Geiger Capital on X - "The first felony conviction of a former US President wasn’t for the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, illegal CIA coups, drone striking weddings, or spying on Americans… It was because Trump misclassified a $130,000 payment for a porn star’s NDA. Tells you everything you need to know."
Elon Musk on X - "Indeed, great damage was done today to the public’s faith in the American legal system. If a former President can be criminally convicted over such a trivial matter – motivated by politics, rather than justice – then anyone is at risk of a similar fate."
Eric Weinstein on X - "My reaction to the Trump verdict is pretty simple. This is about previously shared *tacit* understandings needed for the functioning of a free society. The current case and verdict seems similar to the Bork confirmation battle from almost 40 years ago: it is a sign of the breakdown of previous *shared* tacit understandings between the parties that made the US both strong and functional. To the Democratic Party leadership, Trump represents the breakdown of an understanding that the parties not allow a populist outside their perception of a window of allowable candidates. This is akin to *their* contention in 1987 that Bork represented a nominees outside the tacit agreement not to nominate extremists. Thus they mounted a new campaign of extraordinary measures to enforce their perception. To the Republican Party, the Democratic leadership is innovating never before seen warfare and immoral tactics by *initiating* extraordinary warfare in violation of the tacit agreement to accept the Republican Party’s right to propose reasonable candidates without hysterical bed-wetting behavior. They believe the Democratic Party is breaking the tacit agreement not to prosecute presidents or pursue legal action as part of a campaign. Leaving the issue of who is right aside temporarily, what is happening is the acceleration of the continuing breakdown of *SHARED* **TACIT** ASSUMPTIONS. These are the backbone of our previously functional country. They are not written down. You can’t look them up. Trump and Bork are nominees portrayed as madmen by one side, that are so extreme as to require extraordinary measures. Democratic hardliners will celebrate. What will come back is a series of prosecutions by Republicans that the Democratic Party will see as evidence that Republicans are inexplicably evil. As for what I believe? I think the Democratic Party leadership is acting like shortsighted decisions to open the doors to hell don’t matter because many are in their 80s and aren’t going to be around long enough. And they don’t care enough about their own children or their country to care about the world they leave behind after their demises. I have always said that Trump poses an existential threat. Biden joined that club a while back. He should be removing himself at his age and in his condition and Kamala should not be a heartbeat away from being commander in chief of the world’s pre-eminent thermonuclear power. What do I want? It’s laughable. I sound delusional. I want all these people gone, removed by their parties’ middle aged wise men and women so that we aren’t forced to play this out. I want some vital person in their 40s with military and government experience and a technical background to be in the Oval Office giving the speeches needed to restore our nation. I don’t care which party at this point. Someone who has seen action and loves America. I don’t care the party, the race, the gender, the sexual orientation or anything else at this point . The fact that such a vision admittedly sounds insane…even to me….tells you everything about how these people have shifted our tacit understandings of ourselves. We have accepted madness. Adults would never have let this happen. The aged, ironically, have simply cleared out *all* the adults. How do you ask a badly misbehaving Octogenarian: “Is your mother or father at home?” I am more concerned with my children at this point than either Biden or Trump. We are going to play this out as we did Bork for our foreseeable future. It’s so insane. 🙏"
Meme - Trump: "Wow, SUCH A YUGE RALLY today!"
*prisoners in yard*
Meme - Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze: Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "The Supreme Court tried to block me from relieving student debt. But they didn't stop me. I've relieved student debt for over 5 million Americans. I'm going to keep going."
Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "Donald Trump is threatening our democracy. First, he questioned our election system. Then, he questioned our judicial system. And now, you can stop him:"
David Sacks on X - "THE BUSINESS RECORDS DOUBLE STANDARD In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s campaign was fined $8,000 for violating federal campaign finance laws. Why? Her team falsely reported the funding of the Steele Dossier as “legal services” and “legal and compliance consulting.” Actually this “opposition research” was an attempt to smear her opponent with false and salacious allegations. Obviously, it was also intended to influence the 2016 election. Moreover, Hillary’s campaign was headquartered in New York State (out of Brooklyn, NY), which would make it fall under the jurisdiction of New York Penal Law §175.10, the state law which makes it a felony to falsify business records with the intent to conceal the commission of a crime. What is the key distinction between Hillary’s campaign violation versus recent news? With Hillary’s violation, there wasn’t a Manhattan prosecutor politically motivated to bring an unprecedented case to trial."
