34 posts from Tuesday, April 16, 2024

including a blatant political smear campaign. Oh, that's disguised as a criminal trial. Jury selection now underway in New York City, where the very leftist district attorney, Alvin Bragg, is determined to prosecute Donald Trump for a decade-old defunct misdemeanor surrounding the labeling of business documents. Now, the bogus charges are well past the statute of limitations, but Alvin Bragg has mysteriously upcharged what would be misdemeanors into felonies by tying in a federal election case that was specifically never prosecuted even by Biden's weaponized DOJ. If this all sounds convoluted to you, that's because it is. These are not legitimate charges. This is not a legitimate trial. It is a perfectly timed political scheme led by a prosecutor who did campaign on, quote, getting Trump

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A Democrat prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, keeping the Republican nominee off the campaign trail for six weeks. That means Donald Trump isn't even allowed to attend his son Barron's high school graduation. If he tries to go, the judge will throw him in jail for that too. As you know, my son is graduating from high school and it looks like the judge will not let me go through the graduation of my son who's worked very, very hard and he's a great student. He's proud of the fact that he did so well and I was looking forward for years to have graduation with his mother and father there. It looks like the judges are going to allow me to escape the scam. It's a scam trial. I can't go to my son's graduation or that I can't go to the United States Supreme Court that I'm not in Georgia or Florida or North Carolina campaigning like I should be. It's perfect for the radical of Democrats. That's exactly what they want. This is about election interference. That's all it's about. Piers Morgan actually had a good idea for once and said Trump should go to Barron's graduation anyway and make the judge arrest him while everyone's throwing their caps in the air.

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The Bragg case is just a brazen exercise in election interference, New York style.

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They hope that keeping Donald Trump off the campaign trail and any sort of details that emerge, that will all turn the tide for Biden in November. You cannot risk, after all, the people actually choosing their own president. Can't do that, especially when new polling shows that Trump is leading Biden in five of six swing states. Now, according to Echelon Insights on behalf of the Heritage Foundation, he's up 10 in Georgia, seven in Nevada, six in Michigan and in Arizona, and he leads Biden by four in Pennsylvania. Biden nips Trump by one point in Wisconsin. And it must have killed Axios to report on a New York Times/Ciena College poll that was just out. The poll found a big increase, nine points, and registered voters who believe that Trump left the country better off. We're going to dive more into this later in the show. But, look, everyone knows that this case against Trump, like the Fulton County and the classified docs, January 6th case, none of it would be happening if Trump had retired from politics after the 2020 election or if Trump was one of those politicians who just played ball with the establishment. And most honest people know that a fair election, where campaigns actually happen, Trump gets to actually speak to people coast to coast without the distraction of all these lawfare attacks. Well, that would likely end in Biden's electoral humiliation. Again, they can't risk that happening. Just as the Democrats hoped that the Russian collusion investigation would be their insurance policy in 2016, they think that these cases will be their insurance policy in 2024. Now, think of Manhattan for a minute. It's a bastion of liberalism, where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 10 to 1, and where looters are given payouts instead of prison time. Of course, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, he's perfect for the place, himself one of the most far-left prosecutors in a country of left-wing prosecutors. Now, the violent criminals stalking, beating, raping, murdering innocent New Yorkers, they have never been Bragg's priority. Since taking his job in 2022, he's been most impassioned about one cause, and that's taking down Donald Trump by any means necessary. And, of course, attempting to portray his 34-count indictment as doing the people's work. -At its core, this case today is one with allegations like so many of our white-collar cases, allegations that someone lied again and again to protect their interests and evade the laws to which we are all held accountable. As this office has done time and time again, we today uphold our solemn responsibility to ensure that everyone stands equal before the law. No amount of money and no amount of power changes that enduring American principle. -Oh, yeah. The only thing enduring in his case is his own radicalism. But at its core, the Bragg case is just a brazen exercise in election interference, New York style.

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Let the sham trial begin. Today, the U.S. justice system became a literal joke. Donald Trump spent the day in the New York City courtroom awaiting his opportunity to defend himself, but what Trump is really defending is the American people. Trump is defending you and me from overzealous politicians willing to break with tradition and break with the rules of freedom and liberty just to convict a citizen they disagree with. -This is assault on America. Nothing like this has never happened before. There's never been anything like it. Every legal scholar said this case is nonsense. It should never have been brought. It doesn't deserve anything like this. There is no case, and they've said it. People that don't necessarily follow or like Donald Trump said this is an outrage, that this case was brought. This is political persecution. This is a persecution like never before. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. And, again, it's a case that should have never been brought. It's an assault on America. -And the former president didn't stop there. He went on to show how this case is purely political. -And it's a country that's failing. It's a country that's run by an incompetent man who's very much involved in this case. This is really an attack on a political opponent. That's all it is. So I'm very honored to be here. -So, you know, the more fabricated cases against Trump, the less justice we receive as Americans. This case today against Trump is so weak the case is creating something new. The case is creating new laws. It's literally creating new criminal code just for Trump, just to get Trump. Understand what's happening here, folks. This case is a misdemeanor, and the misdemeanor had already expired, meaning the statute of limitations had run out when it was revised in a way that's never been done before. The prosecutor revived a case whose time had expired just to prosecute the defendant. But because the defendant is named Donald Trump, Alvin Bragg and Juan Murchin are effectively arguing that Trump was filing false business records through his counsel, Michael Cohen, to hide a federal crime. But this isn't a federal crime. This wasn't a campaign contribution. None of that appears to matter, and that is why most honest lawyers -- I know "honest lawyer" tends to be an oxymoron, but most honest lawyers know there are so many reasons Trump should not be prosecuted.

