Wednesday, May 08, 2024

Stormy Daniels' ex-attorney says she extorted the money out of then-candidate Trump

By N.S.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/stormy-daniels-disgraced-ex-attorney-203322282.html

You know, I have a scorecard, and yet I still can't keep track of the teams. It seems like players from one team are pinch-hitting for the other guys.



central kansas, USA, summer, 2076 ad (video)

By Merlin
wednesday, may 8, 2024 at 02:20:15p.m. edt

Now that he's damaged for life from being "vaccinated," Chris Cuomo, aka Fredo, is taking and advocating for ivermectin


wednesday, may 8, 2024 at 02:46:40p.m. edt

Chris Cuomo is now taking and advocating for ivermectin.


Now that he's damaged for life from being "vaccinated."

"You can't fix stupid." - Ron White


 



One of the great philosophies from a great American philosopher, Ron White
www.youtube.com

Bombshell: google (and youtube) funded covid-19 bioweapon development, study reveal

By Prince George's County ex-Pat
wednesday, may 8, 2024 at 09:29:33 a.m. edt

Bombshell: google (and youtube) funded covid-19 bioweapon development, study reveals – naturalnews.com

https://naturalnews.com/2024-05-07-bombshell-google-youtube-funded-covid19-bioweapon-study.html

Don’t laugh.

It’s a well known “secret” that google was funded in part by darpa.



“Trust the science”: astrazeneca withdraws covid vaccine worldwide

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
wednesday, may 8, 2024 at 08:54:45 a.m. edt

astrazeneca withdraws covid vaccine worldwide — rt world news

N.S.: And yet, clot shot fanatics continue to tar realists as "conspiracy theory believers." https://www.rt.com/news/597210-astrazeneca-withdraws-covid-vaccine-worldwide/

“Trust the science.”



"DC council candidate has car stolen while putting up campaign posters"!

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
wednesday, may 8, 2024 at 08:47:53 a.m. edt

DC council candidate has car stolen while putting up campaign posters

https://wjla.com/news/local/washington-dc-crime-council-candidate-car-stolen-while-putting-up-campaign-posters-northwest-dc-carjacking-car-theft

Home sweet home.



Totalitarian “rep. Jerrold Nadler omits 'the people' from the second amendment”

By N.S.

https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/08/rep-nadler-omits-the-people-from-the-second-amendment/



classical music alters the brain

By N.S.
wednesday, may 8, 2024 at 02:43:06 p.m. edt

classical music alters the brain

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/classical-music-alters-the-brain-heres-how-5632847



negro boyfriend arrested after mother of 5 found dead in woods near Livingston, Polk county sheriff says; family calls for justice

wednesday, may 8, 2024 at 06:45:45 p.m. edt

negro boyfriend arrested after mother of 5 found dead in woods near Livingston, Polk county sheriff says | family calls for justice

Crapping in eden: "idaho is the new 'red state' haven where residents of some of America's most liberal cities are now fleeing to escape crime and chaos"; but they are bringing housing inflation, traffic congestion, and democrat politics with them

By N.S.

"this state has become one of the fastest growing in the nation since 2018

"residents from california, oregon and Washington state are the ones fleeing"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13392619/red-state-residents-rushing-Democrat-cities-California.html



Under new house goper bill, college nazis would be sent to the gaza strip

By N.S.

"college anti-Israel agitators would be sent to gaza under new house gop bill"

https://nypost.com/2024/05/08/us-news/college-anti-israel-agitators-could-be-sent-to-gaza-under-new-house-gop-bill/



‘squad’ rep. Jamaal Bowman had secret youtube page subscribed to videos by cop-killing mass murderer of Whites, Louis Farrakhan

By N.S.

https://nypost.com/2024/05/08/us-news/jamaal-bowman-had-a-secret-youtube-page-and-it-shows-hes-addicted-to-conspiracy-theories-report/



Meet Alexsandr Dugin (interview video with Tucker Carlson)

Re-posted by N.S.