Thread by @tedfrank on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Let’s have some fun with the new norms. Iowa Code § 39A.2(d)(1) makes it a felony when someone “Pays, offers to pay, or causes to be paid money or any other thing of value to a person to influence the person’s vote.” Pretty confident a lot of other states with ambitious attorneys general have similar laws. Student loan forgiveness is a thing of value. Biden aficionados have said that loan forgiveness would influence the vote; it’s generally understood that the White House has been pushing the terrible regressive policy for electoral reasons. There are probably smoking gun emails or memos or texts among Biden staffers saying just that. Biden is certainly campaigning on it. Now, normally, the official acts of a president would be beyond state law. But as we saw from the Georgia indictment victims’ attempts to remove to federal court, illegal acts aren’t official acts. And these acts in particular were ultra vires; indeed, Biden supporters like Nancy Pelosi said as much in 2021, so he should have known he didn’t, and the Supreme Court ultimately agreed. And there sure were a lot of government staffers who conspired with Biden on this. Now, this is certainly an extension of a law never used this way before. But when has that ever stopped a prosecutor from going after a president under the New Normal? After all, no one is above the law unless they’re violent criminals or shoplifters or Hamas supporters blocking roads.
Oh, look, Florida. “No person shall directly or indirectly give or promise anything of value to another intending thereby to buy that person’s or another’s vote or to corruptly influence that person or another in casting his or her vote.” Fla. Code § 104.061(2). Is acting unconstitutionally corrupt? It would be entertaining to see hundreds of reporters required to spend weeks in Cheyenne, WY, over whether dozens of Democrats conspired to feloniously violate § 22-26-109(a)(1). Just because Biden lost the state 26-70 doesn’t mean he can’t get a fair trial."
Ole Murica on X - "Manhattan AG Alvin Bragg and New York AG Letitia James both campaigned on the same exact thing. Going after one man. Donald J. Trump. Now they are attempting to make good on their Campaign Promise of going through with their Political Prosecution of an innocent man."
From 2023
Thread by @CommonSenseTodd on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I don’t understand how a DA publicly stating on camera “Elect me and I’ll imprison Donald Trump for something” isn’t grounds for immediate dismissal. If not exculpatory, isn’t it clear evidence of bias? I see hard criminals get charges dropped for less evidence of bias! And multiple DAs operated—and got elected—this same way! And now they’re the ones bringing charges. And their campaigns were all funded by Soros. The clear intention bias is off the charts. Not mention the AG"
Gregg Re on X - "here's the part of the prosecution's closing argument where they admit Trump would've paid more taxes b/c of his 'improper accounting' but they argued this is still tax fraud, even though he *overpaid*. and that elevates the 'business records' case to a felony! "IT'S A CRIME TO PREPARE FALSE TAX DOCUMENTS, EVEN WHEN DOING SO DOES NOT RESULT IN UNDERPAYMENT OF TAXES" unbelievable"
KanekoaTheGreat on X - "CNN Senior Legal Analyst Describes How The Trump Conviction Was A Political Hit Job
1. "The judge donated money... in plain violation of a rule prohibiting New York judges from making political donations—to a pro-Biden, anti-Trump political operation."
2. Alvin Bragg boasted on the campaign trail in an overwhelmingly Democrat county, “It is a fact that I have sued Trump over 100 times.”
3. "Most importantly, the DA’s charges against Trump push the outer boundaries of the law and due process."
4. "The charges against Trump are obscure, and nearly entirely unprecedented. In fact, no state prosecutor — in New York, or Wyoming, or anywhere — has ever charged federal election laws as a direct or predicate state crime, against anyone, for anything. None. Ever."
5. The DA inflated misdemeanors past the statute of limitations and "electroshocked them back to life" by alleging the falsification of business records was committed 'with intent to commit another crime.'
