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REVEALED: Committed Leftist Judge Juan Merchan Who Oversees Trump’s Sham Case in NYC Court Made Political Contributions to “Stop The Republicans” and “Biden For President”
By Jim Hoft Apr. 5, 2023 7:45 am156 Comments
Leftist judge Juan Manuel Merchan, who oversees President Trump’s sham case on junk felony charges, made political contributions to a nonprofit fundraising platform for Democratic candidates and progressive groups.
According to FEC data, Judge Juan Merchan from New York donated to Act Blue earmarked “Stop The Republicans” and “Biden For President.”
Democratic fundraiser Act Blue is the payment processor for the majority of Democrats’ political contributions in the 2020 campaign cycle, DC Patriot reported.
Although the dollar amounts were what some would be considered small, this proves impartiality towards Donald Trump. Donating to both the former and future expected counterpart on the presidential ballot is a huge deal, and something that cannot go unnoticed,” the outlet reported.
Below are screenshots of the political contributions of Juan Merchan on FEC.gov:
A SOROS-BACKED COUP: DA Alvin Bragg, DA Chief Assistant Meg Reiss, and others Worked with the John Jay Institute for Innovation in Prosecution Funded by Soros – Bragg Attended Its Conference While Investigating Trump
By Jim Hoft Apr. 5, 2023 8:15 am
Last week the corrupt Soros-backed DA from New York City announced his office was going to indict President Trump on BS crimes. The country was livid with this continued weaponization of the courts used against President Trump and his supporters.
Then a no-name NBC writer came out and claimed that Soros never met with or spoke with DA Alvin Bragg. He used this as his rationale to lie and insist that Bragg was not Soros supported.
“Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ron DeSantis have all claimed Alvin Bragg is “Soros-backed” or aligned since the news of the indictment dropped. In reality, Soros has “has never met or spoken to Alvin Bragg,” according to a CNBC story from last week,” NBC’s Ben Collins wrote.
EMBARRASSING: Soros-backed DA Bragg Can’t Answer the What the Crime Is in His Case Against President Trump
By Joe Hoft Apr. 5, 2023 8:15 am79 Comments
Soros-backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was on full display yesterday and he showed the entire world how dumb he is and how dumb his case is. His press conference was icing on the cake.
Yesterday the first President in US history was arrested on “34 felony” counts placed against him by DA Bragg in New York. We learned that if you are going to indict the President, it’s probably best that you have crimes committed.
After the arrest, the corrupt and dumb DA Bragg held a press conference where he attempted to describe what the President did wrong. Bragg blew it.
Bragg makes statements that the President committed crimes that he never fully describes. He grabs accounting entries and somehow argues that these were crimes. Then he mumbled through how these were election-related crimes without describing the connection. We know this because
President Trump Calls on Congress to Defund the DOJ and FBI After Constant Illegal and Unconstitutional Attacks on the President, His Supporters and Associates
By Joe Hoft Apr. 5, 2023 9:45 am107 Comments
This is on the Republicans. They can continue to stand down and cower in their offices or they can begin to save the country.
President Trump is right. The Representatives and Senators who call themselves Republicans didn’t stand up yesterday when a totally BS arrest was carried out on the former President of the United States. They remained, for the most part, quiet. Where is their outrage?
President Trump shared this morning:
REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS SHOULD DEFUND THE DOJ AND FBI UNTIL THEY COME TO THEIR SENSES. THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TOTALLY WEAPONIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT IN OUR COUNTRY AND ARE VICIOUSLY USING THIS ABUSE OF POWER TO INTERFERE WITH OUR ALREADY UNDER SIEGE ELECTIONS!
If they are not acting because they fear a paltry prison term, they do not deserve our vote. If they are not acting because they agree that the courts should decide on this, they need to say so. Show me a busineessman in New York City who has not done something that could be considered shady and let him (or her) run for President.
The Executive Office is only as powerful as Congress allows it to be.
Does anyone forresee an issue of Constitutional law here, which would take appeals to the highest federal court? Why is the State involved in FEC enforcememt? If this goes up to the SC, then who is to stop rioters no matter the decision. Congress has the opportunity to act before this escalates.
Your points are all valid, John Adams said Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. The Founding Fathers were also against a Government of professional Politicians and Professional Bureaucrats. This is why they made all government jobs patronage position. Every time the Presidency changed hands new people were appointed to all positions.
All of our current problems can be traced back to the left working hard to take control of the bureaucrats and to nationalize the educational education system. Once in control of that system they stopped teaching Civics. They then waited until the majority of the voters no longer know about the separation of powers or the deliberate limitation of governmental power.
This is why so many people are not upset over the multilayered Judicial system and the Imperial Presidency they have created.
You are screaming for Congress to act but under the separation of powers created by the Constitution there is little they can do beyond refusing to pay for programs. In order to stop the Executive branch from diverting money they will have to defend the entire government. All they can do is investigate/hold hearings and collect evidence. Once they have the evidence all they can do is hope/pray that once the Presidency changes hands their evidence is used to send the nasty villains to jail.
This is why the good people in Congress can’t do much, when the professional politicians who like what is happening their ability to do anything is limited by the Constitution.
The people you want to be mad at are the voters who keep electing crooks. The left is responsible for this mess also. The Founding Fathers deliberately set things up so you had to go out of your way to register and vote. They did this so only committed people would vote. The low information uncommitted voters wouldn’t bother. The easier it is to vote the more easily fooled people will vote. This makes it easier to steal elections.
It is still possible for us to vote out way out of this mess but that window is closing.
JONATHAN TURLEY
Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks
COLUMNS, CRIMINAL LAW, LAWYERING, POLITICSApril 5, 2023
Yielding to Temptation: Why The Trump Case is a Test Not Just for the President but the Legal System
Below is my column in Fox.com on the indictment of former President Donald Trump and how this case is a test not just for Trump but the New York legal system.
Here is the column:
Oscar Wilde once said “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
With the release of the indictment of former President Donald Trump, Manhattan District Alvin Bragg has revealed himself as a follower of the Wilde school of legal thought. Bragg knew that he had no criminal case against Trump. However, after running on bagging Trump for some crime (any crime), Bragg knew that many would not care if he had a basis for a criminal charge. He would be lionized to be the first person to ever indict a former president in the blind rage against Trump.
After charging Trump with 34 counts, Bragg insisted that he will convict Trump of the “crime to promote a [political] candidacy through unlawful means.” He insists that he will prove “attempts to violate state and federal election laws.”