Between these mopes, whom do you root for?

Re-posted by N.S.





When the whole world seems to be slipping away (graphic humor)

Re-posted by N.S.





More success from black parenting: persistent theft prompts yet another walgreen's closure

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
wednesday, may 8, 2024 at 03:08:13 p.m. edt

persistent theft prompts walgreen's closure in Maryland's white oak shopping center

https://wjla.com/news/local/walgreens-closure-white-oak-shopping-center-montgomery-county-rising-theft-crime-robbery-violence-assault-robbed-maryland-dmv



Katie Hobbs and her friends

Re-posted by N.S.





After years of issuing him constant free crimes, including alleged rapes, portland, oregon police finally arrest crime machine Zachary "cadillac" Andrews, and da finally has him charged for alleged rapes, going back to 2021!


["dusky serial rapist in the progressive paradise of pdx targets homeless women...also made attempts at strangulation...budding serial killer?"]

By Jerry PDX

"former mma fighter ‘cadillac’ charged with raping 3 portland women; police believe others may have been attacked"

"Andrews, who told booking deputies last year that he uses meth and fentanyl daily and was homeless, is charged in separate attacks on three women on oct. 24, 2021, march 29, 2022, and oct. 1, 2022. each of the women also was homeless at the time.

"the women reported the attacks within hours or days, had visible signs of being choked, scratched and bruised and submitted dna samples for testing, prosecutors said in an affidavit.

"but Andrews wasn’t charged until last month. a portland police bureau spokesperson said investigators worked assiduously to gather evidence and build the strongest case possible.

“'in no way should the time between the assaults and arrest suggest inaction by our detectives,' spokesperson Mike Benner said in a statement. 'they spent a tremendous amount of time just working to locate the victims and encourage them to cooperate in the investigation.'”

“Multnomah county circuit judge David Rees last thursday ordered Andrews held without bail. U.S. marshals arrested Andrews in portland april 24.”

N.S.: It is absolutely the case that the time between the alleged rapes (2021) and arrest was due to inaction by the ppb's detectives, and Multnomah county prosecutors. Had Andrews been White, they would have arrested and vigorously prosecuted him, back in 2021.


“Zachary L. Andrews is shown here in recent booking photos. portland police bureau”



another Trump trial derailed: Fani-donating judge’s decision to keep her on rico trial under scrutiny by appeals court

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
wednesday, may 8, 2024 at 1:02:00 p.m. edt

“(zh) another Trump trial derailed: Fani-donating judge’s decision to keep her on rico trial under scrutiny by appeals court

GRA: Both Fani Willis’ and judge Scott McAfee’s objectivity and competence in the Trump election case will be looked at by Georgia’s court of appeals. President Trump NEEDS this news badly, as his body language has been been poor the last few days (hunched over, understandable, considering the intense pressure, plus having to show up daily for court, at age 78.)

--GRA

N.S.: They’re trying both to kill him, via a stroke or heart attack, and cause him to lose the election, through constant interference.

I realize that sounds illogical, but we’re dealing with illogical people, on par with former nation of islam/new black panthers leader Khalid Muhammad, who said he wanted to deal with dead White apartheid leaders by “dig[ging] them up, and kill[ing] them again!”



Tuesday, May 07, 2024

"breaking: judge postpones start of Trump classified documents trial indefinitely — likely pushing it past election"

By N.S.

https://nypost.com/2024/05/07/us-news/judge-delays-start-of-trump-classified-documents-trial-indefinitely/



"exclusive: granddaughter of sculptor behind defaced nyc wwi monument calls anti-Israel vandals ‘idiots’: ‘just don’t understand history’"

By N.S.

