CHASING TRUMP: Political Prosecutions. Justice Gone Wrong.

American Greatness

"They say they’re upholding the law, but a close examination reveals politics of the very worst kind, meant to influence the 2024 election."

"How did the democrats get so bold and the law get so cozy with each other… I feel like I’m watching a bad western and I’m waiting for the guys in the white hats to ride in and save the day. How did this happen? how did the law get so leftist?" Comment to the video.

Special Counsel Narrows Allegations Against Trump in 2020 Election Case in Superseding Indictment (legalinsurrection.com)

"Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against Donald Trump in the 2020 election case in D.C.

"It’s doubtful the case will go to trial before the November election.

"Smith narrowed the allegations after the Supreme Court’s immunity decision but applied the same charges:

Today, a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment, ECF No. 226, charging the defendant with the same criminal offenses that were charged in the original indictment. The superseding indictment, which was presented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in this case, reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions in Trump v. United States, 144 S. Ct. 2312 (2024). The Government does not oppose waiver of the defendant’s appearance for arraignment on the superseding indictment. See Fed. R. Crim. P. 10(b). As this Court directed, ECF No. 197, the Government will confer with the defense and make a joint proposal, to the extent possible, regarding pretrial litigation in the status report due Friday.. . .

How did the DNC learn to use lawfare? - American Thinker

How is the DNC able to carry out systematic lawfare?  Because the DNC is effectively a large law firm.  (Emphasis mine. TD)

. . ."Lawfare is, in reality, a replacement of markets and competition.  Lawfare seeks to bypass markets — meaning coalitions of voluntary associations — and enforce top-down direction.  The Harris party’s recent declaration of wage-price controls (an idea going back to LBJ’s administration) is a manifestation of this ideology, and it is the ideology of government with one purpose: choose all primary social objectives, make all rules, and enforce them. 

"It is the ultimate merger of law and economics." 

Jack Smith Unveils Revised Trump Indictment – HotAir "Special Counsel Jack Smith's previous indictment of former president Trump took a serious blow when the Supreme Court ruled he had immunity from prosecution for all official acts. But today Smith and a new grand jury produced a superseding indictment which has been revised to get around that problem." . . .

A powerful combination: Jack Smith, CNN and MSNBC. Rachael Maddow, Joy Reid, Ali Velshi, Jim Acosta in the anti-Republican posse. Are there any real journalists out there? TD

When It Comes to Trump, Democrats Willing to Destroy Democracy

 Victor Davis Hanson (dailysignal.com)

. . ."Similar federal charges could just as easily have led to the indictment of Biden—if the special counsel in that case had not claimed that he could not convince a jury to convict a culpable but cognitively challenged Biden." . . .

"The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic.

"Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed over the last decade that former President Donald Trump posed a continued and existential threat to the republic.

"That allegation subsequently justified a variety of anti-democratic means to neuter his first two presidential candidacies, his presidency, and now his third and final run for the White House.

"A near decade ago, we witnessed the 2015-2016 Hillary Clinton / Democratic National Committee / FBI-assisted effort to plant the false accusation of Trump-Russian collusion to warp the 2016 election.

"That gambit centered around the fraudulent Steele dossier and nearly fatally crippled the Trump 2016 campaign. That hoax would later sidetrack 22 months of his presidency before being proven a fantasy.

"On the eve of the 2020 election, the left next birthed the Russian laptop disinformation campaign. That hoax also warped a presidential debate with false charges that Hunter Biden’s own incriminating laptop was once again the work of Russians seeking to conspire with Trump.

"Those unusual efforts continued during the Biden administration.

"For the first time in election history, the allies of one campaign sought to persuade some 16 states to try to remove a major party’s likely nominee from their primary and general election ballots.

"The plan was to smother a Trump third presidential bid in its infancy, and thus once again not allow the people to accept or reject his candidacy.

"Nearly simultaneously, four federal, state, and local prosecutors filed dozens of felony charges against Trump.'

"They all shared some strange similarities.

