12 posts from Saturday, January 11, 2025
I am pleased to announce that David Fotouhi will serve as the next Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. David worked at the EPA for the entirety of my First Term, concluding his service as EPA’s Acting General Counsel. He is currently a Partner at Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher LLP. In our Second Term, David will work with our incredible EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, to advance pro Growth policies, unleash America’s Energy Dominance, and prioritize Clean Air, Clean Water, and Clean Soil for ALL Americans. David is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, and Harvard Law School. Congratulations David!
“VICTORY OVER LAWFARE”
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But we begin with good news tonight against all odds after years of sketchy war and subpoenas early morning raids Dozens of cooked-up charges one after another far left judges and Trump hating juries. Donald Trump has Eviscerated the left's lawfare campaign today, New York judge Democratic donor Juan Mershon Announced that Trump would receive no jail time. No fine No probation after a Manhattan jury convicted Trump on what is a novel bizarre Legal theory surrounding a case that had no victims I mean it was a legal NDA put together by a lawyer and it was chronicled as a legal expense Judge Mershon told Trump sir I wish you Godspeed as you assume your second term in office. It was almost laughable but despite no penalty at all Donald Trump will rightly appeal this bogus conviction at his Sentencing the president elect blasting the left their attempts to weaponize our system of justice. Take a look This has been a very terrible experience. I think it's been a tremendous setback for New York and the New York court system This was a case that Alvin Bragg did not want to bring He thought it was from what I read and from what I hear that inappropriately Handled before he got there a Gentleman from a law firm came in and acted as a district attorney and that gentleman From what I heard was a criminal or almost criminal in what he did It was very inappropriate. It was a somebody involved with my political opponent Think about legal expenses are down as legal expenses and and I get indicted for business records. Everybody should be so accurate It's been a political witch hunt it was done to damage my reputation so that I'd lose the election and obviously that didn't work and The people of our country got to see this firsthand because they watched the case in your courtroom They got to see this firsthand and then they voted and I won and got the largest number of votes by far of any Republican candidate in history and One as you know all seven swing states One conclusively all seven swing states and one the popularity the popular vote By millions and millions of votes and they've been watching you trial So they understood it with all that's happening in our country today with a city that's burning to the ground one of our largest most important cities burning to the ground with with wars that are uncontrollably going on with all of the problems of inflation and attacks on Countries and all of the horrible things that are going on I got indicted over calling a legal expense a legal expense and the people of this country understand what's gone on This has been a weaponization of government. They call it lawfare never happened to any extent like this but never happened in our country before and I just like to explain that I was treated very very unfairly and I thank you very much All right Trump hating Democrats they tried to throw the former president in prison They wanted to send him to Rikers Island. They wanted to ruin his life They did try to destroy his reputation all in order to block him from winning an election This is a massive scandal one of the biggest in modern American history and the media. They're perfectly fine with it These Democrats utterly failed and now it's time for a reckoning at the DOJ The FBI and the clown shows that are going on in Atlanta and New York now I don't mean that Republicans should follow suit. No, they should end the weaponization of justice They should adhere to equal justice and application of our laws returned to constitutional order They shouldn't do to them and they're scared to death it that would happen That which was done to Donald Trump the left tried to turn our courts the FBI our Intelligence community into a Soviet style political enforcement arm of the Democratic Party Thankfully that'll end in what 12 days whatever it is on January 20th If you are a Democrat and you're watching tonight pay close attention in this country Crimes get prosecuted not people in this country Justice is supposed to be blind. We're supposed to have equal justice under the law without political bias far-left bureaucrats that live in DC Do not get to anoint our leaders and make our laws and American presidents are Supposed to lead and not take orders in between their naps from a you know group of unelected Overeducated socialists that have an agenda. This is a Democratic Republic. It must remain one It's supposed to be by of and for the people and our rights are enshrined by a creator not the thing Joe Anyway, the left tried to criminalize Donald Trump's free expression in the whole process Block is right to participate in our elections and in the process They ended up putting Donald Trump and his supporters through hell He this can never happen again The pompous far-left bureaucrats long entrenched in that Washington swamp when Donald Trump gets in I hope he fires them all Flushes them all out so that freedom equal justice the rule of law Constitutional order will be restored in just what ten days this important work will officially begin and not a moment too soon
