Below is my column in the New York Post on the developments in the pending Trump cases. I previously wrote that, if Trump prevailed in this election, it was likely that Special Counsel Jack Smith would “not see a jury in either of his cases.” This morning, Smith is reportedly in discussions on the possible dropping of his two federal cases against the president-elect. The prosecutorial campaigns appear to be collapsing with the political campaigns against Trump.
Here is the column:
After years of thrill-kill prosecutions, the thrill is gone for lawfare warriors.
Election Day’s greatest losers may be special counsel Jack Smith, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Donald Trump’s victory was the largest jury verdict that some of us anticipated for years of unrelenting weaponization of the legal system.
Smith’s prosecutions ended with the 270th Electoral College vote secured around 2 a.m. Wednesday. His unrelenting efforts to convict Trump and then, when prevented from holding a trial, to release damaging material before the election have collapsed with the blue wall in the Midwest.
Trump has said he plans to fire Smith on Day 1. That means the end of both the January 6 and the classified documents cases.
That leaves James and Bragg as residue of long-forgotten lawfare battles, but even there Trump’s prospects look good.
James was able to secure a fellow lawfare warrior in Justice Arthur Engoron, who imposed a grotesque $455 million in fines and interest.
That ruling is pending an appeal that is expected to be a partial or even total victory for Trump.
Unlike Engoron, the appellate judges expressed great skepticism in September over the size of the penalty and even the use of this law.
Trump faced half a billion dollars in penalty in a case where no one lost a dime, and the alleged victim banks wanted more business with Trump and his company.
Separately, there is a hearing scheduled in front of Judge Juan Merchan for Nov. 11 on the “hush money” case involving Stormy Daniels, and a possible sentencing on Nov. 26.
If Merchan seeks to jail Trump, it is unlikely to be carried out, as Trump appeals the case and the many alleged errors committed by the judge.
Merchan made an utter mess of a case that should never have been filed, let alone tried. Even commentators like CNN’s senior legal analyst, Elie Honig, have denounced the case as a selective and unfounded prosecution.
The case should result in a conditional discharge with no jail time if Merchan can resist the temptation to unjustly punish Trump, a level of restraint that has largely proven difficult for him in the case.
Merchan created layers of appealable errors in the case. Putting those alleged errors aside, any sentencing to jail would create its own constitutional conflict with Trump’s performance of his federal duties.
The question is whether the election will bring a moment of sobriety for New Yorkers who have spent years in a full rage-driven celebration of lawfare.
While Trump did not prevail in New York, he came closer than any Republican in decades.
After this steady diet of politicized prosecutions in New York, Trump secured 44.3% of the vote, while Harris received 55.7%. In 2020, the margin was 23 points.
It is doubtful that the election will completely kill the appetite for lawfare in New York. As I wrote in my recent book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” “rage is liberating, even addictive. It allows us to say and do things that we would ordinarily avoid, even denounce in others.”
What people do not want to admit that is that they like the rage.
Rage addicts will continue to push James and Bragg to continue these unhinged campaigns. It is not prosecutorial — it is recreational.
We can only hope that James and Bragg feel a twinge of humility when their cases fall apart along with the Kamala Harris campaign.
And Merchan has the opportunity to use this brief sobering moment and issue a conditional discharge without home or actual confinement.
He can take judicial notice of Trump’s election as our next president and end this circus in Manhattan.
Instead of listening to the braying mob, he can act as a judge and tell New Yorkers, in the immortal words of B.B. King:
“The thrill is gone
It’s gone away for good
All the thrill is gone
Baby, it’s gone away for good…
I’m free from your spell
And now that it’s all over
All that I can do is wish you well.”
Jonathan Turley is a Fox News Media contributor and the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Trump is too soft-hearted. and sentimental, talks tough but lets bygones be bygones too quickly. Firing Smith is not nearly enough. MSNBC and others of their ilk will have a place for him, they are probably already beckoning. More must be done than mere loss of his job, something shockingly disproportionate. A warning marker must be set to ensure that nothing like this happens again, to anyone, of either party. Trump has sworn off revenge, but I demand a reckoning, and I’m confident I’m not alone. The Left must be crushed. Trump must appoint some cold-hearted deputies to do the things he is too magnanimous to do.
Time for Trump to test the Dems horseshit theory that he can send seal team 6.
1. Letitia James
Fortunately, the leftists have already authorized the military to ignore the Posse Comitatus Act, concurrent with their delusional dreaming about winning this election. It was “they” who opened the door.
Who let the dogs out, woof, woof, woof-woof.