“granddaughter of sculptor behind defaced nyc wwi monument calls anti-Israel vandals ‘idiots’: ‘just don’t understand history’” “‘good God. unbelievable. what a time we’re living in,’ Faith Runner, 76, told the post on tuesday when learning of the graffiti and anti-Israel stickers plastered on late grandfather Karl...”

https://nypost.com/2024/05/07/us-news/kin-of-sculptor-behind-defaced-nyc-wwi-monument-calls-anti-israel-vandals-idiots/



Pull: "fbi file on Jeff Bezos' grandfather, a darpa co-founder, has been destroyed"

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
tuesday, may 7, 2024 at 11:52:40 p.m. edt

"fbi file on Jeff Bezos' grandfather, a darpa co-founder, has been destroyed"

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/fbi-file-jeff-bezos-grandfather-darpa-co-founder-has-been-destroyed

DARPA.

Bezos is a major defense contractor.

That is why amazon opened a second hq in suburban Virginia.

Had to be closer to all the action and grifting on the Hill.

Now he can stuff Amazon Web Services with your Amazon purchasing habits.

And then share it with the Feds.

Ditto for Elon Musk.

At least Elon has better taste in women.

Bezos's "girlfriend" started out banging men of color.

And then she moved up the genetic food chain to banging a white guy.

But she still acts and looks like a cholo's girlfriend.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Jeff+Bezos%27s+girlfriend&form=HDRSC3&first=1





study: covid-19 spike proteins help cancer cells survive and resist chemotherapy

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
tuesday, may 7, 2024 at 10:43:58 p.m. edt

study: covid-19 spike proteins help cancer cells survive and resist chemotherapy

https://wltreport.com/2024/05/07/study-covid-19-spike-proteins-helpncer-cells/



"academics use imaginary data in their research; academia values the appearance of truth over actual truth" (video)

By N.S.

https://reason.com/video/2024/05/07/academics-use-imaginary-data-in-their-research/



“Key Trump witness says, ‘Donald Trump did not direct payments to Michael Cohen’”; are his life and liberty now in danger?


[“black supremacist manhattan criminal advocate Alvin Bragg seeks to convict the president simply of winning the 2016 election.”]

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
tuesday, may 7, 2024 at 1:51:00 a.m. edt

GRA: If the jury is impartial, he should be exonerated.

“(zh) a witness in former [sic] President Donald Trump’s new york ‘hush money’ trial on monday appeared to confirm his attorneys’ claims that payments at the center of the case were legal expenses and that he was not personally directed by the former [sic] president to make those payments.

“former Trump organization controller Jeffrey McConney testified monday that payments that were sent to former attorney Michael Cohen were legal expenses, confirming defense attorneys’ arguments.

“‘Michael Cohen was a lawyer?’ Trump defense attorney Emil Bove asked Mr. McConney. ‘Sure, yes,’ he replied.

“‘And payments to lawyers by the Trump organization are legal expenses, right?’ asked Mr. Bove. ‘Yes,’ said Mr. McConney.

“later, Mr. McConney said that President Trump and Trump organization official Allen Weisselberg never told him to log the payments to Mr. Cohen as legal expenses.

“‘President Trump did not ask you to do any of the things you just described?’ the attorney then asked. ‘He did not,’ mr. McConney replied.

“‘And as far as you know, President Trump did not ask anyone to do those things?’ Mr. Bove continued. ‘In none of the conversations that you had with Weisselberg, did he suggest that President Trump had told him to do these things?’ he also asked.

“‘Allen never told me that,’ mr. McConney said.

“little contact with Cohen
“Mr. McConney said his interactions with Mr. Cohen were ‘minimal.’ he said that other than emails about invoices, he never spoke to mr. Cohen about the reimbursement arrangement.’”

--GRA


N.S.: If the jury acquits the President, black supremacist manhattan criminal advocate Alvin Bragg will immediately set about railroading Jeffrey McConney for perjury. And if the jury convicts the President...black supremacist manhattan criminal advocate Alvin Bragg will immediately set about railroading Jeffrey McConney for perjury.

It’s like you said a day or two ago, GRA: They seek to railroad anyone “even peripherally” supportive of the President.



