Below is my column in the New York Post on the vicious attacks being directed at Judge Aileen Cannon as she addresses pre-trial motions in the Florida prosecution of former president Donald Trump. The sheer hypocrisy in the media is overwhelming after denouncing any criticism of Judge Juan Merchan in the Manhattan prosecution. For Cannon, it is nothing short of a press pile-on.
Here is the column:
The politicians, the press, and pundits are in a feeding frenzy around Judge Aileen Cannon, the federal judge presiding in the Florida case against former President Donald Trump. There is a torrent of hit pieces and petty attacks on virtually every media platform.
What is impressive is the complete lack of self-awareness over the hypocrisy of these attacks. Just a few weeks ago, the New York Times and other media outlets went into vapors when anyone uttered criticism of Manhattan Justice Juan Merchan in another Trump case.
In 2020, Judge Cannon was confirmed in a bipartisan vote, with the support of liberals such as Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.).
Now she is being denounced as a “partisan, petty prima donna, “wacko, crazy, loony, nutty, ridiculous, and outlandish,” and a “right-wing hack.” From the descriptions in the Washington Post, New York Times and virtually every mainstream media outlet, you would think that Cannon was a freak in the courtroom, raving uncontrollably at any passerby.
These critics often stress that she is an appointee of Trump, even though many Trump appointees have ruled against the former president on 2020 election issues. And these same figures denounced Trump for attacking the perceived political bias of Democratic nominees in some of his cases.
Cannon was randomly selected, as opposed to Merchan, who was hand-picked to try Trump even though he is a political donor to President Joe Biden and has a daughter who is a major Democratic operative.
Yet these same figures denounced those who questioned Merchan’s refusal to step aside or criticized his rulings against Trump throughout the trial.
In reality, the “loose Cannon” spin is utterly disconnected with her actual rulings.
She has ruled for and against both parties on major issues. That includes the rejection of major motions filed by the Trump team and most recently challenged Trump counsel on their claims that the Special Counsel is part of “a shadow government.”
Notably, when Cannon recently rejected the main motion for dismissal by the Trump team, the Washington Post buried that fact in an article titled “Judge Cannon Strikes Paragraph in Trump Classified Document Indictment.” The suggestion was that the striking of a single paragraph was more newsworthy than insisting that Trump go to trial on these counts. (Also buried in the article is a recognition that the removal of this one paragraph “does not have a substantive effect on the case.”)
Most recently, the left expressed nothing short of horror that Judge Cannon allowed the Trump team to argue a point of constitutional law in a hearing.
Scholars and former prosecutors (including former attorneys general) have argued that the appointment of special counsels like Smith are unconstitutional.
This is a novel and intriguing constitutional objection that is based on the text of the Constitution, which requires that high-ranking executive officers like U.S. Attorneys be appointed under statute or nominated by the president (and confirmed by the Senate).
Yet after the expiration of the Independent Counsel Act in Jun 1999, the Justice Department asserts the right to take any private citizen like Smith and effectively give him greater authority than a U.S. Attorney.
This glaring inconsistency has led to a number of challenges. Thus far, they have been unsuccessful, but none have gone to the Supreme Court. Cannon wanted to hear oral arguments before ruling on the question.
That decision has sent the politicians and reporters into another frenzy of faux outrage and indignation.
MSNBC legal analyst and NYU law professor Melissa Murray went on with host Chris Hayes to tell Judge Cannon to “stay in her lane” and mock her consideration of constitutional claim:
“Girl, stay in your lane. Stay. In. Your. Lane. So, yes, not only has the issue of whether the special counsel comports with the structures of constitutional law, that’s been settled. That’s been addressed in multiple courts. Settled. We don’t have to rehash that … If this were an actual issue it would ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court, not by a district court judge in Fort Pierce, Florida.”
It is a baffling lecture. Cannon is precisely in her lane in hearing a claim without controlling authority. The fact is that the Supreme Court has not ruled on the issue and many lawyers have objected to the summary treatment given the claim by other courts. The point of creating a record is to allow a full review that could well end up at the Supreme Court.
Who isn’t staying in their lane? Cannon’s colleagues.
The New York Times recently reported that two judges attempted to get Cannon to hand off the case when it was randomly assigned to her. So the suggestion is that two of her colleagues breached any sense of collegiality and confidentiality to contribute to a hit piece on Cannon.
