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Trump Prosecutions
Biden says the loud part out loud
Speaking in New Hampshire yesterday, President Biden — remember him? — addressed the threat posed by the possible reelection of President Trump (video below): “We gotta lock him up.” Biden added that he meant “politically lock him up,” but he obviously meant “lock him up,” literally. Biden’s Department of Justice has undertaken two prosecutions of Trump charging a series of imprisonable offenses. The timing hasn’t worked out as planned, but »
Let’s go Krazee
Among other things, Andrew McCarthy is the best analyst of the legal issues in the Democrat lawfare against President Trump. In the classified Mar-a-Lago documents matter, Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the case under the Constitution’s appointments clause. She held that Krazee-Eyez Killa Jack Smith lacks the legal authority he is wielding as Special Counsel in the case. It’s a problem that could be easily solved, but the problem exposes »
Krazee-Eyez Killa down
Following up on Justice Thomas’s concurrence in Trump v. United States, Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the classified documents case against President Trump et al. that has been pending before her. Judge Cannon’s 93-page order “based on appointments clause violation” is posted online here. Krazee-Eyez Killa Jack Smith, as I call him — he’s illegal. Attorney General Merrick Garland should not have appointed Smith Special Counsel. Smith’s appointment doesn’t even »
Biden in translation
President Biden extended his regular working hours yesterday to read a brief statement condemning the Supreme Court for its decision in Trump v. United States. The White House has not yet posted an official transcript. I have posted video at the bottom. Biden took no questions and thus afforded no opportunity to explore the meaning of his condemnation. I thought I would translate his remarks as a public service. I »
What I Told Phoenix
Last night I was on Seth Leibsohn’s excellent Phoenix radio show for a full three segments. That gave us time to cover a number of subjects: my forecast for the 2024 presidential race; the trumped-up prosecutions of Trump; how financial incentives account for support for liberalism; why the Democrats are so devoted to illegal immigration; do Democrats hate America?; will the criminals who firebombed my organization’s office be caught?; how »
The Trial and Its Aftermath
Last night, I was on the Outsiders program on Sky News Australia, talking about the Trump trial, the verdict, the likely sentence, and the aftermath. It is a quick, six minute segment that I think is worth your time. At the end, I expressed the conviction that our country is in far deeper trouble than is commonly recognized. Much more on that topic in days to come: »
The Faithful Are Faithful
Donald Trump is a long-time fan of mixed martial arts, and a good friend of Dana White, the proprietor of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Trump has often attended UFC events as White’s guest. He did that again last night, in one of his first public appearances (maybe the first) since the absurd Manhattan verdict. Check out the crowd’s reaction when he entered the arena: Donald Trump gets a standing ovation »
A Primer on the Trump Case
For readers still puzzled about exactly how the Trump trial went down and why Alvin Bragg’s case was so convoluted, Brad Smith, former chairman of the Federal Election Commission whose testimony on this point was disallowed by Judge Merchan, offers this primer in two long threads on Twitter/X: Falsifying business records under NY law is a misdemeanor, unless done to hide a crime. Bragg says that crime was a violation »
A Prediction
I probably should have given up prognosticating after the 2016 election, when I predicted that Donald Trump would beat Hillary Clinton. I have hardly gotten one right since. But a little while ago, on Sky News Australia, I offered a prediction that I will repeat here. The question was, what do I think Judge Merchan’s sentence will be? I prefaced my answer with the observation that Merchan will do whatever »
Where Do We Go From Here?
For the second time in their ignoble history, the Democrats have fired on Fort Sumter. Now the question is, what are we going to do about it? I wrote my initial thoughts on the Trump verdict yesterday afternoon. I want to add to them here. If Joe Biden is re-elected following this outrage, he will be an illegitimate president. What does that mean? It means, I think, that no one »
Implications of conviction
The trial of Donald Trump on jerry-rigged charges produced the foreordained outcome. Trump was found guilty by a Manhattan jury of 34 felony charges. It couldn’t have been otherwise. This was a show trial. It would have been more efficient — it would have saved a day or two in show time — if Judge Merchan had simply directed a verdict of guilt and sent the jury home when the »
Guilty [Updated]
A grotesquely biased jury of Trump-haters, led by a judge who put service to his party above his judicial responsibilities, has returned guilty verdicts against Donald Trump on all 34 counts with which he was–absurdly–charged. What this shows is that the most important variable in any case is who decides it. Here, the Democrats knew that they could impanel a rabidly anti-Trump jury in Manhattan, so they did so. It »
Choose one from column A
A footnote to John’s post awaiting the verdict: Alvin Bragg’s case against President Trump is a Stalinist joke. It is fundamentally lacking in due process. One glaring element of this is the failure to identify the second crime that revives the otherwise time-barred misdemeanor charges and turns them into a viable felony. What is the second crime and what are its elements? Like ordering from the menu in a Chinese »
As We Await the Verdict
The jury is out in the Democratic Party’s New York prosecution of Donald Trump. We should have a verdict by the weekend. In the meantime, here are some thoughts. This prosecution is a political act, intended to disable Donald Trump and help win the 2024 election for Joe Biden. It is not even in the ballpark of being legitimate law enforcement. I think that most pundits who have commented on »
Exit Hackneyed Driver
Yesterday during closing arguments in the Trump trial, the Biden campaign presented actor Robert De Niro for an unhinged rant against he who must be named. De Niro’s performance took place outside the Manhattan courthouse in which the Democrats’ lawfare against Trump is in full swing, in a more unhinged form than De Niro’s rant. Speaking for the average show-business American, De Niro portrayed Trump as a dire threat to »
Where is the “other crime”?
President Biden is licking his shiny porcelain crowns over the prospect of President Trump’s conviction in the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. It is a lawless and disgusting spectacle. Bragg laid out his 34-count indictment of President Trump with links to underlying documents in this press release dated April 4, 2023. The indictment relies on section 175.10 of New York’s criminal law (“Falsifying business records in the »
Ready to celebrate
President Biden is preparing to celebrate the conviction of Donald Trump in the New York State front of the lawfare campaign against him. That’s what can be gleaned from the NBC News story on the prospect. The NBC reporters call it “a shift to a new, more aggressive posture” about the proceedings. One might think that the participation of Matthew Colangelo, a former senior Department of Justice official as a »