Below is my column in the Hill on the recent decision in Georgia and the “odor of mendacity” rising out of various courtrooms across the country. It is the smell of not just selective prosecution but political bias in our legal system. It is becoming harder to deny the existence of a two-track system of justice in the country as commentators and even a few courts raise concerns over the role of politics in prosecutions.
Here is the column:
The removal of lead special prosecutor Nathan Wade from Donald Trump’s prosecution had the feel of a Southern Gothic.
Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis had described Wade as “a Southern gentleman. Me, not so much.” For weeks, the public has been enthralled by accounts of Wade’s illicit affair with Willis. Then there was the roughly three-quarters of a million dollars paid to Wade before he was booted from the case this week.
Channeling Tennessee Williams in his play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Judge Scott McAfee wrote that, after their testimony, there remained “an odor of mendacity.”
That odor was particularly strong after the hearings indicated that Wade may have committed perjury in his earlier divorce case, and that both Willis and Wade were credibly accused of lying on the stand about when their relationship began.
They are prosecuting defendants in the Trump case accused of the same underlying conduct, including 19 individual counts of false statements, false filings or perjury.
Yet, that distinct odor noted by Judge McAfee goes beyond the sordid affairs of Willis and Wade.
For many citizens, mendacity, or dishonesty, is wafting from various courtrooms around the country. The odor is becoming intolerable for many Americans as selective prosecution is being raised in a wide array of cases.
The problem is that courts have made it virtually impossible to use this claim to dismiss counts. Yet there is a disturbing level of merit to some of these underlying objections.
For years, conservatives have objected that there is a two-tier system of justice in this country. I have long resisted such claims, but it has become increasingly difficult to deny the obvious selective prosecution in a variety of recent cases and opinions.
I have long stated that the charges against Trump over documents at Mar-a-Lago are strong and based on established precedent. However, the recent decision of Special Counsel Robert Hur not to bring criminal charges against President Joe Biden has undermined even that case.
Hur described four decades of Biden serially violating laws governing classified documents. The evidence included Biden telling a third party that he had classified material in his house and actually reading from a classified document to his non-cleared ghostwriter. There is evidence of an effort to destroy evidence and later an effort of the White House to change the report. There is also Biden’s repeated denial of any knowledge or memory of the documents found in nine locations where he worked or lived.
Hur ultimately had to justify the lack of charges based on a belief that he could not secure a conviction from a D.C. jury with an elderly defendant with diminished mental faculties.
Although Special Counsel Jack Smith could still proceed on obstruction counts, his prosecution of Trump for the retention and mishandling of national security documents is absurdly in conflict with the treatment Biden is receiving.
In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. She never specified any particular crime, just promising to bag Trump.
Ultimately, James used a law in an unprecedented way to secure an absurd penalty of roughly half a billion dollars, even though no one lost a dime because of the Trump loans.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has also come up with an unprecedented way of using a state law to effectively prosecute Trump for a federal offense that the Justice Department has already rejected.
The same odor has been lingering in the Hunter Biden cases. The Justice Department had reached a ridiculous plea agreement with Hunter Biden that would have allowed for no jail time and a sweeping immunity agreement that would have protected him from all of his other alleged crimes.
As the plea agreement fell apart in court, the prosecutor admitted that he had never seen a defendant given such a deal over his long career. This came after the Justice Department had allowed the statute of limitations to run out on major felonies and scuttled efforts to conduct searches and interviews. Even after that embarrassing hearing, the Justice Department was still trying to preserve the agreement.
It is not just the Trump and Biden cases where there is a stench of selective prosecution. Consider a few other recent cases.
In California, U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney issued an opinion that found such evidence of selective prosecution against conservative groups. In considering a far-right group, Carney noted that the Justice Department has had sharply different approaches based on the political views of the defendants. Antifa and other leftist groups often see charges dropped, whereas federal prosecutors seek draconian sentences against conservative defendants.
“Such selective prosecution leaves the troubling impression that the government believes speech on the left more deserving of protection than speech on the right. The government remains free to prosecute those, like Defendants, who allegedly use violence to suppress First Amendment rights. But it cannot ignore others, equally culpable, because Defendants’ speech and beliefs are more offensive. The Constitution forbids such selective prosecution,” Carney noted.
That treatment was equally glaring when federal prosecutors convicted an Antifa supporter who took an ax to the door of Sen. John Hoeven’s office in Fargo. He was given no jail time, and the FBI even returned his ax.
He later mocked the government by posting on social media “Look what the FBI were kind enough to give back to me!”
Likewise, this week, former U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins was disbarred after being found to have lied to investigators about leaking material to the press for political purposes. Rollins had allegedly made a clear and knowingly false statement to federal investigators, but the Justice Department just shrugged it off and refused to indict.
FBI Director James Comey received similar gentle treatment after removing FBI material and arranging for information to be leaked to the media. Meanwhile, defendants such as Trump’s National Security Adviser Michael Flynn were pursued relentlessly for making false statements to investigators under Comey’s watch.
These and other cases have fulfilled Trump’s narrative about a politically weaponized legal system. The fact is that many in cities like New York are thrilled by selective prosecution and biased sentencing decisions directed at locally unpopular figures.
