As the Manhattan DA's case implodes, the Supremes warn of prosecutorial abuse against ex-presidents.

" This leaves us with the following state of affairs — legal experts can’t figure out what the Bragg case is about, the Supreme Court will probably give Trump a win on immunity and his poll numbers will continue to climb — as they did in the new CNN survey released Sunday." David Catron

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

A defense strategy for the case of NY v. Trump -Howard J. Warner   "The sham trial in NYC being orchestrated by DA Alvin Bragg against Donald Trump is designed to keep Trump off the campaign trail and further salacious material to create more doubt about him in the minds of undecided voters. The judge, Juan Merchan, is an acting Supreme Court judge, appointed to this position by the Administrative Chief Judge Ann Pfau and selected for this case since he has presided over other Trump cases. Though I am not a lawyer, the obvious failings of this case are numerous. I propose to outline a strategy for a not-guilty verdict instead of a hung jury." . . .

Bragg’s Trump Trial Refutes Case Against Immunity - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   "Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wasn’t formally involved in last Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing in Trump v. United States, yet his transparently politicized prosecution of the former president provided a poignant subtext for the oral arguments. The hearing concerned Special Counsel Jack Smith’s claim that ex-presidents enjoy no immunity from prosecution for crimes allegedly committed while in office. It could hardly have been lost on the justices that, as oral arguments proceeded, Trump was cooped up in a New York courtroom while Bragg’s prosecutors accused him of offenses that legal experts of all political stripes have pronounced legally unintelligible. 

"Writing in the New York Times, for example, Boston University law professor Jed Handel Shugerman described the Bragg prosecution as an embarrassment and a historic mistake: “As a reality check: It is legal for a candidate to pay for a nondisclosure agreement.” Yet Bragg and his lead prosecutor Matthew Colangelo — late of the Biden Justice Department — have gone through all manner of legal contortions to transform Trump’s NDA with a porn star into an election interference case involving the 2016 presidential contest." . . .

The Democrats Validate an Einstein Postulation - John Green  . . ."The Dems came up with a surefire battle plan to prevent Donald Trump from returning to the Oval Office.  Just prosecute him for something — it didn’t matter what.  The Donald would become “damaged goods,” and voter outrage would prevent a return of mean tweets to the office that comes with an armed entourage and a big blue airplane.  It should have been foolproof.  But as engineers say: “One should never underestimate the ability of fools to screw things up.' ” . . .

Woman Who Survived Hamas Attack Is Facing Death Threats and Doxxing

  Jeff Charles – RedState

"Sanandaji’s story comes amid widespread pro-Hamas protests on college campuses. Many of these demonstrations have devolved into violence. She noted that many Jewish students “are escorting each other to class so that nobody’s walking alone” and that “their lives are in danger.' ”

"On October 7, 2023, the terrorist group Hamas launched a major surprise attack on Israel, killing 1,200 men, women, and children. Terrorists also kidnapped hundreds of hostages, many of whom are still being held in Gaza as Israel’s military works to eliminate the organization while rescuing its citizens.

"Earlier this week, one of the Israelis who escaped during the attack announced that she had received a myriad of threats after speaking out as a vocal opponent of Hamas. During an interview in October, days after the attack, Natalie Sanandaji, originally from Long Island, recounted how she escaped the dance festival in which numerous Israelis were murdered.

Photos from before the horror show 28-year-old Natalie Sanandaji of Great Neck visiting Israel for a wedding, then onto a desert celebration of peace, love and dance music.

At dawn, rockets from Gaza began thundering overhead.

"If this festival happened anywhere else in the world, as soon as they saw those first rockets, they would have ran for their lives. But for these kids, that's a reality," said Sanandaji.

Soon came the order from festival security: "Everybody pick up your things and go to your cars," she said.

First they were sent out one way, then told to turn around. Next, they were told to abandon their cars and run.

