Guest Post by Ann Coulter
Last week’s indictment of Donald Trump is the latest example of why liberals really should have read my book, “Resistance Is Futile.” Or Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” Either one.
After years of making insane accusations against Trump, from Russian collusion to indicting him for misdemeanor record-keeping errors in his blackmail payments to a porn star, liberals finally have him dead to rights committing serious felonies. And no one believes them.
It’s your own fault, liberals.
Much to my surprise, the documents Trump had spirited away to Mar-a-Lago were not cheesy souvenirs appealing to his juvenile sensibility, like Shaquille O’Neal’s shoe or a picture with Kim Kardashian.
No, the documents he’d stuffed in Mar-a-Lago’s ballroom, bathroom and shower (among other highly secure locations) included information about our nuclear weapons programs, the defense capabilities of the U.S. and other countries, potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack, and plans for possible retaliation.
As Trump’s Attorney General Bill Barr said in an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” these were “among the most sensitive secrets the country has.”
Plans to attack Iran drawn up by the Pentagon are NOT — as alleged in Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal five days after the indictment was released — “newspapers, press clippings, letters, notes, cards, [and] photographs [gathered by President Trump].” (Good to see the Dominion lawsuit has forced Murdoch’s companies to start being honest with conservatives!)
In another reminder that Trump defenders need to wait a beat before repeating his claims like trained seals, the government has Trump on audiotape boasting about how incredibly “secret” and “highly confidential” the documents are — as he showed them off to people at his Bedminster Club. “As president I could have declassified it,” he told the non-security-cleared person, “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.”
How many Republicans have sworn up and down that Trump had declassified all the papers he removed from the White House? Now he’s on tape admitting that that was a lie.
Trump’s excuses — I declassified all of them! I complied with the Presidential Papers Act! It’s a political hit job! — are not only false, but irrelevant to the obstruction of justice counts against him. You can be completely innocent of the underlying charge, but you still have to produce documents in response to a subpoena. If a grand jury requested it, you’d have to produce Shaquille O’Neal’s shoe.
This is a basic requirement of Anglo-Saxon law. Otherwise, targets of investigations would fire up the shredding machines, evidence would disappear, and the legal system would grind to a halt.
Just last year, a lawyer in the U.K. was ordered to pay more than $700,000 for telling an IT manager to “burn” a message app in response to a search warrant for electronic communications. He wanted the messages destroyed for purely personal reasons, having nothing to do with the case.
But as an Above the Law column remarked at the time: “[H]ere’s a free tip [to lawyers] that is guaranteed to make your practice better: don’t tell clients to ‘burn’ evidence — yes, even if the contents are potentially embarrassing.”
Trump’s argument that he had a right to hide these documents from the government is the equivalent of Democrats’ “EVERYBODY DOES IT!” defense of Bill Clinton’s perjury in the Paula Jones case. (Fine, you’ve convinced me: All Democrats engage in oral sex with interns young enough to be their daughters.)
Like Trump, Clinton thought the underlying lawsuit against him was a political hit job, nobody’s business, his “private life.” So he perjured himself dozens of times during his sworn deposition.
After a DNA-stained blue dress proved he’d lied under oath, every single Supreme Court justice boycotted Clinton’s next state of the union address. They’d react the same way to Trump’s obstruction today. You can’t have a legal system if people lie under oath and defy subpoenas. It’s unfathomable that a president or ex-president would do these things.
Clinton’s criminal case ended with a deal. In exchange for not going to trial, he (finally) produced a “forthright admission that he gave false testimony under oath” — as The Washington Post put it — accepted a five-year suspension of his law license, paid $25,000 in fees, and agreed not to request reimbursement of his legal fees. He also paid Paula Jones $850,000 and another $90,000 to her lawyers for contempt, described by The New York Times as “part of the unprecedented finding of contempt of court against a President of the United States by a Federal judge.”
Trump’s case could end with something like that, or it could end with a report, reciting his crimes, but declining to prosecute, as happened to Hillary.
But it won’t, principally because prosecuting Trump helps Biden get reelected by revving up the Trump crazies, and — with any luck — winning him the nomination, rather than a sane person who could point out that Joe is visibly decomposing before our eyes, Kamala is an imbecile, and their combined track record is appalling.
Trump’s argument isn’t that he didn’t do it, but deflection. What about Hillary? What about Hunter Biden? It’s a double standard!