The rest of us are left in courtrooms, from Georgia to Washington to New York, asking the same question of Tennessee Williams’ “Big Daddy” Pollitt: “What’s that smell in this room? …Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity.”
Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.
The utterly disgusting, thoroughly corrupt, lying, ignorant fool, Big Fanny The Loud Mouth-Know Nothing Willis, has proven just how far our once respected judiiary has fallen. She isn’t even smart enough not to sound like an amateur liar. The depths of our plunge into debauchery reached new lows with this disgusting piece of garbage. My GOD!
“odor of mendacity.” “Whom are you” said he, for he had been to night school. — George Ade
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 (𝐢.𝐞. 𝐋𝐢𝐞𝐬)* – The Russia Hoax** by now has been proven to be pure 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 (𝐢.𝐞. 𝐋𝐢𝐞𝐬).
Yet the Liars, including the Judge walk away free, and continued to beset retribution upon Donald Trump.
Why? So they can get their War. Well they’ve got their War, all they need to do is push the Button now and blame it on the Russians. Figure July-August, when the soil has firmed up and conditions are ripe for a tactical nuke attack.
The Billions in graft have been flowing, the People have been sufficiently brainwashed (Oppenheimer + Main Media) and the Allied Forces aligned and prepped.
Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton are securely warm and fuzz, safe and sound on their own TV Series – ‘Gutsy’
{Link] tv.apple.com/us/show/gutsy/umc.cmc.6pt51gvtzprx3h060b7944s3k
So sit back and relax and enjoy a Summer of warm 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲, as the bombs fly and the war machine marches to Victory.
Because the Dems know what they’re doing, To the Victor goes the Presidency.
* Donald M. Middlebrooks, United States District Court, S.D. Florida [Appointed by Bill Clinton]
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157.267.0_1.pdf
** 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩’𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐍𝐂, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump#Trump's_racketeering_lawsuit_against_Hillary_Clinton,_the_DNC,_and_others
𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞
[Link] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_investigation_origins_counter-narrative
“I love the smell of 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥-𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 (𝐢.𝐞. 𝐋𝐢𝐞𝐬) in the morning – Smell like Victory”
Apocalypse 2024
The truth is most Americans are terrified of their own government now. Trump is the poster child of political persecution, it’s coming.
2024 Trump!
Joel Pollak
@joelpollak
“When he arrives in prison, @RealPNavarro will be a political prisoner. He defied a subpoena from a one-sided show trial that broke its own rules and later destroyed evidence. DOJ allowed actual contempt by Lois Lerner and Eric Holder to go unpunished. His sentence is our disgrace”
John Roberts is a disgrace.
His new title: Chief ‘miscarriage of justice’ Roberts.
CMOJ Roberts: don’t let your Trump hatred get in the way of doing your job, buddy.
Joe Biden is a Tin Pot Dictator.
How many times will Congress and the Attorney General of the United States allow Hunter Biden to spit in their faces? Enough. Hunter Biden needs to be shackled in leg irons, prosecuted and sent to prison for 3 times the amount of time they did Dr. Peter Navarro. Enough.
Remember when Joe Biden said that Donald Trump was going to throw his political opponents in jail?
Another lie from Dems and their corrupt propaganda media dupes.
Wake up out of your trance, people.
MENDACITY INDEED
This ‘odor of mendacity’ column begins as a Fani Willis update. But then it careens about, becoming a grievance update. Like, “The mendacity of Deep State to dog us fine conservatives. Our humanity’s been stripped like dirty underwear”.
One suspects Professor Turley knew in advance Donald Trump would have to admit Monday that he can’t obtain proper bonding (to ensure civil judgments).
So Turley thought he’d empathize with the Trump base. And say, “Your grievances are mine. I too am afraid. All of us are sheep surrounded by wolves”.
Spasms of angst on behalf of Donald Trump, the most spoiled brat in history! Dad gifted him a million while Donald was still a teen.
You see, Trump is on record admitting he embellished real estate values for loans while downplaying for taxes. So no one really knows what Trump’s properties are worth. ..That’s a business genius..!
Trump also has a history of stiffing contractors, and claiming immunity. While coyly implying he might install himself as an authoritarian.
No one with the funds to cover half a billion in settlements wants to deal with Donald Trump. If Trump becomes President again, he is almost certain to dismiss any obligation regarding civil judgments.
But in the rightwing bubble, Trump loyalists feel like Christians set upon by lions. How they got this helpless is anyone’s guess. The truth is most Americans are terrified of Trump!
“Trump is on record admitting he embellished real estate values for loans while downplaying for taxes.”
No, that is a conclusion of wing nut engoron – though I will note – even if True that is perfectly proper.
As Judge learned Hand noted more than a century ago it is not only not a crime, but a civic duty for a person to structure their affairs to reduce their taxes.
Anyone that mentions tax assessments in a context that sugguest they have a meaning that is within 10,000 miles of an apraisal or market value is a moron. I will not describe how property tax assessements are done – because that varies. but what is near universally true is that they have a poor relation to actual value.
Anyone who claims that the value of a property effects your interest rate – has never gotten a mortgage.
The value of a property effects how much you can borrow. You get a lower interest rate because you have good credit,
And because you provide collateral, and finally in Trump’s case because the bank reserves the right to go after personal assets Besides the property should you default.