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

 Argus Hamilton (jewishworldreview.com)  • Chicago bid farewell to the thousands of delegates and media in town for the Democratic Convention. Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. On Wednesday night the Democratic Party was scheduled to lay out a Vision for America and, I swear, they opened with a speech by Stevie Wonder.

 • Joe Biden's speech to the Democratic Convention Monday was cheered wildly by the thousands of delegates in the arena including his executioner Nancy Pelosi, bidding him goodbye. Joe's final moment as they ushered him offstage was like the ending of a classic movie. That movie was Old Yeller.

 • Bill Clinton spoke to the Democratic Convention Wednesday on behalf of his Clinton Initiative Foundation in Harlem. The Republicans set the dogs on him every day of his

presidency. Bill Clinton will go down in history as the only white Southerner ever to move to Harlem for his own personal safety. 

• Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi spoke at the Democratic Convention in Chicago on Wednesday and got a huge ovation. We all appreciate her selflessness. I'm watching the Big Board like a hawk to figure out if Nancy shorted the stock market or bought long the day before she got rid of the president.

 • Kamala Harris backed a tax on unrealized capital gains along with raising top end tax rates. She backs Senator Elizabeth Warren's proposed Wealth Tax, which would slap a flat tax on the size of fortunes over $50 million. Kamala Harris is like Elizabeth Warren, except that Kamala is a real Indian.

• The Chicago police kept protestors at bay during the Democratic Convention by using aggressive tactics Democrats usually protest. Last week the Chicago Police issued an APB reporting they're searching for a white racist shooter with a flat-top hair cut. Next day, they received 200 job applications. 

• Tim Walz told the convention he designated Minnesota a sanctuary state Wednesday. That night the AP reported a Venezuelan illegal alien tried to get into the convention hall but was denied entry due to his lack of photo ID and no © 2024 Argus Hamilton credentials. He was handed a mail-in ballot and escorted out the door. 

• President Biden's post-convention speech flew to Santa Ynez for vacation. When most countries in this hemisphere overthrow their leaders in a coup, they put them in front of a firing squad. But this is America where we promise to put them on Mt. Rushmore and fly them off to wine country for two weeks.

Nobody's Buying Cow Farts in These Parts

  HotAir

"For all the joy being peddled by Cacklin' Kamala and the Fascist Fabulist, they're not really all that "fun." For all the rewriting of contemporary history to wipe away those unsightly burps in their resumes that either frighten voters, anger them immensely, or cause such fits of hilarity that take some time to subside, Americans are all-too familiar with who Ms Harris is. And are constantly bewildered by the kaleidoscopic web of background stories available as her running mate's biography fills out...and out.

"They are both pretty nasty, shallow pieces of work who have gotten away with skating by on the mediocrity of their beings for so long that they would rather we didn't dwell on such trifles.

"There are pretty new facades being erected for us to ooh and ah at.

"What I mean by that is the shift we've seen in Harris's evolving positions, and not from years ago - some from as late as this past spring. You'll remember the 87K new IRS agents the Biden-HARRIS administration hired after Harris's tiebreaking vote in the Senate? Part of the justification for those bazillions of new agents was to go after people who weren't reporting tips." . . .

CLIMATE CHANGE IS SO EXTREME WE HAVE TO BE ABSOLUTELY SILENT OR WE GET OUR ASTERISKS HANDED TO US  "That's a winning message there.

"And trust democrats, lunatic fanatics for control that they are, NOT to take the hint from the electorate that their climate policies are overreaching insanity based on pseudo-science and Green grifting fever-dreams.

"No, oh, Heavens, no.

"What Democrats and progressives take from those warning signals are to curl into fetal balls and hope the storm passes by, so they can emerge and inflict more pain on the country should they prevail in November.

"Oh, if they can only keep their yaps shut for another 70 days or so.

"Well, their partners in the grift aren't helping things one bit.

"It's not bad enough that the Eat the Bugs cabal is still agitating to take the meat off of your plate. As they can't do that immediately, in the interim, the same people who spaz about genetically modified grains want to genetically dicker with cattle so they don't fart.