"Bill Gates admits the shots contain nanotech"

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
tuesday, may 7, 2024 at 05:44:26 p.m. edt

"Bill Gates admits the shots contain nanotech"

https://www.infowars.com/posts/bill-gates-admits-the-shots-contain-nanotech



Did Boeing murder whistleblower?

By "W"
tuesday, may 7, 2024 at 12:39:52 p.m. edt

"Was Boeing whistleblower's death a murder staged as suicide?"

from: "John Leake from courageous discourse with Dr. Peter McCullough & John Leake" <petermcculloughmd@substack.com>

date: mon, may 6, 2024 at 7:53 p.m. edt


"Was Boeing whistleblower's death a murder staged as suicide?"

"circumstances and pistol found in victim's right hand are extremely suspicious."

By John Leake
may 6
 
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The purportedly self-inflicted gunshot death of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett on March 9, 2024 is extremely suspicious. Just reviewing a report from a local, Charleston S.C. news station, I noted the following:

Barnett's attorneys, Law Office of Robert M. Turkewitz, LLC and Brian Knowles of Knowles Law Firm, PC, released the following statement Tuesday afternoon:

John was a brave, honest man of the highest integrity. He cared dearly about his family, his friends, the Boeing company, his Boeing co-workers, and the pilots and people who flew on Boeing aircraft. We have rarely met someone with a more sincere and forthright character.

In the course of his job as a quality manager at Boeing South Carolina, John learned of and exposed very serious safety problems with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and was retaliated against and subjected to a hostile work environment, which is the subject of his pending AIR-21 case.

John was in the midst of a deposition in his whistleblower retaliation case, which finally was nearing the end. He was in very good spirits and really looking forward to putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on. We didn't see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it.

We are all devastated. We need more information about what happened to John. The Charleston police need to investigate this fully and accurately and tell the public what they find out. No detail can be left unturned.

Police confirmed Barnett was found in his orange 2015 Dodge Ram truck dead from a gunshot wound to the head Saturday morning. Police were sent to the Holiday Inn on Savannah Highway shortly before 10:20 a.m. to perform a welfare check, Sgt. Anthony Gibson said. An incident report states a friend named Rob, who has been confirmed as Rob Turkewitz one of Barnett's attorneys, called the hotel to request that they check on Barnett.

Hotel employees knocked on the door to his hotel room but after they did not get an answer, they checked the parking lot for the vehicle the friend described and made the discovery, the report states.

Barnett's truck was in the hotel's back parking lot, an incident report states. An orange truck was located Tuesday at an impound lot in North Charleston. The woman working the counter said the truck had Louisiana plates and was the subject of a police hold.

Charleston County Coroner Bobbi Jo O'Neal said Barnett died Saturday "from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound." Police said Barnett had a silver handgun in his right hand with his finger still on the trigger and had suffered an apparent gunshot wound to his right temple.

The last sentence above, which I highlighted in bold, raises the suspicion that John Barnett was murdered, and his murder was staged to appear to be a suicide. If a contact gunshot wound was found in this case, law enforcement should NOT assume it is necessarily evidence of suicide. A skilled assassin may succeed in getting muzzle contact when he fires the shot.

Had Barnett fired the shot into his right temple, it is unlikely the pistol would be found in his right hand. The combination of recoil, gravity, and his right hand going limp when the shot fired into his brain would have likely resulted in the pistol separating from his hand. That his finger was still on the trigger is highly suggestive of staging.

John Barnett: One of his friends has stated that he told her, "I ain't scared, but anything happens to me, it's not suicide."

I happen to be familiar with the literature on murders staged as suicides. Vernon J. Geberth—a retired Lieutenant-Commander of the New York City Police Department—has published extensively on this phenomenon. His paper Equivocal Death and Staged Crime Scene presents some basic elements of this type of crime.

I recently published a book about a series of gunshot deaths that happened in Dallas in the seventies and eighties. In two of the cases I investigated, the Dallas County Medical Examiner ruled the deaths suicides. However, as I show in my book, the evidence displayed in crime scene photos and the totality of circumstances reveal that the Medical Examiner made these rulings in error. In fact, both victims were murdered and their murders were staged to look like suicides.

