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“It is not true that all creeds and cultures are equally assimilable in a First World nation born of England, Christianity, and Western civilization. Race, faith, ethnicity and history leave genetic fingerprints no ‘proposition nation’ can erase." -- Pat Buchanan
Hmm, good to know that if I ever run for office (God save the country) I can appoint a Director of White Media in my campaign, to, I'm assuming, coordinate and poll and "spin" political issues and stories beneficial to Whites.“Imagine being so self-centered that you compare yourself to Jesus Christ and Nelson Mandela all within the span of little more than a week: that’s Donald Trump for you,” the Biden campaign’s director of Black media, Jasmine Harris, said in a statement.
“It is not true that all creeds and cultures are equally assimilable in a First World nation born of England, Christianity, and Western civilization. Race, faith, ethnicity and history leave genetic fingerprints no ‘proposition nation’ can erase." -- Pat Buchanan
THREAD: Trump indictment #1: Stormy Daniels hush money [Manhattan NYC]
Originally Posted by Occam's Banana
Trump said, referring to the people at the Monday hearing in Manhattan, “You had [Matthew] Colangelo... Remember this, Colangelo was a DOJ guy. He’s a Biden DOJ guy. Why is he in the Manhattan DA’s office trying the case?”
"That in itself is a conflict," Trump added.
In a press release from Bragg’s office from Dec. 5, 2022, Colangelo was designated as a New Senior Counsel. The release stated, “Colangelo, who most recently served as a senior official at the U.S. Department of Justice, will focus on the Office’s cases, policies, and strategies in housing and tenant protection and labor and worker protection.”
It then added that Colangelo would be involved in the “Office’s most sensitive and high-profile white-collar investigations" at the time. The New York Times also reported on the hiring.
Trump also said during the presser, “You have Pomerantz, Mark Pomerantz, he was Hillary Clinton's lawyer, Democrat National Committee's lawyer. He worked in Paul Weiss. He walked in and he took over the district attorney's office, nobody's ever seen anything like that, to prosecute Trump.”
Trump also said that the multiple cases against him are "all about election interference."
"This is all Biden-run things, meaning Biden and his thugs, because I don't know if he knows he's alive."
President Trump dares judge in Alvin Bragg case to jail him for violating gag order
"I am willing to sacrifice my Freedom for that worthy cause."
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaki...ge-to-jail-him
{The Post Millennial | 06 April 2024}
On Saturday, Donald Trump expressed that he would consider it a "great honor" to face imprisonment if he violated a gag order, signaling a heightened level of criticism directed towards New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and other judicial figures involved in the Alvin Bragg trial in New York.
On Monday, Merchan, the judge presiding over Trump's hush money trial scheduled to commence on April 15, broadened his gag order against Trump to encompass not only the judge's family but also the family of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Posting on his Truth Social account, Trump wrote, "Now, we have Merchan, who is not allowing me to talk, thereby violating the Law and the Constitution, all at once. It is so bad what he is trying to get away with - How was he even chosen for this case??? I heard he fought like hell to get it, and all of the rest of them also! If this Partisan Hack wants to put me in the "clink" for speaking the open and obvious TRUTH, I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela - It will be my GREAT HONOR. We have to Save our Country from these Political Operatives masquerading as Prosecutors and Judges, and I am willing to sacrifice my Freedom for that worthy cause. We are a Failing Nation, but on November 5th, we will become a Great Nation again. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Merchan previously imposed a gag order on Trump, preventing him from discussing witnesses, lawyers, court staff, or their families, after he made comments about the judge's daughter.
The judge's daughter, Loren Merchan, is associated with left-leaning politics and has been involved in the Biden-Harris campaign. Her company, Authentic Campaigns, Inc., has received substantial funding from Democratic sources aiming to oppose Trump.
She was also revealed to have an account on X that featured a profile picture of Trump behind bars as if he were in prison.
Media outlets have portrayed Loren Merchan, who is 34 years old, in a manner that undermines Trump's freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment.
On Friday, President Trump filed a motion seeking the recusal of Judge Juan Merchan due to his daughter's involvement in political activities.
Last edited by Occam's Banana; 04-07-2024 at 04:04 PM.