For months, many have raised objections to the effort of Manhattan District Attorney to use a flawed legal theory to essentially litigate a federal election violation that the Justice Department opted not to charge. This bootstrap theory has been widely criticized, but many in the media sought to cut off that debate by suggesting that Bragg might be basing his prosecution on some unknown crime. Last week, Michael Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis went as far to “warn all the pundits and everyone speculating…that there are lots of facts, lots of documents, lots of evidence of multiple crimes.”
We now have the indictment, and it is basically what many of us anticipated. It is a series of stacked counts of falsifying business records for the purpose of influencing the election. The indictment seems to address the lack of legal precedent with a lack of specificity on the underlying “secondary” felony. Bragg has done nothing more than replicated the same flawed theory dozens of times. This is where math and the law meet. If you multiply any number by zero, it is still zero.
If the New York bench retains any integrity, this case will be thrown out as legally improper with an admonition to Bragg and his office for politicizing the criminal justice process. That, however, may be asking a lot of state judges who are elected on both the trial and appellate levels. They also may prove to be lawyers on the Wilde side.
The cost, however, to the legal system will be immense. In a single indictment, Alvin Bragg bulldozed any high ground that the Democrats had after January 6th. He has fulfilled the narrative of the Trump campaign by supplying a raw and undeniable example of the politicization of the legal system. What is most shocking is that this attack on the rule of law was met with the rapturous applause of many, including lawyers and legal pundits. They not only will ignore the affront to the integrity of our legal system, but celebrate its demise.
Bragg himself threw a flag on the effort to indict Trump being pushed by a lawyer brought in as a special assistant district attorney for that purpose. Mark F. Pomerantz and his colleague Carey R. Dunne resigned — and their resignation letter was then leaked to an eager media. Pomerantz then took a step that floored many of us: he wrote a tell-all book based on the still ongoing investigation. However, Pomerantz admits that career prosecutors balked at his radical proposals to find a crime — any crime — to nail Trump. That included an entirely bonkers money laundering charge against Trump where he would be the victim of an extortion effort. In his book, Pomerantz admits that “many of the lawyers were relentlessly negative.” Some prosecutors were clearly so upset by his efforts that they “defected” from the team. He also admitted that Bragg told him “that the consensus among the group of prosecutors with whom he had been speaking was not to go forward.”
Despite objections from his colleagues who said he was undermining their efforts, Pomerantz published a book making the case against an individual who was not charged, let alone convicted. It was a grossly unprofessional and improper act. It also worked. Bragg caved to the overwhelming pressure that followed. If figures like Pomerantz was going to yield to temptation, why shouldn’t he? After all, no one wants to be the last ethical lawyer when everyone else is cashing in.
I remain hopeful that there remains a modicum of judicial integrity in New York to stand against this effort. However, this is a defining moment for many who have rationalized this abuse of the criminal justice system. For those attorneys, they have reached the point described by Robert Oppenheimer after the development of the atomic bomb. He stated “In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humour, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”
The same is true for many in our profession. While some of us have warned that Mar-a-Lago could present a serious threat to Trump, we have warned that the Bragg prosecution is the denial of the core legal principle of blind justice. This expensive, drawn out effort would not have occurred for anyone other than Donald Trump. It is not just selective prosecution, it is exclusive prosecution for Trump and Trump alone.
There is a good-faith debate over whether the President should be charged over conduct related to Mar-a-Lago and possible obstruction of justice. This is not that case. For those lawyers applauding this ignoble moment, this is our sin as a profession, and it is “knowledge which they cannot lose” in the years to come.
(Richard: Turkey is showing that he can think contradictory thoughts at the same time. His arguments against the Bragg persecution prosecution also apply to the Mar a Largo raid and persecution prosecution. These actions have never been taken against other former Presidents and they have all done what Trump is being persecuted prosecuted for.
Trump committed only one crime, he defeated Hillary while not being a member of the political establishment.)
(Richard: Finally)
Don Surber
Republicans lay the groundwork for 2025 indictments
When they indict one of ours, we indict 7 of theirs.
7 hr ago
The indictment of President Trump was as predictable as snow in Antarctica. The deep state wants to kill him, destroy his family and plow his fields with salt. That would send a message to anyone who dares challenge their authority again.
Keep calm and carry on. We will right this wrong when a Republican is president. 2023 is not 2020. Republicans now realize the threat was not Trump.
Democrats believe they may have ended six years of expensive failure, but the indictment drew sharp criticism from Jeff Bezos and his flunkies at the Washington Post.
In an editorial (remember those?) the Bezosists said, “Donald Trump deserves the legal scrutiny he’s getting — which has come from many corners on many counts. Yet of the long list of alleged violations, the likely charges on which a grand jury in New York state voted to indict him are perhaps the least compelling. There’s cause for concern, and caution, ahead.”
Democrats have assumed that all they needed was lies to bring down Trump. The two impeachments undermined their credibility. But they look at polls that show majorities believe that he is guilty of something as proof that their strategy worked. Maybe it does, but throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks has left a very messy wall.
Republicans have duly noted these Democrat mistakes and made the proper adjustments. They are taking their two years of control of the House to introduce legislation that could later become law under a Republican president, sure. But Speaker McCarthy is also laying the groundwork for the prosecution of the Democrat regime. They won’t waste time on impeachments. Committee chairmen are holding hearings that put on record what we know in our hearts has gone on within the deep state and in the Biden regime.
This is not Nancy and Nadler the Waddler looking for a scandal to create to entrap a president. This is Speaker McCarthy picking which scandal to pursue.
Republican James Comer leads the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the Biden family. Everyone in Washington knew for decades that Biden was on the take. Soon, all of America will know too.
As Comer said, “Investigating Hunter, the Biden family is about like tracking a bleeding bear through a snowstorm. I mean, there’s evidence everywhere.”
The tracking has begun.
On March 16, Comer announced, “Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability issued a memorandum revealing new evidence resulting from the investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling and business schemes. Subpoenaed financial records show that from 2015 to 2017, Biden family members – Hunter Biden, James Biden, Hallie Biden, and an unknown Biden — and their companies collectively received $1.3 million in payments from accounts related to Rob Walker, a Biden family associate.