It is worth noting that there was no reason for Cannon to decline the selection, particularly not due to her appointment by Trump. A variety of Trump appointees have ruled against Trump on matters without a hint of objection from the left.
While it is true that Cannon was just put on the bench a couple years ago, that did not seem to bother these same pundits in the Georgia case. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee was put on the bench only shortly before being assigned the Georgia case against Trump and associates.
Cannon is a true American success story and, if she were only to rule in favor of the left, she would certainly be the subject of glowing stories of how she went from being born in Cali, Colombia to joining the federal bench. Her mother escaped Cuba after the revolution and she grew up with a deep-seated faith in the rule of law. She graduated from Duke University and, after a stint as a journalist, graduated from Michigan Law School magna cum laude.
Yet there will be no “American dream” stories for Cannon like the ones that ran for Sonia Sotomayor after her nomination.
Cannon is a Republican and has the temerity to follow a conservative jurisprudence. For the media, that makes her unworthy (much like the lack of coverage on Justice Clarence Thomas’ incredible life story).
There is little chance that the scorched Earth campaign against Cannon will work. When your family escapes Communist Cuba and then the drug-ravaged city of Cali, partisan media hit pieces are hardly intimidating.
That may be frustrating for many in the media, but she is fulfilling the purpose of Article III of the Framers. She will rule and she will not yield.
Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University School of Law. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon and Schuster, 2024).
Face it, the US media is an arm of the Democratic Party and has been since FDR. They are also heavily far left in their political beliefs. Most are Marxists and some are admitted Communists.
See below, as Gigi is outed for her constant lies.
I am almost surprised you showed your face today Gigi
But then again I am not, because you have zero shame and even less self respect.
Pathological LIAR
As to inflation that was above 8% when Trump left office, it has consistently gone down month by month, thanks to Joe Biden’s fiscal responsibility and leadership.
—-Gigi the pathological LIAR
I never said that and you know it—Gigi the Pathological LIAR
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/08/29/raffensperger-and-meadows-testify-in-key-hearing-in-federal-court-on-georgia-allegations/comment-page-2/#comment-2318372
This is just another MAGA false equivalency argument–the “left” media (meaning any non-MAGA media) praise Judge Merchan but attack Judge Cannon–so, it just MUST BE unfair. This is just like the failed efforts to claim that Biden is also a big crook, because Trump is a crook, all without any evidence that Biden committed any crimes. And MAGA media endlessly attacks Biden and argues against the evidence of Trump’s criminality. it won’t fly. Judge Merchan is experienced. His rulings were even-handed. Some of the motions brought by Trump’s attorneys were ridiculous and Judge Merchan, appropriately, denied them. Judge Merchan’s donation of $35 total to Democrats, of which $15 went to Biden, 4 years ago, and political activities of his adult daughter do not require recusal–so said an ethics panel that Judge Merchan contacted for an opinion. OTOH, two federal judges in the District where Cannon is on the bench urged her not to take this high-profile case due to her lack of experience. She demurred. She got slapped down by the Eleventh Circuit for pro-Trump rulings, but stays on the case. She is contentious with prosecutors.
From “Newsweek”:
“Special counsel Jack Smith requested the gag order after the Trump campaign released a fundraising email that said, “Joe Biden was locked and loaded ready to take me out and put my family in danger.”
Language in the search warrant banned force unless the target posed an “imminent danger of death or serious physical injury,” which Smith said is “routine practice.”
In a separate fundraising email, Trump said it was “revealed that Biden’s DOJ was authorized to use deadly force for their despicable raid in Mar-a-Lago” and “they’re just itching to do the unthinkable.”
Smith and the government argued in their motion that “these deceptive and inflammatory claims expose law enforcement professionals who are involved in this case to unjustified and unacceptable risks.”
Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche discounted claims of danger to law enforcement, saying instead that setting a precedent for a defendant to have their bail modified for political speech is “dangerous.””
No, Blanche, what is dangerous is someone like Trump, with a cult following of people who have been lied to about their hero’s “victory” being “stolen in a rigged election”, LYING about his opponent sending out a hit squad. Trump was NOT at home at the time the search warrant was executed–arrangements had been made with his counsel in advance. Since then, FBI agents have been doxxed, and the Cincinnati office of the FBI was attacked. Trump’s lies DO pose a clear and present danger to law enforcement. Granting a gag order to protect the safety of these agents is a no-brainer.