I recently produced a documentary film in which I present the evidence that led me to draw this conclusion. Like Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, the second victim—a forty-year-old woman named Betsy Bagwell—was found shot to death in her car with the revolver in her right hand. Betsy Bagwell's death—presented at 33:27 in my documentary—is an illustrative example of how a murder may be committed in the victim's car and staged to look like a suicide.

I hope that John Barnett's family and attorneys have obtained copies of the police crime scene photos and all other documentation of Mr. Barnett's death and are having these analyzed by independent forensic experts.




 




 





Another "blackface" hoax: "Expelled students win $1 million for 'blackface' that wasn't blackface"


[“White genocide sports site, deadspin, slammed after accusing nine-year-old chiefs fan of ‘hating’ blacks and injuns”;

“family of 9-year-old kansas city chiefs fan accused of blackface sues deadspin for defamation”; and

“Two at deadspin and Six at variety win the Duranty-Blair award for journalistic infamy.”]

"Expelled students win $1 million for 'blackface' that wasn't blackface"

"racial insanity is out of control in America, and this single case of 'blackface' that wasn't actually blackface epitomizes how stupid the wokeness has become ..."

https://www.wnd.com/2024/05/expelled-students-win-1-million-blackface-wasnt-blackface/



Whaddy'he do, kill someone?! nigerian prince George's co. judge removed by Maryland supreme court over office misconduct

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
tuesday, may 7, 2024 at 03:26:58 p.m. edt

nigerian prince George's co. judge removed by Maryland supreme court over office misconduct

https://wjla.com/news/local/prince-georges-circuit-court-april-ademiluyi-judge-removed-by-maryland-supreme-court-historic-judicial-disabilities-effective-immediately-hearing-misconduct-election-judciial-disabilities-nomination

nigerian?

Or ethiopian?

Regardless, another Turd World parasite.



dusky serial rapist in the progressive paradise of pdx targets homeless women...also made attempts at strangulation...budding serial killer?


[“21-year-old mexican tracked his friend’s stolen vehicle to a cloverleaf area chop shop—and then they murdered him.”]

By Jerry PDX
tuesday, may 7, 2024 at 8:20:00 p.m. edt

dusky serial rapist in the progressive paradise of pdx targets homeless women...also made attempts at strangulation...budding serial killer?

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2024/05/former-mma-fighter-cadillac-charged-with-raping-3-portland-women-police-seek-more-victims.html

Looks like a black mixed with something else, maybe mex. he was homeless himself, a drug user and had a criminal history. he’s using the black rape defense: They wanted it! Bit—es liked it rough.

Only 32 years old, former mma fighter, he’ll be out plenty young enough to rape more.



The beauty and the beast (Graphic)

Re-posted by N.S.





21-year-old mexican tracked his friend's stolen vehicle to a Cloverleaf area chop shop--and then they murdered him

By A Texas Reader
tuesday, may 7, 2024 at 06:51:23 p.m. edt

"21-year-old mexican killed after finding friend's stolen vehicle at cloverleaf area chop shop, deputies say"

https://abc13.com/post/brownsville-street-shooting-shawn-mireles-death-jorge-zuniga-martnez-charged-shots-fired-east-harris-county-chop-shop/14779770/



black supremacist Stephen A. Smith, fan-boy of cop-killer Louis Farrakhan, leader of the murderous nation of islam, which has slaughtered at least 100 Whites, asserts that no White can call him a “racist”

By N.S.

“The List: Updated List of Nation of Islam Attacks on Whites”

https://thezebraproject.blogspot.com/2020/08/updated-list-of-nation-of-islam-attacks.html

“Stephen A. Smith snaps back at former mlb pitcher who called him ‘racist’ for blasting Mike Trout after injury”

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/stephen-a-smith-snaps-back-former-mlb-pitcher-called-him-racist-blasting-mike-trout-after-injury



the boys scouts, rip

By N.S.