6. "Inexcusably, the DA refused to specify what those unlawful means actually were — and the judge declined to force them to pony up — until right before closing arguments. So much for the constitutional obligation to provide notice to the defendant of the accusations against him in advance of trial."
7. "In these key respects, the charges against Trump aren’t just unusual. They’re bespoke, seemingly crafted individually for the former president and nobody else."
8. "The Manhattan DA’s employees reportedly have called this the “Zombie Case” because of various legal infirmities, including its bizarre charging mechanism. But it’s better characterized as the Frankenstein Case, cobbled together with ill-fitting parts into an ugly, awkward, but more-or-less functioning contraption that just might ultimately turn on its creator." Link to full article below."
Trump Was Convicted — But Prosecutors Contorted the Law
FischerKing on X - "Here is the nature of selective justice: You think you’re a normal citizen, doing normal things. But probably you’ve committed dozens of ‘crimes’ just in the last year. You don’t know what they are. And prosecutors don’t know what they are either, and they don’t know who you are. There are so many laws on the books that anyone could commit crimes and not know. Every schmuck has committed a tax crime accidentally. But if you run afoul of powerful folks - they will find the crime and destroy you. They go through that book of ‘crimes’ no one reads and use it. The ‘crimes’ are not really crimes - not rape, theft or murder. It could be a bookkeeping error. But the prosecutors will pretend you are a serial killer. And demand everyone view it that way. Meanwhile there are other prominent people - politicians even, Joe Biden even - who have violated all the same laws, even more flagrantly, and no one pays attention. The justice system is a huge scam. A blizzard of laws selectively applied against opponents of the deep state regime. That’s the reality."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "As someone who went to law school, did well enough, and teaches the subject at a state U from time to time: the "34 felony counts" line from the Trump case just is a complete joke. Essentially all of them spring from what would normally be charged as a single misdemeanor at a different level.of government (state v. federal)...against which the statute of limitations had already run."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "One notable thing about the Trump verdict yesterday was the total lack of rioting."
Andrew Follett on X - "This is a...very important...point. Republicans ALMOST NEVER riot. Whereas Democrats riot constantly."
Mankosmash on X - "The Right doesn't riot. Jan 6 was like 20 people who needed to watch the libs riot for a whole year first."
But clearly, the real danger to the US is the "far right" rising in an armed insurrection
Daniel on X - "Disappointing to see so many supposed allies on the left wanting to exclude an experienced applicant from a leadership position based solely on an unrelated criminal record"
Meme - "Trump got 3 baby mamas, a mugshot, and a 34 felonies for paying off his side piece? This man is blacker than Barack Obama."
Elon Musk on X - "The proscriptions of Marius led to the proscriptions of Sulla"
Matthew Yglesias on X - "Nobody prosecuted Clinton because they had no case!"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "If I correctly recall the whole BleachBit situation, the FBI openly stated that Clinton broke the law, but prosecution would not be normal or logical. Same with Biden and documents ("a sympathetic elderly gentleman"), etc."
Stephen L. Miller on X - "JUST ASKING QUESTIONS (whispers) Everything about Trump since 2016, and including this, is simply and easily explained because Hillary and the media can't just accept she actually lost"
a newsman on X - "I generally hate comparisons, but I’m trying to imagine how the press would be discussing the prosecution of Barack Obama in some deep red city by a republican prosecutor who ran on a promise to get him and then charged him with a crime that no one could articulate"
Dan McLaughlin on X - "Explain to me how, under Sheppard v Maxwell, a criminal defendant's right to a fair trial isn't violated when THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES sponsors a press conference outside the courthouse, the day before the jury begins deliberations, to demand a conviction."
After Trump, the crisis: White America at the historical crossroads | Salon.com
From 2021. The hysteria and projection are off the charts. Naturally, the prescription was even more of the left wing agenda
Meme - Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre: "To be very clear the media is preparing the groundwork for justifying the assassination of Donald Trump"
The New Republic: "It can happen here. And if it does, here is what might become of the country.
