has happened; he’s just the first president or ex-president (as far as I know, anyway). Previously, they got rid of Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska by this method, and also House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. It’s no accident that both were prominent and important Republicans, because this technique is especially used by the left.
Both men were ultimately exonerated, but well after the left’s goal of ending their careers was accomplished. For example, DeLay was out of office by the time this happened:
In an 8-1 decision, the state’s highest criminal court backed a Texas 3rd Court of Appeals decision that reversed DeLay’s 2011 convictions on money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The court had ruled there was not enough evidence to prove that DeLay’s actions were criminal.
“We agree with the court of appeals that, as a matter of law, the State failed to prove facts to establish that the appellant committed either the object offense of money laundering or the inchoate offense of conspiracy to commit the same,” the criminal appeals court ruled.
That not reversal on some technicality. That’s a case without proper evidence. And Stevenson’s prosecutors were guilty of misconduct.
These days, if the correct leftist venue is chosen, even prosecutorial misconduct will not save the defendant.
Here is the impending case against Trump, according to reports:
Federal prosecutors have notified Donald Trump that he is a criminal target and likely to be indicted imminently in a probe into alleged classified documents – even as the Justice Department declined to delay charges to give time to investigate allegations of witness tampering submitted by the former president’s legal team, according to multiple people on Wednesday familiar with the case…
Trump has portrayed both cases as part of a broader “witch hunt” and dual system of justice designed to derail his 2024 presidential candidacy.
This week, Trump argued Smith is a partisan and the federal case against him is being treated differently than one against President Joe Biden, who also was found with classified documents in his possession from his time as vice president.
Trump’s portrayal of both cases is 100% correct, and any objective observer should be able to see that. But objective observers are few and far-between. In addition, I think many on the left see it and simply don’t care, because it’s perfectly okay to use the law in an unfair manner to get Trump the Enemy.
Much more at the link.
Mentally ill. And morally defective.
https://issuesinsights.com/2023/06/07/will-the-left-finally-admit-its-driven-by-mental-illness/
The left’s corrupt quest for absolute power is driven by defective morality and mental illness. And it’s been documented for decades.
These are people who rely on their own hatred to assure themselves that they are morally superior. And believe themselves entitled to play God in the lives of others while denying those they disfavor basic human rights.
Nothing is off-limits to the left in its obsession with bringing down the Evil OrangeMan. The idea seems to be that a combination of charge-stacking and a process of one indictment after the next (with trials to be scheduled in 2024 in cities in which there is no possibility whatsoever of an impartial jury) will severely damage the GOP, so that the whole process of campaigning and nominating the Republican candidate will be little more than a circus, although very good for the profits of CNN and MSNBC, Pravda-on-the-Hudson and Pravda-on-the-Potomac. Perhaps never before has the evil of lawfare been so fully and loathsomely on display, this problem having certainly increased “expodentially”, if one may borrow from the senile buffoon’s tortured verbiage.
This seems a good story for you to reference the quote from A Man For All Seasons. But, then again maybe you don’t want to get predictable.
“Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!”
I feel like the left feels the way about Trump and more and more any Republican.
If Trump is put on trial . . . and if he is found guilty . . . and if he is sentenced to prison . . .
That would be a casus belli for civil war.
Martin:
Indeed, I was going to put that quote in there, but I resisted the urge.
Casus belli already envelops us. And we are passive in the face of Democratic(sic) fascism, so oppressive defeat looms.
We have the guns, especially in the South, but not the leader.
Of course I’m going to wait until I hear more before I make a real decision of what I think. (Probably from stuff I hear from Nate the Lawyer) That being said if I had to go with my gut now I’d have to think this is worse than Watergate. Just to be clear, I’m talking about Biden and his goons.