"boy scouts take final woke step, announce incredible name change"

"'pretty soon it will be run by drag queens and called twerk camp'"

https://www.wnd.com/2024/05/boy-scouts-take-final-step-wokeness-announce-incredible-name-change/



Monday, May 06, 2024

n. va: pix of dusky guy arrested for bank robberies, drug store holdups

By "W"
wednesday, may 1, 2024 at 11:59:19 p.m. edt

n.va: pix of dusky guy arrested for bank robberies, drug store holdups

I kinda knew when I read the news alert that it wouldn't be an Amish teen gone wild: https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/updated-man-charged-in-string-of-bank-and-drug-store-robberies-in-prince-william-stafford/article_df30754a-0729-11ef-82a9-17639729eff1.html



Transcript of Eva Vlaardingerbroek speech at cpac hungary

By "W"
friday, may 3, 2024 at 03:27:08 p.m. edt

Transcript of Eva Vlaardingerbroek speech at cpac hungary

If I already sent this, I apologize. But it wouldn't hurt to hear and read her powerful remarks again:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/04/27/eva_vlaardingerbroek_at_cpac_hungary_the_great_replacement_is_no_longer_a_theory_its_reality.html

But it wouldn't hurt to hear and read her powerful remarks again:

"Eva Vlaardingerbroek at cpac hungary: the great replacement is no longer a theory, it's reality"



former baltimore "prosecutor" seeks preemptive pardon from brandon

By "W"
monday, may 6, 2024 at 02:56:27 a.m. edt

"former baltimore 'prosecutor' seeks preemptive pardon from brandon"

I should have added that she has a "sister" in chicongo state's atty kim foxx:

https://www.cookcountystatesattorney.org/about/kimberly-foxx

not seeking reelection in 2024. note her handling of jussie smollett case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkpAhsKXoQ

she did persecute the 6 cops who had to deal with freddie gray

"ex-baltimore prosecutor seeks Biden pardon from 40-year sentence" | headline usa

(Molly Bruns, headline usa) "Marilyn Mosby, former district attorney of baltimore, Maryland, has requested a pree..."



One of Barack's sons gone wild? family identifies Houston attorney as man killed after trying to calm angry customer at McDonald’s off Katy freeway

By A Texas Reader
monday, may 6, 2024 at 09:43:44 p.m. edt

Brown bear ruins child’s birthday eating ducklings in its enclosure in front of them

By R.C.
monday, may 6, 2024 at 09:53:47 p.m. edt

Brown bear ruins child’s birthday eating ducklings in its enclosure in front of them

https://www.audacy.com/krld/news/national/brown-bear-ruins-childs-birthday-eating-ducklings-enclosure?json?

It wasn’t a black bear?



man dead after crashing into white house fence

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
monday, may 6, 2024 at 11:41:00 p.m. edt

abc7

GRA: I guess we won’t be seeing Hunter Biden anymore.

--GRA



dusky doings dept: mr. Polite's gun doesn't go off when he tries to shoot pastor Germany

By N.S.
monday, may 6, 2024 at 10:58:52 p.m. edt

dusky doings dept: mr. Polite's gun doesn't go off when he tries to shoot pastor Germany

God's Will be done...or something:

“man tries to shoot pastor during service livestream; suspect’s relative is later found dead

“Bernard Junior Polite, 26, told Glenn Germany he was ‘hearing voices’ that told him to shoot him on sunday. Pennsylvania state police said ‘the firearm failed to discharge.’”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-attempts-shoot-pennsylvania-pastor-sermon-livestream-suspects-rela-rcna150817



former Maryland lacrosse star Callum Robinson among surfers found dead in mexico

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
monday, may 6, 2024 at 08:34:06 p.m. edt

former Maryland lacrosse star Callum Robinson among surfers found dead in mexico

https://wjla.com/news/local/callum-robinson-maryland-lacrosse-player-star-stevenson-university-chesapeake-bay-hawks-annapolis-missing-dead-american-surfers-mexico-trip-jake-murder-baja-penisula-truck-stolen-tires

