Below is my column in the Hill on the most compelling grounds for an appeal in the Trump case after his conviction on 34 counts in Manhattan. There has been considerable criticism of the defense team and its strategy in the case, including some moves that may undermine appellate issues. However, after the instructions became public, I wrote a column that I thought the case was nearly un-winnable, even for those of us who previously saw a chance for a hung jury. Clarence Darrow would likely have lost with those instructions after the errors in the case by Judge Juan Merchan. At that point, it became a legal canned hunt. So the attention will now shift to the appellate courts. While it may be tough going initially in the New York court system for the former president, this case could well end up in the federal system and the United States Supreme Court. The thrill kill environment of last week may then dissipate as these glaring errors are presented in higher courts.
Here is the column:
The conviction of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan of 34 felonies produced citywide celebrations. This thrill-kill environment extended to the media, where former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that it was “majestic day” and “a day to celebrate.” When I left the courthouse after watching the verdict come in, I was floored by the celebrations outside by both the public and some of the media.
The celebrants would be wise to think twice before mounting this trophy kill on the political wall. The Trump trial is a target-rich environment for an appeal, with multiple layers of reversible error, in my view.
I am less convinced by suggestions that the case could be challenged on the inability of Trump receiving a fair trial in a district that voted roughly 90 percent against him. The problem was not the jury, but the prosecutors and the judge.
Some of the most compelling problems can be divided into four groups.
The Judge
Acting Supreme Court justice Juan Merchan was handpicked for this case rather than randomly selected. This is only the latest in a litany of Trump cases where Merchan has meted out tough rulings against Trump and his organization. With any other defendant, there would likely be outrage over his selection. Merchan donated to President Biden. Even though the state bar cleared that violation based on the small size of the contribution, it later stressed that no such contributions were appropriate for a judge. We learned later that Merchan has contributed to a group to stop the GOP and Trump. Merchan’s daughter is also a Democratic organizer who has helped raise millions against Trump and the GOP and for the Democrats.
To his credit, CNN legal analyst Elie Honig has previously said that this case was legally dubious, uniquely targeted Trump and could not succeed outside of an anti-Trump district. On the judge, he recently challenged critics on the fairness of assigning a Biden donor who has earmarked donations for “resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.” He asked “Would folks have been just fine with the judge staying on the case if he had donated a couple bucks to “Re-elect Donald Trump, MAGA forever!”? “Absolutely not.”
What is equally disturbing is the failure of Merchan to protect the rights of the defendant and what even critics admit were distinctly pro-prosecution rulings in the trial. It is not just the appearance of a conflict with Judge Merchan but a record of highly biased decisions. In watching Merchan in the courtroom, I was shocked by his rulings as at times incomprehensible and conflicted.
The Charges
A leading threshold issue will be the decision to allow Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to effectively try Trump for violations of federal law. The Justice Department declined any criminal charges against Trump under federal election law over the alleged “hush money” payments. The Federal Election Commission likewise found no basis for a civil fine. With no federal prosecution, Bragg decided to use an unprecedented criminal theory not only to zap a dead misdemeanor into life (after the expiration of the statute of limitation) but to allow him to try violations of not only federal election law but also federal taxation violations. In other words, the Justice Department would not prosecute federal violations, so Bragg effectively did it in state court.
Even when closing arguments were given, analysts on various networks admitted that they were unclear about what Bragg was alleging. The indictment claimed a violation under New York’s election law 17-152 that the falsification of business records were committed to further another crime as an unlawful means to influence the election. However, in a maddeningly circular theory, that other crime could be the falsification of business records. It could also be violations of federal election and taxation laws, which Trump was never charged with, let alone convicted of.
The Evidence
Judge Merchan allowed a torrent of immaterial and prejudicial evidence to be introduced into the trial by the prosecution. That included testimony from porn actress Stormy Daniels that went into details about having sex with Trump. She included a clear suggestion that Trump raped her. After this utterly disgraceful testimony, Merchan expressed regret but actually blamed the defense counsel, despite their prior objections to the testimony. He had previously chastised counsel for making continued objections, but now he criticized them for not continuing to make objections.
Merchan was equally conflicted in his other orders. For example, he allowed the prosecutors to introduce the plea agreement of Michael Cohen to federal election violations as well as the non-prosecution agreement of David Pecker on such violations. However, it was allowed only for the purposes of credibility and context. He issued an instruction that the jury could not consider the plea or the agreement to establish or impute the guilt of Trump.