Having Hamas for neighbors can really suck

So many Jewish people wanted to live in peace with a two-state solution. Not so much now after Gazans' thorough devastating visit to their Israeli neighbors' homes and lives. TD

Kibbutz Be'eri: Through the ruins | The Times of Israel "Experience the haunting aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Kibbutz Be’eri through a tour that unveils the devastation from a unique vantage point. Through immersive footage, the aftermath of the terrorist rampage that claimed many lives and inflicted widespread chaos unfolds. This short film is a testament to the community’s unimaginable loss and to the harrowing echoes of an event that forever altered the landscape of Kibbutz Be’eri and all of Israel."

Children of Kibbutz Be'eri recount trauma of Oct 7 massacre

Israel Again Destroys Slanderous Claims of 'Apartheid' and 'Genocide'  "Israel, the Jewish State labeled “apartheid” by its enemies, just sent Jewish soldiers to rescue an Israeli Muslim from Muslim captivity. That tells you all you need to know."

Jonathan Conricus

Civilians took me. They sold me to Hamas - Nili Margalit, freed hostage (Part 1)   “It was horrific. Totally. I froze.”

Nili Margalit, who endured the brutality of Hamas captivity in Gaza for nearly 50 days, describes the chilling experience of being kidnapped. 

RFK, Jr. Denounces Totalitarianism That Drove Him Out Of Democratic Party

The media is silent on Kennedy's words; their only emphasis is the attacks on RFK for supporting Trump. TD

 William A. Jacobson (legalinsurrection.com)

"My take: “It really was a watershed moment, potentially, in how people look at what is happening in our politics and the reality that a lot of us have come to, that there is such a deep corruption that it is almost impossible to have a fair election anymore.” W.A.J.

"Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s statement today was dramatic and poignant, but also sad, in calling out the primary rigging, lawfare, and manipulation that forced him out of the Democratic Party and off ballots, and installed Kamala Harris as nominee without any voting process.

"Here’s an excerpt:

“It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then, when a predictably bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same, shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor also without an election they installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate. My uncle and my father both relished debate. They prided themselves on their capacity go toe-to-toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas. They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days. This is profoundly undemocratic.”

"And another:

“What most alarms me isn’t how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs, or runs it candidates. What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control, and the weaponization of the federal agencies. When a U.S. President colludes with or outright coerces media companies to censor political speech, it is an attack on our most sacred right of free expression, and that’s the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest.” . . .

. . ." HUGE!!!!!!! Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Finally Admits Biden-Harris Regime Pressured Him to Censor Millions of Americans — ‘Regrets’ Colluding with the Regime!

 Infidel Bloggers Alliance

"However, Zuckerberg now admits that this was a grave mistake, as the story was not Russian disinformation, and the decision to demote it was influenced by government pressure." (Emphasis mine, TD)

"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now trying to save himself from the controversial relationship between his company and the Biden-Harris regime.

In a letter addressed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg throws the Biden-Harris regime under the bus.

He openly admitted that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was subjected to relentless pressure by the Biden administration to censor content related to COVID-19, even when the content was satirical or humorous, and the infamous Hunter Biden laptop.

Adam Schiff

The Meta CEO allegedly expressed deep ‘regret’ for not being more vocal in resisting the government’s demands, stating that “government pressure was wrong,” and he now recognizes that his company should have been more outspoken about the administration’s overreach. 

"In the letter, Zuckerberg detailed how senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, exerted consistent pressure on Meta’s teams to remove or suppress content that did not align with the regime’s narrative on COVID-19.

"This included posts that were clearly humorous or satirical.

"Zuckerberg’s letter also revealed another explosive detail: Meta’s decision to demote the New York Post’s bombshell story on the Biden family’s corruption in the lead-up to the 2020 election." . . .

UPDATE: Zuck: Yeah, Biden Pushed Us to Censor COVID Info – HotAir   . . ."Take note of the way that Zuckerberg says that he regrets complying "with certain demands." Not all of the demands, mind you. Just certain ones. Would Mr. Zuckerberg care to be a bit more specific about the items falling into each bucket? I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that to happen. He concludes by saying that things will be different going forward if the government makes similar requests.

