Post from Truth Social

Good evening everyone. I'm Laura Ingraham. This is Ingraham Angle from Washington tonight. Just moments ago on Truth Social, Donald Trump revealed one of his first acts as president. This is a big one. On January 20th, as one of his many first executive orders, he will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on all products coming into the United States. And it's ridiculous open borders. It's time for them to pay a very big price. Most of that, of course, focus on Mexico there. More on that later. Plus, Eric Trump will react to that and a lot more. But first, lawfare loses. That's the focus of tonight's angle. Well, he came in very hot against Trump. Good evening. Today, an indictment was unsealed, charging Donald J. Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. The attack on our nation's capital on January 6th, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. So sanctimonious. But it turns out the unprecedented assault on our democracy was committed not by Donald Trump, but by the legal henchmen like Jack Smith and their political and media backers. Now, today, Smith was compelled to file motions to dismiss his cases against Trump, one of which was promptly granted by D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkin. Now, this is obviously a huge victory for President-elect Trump, but Smith and his allies tried their best to frame the result as not based on the merits, but simply compelled by longstanding policy. This has nothing to do with the strength of the case. This simply has to do with the verdict, essentially, that voters gave on the Justice Department policy, longstanding Justice Department policy. The Department is not allowed to prosecute a president, a sitting president. That shield, essentially, also applies to him as a elected president, as the president-elect. Now, when the news came out, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the cases were empty and lawless and should never have been brought. They are celebrating. This was the goal all along, was that they would get these cases dropped. The idea of it actually being revived in their mind seems highly unlikely. This seems like the end of all this. Well, but not so fast. While we love seeing these cases falling into the abyss one after the other, the petty and vindictive Jack Smith made sure to request that the cases be dismissed without prejudice, meaning? These cases could be revived after Trump serves this next term, right? That's right. I mean, look, if you look at the language that the special counsel used and that the judge uses in deciding this without prejudice means that when Donald Trump is no longer president of the United States, these cases could be revived. Yeah, that theoretically, the charges could be reinstated on January 21st, 2029, when Donald Trump is 82 years young. Now, of course, Trump's DOJ can and should take actions to ensure that these cases aren't just dormant, they're dead. So as we celebrate Donald Trump's beating the Lawfare League at their own game, we should also, we must never forget how close they came to upending our entire system of government with their corrupt and illegal use of our justice system. Now, remember, they were so desperate to stop Trump. The left even tried to use a whacked out interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which was a complete joke, to prevent him from being on the ballot in key states. Thank God they were goose egged by the Supreme Court, which struck down the effort with an exclamation mark back in May. But ever since Trump announced his third run at the presidency, the DC machine and their venal auxiliaries were intent on locking him up. They like they're like jackals circling a wounded lion. The search of Marlago. It just sends the message that there is no person in this country who's above the law. What we are seeing here is exactly what should be done. We need to recognize and praise Merrick Garland for following the rule of law. The message that it sends is really important that even the former president of the United States can be held accountable and should be and will be. And Trump's aides and allies were forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. People's lives were turned upside down. Then it was who will turn on Trump first? Who'll take a plea deal and give up the goods? All this speculating was so stupid. Then let's not forget following his motorcade in Manhattan to the courthouse. What about fingerprints? What about the mugshot? Everything you're going to be able to see live on TV. They're going to be mugshots. They're going to be fingerprints. Donald Trump will be fingerprinted. He will be photographed and end up with a mugshot. A picture that will live in infamy. The first mugshot of an American president splashed across the front pages this morning. Of course he turned that into a huge coup for himself because he's smarter than they are. Of course, what about all the taxpayer dollars that were spent on these fraudulent cases? We'll never get it back. And we'll never really know how much was spent. Newsweek estimated that what about 50 million or so was spent by just Jack Smith team. That's an understatement. So what we saw was a serious concerted effort to use all the resources of the federal government to put Donald Trump in prison for the rest of his life. And it was all because they wanted to prevent you the people from having your say. And of course, him from being president. So history is going to remember Jack Smith and Alvin Bragg, Fonny Willis, and the judges who let these cases get as far as they did as modern day keystone cops who chased Trump around hounding him, trying to keep him off the campaign trail because they hated his agenda. They hate everything he stands for. So it's a mistake to write them off as all incompetence. Their teams were backed by some of the smartest and toughest, meanest lawyers out there. They worked nights and weekends and through holidays all to put him behind bars and subvert this election. The only reason Donald Trump is not in jail now is because of you, the voters. And of course Trump himself. Imagine if Trump wasn't Trump. Forget about it. Most people would have folded like a $20 lawn chair. He fought like his freedom depended on it, but mostly because our freedom depended on it. If Harris had won, this sick weaponization of our justice system would have been validated. At least for now, it's on ice. But despite these setbacks, the angle does not believe the Democrats have given up on this lawfare strategy. In a statement reacting to the dismissal, Adam Schiff today ripped the system saying, if Democrats, you know, basically saying that the system itself failed, failed the people, failed to do what it was supposed to do. And I'm telling you, if the Democrats somehow managed to take the House in 2026 and they could, it is highly probable that they will do everything in their power, stay with me here, to impeach Donald Trump again. You think I'm kidding? Well, we'll see. And if Democrats win in 2028, I mean, they're just going to resume the case that we're talking about tonight and they'll probably try to go after Vance as well. And anyone else connected to Trump. This is why the DOJ has to be cleaned out. I think Pam Bondi can do it. The Democrats and their never Trump poodles have done enormous damage to these institutions and they will do it all again. They do not care. There should be, however, consequences where appropriate so that this never happens again. And that's the end.

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