Sunday, June 02, 2024

"powerline's John Hinderaker: indict all dems"

By An Old Friend
sunday, june 2, 2024 at 05:12:11 p.m. edt

"powerline's John Hinderaker: indict all dems"

Trump's conviction in that NYC kangaroo court has generated enormous commentary about a Rubicon being crossed in American history, etc.  No question about this.

Among the most striking I've read in this genre are the two short pieces below, from successive days, by John Hinderaker, one of the retired lawyers who writes at the PowerLine blog.  They're especially striking because, as Mark Steyn says, Hinderaker is "the soul of moderation," and Steyn was reacting to the first article below.

Besides the two brief Hinderaker pieces, I've appended furthest below the modestly longer powerline entry by Hinderaker's colleague and fellow retiree Scott Johnson. It, too, is powerful. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/05/guilty.php

posted on may 30, 2024BY John Hinderaker 

guilty

A grotesquely biased jury of Trump-haters, led by a judge who put service to his party above his judicial responsibilities, has returned guilty verdicts against Donald Trump on all 34 counts with which he was–absurdly–charged.

What this shows is that the most important variable in any case is who decides it. Here, the Democrats knew that they could impanel a rabidly anti-Trump jury in Manhattan, so they did so. It is very much like the lawsuit that Michael Mann brought against Mark Steyn and others, of which I observed some of the latter stages. The defendants were properly happy about how the trial had gone, but the facts didn't matter. The Democrats had chosen the right venue, Washington, D.C., and a biased jury found for Mann. Same thing here.

What to do now? First, it is now absolutely essential that Trump be elected president. The Democrats cannot be allowed to get away with this effort to turn America into a banana republic.

Second, the Democrats understand nothing except the raw exercise of power. Therefore, Republican attorneys general and district attorneys should bring criminal charges against Democratic officeholders wherever possible. No Democratic officeholder should be allowed to retire, in any jurisdiction with Republican law enforcement, without facing criminal charges. There can't be a single Democratic official in America against whom a criminal case can't be brought that is better than this case against Trump. It should be open season on Democrats in the criminal courts.

Third, the criminal prosecutions should begin with Joe Biden. Unlike Trump, Biden is actually a criminal. He is already known to be guilty under the federal bribery statute. If Trump wins in November, his Department of Justice should immediately indict Biden, and Biden should be hounded until the day he dies or goes to prison, whichever happens first.

Of course, Republicans face a disadvantage that Democrats don't. Some cases, including, I assume, a criminal prosecution of Biden, would have to be brought on the Democrats' home turf, Washington, D.C. If that is the case, so be it: as Mark Steyn says, the process is the punishment. Biden likely would not live long enough to face a jury in any case. And attorneys general in states like Texas, Florida, South Dakota, etc., should look into whether Biden's taking of bribes or other actions could qualify as crimes under their states' laws. After all, if Alvin Bragg can prosecute Donald Trump for federal campaign finance violations that he didn't commit, another state official can likely find grounds to prosecute Biden for bribery, which he did commit.
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2 comments:

  1. But we all wait for the sentencing,which in my opinion will not be jail time--as it shouldn't.If however,Merchan sends President Trump to prison for say,six months,I expect Whites to rise up,martial law to be declared on Whites and the election "delayed".The commies are pushing the envelope.We'll see how much we push back to save this,so called,"democracy".

    --GRA

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  2. "It's a principle called Game Theory. When your opponent breaks a norm you need to answer in-kind to either restore balance or act as deterrence against further breaking of norms. Applied here it means that if the right does nothing there is no reason for the left to stop."

    Correct. They will not stop with Don. They are after everyone that even for a second thinks that maybe the election was stolen or that the President got a fair trial. The Republicans MUST fight back. Mitt Romney types cannot be allowed to play nice.

    "Your attitude is noticed."

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