"The government-requested censorship primarily falls into two categories here. One deals with supposed "misinformation" related to the government's response to the COVID pandemic. That was almost certainly the worst and potentially did the most damage. Anyone, including prominent virologists and other doctors who expressed the slightest skepticism over the early testing of the new mRNA vaccines, had their content "suppressed." . . .

Dan Quayle's only crime was misspelling potato

  Don Surber (substack.com)

. . ."He had more experience than Obama, but Obama was only running for president. Like Walz, Quayle served in the National Guard. A press that praises Walz for his National Guard service acted scandalized by Quayle’s." . . .

"As I watch the flamboyant antics of the marvelous Tampon Tim Walz skipping across the world stage to the seal-clapping applause of an idiot media, I recall how the media covered Dan Quayle, whose only crime was misspelling potato.

"He didn’t launder campaign money through Buddhist monks unlike Al Gore.

"He didn’t own a large hunk of a company that benefited directly from a war he promoted unlike Dick Cheney.

"He didn’t collect bribes from foreigners through his son, daughter and brothers unlike Joe Biden.

"And he certainly didn’t boast about fighting in a battle that he snuck out of — unlike Not A Command Sergeant Major Timmy Walz.

"No, Quayle was a decent fellow who struck fear in the hearts of Democrats for being young, good-looking and Republican. 

"The fear was not 4 more years of Reagan under George H.W. Bush; it was 16 after 8 years of Bush followed by 8 years of Quayle. The press cheered when Senator Lloyd Bentsen told Quayle in a vice presidential debate, “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.”

"This came after Tom Brokaw asked Quayle three times if he was experienced enough to take over as president.

"Quayle finally said, “I have far more experience than many others that sought the office of vice president of this country. I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. I will be prepared to deal with the people in the Bush administration, if that unfortunate event would ever occur.' ” . . .

Campus Stupidity, Useful Idiots, American Decline

  Lev Topor (timesofisrael.com) 

. . ."The first one being demoralization. It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years which requires to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy, to be exposed to the ideology of the enemy." . . .

  "Antisemitic expressions, calls to take action against Jews and pro-Jewish or pro-Israeli students, faculty members and visitors, have raised concerns among Jewish students and mainstream “sane” people in the United States after pro-terrorist movements like the Students for Justice in Palestine or Samidoun have begun protesting against Israeli self-defense actions in Gaza, following the deadly 7 October terrorist attack by Hamas. The recent protests on American university campuses, which have recently escalated to oppose university management, and even to occupy entire parts of university campuses and clash with law enforcement, are in a dangerous direction towards violence. Unless suppressed drastically, these self-proclaimed “peaceful” protests will lead to the radicalization of many students, and some of them are likely to act violently against Jews in the near future.

"Such demonstrations and organizing are not spontaneous and are likely organized by state actors who benefit from chaos in the United States. Such could be, as it has already been seen before, Russia, Iran, Qatar, and China. Whomever it may be, they sponsor and support antisemitic and pro-Palestinian organizations directly and indirectly by providing ideological, moral, technical, organizational, and even financial support to groups like the Students for Justice in Palestine or Samidoun. Those students who follow these groups and demonstrations which are by now may be referred to as riots, are ivy-league nurtured “useful idiots” who wrongly believe that Israel and/or the Jewish people suppress Gaza and the Palestinians. They are home-grown terror sympathizers playing a role in an international game of chess, played by antisemitism and hate. For this, they are indeed useful. What makes them “idiots” is the fact that most are students who are supposed to be educated by the seemingly best Universities in the United States. They are idiots because they fail. This is not education, and they are being used." . . .

Intellectual heft: Kamala Harris puts out ad against Trump, adding only chicken noises

 So very high school; just like Chris Coons bringing Kentucky Fried Chicken to a hearing that Attorney General Barr did not attend. Eating the chicken and faking the trembling angry voice was a nice effect. TD

Monica Showalter - American Thinker  Giggly Kamala Harris has always had a problem with people thinking she was stupid, a lightweight, a ditz, a non-thinker.