The prosecutors then proceeded to expressly state that it was “a fact” that federal election violations occurred in this case and that Trump ordered those violations. They also solicited such statements from witnesses like Cohen. Merchan overruled the objections that the prosecutors were eviscerating his instruction. Merchan also barred the use of a legal expert, former FEC Chair Brad Smith, who was prepared to testify that such payments cannot be viewed as federal election violations and would not affect the election even if they were considered contributions, since they would not even have had to be reported until after the election.
Merchan is likely to be upheld in denying the expert, since the court retains the authority to state what the law is to the jury. The problem is that Merchan failed to do so. Worse still, he allowed the jury to hear the opposite in the repeated false claim that these payments were campaign contributions.
The Instructions
Even with all of the reversible errors, some of us held out hope that there might be a hung jury. That hope was largely smashed by Merchan in his instructions to the jury. The court largely used standard instructions in a case that was anything but standard. However, the instruction also allowed for doubt as to what the jury would ultimately find. When the verdict came in, we were still unsure what Trump was convicted of.
Merchan allowed the jury to find that the secondary offense was any of the three vaguely defined options. Even on the jury form, they did not have to specify which of the crimes were found. Under Merchan’s instruction, the jury could have split 4-4-4 on what occurred in the case. They could have seen a conspiracy to conceal a federal election violation, falsification of business records or taxation violations. We will never know. Worse yet, Trump will never know.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized that the requirement of unanimity in criminal convictions is sacrosanct in our system. While there was unanimity that the business records were falsified to hide or further a second crime, there was no express finding of what that crime may have been. In some ways, Trump may have been fortunate by Merchan’s cavalier approach. Given that the jury convicted Trump across the board, they might have found all of three secondary crimes. The verdict form never asked for such specificity.
These are just a few of the appellate issues. There are other challenges, including but not limited to due process violations on the lack of specificity in the indictment, vagueness of the underlying state law and the lack of evidentiary foundation for key defenses like “the legitimate press function.” They are the reason why many of us view this case is likely to be reversed in either the state or federal systems. None of that is likely to dampen the thrill in this kill in Manhattan.
But if Biden wins the election before this conviction is overturned, history’s judgment will be deafening.
Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.
I like bananas. They have appeal.
I like little boys. cornholing them is my specialty
In our current Lawfare world, don’t be surprised if some Soros-backed DA isn’t scouring the books to find a way to indict Trump for his campaign receiving a massive haul in contributions, post-conviction.
I stand corrected. Since the verdict, Trump has hauled in over 200 million dollars. Keep persecuting(prosecuting) Trump. All Trump, all the time. Bring it on.
Independent Bob said: “Since the verdict, Trump has hauled in over 200 million dollars. Keep persecuting(prosecuting) Trump.”
I think that, in November, when holding his first press conference after his win is confirmed. Trump should make a statement similar to this: “I’d like to thank Juan Merchan and Alvin Bragg for their invaluable help in achieving this victory”. I don’t think he would do that for several reasons, but I would find it extremely gratifying.
Professor Turley Writes:
“We learned later that Merchan has contributed to a group to stop the GOP and Trump. Merchan’s daughter is also a Democratic organizer–
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If Professor Turley really believes Judge Merchan has conflicts here, then Turley should call for Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves from the Trump immunity case.
Both Alito and Thomas have wives who clearly sided with Trump in the latter’s ‘stop the steal’ effort.
Ginni Thomas, in particular, went far beyond casual sympathies; making phone calls to whoever would listen.
Yet Martha Alito hanged an American flag upside down at the couple’s home. Justice Alito’s response to that flag episode reeked of sarcasm when he explained that his wife ‘legally owns half the house’.
No one with any political savvy believes that Alito and Thomas have ‘no control over their wives’. Obviously these women should understand that their husbands must look impartial.
Ironically Alito wrote the Dobbs decision which pretends that women aren’t capable of thinking for themselves.
Yes -‘ follow suit with all the leftist judges who have recused themselves for anything.
Are you married?
Dufus says:
Are you married
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Dufus wants to say, “You can’t tell women what to do”.
Again, if this is true, then why does the Dobbs decision put women’s health in the hands of older, white male legislators?
Lmao says the idiot who backed forced vaccinations
Who would marry that fool?
Mayor Pete?