How any federal judge could conscience such dangerous lying under the rubric of the First Amendment is stunning. Equally stunning is her slow-walking of this case, failing to rule on motions, refusing to set a trial date, holding days-long hearings, and allowing amici curiae to argue, which is unheard of at the trial court level. Overarching all of this is the simple fact that Trump stole classified documents, stored them unsecurely, lied about returning all of them, had them moved around to prevent detection, lied about them being declassified and discussed the contents with a rich Australian businessmen. Trump’s possession of classified documents is a clear and present danger to America’s security, and Cannon’s handling of this case is a joke. There is no equivalency with Judge Merchan.
I am almost surprised you showed your face today Gigi
But then again I am not, because you have zero shame and even less self respect.
Pathological LIAR
As to inflation that was above 8% when Trump left office, it has consistently gone down month by month, thanks to Joe Biden’s fiscal responsibility and leadership.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/08/29/raffensperger-and-meadows-testify-in-key-hearing-in-federal-court-on-georgia-allegations/comment-page-2/#comment-2318372
Looks like the lying, screeching kunt won’t be back today.
Imagine that.
Gigi says:June 20, 2024 at 10:01 PM
WHEN are you going to post proof of your claim I said that inflation was 8% when Trump was put out of office?
This soon enough for you, you lying, disgusting POS? Better change your name again, Natasha, because this is going before and after EVERY post you make until you admit you are a LIAR.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/08/29/raffensperger-and-meadows-testify-in-key-hearing-in-federal-court-on-georgia-allegations/comment-page-2/#comment-2318372
As to inflation that was above 8% when Trump left office, it has consistently gone down month by month, thanks to Joe Biden’s fiscal responsibility and leadership.
In fact, three separate lies in one sentence.
Gigi, the Prolific Pathological LIAR
My response to your FOUR cut and paste attacks is above. I’m not going anywhere. The obvious reason you keep repeating the same attack over and over again is that you don’t have any substantive response.
Not so fast, there, big mouth.
I admit that I didn’t recall that post from August of last year,
Despite the fact that I brought it up NUMEROUS times since then, and asked you to answer for it. But you were too busy screeching your next lie. You’ve screeched out a few more in this post. In fact, your inflation lie was posted on the Lefty Turd Farm for weeks. I guess I need to bring that back, just for you. You’ve told so many lies here, it’s not surprising that you can’t keep up, big mouth.
but according to Wikileaks, the US inflation rate in 2021–2022 did get as high as 8%
Do you get a lot of your false info from Wikileaks? LMAO WTF is that? Julian would be proud of you. This is your problem. NUMEROUS times I have provided you the link to the goddam OFFICIAL US inflation rate page. You refuse to use it. I guess so you can have an excuse for your LIES. SOURCES MATTER, big mouth.
the US inflation rate in 2021–2022 did get as high as 8%
Yea, so fvcking what? It reached it’s peak in JUNE 2022, at 9.1%, big mouth. That’s a far cry from “when Trump left office.” You have also said repeatedly since August that it’s “consistently coming down”. Another LIE. It has been between 3.0 and 4.1 since last June. You get that? ITS NOT COMING DOWN. It was 3.0 Last June and 3.3 last month.
one major reason was supply chain disruptions, due, according to experts, to Trump’s stupid tariffs, which he wants to expand upon if he somehow gets back into office.
Anyone who says supply chain disruptions were caused by tariffs is a moron, and so is anyone who believes that. You’re a low IQ bottom feeder. Please don’t pretend to understand the impact of tariffs on all things economic, even with someone trying to explain it to you.
Why did Biden keep the tariff’s, almost entirely, big mouth, if they were so bad? In fact
President Biden is directing his Trade Representative to increase tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 on $18 billion of imports from China to protect American workers and businesses.. Did you sleep thru that? Wait, where is that spike in inflation from that??? Is it now “Biden’s stupid tariff’s”? This is why you can’t be taken seriously.
The inflation was caused by printing $6T. You’ve been told this NUMEROUS times, big mouth. Do you ever wonder WHY I keep catching you in these LIES that you peddle? When you pump that much money into an economy, what DO YOU expect to happen? Nothing??? Economists predicted that before it ever happened.