The james/engorn argument that Trump got a better interest rate and therefor profited is a lie. That is not how loans and mortggages work.
“So no one really knows what Trump’s properties are worth.”
The value of anything is what a willing buyer and a willing seller freely agree to.
“That’s a business genius..!”
Not it is just basic economics.
“Trump also has a history of stiffing contractors”
Did Trump breach the contract ? If so they court will find for the contractor and award damages.
I am not interested in anecdotes. I have been part of thousands of construction projects.
I have never been on any that there was not atleast one contractor or sub that though they were being screwed.
That is pretty much never the case. Further the norm for the work Trump was involved in would be that there is either a general contractor or a project managment company all sub contractors work for THEM not the project owner.
Next pretty much 100% of the time – the architects and engineers review and approve payment applications from contractors – not owners.
“and claiming immunity.”
With near certainty you are using the wrong word.
Regardless, property owners pay general contractors and/or project management companies at the direction of the architect.
Where there is a construction loan -= which is nearly always – the banks also must approve payments.
” If Trump becomes President again, he is almost certain to dismiss any obligation regarding civil judgments.”
He can’t
“The truth is most Americans are terrified of Trump”
which is why they are voting for him over Biden ?
You see, Trump is on record admitting he embellished real estate values for loans while downplaying for taxes. So no one really knows what Trump’s properties are worth.
Everything is only worth what a buyer a seller agree to. It is an unknown number. every kid trading baseball card can explain that to tendentious idiots like you.
No one has attempted to explain how a property owner can write down the value of real property to lower tax bills. Idiots believe the impossible.
@iowan2…
Uhm not exactly.
Yes, to know the exact value you have to have an actual transaction.
But short of that, you have qualified estimates made by professionals.
Before a bank will loan you money for a home, they will hire an independent appraiser to estimate the value of the property.
Now Trump could arguably be someone who could provide an expert opinion on the value of a property, albeit he is not an appraiser.
We all agree that Trump didn’t do anything wrong and that his crime is in giving an estimate on the high side when he wants a loan, and then an estimate on the low side when it comes to taxes… noting that the tax assessment is a completely different valuation. (e.g. Mar a Lago)
The irony lost on Giggly and Denise along w their army of sock puppets is that Engoron actually proved Trump innocent when he made an estimate for Mar a Largo. He wanted so badly to prove Trump wrong, he used the low tax assessor’s valuation which the assessor told him that they shouldn’t do that. (There are quirks in FL law that make it impossible to use it for market value estimates)
Engoron actually committed fraud when attempting to find Trump guilty.
The testimony of the DB banker was akin to tossing an ice bucket of water on Engoron and James.
That should have warranted an immediate dismissal were this anyone but Trump.
-G
Totally agree banks send out appraiaers if they care – and surveyors- but today they try to sell us title lock bc they don’t do due diligence. Sick times indeed. Banks need to be on the hook any loan they Give without full due diligence – yet here we are bank not hurt state not hurt – no one hurt but there was standing – dude should have prosecuted at the time but laid in wait – we all felons everyday 4 times- go on the wrong side the ptb they dredge em up. Tyranny 101
Didn’t the Clinton’s claim their underwear as a business expense on their tax returns?
I wasn’t aware that Bill was trying to sell Hillary’s used undergarments …
Now that’s a new low.
I believe it was a claim for a charitable donation of Bill’s soiled shorts. There might conceivably be a market for those . . . but I wouldn’t give a wooden nickel for a pair.
Nope Clintons claimed the underwear as a charitable contribution, and overvalued it.
Well anonymous, I’m sure you can point to all the other fraud lawsuits by the State of New York where, without a jury, someone was fined, oh say a half a billion or more for a “fraud” where no one lost any money and no entity made a complaint? As for Trump being spoiled, sounds to me like the servant in the Bible who was given 10 ducats by his master and brought back 20 more or more like 1000 just using round numbers. As for the Trumps, it seems they have a real business, building or restoring, remodeling real things that people want to rent or buy as well as loan money for, over and over agian. As for the Bidens what have they done for their estate by the ocean? Created a whole lot of shell companies that’s what. Yes, the odor of mendacity you sure do reek pal.
“it careens about, becoming a grievance update.”
I can not speak for Turley – and you clearly suck at it.
But what you are witnessing is the growing backlash against left woke nonsense.
Are people agreived – certainly and justifiably so.
And they are doing something about it.
You, the left have taken away many legitimate options – short of violence.
But violence is NOT where this goes – YET. Though I would sugest reading a copy of the declaration of independence.
Hear is the standard for determining when violence “insurrection” is justified.
If those of you on the left do not stop, or are not otherwise disempowered first, That IS where this will go.
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Today, the next effort is at the ballot box. You have rigged that for certain. You are desparate to retain power and terrified that should you lose it, you will be treated as you have treated your political foes, and in fairness you SHOULD be treated in the same fascist fashion that you have treated others. But life is not fair, and the rule of law will be followed when you are removed from power.
Regardless, there is only so much electoral malfeasance you can actually get away with – and we are likely beyond that threshold.
