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March 20th-26th
Will Fat Alvin do it? That’s the biggest question in America right now as we all wait and see whether Soros Backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will indict and arrest the Former President of the United States Donald J. Trump.
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MAGA Purge Escalates: The Potential Indictment And Arrest Of President Donald J. Trump
Ever since last Friday, the biggest story in America has been the potential indictment and arrest of President Donald J. Trump.
Legal Scholar Jonathan Turley wrote a piece in the Hill this week outlining the history of the case and laying out some of the reasons why the legal theory is bogus.
Although it may be politically popular, the case is legally pathetic. Bragg is struggling to twist state laws to effectively prosecute a federal case long ago rejected by the Justice Department against Trump over his payment of “hush money” to former stripper Stormy Daniels. In 2018 (yes, that is how long this theory has been around), I wrote how difficult such a federal case would be under existing election laws. Now, six years later, the same theory may be shoehorned into a state claim.
It is extremely difficult to show that paying money to cover up an embarrassing affair was done for election purposes as opposed to an array of obvious other reasons, from protecting a celebrity’s reputation to preserving a marriage. That was demonstrated by the failed federal prosecution of former presidential candidate John Edwards on a much stronger charge of using campaign funds to cover up an affair.
In this case, Trump reportedly paid Daniels $130,000 in the fall of 2016 to cut off or at least reduce any public scandal. The Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s office had no love lost for Trump, pursuing him and his associates in myriad investigations, but it ultimately rejected a prosecution based on the election law violations. It was not alone: The Federal Election Commission chair also expressed doubts about the theory.
Prosecutors working under Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus Vance Jr., also reportedly rejected the viability of using a New York law to effectively charge a federal offense.
Shifting to the political implications of such a dramatic move, Revolver News has an excellent piece getting to the core of what this case and the continued attempts by the Regime to get Trump are really about.
Revolver News: Trump Indictment Is Biden Regime’s “Nuclear Option” In The War On America
The indictment of Donald Trump has been inevitable since the moment Trump won the 2016 election, because all along, winning that election with the transformative America First message campaigned on has always been the “real” crime of Donald Trump.
For Trump, the Manhattan indictment is a badge of honor, as are any other indictments that follow in the days to come. Trump, more than any other politician, is the personification of having “skin in the game.” Trump could have very easily lived out the twilight of his life in unfathomable wealth, already a global celebrity and icon. Instead, Trump not only ran for president, he did so pursuing a transformative agenda that directly challenges most powerful and evil forces in the country. For Trump, this decision was financially ruinous and destructive to his reputation. Now, precisely because he refused to back down or submit to the pain box, his very personal freedom is in the balance.
Handcuffing Donald Trump? They’re going to cuff a 76-year-old man? What, are they afraid he’s going to punch out one of the cops and then run? Is he going to grab a gun, or try to grab the steering wheel? Of course not. But this visual is crucial catharsis for millions of AWFLs, #Resisters, and r/TheMueller subscribers who have dreamed and fantasized about this day for the better part of a decade.
No American president — future, sitting, or former — has ever been charged with a crime. Richard Nixon likely would have been, but Gerald Ford pardoned him.
Trump started and still leads one of the most powerful political movements in American history. For this, the corrupt regime wants him either dead, or behind bars and bankrupt, nothing less. And in many cases, they want the same for you.
Revolver On DA Alvin Bragg
And yes, in case you were wondering, Bragg is one of America’s dreadful George Soros prosecutors. Bragg was elected with $1 million in support from Soros, via Soros’s donation to the left-wing organization Color of Change.
More On Bragg:
Returning to last weekend, the day after the Fox News report President Trump responded on Truth Social.
The New York Young Republican Club held a peaceful protest in New York for President Trump that weekend.
Many Elected Republicans came to the defense of President Trump and called out this blatant political persecution.
Elon Musk even remarked that an indictment and arrest of President Trump would lead to a “landslide victory” for him in 2024.
But as the weekend progressed, it was getting pretty difficult to ignore the elephant in the room: the absence of any statement of support for President Trump from Nikki Haley and Governor Ron DeSantis, two candidates either running or rumored to be running for President.
Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running for President, called on both Haley and DeSantis to join him in condemning the political persecution of President Trump.
Governor DeSantis did eventually respond to a question on Monday about the potential indictment and arrest of President Trump.
I like a lot of what Governor DeSantis has done in Florida, but this answer is just ridiculous. The Former President of the United States is facing the threat of being indicted and arrested by a Soros backed lunatic DA, using a laughable legal theory, and your response is that it’s just a “circus” and that you’ve got to focus on “issues that actually matter” to the people of Florida.