His mishandling of COVID yielded the statistic that the US had 20% of COVID deaths but only 4% of the world’s population.
Oh it “yielded a statistic” did it? Thanks for proving my assessment of you as a low IQ bottom feeder. I laughed out loud at an article I read trying to “calculate the Covid deaths due to Trump’s casual mask use”. Funny, I never see a story about how many deaths Fauci caused when the pandemic was RAGING and he said “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” Then later when he said this: “From a broad public-health standpoint, at the population level, masks work at the margins — maybe 10 percent”.
3 of the 4 largest peaks in Covid daily deaths were under JOE BIDEN. Do I blame him. NO. Because I can think for myself and understand EVERYTHING that went in to that. Do I blame Trump for the 1/3 of the deaths that happened on his watch? LMAO, I’ll leave that to the low IQ bottom feeders.
US had 20% of COVID deaths
See THAT. You just can’t stop lying. The US has just over 17.4% of Covid deaths. Not counting that fact that many countries STOPPED reporting, so the number is likely much less. Why would you lie about that?? The medical journals say that makes you pathological.
Tom, Waters, or whatever name you’re using now, how many hours did you spend trying to discredit me?
It’s pretty obvious that I use the name Waters, isn’t it? What’s it to you, Natasha? Why did you lie about your occupation? You’re no attorney and we all know it. Even your cubicle mate, Svelaz-George said so. It took me about 3 hours, if that matters. It’s called research. Try it before you open that fat mouth again. I had a fun walk down memory lane with all the times I gutted you and Dennis. Go check it out. It’s juvenile fun!!
Maybe I wouldn’t have bothered if you hadn’t goaded me on 3 separate occasions. Would you like me to post those as well? You’re the juvenile here, with all your screeching and lying about even stupid inconsequential shit.
Why do you employ the same ad hominem attack tactics instead of providing substantive responses to what I post?>/i>
Look back above this line. See all that??? Now look below. See all that?? That’s what it takes to respond to your keyboard diarrhea of lies with a substantive response. And you do it for that very reason. You puke up all that bile and sit back and admire it, knowing no one will waste their time rebutting all of your NONSENSE. And that was one of your shorter tirades.
So lets look at when I did give a substantive response, and corrected you on the 12th Amendment. For 2 weeks, all you would say is that you were repeating what Turley said. Which was a lie! It was either or lie, or again, your are just a low IQ bottom feeder. It was plain to EVERYONE but you, the “experienced attorney”, what Turley said the “problem” was. The “problem” was losing the Florida electors, not that both the Pres and VP couldn’t be from the same state. I referred you to the TEXT a half dozen times. Did you correct your NONSENSE? No, you just ran off to your next lie, as you always do.
I generally cite whatever sources I obtain information from
Vox is not a source. The Guardian is not a source. Media-ite for christ’s sake, is NOT a source. I got the information on Texas electricity production from the Texas Department of Public Utilities. You got it from Rachel Maddow. Rachel Maddow is NOT a source. Your shit eating response was “neither you nor I have personal knowledge”. Fvck off with that NONSENSE. You look like an IDIOT. I got the information on the DC National Guard on their website. You got it from The Atlantic. I got the 12th Amendment meaning by reading, oh shit, the 12th amendment. I don’t know where the fvck you got yours. I got the inflation stats by going to the US Bureau. You got it from Wiki-whatever-the-fvck. You look like an IDIOT
I generally cite whatever sources I obtain information from
The really galling part about that ridiculous statement is the way you come in here and accuse people of being “brainwashed by alt-right media”, and then blame your ignorant statements on your shit “sources”. So what say you NEVER impugn “Trumpers alt right media” again?
My “attacks” on you are not ad hom. They come with all the substantiation in the world.
YOU’RE the one who leads with ad hom like “Karen S, you should stop letting your weak mind be brainwashed by Fox news.” Kunt. See that? I substantiated it, and then I labeled you appropriately.
So yea, I treat you like an 8th grader, because that’s what you appear to be. You don’t like my profanity? I’m going to assume that your gender is just as fake as everything else about you, and say that if you were standing in front of me, screeching at me and calling me a liar when I told you that you said inflation was 8%, or questioning my service to my country, insinuating that I am stealing valor, you’d be missing some teeth from that fat mouth. I’m not a violent person, but shutting you up would just be too much fun.
And I posted it again under your big mouth response, where you insist on lying some more.
