We now have coming the fourth indictment of Donald Trump in the Lawfare aimed at blocking him from the presidency. I tend to agree with him that the 2020 election was stolen but that is another topic.
What about the latest indictment ? Kim Strassel explains.
Take Mr. Trump out of the equation and consider more broadly what even the New York Times calls Mr. Smith’s “novel approach.” A politician can lie to the public, Mr. Smith concedes. Yet if that politician is advised by others that his comments are untruthful and nonetheless uses them to justify acts that undermine government “function,” he is guilty of a conspiracy to defraud the country. Dishonest politicians who act on dubious legal claims? There aren’t enough prisons to hold them all.
For example, Barak Obama in 2009 telling Americans and the AMA, “If you like your doctor, you can keep him.” We know that advisors told him that was a lie.
Let’s take another indictment. The Mar a Lago raid and indictment.
CNN’s version of the indictment.
Presidents can and do have access to any information the government possesses, and the government has a legitimate need to keep some secrets about intelligence gathering and defense capabilities, including its nuclear arsenal.
The US Intelligence Community is comprised of 18 distinct agencies, including the CIA and the National Security Agency and elements of the Department of Defense.
This new, superseding indictment adds allegations of violating a section of US law with regard to tampering with evidence.
Interestingly, the indictment was by a DC grand jury but the case will be tried in Florida. Why ?
The Presidential Records Act says “Establishes that Presidential records automatically transfer into the legal custody of the Archivist as soon as the President leaves office.”
But Trump’s records were not. Why? Did he pack up those 15 boxes of records by himself ? I have read that NARA, the Archives, refused to accept them. I can’t find a link to that story but NARA seems to have been very involved in this case from the start. I have also read that the disputed records concerned the Russia Hoax. Perhaps Trump feared another Sandy Burglar event.
Then, of course, we find out that Biden, who did not have legal access, had classified records from his time as a Senator which he was not allowed to have.
Then we have the Alvin Bragg indictment. This may be the most ridiculous although the coming indictment in Georgia might be the most comical.
Alvin Bragg’s case against Donald Trump is running into a wall of skepticism — including from left-leaning legal experts, liberal pundits and some of Trump’s Republican detractors who have otherwise been eager to see him held accountable.
A day after the Manhattan district attorney unveiled the history-making charging documents against the former president, some of Bragg’s natural allies were left scratching their heads and Trump world appeared emboldened by the uncertainties in the case.
In Georgia, mean while,
It’s a marvel of the American judicial system that Emily Kohrs, a 30-year-old woman who has described herself as between customer service jobs and who said she didn’t vote in the 2020 presidential election, could play a pivotal role in the potential indictment of a former US president.
Anyway, the continued legal harassment by Biden’s DoJ has illustrated the lack of a sense of irony in this regime. Anthony Blinken just spoke about how outrageous it was for Putin to arrest his political rival.