The Bastiat Collection · FREE PDF · FREE EPUB · PAPER Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
- "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
-- The Law (p. 54)- "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Government (p. 99)- "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
-- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)- "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
-- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)· tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito ·
The law of averages says he is probably going to end up in jail for something eventually. The list of charges and cases is so long it seems almost impossible he wins them all.
Well yeah if they kept slapping an overabundance of charges on any of us, eventually they could probably build a case.
Especially when their idea of justice involves starting out with the presumption of guilt and then trying to find a way to reach it.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honorable of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Last edited by nobody's_hero; 04-08-2024 at 07:22 AM.
This is getting silly.T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato
We Are Running Out of Time - Mini Me
Meanwhile still not in Jail
The Russians have videos of me doing crazy
biden director of black media ? WTF. Love to see em spin loss of power of dollar in past 2 1/2 decades
Do something Danke
LOL @ "the law of averages" having anything to do with it.
Averages don't matter when the dice are loaded.
Fewer than [half of] 1% of federal criminal defendants were acquitted in 2022
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-re...itted-in-2022/
{John Gramlich | 14 June 2023}
Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty this week to federal criminal charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents after his departure from the White House in 2021. The unprecedented charges against Trump and his subsequent plea raise the question: How common is it for defendants in federal criminal cases to plead not guilty, go to trial and ultimately be acquitted?
In fiscal year 2022, only 290 of 71,954 defendants in federal criminal cases – about 0.4% – went to trial and were acquitted, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the latest available statistics from the federal judiciary. Another 1,379 went to trial and were found guilty (1.9%).
The overwhelming majority of defendants in federal criminal cases that year did not go to trial at all. About nine-in-ten (89.5%) pleaded guilty, while another 8.2% had their case dismissed at some point in the judicial process, according to the data from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
These statistics include all defendants charged in U.S. district courts with felonies and serious misdemeanors, as well as some defendants charged with petty offenses. They do not include federal defendants whose cases were handled by magistrate judges or the much broader universe of defendants in state courts. Defendants who entered pleas of “no contest,” in which they accept criminal punishment but do not admit guilt, are also excluded. The 2022 federal fiscal year began Oct. 1, 2021, and ended Sept. 30, 2022.
The U.S. Justice Department indicted Trump earlier this month on 37 counts relating to seven criminal charges: willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, scheme to conceal, and false statements and representations.
Trump’s case is being heard in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where acquittal rates look similar to the national average. In fiscal 2022, only 12 of 1,944 total defendants in the Southern District of Florida – about 0.6% – were acquitted at trial. As was the case nationally, the vast majority of defendants in Florida’s Southern District (86.2%) pleaded guilty that year, while 10.7% had their cases dismissed.
It’s not clear from the federal judiciary’s statistics how many other defendants nationally or in the Southern District of Florida faced the same or similar charges that Trump is facing or how those cases ended.
Broadly speaking, however, the charges against Trump are rare. In fiscal 2022, more than eight-in-ten federal criminal defendants in the United States faced charges related to one of four other broad categories of crime: drug offenses (31%), immigration offenses (25%), firearms and explosives offenses (16%) or property offenses (11%). In Florida’s Southern District, too, more than eight-in-ten defendants faced charges related to these four categories.
Trump, of course, is not a typical federal defendant. He is the first former president ever to face federal criminal charges and is running for president again in 2024. The federal case against Trump is still in its early stages, and it’s unclear when – or whether – it will proceed to trial.
That's exactly how they do it. They slather on the charges ("three felonies a day"), accumulating longer potential terms of incarceration - so defendants (who do not have the effectively "infinite" resources available to the feds) are strongly incentivized to accept deals in which they plead "guilty" in order to reduce or avoid lengthier prison sentences (keeping in mind that there is no parole for federal convictions).
The only alternative is to imagine that federal prosecutors are (1) so extremely competent that they are able to win even the iffiest cases (so much so that even innocent defendants feel compelled to acquiesce), or (2) so extremely restrained that they only ever take on cases that are obvious "slam dunks" (so much so that even guilty defendants feel compelled to acquiesce).
Last edited by Occam's Banana; 04-09-2024 at 04:48 PM.