While it looks like you will lose this current election – resoundingly – you MAY still pull it off. All that means is for more yoears of YOUR disasterous government making yourself even more foes, and making the backlash all the greater in the future.
For the left has a fundimental flaw. And ideology that drowns in self contradiction and can not be made to work. I admit I did not think that Biden could make as big a mess of things as he has as quickly as he has. But I had no doubt that more power to the left would result in more failure and more backlash.
You create your own enemies.
Unadulterated hogwash!! Even members of Trump’s administration have said that he is unfit to lead the country and is a danger to the Constitution. Trump has shown himself to be a misogynist, a xenophobic white supremesist. If you support that, you are that. History will vilify his behaviour and his time in office, and those who supported him will slink away and profess that they ‘never really supported Trump’s lies’.
“One suspects Professor Turley knew in advance Donald Trump would have to admit Monday that he can’t obtain proper bonding (to ensure civil judgments).”
Those on the left think people are stupid.
No one is in angst over the fraudulent judgements against Trump.
We are all watching to see how YOU deal with a lose-lose situation.
You do not seem to have grasped that you have flown yourselves into a box canyon.
It is near certain that Trump will get releif.
It is near certain this lawfare bubble will burst.
But what if it does not ? Do you think that stealing half a billion dollars is going to help you in the election ?
You still do not seem to have grasped that with all this fascist nonsense you engage in – even when you win you lose.
We are now seeing a spate of news that is trying to re-assure the left – “yes the polls still show that if Trump is convicted of something, Biden will win” – and that MIGHT be true. And you MIGHT succeed in convicting Trump of something. But I would bet heavily that either way you fail. If you do not convict Trump – you make him Stronger. And if you do convict Trump without actually convincing the people of his guilt- you will make him stronger.
Why would a fraudulent conviction by Bragg be any different from the Carroll or James cases both of which increased Trump’s polls ?
If large majority of people do not beleive that Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, or fraudulently over valued his properties, why would they beleive whatever indecipherable idiocy that Smith or Bragg or Willis are offering ?
Absolutely people will abandon Trump in droves if you convict him at a fair trial of a real and substanative crime with real evidence in front of an honest jury and honest judge.
But there is zero indication that will happen.
At each turn your claims against Trump keep falling apart.
Story after story – disintegrates.
Worse than disintegrates – disolves as you are caught in lie after lie.
The J6 insurrection narative – all lie upon lie upon lie.
Claims that the Biden’s were not involved with foreign enemies in influence peddling – lie upon lie.
Over and over we hear the left claiming – “but nothing has been proven” – except of course it has.
Most of us grasp that the Biden syndicate could easily be convicted in 90% of the courtrooms in the US.
But that is NOT the standard that matters. Sen. Menedez was NOT convicted last time he was indicted, and he might not be convicted this time. But people KNOW who he is/ They KNOW he is a crook and a sell out.
You have tried – and failed to tar and feather Trump in that fashion – But only moron’s beleive that the Biden’s are honest.
In GA you now have both the right and the left Angry with Willis and calling her to resign. She may still, though not likely.
But she is damaged goods. The country will not beleive or care about anything she manages to pull off – if she manages to do so.
The Hur report was damning – Biden has been knowingly hording, reckelssly handling and sharing classified documents for his entire political carreer. The “He cooperated” garbage has been shredded – not that it is any part of actual law. You would have us beleive that classified documents attached themselves to Joe like velcro and then dropped off to hide themselves in nooks and crannies throughout every place he has ever been in the past 50 years. That he did not know, that no one arround him knew and that the perfididity of these sneaky classified documents was only learned about a few days before the 2022 election and that immediately the appropriate authorities were called in ?
Constantly those on the left expect people to beleive absurdities.
You expect us to beleive that Hunter was shaking down hostile foreign enemies promising to deliver Joes Public power, setting them up with meetings with Joe, and that Joe had no Clue ? Worse still you expect us to beleive that Hunter is either an innocent or some robin hood character. The tens of millions that Hunter extorted from our enemies, did not go to homeless shelters. It went to drugs, alcohol, fast cars, prostitutes and crack. Hunter is no Robin of Locksley.
you expect us to beleive that Willis and Wade were not cavorting arround atlanta for years, That Willis did not hire her lover and personally profit of the public dime, and that when caught she did not lie about it repeatedly and under oath.
You expect that people are so stupid that not only don’t they know the facts – but they cam be persuaded to forget what they have seen with their own eyes.
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Some advice from Micheal Jackson
” ‘I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I’m asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make a change.’ ”
You are the problem you seek to fix in others.
This post is a distraction Mr free speech- the real news is the scouts after today’s suits is going to find no harm – no standing to censorship. Most Americans are now poor – who of them can afford to sue if the be censored? Few. But scouts is gunman find none in the case had standing – despite their vast discovery- which will mean in future no one even gets discovery- the totalitarian nose tightens and Mr free speech – distracts – from the battle at hand. I’m dissapointex.
By their fruit you will recognize them. Matthew 7:16
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/trump-allies-election-defamation-case-leak-dominion-emails/index.html
Looks like trump lawyers need more lawyers
Why is it that those of you on the left would be bitterly angry about leaking Dominion emails about the election ?
