Go here to read the article by Turley. Actually there is ample evidence for believing that the 2020 election was rigged. From the stuffing of ballot boxes by “ballot harvesters”,
to the mainstream media boasting about how laws were changed prior to the election in a campaign to get rid of Trump, to the spiking of the Hunter Biden labtop story prior to the election.
Jack Smith, the prosecutor isn’t stupid. He realizes that these new charges against Trump are rubbish. He merely assumes that before the biased Federal judges in DC and a jury pool from a place that voted 92 percent for Biden and 5 percent for Trump, he is assured of convictions. That all this may be undone on appeal troubles Smith not at all. His purpose is to hurt Trump in the general election in 2024. Lawfare as raw politics. What this seeks to do is criminalize conservatism as lese majeste against the Democrat Party and the Deep State.
I’d be more upset about the electoral fraud of 2020 if I didn’t believe that electoral fraud has been the norm in American politics for a long, long time. It’s as American as apple pie. For starters, see the Presidential election of 1876. Not that I have anything against President Hayes — I think he was a good man and a good president — but the way he was installed can’t stand the light of day.
GP: Quite correct. The exemplar for our times is the rude and crude stuffed ballot boxes by Mayor Daley in Chicago in 1960. Technique was upgraded and refined to election rule changes and midnight counts in 2020. Only real changes over the years is the cast of characters.
It seems like Smith is closer to crossing the line between bad government service and criminality than Trump was. I don’t think either should serve time for it, but should Smith at least be disbarred?
He should be but he won’t be. He was chastised by the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision:
“the uncontrolled power of criminal prosecutors is a threat to our separation of powers.”
What this seeks to do is criminalize conservatism . . .
Yeah, well, best of luck with that, Mr. Smith. Such tripe may make the bosoms of the Georgetown Karens swell, but out here between the ranges it’ll get you something quite a bit less enjoyable.
I keep thinking about how in 2016 Scott Adams kept saying that it would be a mistake to prosecute Hillary, even if she were guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt, because America can’t be a nation where the law is used as a club against political opponents.
This once again shows how foolish it is to be merciful to the left. Like the scorpion that stung the frog in the middle of the river, they will strike at you regardless of how you treat them.
This once again shows how foolish it is to be merciful to the left.
Beat them. Don’t become them.
How is prosecuting Hillary Clinton for real crimes that she actually did commit going to make us “become them”?
Because it would have destabilized the nation just as using the DOJ in lawfare against Trump is destabilizing the nation. The Roman Republic fell when politics became a blood sport. We are on the same path due to the Left. Trump was right not to prosecute Clinton.
That argument only makes sense if refraining from justified prosecution would stop the left from engaging in unjustified prosecution.
We now have empirical evidence that it didn’t.
We did not preserve the idea that law shouldn’t be used as a weapon. But we DID preserve the idea that connected dems, like the Clintons, should be above the law.
All intentional untruths are perjury in a court of law.
It seems like Smith is closer to crossing the line between bad government service and criminality than Trump was. I don’t think either should serve time for it, but should Smith at least be disbarred?
What did Trump do that was actually criminal and would have been regarded as criminal in any set of circumstances prior to 2016?
All intentional untruths are perjury in a court of law.
It has to be relevant to the proceedings, be of legal significance to the proceedings, not be a matter of opinion or conjecture and be prosecuted, which lying in court almost never is.
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