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Fundamentally Flawed Legal Premise
Donald Trump selling bibles should be a joke, except it speaks directly to his Evangelical base that embraces Trump as the savior of White Christian Nationalism.
Two days after expanding Trump's gag order to include family members of the court, the judge overseeing the hush money case denied Trump's attempt to delay the trial, saying the timing raised “real questions about the sincerity and actual purpose of the motion.” Meanwhile, the prosecutor in the classified documents case threatens to appeal to higher court for Judge Aileen Cannon's strange legal decisions and delays that give credence to Trump's “fundamentally flawed legal premise.”
The Hypocrisy of Rightwing Judges
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against states' rights, forcing Trump back on the Colorado ballot on the VERY SAME DAY that Trump's election interference trial was scheduled to start, but instead has been indefinitely delayed by the same Court.
Evangelical Christians and rightwing politicians have made appointing ultra-conservative judges the tip of the spear in their culture war against American multicultural democracy. Resulting in state and federal judges who routinely ignore the law and decades of precedent in order to make politically motivated rulings that attack our fundamental constitutional and legal protections. Today, the hypocrisy of the Supreme Court is further exposed when they fast tracked overturning Colorado's ruling that Trump violated the Insurrection Act, but indefinitely delayed his federal criminal prosecution for the very same crime.
A New Year, A New Lie
As we welcome the new year, we're also sure to welcome more of Trump's lies and hateful rhetoric. It's only a couple days into the year and Trump's hasn't disappointed.
Despite his own investigator debunking any instances of voter fraud, Trump is still undeterred and continuing with his baseless accusations. His argument against the Maine ruling barring him from 2024 ballot is that the Main Secretary of State “abused her discretion and relied on ‘untrustworthy evidence.’”
"An Out of Touch Lunatic"
With special counsel Jack Smith proposing that one of his three trials occur during the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Insurrection, Trump is acting like an animal trapped in a cage.
The former president's latest Truth Social post reeks of manic desperation saying, “Only an out of touch lunatic would ask for such a date, ONE DAY into the New Year, and maximum Election Interference with IOWA! Such a trial, which should never take place due to my First Amendment Rights, and massive BIDEN CORRUPTION, should only happen, if at all, AFTER THE ELECTION...” Coupled with Smith finally getting his hands on Trump's twitter data, it seems like the special counsel has clearly struck a nerve.
Free Speech DOES NOT Excuse Sedition
Trump's lawyers are in a bind. The only defense they're leaning on is the right to freedom of speech.
In a desperate grasp for any kind of defense of his seditious activity, Trump's team has sunk to using the most non-sensical argument yet. Trump will soon find out that free speech does not protect criminal activity. "There is no First Amendment privilege to commit crimes just because you did it by speaking," as former federal prosecutor Samuel Buell stated.
An Unprecedented Assault on Democracy
Trump and six uncharged co-conspirators knowingly lied about mass voter fraud as part of a detailed plan "to remain in power," despite knowing he had lost the election.
The four-count federal indictment includes conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, attempting to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiring against people’s civil right to have their vote counted. The indictment accuses Trump of orchestrating "an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy.”
Doubling Down on Documents Charges
The special counsel has added new charges on one of Trump's four ongoing investigations. The 37 criminal counts on the Classified Documents Case will now be 40.
When a third separate indictment about Trump's plot to overturn the 2020 election was expected, special counsel Jack Smith, instead, doubled down on a previous indictment. New evidence has been found that shows intentional acts on Trump's part to obstruct the recovery of the stolen classified documents he stashed in Mar-a-Lago. Specifically, IT and maintenance crew employees were forced to delete 45 days of security footage.
Third Indictment Looming
Donald Trump's lawyers met with special counsel Jack Smith after receiving a letter last week notifying Trump that he was the target of an investigation on the plan to overturn the 2020 election.
Although no indictments were charged on Thursday, this will be the third separate case charging Trump when indictments are returned. All signs are pointing to a bad outcome for the former president. From Rudy Guiliani, Trump's former lawyer, admitting to lying about election fraud in Georgia; to Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, cooperating with the federal Jan. 6 investigation.
Caught on Camera
The search warrant authorizing the search of Trump's residence lists video evidence that his indicted valet moved boxes in order to hide classified documents from Trump's own attorney and the FBI.
As the evidence mounts on Trump's efforts to obstruct justice and his refusal to turn over federal documents, the special prosecutor has been targeting Trump's lawyers Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and John Eastman for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. It has also been recently revealed that Trump's senior advisor Mike Roman and former lawyer Rudy Giuliani are cooperating with federal prosecutors.
Caught on Tape
The former President was recorded telling members of his staff about classified documents that he took after his term about a military offensive on Iran.
Trump just cannot seem to stop confessing to his crimes on tape. This conversation, which originally occurred in 2021, clearly lays out Trump's line of thinking and his obvious disregard for the law. In the tape, Trump confessed to not only knowingly taking the classified documents after the end of his term, but still deliberately showing "secret information" to staffers who didn't have the clearance. Then, he again brags about how he could have declassified it as president, but not anymore.