Might that be because their own words make it clear they are politically biased hacks that we should all be concerned about the control they have of elections ?
BTW our court systems are supposed to operate in public.
If you do not want your internal emails made public – do not sue someone for defamation.
If you look into the abyss, they abyss looks back.
Bottom line, everyone in power right now in America is an a h0le. There’s just no other way to put it.
You know what is an injustice? Peter Navarro is reporting to prison tomorrow to serve 4 months after JOHN ROBERTS, of the Supreme Court, personally rejected his release pending appeal. Joh Roberts is a disgrace beyond words. And the people of this country have reached a boiling point. This corruption and lawlessness from the Biden Regime will not stand.
The criminal who BELONGS IN PRISON doing serious time is Hunter Biden. Did we miss Hunter being raided by the FBI, stopped at the airport, put in leg irons, belly chains, stip searched, prosecuted for his Contempt of Congress (among all his other crimes) and then sent to serve prison time?
The politicized lawlessness and corruption must be stopped.
But who is going to do it? Merrick Garland? Not. John Roberts? Not. Who is going to stop these outlaws?
If they can do it to these high level people, they can, and ARE doing it to us.
You’ve heard Biden, Wray, Garland’s threatening words.
They have labeled us extremists, domestic terrorists, insurrectionists. Because we hold unacceptable views.
That is a very scary country to live in.
Let’s not forget Biden telling the unvaccinated that they are the problem, that his “patience is wearing thin.”
Then Biden used O.S.H.A. to try to force over 80 million workers to take experimental injections, with no informed consent, against their own judgment. This is a scary country right now under such a corrupt Biden regime.
And today we hear that Biden’s appointment to the Supreme Court, who was selected only for the color of her skin and her gender – even though she cannot define what a “woman” is — does not believe in the First Amendment. Very scary indeed.
@EmeraldRobinson
“It’s not that diversity hire Kentaji Brown Jackson has no idea about the First Amendment – it’s that she’s been placed on the Supreme Court to destroy it.”
Get a life. They are not after you unless you defy a subpoena or commit some other crime. Pete Navarro snubbed Congress. He could have shown up and said nope, ain’t gonna talk. He did not. He snubbed the subpoena.
They are not after you. DJT is telling you lies every day and you apparently are eating it up. They are not coming for you unless you commit a crime. Stop with the BS
Snubbing congress is not a crime. Navarro claimed executive priviledge. That is a very common claim made by presidential advisors.
When it is made congress is obligated to go to court and get a court to rule on whether the priviledge applies.
I personally only support very narrow claims of executive privilege.
But in reality the courts have supported claims of executive priviledge far more than they should.
But my oppinion on what should be privildged and what should not is not key.
Due process and the rule of law is what matters –
No part of government can function as prosecutor, judge and jury concurrently.
Not congress, not the executive.
Navaro was entitled to have a court weight the claim of priviledge and order him to testify or quash the subpeona BEFORE jephardy applied.
But that is not haw those on the left do things.
DOJ has refused to enforce a single congressional subpeona issued by house republicans.
Until DOJ treats people the same – regardless of party politics or views – Navaros and many other charges should be voided.
When the law is for thee but not for me – we are lawless.
Hunter Biden did not even raise a claim – he just did not show up.
No one is sending him to jail.
You can not credibly argue that Navaro shoudl be jailed, but Hunter not.
You actually can argue the reverse.
No, they are overcharging by turning misdemeanors into felonies.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/01/us-news/judges-improperly-enhanced-sentences-of-jan-6-rioters-appeals-court/
They are denying due process to J6 defendants.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/08/an-egregious-denial-of-due-process-for-jan-6-protesters/
They are still, to this day, harassing and hunting down J6 protestors who were simply there that day on the Capitol grounds.
And…they are giving these people the full perp walk treatment, just like they did to Navarro. Battering rams, guns drawn, full tactical gear, cuffing them, shackling them….all to send a message.
It’s happening bc the DOJ gave themselves a quota – of so many J6’ers to arrest and prosecute: 2,000 is their quota. Sickos. And no one in Congress, or elsewhere, gives a damn.
So yes, they are coming for you – whether you commit a crime or not. THEY will make one up if they have to.
And they are doing just that.
They are doing it to journalists as well.
See Steve Baker’s story.
Full perp walk, shackled, belly chain, cuffed, organge jumpsuit — for a misdemeanor.
Biden’s FBI is a domestic terrorist organization. Without question they have become the Gestapo for the Biden Regime.
Read more about journalist Steve Baker’s arrest and targeting by Biden’s DOJ:
Steve Baker – TPC
@TPC4USA
“All that we have seen and learned will eventually be published.
My work is in the possession of and known by several individuals. (“Deadman switches.”) DOJ can arrest me, put me in chains, place a gag order on me, and throw me under the Gulag, but they cannot have what I know or stop what’s coming. (And no . . . I did not commit suicide.)
Whether the coming story concerns USCP cover-ups, corruption, perjury, cameras being turned away from bomb investigation scenes (who ordered that?), or other issues related to J6, that runaway train has already left the station. Stay tuned for more.”
Like I said, the FBI is now arresting journalists as well.
#biden regime’s Gestapo.
Hunter Biden snubbed Congress.