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While the anti-Trump crowd and all the journalists fight like hell to make this case seem as though it's credible, it's important for Americans to realize just how far their country has fallen. Our government's crusade to preserve its corrupt, self-serving agenda is threatening the most critical facets of our free society. They are risking it all to destroy one person, flagrantly politicizing our justice system. With all our institutions, including the state of New York, federal government, and media all perfectly aligned against Trump, that's how they get away with it. Polls show a majority of people believe that the charges against the former president are purely political. And yet nothing changes. Trump is about to have a criminal trial in a radically left county filled with people who know him and know they don't like him. And nothing changes. Nobody seems to care. A criminal case that's been turned down multiple times, including by the DOJ and the former Manhattan DA as well, the FEC, but Alvin Bragg is pushing forward anyways. Here was Alvin Bragg years ago while campaigning for the job that he has now. I'm the candidate in the race who has the experience with Donald Trump. I was the chief deputy in the attorney general's office. We sued the Trump administration over a hundred times for the Muslim travel ban, for family separation at the border, for shenanigans with the census. So I know how to litigate with him. I also led the team that did the Trump Foundation case. So I'm ready to go wherever the facts take me and to inherit that case. And I think, you know, it'd be hard to argue with the fact that that'd be the most important, most high profile case. And I've seen him up front and seen the lawlessness that he can do. You know how crazy it is that this is happening right now, that nobody cares about any of this?

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>> It dignifies this assault to even pretend that there is a legal theory here. The only legal theory a question is tried to throw Joe Biden's political opponent behind bars. That is it. So when you hear them say that democracy is on trial, they're right. Democracy is on trial. Freedom is on trial. The rule of law is on trial. All these things are on trial. They're on trial with Donald Trump. Because if Donald Trump is convicted- >> We're on trial, Steven. >> Are convicted and destroyed with him. >> Steven Miller, you and I are on trial. Every single person watching is on trial right now, cuz if they can do this to someone, they can do it to anyone. That's a coined phrase, but think about that.

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>> It's not Donald Trump that's truly on trial here, it is our very democracy. Because yes, it is Donald Trump today that you will see sitting in a courtroom for this completely meritless clown show of a show trial. But the implications of this are far deeper for this country. Because if in America, we are able to just manipulate the law when convenient. If we allow violent criminals to go free and prosecute the innocent, if they are willing to thwart the will of the American people and try to remove our choice for president of the United States, then the fabric of this country is irreparably damaged.

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Thank you very much. This is a trial that should have never been brought. It's a trial that is being looked upon, looked at all over the world, they're calling. They're looking at it and analyzing it. Every legal pundit, every legal scholar said this trial is a disgrace. We have a Trump-hating judge. We have a judge who should be on this case. He's totally conflicted, but this is a trial that should never happen. It should have been thrown out a long time ago. If you look at Jonathan Turner, Andy McCarthy, all great legal scholars, there's not one that we've been able to find that said this should be a trial. I called a, I was paying a lawyer and marked it down as a legal expense, some accountant. I didn't know. Marked it down as a legal expense. That's exactly what it was and you've been indicted over that. I should be right now in Pennsylvania, in Florida, in many other states, North Carolina, Georgia, campaigning. This is all coming from the Biden White House because the guy can't put two sentences together. He can't campaign. He's using this in order to try and win an election and it's not working that way. It's working the opposite way. So check it out, legal expense. It's called legal expense. That's what you're supposed to call it. Nobody has ever seen it. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. So thank you very much for coming. I'm now going to sit down. I am now going to sit down. The voters understand. All you have to do is look at the polls. This is a sham trial and the judge should be guilty. Thank you very much.

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I think it's pretty extraordinary for, in the very first jury pool, before you interview anybody, half of the jury pool already says they're so biased against President Trump that they can't serve on the jury. This is what we call vaudevoir dire, where the lawyers and the judges ask questions of the potential jurors to ferret out any bias. Before we even get to do that, half the jury pool already says they're fully biased. That's only going to feed into, I think, Donald Trump's claim that the public integrity of the courts and the prosecutors is to be questioned as being biased and unfair against them.

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