“Trump is too soft-hearted. and sentimental, talks tough but lets bygones be bygones too quickly”
I’m fine with Trump passing up pure acts of revenge. He has far too much on his plate in terms of policy decisions and actions needed to begin to straighten out the economic and foreign relations mess that we have been immersed in. However, I do very much hope that he, or his AG, will identify a few of the driving forces behind both the Democrat lawfare, and the attempts to cripple our form of government, and if legal offenses can be identified, prosecute those individuals to the full extend of the law. That would serve a dual purpose: it would forestall any attempts by those public serpents to resume their nefarious activities at some future date; it would serve as a clear warning to any who might aspire to adopt such behavior in the future that the ultimate reward of such activity is hard time in a barren concrete condominium with bars on the windows.
..the solution here is not retribution.. THAT is a Dem. practice…it needs to be NEW LAWS AND ONES THAT CAN BE ENFORCED.. Right now the DOJ gets away with not following any laws it doesn’t want to follow… Garland loves to say ‘No One in above the Law’ yet he still hasn’t been arrested for Contempt of Congress like Navarro was…..
The American public has carefully analyzed all of the Democrat-manufactured, choreographed, and coordinated criminal and civil cases against Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, and determined that they are merely Democrat-manufactured, choreographed, and coordinated BS criminal and civil cases. That’s right, the American public has determined that the Democrat prosecutors and Democrat plaintiffs attorneys, Democrat witnesses, and the Democrat judges presiding over the BS cases are corrupt serial liars and not a word from their BS should be believed.
The conclusion of the American people is that Trump should become the 47th President of the United States to restore justice and dignity to America and to end the BS lawfare antics carried out by the Democrat prosecutors and Democrat plaintiffs attorneys, Democrat witnesses, and the Democrat judges presiding over the BS cases. Dr. Steve Turley (no relation, I believe) explains the Democrats’ fraud and the American public’s response to the fraud in this fine video:
Well, you make a valid point: The American electorate has soundly rejected this form of politicking for fear it will destroy America and with it the hopes and dreams of all mankind. Corny, I know, for those so far removed from all that threatens… we can expound upon this, and rightfully somebody probably should, but a party of losers is just that, a party of losers. That said, there are some wrongs that must be righted. To begin, Watermelon Head, and those like Watermelon Head, cannot remain in Congress. Not if we are to recommit to “truth, justice, and the American Way.” Secondly, settlements – political gifts – to those like Peter Strzok and Lisa Page must be reclaimed. One is not entitled to privacy when committing unlawful acts. So why would DOJ settle? So we have some cleaning up to do.
You’re right about all of the above, including the there are wrongs to be righted. The Strzok-Page payoffs are certainly one example. But there are broader punishments that need to be meted out. Unfortunately, I’m hearing talk from the Trump camp that they want to “rise above” retribution, with one of Trump’s own sons saying that Hunter Biden should be pardoned. That’s absurd and if such action is actually taken will only incentivize the Deep State to continue its destruction of the Trump presidency the same as they did the first term. Trump cannot be nice to the Deep State as they will only interpret that as weakness, which it is. And taking the right kinds of actions againt the Deep State operators isn’t retribution. It’s justice.
Legacy media, without a leg to stand on, is more than just psychotic sycophants, they are paid actors. They make millions, tens of millions, in some cases – Bill Maher, example – even hundreds of millions, as propagandists, collectively the propaganda arm of the party.
VMI barracks reaction at 1:48 am when Trump was announced the winner:
https://x.com/nedryun/status/1854310013478830133
Unbelievable! Kamala has started a Girl Band!
Arizona was just called for Trump. The final EC vote is 312-226.
Trump won all seven swing states (GA, NC, PA, MI, WI, NV, AZ).
@Old Man
Fox hasn’t called AZ or NV.
I can see why they wouldn’t and will wait even though if the numbers continue … Trump will win them.
THERE IS A GOD
Yes, George there is! My view not that anyone cares is that these United States have been given a wonderful opportunity to humble ourselves and
clean up our act. Remove the garbage about what is a woman and what is a man. Get back to basics in our schools, I am 73 so you figure that one
out. Stop being a world police force but instead have a military highly efficient to defend our shores. Expel everyone from our universities with a propensity
to steal our research and knowledge. Instead of emulating that great song by Talking Heads ‘Burning Down the House’ have a society that is more
thankful of what it has been born into. Support this President, watch the prices at the pump over the next twelve months, it will take time, they will go down. I am a
Texan, you don’t just put a rig out somewhere and expect to get oil, it is costly, very costly to recover. Watch prices in the grocery stores, they will
begin to come down but will take some time. Trump’s staff began having all day meetings yesterday and President #47 was still taking calls of
congratulations. This will be a WARP Speed Presidency but very effective one. This time no Washington DC insiders only those he knows and will
watch his six! God Bless you all!