A ‘Stay’ for Trump (it’s a no brainer)
“The standard for Stay determinations ostensibly includes four factors:
(1) the likelihood of success on appeal; (at least 50/50 for Trump)
(2) the likelihood of irreparable harm pending appeal; (If the Election swings to Biden because of the effect, the harm to Trump is irreparable)
(3) the balance of the hardships; and (Trump is juggling 4 Trials and a Election Campaign)
(4) the public interest.” (It’s a National Presidential Election at Stake – the Public’s interest is self evident)
[Link] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_of_proceedings#United_States
Due to how this Case (Bragg/Trump) proceeded State Charges expanding into Federal Charges,
The Defense could file several Motions to Stay at once:
One at the State level with:
New York State Court of Appeals – First Department
Three at the Federal Level with:
Appellate Court – United States Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
Supreme Court Assoc. Justice Sonia Sotomayor – 2nd Circuit (Directly)
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. – Federal Circuit (Directly)
George Soros funded DA Alvin Bragg had made Manhattan more dangerous while keeping his campaign promise to get Trump.
While Alvin Bragg Was Having a Trump Trial
In the 28 days ending May 26, a period that covers about two-thirds of Mr. Trump’s trial, the New York Police Department’s patrol boroughs of Manhattan North and Manhattan South reported 4,900 total arrests, according to the NYPD’s CompStat crime tracking program. That figure is up about 700 compared with a year earlier. It includes six arrests for murder, 12 for rape, 15 grand theft auto, 210 burglary, 214 robbery, 362 grand larceny (over $1,000), and 390 felony assault.
If those numbers sound astronomical, keep in mind that roughly 1.6 million people live in Manhattan. What’s important is the trend, and it isn’t encouraging. Last year the NYPD’s Manhattan precincts filed more than 33,000 complaints on seven major felonies, including 73 murders and non-negligent manslaughters, 3,800 robberies, 5,100 felony assaults, and 18,000 grand larcenies. That overall total is down 4.4% from 2022, but it’s still up 22.5% from 2019, the year before Covid hit.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/while-alvin-bragg-was-having-a-trump-trial-new-york-crime-rate-47234917
“CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU?”
Chief Justice Taney was compelled to respond within three days to Lincoln’s high criminal act of suspending habeas corpus.
The Supreme Court must have struck down the Obama, Biden, Garland, Colangelo, Bragg conspiracy to subvert law and suborn an illegal prosecution at the outset.
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After the start of the Civil War, President Lincoln ordered General Winfield Scott to suspend habeas corpus…
On May 25, 1861, federal troops arrested a Maryland planter, John Merryman, on suspicion that he was involved in a conspiracy as part of an armed secessionist group. Merryman was detained at Fort McHenry without a warrant. Merryman’s attorney petitioned the U.S. Circuit Court for Maryland, which Taney oversaw, for his client’s release.
On May 26, Taney issued a writ of habeas corpus and ordered General George Cadwalader, Fort McHenry’s commander, to appear in the circuit courtroom along with Merryman and to explain his reasons for detaining Merryman.
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“The clause in the Constitution which authorizes the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus is in the ninth section of the first article. This article is devoted to the Legislative Department of the United States, and has not the slightest reference to the Executive Department.”
“I can see no ground whatever for supposing that the President in any emergency or in any state of things can authorize the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, or arrest a citizen except in aid of the judicial power.”
“I have exercised all the power which the Constitution and laws confer on me, but that power has been resisted by a force too strong for me to overcome.”
– Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, May 28, 1861
Please leave Trump’s family out of it. His wife does not have to explain her thoughts to ANYONE. Do you not have any shame? It is surprising to me how people talk about another’s feelings, thought process when they can’t seem to take ownership for their own. You are Not in someone else’s mind, sadly you only have your own.
Dennis is just here to promote his Supermarket Tabloid.
He is allowed to continue to post, in spite of this fact. He does not desire discourse, but lays his steaming turds simply so he can sit back and admire them.
He is a classic narcissist who sees himself as intellectual and clever, whereas most people view him as just a dimwitted punk.
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
– William Casey, CIA Director
An attorney for Donald Trump sent a “cease and desist” letter to ProPublica threatening legal action while trying to kill the award-wining nonprofit news outlet’s latest bombshell on the convicted ex-president.
“Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares and cash from Trump’s media company,” ProPublica reported Monday. “If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime.”