“Notably, on March 1, 2017, less than two months after Vice President Joe Biden left public office, State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese company, wired $3 million to Rob Walker’s company. The next day, the company wired $1,065,000 to a company associated with James Gilliar, another Biden family associate. Afterwards, the Biden family received approximately $1,065,000 in payments over a three-month period in different bank accounts. From the bank records, it appears that the Biden family received approximately one-third of the money obtained from the China wire.”
$3 million?
They sold us out to Red China for a lousy $3 million?
Godfather Biden is just one of many targets. While Ted Cruz gallantly leveled Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his open borders policy, House members were digging into the Go To Jail stuff on his turning his agency into one that spies on all Americans in America.
Politico reported, “Congressional Republicans are launching an investigation into an under-the-radar domestic intelligence-gathering program within the Department of Homeland Security.
“House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.), as well as Reps. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) and August Pfluger (R-Texas), two subpanel chairs, on Monday warned DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that the program ‘raises serious concerns about the Department’s overreach of its statutory mandate and potential violations of Americans’ fundamental civil liberties.’
“‘There appears a pattern of mission creep and overreach by the Department emerging at the expense of Americans more than foreign actors who threaten the homeland,’ the three GOP lawmakers wrote in a letter to Mayorkas.”
The story said, “The probe comes after Politico reported last week that, under the program, officials are collecting information by questioning people within the United States and that employees within DHS’ intelligence office have raised concerns that their work could be illegal, according to a broad tranche of internal documents.”
The Go To Jail stuff is the steak. You need Cruz’s sizzle. I am not knocking the man. He is limited under a Democrat Senate. My point is McCarthy is putting his two-year speakership to good use.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is catching a lot of flak over his Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. This is good because the media is a handmaiden to the federal government. The criticism comes from the protectors of all the abusers of federal power.
The government paid Twitter to censor Trump supporters and the Hunter Biden laptop revelations just ahead of the 2020 election. That is fascism — the marriage of government and corporations.
Liberals call their fascism ESG as they push state and college pension funds to reward companies that comply with the government with investments. Tesla’s high ESG score was dashed once Elon Musk bought Twitter.
The Jordan committee might well be a death threat to the deep state. I hope Republicans on that committee have their affairs in order.
Delving into the Biden Crime Family does not cause despair among the elitists because they bank on any legal action taking place on their home turf: Washington DC. A prosecutor would have to get a Democrat grand jury to indict and get a Democrat jury to convict.
Perhaps jurisdiction can somehow be moved to Virginia or Maryland. West Virginia hosts a large FBI operation. Prosecute here.
A new set of federal prosecutors in 2025 won’t have to start from scratch. And getting witnesses under oath and in public would permit charges of perjury to enter the picture. The Heritage Foundation might vet them for us.
I am not going to freak out about the indictment because there is little that can be done about it. The case seems weak and Trump is strong. We shall see.
House Republicans are much more Trumpian and smarter under Speaker McCarthy than under Pussycat Ryan because they know once Trump falls, they’re next.
BREAKING: EVIDENCE STORMY DANIELS LIED ABOUT TRUMP AFFAIRMarch 20, 2023
Rob Lauer Political Reporter
President Trump predicted over the weekend that the New York DA will arrest him Tuesday for his role in making an alleged $130,000 hush money payment to an adult film actress in the waning days of the 2016 election to silence her about claims she’d had an affair with him. No affair, no crime. 360 News Las Vegas has exclusive information in which, former Las Vegas Stripper, Stormy denied the affair with her close friend here in Las Vegas on Facebook Messenger. When we obtained this file, we promised the woman we would conceal her name. She was afraid for her safety.
According to reports, Stormy Daniels told New York prosecutors and the grand jury that she had sex with President Trump years earlier. Trump denies the affair and he allegedly paid her $130,000 in 2016 to keep quiet about while he was running for president. BTW, most of the time the person making a payoff is considered the blackmail victim and not the criminal. Why would Trump have paid her off if she wasn’t extorting him?
360 News Las Vegas received this Facebook message screen shot marked from Stormy Daniels’ friend,” in which Daniels allegedly denies having sex with “him” not once but twice in the same message.
The following screen shot is from source who posted her private conversation with Daniels on her Facebook page on this story feed. The woman told 360 News when asked for the interview, “I don’t want to be involved.“ Out of respect for the woman, we are withholding her name.
The woman gave us permission to use the screen shots in our story, and she even agreed to sit down for an interview prior to last night’s 60 minute show. That all changed today. We don’t know if someone got to her or if she just dislikes President Trump or what.
(Richard: O’Keefe put on a sunglasses and the idiots didn’t recognize him.)
“Whatever Reason He Is in Prison is Good Enough For Me” – Members of the Press Speak Their Mind to Undercover James O’Keefe at Trump Arraignment (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila Apr. 5, 2023 1:17 pm0 Comments
James O’Keefe put on a ‘disguise’ and spoke to members of the press outside of the courtroom during Trump’s arraignment on Tuesday.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 felony counts related to so-called ‘hush payments’ to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy centerfold Karen McDougal.
Alvin Bragg didn’t explain what exactly he wants to convict Trump of in the charging documents.
Bragg told reporters he doesn’t have to tell anyone what the underlying felony is.
He’s just allowed to charged Trump with 34 felonies without explaining what the underlying offense was
Lefty reporters told James O’Keefe that they want Trump in prison even if he didn’t commit a crime.
“Whatever reason he is in prison is good for me,” a producer at Eurovision Americas Inc told O’Keefe.
A New York Times photographer told O’Keefe he would be happy if Trump was imprisoned: “Whatever it takes.”
A cameraman for ABC News admitted Bragg is election rigging.
“Hopefully he doesn’t get the nominee and just goes away,” one ABC News cameraman told O’Keefe.
Where Are the Subpoenas? – Did They Forget What the January 6 Committee Did to Us?” – Kash Patel Calls on GOP Lawmakers to Subpoena Bragg and His Cronies (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft Apr. 5, 2023 12:30 pm
On Tuesday NYC DA Alvin Bragg announced 34 indictments against President for non-crimes related to a non-disclosure agreement with a stripper. Bragg later admitted he did not identify a crime in his indictment of the former president. He didn’t have to. He’s a Marxist DA living in New York City. The rules do not apply to Democrats. And you make up the laws as you go along.
Bragg’s charges against President Trump were shockingly weak – even several fake news outlets admitted it.
On Wednesday Kash Patel called on GOP lawmakers to immediately issue subpoenas on Bragg and his cronies.