A major voting bloc I haven’t seen discussed is the Catholic vote. There are 52 million Catholics of voting age in the US. In 2020 they split about 50-50 between Biden and Trump. Yesterday it was more like 59-41 in favor of Trump.
Harris alienated Catholics in a few ways. She openly opposed religious exemptions for Catholic doctors who declined to perform abortions. She opposed judicial nominees based on their Catholicism. And her comment “you’re at the wrong rally” in response to a person who said “Jesus is lord” was a turnoff to many Catholics. The difference in Catholic support between Biden and Harris contributed to Harris losing a number of swing states that Biden won.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/catholic-swing-voters-were-critical-donald-trumps-blowout-victory-harris-snubbed-us
There was a point there, too, I believe, where the Pink Hats threw Catholic women under the bus. Roman Catholics, Jews, the religiously-inclined right, have been clearly rejected by this new alt “progressive” party.
After witnessing the vast corruption of our government, it’s time for some accountability for these anarchists. You can’t right America with the enemies lying dormant and untouched plotting their next attack from within.
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 – The Gunpowder Treason Plot – The Jesuit Treason was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Roman Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.
Trials
By coincidence, on the same day that Garnet was found, the surviving conspirators were arraigned in Westminster Hall. Seven of the prisoners were taken from the Tower to the Star Chamber by barge. Bates, who was considered lower class, was brought from the Gatehouse Prison. The King and his family, hidden from view, were among the many who watched the trial. The Lords Commissioners present were the Earls of Suffolk, Worcester, Northampton, Devonshire, and Salisbury. Sir John Popham (my ancestor) was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas. The list of traitors’ names was read aloud, beginning with the priests: Garnet, Tesimond, and Gerard.[138][139]
Each of the condemned, said Coke, would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground. He was to be “put to death halfway between heaven and earth as unworthy of both”. His genitals would be cut off and burnt before his eyes, and his bowels and heart then removed. Then he would be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of his body displayed so that they might become “prey for the fowls of the air”.[140]
Executions
Although Catesby and Percy escaped the executioner, their bodies were exhumed and decapitated, and their heads exhibited on spikes outside the House of Lords.[111] On 30 January, Everard Digby, Robert Wintour, John Grant, and Thomas Bates were tied to hurdles—wooden panels[149]—and dragged through the crowded streets of London to St Paul’s Churchyard. Digby, the first to mount the scaffold, asked the spectators for forgiveness, and refused a Protestant clergyman. He was stripped of his clothing, and wearing only a shirt, climbed the ladder to place his head through the noose. He was quickly cut down, and while still fully conscious was castrated, disembowelled, and then quartered, along with the three other prisoners.[150] The following day, Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood, Robert Keyes, and Guy Fawkes were hanged, drawn and quartered, opposite the building they had planned to blow up, in the Old Palace Yard at Westminster.[151] Keyes did not wait for the hangman’s command and jumped from the gallows, but he survived the drop and was led to the quartering block. Although weakened by his torture, Fawkes managed to jump from the gallows and break his neck, avoiding the agony of the gruesome latter part of his execution.[152][153]
Steven Littleton was executed at Stafford. His cousin Humphrey, despite his co-operation, met his end at Red Hill near Worcester.[154] Henry Garnet was executed on 3 May 1606.[155]
– Wiki
Magna Carta, English rights and constitution be damned (you know, that thing, that “constitution,” frequently referenced, entirely imaginary, that to this very legally-learned day does not yet exist in the UK)… for crimes against the king an offender can be sentenced to up to “four deaths.” And that’s precisely what happened here above in ye Powder Plot. (Compare to liberal-minded MA Bay which employed only hanging as means of execution.) Oh, did I mention that I’m a descendant of several Magna Carta Surities? And yes, surely you can see where it got us?
* These are sociopaths of various strains and it really won’t matter what anyone tries to construct it’ll most likely simply be torn down, graffitied, burned, smashed, defaced, etc. It’s what they do. They’re retreating to regroup.
Leticia James queen of Ratropolis doesn’t even know who owns Trump Towers in reality. She loves just tearing it up and speaking just to hear voice actually. Add to that Adams and Hochul sp. its rule of the rat kings.
Trump needs a psychiatrist group or the MIT psych department to come up with a plan and add in the psychology of econ …
There’s no ez fix. The bureaucrats are in the 100s of thousands in those departments just pushing paper who’ll gum up the works just because they can.
Just locating 1000s of illegal migrant convicts should be daunting.
At least have a Merry Christmas and be grateful it won’t be the Biden Harris strip tease day with BYOD – bring your own drugs.
It’s the bottom of Pandora’s box and the people found Trump aka hope. Don’t lose hope.