YOU DIDN’T ALREADY KNOW THERE WAS A DOUBLE STANDARD???
Any Republican who thought he could get away with doing something illegal because Democrats did it first is too stupid to be our champion, much less the Republican nominee for president.
You want to do something about the double standard, right-wingers? Run someone who enrages the left by winning, not by constantly creating legal messes benefiting no one but himself.
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Trumps indictment obviously gave Ann an orgasm.
Are you kidding? Orgasm? Why, that pussy is so dried up her 6 Only Fans are reporting they saw dust come out of it.
Only a fake one. I suspect she’s frigid
‘She’ is a man…
That guy knows the deal! Either way, america is toast.
If everything is true as outlined in her article (which I never usually read) then Trump, in his hubris has screwed himself with his own braggadocio. There is a double standard in this country and it looks like it may end unlike it did for Slick Willie and Hitlary.
In the meantime, the Marxist’s get what they want once again. A twofer; a huge distraction for the next year or so with Trump and a continued march towards the great reset.
And the magic words in your comment are “If everything is true…” She gets her information from provable lying liars that haven’t stop lying for going on ten years now. So let me ask you, what are the chances they are telling the truth now? My guess is somewhere around the death rate from covid for children under 18.
Marxists. No ‘s needed.
10-4. Are you an English Teacher?
Either way it turns out, there are only two likely outcomes…civil war, or martial law. I’ll let you decide which is worse.
They are just making Trump a double standard martyr
What you’re not getting is the part where there are no “standards”. We’re entering uncharted waters. Here, there be monsters.
Trump’s 30 pts up on Desantis and he’s the Teflon Don.
I just want to know how he’s going to slide out of this one.
Great fun to watch as the world prepares to burn.
Convicted felons are ineligible to run for high office. His poll numbers are meaningless at that point…and I already covered this topic in my original comment.
Providence is unequivocal
If he’s truly God’s Grande Marquee of the last trump
Indeed it is. So what will God do when the wolves start feeding on Trump? I’m betting “nothing”.
So, show me this Divine Providence you’re hoping for and then we can discuss it intelligently.
It doesn’t seem to me that Trump has been the beneficiary of any such Providence thus far. How would you account for that?
God will take the true church of Jesus The Messiah home
…and let the 💩 hit the fan on earth
How is that in any way relevant to THIS conversation?
The article or your increasingly obvious trolling?
Not my fault you backed a loser.
Your mother, actually.
Why do you think the attacks against Trump are completely over the top and relentless from both sides.
He serves a greater spiritual purpose as God’s mile marker wether he knows it or not and the demonic forces hate him for it
Everything serves God’s Purpose. Don’t get all puffed up on that account!
There’s nothing in the US Constitution barring convicted felons from running for high office.
It’s gonna be hard leading the country from a prison cell…and that’s just how the Dems have it planned. I’m betting on them winning yet again…largely because dupes for Trump are unwittingly enabling them.
WRONG! There is no such prohibition for President. Eugene Debs ran for President from prison about 100 years back, another victim of T. Woodrow Wilson.
So…another fucking loser. You sure can pick em!
So exactly what are you referencing when you claim “Convicted felons are ineligible to run for high office.”?
Do you have ACTUAL FACTS to back your assertion?
Jesus Scrote! Even Whoopie is better informed than you!
He’s not going to jail. I’m sure the oddsmakers are in on this. What are the odds? Zilch.
Personally I don’t want him to go to jail seeing as he never locked up Hillary. Both should probably be behind bars and the entire group that ever associated with either of these scumbags. But you know, fair (and balanced)?
I only want Trump to go away not to come again some other day.
It’s either that or assassination, and we both know it’s possible. We’re playing the last hand here. Everybody’s all in.
Can you buy groceries in a store? Does your electricity mostly work? Does water come out of the tap when you twist the handle?
We ain’t even close to “all in”.
Agreed Tex.
It seems the glowie is trying to start a fight… Someone ought to remind him that in order to kick his ass, I’d have to remove my FIST from his Mommie, and then he’ll be in trouble with us both!
Peace, L.
No, asshole. YOU started it by your continued support of a piece of shit. I’m here to wake you idiots up.
Eat fucking truth!
You are funny. Clown like funny.
Actually, more like sad clown falling face first in shit kind of funny.
“face first in shit kind of funny.” A rodeo clown.
removed comment. I got my answer.