Eric Holder snubbed Congress.
Who else? Lots lied under oath to Congress.
Guess what happened to them?
Nothing. Not a thing.
Why, then, was Hunter Biden not arrested on the Capitol steps as he grandstanded as he snubbed his subpoena?
A part of the point of this is just as Trump said 30 years ago – they do not want competent people to seek out public service.
While this is about Trump. It is also about sending a message – challenge us and we will send you to jail and make your life h311.
Do not challenge the status quo of political power.
While this is about Trump. It is also about sending a message
I have always said Trump was the “head on pike” at the castle gate. A warning to all that might consider entering DC uninvited. One of the few non political messages in DC.
Back to your original point about Navarro (which the other morons replying to you ignore): While I’m not a John Roberts fan, I don’t think Roberts had much choice and I don’t think Navarro had a leg to stand on when he decided not to show up after being subpoenaed. Navarro could have — and SHOULD have — shown up after being subpoenaed. Then he could have pleaded the 5th Amendment and refused to answer questions, OR he could have just hosed around, pretending not to understand what was asked, or just argued with the morons questioning him.
What he couldn’t do was ignore the subpoena and refuse to show up. He took some bad advice from his buddy Steve Bannon, and now he’s finding out how bad that advice was. I like Navarro, but he made a dumb decision based upon taking some dumb advice.
On the flip side: This only strengthens the argument that Hunter Biden should also do time in prison for refusing to show up when subpoenaed. Of course, Fake President Joetard will likely issue a blanket pardon to Hunter, probably after the November election — but as democrats are in the process of proving, presidents can only pardon federal crimes, not state crimes. So even if Joetard pardons his son, there are likely a host of state courts in republican jurisdictions just waiting to get him on any number of charges if he skates clean away with a Joetard pardon.
@TomFitton
3h
Thanks to the Chief Justice and the viciously anti-Trump DC courts, Peter Navarro officially becomes a political prisoner tomorrow.
That is a beautiful example of selective prosecution.
Hunter ignroed a congressional subpeona – Navaro atleast had executive privildge to claim – Hunter just wanted things his way.
Yet Navaro is headed to jail ?
It just struck me; somehow the democrat machine got my one email address and they think I am a democrat so they send me all these messages aimed at getting me exited about how well biden is doing and what grave damage the likes of rachel maddow and others are inflicting on Trump. What I just realized is how mendacious they are in the shear fakery of their posts. They lie unabashedly to their base on so many levels and their posts seem to be geared to (well to be kind let us say the not so sharpest tools in the tool box). I would have to say that without their mendacious manner, they would be toast.
Hey I get texts from Trump’s campaign regularly and you know damn good and well that they didn’t get my cell number from me.
The mendacity is mostly Trump’s.
Great news Benson. Viagra may be a treatment option for Alzheimer’s Disease. This could be a twofer: for your limp arguments and stiffening of your flaccid thinking
😉
For those interested this is an authentic scientific study:
Sildenafil as a Candidate Drug for Alzheimer’s Disease: Real-World Patient Data Observation and Mechanistic Observations from Patient-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neurons
We found that sildenafil treatment reduced tau hyperphosphorylation (pTau181 and pTau205) in a dose-dependent manner in both familial and sporadic AD patient iPSC-derived neurons. RNA-sequencing data analysis of sildenafil-treated AD patient iPSC-derived neurons reveals that sildenafil specifically target AD related genes and pathobiological pathways, mechanistically supporting the beneficial effect of sildenafil in AD. Conclusions:These real-world patient data validation and mechanistic observations from patient iPSC-derived neurons further suggested that sildenafil is a potential repurposable drug for AD. Yet, randomized clinical trials are warranted to validate the causal treatment effects of sildenafil in AD.
Gohel D, et al. Sildenafil as a Candidate Drug for Alzheimer’s Disease: Real-World Patient Data Observation and Mechanistic Observations from Patient-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neurons. J Alzheimers Dis. 2024 Mar 1. doi: 10.3233/JAD-231391.
Estovir, I stick to the Civility Code. Please do the same, as a good Catholic should; tch, tch.
ESTOVIR It is a generic for Viagra usually.
surely you jest in light of the lying sack of sh*t that is currently occupying the white house. If he isn’t lying, then he just can’t remember where he is or what to lie about. Pathetic pile of misfiring synapses and you would probably vote for him again because you have been so indoctrinated, so conditioned, so well manipulated that you think you have no choice – just open your eyes and inspect the history of the dem party since Woodrow Wilson (that is an easy starting point) and just take note of what they have become – and if you think that those moves are great – I would suggest that your need find a different nation to live in.
Is this the guy you’re talking about?
I didn’t realize just how mentally incapacitated this TFS can make one…I am so sorry…please seek help, it is available at no cost for those on the dole.
David, Trump tells the truth. That’s why he’s so hated. People can’t hear it so they call him crazy or persecute him if they are in a position to do so.
Kansas Elder, that is so obviously wrong that the only thing I can suggest is that you visit a mental health professional.
Speak for yourself. YOUR president and his ex-boss fundamentally transformed America into a country that is heading for communism, and you are one of their useless idiots.