The cowardice of Letitia James, on full display today. Having spent many years in prison – the the land of “no-law” – I’ve seen this play out many times. The bad actor, realizing the gig is up, retreats to his corner as all the world descends upon him, a mighty thunderous retreat, shouting, arms flailing, in typical bear-scare fashion. But you know the old saying – “if it’s black, fight back; if it’s brown lay down; if it’s white say goodnight.” Trump knows, believe me, Trump knows: Panic has set in.
I believe a just reward for these treasonous purveyors of evil is simply exposing them fairly with the truth in open public forum of their misdeeds, a short but effective prison sentence and taking every dime and tangible asset they and their family have acquired. It’s the wealth and power they sold themselves for, take it away. Give them back what they have taken from you. The proceeds can be levied against the national debt.
some wise observations by liberal Lanny Davis
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/11/06/the_morning_after_lessons_to_learn_not_to_learn__151907.html
Last night I told many of those on the right “Do not spike the ball”.
That is still my advice. We can all try to analysze what this election tells us.
We may come to different conclusions. That is fine.
Democrats need to figure out what they did wrong on their own. They are not going to listen to anyone else.
So far they are focusing on recriminations. That is their problem.
But all too many are here ranting as if nothing happened last night.
If you want to wrap yourself in self righteousness – you can expect to get slapped down.
You lost.
I am not hearing claims the election was stolen – Trump won more than enough swing states by 3pts or more to win the EC.
He won the popular vote by 3pts – because he knew he had to or you would steal it from him again.
Trump lost 2020 by a mere 44,000 votes accross 3 states. I do not think there is a single Swing state Harris did not lose by significantly more than 44,000 votes, and she would need atleast 4 to flip this. I am sure Harris’s people spent all night plotting legal challenges and fraud claims. Otherwise she should have conceeded when PA was called at 2am.
Harris conceeded at 4pm – because there was no republican fraud anywhere close to the numbers needed to flip this.
@John
You need to be aware too, that voting for Trump does not make many of us ‘conservative’. I loathe Vance and I loathe his ideology.
I voted against the DNC, and consider Trump himself an independent. I have zero use for the likes of religious conservative Vance except that he’ll never go along with the globalists.
If he continues to ignore our separation of church and state in his speech by quoting scripture, I will straight up demonize him. Just being honest. 🤷🏽♂️ I do not care for him, not at all.
Under what principle is a politician not allowed to quote the Bible? Yu not caring for him, not at all isn’t it.
@garyedw2k2
He is allowed to say whatever the heck he wants to; quoting scripture will turn many of us off, though. I don’t know what the equivalent might be for you, but use your imagination.
I am not a religious conservative, and neither are a great many that turned the tide yesterday. I do not share the values of religious conservatives, not even a little bit.
“I am not a religious conservative, and neither are a great many that turned the tide yesterday. I do not share the values of religious conservatives, not even a little bit.”
What does that mean ?
When I think of “religious conservative” I think of Rick Santorum or Jesse Helms.
Regardless, I do not understand the strong distaste for religion.
There are good and bad people everywhere – including in churches.
I am generally with John Adams
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
While I do not think it morality and religion are inseparable, I do think they are more commonly found together than not.
I would also note that religion seems to be innate to humans.
If we do not subscribe to an existing religion – we tend to create them.
The woke progressive left today is deeply religious. They have manufactured a religion out of their politics.
“I would also note that religion seems to be innate to humans.”
Man is born with a religious gene? Has that been mapped yet?
Look who became a scientist! Miracle of Miracles
Pro-tip: stick to your specialized academic field. Sous-chef is it?
” quoting scripture will turn many of us off, though. “
James, I will quote some scripture. “Thou shalt not murder.”
Does that turn you off? You may be talking about proselytizing. Would that be correct? If that is the case, I agree with you.
James – “separation of church and state” is given shape by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. That clause prohibits laws or official governmental policies that establish a religion by the government, or that favor one religion over another. A politician quoting scripture in a speech is permissible. That has nothing to do with the Establishment Clause because it doesn’t create law or establish official government policy.
James, I agree (of course) we must maintain ‘separation of Church and State…’ HOWEVER.. just because Vance likes to quote from authors in the composite book called the Bible does not endorse a fusion any more than quoting from the works of Shakespeare… it’s simply a matter of perspective. I admire Vance’s Courage and Loyalty.. hopefully he’ll grow in stature the next 4 years to be a more rounded Politician who can embrace a broader perspective himself…
Wow. I am not religious. I have moved beyond atheism. But quoting scripture doesn’t looklike a violation of the separation priciple. You are entitled to your opinion and Vance has a right to speak as he chooses. Full stop.
“If he continues to ignore our separation of church and state in his speech by quoting scripture, “
James, the separation of church and state has nothing to do with a person quoting scripture. It was to prevent the federal government from establishing one religion over all others. Some states had a state religion supported by the state.
