We’ve never seen anything like this.
Right now, just one month away from Election Day 2024, with ballots going out and early voting already taking place in some states, you’re witnessing the most blatant attempt by the legal system to interfere with an election that you may ever see.
Julie Kelly on how “special counsel” Jack Smith is continuing to press his J6 charges against Donald Trump despite the recent SCOTUS immunity decision gutting his already shaky case.
With the so-called “classified documents” trial against Trump paused for several months, and as we wait for a Supreme Court decision on the extent of presidential immunity, this seems like a good time to take a comprehensive look at Jack Smith’s appointment as special counsel and whether it was even legitimate in the first place.
The New York Court of Appeals refused former President Trump’s request to lift the gag order put on him by Judge Juan Merchan, ruling that "no substantial constitutional question is directly involved."
By the time you’ve read this, we may know whether or not Hunter will take the stand in his trial. Presumably, Abbe Lowell will earn his $1,000 an hour by pulling something else out of his hat to get jury sympathy. But not that.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared before the House Judiciary Committee and (again) showed himself to be a worthless political hack who specializes in avoiding transparency.
Tuesday, Judge Juan Merchan’s court in the trial of President Trump for allegedly “falsifying records” for payments to Michael Cohen is back in session, after the judge gave the jury a week off to go home and hear non-stop from Manhattan friends, family, neighbors, co-workers and social media contacts how much they hate Trump and how great it would be if he were in jail.
In calling former Michael Cohen legal advisor Robert Costello to testify --- they took our advice, haha --- Trump’s attorneys not only showed the jury he’s the most credible witness in this whole trial, but also, through the judge’s conduct, signaled to them how biased this courtroom is.
Now that President Trump’s son Barron has had his high school graduation and Judge Juan Merchan’s Manhattan court is back in session, it looks as though things are only going to get worse for the prosecution. It’s really too bad for “our democracy” (using the term facetiously) that this embarrassing travesty of justice isn’t being televised for all to see.
Laura Ingraham did get to go inside the dingy, uncomfortable courtroom for Day 2 of “star witness” Michael Cohen’s testimony Tuesday, and she said he impressed her as “a well-rehearsed dunderhead.”
No wonder the Democrats hate Florida Judge Aileen Cannon so much. Not only does she treat former President Trump as if he actually has Constitutional rights, she also believes there should be consequences for prosecutorial misconduct.
In another court win for Trump, the Georgia Court of Appeals has agreed to hear their application to have Fulton County DA Fani Willis removed from that absurd RICO case of hers.
“Those of us who are pro-Trump lack the imagination to understand how the other side intends to win.” That was Newt Gingrich speaking on Monday’s HANNITY show, on a situation that’s becoming more and more clear.
“It’s been a trainwreck for the prosecution,” former Director of National Intelligence and current California Rep. John Ratcliffe told Maria Bartiromo Sunday on Fox News.
It’s up to us --- all of us --- to talk up the problems in the “financial records” case against former President Trump that’s taking place in Judge Juan Merchan’s Manhattan courtroom, because Merchan’s gag order is largely prohibiting President Trump from doing so.
Case closed! Or at least it should be.
Perhaps you recall when DC Judge Beryl Howell actually ordered Trump’s own attorney, Evan Corcoran, to testify before the “classified documents” grand jury --- weirdly convened in DC instead of Florida --- effectively piercing attorney-client privilege. At the last minute, “Special Counsel” Jack Smith convened a new grand jury in Florida to indict Trump down there.
Rep. Stefanik filed her complaint with the hilariously named Department of “Justice” Office of Professional Responsibility. One way Smith has tried to influence the election, she alleges, is to continue filing new material in the case during the district court’s stay on the proceedings.
If anything illustrates that the lawfare against President Trump was intended from the start as a way to interfere with the 2024 election, it’s the reaction by his opponents in the legal community to recent delays and challenges.