For one, last time I checked President Trump is still a resident of Florida. But even if he wasn’t, this kind of blatant political persecution should alarm every American. President Trump is not only a Former President, he is running again. And right now, according to nearly every single poll, is the leading Republican opponent to Joe Biden.
Tucker Carlson summed it up best during his monologue on Monday.
The headline here is that there is, as noted, a presidential race in progress right now, and if you check the polls, you will find that Trump is leading the Republican field. That's the unprecedented thing, taking out your opponent, using the justice system.
If the Democratic Party is allowed to do this, allowed to crush the presidential front-runner, the main threat to their power, with a bogus criminal case, where does that leave us? We're done, because that precedent will live forever and voters will never again determine the outcome of a presidential election.
Whether there is much action Governor DeSantis can take to oppose this arrest is definitely up for debate, but this disturbing situation deserved a hell of a lot better response than the one he gave.
Mike Cernovich, who has been a big critic of President Trump and a big supporter of Governor DeSantis for President, wrote a piece criticizing DeSantis’s response.
Mike Cernovich’s Substack Piece: DeSantis Misses his Moment
He issued a statement that led strong, and then ended in possible political suicide.
This is the statement DeSantis should have made.
Representative Matt Gaetz also advised the Governor to take action.
Revolver News discussed these potential actions further, their own recommendations, as well as the legal dimensions of such actions.
Revolver News: With One Bold Move, Ron DeSantis Could Completely Upend The Trump Indictment Drama
Can DeSantis actually take such a step? In a word, yes, but it wouldn’t be simple. DeSantis’s office has already told The Washington Times that if an extradition request reaches the governor’s desk, “he would not fulfill it.” But this is a cop-out: Extradition requests don’t cross a governor’s desk, so this is an easy promise to make.
So, in order to prevent an extradition, DeSantis would have to take active steps to protect Trump — something drastic, like bringing him to the governor’s mansion and declaring him under the protection of state troopers. DeSantis would not simply be declining to follow up on another state’s extradition request. He would have to actively announce that the charges against Trump as so illegitimate that he is intervening to prevent the arrest from being carried out.
The constitutional dimension of such a move is more debatable than one might think. The Constitution itself, in Article IV, Section 2, seems clear-cut: “A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.” Yet for nearly 130 years, from 1860 through 1987, the Supreme Court said that these extraditions could not be compelled. Instead, under its Kentucky v. Dennison precedent, the SCOTUS held that federal courts had no jurisdiction over such matters, and could not compel a state to extradite a prisoner. This decision was only overturned in 1987, in Puerto Rico v. Branstad, where progressive justice Thurgood Marshall dismissed the old case as “the product of another time,” rendered obsolete by “more than a century of constitutional development.” So, if DeSantis asserted a right to block extradition, he would at least be on firmer legal footing than Bragg’s sham indictment.
Nevertheless, if DeSantis were to defy that ruling, he would provoke genuine constitutional crisis.
Such a move might be worth it, though. It would immediately expose to the entire country the real nature of its regime and its determination to permanently crush anyone who stands against it. It might also inspire other governors and states to join the fray, and while the Biden Administration might be willing to arrest one governor and one former president, even its resolve might be tested by trying to arrest the entire leadership of its opposing party.
If Ron DeSantis were to protect President Trump, he wouldn’t be in uncharted territory, but would be matching the left’s escalations with his own — something Republican leaders have been notoriously averse to doing.
But isn’t DeSantis’s entire case for the presidency that he’ll do what other Republicans won’t?
Now, I can hear the responses to all of this, “but Trump has been attacking DeSantis.” Yeh, it’s a primary and this kind of back and forth is normal. Were you asleep during 2015-2016? Ted Cruz and Donald Trump fought bitterly and Cruz put out solid statements this week defending Trump.
Love it or hate it, politicians fighting during a primary is normal politics.
What’s not normal politics is the unprecedented weaponization of our judicial system against President Trump and the MAGA Movement by the Biden Regime and Soros Backed DAs.
We’ve covered this weaponization against President Trump, people from his administration and his supporters in our previous newsletters.
This week, the Washington Post reported that the DOJ is planning another massive round up of Trump supporters who were at the Capitol on January 6th.
Tucker Carlson’s Monologue:
The FBI is even infiltrating the defense teams of the people who have already been charged.
There are still a large amount of January 6th Political Prisoners still rotting in the D.C. Jail. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has been incredible in bringing awareness to their plight and visited the DC Jail once again with the Oversight Committee this past week.
And as Julie Kelly has pointed out, Florida has the most criminal defendants from January 6th.
It may be unclear whether DA Bragg is going to go through with his indictment and arrest of President Trump, but the message from every Elected Republican must be clear: we will oppose this and all of the Left’s weaponization of the judicial system against the American people with every tool at our disposal. Otherwise, as Tucker Carlson said, we’re done.
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