I don’t understand what you dislike from the ” likes of religious conservative Vance.”
James: If he continues to ignore our separation of church and state in his speech by quoting scripture, I will straight up demonize him. Just being honest.
That you will put you on a footing with FDR’s Kluxxer on SCOTUS, Associate Justice Hugo Black.
That would be the Catholic hating and anti-Semitic Kluxxer that penned the words “separation of church and state” in his opinion in regards to a SCOTUS decision.
Words that are not found either in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights – but many today repeatedly throw those words out there as though they are written word by word in either one of them or both.
Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1 (1947)
The “establishment of religion” clause of the First Amendment means at least this: neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church… The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable.”
The actual words in the First Amendment are completely different: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. The word “separation” is not in there.
The words “In God We Trust” have survived First Amendment challenges from followers of the religion of atheism, and few complain about having the Christian holiday of Christmas observed and paid as a statutory holiday. Just as few oppose laws relating to murder and theft as being government adopting Christian theology from the Ten Commandments as secular law.
I don’t have to draw a connection to either religion or atheism to justify when I either agree or disagree with the opinion of anyone inside or outside of government. Logic and rational by themselves should suffice to do either.
For those offended by either deist religions or by atheism being the theology of communism… well, suck it up and make a better argument based on logic and rational.
James, I am aware. I am libertarian – not republican.
Perhaps you can explain your problems with Vance.
He is certainly not Jesse Helms.
Separation of church and state does not preclude politicians from quoting scripture.
I quote the scripture frequently – not as a means of evangelizing, but because it often expresses universal truths or contains interesting observations.
I have some policy problems with Trump. That does not change the fact that neither Harris nor Biden were within an order of magnitude of comparable.
Regardless, only those on the left expect lockstep agreement.
When you turn on the light, in an infested house, the cockroaches scurry frantically to hide in the crevices. There is a lot of scurrying happening right now.
“For everyone practicing evil hates the light.”
Those whose candidate lost should take their own advice and honor the “will of the people.”
What this votes says is that fair minded Americans do not want to up fundamentally change the structure that makes this nation great. They don’t want to blow it up. They don’t want tens of thousands of illegal La dumped into small communities that do not have the infrastructure to absorb them. They don’t want gestational genocide to the moment of birth. They care sick of being treated like little children, tired of buying a 100 dollars of groceries and not needing a cart, they don’t want coward men playing women’s sports. The list goes on and on.
Pardon the typos
* Let’s see if lower fuel costs actually reduce the price of groceries. A few pennies? There’s systemic theft. How will concepts of morality play into this? Systemic corruption by people who’ve never understood the American political system as science nor the economy.
Every honest person will have to work. There’s a whole caste system trapped in poverty. Poverty traps exist. The most desperate are the handicapped and their care givers if any. It’s a mess. Harris and clan were and are robbers of the poor.
The “will” for which honoring is imperative is that of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The “will of the people” is only material within the parameters of those documents of fundamental law.
The entire communist American welfare state is a quivering mass of violations of that fundamental law, principally Article 1, Section 8, and the absolute 5th Amendment right to private property.
However unfortunate, parasites and leeches may not vote for largesse in the forms of “free stuff” and “free status,” aka welfare and affirmative action, aka unconstitutional Social Security, Medicare, etc.
The American thesis is freedom and self-reliance.
Corrective action is mandatory to end the deterioration and decline of America into communist chaos, anarchy, and, ultimately, “dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e. hired help)” under the brutal control of the Intelligentsia.
Since 2016, America has endured a top-down attempt to delegitimise half the country, particularly the working classes, for daring to disobey their ‘betters’. In the process, the Democrats have gone from being an inept, snobbish party of the ruling class to a vengeful and unhinged one – latching on to absurd conspiracy theories (à la Russiagate) and a reactionary identity politics (BLM, defund the police, gender ideology) to try to explain away their failings and burnish their crumbling moral authority. Then they enlisted Big Tech in a crusade against dissent under the guise of fighting ‘misinformation’. In the process, they have only shown how right voters were to reject them in 2016.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/06/deplorable-no-more/
The cases were always made of gossamer and now the spider has left the web!
No more Kamala cackle. No more Tampon Tim. No more Karine Jean-Pierre zero-talent. No more “Rachel” Levine. No more cross-dressing-baggage-stealing nuclear official. No more squinty-eyed-incoherently-mumbling-working-American-insulting incompetent Biden. No more that’s-hilarious-that-you-want-affordable-energy energy secretary. No more most-corrupt-DOJ-in-history Merrick Garland. No more persecuting grannies praying near abortion clinics. No more sending our life savings to pointless wars that have no connection to America’s vital national interests. No more inflation reduction acts full of pork barrel spending that boost inflation. No more invasion of tens of thousands of convicted rapists and murderers. No more trashing and defunding the police from the highest levels of government.