What American Fascism Would Look Like"
The boy who cried wolf is still being believed by gullible left wingers
Mitt Romney says Biden should have pardoned Trump as he rips ‘embarrassing’ Republicans flocking to trial - "“He should have fought like crazy to keep this prosecution from going forward,” Mr Romney said, referring to Mr Biden, during an interview on MSNBC’sThe 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle. “It was a win-win for Donald Trump.” Mr Romney said pardoning Mr Trump would have put Mr Biden in a position of power over the former president.
Meme - Ben Shapiro: "Man, it certainly would be terrible if a president unleashed his DOJ to prosecute his chief opponent in two separate jurisdictions while party hacks convicted that opponent of non crimes in, say, New York"
"Biden-Harris campaign statement on convicted felon Donald Trump confirming his Project 2025 plan to jail his opponents"
"Donald Trump Confirms Plans to Jail Opponents
Reeling and increasingly unhinged from his own felony convictions, Trump raising plans to jail his political opponents is just the latest proof that he will do anything to regain power, preserve his own freedom, and seek revenge on anyone who opposes him. Trump is pledging to rule as a dictator on 'day one,' punish his enemies, embrace violence done on his behalf, and warns of a 'bloodbath' if he loses. The warning signs are clear for all to see. Trump is a danger to our Constitution, a threat to our democracy, and so consumed by his own failed, diminished state he has gone off the deep end."
Meme - Jo @JoJoFromJerz: "Republicans don't just condone violence against their "enemies", they encourage it."
Jo @JoJoFromJerz: ""I hope he comes, I'm going to punch him out I'm going to punch him out, I'm going to go to jail, and I'm going to be happy." Nancy Pelosi is my hero."
Meme - Alex Cole @acnewsitics: "Now I see why Trump wanted to hide his school records. He is mentally disabled."
Alex Cole @acnewsitics: "Watching Trump make fun of Biden's stutter has my fucking blood boiling. You have to be a sad fucking person to mock people with disabilities."
Meme - Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries: "The more we learn about 2016 election the more ILLEGITIMATE it becomes. America deserves to know whether we have a FAKE President in the Oval Office #RussianInterference"
Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries: "It's time for mainstream Republicans to take their party back from the extremists and election deniers. Don't hold your breath."
Meme - Jo @JoJoFromJerz: "@realDonalcdTrump "I won an election"... no- you STOLE one. You sold your country out in the process. #TrumpResign"
Jo @JoJoFromJerz: "Any political party which refuses to accept election results unless THEY win, shouldn't be in charge of jack shit."
Simon Ateba on X - "BREAKING - SHOCKING - YOUR REACTION: Judge Juan Merchan claimed Trump might have violated his gag order by shaking his head inside the courtroom while Stormy Daniels was testifying. The judge claimed that by shaking his head and reportedly 'audibly cursing', Trump might have intimidated the witness. This was said privately to Trump's lawyer and was not captured loudly during the testimony. READ"
G-MA786 🇺🇸 on X - "He was intimidating her by 🤬 audibly and shaking his head? The same woman that sat in court and said she has the money to give Trump but she’s never going to give him a penny of the money. That was a court order so she could go to jail for contempt. Doesn’t sound intimidated to me."
The Big Mig™ on X - "You Reap What You Sow: New York State Senator Kevin Parker, who sponsored and worked to pass the "Adult Survivors Act," which allowed E. Jean Carroll and her cat ‘Vagina’ to go after Trump with accusations from 30 years ago, now says the law is unconstitutional after a sexual assault lawsuit was filed against him."
Greg Price on X - "You gotta be kidding me. The prosecutor who questioned Stormy Daniels in court today donated $500 to Joe Biden in 2020, as well as $900 to ActBlue. You can add that conflict of interest to the other prosecutor who was #3 at Biden’s DOJ and worked for the DNC, the judge who also donated to Biden, and the judge’s daughter raising millions of dollars for Democrats off the indictment."