“There are jobs that Americans won’t do.”



black supremacist manhattan criminal advocate Alvin Bragg seeks to convict the president simply of winning the 2016 election


N.S.: Alex Berenson is assuming that the one-sided game democrats are playing is dangerous. But how? republicans never match fire with fire, so democrats have nothing to worry about. Note how, with all of the crimes they have committed against him, democrats keep demanding the President promise he will not seek revenge against them, if he wins for a third time. And democrats and other Trump-haters are even demanding that he not avenge himself against goper backstabbers. Then again, he stabbed his own most loyal gop supporter, Jeff Sessions, in the back.


From: Alex Berenson from Unreported Truths <alexberenson@substack.com>
To: "add1dda@aol.com" <add1dda@aol.com>
Sent: monday, may 6, 2024 at 03:16:27 p.m. edt

"the manhattan district attorney's office is playing a very dangerous game in Donald Trump's trial"

"democratic prosecutors are saying the quiet part out loud to a democratic jury: convict Trump for winning the 2016 election. if he wins again this year, they (and all of us) will reap the whirlwind."

[N.S.: And if he "loses" this year, we will also reap the whirlwind.]

the manhattan district attorney's office is playing a very dangerous game in Donald Trump's trial

"democratic prosecutors are saying the quiet part out loud to a democratic jury: convict Trump for winning the 2016 election. if he wins again this year, they (and all of us) will reap the whirlwind.

Alex Berenson
may 6

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"A criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election."

That's the crime prosecutor Matthew Colangelo - a top official in Joe Biden's Justice Department until he joined the Manhattan district attorney's office to prosecute Donald Trump - claimed last week Trump had committed.

That "scheme" is why Trump faces 34 New York state felony charges for "falsifying business records," a crime that is normally a misdemeanor, Colangelo said in his opening statement to the Manhattan jury that will decide if Trump is guilty.

In mid-April, a Richard L. Hasen, a left-leaning expert on election law, wrote in the Los Angeles Times the New York charges "are so minor I don't expect they will shake up the presidential race."

Hasen was half-right. The charges are minor. But the way prosecutors are framing the case is not. Local Democratic prosecutors want to send Trump, a Republican, to prison, for a "crime" that comes down to beating Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Win or lose, their effort may destabilize the American legal system for decades.

(To understand exactly why, subscribe! This one is worth it, or your money back.)

In a 2009 book called "Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent," Harvey Silverglate, a veteran defense lawyer, described how federal United States attorneys used vague laws to bring indictments against unpopular politicians and business executives.

The problem had worsened for decades as the federal criminal code expanded and prosecutors pushed its limits, Silverglate argued. He quoted Robert Jackson, a Supreme Court Justice who was also the chief American prosecutor in the post-World War 2 crimes trials at Nuremberg:

After explaining why a federal prosecutor must choose cases carefully and recognize that not every crime can be pursued, Jackson turned to the heart of his talk: '"If the prosecutor is obliged to choose his cases, it follows that he can choose his defendants."

Here one finds "the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted."

Silverglate expressed less concern about state prosecutors. Tighter statutes restricted them and they focused on more obvious crimes, Silverglate wrote.

But the Trump indictment flips Silverglate's concern about the power of federal prosecutors and local politicians on its head.

In this case, local prosecutors, who answer only to local voters in a heavily Democratic county, aren't just stretching a state criminal statute to its limits. They are doing so explicitly to punish a Republican politician over his tactics in his race for president - the only truly national election in the United States.

To be clear, prosecutors have not charged Trump with committing any crime in 2016. He is charged only with technical violations of obscure bookkeeping laws in 2017.

In fact, the actual crime Trump supposedly committed is almost farcical in its unimportance. He supposedly misclassified $420,000 in expenses in internal accounting records as "legal services" when they were actually reimbursements for payments that his lawyer Michael Cohen had made on his behalf.