Kash reminded the War Room audience of how Democrats used January 6 Unselect Committee to harass and abuse Trump administration officials and lie to the American public for several months after the government-infiltrated and organized protests on Capitol Hill.
AOC Livid After Trump Confirms TGP Report on Daughter of New York Judge Working for Biden-Harris Campaign
By Anthony Scott Apr. 5, 2023 2:45 pm141 Comments
On Monday night, The Gateway Pundit released an exclusive report on the daughter of the left-leaning New York Judge presiding over Trump’s court case.
In the report, The Gateway Pundit revealed Loren Merchan, the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, previously worked for “Kamala Harris For The People” and is currently employed as the president of Authentic which is a digital marketing firm that has the Biden-Harris campaign listed as a client on its site.
On Tuesday morning, before entering the Manhattan Courthouse, Trump took to Truth Social and wrote “THE HIGHLY PARTISAN JUDGE & HIS FAMILY ARE WELL KNOWN TRUMP HATERS…HIS DAUGHTER WORKED FOR “KAMALA” & NOW THE BIDEN-HARRIS CAMPAIGN. KANGAROO COURT!”
In the evening, during his highly anticipated speech after being arraigned, Trump mentioned the judge’s daughter again and stated, “I have a Trump hating judge with a Trump hating wife and family, whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris.”
After hearing Trump’s speech, AOC was livid and claimed Trump was intimidating the judge.
Ocasio-Cortez stated: “He is publicly intimidating a judge and pointing a spotlight on their family to his supporters – many of whom have admitted in court to committing violence in his name.”
She continued “He knows what he’s doing.”
Earlier in the day, AOC falsely claimed Trump and his sons were “threatening” and committing “stochastic terror” against the New York judge’s family.
READ:
AOC comments’ are laughable considering in July of last year she was publicly calling out Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife.
Mike Pence Won’t Appeal Obama Judge’s Decision Ordering His Testimony Before Grand Jury in Case Against President Trump
By Cristina Laila Apr. 5, 2023 3:30 pm25 Comments
Former Vice President Mike Pence won’t appeal a judge’s decision ordering him to testify before a grand jury investigating January 6.
“Vice President Pence will not appeal the Judge’s ruling and will comply with the subpoena as required by law,” Pence spox Devin O’Malley said in a statement.
Last week Chief Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee ordered former Vice President Mike Pence to testify before a grand jury about his conversations with President Trump related to January 6.
This is an unprecedented attack on Trump’s authority and executive privilege which is derived from the constitutional separation of powers.
Special Counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed Mike Pence in February.
Pence argued that as president of the Senate, he was acting as a member of the legislative branch on January 6 and is therefore protected by the DOJ’s demands.
Judge Boasberg ruled that Pence can decline to answer any questions about his time presiding over the senate.
State-Run Media at Work: ABC Blurs Out “TEXT TRUMP AT 88022” on Podium During Tuesday’s Speech to Block Donations to His Campaign – But They Didn’t Blur the Ad for Joe Biden!
By Jim Hoft Apr. 5, 2023 5:45 pm132 Comments
ABC News, a proud member of the State-Run Media was working double-time on Tuesday night to prevent President Trump from collecting donations from his supporters.
ABC News blurred out “TEXT TRUMP AT 88022” on his podium last night during his speech at Mar-a-Lago. They just would not allow Trump to raise money following his arrest by a corrupt Soros-funded DA in New York City.
Alan Dershowitz Says Trump “Probably Will be Convicted” – But Verdict will be Overturned on Appeal (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila Apr. 5, 2023 6:29 pm123 Comments
Attorney Alan Dershowitz told Charlie Kirk on Wednesday that he believes Trump will be convicted – but the verdict will be overturned on appeal.
The Trump indictment was unsealed on Tuesday during Trump’s arraignment.
Read the indictment here.
Trump was hit with a criminal charge for every payment he made to his former lawyer Michael Cohen in connection with the ‘hush payments’ to the two women.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg went through the Trump Organization’s ledger and charged him down the line per payment to Cohen.
Every single payment to Michael Cohen was made in 2017 while Trump was president.
Bragg’s office copied and pasted the same charge 34 times and just switched out the check/voucher/invoice number.
Dershowitz told Charlie Kirk that a Manhattan jury will convict Trump, but the verdict will be overturned on appeal.
“I don’t think a New York City judge would dismiss this case because the New York City judge’s life would be over…everyone would point to him and say ‘oh my God! There’s the man who helped Trump get free!’” Dershowitz said.
“So I don’t think it’s going to be easy. He will probably be convicted by a New York Manhattan jury who voted for Bragg and voted for ‘get Trump.’ It will be reversed on appeal,” Dershowitz said.
On the other hand, Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley on Tuesday said the case could collapse before it even gets to trial.
Jonathan Turley said he’s never seen an indictment like this before.
“There’s no there, there,” Turley told Fox News host Bret Baier.
“This case could collapse before it gets to trial,” Turley said. “There’s no there there…you would think if you are going to indict a president, you would rise to that moment of history and tell people with precision what it is that you want to convict him of.”
REVEALED: Committed Leftist Judge Juan Merchan Who Oversees Trump’s Sham Case in NYC Court Made Political Contributions to “Stop The Republicans” and “Biden For President”
By Jim Hoft Apr. 5, 2023 7:45 am156 Comments
Leftist judge Juan Manuel Merchan, who oversees President Trump’s sham case on junk felony charges, made political contributions to a nonprofit fundraising platform for Democratic candidates and progressive groups.
According to FEC data, Judge Juan Merchan from New York donated to Act Blue earmarked “Stop The Republicans” and “Biden For President.”
Democratic fundraiser Act Blue is the payment processor for the majority of Democrats’ political contributions in the 2020 campaign cycle, DC Patriot reported.
Although the dollar amounts were what some would be considered small, this proves impartiality towards Donald Trump. Donating to both the former and future expected counterpart on the presidential ballot is a huge deal, and something that cannot go unnoticed,” the outlet reported.
Below are screenshots of the political contributions of Juan Merchan on FEC.gov:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/conflict-of-interest-leftist-judge-juan-merchan-who-oversees-trumps-sham-case-made-political-contributions-against-republican-and-trump/
A SOROS-BACKED COUP: DA Alvin Bragg, DA Chief Assistant Meg Reiss, and others Worked with the John Jay Institute for Innovation in Prosecution Funded by Soros – Bragg Attended Its Conference While Investigating Trump
By Jim Hoft Apr. 5, 2023 8:15 am
Last week the corrupt Soros-backed DA from New York City announced his office was going to indict President Trump on BS crimes. The country was livid with this continued weaponization of the courts used against President Trump and his supporters.