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, I’m free at last!
No more Butigieg.
Good point.
Freedom and self-reliance.
Freedom, free enterprise, free markets, self-regulation generally, governmental regulation specifically of only money, commerce, and land and naval Forces, taxation for only debt, defense, and security and infrastructure, or “general Welfare,” and a judicial branch to assure adherence to fundamental, statutory, and civil law.
The truly needy be placed on a path toward self-sufficiency and parasites and leeches be damned.
That is all.
And all that is non complex and simple.
There ya go, Turls…, live up to that plaque you have somewhere that says “…when you’re rich, they let ya do it.”
There’s no way trump shouldn’t get jail time Cohen went to jail for actions taken working for trump. I’d go as far as saying the future of the country comes down to forcing the legal system to say the rule of lasentiment. In regard to trump. At least we getting a grudging admittance of what trump has repeatedly proved. Pat yourself on the back for doing all in your power to further that sentiment.
I got four words in and encountered the word “Turls” this revealing that the comment writer’s IQ is less than 70. Didn’t waste my time reading the rest.
There ya go, Turls…, live up to that plaque you have somewhere that says “…when you’re rich, they let ya do it. There’s no way trump shouldn’t get jail time”
Says the filthy communist that didn’t mind rich Bidens selling the country from the White House for years before Trump took office. $30+ million dollars from the Chicoms alone… and the FBI, IRS and Biden DoJ slow-walk prosecutions of the bagman First Son for tax fraud until the statute of limitations expires. And then Biden tries to get rid of the remaining tax fraud charges of his son tied to him and gun crimes with a once in a millennia get out of jail offer that includes amnesty for everything ever done and no jail time.
Filthy communists not only don’t want their own rich filth in jail – they want their political enemies in jail for crimes never committed.
Just as Jack Smith did in 2012 to Obama/Biden’s most feared potential re-election opponent.
Democrat law-fare and corruption has many faces ……. there, I FIFY.
I know I shouldn’t find your distress so amusing, but it really is a hoot.
Lawfare is not justice; it is injustice.
Lawfare is not the exercise of power; it is the egregious criminal usurpation and abuse of power.
Charges must be brought by the new Congress, DOJ, and district attorneys against the criminal purveyors of illicit lawfare.
President Trump must give his full attention to situating America squarely back onto the Constitution through immediate and mass impeachment of high-criminal officers of the U.S., deportation of fraudulent “asylum” seekers, and privatization of every antithetical and unconstitutional governmental department, agency, benefit, and entitlement.
If the Smith appointment was unlawful, as the Supreme Court has decided, then his salary as an independent prosecutor should not have been paid. I am a taxpayer, and I want my money back!
And if the Smith appointment was unlawful he should be ineligible to claim qualified immunity for financial liability that his actions have personally caused Trump. Trump should sue him personally for the legal fees incurred defending these unlawful prosecutions.
* Most likely he’s covered by a law preventing that or definitely has insurance if you should want that paid for taxpayers not being able to keep the fictitious gross income to juggle for inflationary climb. Or something.
Many well intentioned people who voted yesterday are likely feeling lost and uninspired today. Sometimes one has to let go of what they thought life would be like and learn to find solace in what is. Whenever a new point of beginning is reached, it is important to firmly step forward and search for what is acceptable about it.
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Trump-Vance should visit the WH, and sit in the Situation Room with Biden-Harris. That photo will telegraph to our adversaries that the transition teams will cooperate closely on national security — it would be foolish to assume otherwise.
This is ridiculous. I understand Trump has declined the security briefing. It’s a trap, and he needs to prove his contempt for this lot. All that exists now in foreign policy need repudiated. The administrative state manufactures our adversaries as needed to continue the flow of cash to mic and lobbyists. We live in a connected world, it’s time to keep everyone connected so that we can all prosper together.
Trump did not decline security briefings, he declined Biden efforts to impose preconditions.
Regardless, Trump and his people do not need them. From 2017-2021, Trump relied more on private security companies to provide national security information.
They did a better job than CIA and NSA.
Today we do not need NASA to go to the moon.
Why would one think we need CIA or NSA to provide national security information ?
Further no one can charge you with violating the espionage act for information you bought from a private research and national security company.
From everything we have heard – Trump has an excellent transition team – and has had for some time.
He has been working on hitting the ground running for years not days.
Winning the senate with votes to spare means his nominees will be confirmed.
One difference between 45 and 47 will be that 45 accomplished everything from the WH, He did not trust much of the executive branch therefore nearly all important actions did not involve people beyond the WH.
