Trial date set in the Jack Smith case against Trump
And – surprise, surprise – the scheduled date “could have a crucial impact on the 2024 race for the White House.”
Fancy that. What an odd coincidence:
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision sets the trial in the middle of the Republican presidential primaries and the day before Super Tuesday.
The prosecution had wanted the trial to start in January, and Trump’s lawyers said after the election in April 2026. So Judge Chutkan set the date two months later than the prosecution wanted and right smack in the middle of the primaries. Not to mention the fact that Trump is fighting four potential and actual cases, at the very least. The DOJ has unlimited resources paid for by our taxpayer dollars; Trump has to get lawyers and prepare for the cases on his own or with donations from supporters. And of course, his lawyers now know they are subject to prosecution as well.
Sounds fair.
More from Judge Chutkan:
Chutkan said that Trump will have to prioritize the trial and that she wouldn’t change the trial schedule based upon another defendant’s professional obligations, say, for a professional athlete.
The public has an interest in the fair and timely administration of justice, Chutkan said.
Indeed it does. But of course this trial not only is not about justice – except in its glaring absence – but there’s another little thing the judge is ignoring: the public interest in having the leading candidate of the Democrats’ opposition, the Republican Party, be able to campaign and be heard without all these show trials dragging him down. Half of American voters support Trump; what about their rights? What about OurDemocracy™?
The left continues to act as though there will never be any repercussions against them for their lawfare against Trump. I have been convinced for quite some time that they are convinced that once they get into office in 2024, they will be in power for the foreseeable future and these things will not come back to bite them. Whether they are correct or not remains to be seen.
I have also long said that the recent lawfare against Trump has two purposes. The first is to elevate him as the GOP leader and probable nominee and to simultaneously hurt him come the general. The second – which doesn’t really contradict the first, although it may seem to do so – is to destroy him and imprison him. That would not be occurring prior to the election, although the trials might. It would occur after the election, which they believe he will lose. Through means fair or foul, they will see to it.
As Jesse Kelly put it on Twitter today (I can’t say it any more plainly):
“They’re never gonna let him be President again. I’m sorry. It’s wrong. It’s awful. It’s unjust.
But it’s true. If you don’t see that, you don’t understand what you’re dealing with.”
The day before Super Tuesday? What an *amazing* coincidence!
There’s a 3rd possible reason for Trump’s prosecution – to piss off his base so much that they protest violently. Another Jan. 6th.
D+P is right of course. The Ds need the next Reichstag Fire… even if they have to do it again themselves.
But this is what Statist Regimes do to their opponents.
Now… the issue is how do the rest of us get out of this mess alive?
Maybe we don’t.
I always thought a special prosecutor had to be from outside the DOJ. Is Garland really this corrupt and dishonest?
Doug+Purdie: “There’s a 3rd possible reason for Trump’s prosecution – to piss off his base so much that they protest violently. Another Jan. 6th.”
But think of the obverse of that: base, stay home or they’ll give you the Jan. 6th treatment.
The Jan. 6th threat meets their needs both (all) ways. What a surprise!
Ray:
Yes.
IO49…sadly…not easily in any circumstance…and certainly not at this point when the Republic has fallen this far.
“The left continues to act as though there will never be any repercussions against them for their lawfare against Trump.” neo
“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.” Winston Churchill
Intolerant idealism cannot avoid it’s descent into tyranny.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson
Part of me thinks like Doug, make the next election so obviously fraud a real insurrection starts and as all Totalitarians do come down with a iron boot
And from the “Nothing to See Here, Move Along” File….
“Mystery Swirls Over Batch of Thousands of 2020 Voter Registration Forms in Michigan”—
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/mystery-swirls-over-batch-of-thousands-of-2020-voter-registration-forms-in-michigan-5465266
“Interesting” grafs:
‘…Sixteen GOP 2020 electors lawfully nominated by the Michigan Republican Party to cast electoral college votes for President Trump if he carried the state were indicted in July by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, on fraud charges for allegedly knowingly and willfully advancing the “false claim” that there was large-scale voter fraud in the state during the 2020 presidential election.
‘ Mr. O’Halloran told The Epoch Times that he hopes the exposure of the Muskegon case will help exonerate the Republican electors. He called it a “cruel irony” that Ms. Nessel, who he says appears to have helped bury “a state investigation into what appears to be actual forgery of election documents,” is prosecuting “the innocent Michigan 16 for a contrived ‘forgery’ in a case that hinges on the AG’s contention that there was ‘no evidence of fraud.‘”…’ [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
“Cruel irony”, eh?
Oh, that’s merely the lawless Democratic Party’s M.O….
“The left continues to act as though there will never be any repercussions against them for their lawfare against Trump.”
And what evidence would cause anyone to think otherwise?
They have proven time and time again that there will be no repercussions. The can steal elections, they can foment riots, they can ignore the Constitution, they can arrest and imprison political opponents, they can spy on citizens, they can create “evidence” out of wholecloth, they can ignore obvious felonies and corruption from their own side and what has happened?