Then a no-name NBC writer came out and claimed that Soros never met with or spoke with DA Alvin Bragg. He used this as his rationale to lie and insist that Bragg was not Soros supported.
“Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ron DeSantis have all claimed Alvin Bragg is “Soros-backed” or aligned since the news of the indictment dropped. In reality, Soros has “has never met or spoken to Alvin Bragg,” according to a CNBC story from last week,” NBC’s Ben Collins wrote.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/coup-da-alvin-bragg-da-chief-assistant-meg-reiss-and-others-work-with-the-john-jay-institute-for-innovation-in-prosecution-funded-by-soros-and-more/
EMBARRASSING: Soros-backed DA Bragg Can’t Answer the What the Crime Is in His Case Against President Trump
By Joe Hoft Apr. 5, 2023 8:15 am79 Comments
Soros-backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was on full display yesterday and he showed the entire world how dumb he is and how dumb his case is. His press conference was icing on the cake.
Yesterday the first President in US history was arrested on “34 felony” counts placed against him by DA Bragg in New York. We learned that if you are going to indict the President, it’s probably best that you have crimes committed.
After the arrest, the corrupt and dumb DA Bragg held a press conference where he attempted to describe what the President did wrong. Bragg blew it.
Bragg makes statements that the President committed crimes that he never fully describes. He grabs accounting entries and somehow argues that these were crimes. Then he mumbled through how these were election-related crimes without describing the connection. We know this because
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/the-dumbest-da-with-the-dumbest-case-says-the-dumbest-things-in-his-press-conference/
President Trump Calls on Congress to Defund the DOJ and FBI After Constant Illegal and Unconstitutional Attacks on the President, His Supporters and Associates
By Joe Hoft Apr. 5, 2023 9:45 am107 Comments
This is on the Republicans. They can continue to stand down and cower in their offices or they can begin to save the country.
President Trump is right. The Representatives and Senators who call themselves Republicans didn’t stand up yesterday when a totally BS arrest was carried out on the former President of the United States. They remained, for the most part, quiet. Where is their outrage?
President Trump shared this morning:
REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS SHOULD DEFUND THE DOJ AND FBI UNTIL THEY COME TO THEIR SENSES. THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TOTALLY WEAPONIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT IN OUR COUNTRY AND ARE VICIOUSLY USING THIS ABUSE OF POWER TO INTERFERE WITH OUR ALREADY UNDER SIEGE ELECTIONS!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/president-trump-calls-on-congress-to-defund-the-doj-and-fbi-after-constant-illegal-and-unconstitutional-attacks-on-the-president-and-his-supporters-and-associates/
If they are not acting because they fear a paltry prison term, they do not deserve our vote. If they are not acting because they agree that the courts should decide on this, they need to say so. Show me a busineessman in New York City who has not done something that could be considered shady and let him (or her) run for President.
The Executive Office is only as powerful as Congress allows it to be.
Does anyone forresee an issue of Constitutional law here, which would take appeals to the highest federal court? Why is the State involved in FEC enforcememt? If this goes up to the SC, then who is to stop rioters no matter the decision. Congress has the opportunity to act before this escalates.
Your points are all valid, John Adams said Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. The Founding Fathers were also against a Government of professional Politicians and Professional Bureaucrats. This is why they made all government jobs patronage position. Every time the Presidency changed hands new people were appointed to all positions.
All of our current problems can be traced back to the left working hard to take control of the bureaucrats and to nationalize the educational education system. Once in control of that system they stopped teaching Civics. They then waited until the majority of the voters no longer know about the separation of powers or the deliberate limitation of governmental power.
This is why so many people are not upset over the multilayered Judicial system and the Imperial Presidency they have created.
You are screaming for Congress to act but under the separation of powers created by the Constitution there is little they can do beyond refusing to pay for programs. In order to stop the Executive branch from diverting money they will have to defend the entire government. All they can do is investigate/hold hearings and collect evidence. Once they have the evidence all they can do is hope/pray that once the Presidency changes hands their evidence is used to send the nasty villains to jail.
This is why the good people in Congress can’t do much, when the professional politicians who like what is happening their ability to do anything is limited by the Constitution.
The people you want to be mad at are the voters who keep electing crooks. The left is responsible for this mess also. The Founding Fathers deliberately set things up so you had to go out of your way to register and vote. They did this so only committed people would vote. The low information uncommitted voters wouldn’t bother. The easier it is to vote the more easily fooled people will vote. This makes it easier to steal elections.
It is still possible for us to vote out way out of this mess but that window is closing.
JONATHAN TURLEY
Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks
COLUMNS, CRIMINAL LAW, LAWYERING, POLITICSApril 5, 2023
Yielding to Temptation: Why The Trump Case is a Test Not Just for the President but the Legal System
Below is my column in Fox.com on the indictment of former President Donald Trump and how this case is a test not just for Trump but the New York legal system.
Here is the column:
Oscar Wilde once said “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
With the release of the indictment of former President Donald Trump, Manhattan District Alvin Bragg has revealed himself as a follower of the Wilde school of legal thought. Bragg knew that he had no criminal case against Trump. However, after running on bagging Trump for some crime (any crime), Bragg knew that many would not care if he had a basis for a criminal charge. He would be lionized to be the first person to ever indict a former president in the blind rage against Trump.
After charging Trump with 34 counts, Bragg insisted that he will convict Trump of the “crime to promote a [political] candidacy through unlawful means.” He insists that he will prove “attempts to violate state and federal election laws.”
For months, many have raised objections to the effort of Manhattan District Attorney to use a flawed legal theory to essentially litigate a federal election violation that the Justice Department opted not to charge. This bootstrap theory has been widely criticized, but many in the media sought to cut off that debate by suggesting that Bragg might be basing his prosecution on some unknown crime. Last week, Michael Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis went as far to “warn all the pundits and everyone speculating…that there are lots of facts, lots of documents, lots of evidence of multiple crimes.”
We now have the indictment, and it is basically what many of us anticipated. It is a series of stacked counts of falsifying business records for the purpose of influencing the election. The indictment seems to address the lack of legal precedent with a lack of specificity on the underlying “secondary” felony. Bragg has done nothing more than replicated the same flawed theory dozens of times. This is where math and the law meet. If you multiply any number by zero, it is still zero.