But the 2016 election underlies the indictment, and not in a subtle or implicit way, as the prosecution has made clear.

The government's star witness during the trial's first week was David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer. Pecker testified about his efforts to improve Trump's image in the years before the 2016 election.

Pecker paid Karen McDougal, a woman who claimed she had had an affair with Trump, $150,000 to buy the exclusive rights to her story. Then he buried it, a practice called "catch and kill."

Seamy, for sure. And in 2021, Pecker agreed to pay $187,500 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation into whether the payment to MacDougal was an illegal campaign contribution.

But Trump is not charged for anything related to the National Enquirer's payments to MacDougal. Instead, prosecutors used Pecker's testimony to make the case that Trump worried that publicity about his affairs with MacDougal and Stormy Daniels, a porn star, might hurt his campaign in 2016.

(Don't do the porn star if you can't do the time?)

Assume the prosecutors are correct. Assume Trump's only motive for hiding his affairs was to improve the chances he would win the 2016, that he didn't want to keep them secret for some other reason. Assume also that he actually coordinated with Pecker and the National Enquirer to hide MacDougal's story.

The correct response remains, So what? Why on earth is Trump on trial?

In 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign used campaign funds to pay for the infamous "Steele dossier," the research report that falsely linked Trump to Russia. This is not a conspiracy theory. In 2022, Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid a $113,000 fine to the FEC to settle an investigation into the payments.

Clinton's campaign then worked with friendly news organizations to plant stories based on that research.

(For once, you can trust CNN)

And Clinton's campaign had a relationship with elite media outlets like the New York Times at least as good as the one Trump had with the National Enquirer. (Famously, Amy Chozick, the Times's lead reporter on the Clinton campaign, wrote that she'd cried the day after Trump beat Clinton in 2016. Pecker and Trump may be friends, but it is hard to imagine Pecker shedding tears if Trump had lost.)

If Donald Trump is being indicted for his 2016 shenanigans, why isn't Hillary Clinton?

To be clear, I am not suggesting anyone should prosecute Clinton for the role her campaign played in generating the Steele dossier or spreading it around.

What I am saying is that, as Finley Peter Dunne famously said in 1895, "Politics ain't beanbag." Any candidate worthy of the name will want to win badly, and will do everything possible to portray himself in the best possible light and his opponent in the worst. That's true in every election, much less one where the world's most powerful office is at stake.

For local prosecutors to attempt to turn what are most technical legal violations into felonies on the basis that Donald Trump wanted to keep his private affairs private in a presidential election is a dangerous overreach.

The fact Trump is leading Joe Biden in this year's presidential race makes the situation even worse.

The New York Times argued convincingly this weekend in a long piece (paywalled) that Trump's view of the United States and the American justice system has darkened considerably since 2016.

But what the Times didn't acknowledge is that Trump now has every reason to view American law as hopelessly politicized and prosecutors as targeting him. Whatever the strengths and weaknesses of the three other indictments Trump faces, the Manhattan case is a travesty, a poison pill that no amount of sugarcoating can hide.

Perhaps recognizing this uncomfortable truth, the times ran an (paywalled) op-ed today from a former prosecutor in the manhattan district attorney's office claiming that the indictment "is not really about election interference, nor is it a politically motivated attempt to criminalize a benign personal deal. Boring as it may sound, it is a case about business integrity."

This is nonsense, of course, and not just because no similar case has ever been charged as a felony. Colangelo's own words to the jury belie any effort to normalize this case.

Win or lose, the manhattan district attorney's office has made a terrible mistake. At best, it has opened the way for partisan local prosecutors in all 50 states to look for any excuse to interfere in federal elections.

And if Trump wins this fall, he will be in a position to unleash federal law enforcement on his opponents. He shouldn't, of course. [N.S.: Why not?! He'd be a fool not to!] But after this indictment, even a man far more patient and forgiving than Donald Trump would have a hard time not wanting revenge.