While I think things like ending the Ukraine war will be accomplished inside a very small circle – restoring the executive to constitutional limits requires lost of very good and trust worthy people throughout government. Trump says he is now well prepared to do that. We shall see.
Regardless Trump is coming to DC with his own people – they are taking over. They have no interest in the input of the Biden/Harris people currently holding the reigns of power.
They do not want or need their help.
* You would sit in a room with criminals?
Those of us who didn’t buy into the fantasyland of not “true crime” did well these past four years. I wrote finance and not for one second buy into the nonsense. I made money. The Inflation Reduction Act was a joke for the less informed. I also trusted Prof Turley’s arguments for our safeguards of checks and balances while everyone was screaming “Hitler”. Take a Lithium, lefties
* Yes, you did.
If you, or someone you care about has been in legal trouble, and you had to choose between a candidate – a citizen – who faces jail if convicted in a circus-like trial, and, on the other hand, a hack prosecutor who got where he/she is by trading favors, who would YOU vote for? And the liberal pundits can’t understand why young black and Latino men ran from Harris!
No: anonymouse: young black and Latinos bought into the fake machismo “strong man” BS theme, aided and abetted by the “uppity black woman” attacks. They buy into the “self-made, boy-wonder billionaire” fantasy, too, along with the “I can grab them by the puxxy and they let you do it if you’re famous” theme. Trump is a trust fund baby who has squandered several billions of dollars that he was gifted and/or inherited. He has failed at more businesses than you can shake a stick at, and has taken bankruptcy 6 times. He is a chronic liar, thief of charitable foundation money and classified documents, and has been adjudicated liable for sexual assault, defamation, racial discrimination in housing and falsifying business records. Trump did everything he has been indicted and/or convicted of doing, and no matter how many times Turley is paid to attack his civil and criminal cases, they are well-founded factually and legally–Turley cannot make a plausible case otherwise, no matter how much Rupert Murdoch pays him to use the word “lawfare” and accuse prosecutors of being “unhinged”. * Neither you nor I could get away with doing what he did. It is truly a sad day for America that so many gullible people fall for so many lies. We now are on the threshold of an unrestricted malignant narcissist with unrestricted power, with no moral compass who has no guard rails, who has and will, once again, destroy our economy, take away our freedoms, abuse the power of office to punish perceived enemies, to silence critics, and hand over our health care policy to a genuine lunatic who is stupid enough to oppose immunizations that have saved countless lives over the decades that it has been public policy. People are going to, once again, die unnecessarily because of Trump, including women with crisis pregnancies, kids who get measles, mumps, rubella and polio and other communicable diseases and whatever new virus comes around. We will, once again, have concentration camps and the cost of everything will rise due to his stupidity and lack of knowledge of basic economics. It is truly a sad day for America–all because gullible males want to show those “uppity black women” and “college educated” people their power. Well, let’s hope you don’t need health care because Obamacare will be history. Let’s hope you don’t rely on Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid because they will get cuts and the Fund will be gone in 6 years. Let’s hope you earn enough money to pay for the increased cost of everything because of the tariffs–several thousand more a year just to buy the stuff you’re buying now. Let’s hope you don’t depend on sales outside the US because there will be reciprocal tariffs that will dry up your customers.
*one bright side to all of this is that Turley’s career as a pro-Trump pundit will likely take a nose-dive. He isn’t needed any more, and apparently, because Turley uses every column to push his stupid book, it’s not selling very well.
Laughing hysterically without reading a word of Gigenius nonsense.
Manic sociopath Gigi.
Gigi shares Bribery Biden’s contempt and racism towards black and Latino Americans: No: anonymouse: young black and Latinos bought into the fake machismo “strong man” BS theme
Kind of like Bribery Biden telling black Americans: “If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black”.
The intellectual genius Gigi wants normal Americans to agree with her and Biden that blacks and Latinos are too stupid to make their own decisions and need an Obama, or a Biden, or a Gigi and her Fire Hose of Democrat Lies to make their decisions for them. For their own good, of course.
Racism on top of your police state fascism Gigi: you are the perfect embodiment of a scummy, hate spreading Soviet Democrat apparatchik.
Men like Hunter Biden liked you better before your current career, when five dollars would keep your mouth and hands busy for a while.
If you’ve ever spent time around non college educated Latino males and blacks, then you’d understand the “machismo” thing.