And I am going to post it again at the top, so everyone can see it.
And again tomorrow.
He caught you lying. That is a substantive response that should be pointed out. And he did.
Facts hurt.
Gigi, the left/MSM media has OPENLY admitted that their job is NOT to report the facts without bias.
YES, the rest of us tend to assume that the reporting of the left wing MSM is Biased – BECAUSE THEY HAVE ADMITTED THAT.
Regardless, Kaplan, Enmoron and Merchan have made numerous basic fundimental errors – likely deliberately. The goal has never been to make any of these decisions STICK.
It has entirely been to attempt to damage Trump for the election.
Cannon is giving the country an object lesson in how complex trials should be conducted.
Trump will likely lose most of his motions – but they have received hearings, and consideration, and a record has been created, and Cannon may be reversed on appeal on some of her decisions.
I do NOT as an example expect Cannon to find that SC Smith was unconstitutionally appointed. But she is allowing a thorough record of the issue to be created, an I DO expect if this ever gets to SCOTUS that they WILL toss SC Smith because he has been unconstitutionally appointed.
Frankly I think Smith’s appointment was Garland’s gift to Trump. Smith has a long long track records of incompetence and failure. He has been reversed by the Supreme court 9-0.
He has lost numerous high profile cases and he has made lots and lots of unforced errors in this case.
This is a common problem with those on the left – in their zeal to “get trump” they expose themselves as lawless fools.
Jonathan Turley, what you wrote about The New York Times appears to be incorrect.
As for the New York judge, he asked his administrative justice if he should recuse: “No.”
No. It is correct.
So is anyone surprised that this is happening? I rest my case
Democrats have to create diversions to cover for that which can not be ignored: a compromised US President. From Australia to China to India to Qatar to Mexico to even the Penguins on Antarctica: they all laugh their a**** off at this demented fool. He is so compromised, Robert Hur he is not fit to stand for trial
journalism is the cancer of society.
Jonathan: Judge Eileen Cannon is a loose cannon. Through a combination of lack of judicial experience (she had only ten trials before being assigned the Mar-a-Lago case) and an attempt to aid DJT, she has demonstrated her lack of impartiality. That’s why the senior judge for South Florida, Cecilia Altonago and another unnamed judge asked Cannon to recuse herself from the case. Why? Because Cannon had already been slapped down twice by the 11th Circuit for improperly trying to interfere with the FBI investigation of the Mar-a-Lago docs. The fact that Cannon’s boss would come forward publicly to sound the alarm speaks volumes about how Cannon has mishandled her case.
This week Cannon held hours of hearings to allow DJT’s lawyers to argue Jack Smith was improperly appointed and the case should be dismissed. Cannon even allow amici briefs by outside parties supporting DJT’s position. This is unheard of at the trial court level. You usually only see amici briefs in cases before the SC.
But you bizarrely claim “Cannon is precisely in her lane” on the Q of whether Jack Smith status as Special Counsel was proper because the “Supreme Court has not ruled on the issue”. Not true. In 1974 the SC ordered that Nixon turn over the WH tapes to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski investigating the “Watergate” scandal. If Jaworski’s appointment was improper why did the Court do that? Ever other court since then has upheld upheld the appointment of either “Special Prosecutors” or “Special Counsels”. The law is clear and Cannon should have upheld Jack Smith’s appointment without holding hours of evidentiary hearings and questioning the source of funding for his investigation. That’s not the business of a trial judge!
Cannon is a MAGA judge who apparently hopes to be elevated to the SC should DJT get back in office. That’s why she is slow-walking her case so it can’t be tried before the election. And that’s why Jack Smith is expecting Cannon will make a major misstep allowing him to appeal to the 11th Circuit to have her removed from the case.
Questioning our judicial system is dangerous and irresponsible
—Joe Biden, parroted by COCK SUCKING LIAR Dennis McIntyre, after the Trump verdict
Mr McIntyre,
I nominate “senators“ Sherrod Brown, Sheldon Whitehouse ,aoc, pelosi and Schumer to replace cannon. These guys are epitome of honesty and truth. Take your pick.
Illiberal democrats never tire of showing their disdain for the Constitution. For them, the fundamental principles by which the government exercises its authority is now not worthy of debate even in courts of law that until most recently have been the last resort to hear arguments about the role, powers, and structure of the three branches of government.