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“DEMS LOST PATHETIC WITCH HUNT”
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Jared, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. One thing I forgot in my laundry list there, Greg, was, you know, using the dirty Russian disinformation dossier for not one but four Pfizer warrants to spy on candidate Trump, later President Trump. That went on for a full year. But when you look at it all together and then you look at what happened today, I'm 99.999% certain this will get thrown out. But what is your reaction to all of it? Big picture. Oh, this case will not stand up on appeal. It'll get tossed out the conviction reversed. And, you know, you saw this today, this Orwellian theater of the absurd with the prosecutor condemning Trump and using the kind of language that's normally referred to hardened criminals or serial killers, not somebody who is convicted of a bookkeeping error and then the DA through his own little pity party in court because Trump accused him of lawfare and he whined how they were being attacked for enforcing the rule of law. Now, what they did was they abused the law. They distorted statutes. They shredded Trump's due process rights. This was the most abominable and oppressive act of lawless abuse by a prosecutor and a judge that I have ever seen. It was shameful. It was disgusting. And so Trump was right when he told Michonne today, this was a political witch hunt to damage his election chances. And by the way, that is a crime. 18 USC 241 and 242, conspiracy against rights, deprivation of rights under color of law. You are not allowed to conspire with others to injure someone's constitutional rights. That is a felony. And I think it's imperative for the incoming Department of Justice to launch a comprehensive investigation into this because I think there was a lot of collusion going on between these lawfare prosecutors. I'd like to get to the bottom of that big picture, everything that happened today, professor, and and all that has gone on since the day this man came down that escalator at Trump Tower. Well, first, I want to thank you for urging Republicans not to sink to the level of what the Democrats did and to use only the law and the Constitution. Nobody's above the law, but nobody should be prosecuted just because of who they are. So thank you, Sean, because you carry an enormous amount of weight with the Republicans. And this is so important. What we saw today was a scam, a ploy. It started with Judge Marchant telling in advance what his sentence was going to be. I've been doing this for 62 years. I've never been told by a judge what the sentence is going to be. When I go into the courtroom with my client, I tell him to bring his toothbrush because he doesn't know whether he's going home or going to Rikers or some other lockup. The only reason Marchant said in advance what he was going to do is to try to persuade the two justices of the Supreme Court not to take the case now. And they use that fact. And they said the reason we're not taking the case now and stopping the sentencing from going forward was because the judge said in advance that he's not sentencing him to prison. So this was a ploy and the two justices, unfortunately, fell for the ploy. This is the worst thing that's happened to the American criminal justice system since McCarthyism and the civil rights abuses back in the 1950s and the victims of the American people. Trump, yes, it was hard. He said very honestly that it was tough for him, but he prevailed. He won and the American people won because they rejected lawfare. You know, I invented that term back in the 60s. I'm proud or ashamed of it. Yeah. It's a little bit of a miracle that all this did go away. And I also mentioned the Russia hoax. I also mentioned FISA abuse. I also mentioned top secret classified information that Hillary Clinton had and Joe Biden had. And they did not, they were not covered under the presidential records act. Their homes, their offices were not rated. They were not spied on. If there was Russian disinformation, it came from Hillary Clinton. She bought it. She paid for it. The government used it when they were warned not to use it. This, these are not small levels of abuse here. This is systemic abuse of the legal system we're talking about weaponization. That's the right term. That's the essence of lawfare, that it doesn't look at the crime. It looks at the person. And if it wants to see the person defeated for office, it goes after him. That's Stalin, that's Lavrenti Beria. Show me the man and I'll find you the crime. But they couldn't find the crime. They searched high and low to find the crime in New York. They made him up. They couldn't find one. So they made it up. That's even worse. Yeah. Because it could happen to any of us. Greg. Trump won the lawfare of war waged against it because Americans were paying attention and they're smart and they saw this for what it was. It was a contemptible weaponization of the law by Democrats to win an election. But in the process, Sean, they destroyed themselves with their own blatant corruption. Voters resented it. They vented their anger at the ballot box. This is the ultimate jury verdict in America. So Trump should actually be sending a thank you card, Alvin Bragg and Juan Marchant for unwittingly helping him win reelection. But the real loser in all of this is the New York legal system. It is now in tatters. All right. We appreciate you both. Thank you, Greg Jarrett. Thank you, professor. We appreciate it.