This is a side effect of so many cities being indigo blue. Liberally bigoted prosecutors can rely on juries, grand and petit, to be liberally bigoted. If the judges in the jurisdiction are elected (state judges) they are elected by the same liberal bigots e.g. the Chicago liberal bigots who replaced Mayor Lightfoot with an even worse crackpot. The bulk of cities with populations exceeding 300,000 would have behaved in just the same way so far as GOP/conservative is concerned. By contrast, I’m hard pressed to think of any red cities that would give the works to Lefties.
Democrats might “Be careful what you wish for.”
If the Dems manage to cripple Trump enough to force him out of the 2024 race, then that effectively leaves DeSantis — a more effective candidate IMO — as a unified Republican shoo-in to run in 2024.
Biden vs. DeSantis?
Harris vs. DeSantis?
?? vs DeSantis?
Democrats better be confident of their vote-fraud-fu.
watergate was just so much piddling nothing, poorly executed, you see how the whole sysgy of the government media, and corporate elements operate in conjunction,
it is stevens btw, and jack smith was involved the bob mcdonnell witchhunt as well, about a dozen years ago, like pat fitzgerald was with conrad black, different room of the same mansion,
@miguel cervantes on June 7, 2023 at 8:09 pm
I believe Watergate failed because it was asked for by a Republican President that the bulk of the left and the media hated. He brought down Alger Hiss who some even to this day, with documentation from the fallen Soviets, believe was innocent.
Carter was naive and honorable in his way so didn’t try to use the Government to destroy people. It didn’t get rolling good until the Clintons.
I think the Democrats will collapse the economy before any civil war could get going. I don’t see how this can keeping going as it has. They, in particular this Marxist bunch, have no idea how the economy runs.
And the train whose final destination is a terrible reckoning keeps rolling along. It’s conductors, too ideologically blind to grasp what awaits at the end of the line.
Well, watching antifa violently go after parents in California today and the SPLC calling those same parents extremists and knowing large swathes of your federal law enforcement are riddled with partisans, I dont see how this doesnt dissolve into a violent civil war.. Before they crash this economy completely, you need to stock up on freedom seeds..
I know I’m a broken record but I bring up Watergate because I always wondered “if Nixon was a Democrat how would he have been treated?” Biden pretty much answered that one. (Biden is far more corrupt and criminal than Nixon could ever dream to be.)
Important to note that BEFORE the Democrats can crash the country (or should that be, “in order for them to do so”) they believe they MUST get rid of Trump.
(Also should be noted that once they get rid of Trump, they’re free to do their best to focus on getting rid of DeSantis.)
2024 is going to be some circus. The People pretend to vote as if the outcome matters. The CorruptoKKKrat media cannot do other than perp walk this delusion.
The Rule of Law has left the building. If you have no freedom seeds, then you ought to consider leaving too.
On Nixon’s Watergate. I think the following fact tossed at the Left is THE single most ear-opening success I’ve had.
I attack St. Obama by pointing out that it was when Nixon was shown to have merely WANTED information from the IRS on his political enemies, that the Republican obstacle to facing a Presidential impeachment folded. (In Rule of Law times, the head of the IRS refused the request.) Thus, Nixon resigned because otherwise he wears going to be impeached.
By contrast, Obama the Destroyer not only got the IRS to do his bidding against Tea Party organisers, pre-2012 election years, but also faced zero consequences. And then the replacement IRS official for retired Lois Lerner saw to it that digital records of communications got lost! Not backed up or else erased. Without records of her perfidy, a case against the IRS and for punishing the responsible official became impossible.
The only consequence was that the IRS settled for several million dollars for violating civil rights of certain Tea Party people. A ridiculously tiny sum for massive election organising interference that likely turned the Presidential election to D.
WHAT HAVE THE Rs done but send stern letters and fold up again? Useless scumbag traitors. Instead we find the budget of Biden’s butt buddy’s at the IRS have something like doubled their bureaucratic sinecure?
Deceptions ‘R Us, continued….