So, what are we going to do? Just complain? Democrats don’t care about complaints, because they have control of all three letter agencies. They are in charge of the very system that should hold them accountable.
So what is the response that will effect actual change, and hold bad actors accountable?
We complain about the politicization far left of the entire education system, from kindergarten to medical school, to the point that it’s become unsafe for Jewish and conservative students on most college campuses. But nothing changes.
We complain about the politicization far left of the public broadcasting system, paid for with taxpayer dollars that amounts to free Democrat advertising, but nothing changes.
We complain about Google search engines serving the Democrat Party, and most of the media becoming Democrat PR. Nothing changes.
We complain about the weaponization of the justice system, and 3 letter agencies, against prominent Republicans, but nothing changes.
Democrats urged on the riots that tore this nation apart for a year, bombed federal buildings, burned a police precinct to the ground, and seized entire city blocks. Trump told his followers to peacefully let their voices be heard, otherwise known as exercising the First Amendment, and he’s in court. Every Democrat has called every election they lost stolen, but Trump is in court for sincerely believing that the 2020 election was rigged. Nearly every day, we discuss how the government colludes with private enterprise like the media, social media, and Hollywood, to harm Republicans and help Democrats, but calling the system rigged is de facto illegal for Republicans. Biden stole classified documents and kept them in his garage, read them to his ghostwriter, and sent them to his Chinese-funded think tank at the Penn-Biden Center, and gets away with it. Trump had the right to declassify documents as President, coordinated with the FBI on how to store them, and quarreled via his lawyers with the National Archives on what he had to turn over, and he’s in court. NY Democrat real estate moguls estimate property values on a daily basis, and banks either agree or disagree, yet Democrat activists in NY would strip him of half a billion dollars for doing the same.
We are a banana republic, in a single party state. Democrat claims to represent democracy are ludicrous.
Karen: you don’t speak for most Americans, so stop referring to “we”. Democrats did NOT “urge on riots” that happened, if you recall, after the brutal murder of George Floyd. And, please stop trying to make the case that Trump told his fans to be “peaceful”–his words were “fight like hell or you’re not going to have a country any more.” How do you “peacefully”…”fight like hell”? You consistently choose to ignore: 1. pre Jan 6th planning meetings at the war room at the Willard Hotel–rented the day after Election Day, attended by the following: John Eastman, Roger Stone, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Joe Oltmann, Bernard Kerik, Boris Epshtyn and Christina Bobb, members of far-right militia groups, among others. And, there was another “war room” at the Trump International Hotel; there are multiple posts on like with photographic proof; these meetings were for the purpose of planning how to circumvent Biden’s win, how to stir up Trump’s fans into believing the lie that he lost due to fraud, and how to try to stop Pence from certifying Biden’s victory; 2. reconnaisance missions by the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers–to plot on the best way to distract the Capitol Police at one potential point of entry to make another point accessible; this was testified to by a British journalist who was embedded with the Proud Boys; 3. cache of weapons stored in a hotel room in Virginia, waiting for Trump’s “call to arms”; 4. Bear spray, guns and other makeshift weapons, like flagpoles, used by Trump fans to force their way into the Capitol; 5. far-right militia groups arriving in helmets and flak vests–why would you need weapons, helmets and flak vests for a “peaceful protest”–and WHAT were they “protesting”? They weren’t “protesting”–they had planned to and were intending to break into the Capitol to try to stop Pence from accepting the certified votes. The plot included a plan to submit falsified Electoral College documents and to use both tactics to get Congress to claim they couldn’t determine the winner–thinking that Congress would throw the question to state legislatures that would award Trump the presidency, even though he lost. This planned break-in was coordinated and planned by Trump and those listed above, among others. AND, it was this plot to circumvent the will of the American people that is getting Trump hauled into Court–not the First Amendment. This conduct cannot be allowed to stand unchallenged.
Trump is incapable of sincerity because he is a malignant narcissist and chronic, habitual liar. He KNEW he lost: a. because all polls predicted he would lose; b. the country was in turmoil–COVID out of control, daily new records for infections and deaths, economy in a tailspin, with unemployment in double-digits, schools, businesses, restaurants and leisure travel closed down, shortages of computer chips and consumer goods; c. Chris Krebs, Trump’s own hed of cybersecurity, when asked about helping him prove there was fraud, told Trump that 2020 was the most-secure in history. He got fired for telling this truth; d. all of Trump’s election consultants told him that in-person voting would favor him, but mail and absentee ballots would not, and that he shouldn’t get enthused about early returns–he actually tried to stop mail and absentee ballots from getting counted and tried to force Fox to retract calling Arizona for Biden; e. he started claiming fraud even before Election Day, claiming that the only way he could lose would be if the election was stolen–despite all the polls predicting he would lose; he took a victory lap at 2:00 a.m., even before all of the votes were counted. Then the “Stop the Steal” lie tours were done–all to stir up people into believing the Big Lie.