If the New York bench retains any integrity, this case will be thrown out as legally improper with an admonition to Bragg and his office for politicizing the criminal justice process. That, however, may be asking a lot of state judges who are elected on both the trial and appellate levels. They also may prove to be lawyers on the Wilde side.
The cost, however, to the legal system will be immense. In a single indictment, Alvin Bragg bulldozed any high ground that the Democrats had after January 6th. He has fulfilled the narrative of the Trump campaign by supplying a raw and undeniable example of the politicization of the legal system. What is most shocking is that this attack on the rule of law was met with the rapturous applause of many, including lawyers and legal pundits. They not only will ignore the affront to the integrity of our legal system, but celebrate its demise.
Bragg himself threw a flag on the effort to indict Trump being pushed by a lawyer brought in as a special assistant district attorney for that purpose. Mark F. Pomerantz and his colleague Carey R. Dunne resigned — and their resignation letter was then leaked to an eager media. Pomerantz then took a step that floored many of us: he wrote a tell-all book based on the still ongoing investigation. However, Pomerantz admits that career prosecutors balked at his radical proposals to find a crime — any crime — to nail Trump. That included an entirely bonkers money laundering charge against Trump where he would be the victim of an extortion effort. In his book, Pomerantz admits that “many of the lawyers were relentlessly negative.” Some prosecutors were clearly so upset by his efforts that they “defected” from the team. He also admitted that Bragg told him “that the consensus among the group of prosecutors with whom he had been speaking was not to go forward.”
Despite objections from his colleagues who said he was undermining their efforts, Pomerantz published a book making the case against an individual who was not charged, let alone convicted. It was a grossly unprofessional and improper act. It also worked. Bragg caved to the overwhelming pressure that followed. If figures like Pomerantz was going to yield to temptation, why shouldn’t he? After all, no one wants to be the last ethical lawyer when everyone else is cashing in.
I remain hopeful that there remains a modicum of judicial integrity in New York to stand against this effort. However, this is a defining moment for many who have rationalized this abuse of the criminal justice system. For those attorneys, they have reached the point described by Robert Oppenheimer after the development of the atomic bomb. He stated “In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humour, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”
The same is true for many in our profession. While some of us have warned that Mar-a-Lago could present a serious threat to Trump, we have warned that the Bragg prosecution is the denial of the core legal principle of blind justice. This expensive, drawn out effort would not have occurred for anyone other than Donald Trump. It is not just selective prosecution, it is exclusive prosecution for Trump and Trump alone.
There is a good-faith debate over whether the President should be charged over conduct related to Mar-a-Lago and possible obstruction of justice. This is not that case. For those lawyers applauding this ignoble moment, this is our sin as a profession, and it is “knowledge which they cannot lose” in the years to come.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/05/yielding-to-temptation-why-the-trump-case-is-a-test-for-not-just-for-the-president-but-the-legal-system/
(Richard: Turkey is showing that he can think contradictory thoughts at the same time. His arguments against the Bragg
persecutionprosecution also apply to the Mar a Largo raid andpersecutionprosecution. These actions have never been taken against other former Presidents and they have all done what Trump is beingpersecutedprosecuted for.Trump committed only one crime, he defeated Hillary while not being a member of the political establishment.)
(Richard: Finally)
Don Surber
Republicans lay the groundwork for 2025 indictments
When they indict one of ours, we indict 7 of theirs.
7 hr ago
The indictment of President Trump was as predictable as snow in Antarctica. The deep state wants to kill him, destroy his family and plow his fields with salt. That would send a message to anyone who dares challenge their authority again.
Keep calm and carry on. We will right this wrong when a Republican is president. 2023 is not 2020. Republicans now realize the threat was not Trump.
Democrats believe they may have ended six years of expensive failure, but the indictment drew sharp criticism from Jeff Bezos and his flunkies at the Washington Post.
In an editorial (remember those?) the Bezosists said, “Donald Trump deserves the legal scrutiny he’s getting — which has come from many corners on many counts. Yet of the long list of alleged violations, the likely charges on which a grand jury in New York state voted to indict him are perhaps the least compelling. There’s cause for concern, and caution, ahead.”
Democrats have assumed that all they needed was lies to bring down Trump. The two impeachments undermined their credibility. But they look at polls that show majorities believe that he is guilty of something as proof that their strategy worked. Maybe it does, but throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks has left a very messy wall.
Republicans have duly noted these Democrat mistakes and made the proper adjustments. They are taking their two years of control of the House to introduce legislation that could later become law under a Republican president, sure. But Speaker McCarthy is also laying the groundwork for the prosecution of the Democrat regime. They won’t waste time on impeachments. Committee chairmen are holding hearings that put on record what we know in our hearts has gone on within the deep state and in the Biden regime.
This is not Nancy and Nadler the Waddler looking for a scandal to create to entrap a president. This is Speaker McCarthy picking which scandal to pursue.
Republican James Comer leads the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the Biden family. Everyone in Washington knew for decades that Biden was on the take. Soon, all of America will know too.
As Comer said, “Investigating Hunter, the Biden family is about like tracking a bleeding bear through a snowstorm. I mean, there’s evidence everywhere.”
The tracking has begun.
On March 16, Comer announced, “Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability issued a memorandum revealing new evidence resulting from the investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling and business schemes. Subpoenaed financial records show that from 2015 to 2017, Biden family members – Hunter Biden, James Biden, Hallie Biden, and an unknown Biden — and their companies collectively received $1.3 million in payments from accounts related to Rob Walker, a Biden family associate.
“Notably, on March 1, 2017, less than two months after Vice President Joe Biden left public office, State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese company, wired $3 million to Rob Walker’s company. The next day, the company wired $1,065,000 to a company associated with James Gilliar, another Biden family associate. Afterwards, the Biden family received approximately $1,065,000 in payments over a three-month period in different bank accounts. From the bank records, it appears that the Biden family received approximately one-third of the money obtained from the China wire.”
$3 million?
They sold us out to Red China for a lousy $3 million?
Godfather Biden is just one of many targets. While Ted Cruz gallantly leveled Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his open borders policy, House members were digging into the Go To Jail stuff on his turning his agency into one that spies on all Americans in America.
Politico reported, “Congressional Republicans are launching an investigation into an under-the-radar domestic intelligence-gathering program within the Department of Homeland Security.
