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Shockingly, Democrats continue to use the “Trump is a convicted felon” ruse as a justification for their “honorable” vote for the appointed candidate Kamala Harris, because, well, what else do they have? The American people passed their judgment in the election, but Democrats are only about “Democracy” when it agrees with them.
Are they going to point to Biden’s accomplishments as president? “He wasn’t Trump” is the big one. The ability of his staff, the media and Democrats in general to be willing to blatantly cover up his inability to function as president, even after the Hur report indicating he was not competent to stand trial, is a bigger “accomplishment” than most realize.
He established the precedent for a clearly incompetent president to maintain power at great danger to the nation in order to protect his crime family and ability to claim to pardon a record number of felons… although the “pardons” were really done by his staff and the autopen, including pardons for crimes committed in the future!
Some momentary thought on this precedent might cause some of the most politically biased to consider, “Are we going to support the same thing done by a Republican president?” Hopefully most of these pardons will be invalidated, as well as the pardons for crimes yet to be committed. The 25th Amendment also needs to be looked at and fixed by either legislation or a SCOTUS ruling on the legislation as it stands. The nation was fortunate to survive Biden’s term; we can’t count on such fortune in the future.
So what does “convicted felon” mean? In this case, a DISTRICT court in the politically biased NY district found him “guilty” of politically motivated sham charges, and the media and Democrats (but I repeat myself) say Trump was convicted of “rape,” although he as convicted of sexual harassment with a crazy fine for an incident that allegedly happened in ‘96. I know too many men accused of “sexual harassment” when it was completely bogus to buy this as sold. In one case, the accused was not even present at the location where the alleged incident happened, but would have lost their job had not a high-level level courageous woman verified that the accused was not at that location! The fact that a number of men testified he was not did not matter to the witch hunters because “men always lie and stick together.” Amazingly, women never lie and are always to be believed.
After Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and a host of unsung conservative male victims faced false charges, the Democrat/media establishment threw a few of their own under the bus to provide a fig leaf, suggesting that it wasn’t just Republican men who were always guilty. Al Franken was the sacrificial lamb because he was a senator from the totally safe deep blue state of MN, so it was guaranteed he would be replaced by a Democrat sycophant.
The most humorous of the charges against Trump was that he had overvalued a property in order to obtain a loan. The loan was obtained (it is worth remembering that it is the lender's obligation to verify the value of the property before making the loan) and paid off with no issue. But this was TRUMP! The fact that no crime was committed was immaterial. Trump is a felon!
The most damaging part of this farce is that in charging a former president with “crimes” allegedly committed before he took office, or actions taken while he was in office, SCOTUS was prompted to essentially give lifetime immunity to presidents. While many Republicans cheer the ruling, I believe it is overly broad and may put us in future peril with a president who is not honorable.
A nice summary of reality from NR:
Sure, Bragg, Merchan, and their fellow Democrats now get to call Trump a convicted felon (at least until the appeals run their course). And Garland and Smith get to beat their chests about the convictions of Trump they say they are sure they could have won. But throughout the last months of the 2024 campaign, Democrats called Trump a convicted felon, anyway. What did it get them? Come Monday, the country has decided Trump will be called Mr. President.
Thankfully, 2024 proved that Americans are reality-based. Only 35% believe that the justice system is “just.” The treatment of Trump is a huge factor in the raised awareness among the public that our justice system has been corrupted.
The long-standing corruption is documented in the book “Licensed to Lie”.
The key insight of the book for me is that in the 1963 case of Brady vs. Maryland, the SCOTUS made it clear that it is a constitutional requirement of government prosecutors to turn over any exculpatory evidence to the defense (evidence that may prove innocence or justify actions of the accused). Why? Because the mission of the justice department is JUSTICE, not winning convictions. An inscription on the walls of the DOJ states that: “The United States wins its point whenever justice is done for its citizens in the courts”.
The book is a good read if you are interested in TV shows on law at all. If you are like me, you will be shocked by some famous cases in which we likely believe “justice was served,” only to find out that in cases like the conviction of Ted Stevens (senator from Alaska) and a number of Arthur Anderson/Enron convictions, the convictions were overturned on appeal because the Justice Department failed to follow the law!
If you follow too much legacy media, you are not living in reality!
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Interesting post about what many of us have suspected about so many of prosecutions. I will probably get the book because the excerpts sound good.
I notice that you did not mention the author, Sidney Powell. This book was published 9 years before she pled guilty on six misdemeanor counts regarding actions during the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
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The pardons will stand. This quixotic fever dream ranks right up there with unfaithful electors, alternate slates of electors, sovereign citizen movements and the constitutional sheriffs theory.
The lower courts are bound by Ex Parte Garland (1866) and there is no theoretical way for any case to even get to the Supremes. Congress could try legislation but that wouldn’t pass muster because it would clearly be ex post facto and perhaps even be a bill of attainder.
Again, what’s the path to SCOTUS? And if a highly ambitious VP and equally ambitious cabinet secretaries aren’t willing to invoke the 25th Amendment, what is the solution ? I’d like to hear your proposals. Anything that involves the political opposition is bound to be a nonstarter.
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You say something about President Biden that is clearly not true:
No, Woodrow Wilson established that precedent, when he was completely incapacitated by a stroke during office, only to have his wife and his inner circle run the country as they saw fit for the remainder of his term.
That precedent was then confirmed by FDR, who was also completely incapacitated by a stroke during office, and whose wife and inner circle did the exact same thing.
Biden merely confirmed that Democrats don't care who's in power, as long as America is moved leftward.
But we've known that for over 100 years...
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While Roosevelt’s health was in decline for quite some time, he died within hours of his one and only stroke. At Yalta, Churchill’s personal physician, Lord Moran, registered the president’s BP at 260/150. Supposedly he advised the PM that his friend had “only months to live.”
And before she advised Fox News that proof the 2020 election was stollen came from an “internally decapitated time traveler.”
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