Margot Cleveland”
“EXCLUSIVE: Bill Barr Confirms Rep. Jamie Raskin Lied About Biden Family Corruption Investigation;
” ‘The FBI is attempting a coverup, and Democrats are doing their bidding by lying to the American people,’ Rep. James Comer told The Federalist.”—
https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/07/exclusive-bill-barr-confirms-rep-jamie-raskin-lied-about-biden-family-corruption-investigation/
H/T Powerline blog.
Raskin is one of the Democratic Party’s best liars (or should that be, “worst liars”?)
Key grafs…aw heck, RTWT—as Cleveland reveals Raskin’s impressive stack of lies upon lies upon lies.
They are simply NOT ABLE to tell the truth.
(Even if they would be willing to do so, which of course they are NOT.)
Jack Smith?….
OH, THAT Jack Smith….
“The Ugly History of the DOJ Hatchet-Man Tasked to Target Trump;
“Former US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell Explains How Jack Smith Nearly Rekindled Conflict in the Balkans to Get Trump”—
https://leesmith.locals.com/post/4077763/the-ugly-history-of-the-doj-hatchet-man-tasked-to-target-trump
From:
https://twitter.com/advisorrob/status/1666233712374104064?cxt=HHwWgIC2rfeu058uAAAA
Key grafs:
“…In 2020, as the Trump White House was on the verge of brokering historic agreements between Serbia and Kosovo, [Jack] Smith arrested the sitting Kosovar president, Hashim Thaci. And now some European leaders are up in arms about the allegedly phony charges against the man Joe Biden once called “the George Washington on Kosovo. [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
”As Grenell explains, it’s a complicated story, but absolutely essential background for understanding the character and the methods of the man the DOJ has designated to lead the 2024 leg of its ongoing campaign to Get Trump….”
Margot Cleveland’s article on Barr, continued with some different angles…
https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1666615381451218945?cxt=HHwWgoDRyf_2gKEuAAAA
https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1666577606848950273?cxt=HHwWgsDR7Zzg76AuAAAA
https://twitter.com/FOOL_NELSON/status/1666467420746272768?cxt=HHwWgMC-tcbSvaAuAAAA
H/T Jeff Carlson Twitter feed (all three).
https://twitter.com/themarketswork/
Might all of this explain Tomasky’s psychotic hit job as a PRE-EMPTIVE ATTACK? (Also keeping in mind Hunter Biden’s situation.)
https://newrepublic.com/article/173228/supreme-court-corrupt-its-conservative (reposted)
I’m glad you mentioned Ted Stevens. He was arrested tried and convicted in order to get the affordable healthcare bill passed. This was during an election year for him. After the election, Obama pardoned Stevens. A prosecutor on the case committed suicide. Mark Begich won over Stevens, with the help of the Democratic National Committee, by a very small percentage. After his term was up the Dems dropped Begich like a piece of hot garbage. Begich hasn’t held political office since 2015. I felt, at the time, that this was pretty raw and overt. Now I feel that it was nothing compared to what is happening today.
Make obstruction of the electoral process and a presidential candidate a federal crime.
If they are able to get him on an obstruction charge for lying to the DOJ about whether he had turned over documents, or something like that, its going to be hard for him to make a substantive defense. But the Hillary comparisons will be damning. (“What, you mean with a cloth?”)
i pointed out the lineage of this slithy tove, his father was a former state department official in the jfk administration, who set up the premier soviet front group, the institute for policy studies, surpassed only by soros center for american progress, mort halperin, who helped the soviets target american intel officers, was the bridge between the two,
The American government at all levels and all branches is utterly, irredeemably corrupt. And it is corrupt in every conceivable way, money, sex, propaganda, violence, including assassinations both domestic and foreign, war crimes against civilians. And coming soon, via Canada and the Netherlands and UK will be involuntary euthanasia. Canada and the Netherlands already euthanize children, “upon request.”
Who, growing up in the Cold War, would have thought that Russia would become the last refuge of democracy and Christianity?
Russia isn’t a refuge of democracy. It’s only a refuge of Christianity to the extent that the Russian political class is less hostile to the Orthodox Church than are other western elites to their modal religious body. Poland and Hungary might be actual refuges of both Christianity and free government.