“House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.), as well as Reps. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) and August Pfluger (R-Texas), two subpanel chairs, on Monday warned DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that the program ‘raises serious concerns about the Department’s overreach of its statutory mandate and potential violations of Americans’ fundamental civil liberties.’
“‘There appears a pattern of mission creep and overreach by the Department emerging at the expense of Americans more than foreign actors who threaten the homeland,’ the three GOP lawmakers wrote in a letter to Mayorkas.”
The story said, “The probe comes after Politico reported last week that, under the program, officials are collecting information by questioning people within the United States and that employees within DHS’ intelligence office have raised concerns that their work could be illegal, according to a broad tranche of internal documents.”
The Go To Jail stuff is the steak. You need Cruz’s sizzle. I am not knocking the man. He is limited under a Democrat Senate. My point is McCarthy is putting his two-year speakership to good use.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is catching a lot of flak over his Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. This is good because the media is a handmaiden to the federal government. The criticism comes from the protectors of all the abusers of federal power.
The government paid Twitter to censor Trump supporters and the Hunter Biden laptop revelations just ahead of the 2020 election. That is fascism — the marriage of government and corporations.
Liberals call their fascism ESG as they push state and college pension funds to reward companies that comply with the government with investments. Tesla’s high ESG score was dashed once Elon Musk bought Twitter.
The Jordan committee might well be a death threat to the deep state. I hope Republicans on that committee have their affairs in order.
Delving into the Biden Crime Family does not cause despair among the elitists because they bank on any legal action taking place on their home turf: Washington DC. A prosecutor would have to get a Democrat grand jury to indict and get a Democrat jury to convict.
Perhaps jurisdiction can somehow be moved to Virginia or Maryland. West Virginia hosts a large FBI operation. Prosecute here.
A new set of federal prosecutors in 2025 won’t have to start from scratch. And getting witnesses under oath and in public would permit charges of perjury to enter the picture. The Heritage Foundation might vet them for us.
I am not going to freak out about the indictment because there is little that can be done about it. The case seems weak and Trump is strong. We shall see.
House Republicans are much more Trumpian and smarter under Speaker McCarthy than under Pussycat Ryan because they know once Trump falls, they’re next.
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/republicans-lay-the-groundwork-for
BREAKING: EVIDENCE STORMY DANIELS LIED ABOUT TRUMP AFFAIRMarch 20, 2023
Rob Lauer Political Reporter
President Trump predicted over the weekend that the New York DA will arrest him Tuesday for his role in making an alleged $130,000 hush money payment to an adult film actress in the waning days of the 2016 election to silence her about claims she’d had an affair with him. No affair, no crime. 360 News Las Vegas has exclusive information in which, former Las Vegas Stripper, Stormy denied the affair with her close friend here in Las Vegas on Facebook Messenger. When we obtained this file, we promised the woman we would conceal her name. She was afraid for her safety.
According to reports, Stormy Daniels told New York prosecutors and the grand jury that she had sex with President Trump years earlier. Trump denies the affair and he allegedly paid her $130,000 in 2016 to keep quiet about while he was running for president. BTW, most of the time the person making a payoff is considered the blackmail victim and not the criminal. Why would Trump have paid her off if she wasn’t extorting him?
360 News Las Vegas received this Facebook message screen shot marked from Stormy Daniels’ friend,” in which Daniels allegedly denies having sex with “him” not once but twice in the same message.
The following screen shot is from source who posted her private conversation with Daniels on her Facebook page on this story feed. The woman told 360 News when asked for the interview, “I don’t want to be involved.“ Out of respect for the woman, we are withholding her name.
The woman gave us permission to use the screen shots in our story, and she even agreed to sit down for an interview prior to last night’s 60 minute show. That all changed today. We don’t know if someone got to her or if she just dislikes President Trump or what.
https://360newslasvegas.com/breaking-evidence-stormy-daniels-lied-about-trump-affair/
(Richard: O’Keefe put on a sunglasses and the idiots didn’t recognize him.)
“Whatever Reason He Is in Prison is Good Enough For Me” – Members of the Press Speak Their Mind to Undercover James O’Keefe at Trump Arraignment (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila Apr. 5, 2023 1:17 pm0 Comments
James O’Keefe put on a ‘disguise’ and spoke to members of the press outside of the courtroom during Trump’s arraignment on Tuesday.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 felony counts related to so-called ‘hush payments’ to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy centerfold Karen McDougal.
Alvin Bragg didn’t explain what exactly he wants to convict Trump of in the charging documents.
Bragg told reporters he doesn’t have to tell anyone what the underlying felony is.
He’s just allowed to charged Trump with 34 felonies without explaining what the underlying offense was
Lefty reporters told James O’Keefe that they want Trump in prison even if he didn’t commit a crime.
“Whatever reason he is in prison is good for me,” a producer at Eurovision Americas Inc told O’Keefe.
A New York Times photographer told O’Keefe he would be happy if Trump was imprisoned: “Whatever it takes.”
A cameraman for ABC News admitted Bragg is election rigging.
“Hopefully he doesn’t get the nominee and just goes away,” one ABC News cameraman told O’Keefe.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/whatever-reason-he-is-in-prison-is-good-enough-for-me-members-of-the-press-speak-their-mind-to-undercover-james-okeefe-at-trump-arraignment-video/
Where Are the Subpoenas? – Did They Forget What the January 6 Committee Did to Us?” – Kash Patel Calls on GOP Lawmakers to Subpoena Bragg and His Cronies (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft Apr. 5, 2023 12:30 pm
On Tuesday NYC DA Alvin Bragg announced 34 indictments against President for non-crimes related to a non-disclosure agreement with a stripper. Bragg later admitted he did not identify a crime in his indictment of the former president. He didn’t have to. He’s a Marxist DA living in New York City. The rules do not apply to Democrats. And you make up the laws as you go along.
Bragg’s charges against President Trump were shockingly weak – even several fake news outlets admitted it.
On Wednesday Kash Patel called on GOP lawmakers to immediately issue subpoenas on Bragg and his cronies.
Kash reminded the War Room audience of how Democrats used January 6 Unselect Committee to harass and abuse Trump administration officials and lie to the American public for several months after the government-infiltrated and organized protests on Capitol Hill.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/where-are-the-subpoenas-did-they-forget-what-the-january-6-committee-did-to-us-kash-patel-calls-on-gop-lawmakers-to-subpoena-bragg-and-his-cronies-video/
SWAT Officers on Scene at Trump Tower Chicago After Woman with Rifle Enters Building
By Cristina Laila Apr. 5, 2023 2:15 pm84 Comments
TruthGettrGab
There was a large police presence outside of Trump Tower on North Wabash Avenue in Chicago on Wednesday.