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer claims $130K payment 'wasn’t hush money' at Trump trial - "Keith Davidson was on the stand at Manhattan Supreme Court when he made the admission"
Jon Stewart found to have overvalued his NYC home by 829% - "Comedian Jon Stewart ranted this week that Donald Trump’s civil real-estate case overvaluing his properties was “not victimless,” yet when it came to his own home, Stewart benefited from a similar inflation... Records also show that Stewart paid significantly lower property taxes, which were calculated based on that assessor valuation price — precisely what he called Trump out for doing in his Monday monologue... the New York assessor valuation on Stewart’s former penthouse is the exact same citation method and metric that New York Attorney General Letitia James used to value Trump’s private and personal properties, and then sued him for inflating those assets."
Mary Frost on X - "🔴BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Alito just asked the following question. Alito: “If an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election and knows that a real possibility after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement, but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?”"
STUDY: Women More Likely to Vote Trump During Most Fertile Point of Menstrual Cycle. - "A new scientific study indicates women are more likely to vote for former President Donald Trump during the most fertile period of their menstrual cycle. According to researchers from the New School for Social Research, led by psychologist Jessica L Engelbrecht, women, when at their most fertile, are drawn to the former President’s intelligence in comparison to his political opponents. The research occurred between July and August 2020, observing 549 women to identify changes in their political opinions over time. Each was asked to select their preferred candidate in a series of hypothetical match-ups drawn at random. Candidates included Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, Barack Obama, Mike Pence, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Mitt Romney."
Meme - "I'm the greatest ham sandwich that there is. You'll never find this much ham on a sandwich anywhere quite frankly. I'm probably the best sandwich of any kind that has ever been made."
Meme - "THE SAME PEOPLE WHO TOLD YOU TRUMP WOULD RUIN THE ECONOMY AND START WW3 HAVE RUINED OUR ECONOMY AND HAVE US CLOSER TO WW3 THAN WE EVER HAVE BEEN"
The Things Trump Got Right - The Atlantic - "Stricter regulation of vaping
Dramatic reductions in the burning of coal
Normalization in the Middle East
Safeguarding 5G networks from Chinese control
Appointment of Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair
Destruction of the ISIS caliphate in eastern Syria and northern Iraq
Speeding generic drug approval
Tightening asylum rules
Nearly doubling the standard tax deduction
Restoring due process on campus
A space force. At the start of the nuclear era, the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force each demanded its own nuclear role. The resulting triplication not only wasted money, but nearly toppled the world into catastrophe...
Criminal-justice reform
Civic participation"
Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters - The Washington Post - "“My personal sense coming out of this is that this got way overhyped,” Josh Tucker, one of the report’s authors who is also the co-director of the New York University center, told me about the meaningfulness of the Russian tweets. “Now we’re looking back at data and we can see how concentrated this was in one small portion of the population, and how the fact that people who were being exposed to these were really, really likely to vote for Trump,” Tucker said. “And then we have this data to show we can’t find any relationship between being exposed to these tweets and people’s change in attitudes.”"
So much for the moral panic over foreign influence
Bo Loudon on X - "Dear liberals, Trump never removed his opponent from a ballot. You did. Trump never used the Government against his opponent. You did. Trump never censored speech. You did. Trump never stole an election. You did. The left is guilty of everything they've accused Trump of."
Meme - "Just a few women who could pay a 464 million dollar bond *Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Oprah WInfrey, MacKenzie Scott*"
Ridiculous bail aside, the left again show how they do not understand the difference between net worth and liquidity, because they get their understanding of money from Ducktales
Rod Rosenstein’s devastating admissions - The Spectator World - "Rod Rosenstein’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee was quiet, calm, almost bemused. But the tale he told was devastating — to the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Mueller investigation. It destroyed three years of media narrative about ‘Trump-Russia’ collusion. It’s obvious now why Senate Democrats want to kill all future hearings on the topic. They lack the votes to do it, but it’s the thought that counts. Testifying under oath, Rosenstein laid out a series of fundamental problems plaguing the entire collusion investigation. Actually, he did even more. When questioned by Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, Rosenstein agreed that when he appointed Robert Mueller as Special Counsel in summer 2017, there was no basis for the appointment and that the FBI already knew it. In retrospect, he says, he appointed a Special Counsel because the FBI hid crucial fact facts from him. They vigorously deny it."
From 2020