You're operating under the assumption that the Democrats actually want to put Trump in jail. That seems incredibly unlikely seeing as how the Democrats love making bank off him.
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."
Calvin Coolidge
Of course he will, or perhaps dead from stress or bankrupted.
It's all the same to the Sovietized lawfare system.
At the end of the day, if they can't prove anything, they'll just manufacture something.
I found my opinion of Trump rising quite a bit over this. He doesn't need any of this $#@!, but continues to press on.
“It is not true that all creeds and cultures are equally assimilable in a First World nation born of England, Christianity, and Western civilization. Race, faith, ethnicity and history leave genetic fingerprints no ‘proposition nation’ can erase." -- Pat Buchanan
Honestly I have no idea if they do or not anymore.
I think maybe he is pressing on with his campaign in hopes he can get immunity again or pardon himself. Who knows really. I never would have expected to have a Republican nominee with 90 indictments. If you told me that 4 years ago I would have laughed and said it was impossible.
[bold emphasis added]"The only alternative is to imagine that federal prosecutors are (1) so extremely competent that they are able to win even the iffiest cases (so much so that even innocent defendants feel compelled to acquiesce), or (2) so extremely restrained that they only ever take on cases that are obvious "slam dunks" (so much so that even guilty defendants feel compelled to acquiesce)." -- me (above)Fewer than [half of] 1% of federal criminal defendants were acquitted in 2022
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-re...itted-in-2022/
{John Gramlich | 14 June 2023}
[...]
That's exactly how they do it. They slather on the charges ("three felonies a day"), accumulating longer potential terms of incarceration - so defendants (who do not have the effectively "infinite" resources available to the feds) are strongly incentivized to accept deals in which they plead "guilty" in order to reduce or avoid lengthier prison sentences (keeping in mind that there is no parole for federal convictions).
The only alternative is to imagine that federal prosecutors are (1) so extremely competent that they are able to win even the iffiest cases (so much so that even innocent defendants feel compelled to acquiesce), or (2) so extremely restrained that they only ever take on cases that are obvious "slam dunks" (so much so that even guilty defendants feel compelled to acquiesce).
"Constitutionally prescribed jury trials have been almost completely displaced by plea-driven mass adjudication. As a result, prosecutors can be—and evidence shows have in fact become—far less discriminating in choosing which cases to pursue." -- Clark Nelly (below)
Judge Merchan Holds Donald Trump in Criminal Contempt for Gag Order Violations, Threatens Jail Time
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...er-violations/
30 Apr 2024
New York County Judge Juan Merchan has ruled that former President Donald Trump violated a gag order during his trial, holding him in criminal contempt and threatening him with jail time for any further infractions.
Merchan also ordered Trump to remove the “seven offending posts” from Truth Social.
“Defendant is hereby warned that the Court will not tolerate continued willful violations of its lawful orders and that if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, it will impose an incarceratory punishment,” the judge wrote in the order:
ORDERED, that Defendant pay a $1,000 fine for each of the nine violations of this Court’s lawful order by the close of business on Friday, May 3, 2024; and it is further ORDERED that Defendant remove the seven offending posts from Defendant’s Truth Social account and the two offending posts from his campaign website by 2:15pm Tuesday, April 30, 2024.
Merchan had the authority to send Trump to jail for up to 30 days for allegedly violating his gag order. Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg backed down from asking the judge to jail Trump for allegedly violating the order, according to court reporters.
“It is not true that all creeds and cultures are equally assimilable in a First World nation born of England, Christianity, and Western civilization. Race, faith, ethnicity and history leave genetic fingerprints no ‘proposition nation’ can erase." -- Pat Buchanan
Petty leftist-Marxist tyrants. Expect nothing but kangaroo courts and show-trials from these corrupt judges.
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Why does Trump keep doing this to himself? He need to just shut the $#@! up and take the cases seriously if he doesn't want to die in prison.
OMG who TF cares at this point.
The system is rigged. Welcome to the 20th century, everyone.
Trump promised to burn some of this nonsense to the ground. He didn't. He hired people who were responsible for it.
Now it's biting him in the rear.
Screw him.
There are no crimes against people.
There are only crimes against the state.