If they are able to get him on an obstruction charge for lying to the DOJ about whether he had turned over documents, or something like that, its going to be hard for him to make a substantive defense.
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Bauxite fancies self-licking ice cream cones are legitimate. Andrew Weissmann has a staff job for you.
Irish Otter
We are on our way there….and have been for some time.
see here
https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1666768049008001024?cxt=HHwWgIC-wbWtxqEuAAAA
TJ,
Nixon wanted to do with the IRS what FDR, JFK and LBJ actually did. The US has had different standards of justice for a long, long time.
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
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BREAKING: Trump lawyers have submitted secret evidence to a court alleging a senior federal prosecutor in the classified records case tried to influence a key witness by discussing a federal judgeship with his lawyer.
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Rasmussen correctly points the finger at Barr. https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1666476223269330944?s=20
Some observations by Paul Sperry…
“Interesting how easily Special Counsel Jack Smith was able to pierce attorney-client privilege to seize notes from Trump’s attorney, while Special Counsel Durham just accepted privilege claims asserted by FusionGPS & Perkins Coie, allowing them to bury 1500 potential smoking guns”—
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1666293475162062850?cxt=HHwWhICw6crF7p8uAAAA
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_
Biden pretty much answered that one. (Biden is far more corrupt and criminal than Nixon could ever dream to be.)
LBJ was far more corrupt than Nixon. Life magazine had a special issue planned on Johnson’s history of corruption. The last editorial meeting on the special issue was on the day Kennedy was assassinated. It was never published.
LBJ was far more corrupt than Nixon.
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Nixon was, for the most part, money honest. He took some unlawful tax deductions around about 1969. That’s about it.
Nixon wanted to do with the IRS what FDR, JFK and LBJ actually did. The US has had different standards of justice for a long, long time.
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Simplify the tax code and leave the IRS with the function of collecting income and payroll taxes delivered up through voluntary compliance. Distribute other activities of the IRS to specialized bureaux. The Lois Lerner types will have a great deal less discretion and a very limited range to injure individual households.
thats why the lerner types were at the forefront of the lawfare operations against guiliani and trump,
Parlatore spells out specific examples of prosecutorial misconduct from his appearance before the Grand Jury to Catherine Herridge:
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1666621374905843712
This year’s “clown car” isn’t the Republican candidates, it’s all the prosecutors trying to indict Trump, the juries that convict him, and all the media who focus on that, rather than Biden’s corruption.
It’s certainly true today that a Democrat Nixon wouldn’t get into trouble today, and the same is most likely true in Nixon’s day. Two big changes, though, since then. There were still some moderate and conservative Democrats that the media hated, and old school reporters weren’t quite as ideological as today’s media. Neither the Democrats nor the media were as much in lockstep as they are today. The average Democrat 50 years ago was still voting against Herbert Hoover and could still listen to reason and consider differing opinions
“If the Dems manage to cripple Trump enough to force him out of the 2024 race, then that effectively leaves DeSantis — a more effective candidate IMO — as a unified Republican shoo-in to run in 2024.”
Not sure if DeSantis is the more effective candidate, but I expect that he would be much more effective as Chief Executive. He has worked inside the DOJ, and been an effective chief executive in FL. And I don’t think that he would have been scared off by the DOJ claiming that he would be Obstructing Justice by investigating RussiaGate, etc. You just have to turn the tables on them, and indict the LawFare prosecutors, etc, for the same. When the dust settled, they were, indeed, the ones obstructing Justice, and did so by repeatedly lying to Congress and their superiors.
Awhile back Poweline’s Steve Hayward interviewed a guy who was part of the Nixon WH staff and has been filing FOIA requests and watching for other documents about Watergate to become available. His analysis is that Nixon faced very much the same Deep State opposition as Trump, also from the FBI, and that there was deep collusion between the DOJ careerists, the DC Federal courts, and congressional investigators to run Nixon out of office.