While it is most disturbing to read that Judge Cannon, or any other judge for that matter, is criticized for wanting litigants to consider constitutional law in her courtroom, it is not surprising given that those who heap such scorn upon her are the very persons to be expected of it. Those who disrespect the Constitution and yearn for the rule of a single executive branch and its administrative state are regrettably not in short supply these days.
Don’t forget that Trump spearheaded the first attempted coup in US history and the Republican Project 2025 is based on upturning our government.
With Republicans every accusation is a confession.
Those were my talking points you skank! Our bosses at Media Matters will be ticked that you are not following your assigned talking points!
Sammy Metamucil gets tired of wallowing in his own turds.
It was not a coup. Your narrative has failed. Everyone sees it, except you leftist cultists.
Republican Project 2025 is to hold unelected bureaucrats accountable for failure to fulfill their civic duty. Like Lois Learner and abusing her position to deny conservative groups non-profit status.
With Democrats, every accusation is a confession and a demonstration of not only their hypocrisy but their totalitarian tendencies.
There is an insightful article at Amicus Republicae (substack) entitled “Averting Crisis” by TJ Harker. It is an article that both sides study.
My perspective on this ill-advised prosecution can be summarized is (1) Judge Cannon has been even handed in her rulings. She has not succumbed to the sometimes unhinged attacks. (2) Smith’s appointment is a novel approach to prosecution. Smith cannot not be a ‘Superior Officer’ since he did not receive Senate confirmation. If he is a ‘subordinate officer’ he is an employee of the Department of Justice, and takes orders from the Attorney General. In either case he is not a ‘Special Counsel.’
Disclaimer: I am not a MAGA Republican.
@ScottAdamsSays
“Our so-called “Republic” elects its leaders based on how successfully the corporate news keeps the truth from Democrats.
Literally.
For example, the entire news-watching portion of the Republican party recently learned that left-leaning Snopes ruled the Fine People Hoax to be a hoax.
No media outlets that are followed by Democrats mentioned it, and it was by far the biggest story of the week, given the upcoming debate, and the fact Biden ran for office based on promoting the hoax.
And two of the hoax promoters are the debate hosts.
We don’t have a Republic. We have a hoaxocracy. That is literally our form of government. (Maybe it always was?)”
To much of the left she committed the original sin by leaving that utopian paradise of Cuba. A wonderful vacation destination where the peasants are poets, medical is free, and everyone drives quaint 1950’s vintage automobiles. The US media are essentially appendages to the totalitarian party that now governs this country of ours
I have been thinking what type of coherence of governance does the liberal left want. It seems through all their maturations of law-fare it’s a hyphenated despotic rule by the party of the democrats, not any one individual per se. The media including print are sandbaggers who are allergic to the truth, using their deceitful obfuscations to bolster the party’s despotic dogma. They are attacking every discipline of individual rights, changing accepted definitions of language and taking the side of criminals and terrorists in their quest for singular party rule, and ultimately more despotic tyranny. They demonstrate their distain of our founding documents, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and preach the Constitution is fluid and changeable without due process, just because their deluded image of self is superior to others, all the while without consideration of the ultimate consequences of what a despotic government overload would bring. Their mysticism narrative is State before Self and God, [Hail the State] our savior and purveyor of happiness. How these feeble Idiots (Democrats) ever achieved any semblance of governmental power and still have dedicated followers to their notions is beyond me, but I do know they need to be shown the exit, post haste.
Good Day!
I’ll again ask; What is “Insanity”? The Oxford defines it as having ‘Bats in the Belfry,’ whereas I see it as the Democrats’ notion that their push towards a supposed nirvana of despotism is nothing more than a doorway to the Gates of Hell.
George W,
Well said.
Their version of Heaven will be our version of Hell.
You can already see it by their actions and words. Pornography in elementary libraries, the mutilation of healthy bodies or chemical castration. The destruction of the family and replace it with the state. Lowering of standards to promote mediocrity. Overt discrimination for being successful or meritocracy. Antisemitism.
“From the descriptions in the Washington Post, New York Times and virtually every mainstream media outlet…” Again I ask, what relevence remains (if any) in legacy media that earns them the moniker “maintstream” when they’ve burned away more than 75% of their credibility and trust from just 30 years ago…and why does anyone give two shineolas what they say today?