And the state will never, ever choose to hold accountable its agents, because a thing can not commit a crime against itself.
Yeah, that's pretty much where I'm at. Hard to follow the palace intrigue.
I'd be more impressed if he just came out and said, "Contempt?? I have contempt for this whole damned system!"
"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
You wish.
I know you do because I want it back too. If that were where I was at right now, I'd kiss the ground.
How about you, @Anti Federalist. Want the 20th Century back?
Last edited by acptulsa; 04-30-2024 at 01:00 PM.
I'm all in for a time machine.
Even if it hurts.
Last edited by sparebulb; 04-30-2024 at 01:06 PM.
In terms of his defense team or his administration appointees?
What’s funny is that Trump could easily burn this whole system down if he wanted to. As a former president, he has access to information and secrets that could easily bring the Deep State to its knees. Instead he won’t use ANY of it this election cycle because he wants to protect the system.
Last edited by Anti Globalist; 04-30-2024 at 01:51 PM.
$#@!...like you have to ask?You wish.
I know you do because I want it back too. If that were where I was at right now, I'd kiss the ground.
How about you, @Anti Federalist. Want the 20th Century back?
“It is not true that all creeds and cultures are equally assimilable in a First World nation born of England, Christianity, and Western civilization. Race, faith, ethnicity and history leave genetic fingerprints no ‘proposition nation’ can erase." -- Pat Buchanan
He wants to be a martyr.
He has said he'd be willing to go to prison over this.
“It is not true that all creeds and cultures are equally assimilable in a First World nation born of England, Christianity, and Western civilization. Race, faith, ethnicity and history leave genetic fingerprints no ‘proposition nation’ can erase." -- Pat Buchanan
There's the continuing Trump saga and there's the issue of how in the hell did it ever come to be that a judge can take away anyone's first amendment rights? Short of threats to kill someone, why shouldn't any defendant speak freely?
My two daughters and I were gang-raped by some of the Newcomers. It landed us in the hospital for 3 weeks as several bones were broken. I don't blame them, it was a sexual emergency and I wasn't about to go all white privilege and deny them the release they needed, especially after being stuck in a hotel for months. I see the Newcomers as family now. They are on our side and will help us stop Trump. It is a small price to pay. Anything but Trump.
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Gag rules started in the US Capital in the 1830s.
They were applied to, surprise surprise, those groups and people arguing against the abolition of slavery, after the pro slavery majority "tabled" petitions that were arriving from abolitionist states in New England and the North.
Nothing new under the sun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_rule_(United_States)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/gag_order
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinio...princess-anne/
Based on legal precedent, I think what is happening to Trump is grossly unconstitutional, especially considering that he is in the middle of a campaign, and "lawfare" is a legitimate and valid campaign issue.
“It is not true that all creeds and cultures are equally assimilable in a First World nation born of England, Christianity, and Western civilization. Race, faith, ethnicity and history leave genetic fingerprints no ‘proposition nation’ can erase." -- Pat Buchanan
Yet no court is moving agaisnt Biden or Hunter Biden....
That all needs to go. If it's not taken up as a court case, in order to overturn anything previous, it needs to be ignored, just as Trump is doing. A defendant should never have their first amendment rights restrained. It looks like Trump could be jailed over this. That would be interesting.
My two daughters and I were gang-raped by some of the Newcomers. It landed us in the hospital for 3 weeks as several bones were broken. I don't blame them, it was a sexual emergency and I wasn't about to go all white privilege and deny them the release they needed, especially after being stuck in a hotel for months. I see the Newcomers as family now. They are on our side and will help us stop Trump. It is a small price to pay. Anything but Trump.
-GLP poster
The whole thing's asinine. What he's charged with isn't even illegal.
My two daughters and I were gang-raped by some of the Newcomers. It landed us in the hospital for 3 weeks as several bones were broken. I don't blame them, it was a sexual emergency and I wasn't about to go all white privilege and deny them the release they needed, especially after being stuck in a hotel for months. I see the Newcomers as family now. They are on our side and will help us stop Trump. It is a small price to pay. Anything but Trump.
-GLP poster
This joke trial was designed from the start to go down in flames. They even built in some nepotism to help it fail more spectacularly in the end.
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