Even if the Republicans won a landslide victory and seized control of both the Executive and legislative branches, does anyone seriously believe that there would be true “repercussions” for everything they’ve done over the past decade or so?
I’d say I’ll believe it when I see it, but I know I’ll never have the opportunity because when the Democrats demonstrated without a doubt that they have the capability and the will to steal elections in plain sight of everyone, the Republicans did nothing. Most of them will swear on a stack of bibles that we didn’t actually see what we saw when truckloads of ballots were delivered in the dead of night out of nowhere; when poll workers were sent home and then *On Video* Democrat operatives pulled boxes of ballots out of hiding places and scanned them *Multiple Times*; when observers were kicked out of counting rooms and then the windows were covered with paper so no one could see what was happening inside. And those are just the instances we have clear evidence of.
And nothing happened. Anyone who thinks there’s ever going to be another legitimate election in this country again is deluding themselves.
Why should they fear repercussions? They’ve gotten away with everything they’ve done so far.
And then there’s this…as across-the-board government/infotech censorship programs and policies ramp up at a dizzying pace:
“Is This the End of Natural Health Information?”—
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/08/29/news-and-information-censorship.aspx
The stench of fascism spreads increasingly.
Isn’t the focus normally on the defendant’s rights? Doesn’t the right to a speedy trial belong to the defendant? I would love to know what authority this judge relies on to assert that the public has a right to this defendant’s speedy trial.
thats only for actual terrorists, like the one that shot up the colorado supermarket, for thought criminals it don’t matter,
the stop orange man, (a ridiculous trope) but it worked for the fisa court, for the fake impeachments, and the current proscriptions,
More “Nothing-to-See-Here” nuggets…(!)
“Report: Emails Show Weiss, DOJ Coordinated to Mislead Congress”—
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/david-weiss-merrick-garland-doj/2023/08/28/id/1132392/
“National Archives Has 5,400 Biden Emails With Pseudonyms”—
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-biden-pseudonyms-emails/2023/08/29/id/1132430/
(Perhaps the only “good” news here is that when it comes to choosing pseudonyms, Biden has far more sense than Mitt Romney… OK, OK…I realize that’s a minisculely low bar…)
File under: But it was only 5,400… (Besides, he was only doing it—surely!—to protect his country!)
there was something about romney, that reminded me about don draper, with less personality, respectable means not calling the cops when they are stealing the country, right from under you, he was just another sharp toothed pirate, who carved up companies, who brokered deals with huawei, and other sorts,
“…normally…”
The whole freakin’ Orwellian “game” in a nutshell…
IOW, what exactly is “normal” about a regime that works 24/7 to sabotage—sorry, make that “destroy”—its own country?
(BTW, have you happened to consult with any Jan. 6 defendants, recently…?)
in retrospect, better angels was so prescient forty years https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1696250974245921157
My primary (Ohio) is next after Super Tuesday. I think DeSantis has a better shot at bringing forward people who may have some ideas about ending OurPoliceState, but the idea of flipping off the DC Star Chamber by voting for Trump also has merit.
I have also long said that the recent lawfare against Trump has two purposes. The first is to elevate him as the GOP leader and probable nominee and to simultaneously hurt him come the general. The second – which doesn’t really contradict the first, although it may seem to do so – is to destroy him and imprison him.
So … business and pleasure?
Will there be repercussions? I’m not sure how serious they’ll be. Republicans don’t want to do things that will get them accused of being “authoritarian.” Democrats are confident that they can control public perceptions and don’t worry about that.
so marc elias was party to the first fraud, the danchenko dossier, which he covered up with the avalanche of the mail ballots back stopped by dominion,
This Obama-appointed judge (that’s what the media says when it is a republican appointee) should recuse herself given her prior biased statements, and the fact she was a partner at Boies Schiller while Hunter Biden was counsel there during his crimes.
As far as expecting payback, they are like Dirty Harry Reid, who changed the rules on the filibuster arrogantly thinking it would never come back to bite them. I pray that a conservative (not Republican, they don’t do squat) prosecutor or attorney general starts indicting Democrats AND THEIR ATTORNEYS for the same exact crimes that these show trials are prosecuting. Sure, they may lose, but they will bankrupt the defendants, embarass and humiliate them, and provide a warning shot to others who might try to do this in the future. The only way the bullies on the left will understand they’ve gone way over the line is for the same unprecedented actions to be taken against them.
Another good thing that would come from the right playing as dirty as the left, you would finally get the American Bar Association, ACLU and former US Presidents to condemn the actions of prosecuting political opponents.
Bauxite:
Yes, it’s a right that belongs to the defendant. The judge is making s*** up, but no one can stop her until it’s too late, as far as I know. The idea is to get a DC conviction and then it will be reversed much later, too late to matter.
Mickey Kaus speculates that the original goal was to boost Trump in the primaries and crush him in the general, but now that it’s possible that Trump could win they are going for the jugular. I would suggest that while this is being coordinated by DOJ and the White House, some of the players — the DC judge, the Atlanta prosecutors — may be pushing things further than they were expected to.