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“LAWFARE IS DEAD”
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34 felonies and Trump was given no jail time, no fine. It's like it never happened. The president zoomed in and had the last word. - With all that's happening in our country today with a city that's burning to the ground, one of our largest, most important cities burning to the ground with wars that are uncontrollably going on with all of the problems of inflation and attacks on countries and all of the horrible things that are going on, I got indicted over calling a legal expense a legal expense. It was called a legal expense. I just want to say, I think it's an embarrassment to New York and New York has a lot of problems, but this is a great embarrassment. - These criminal cases were cooked up to kill Trump's campaign, but the law fair withered and died on the vine. And now Trump's more powerful than ever. Don't tell that to Joe though. He still thinks he could have won.
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I am pleased to announce that Paul R. Lawrence, Ph.D., will serve as the next Deputy Secretary Of Veterans Affairs. Paul was a great VA Under Secretary of Benefits in my First Term, implementing Legislation I signed to improve the GI Bill and Appeals Modernization. Paul also helped us drive the claims backlog to its LOWEST LEVEL in VA History. Paul was previously a Partner at Ernst & Young, and the Public Sector Vice President of Kaiser Associates. He will work with our next VA Secretary, Doug Collins, to ensure our Hero Vets are taken care of, and treated with the respect they deserve, with thanks for the incredible sacrifices they have made for our Country. Congratulations Paul!
I am pleased to announce that Casey B. Mulligan will serve as the Chief Counsel for Advocacy at the United States Small Business Administration. Casey is a fantastic Economist from the University of Chicago, and a highly respected expert on the regulations that are crushing our Small Businesses. During my First Term, Casey was the Chief Economist of my Council of Economic Advisers where he helped craft the Economic policies that gave us the best Economy in American History. Casey will work with Kelly Loeffler, our Great Nominee for SBA Administrator, to make sure that we slash regulations, and empower Small Businesses to thrive like never before. Congratulations Casey!
I am pleased to announce that James P. Danly will be our next United States Deputy Secretary of Energy. James is a retired U.S. Army Officer, who served for two tours in Iraq, where he earned the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He served in my First Term as General Counsel, Commissioner, and Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where he won countless cases before the Federal Courts, and drove regulatory reform to ensure abundant and affordable energy for the American People. James earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Yale University, and his Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University Law School. Congratulations James!
I am pleased to announce that Katharine MacGregor will serve as the next United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior. Katharine is currently Vice President of Environmental Services at NextEra Energy, Inc., and previously worked at the Department of the Interior during my first four years as President. She helped us in our quest to make our Nation Energy DOMINANT, and was also an integral part of the team that produced our Historic “Salute to America” at the National Mall. Congratulations Katharine!
I am pleased to announce that Steven Gill Bradbury will be the next United States Deputy Secretary of Transportation. For the entirety of my First Term, Steven served as the General Counsel of the Department of Transportation, where he helped rebuild our crumbling Infrastructure, and cut regulations that were killing jobs and our incredible Small Businesses. He previously clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Steven will work with our fantastic Secretary of Transportation Nominee, Sean Duffy, to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Congratulations Steven!
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