According to initial reports, a woman entered Trump Tower with a rifle.
There is no active shooter situation.
According to Chicago Police, SWAT officers responded to a domestic related incident.
“At this time, we believe this is an isolated incident and there is no threat to the public.” Chicago police said.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/swat-officers-on-scene-at-trump-tower-chicago-after-woman-with-rifle-enters-building/
AOC Livid After Trump Confirms TGP Report on Daughter of New York Judge Working for Biden-Harris Campaign
By Anthony Scott Apr. 5, 2023 2:45 pm141 Comments
On Monday night, The Gateway Pundit released an exclusive report on the daughter of the left-leaning New York Judge presiding over Trump’s court case.
In the report, The Gateway Pundit revealed Loren Merchan, the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, previously worked for “Kamala Harris For The People” and is currently employed as the president of Authentic which is a digital marketing firm that has the Biden-Harris campaign listed as a client on its site.
On Tuesday morning, before entering the Manhattan Courthouse, Trump took to Truth Social and wrote “THE HIGHLY PARTISAN JUDGE & HIS FAMILY ARE WELL KNOWN TRUMP HATERS…HIS DAUGHTER WORKED FOR “KAMALA” & NOW THE BIDEN-HARRIS CAMPAIGN. KANGAROO COURT!”
In the evening, during his highly anticipated speech after being arraigned, Trump mentioned the judge’s daughter again and stated, “I have a Trump hating judge with a Trump hating wife and family, whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris.”
After hearing Trump’s speech, AOC was livid and claimed Trump was intimidating the judge.
Ocasio-Cortez stated: “He is publicly intimidating a judge and pointing a spotlight on their family to his supporters – many of whom have admitted in court to committing violence in his name.”
She continued “He knows what he’s doing.”
Earlier in the day, AOC falsely claimed Trump and his sons were “threatening” and committing “stochastic terror” against the New York judge’s family.
READ:
AOC comments’ are laughable considering in July of last year she was publicly calling out Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/aoc-livid-after-trump-confirms-tgp-report-on-daughter-of-new-york-judge-working-for-biden-harris-campaign/
Mike Pence Won’t Appeal Obama Judge’s Decision Ordering His Testimony Before Grand Jury in Case Against President Trump
By Cristina Laila Apr. 5, 2023 3:30 pm25 Comments
Former Vice President Mike Pence won’t appeal a judge’s decision ordering him to testify before a grand jury investigating January 6.
“Vice President Pence will not appeal the Judge’s ruling and will comply with the subpoena as required by law,” Pence spox Devin O’Malley said in a statement.
Last week Chief Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee ordered former Vice President Mike Pence to testify before a grand jury about his conversations with President Trump related to January 6.
This is an unprecedented attack on Trump’s authority and executive privilege which is derived from the constitutional separation of powers.
Special Counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed Mike Pence in February.
Pence argued that as president of the Senate, he was acting as a member of the legislative branch on January 6 and is therefore protected by the DOJ’s demands.
Judge Boasberg ruled that Pence can decline to answer any questions about his time presiding over the senate.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/mike-pence-wont-appeal-obama-judges-decision-ordering-his-testimony-before-grand-jury-in-case-against-president-trump/
“Joe diGenova: ‘Silent Majority in NY Bar and Bench Thinks Trump Case Is Awful and So Is Alvin Bragg'” The Liberty Daily – April 5, 2023
https://rumble.com/v2gdeuw-joe-digenova-silent-majority-in-ny-bar-and-bench-thinks-trump-case-is-awful.html
State-Run Media at Work: ABC Blurs Out “TEXT TRUMP AT 88022” on Podium During Tuesday’s Speech to Block Donations to His Campaign – But They Didn’t Blur the Ad for Joe Biden!
By Jim Hoft Apr. 5, 2023 5:45 pm132 Comments
ABC News, a proud member of the State-Run Media was working double-time on Tuesday night to prevent President Trump from collecting donations from his supporters.
ABC News blurred out “TEXT TRUMP AT 88022” on his podium last night during his speech at Mar-a-Lago. They just would not allow Trump to raise money following his arrest by a corrupt Soros-funded DA in New York City.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/state-run-media-at-work-abc-blurs-out-text-trump-at-88022-on-podium-during-tuesdays-speech-to-block-donations-to-his-campaign-but-they-didnt-blur-the-ad-for-joe-biden/
Alan Dershowitz Says Trump “Probably Will be Convicted” – But Verdict will be Overturned on Appeal (VIDEO)
By Cristina Laila Apr. 5, 2023 6:29 pm123 Comments
Attorney Alan Dershowitz told Charlie Kirk on Wednesday that he believes Trump will be convicted – but the verdict will be overturned on appeal.
The Trump indictment was unsealed on Tuesday during Trump’s arraignment.
Read the indictment here.
Trump was hit with a criminal charge for every payment he made to his former lawyer Michael Cohen in connection with the ‘hush payments’ to the two women.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg went through the Trump Organization’s ledger and charged him down the line per payment to Cohen.
Every single payment to Michael Cohen was made in 2017 while Trump was president.
Bragg’s office copied and pasted the same charge 34 times and just switched out the check/voucher/invoice number.
Dershowitz told Charlie Kirk that a Manhattan jury will convict Trump, but the verdict will be overturned on appeal.
“I don’t think a New York City judge would dismiss this case because the New York City judge’s life would be over…everyone would point to him and say ‘oh my God! There’s the man who helped Trump get free!’” Dershowitz said.
“So I don’t think it’s going to be easy. He will probably be convicted by a New York Manhattan jury who voted for Bragg and voted for ‘get Trump.’ It will be reversed on appeal,” Dershowitz said.
On the other hand, Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley on Tuesday said the case could collapse before it even gets to trial.
Jonathan Turley said he’s never seen an indictment like this before.
“There’s no there, there,” Turley told Fox News host Bret Baier.
“This case could collapse before it gets to trial,” Turley said. “There’s no there there…you would think if you are going to indict a president, you would rise to that moment of history and tell people with precision what it is that you want to convict him of.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/alan-dershowitz-says-trump-probably-will-be-convicted-but-verdict-will-be-overturned-on-appeal-video/