Gigi says:August 29, 2023 at 4:12 PM
Why don’t you get yourself from help with your obsessive need to engage in ad hominem attacks against people who comment on Trump, unless you are paid to engage in such attacks. If it’s the latter, why not disclose the fact that you are paid to troll those who respond to Turley’s posts with FACTS? I listed two sources (USA Today and Mediaite) for how the laptop was given to Giuliani before the FBI got it and that he copied it and distributed it to the NY Post and others. I didn’t lie. I listed a story from NBC about petroleum being used to generate electricity during the excessive heat wave in Texas. I didn’t lie. I listed the website of the DC National Guard that described the chain of command, which proves that Nancy Pelosi was not in control of the DC National Guard and didn’t tell them to stand down. I didn’t lie. I have no idea who Amos Hochstean is, and have never claimed to. As to inflation that was above 8% when Trump left office, it has consistently gone down month by month, thanks to Joe Biden’s fiscal responsibility and leadership. There was a one-tenth of one percent increase in July, which is an anomaly. I didn’t lie. This will be the last time I address these matters with you.
As to inflation that was above 8% when Trump left office, it has consistently gone down month by month, thanks to Joe Biden’s fiscal responsibility and leadership. There was a one-tenth of one percent increase in July, which is an anomaly. I didn’t lie. This will be the last time I address these matters with you.
This is my favorite part.
Waters has made her engage on this at least 20 more times LOL
Today, Colorado GOP primary voters will decide whether to let Lauren Boebert continue flailing at political theater, or send her back to her natural calling of the theater of performing arts.
Does anyone have the citations to the cases that rejected the argument that the appointment of a private citizen to a special counsel position is unconstitutional?
Gigi’s BIG LIE
The one she has LIED about never saying. In fact, she has LIED and said she did not say this, at least 6 times. She has even tried to gaslight everyone by suggesting I couldn’t find her LIE.
Well, it wasn’t easy, because she has told a LOT of them.
Please enjoy, because she has NO SHAME and will not admit to her lie, even now.
Below is an excerpt from her post.
Gigi the Pathological Liar Says:
Nancy Pelosi was not in control of the DC National Guard and didn’t tell them to stand down. I didn’t lie. I have no idea who Amos Hochstean is, and have never claimed to. As to inflation that was above 8% when Trump left office, it has consistently gone down month by month, thanks to Joe Biden’s fiscal responsibility and leadership.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/08/29/raffensperger-and-meadows-testify-in-key-hearing-in-federal-court-on-georgia-allegations/comment-page-2/#comment-2318372
This will get posted above and below every comment Gigi makes until she admits she lied when she said it AND lied when she claimed she didn’t say it.
Sadly, Joe Biden lied when he said inflation was high when Trump left office, and people repeat it. Gigi may genuinely think it’s true, in which case I wouldn’t call her statement a lie.
CNN fact-checked Biden and called out the lie:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/fact-check-biden-inflation-when-he-became-president/index.html
As always, the Clinton/Obama/Biden/crazyleft fakenews CNN is hopelessly in the tank for Mr. Biden.
“in which case I wouldn’t call her statement a lie.”
Gotta love apologists who don’t do their research either.
When you peddle lies your comment is a lie and you are a LIAR. When you purport something the MSM has said as fact, and didn’t bother to look it up yourself, that is a LIE.
She also claimed that she never said that. Another LIE. Oh, unless you want to obfuscate and claim that she technically typed it and didnt “say” it.
Look at the date on her post. Her LIE predates Biden’s.
Add to that, the fact that Gigi the Pathological LIAR, is constantly ridiculing “alt-right media”, yet her “sources” led her astray on THREE other occasions that were alluded to in that post alone. She know’s her garbage is lies. She gets angry when called out on them.
Then she doubles down. Then she disappears, onto the next LIE.
Waters – GIGI lives in opposite world. Everything she says in her comments is the exact opposite of what’s true in this world.
Actually you said she said 9% which is not true. So technically she is correct that she did not say THAT. You left that part out. You changed it from 8% to 9%. In your zeal to prove her wrong you added 1% more than what she said and claimed she said that. She did not.
LMAO She actually said ABOVE 8%
And yes, i did misstate that. I did type that reply in haste. I probably had Biden’s lie on my mind.