Biden did not STEAL classified documents–Trump did. The difference is intent and how the discovery of the possession of the documents was handled. Biden did not deliberately take documents with the intent to keep them. Trump did–he took them after being told he couldn’t have them. Upon discovery of the documents (all going back years when he was VP) Biden immediately contacted the Archives and turned over the papers. Trump ignored polite requests to return the documents, returned some, lied about returning the rest, moved boxes of documents around to prevent the FBI and his lawyer from finding and returning them, tried to destroy security footage proving boxes were moved around and stored them in unsecure locations. Trump lied about “mentally” declassifying documents–there is a process for both classifying and declassifying documents that involves a paper trail–that does not exist for the documents Trump stole. There was no “Chinese funded” think tank that held Biden’s papers, either.
As to Trump’s NY woes–he lied for years by inflating the values of his assets, so he could borrow more money on better terms than if he had told the truth. For the same time period, he downplayed the value of his assets for tax purposes, which proves that the false valuations on the financial documents were deliberate. The issue is not whether he defaulted on the loans–the issue is intentional misrepresentation that could have resulted in lenders losing–Trump has previously defaulted on loans and took bankruptcy 6 times. He got tagged for the value he gained from his lying. The NY AG is responsible for protecting the integrity of the financial markets that are headquartered in New York.
You have both proven the mutually assured destruction and bipartisan corruption.
“There was no “Chinese funded” think tank that held Biden’s papers, either.”
Please.
Biden’s Penn Center is funding almost entirely by the Chinese Communist Party. Those documents all over the Penn Center and Chinatown were fully accessible to the Chinese and Hunter the bagman too.
Biden stole every single document he had no authority to have in his possession going back for 40 years.
Biden is a criminal who has been selling his political office since the day he got inside to enrich himself and his sick, degenerate crime family. That is a fact.
Biden not only did not have authority to possess the documents, he is on record admitting that he KNEW this. Biden is one of the biggest lying scumbag criminals to ever be installed illegitimately into the Presidency in order to let the leftist/globalists destroy the country while he sits on the beach eating ice cream.
Trump will never concede that he lost the election — because it was stolen. He knows it. They know it. And he will never give them that concession. Nor should he. Biden did not win. It was stolen. That is what happened.
It’s scary how brainwashed the left has made all of you with their constant propaganda and lying. You don’t even know how truly DISinformed you all are.
Here’s what Newsweek’s fact checkers found about Trump’s lie that the Penn Center is funded and controlled by the Chinese:
Unverified.
Evidence shows the University of Pennsylvania has received donations from China. However, the claim that the Penn Biden Center is directly Chinese-funded is somewhat misleading. The Center is paid for by the university, of which funding from donors makes a fraction of total contributions, and donations from China are an even smaller fraction of that. Currently, there is no public evidence that the Penn Biden Center is directly funded by donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania. Therefore, at present, we rate this claim as Unverified.
Oh make no mistake, the Biden Penn Center is flush with Chinese Communist Party funding.
So are the Biden family’s offshore accounts.
So is Harvard, Penn, Yale, all the Poison Ivy’s have no qualms taking tens of millions from the Chinese Communists and Quatar – home of Hammas.
Get a life. Biden has done great. How many troops are in Afghanistan? It wasn’t trump that said enough is enough.
How’s the economy doing after trump failed miserably with his COVID policy that can be summed up in “it will just go away some day”. Give me a break. trump is and was a disaster, Biden is no spring chicken but at least the rest of the western world doesn’t think so bad about us anymore.
Follow your leaders advice, grab em by the pussy because you can.
Sure, Biden has done great. LOL.
“JUST IN – Supreme Court indefinitely blocks Texas from enforcing immigration law. — CNN”
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“There is no legal remedy to even slow down the coordinated invasion of our country.
Realize where we are.”
@Oilfield_Rando
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
“We have imported the criminal underworlds of 100 different countries
And the Biden Administration does nothing”
🚨𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 – Federal Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman has determined that illegals have the right to bear arms.
In a recent ruling, Judge Coleman declared that the federal law barring illegal immigrants from possessing guns violated the Second Amendment.
You can’t make this up, they want to strip citizens of their Second Amendment rights and give them to illegals.
These are their new soldiers.
This is Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman’s courtroom number, leave a polite but firm message on what you think of her decision.
(312) 435-6885
How’s the economy doing after trump failed miserably with his COVID policy that can be summed up in “it will just go away some day”.
That is exactly what happened. Like all respiratory viruses, covid burned itself out. The lies came from Fauci that he could “manage” a pandemic. Centuries of history would not be denied
So you know more about how the U of PA funds this project than the University itself? Or, maybe you’re calling them liars? WHAT offshore accounts? Do you have any proof? Or , are you just regurgitating the lies you heard on pro-Trump media?
WaPo called the majority of Trumps 30,000 lies misleading, not outright lies so since this claim is somewhat misleading, it should be considered a lie
There is so much nonsense in this scribe, so much laughable said about the saintly Biden, that I will just comment on your very last sentence. The NY AG is responsible for protecting the integrity of the financial markets that are headquartered in New York. This corrupt AG has succeeded in causing an unprecedented flight from the City and the State of businesses with plans to bring great projects here. O’Leary himself has announced that the plans for a 4 billion dollar power plant planned for UpState NY has been scratched all because of what this corrupt AG has done to one of our most important business leaders who just happened to be a President of the USA. Smart and successful business leaders are wary of starting up here because of what this greedy and highly unethical “lawyer” can do on a whim. But her day is coming.
Well stated! 100% correct!