So after you Trumpsters get over your sugar high at “showing “ educated women and minorities, you’re going to be left with a disastrous economy, a country that is slave to the impulses of Trump, who is an unhinged narcissist, American concentration camps, mass deportations, Putin taking Ukraine and threatening Poland and the Baltic countries, Zelenskyy going into exile if he isn’t assassinated, kids not receiving vaccines, so they’ll get sick and some will die, cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, tens of thousands without health insurance, cuts to school lunches for poor kids, women dying of pregnancy complications, attacks against civil rights, no more NOAA or Department of Education, and a demonstrably insane conspiracy theorist taking over healthcare. Make no mistake— we’re all going to suffer in one way or another. But, hey—you Trumpsters “showed” those uppity college educated people.
Fasten your seat belt—it will be worse than you can imagine because if there’s one thing that we know it’s that Trump is incompetent, that he has no leadership skills, that he acts on impulse, that he’s no patriot, and will surround himself with people who won’t steer him in the right direction.
ROFL
Putin threatening Poland ?
Russia is 5 times the size of Ukraine and it has been fought to a WWI like stalemate.
Russia would not last 5 minutes against Poland.
Your hysterical rage towards President Trump is duly noted. Do try to get help with that.
Last night the american people spoke – and they said that you and yours are Full of Schiff.
You are in no position to lecture the rest of the country.
Harris likely spent the past 24hrs talking with her advisers and plotting to see it there was any possible way to challenge this.
The grand pooba of election fraud can not go to court claiming Fraud. Trump is over 300EV and there are 3 states left to call for Trump.
Harris would have to win challenges in atleast 4 states to flip this – ones that she lost by 3pts – not 0.25%
Like Trump allegedly lost GA. After spending the past 24hrs plotting Harris and her time finally realized there was nothing left but to conceed.
She did, she called for a peaceful transition to the man she had called litterally Hitler dozens of times before.
If those of you on the left BELEIVE what you claim – that Trump is hitler that he is actually going to do all the things you claim, then you should be rejecting Harris’s claim for a peaceful transition and you should be fighting – like the French Resistance.
But most of you are not going to do that.
Why ? Because you know all the nonsense you have been spewing is LIES – LIES that you do not even believe yourself.
I know that it is fashionable in polite circles to be contemptuous of machismo. The Spanish-speakers who climbed into my very large oak tree, where it hung twenty feet above my roof, and cut that large branch into sections, lowering them gingerly to the ground, had a lot of machismo. Roofers, beam-diggers, open-open shrimpers—need I go on? Contempt for machismo often looks like effete contempt for the men who work with their hands.
Your whole family retarded?
Gig,
nearly 53% of the country beleives that they will be better off with 4 years of Trump than 4 years of Harris.
The stock market beleives that too.
You have made all kinds of predictions and claims – none have ever been right.
You have spoke all kinds of lies about Trump or Biden – none have been right.
If by some miracle 10% of your claims regarding Trump prove true over the next 4 years – Trump will be remembered by Trump voters as a crook, and Republicans will never hold office again.
Yesterday Democrats were sent packing – this went beyond Trump More atleast 3 senate seats flipped with 4 more dancing on the razors edge.
Republicans are up 4 in the house. There are 61 seats left to decide. Republicans only have to win 23 of them to control the house. – that is a little more than 1:3.
This was not a Trump victory this was a democratic defeat.
Voters were angry with democrats. And in exit polls they told us why.
Because you had gone WAY too far.
Because Democrats lied to them, and they do not beleive you any more.
Biden was supposed to be a moderate, a unifier, A caretaker president returning things to normalcy.
That was a lie. They did not beleive Harris when she tried the same lie.
The voted to protect democracy – FROM YOU.
Gigi, if you and democrats EVER wish to return to power the very first step is
STOP LYING.
Gigi, in Aplril of 1775 americans who could no longer tolerate the rule of George the III took up arms and after a long armed struggle removed him and made their own government.
If you beleive what you say – then that is exactly what you should be doing right now.
You rant constantly about Trump as an insurrectionist. You do not seem to know what an issurecction is.
If you beleive Trump is a fascist, if you beleive he is a NAZI, if you beleive he is going to violate your rights and those of others, if you beleive he is going to do all or even a few of the bad things you claim – then the moral thing to do is to take up arms and fight.
That is what Americans have always done with actual tyrants.
But the truth is
Either you are a coward who is not worthy of the liberty this country promises and unwilling to fight for it.
Or you are a liar and do not beleive what you say.
Yesterday millions of americans cast their verdict – YOU ARE A LIAR.
You are free to speculate as to why Harris lost.
Magic, tactics, Fraud, you can even call Trump voters garbage – but you should not expect they are going to be very tolerant of that.
Harris ceded today and in asserting that democracy works, that she will cooperate with trump and that she will work to do better next time, she admitted that her campaign was a lie.
If Electing Trump was electing Hitler – you do not cede, you fight. You take up arms if you must.
Otherwise – you were lying all along.
Just as you Gigi continue to do now.