"After all, she was the daughter of a Stanford professor, but somehow she couldn't get into that school, even with affirmative action.

"And she got her start in politics at Willie Brown's knee, so to speak. It wasn't her brains she was selling when she 'dated' Willie.

"She's since done her best to dodge reporters and avoid interviews, doing only an informercial or two with her running mate, Tim Walz, and not releasing any policy programs.

"But her minions aren't doing nothing, particularly on matters of getting her campaign message out to voters. They released this campaign ad whose sole added content was chicken noises."

The Kamala Harris campaign has posted a video of former President Trump talking about debates and added chicken sounds to the clips. pic.twitter.com/oSLLmpslLq

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 26, 2024

 "No script, no explanation.

"I guess they were trying to mock President Trump, but the idiocy of the entire thing could only make one think that chicken noises are what passes for intellectual thought from the Harris camp.

"Seriously, what was that about?" . . .

It's actually pretty ironic. Because even as they mock him with animal sounds, they actually do steal his policy ideas, which they have done on more than one occasion, and offer them up as their own. That tells us a lot.

But what's left here in lieu of policy ideas is chicken noises.

What Have We Liberals Done to the West Coast?

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

What Have Progressives Done to the West Coast? - The New York Times  

"As Democrats make their case to voters around the country this fall, one challenge is that some of the bluest parts of the country — cities on the West Coast — are a mess.

"Centrist voters can reasonably ask: Why put liberals in charge nationally when the places where they have greatest control are plagued by homelessness, crime and dysfunction?

"I’ll try to answer that question in a moment, but liberals like me do need to face the painful fact that something has gone badly wrong where we’re in charge, from San Diego to Seattle. I’m an Oregonian who bores people at cocktail parties by singing the praises of the West, but the truth is that too often we offer a version of progressivism that doesn’t result in progress. 

"We are more likely to believe that “housing is a human right” than conservatives in Florida or Texas, but less likely to actually get people housed. We accept a yawning gulf between our values and our outcomes." Yet this NY Times writer is a soulmate of Democrats...

California is too woke for liberals - YouTube    @konagirl805 posted:  "The liberal woman in this video still doesn't get it... she should stay put she will definitely ruin wherever she might move to."

When Californians meet

Secret Service Agents Shove Civilians Out of the Way As Joe and Jill Continue Endless Vacation

 Bob Hoge – RedState "Biden's, we love you!"

WATCH Jill Biden's Secret Service roughly clear the people so she, Ashley and Hunter could shop while on vacation in Los Olivos, California with local police protection as well. 🤦‍♀️ Remember how Jill described feeling "POWER" as they clear freeways for her.😠 pic.twitter.com/1TAPPlKbgP

— Joni Job (@jj_talking) August 26, 2024

 "However, if you’re the Incredibly Shrinking President Joe Biden, who seems to be on permanent vacation at the taxpayer’s expense, these rules do not apply to you. Get out of the way, plebes! Watch as the Secret Service—whose reputation has deservedly taken a nosedive this summer—shoves regular Americans aside so Jill can go purchase another dress that looks like an ugly carpet: . . .

RealityBites

. . ."We’re in a dangerous time, when we don’t seem to have a functioning commander-in-chief. Our enemies are fully aware that our compromised, permanently off-duty president is not up to the job. Meanwhile, it’s fun to poke fun at Kamala Harris’ endless cackling and laugh-out-loud word salads, but on a more somber note, she has consistently proven that she is not ready for the position. No foreign leader is going to take her seriously; Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping are probably laughing in their boots at the thought of any confrontation with her. As clear-eyed, cold-hearted realists, they are more than aware that simply repeating “joy” and “happiness” does not a foreign policy make.

"The Democrats, led by their sniggering standard-bearer Nancy Pelosi, have engineered a coup, ousted a sitting president, and installed their preferred candidate. They may be craven and devious, but they either purposefully or by accident forgot to account for one thing: we need a competent leader in the White House during these dangerous times."