"We can't understand. We're thinking the fastest way to get out of here is by car, why would you tell us to go on foot? And then that's when we heard the first gunshots," said Sanandaji.

"Now, Sanandaji is facing death threats and has even been doxxed for her statements against Hamas. During an appearance on “Just the News, No Noise” she said her phone number “was posted on a website and I was getting hundreds of texts and phone calls a day.” . . .

Gen Z doesn't know why they're protesting for Palestine (nypost.com)

Rep. Keith Self Warns U.S. Can’t Survive ‘Fourth Obama Term’

 Exclusive: (breitbart.com)  

"Pointing to Hamas’s remaining battalions in southern Gaza, Self, who serves as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, insisted that Israel intends to “clean it out and finish the job.' ” 

"U.S. global influence is declining under President Joe Biden, whose presidency is a continuation of former President Barack Obama’s policies, according to Republican Congressman Keith Self, who warned that America could not survive a “fourth Obama term.”

"He also blasted Biden’s weakening alliance with the Jewish State and the rise of anti-Israel protests on college campuses, which he attributed to socialist ideology fueled by “woke” academia, while advising that children be prepped with conservative values before entering higher education institutions.

"In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on the sidelines of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Hungary 2024 on Friday, Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) lamented the “decline in the influence of the United States around the world” under Biden. 

“ 'It started with the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soon after that, people started testing us and Putin started moving troops into Ukraine within two months of the withdrawal,” he said. “And, frankly, that’s lightning speed when you talk about a nation making a decision to start moving troops toward combat.”

"He then asserted that Biden’s term mirrors Obama’s while warning of the risks such policies pose to the country." . . . 

This college generation doesn’t know why the heck they’re protesting for Palestine

 Should Israel desert her hostages to please the likes of these mental infants? TD

"Palestine has an intifada. We’ve got intifaddists."; Rikki Schlott  

". . .nearly half of Zoomers say they get their news from TikTok (where Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” went viral because so many young people were praising it), and you have a disaster on your hands. They don’t know the truth about Israel, Gaza and Hamas and they can’t be bothered to check. But they get likes!"

Columbia students erected a “Trans People 4 Palestine” sign.

"Do the Gen Z pro-Palestine protesters even know what they’re screaming, yelling, and encamping about? Definitely not.

"A Columbia University student who rushed down to NYU’s campus in solidarity with protesters there said on camera that she actually had no idea what they were protesting, eventually admitting she needed to be “more educated” on the issue.

"I’m sure that’s very much the case with her countless classmates donning keffiyehs and chanting anti-Israel slogans.

An unnamed Columbia University student interviewed when she rushed to NYU to join the protests there admitted she did not know what they were actually protesting.

"Forget the three r’s, these Ivy League elitists are schooled in the three i’s: ignorance, indoctrination and Instagram.

". . ."Palestine has an intifada. We’ve got intifaddists."

American Universities Have Squandered The Public's Esteem - The American Spectator  

“Stop the Genocide” reads the signs in support of a group who only failed to commit genocide on October 7 because they were stopped by military force (and who have vowed to keep on trying to do so, an aim furthered by the utterly unironic sign-carriers).

 . . ."For several years, I taught a unit on the Holocaust in a small Jewish day school in Dayton, Ohio. I thought it important not just to expose the horror but to teach students where hope lies as well. To that end, I once brought in a woman who had been newly married when her native Holland was conquered by the Nazis. She and her husband sheltered a series of Jewish families in their home, saving them from the fate of 90 percent of Dutch Jews. She was no intellectual and put on no airs. But the students’ jaws dropped when they heard her matter-of-factly detail the risk they ran for years. “How could you be so brave?” one student asked her at the end.

"She seemed genuinely puzzled. “Brave? Anyone would have done what I had done.”

"An ordinary person, she was in her own mind.

"But the people who thought themselves extraordinary usually did less well. How few acted as she did! How many of the better educated and more self-regarding were skilled at the rationalizations that kept themselves safe and that eased Hitler’s path." . . .