“award-wining nonprofit news outlet”. Yes, and the New York Times was given awards for supressing the story of the Ukranian genocide in the ’30s and for pushing the Russiagate Hoax in 2016-18. The leftists giving prizes are no more honest than the leftists writing the stories.
Building on Estovir’s earlier post.
Every time I watch Fauci speak, I want to vomit. The dude is the biggest Fraud ever perpetrated on the US public.
So imagine this. He said today, speaking about the bs six feet rule, that we “now know that aerosol is a component, and not just droplets. We didnt know that then.”
What the fvck???
This is from the “expert” who spent BILLIONS of tax dollars over YEARS on coronavirus research, claiming it was preparing for a pandemic, and he never bothered to determine HOW the goddam thing spreads???
Horse shit.
Take that biggest idiot award back from George/Dennis/Gigi and give it to Fauci
The funniest part about that is, “gee this thing is spreading like wildfire, are people all over the world spitting in each others faces this much”???
The brilliant Fauci needed a better clue than the transmission rate.
If this stands, and the election is not a real election, we are going to be in a world of hurt, all of us. Modern dems are insane, they do not care about anyone beyond their bubbles, and they are very much intentionally about to set our nation on fire. Professor and others: wake up. There is no longer a dem ‘party’. The rest of us do the right thing and survive by whole hog rejecting them; or we decline into something unimaginable. People that still vote blue are too ignorant to even discuss. At this point, that would take a master level class.
Well there is always the alternative to stand and fight for your freedom. Just ask Los Pepe or Napolean Duarte…
Speaking of frauds, lies and rigged elections….
Many leading scientists today at elite universities and research organizations are accusing Dr Anthony Fauci of perjury to Congress on multiple accounts like Dr Richard Ebright, Ph.D. (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) degrees from Harvard University
Not a good day for Fauci, but a great day for Americans to witness the man who is responsible for the untold deaths and harm from COVID lockdowns. Democrats of course are protecting him because they hate discovery. Lying is in their mutated DNA
😉
https://x.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1797681838477209996
Richard H. Ebright
@R_H_Ebright
A parade of perjury by the witness.
A parade of partisanship by the Subcommittee, especially the Subcommittee minority
Richard H. Ebright
@R_H_Ebright
Perjury in almost every answer.
Fauci needs to be referred for prosecution for perjury.
12:53 PM · Jun 3, 2024
Peter Tobias
@PeterTobias8
I’m not as knowledgeable about the case as you. Could you give two or three examples of perjury by Fauci?
Richard H. Ebright
@R_H_Ebright
He perjuriously denied:
-Funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan
-Funding ePPP research in Wuhan
-Possibility that NIH-funded viruses coulsd have caused pandemic
-Suppresssing lab-origin hypothesis
-Knowing about his staff’s criminal activities
1:28 PM · Jun 3, 2024
JT is taking up the position of legal tactician on a single case. Since he has written extensively on speech freedom, I’d like to take the discussion to the 40,000 ft. level.
When, during a Presidential campaign, a candidate moves to cover-up scandalous, derrogatory information, where does that manipulation of public opinion stand as a 1) moral issue, and 2) legal issue?
There is an argument that the electorate’s need-to-know in a democracy eclipses the privacy rights of the candidate.
Before you go taking sides (based on Trump v. Biden), consider that BOTH candidates have been caught in cover-ups (Stormy Daniels cover-up, Hunter’s laptop cover-up), and that the candidate sustained the cover-up and went on to win their election (2016, 2020). If you are more rule-of-law vs. tribalist, then you have to accept the question without immediately taking refuge in a double-standard. These won’t be the last attempts to dupe the public by a candidate for Highest Office.
So, irrespective of who you want to win any election, is the public’s right-to-know superior to the candidate’s overpowering impulse to cover up ugly warts? This is the starting point in sorting out what to do about cover-ups.
What sayest you? Give us your sincere value judgment.
Stormy’s problem is that she did not “cover up.” Uncovering was her game.
YAWN
Check it out, Dennis the Draft Dodger, in his daily Pedophile Supermarket Tabloid column, asks the burning question on every child pornographers mind…Where’s Melania??
Baron has been attending scool down here in South Florida & Melania has been parenting him.
Jonathan: The big Q is where is Melania? She never attended the criminal trial of her husband–something you would expect from a loyal and supportive wife. And post conviction Melania has still been absent. DJT is apparently alone at Trump Tower. There is a photo of DJT taken next to a very young attractive blond woman in the Trump Tower lobby. DJT is seen smiling and is holding up his right thumb up. I won’t speculate about what that means.