That was the 20th time I called her out for saying it (the previous 19 i said 8). And the 6th time she denied saying it. If you’d like I can link to all those as well.
And I corrected it in my response to her yesterday. I explained that it was indeed hard to keep track of her lies, when she can’t. So I “left that part out” lol, because it’s immaterial to anyone other than a nitwit. Guess what, nit pick, 9 is above 8. Not using it as an excuse, just pointing out the absurdity of your gaseous comment.
In your zeal to play the apologist, you also misstated what she said. She said “above 8%”.
So there’s that, pot.
@Waters
Thanks for that laugh!
It’s always hilarious when trolls like Anon @10:47 try to be clever, and end up stepping in their own steaming turd.
Anon
Yea, ya fvcking douchebag. What kind of boot licking twat are you? If she said it was anything OTHER THAN ONE POINT FOUR PERCENT, then she is a lying kunt. Period.
Waters,
Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton, Larry Summers warned Biden’s American Rescue Plan could “set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation.”
Guess what . . . it DID!
Further more, here is WSJ Greg Ip had to say on the topic,
“The Rescue Plan was old-fashioned Keynesian demand stimulus, notable mostly for its sheer size. Biden’s staff designed it with the economy of 2009 in mind, when newly elected President Barack Obama and Biden, his vice president, faced a deep recession to be followed by a sluggish, yearslong recovery.
Biden’s team is still sticking to that narrative. In a memo released this week, his political strategists Anita Dunn and Mike Donilon write that Biden “faced an immediate economic crisis when he took office.”
Actually, he didn’t.
By January 2021, the economic crisis brought on by Covid-19 was largely over, even if the health crisis wasn’t. As lockdowns were lifted and vaccines approved, businesses were furiously rehiring. Payroll growth averaged 800,000 a month over the last six months of 2020, in percentage terms the strongest such streak preceding a new president’s inauguration since 1952.
The American Rescue Plan, in other words, was designed to bolster demand in an economy that already had plenty.
But it’s logically inconsistent for Biden to disown inflation while taking credit for tight labor markets since they are mirror images of the same thing: an overheated economy. While economists debate how much stimulus contributed to this overheating, they agree it played a part. “
According to BLS data, Americans have seen their increased cost of living outpacing their wage gains on a YoY basis for 26 straight.
Under the entire 4 years of the Trump admin, inflation rose 8% or 1.94% per year. Note, the Fed considers 2% to not only to be the norm, but the ideal.
Under Biden, inflation has risen in three and a half years a whopping 20% or 9.25% per year.
Snopes is a left leaning fact checking organization. Here’s what they recently had to say about Trump’s statement in Charlottesville that the left used to say that Trump agreed with the Nazis. “While Trump did say that there were ‘very fine people on both sides,’ he also specifically noted that he was not talking about neo-Nazis and White supremacists and said they should be ‘condemned totally.’ Therefore, we have rated this claim ‘False,'” Snopes wrote. You should keep this in mind when the left attacks a judge they don’t like. The left will say anything and do anything to keep you under their control.
TiT,
I saw that the other day.
It only took them 7 years to finally report the facts and the truth. Two things that are an anathema to leftists.
But Snopes is fakes news. They are not credible. Why should be trust Snopes?
You can trust them when it takes them SEVEN YEARS
Svelaz, you truly are spastic, and so easy.
Dear Mr. Turley, this example of the pressure on Judge Cannon is for no other reason than she had been appointed by Mr. Trump. The deep state runs deep through the Judiciary. We have a two-tiered legal system here in the U.S. The only difference is that the folks on the Right do not go to burn buildings and riot when a jury hands down a decision, they believe is incorrect. Perhaps if we did act like the Left, they wouldn’t be so prone in bullying anyone who does not agree with them. Great examples of this bullying can be found here, even in this comment section. The Left leaning commentators always go back to their standard line of , “Turley, you are influenced by Fox news!!” The leaders of the Left hand out “talking points” and by gosh, if not every single one on the Left will repeat it. Remember “no one is above the law..” during the run up to the phony impeachment trials. Now it’s “This election could end democracy as we know it..” These poor folks are still living in the “La-la land” of the Obama years.
Speaking of Justice Thomas, a fascinating documentary about his back story is: Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in his Own Words.
I saw it a year or two ago, and I had to see it a second time because it’s so interesting. More information is available here:
https://www.justicethomasmovie.com/