Clever College Students Figure Out It’s Not Racist To Call For The Murder Of All Jews If You Just Call Them 'Zionists' | Babylon Bee   "In ongoing protests over the war between Israel and Gaza, clever college students found an effective way to avoid being racist by simply calling for the murder of ‘Zionists' instead of Jews.

" 'Zionists clearly aren't people," student protestor Bashir Telum told the press. "I am allowed to call for their deaths and that doesn't make me a bad person or anything. You, know, because they aren't the same thing as Jews. Or people.

"With data from hundreds of polls, more than 95 percent of Jews identify as Zionists. Zionism is the idea that the Jewish people are entitled to a homeland in the Middle East, with the establishment of Israel in the early 1900s as a fulfillment of this entitlement. To get around accusations of racism, brilliant college students have been calling for the deaths of Zionists.

" 'I wish death to all Zionist pigs!" protestor Cassidy Jones yelled at one Harvard event this week." . . .

Graham predicts Supreme Court will send Trump presidential immunity case to lower courts

 The Hill 

"Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted Sunday that the Supreme Court will send former President Trump’s immunity case back to the lower courts.

"“Well, I think the court’s gonna find that presidential immunity exists for President Trump like every other president, but you got to be within the scope of being president. I think they’ll send it back to the lower courts to find out exactly what actions fall within presidential immunity and what are considered personal. I think that’s the way this will end — there will be some immunity for some of the actions,” Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

"The Supreme Court heard arguments last week over whether Trump could have presidential immunity from criminal prosecution in the federal Jan. 6 case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. The high court appeared open to some presidential immunity for the former president, which could potentially delay the criminal cases brought against him even further.

"Graham said the question of immunity may be “decided partially” for the former president.

“ 'There’s no absolute immunity in the Constitution. It will be a legal analysis, you know, the president needs to be protected. You know, we don’t become a banana republic here. We prosecute, you know, our political opponents, which is going on really in many jurisdictions,” he said. “But I think the immunity question will be decided partially for Trump and some legal, some factual analysis as to when and where it applies.” . . .

The Supreme Court is likely to uphold immunity for Trump | the Aspen beat

"When the establishment finally regained power by beating Trump in 2020, they began criminally prosecuting him for his acts in office, timed to come to a head just before the next election where he hopes to reclaim that office. 

"One of those prosecutions is a joke, namely the Manhattan Project where a stupid political hack of a District Attorney hopes to gloriously nuke Trump’s campaign with a criminal charge that is as bogus as it is convoluted (which may well produce a jury conviction in ultra-Blue Manhattan, but will surely be overturned on appeal)" . . .

"Aren't we lucky I'm not killing people who deserve to die", Khymani James, Hamas supporter.

Nice Kid: Leader of Columbia Hamashole Protests Told University 'Be Glad I'm Not Out Murdering Zionists' – HotAir

The race-bating, Jew-hating, privileged do-ragger shooting his mouth off about "aren't we lucky I'm not killing people who deserve to die" is a sad little man named Khymani James. Somehow - probably because his angry act is so polished - he's the head of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.  And will you listen to the masked sheeple following him? It's like a Klan rally and damn near as lily-white.

Was it all that Baby Proofing? - Clarice Feldman  "Watching the idiocy on college campuses this week and seeing all the explanations for protests in favor of murderous Hamas, two tweets seem particularly on point. There’s the great David Burge (Iowahawk), who calls these outbursts “Hamas slumber parties,” and says, “This is like staging a pro-Nazi lunch counter sit-in and getting mad that people won’t treat you like you’re a modern-day Rosa Parks.” He attributes protests for the Intifada and slogans reading “from the River to the Sea” by numbskulls who have admittedly no idea what they are protesting as the result of baby-proofing houses. “There is,” he says, “no better educational experience for a child than finding out what happens when you stick a butter knife into an electrical outlet.”. . .