Then there is a video of DJT leaving Trump Tower over the weekend. Again Melania is no where to be seen. The video shows DJT walking alone out the entrance. He then stops, turns to his right and starts waiving. The camera pans to the right outside but there is no one there. The area outside the entrance is completely empty! A very weird video.
Apparently, then DJT flew to Charlotte for a Nascar race. The video shows DJT standing far away from the racetrack in an empty parking lot–He is again shown waiving at the crowd in the stadium but they’re obviously too far away to even see him. The crowd is cheering for the drivers. What are the two videos about? It’s a propaganda campaign. To use the videos, superimpose them with video of cheering MAGA crowds at previous rallies–all in an attempt to convince people that DJT still has support among his followers–in spite of the fact he is now a “convicted felon”. Would DJT’s campaign resort to doctoring videos? Sure. He does it all the time!
Finally, DJT was on “Fox and Friends” yesterday complaining about all the “salacious things” Stormy Daniels had to say about him when she testified–things DJT still claims “never happened”. DJT said: “I have a wonderful wife who has to listen to this stuff…she’s fine bit it’s harder on her”. Well, if DJT has a “wonderful wife” why wasn’t she at the Fox interview to show her support for him.
But Melania doesn’t get a pass. There is a Latin phrase “qui tacet consertire viditur”–which loosely translated means “He [or she] who is silent gives their consent”. Melania’s silence speaks volumes about her failure to speak out on all of DJT’s crimes!
Dennis’s brain worm just starved to death.
One of the problems is that the plea bargain process is corrupt to the core at all levels of the judiciary. Not much you can do about that in an appeal. What should have happened is that people like the professor should have been noting the thorough corruption of it for years now.
The example at hand involves Cohen. Cohen plead guilty to a number of charges in a plea bargain. The prosecutors were never going to charge Cohen with FEC violations. Unlike the other charges he plead guilty to, he volunteered to plead guilty to these in the hopes that he would be viewed as a cooperating witness and not receive jail time. Prosecutors had already tried this FEC stunt with John Edwards. Fortunately, at least some justices prevailed there and Edwards was not found guilty.
Back to Cohen. How ethical is it for prosecutors to accept a guilty plea from a defendant when they had no intention of actually trying the defendant for those charges? Well it isn’t of course — except in the judicial system we’re stuck with. There it’s perfectly fine.
It looks like the Prosecution and Merchan gave the jury the impression that FEC violations were a matter of fact, and the jury deliberations took place with that understanding. The former head of the FEC says exactly the opposite should have occurred.
Ask any elections law expert on this area of FEC law, and the best you’re going to get out of them is probably or probably not. Even they can’t give you a straight answer.
But don’t worry. Unless your Donald Trump, the most you’ll get is a fine.
See below for another installment of Gigi’s Reality
In her world the inflation rate was 8% whenTrump left office
In her world, the 12th Amendment prohibits the prez and VP from being from the same state.
In her world, more people died of Covid under Trump than Biden
In her world, Texas makes electricity from crude oil
In her world, the President can ban all abortions.
In her world, unemployment isnt essentially the same as it was before Covid
In her world, the President creates jobs
In her world, the Biden planned tax rollbacks wont cost families making less than 250k, two grand a year
In her world, real mean wages have not gone down under Biden
In her world, printing $6T dollars doesnt cause inflation, tariffs do (but not bidens tariffs)
In her world, the average cost for financing a new home has not QUADRUPLED under Biden
In her world, Section 1182(f) does not exist.
In her world, Trump emboldened Putin but he waited until Trump was gone to act on it.
In her world, the US doesnt have the 60th ranked GDP growth rate
i reject your reality and substitute my own
——-Gigi the Pathological Liar
Turley’s piece is heavy on argument and light on legal citiation–correct that–there’s none. Turley claims there were “pro-prosecution rulings”–what were they and why do such rulings constitute reversibe error? Turley complains that Trump was tried for violations of federal law that the DOJ didn’t prosecute–wanna know why? Because Bill Barr, Trump’s lackey AG was in charge of the DOJ and pulled the plug on the investigation. Turley cites no law that says that violations of federal election and tax law cannot serve as the additional law violations that would elevate falsification of business records to a felony under New York law.