So Hamas engaged in the most brutal attack on a much stronger neighbor, and even before Israel's perfectly predictable response in defense of its own people, Hamas became worthy of sympathy and protection. The Israeli counterattack is falsely described as “genocide,” self-rule in Gaza is misnamed “occupation;” indigenous Jews are labeled “colonialists” and “occupiers,” while Arabs are mischaracterized as native to Gaza. . . . 

 Restore Order and Crush the Campus Jihadist Thugs › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)  . . ."Hamas’ useful campus idiots are, at best, blithering morons. They do not realize that Zionism—the Jewish people’s national liberation movement in their ancestral homeland—is the quintessence of the very “anticolonialism” and “indigenous people’s rights” they claim to champion. They are clueless about international law and how the doctrine of uti possidetis juris establishes that Israel has the best legal claim to Judea and Samaria (i.e., the West Bank). They know nothing about warfighting; John Spencer, head of urban warfare studies at West Point, has demonstrated that Israel’s combatant-to-civilian death ratio in Gaza since the war began is “historically low for modern urban warfare.”

"Why let inconvenient facts get in the way of the thrill one feels for supporting a chic social justice movement … er, genocidal terrorist organization?

"The activism now upending Columbia, Yale, Harvard, and other morally bankrupt institutions is done in explicit support of a U.S. State Department-recognized foreign terrorist organization. Keffiyeh-wearing mini-jihadis at Columbia recently chanted “We are Hamas!” and “Long live Hamas!” Other agitators at Columbia called for Tel Aviv—a liberal secular city that will remain in Israeli hands under any possible future settlement with the Palestinian-Arabs—to be “burned to the ground.” At the University of Michigan (where my speech in November was shouted down by a pro-Hamas mob), student Hamasniks distributed a pamphlet that says “Freedom for Palestine means Death to America.' ” . . .

Gavin Newsom Asked the Internet to Submit Designs for a New Coin Honoring CA's Innovations, and Hoo Boy.

 Jennifer Van Laar – RedState

"The Golden State has a long history of positive innovation, but the only thing it's innovating during Newsom's tenure is new ways to waste every natural gift God can bestow upon a land and leave its citizens in poverty. Oh, and new methods by which the government can repress the civil rights of people." JVL

"When he's not making ignorantly silly commercials about access to abortion in Alabama, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's favorite hobby is getting ratioed online. Seriously, I'm not sure there's anyone less self-aware than Newsom, or anyone who's more of a glutton for punishment.

"So on Thursday Newsom was again roasted online when he announced that California is getting its own $1 coin to honor innovation in the state and asked the internet for submissions. He was already going to invite some choice responses from that simple invitation, then he made it worse by beginning his tweet with, "Calling all members of the Tortured Coin Designers Department," a reference to Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department." . . . 

RELATED: The Mocking of Gavin Newsom's Glamour Shot at China's Great Wall Is Something to Behold

Donald Trump vs. Bragg, James, Willis, and Biden

"One might also argue that Bragg's timing is pure coincidence and unrelated to the national election cycle. But the district attorney has had the evidence for nearly eight years, and only now decided to prosecute. A false urgency and a phony conscientiousness betray the truth of the thing." B.R.

Alvin Bragg's Show Trial of Donald Trump Is an Attack on the Rule of Law | Opinion (newsweek.com)   Brooke Rollins  "The 'criminal' trial of former president Donald J. Trump is underway, and there is much speculation about the merits of the case. We can dispense with that up front: the merits are practically nonexistent.

"Partisan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, more showman than lawman, alleges that a 2016 transaction from the Trump Organization was deceptively categorized in its accounting. Even if that dubious claim were true, it is only a misdemeanor offense whose statute of limitations ran out long ago. So how is it that a felony trial is underway for an act that isn't a felony, and is well outside the statute of limitations?

"As millions of Americans across the nation—and the political spectrum—suspect, this entire misadventure is nothing more than a charade. Desperate to do something, anything, to shift the focus from President Joe Biden's failures, Bragg has resorted to prosecuting Trump just months before the election. He knows he is unlikely to win a conviction, but this case isn't about justice; it's about distraction. That is how we get to where we are now. That is how we have a criminal show trial of a former—and likely future—president of the United States, right at the opening of the general-election season.

"Sometimes things are exactly as they appear, and in those cases, we have a responsibility to state the obvious. So let us acknowledge what is happening here: this prosecution is an act of lawfare, the deliberate perversion of the law and its processes to target, isolate, and persecute a specific individual—and not at all coincidentally, disenfranchise the tens of millions of Americans who could make him president again." . . .

 Biden Wishes He Could’ve Met Trump ‘Head to Head’ ‘In the Neighborhood’ (breitbart.com)  "President Joe Biden suggested Friday he would have liked to fight former President Donald Trump when they were children, echoing similar rhetoric he has used, fantasizing about a physical confrontation with his rival." . . .

"During an appearance on Sirius XM’s Howard Stern Show on Friday, Stern and Biden were discussing Biden’s stuttering difficulties as a child when he said he would have liked to meet Trump “head to head” “in the neighborhood.”

“ 'But by that time, I was over most of the stuttering, but like, for example, you know, I mean, Trump makes fun of me,” Biden said. “Here’s the kind of guy in the neighborhood you wish you could have gotten in the neighborhood and meet head to head.”

"The shock jock and president then pivoted to the “first fistfight” the president had.

"Biden had implied he would like to fight Trump multiple times dating back to 2016, when he was still vice president and Hillary Clinton was the Democrat presidential nominee." . . .

George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests

"Generation z are the stupidest generation yet and the millennials are pretty stupid." OnlyMe

 Isabel Vincent (nypost.com) 

At Yale, Craig Birckhead-Morton (circled) is paid up to $3,360 for his work encouraging protests. He was arrested for trespass Monday and charged with first-degree trespass.

"George Soros and his hard-left acolytes are paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.

"The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide.

"Copycat tent cities have been set up at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia — all of them organized by branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — and at some, students have clashed with police.

"The SJP parent organization has been funded by a network of nonprofits ultimately funded by, among others, Soros, the billionaire left-wing investor.

"At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).

"USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”

"They are trained to “rise up, to revolution.”

"The radical group received at least $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and also took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019." . . .

Below: Hamas did not need to do this, and should have expected what they got. Many Arabs would be alive if not for what Hamas did, below.  Pro-Hamas students, are you OK with what we see here? TD

Civilians killed by Palestinian militants lie covered in Sderot, Israel, on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023

The Democrats’ Plan To Steal The Presidency For Good –

  Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)

"There’s an old joke, funny mostly because it’s so true: “Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” If you’re not in the majority, you’re the sheep, and you are eaten."

Electoral College, 2024. Source: Chessrat, via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.

"While Americans brace for another contentious presidential election, the Democrats have a better idea: Subvert the Constitution in the name of “democracy.” Once again, the party of the left shows why it’s losing Americans’ trust.

"Quietly but steadily, the Democratic Party has been advancing its latest bold idea to create a uni-party state: A “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.”

"In case you missed it, the Associated Press reported last week that “Maine will become the latest to join a multistate effort to elect the president by popular vote,” the 17th state to do so.

"As the AP noted, “Under the proposed compact, each state would allocate all its electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote for president, regardless of how individual states voted in an election.”

"The goal of this “movement” — it’s really a plot — is to get enough states to join to get to the magic number of 270 electoral votes, the amount needed to win the Electoral College. With Maine, the group now claims 209 electoral votes, a mere 61 away from their goal.

"What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing, except it’s an out-and-out attempt at subverting the protections placed in the Constitution to keep from having a national popularity contest for the presidency. This is what Democrats call “democracy.” In fact, it’s a recipe for mob rule.