Turley keeps harping on Judge Merchan being “conflicted”–a frequent MAGA media talking point, but admits that Judge Merchan sought an opinion from an ethics committee. EVERY judge in the State of New York is elected, so EVERY judge would have some political partisan affiliation. There’s no requirement that a judge sitting on a case involving a political candidate must be from the same political party as that candidate. Just another MAGA talking point Turley is paid to reinforce.
Turley complains that Judge Merchon allowed Michael Cohen’s plea agreement and the agreement not to prosecute Pecker into evidence for purposes of attacking their credibility–but he doesn’t explain how or why this prejudiced Trump. Cohen and Pecker both were adverse witnesses to Trump, so how does the allowance of this evidence for purposes of impeachment prejudice Trump? Turley doesn’t explain.
As to the so-called “election expert” who would purportedly opine about applicable law–Turley knows that the law comes from the bench, not from an expert witness. Federal Evidence Rule 702 states, in relevant part:
“…Rule 702 states that expert testimony must (a) help the trier of fact understand the evidence or determined a fact at issue, (b) be based on sufficient facts or data, (c) be based on reliable principles and methods, and (d) be based on principles and methods reliably applied to facts of the case.”
Expert witnesses help a jury understand and determine A FACT AT ISSUE–not the law. For example: the crashworthiness of an automobile, the standard of care for a physician, engineering standards for highway design. These are FACT questions for which an expert is helpful. Judge Merchan was correct to bar an expert who purported to advise the jury that what Trump didn’t wasn’t a violation of law.
Judge Merchan gave STANDARD jury instructions–the reason for standard jury instructions is that they were drafted and found to be correct renditions of applicable law–there is no reversible error for this.
And, the jury was instructed that they didn’t have to be unanimous as to what law violations there were–just that there WERE such violations. JT cites no law to support his arguments.
Gigi – the FEC, not Bill Barr, voted to not investigate Trump for a campagn violation regarding the payment to Ms. Stormy. https://www.axios.com/2021/05/07/fec-drop-trump-hush-money-case Even if they had investigted and found that there was a campaign violation, the penalty would have been a relatively small amount of money, far less probably than the fine Hillary Clinton was hit with for lying about the funding for the Steele dossier.
See below for another installment of Gigi’s Reality
In her world the inflation rate was 8% whenTrump left office
In her world, the 12th Amendment prohibits the prez and VP from being from the same state.
In her world, more people died of Covid under Trump than Biden
In her world, Texas makes electricity from crude oil
In her world, the President can ban all abortions.
In her world, unemployment isnt essentially the same as it was before Covid
In her world, the President creates jobs
In her world, the Biden planned tax rollbacks wont cost families making less than 250k, teo grand a year
In her world, real mean wages have not gone down under Biden
In her world, printing $6T dollars doesnt cause inflation, tariffs do (but not bidens tariffs)
In her world, the average cost for financing a new home has not QUADRUPLED under Biden
In her world, Section 1182(f) does not exist.
In her world, Trump emboldened Putin but he waited until Trump was gone to act on it.
In her world, the US doesnt have the 60th ranked GDP growth rate
i reject your reality and substitute my own
——-Gigi the Pathological Liar
Yawn
Professor…….Honestlawyermostly and I are so grateful for this blog, and all that it gives us…….a treasure trove of facts, insights, compelling critiques of what is happening in and out of our legal system. Thank you!
Amen! We come here for Professor Turley’s legal analysis so as to guide us, inform us, prepare us for likely “next steps”
The ranting comments by the Media Matters DNC paid trolls confirm everything JT says. They also remind us that evil exists and to be alert….
Remain sober and alert, for your enemy the devil is on the prowl like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Resist him and be firm in your faith, for you are well aware that your brethren throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.
– 1 Peter 5:8-9
Wow, first peter. Well done sir. I see your stupidity and raise you this.
1 Peter 2:18-19
New International Version
18 Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. 19 For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God.
Isn’t that just so beautiful??
Yes, and these arent the words of Peter or Paul, these are the infallible words of God himself. So they are JUST as relevant today, and not subject to societal evolution.
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever.
Amen!!!
18 Alter boys, in reverent fear of the Pope, submit yourselves to your priests, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who dont use lube. 19 For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of cornholing because they are conscious of the Pope.
Corrected to reflect Estovir’s “church”
Thank you, Estovir!
Cindy likes the idea of slaves too, apparently.