"Our founders, who were extraordinarily wise and deeply steeped in both political history and philosophy, understood very well: Nations that start as law-respecting republics (America, in case you didn’t know, is a republic, a representative democracy, not a pure democracy) and employ “majority rules” quickly devolve into dictatorships.

"That was the whole reason for the Electoral College, which plays a vital role in determining our president by giving states a role in the election of a president. The media understand this, as a recent ABC News headline shows: “State law takes U.S. a step closer to popular vote deciding presidential elections”." . . .

To Understand Campus Protesters, The Right Should Dig Deeper

 Emily Jashinsky (thefederalist.com) 

" . . .Or the champions of compassion and tolerance and justice saying things like “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.' ” . . .

(allthatsinteresting.com)

 "It’s important to acknowledge two truths about the anti-Israel campus protests. First, they’ve clearly included some antisemitism, much of which is far more radical than conservative speech the same schools and supportive journalists regularly subject to suppression. Second, many if not most of the campus protesters, outside headline-grabbing antisemites, believe they oppose Hamas, do not hate Jews, and genuinely think they are fighting a colonialist genocide.

"The point of recognizing this is not to excuse schools for botching their responses or let organizers off the hook for platforming bigotry. (They’ve certainly never let the right off the hook for hangers-on or plants.) The point is actually to suggest that while antisemitism will sadly never be extinguished — and there’s some evidence it may be rising — the ideology motivating campus protesters is becoming much more widespread.

Indeed, many of these protesters are Jewish, a reality that’s very familiar to pro-Israel Jews around the world. One Jewish student protester I interviewed this week actually expressed frustration with the difficulty of keeping legitimate antisemites out of the encampment. More broadly, though, the rapid proliferation of anti-Western worldviews presents a bigger problem for the country at large than the seriously disturbing but minority outbursts of antisemitism among protesters. (Minority at least for now.)" . . .

Biden Should Be Forced To Condemn His Hamas Wing Repeatedly; Mollie Hemingway 

 “If you recall, during the Trump administration, everyone would constantly demand that every Republican, chief among them Donald Trump, denounce anything that happened no matter how fringe,” said Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway.

UPDATE: Hamas Releases Sick 'Proof-of-Life' Video of American Hostage Keith Siegel, Grandfather of Five – RedState 

There is a heart shattering moment in the latest hostage clip released by the Hamas psychopaths in which Israeli-American citizen Keith Siegel tells his family he has good memories of last's years Passover holiday when they were together - before he breaks down in tears 💔 pic.twitter.com/L0Hcrwf7P3

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 27, 2024

. . ."The idiots trashing universities and celebrating murderers seem to have no compassion for the horrors so many Israelis experienced on Oct. 7, 2023—and are continuing to suffer through now. They should be demanding the release of all the hostages, not the destruction of Israel, but they're not, and it's a sad commentary on a shameless segment of our society."

Did Biden’s big mouth just commit him to debate Donald Trump?

 Andrea Widburg - American Thinker  "Sometimes, it’s nice to walk away from the insanely depressing news about America’s college campuses, the economy, immigration, and all the other stuff in Biden’s America and just to focus on Joe Biden himself. That’s because this addled old man is the source of endless comic material. He lies, misspeaks, misreads, and, most recently, may have committed himself to a debate or two against Donald Trump, something that he’s manifestly incapable of handling.

I’m sure all of you caught Biden’s Ron Burgundy moment, but I’ll share it with you again, nevertheless. If you’re not familiar with Ron Burgundy, this will help you catch up (language warning).

This is the link where Joe says he will debate Trump:

🚨 Crooked Joe Biden says he's "happy to debate" President Trump.
His handlers must be furious! pic.twitter.com/eOS9zm0G0U

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 26, 2024

Concern ensues: 

Scene ... inside the White House staff office right now pic.twitter.com/zp32xdfJJu

— Charles R. Smith🔹 (@softwarnet) April 26, 2024