He thrives on attention. His mommy said so.
What a fiasco , all of it, the country, its leaders etc. …sigh.
It offends the soul, does it not?
Jiminy Cricket ! What will you folks do when DeSantis becomes your most viable candidate after you spent a year of your life running him into the ground?
It sounds as if at least one of those charges might actually (and rightfully?) stick. If that happens, Trump is ineligible to even run again. You can reshuffle the deck, but you can’t reshuffle the poll numbers. Of the remaining field, Desantis has a yuge lead!
When the GOP went after Clinton, they assumed that THEIR Party would never elevate a scumbag to the highest Office in the land. Oh, you foolish, foolish 3tards! I present to you, in all his orange glory, ‘The Donald” ! And , of course, with that assumption comes another problem…watcha gonna do now that you’ve put your little pin heads in the noose? Did you think that having dealt with Clinton as you did, that payback would never be forthcoming? A child could have seen this coming.
There’s ONE central issue to all of this…morality. It’s missing in some degree or another in nearly everyone on the planet. Thus we prove the maxim, “You always get the Government you deserve”.
I’m sure this will cause much wailing, gnashing of teeth (Boomers, don’t forget to wear your dentures!) and bitter tears by the pool full. It won’t change reality one whit. This may be the perfect time to question whether WE have become just as disconnected from reality as the radical Left, albeit on a different vector.
Thinking this all through RATIONALLY at this point would save us an even more bitter defeat next election cycle. But we won’t. The Right is as wedded to its prejudices as the left, and so it goes.
What do you suppose Tucker Carlson was saying when he said “Cling to your taboos”? He was warning you to go back to your MORAL center. He knows what we ALL should know…there is no political solution to a moral problem. This is why it CAN’T be fixed. And what can’t, won’t. America is a whore, dying in the street of the diseases she brought upon herself. It’s over, folks. Make what peace you can with that.
I do not believe that being a convicted felon disqualifies someone from being elected, so it is possible that he could be convicted, jailed, elected and then pardon himself. It is not likely, but is certainly possible.
Your beliefs will never change reality, and I feel bad having to say that…to you. I thought you were more informed than that.
It’s not a belief, it’s a fact: there’s nothing in the US Constitution that bars a convicted felon from running for president or any other “high office.”
Get informed before you pontificate to others.
Show me one POTUS who got elected post conviction for a Federal felony. You can’t.
Great argument! Show me one woman that was elected to POTUS! You can’t – must be illegal.
Too bad your comment is far too intellectual for the Scrote to understand.
If he had any evidence of an actual law preventing it, he would have posted it. He hasn’t. Case closed.
Scrote is just a lying sack of shit.
I don’t know of any convicted felons that attempted to run for President.
Showing that either you are too stupid to even comprehend what was stated. Your answer was nothing but a really pathetic strawman.
It’s a FACT that no convicted felon has EVER won a Presidential election…and that is no accident.
Now…IF you want to make the case that SOCIETY has become so DEGENERATE in such numbers that they can change that historical fact? You’ve won the battle and lost the fucking WAR.
yeaah. truth hurts, don’t it? bwahaha!
Not true.
Let’s see what the Court has to say, shall we? And I’m not saying by any means that they aren’t corrupt. I’m saying Americans have a long history of cozying up to the corrupt.
There’s no need for me to make the legal argument. That’s already been arranged and paid for.
It’s going to be an interesting year for all concerned.
Oh, nice try. You have no legal basis for your claim, so you CAN’T.
There are three criteria to become president;
Must be at least 35 years old.
Must be a resident of the United States.
Must be a native born citizen of the United States.
There are ZERO restrictions regarding having a criminal record.
What a turd
I had no idea Ann Coulter had Top Secret Ultra Security Clearance to be privy to what was contained in the documents Trump possessed! I used to (about ten years ago) enjoy reading her articles, but now, apparently, she is also suffering from TDS. It does not matter, even if true, that Trump kept those documents since he was once a sitting President. Do you think that when a president leaves office they treat him with a memory eraser from Will Smith à la MIB? He still knows more than you or I can ever imagine about our country’s defenses and that would be a very dangerous situation if he hated our republic as much as the left does.
Apparently you do not keep abreast of current events. You’re not going to know what hit you when this all shakes out.
^^ You have no idea what you’re talking about, yet you pontificate like an expert.
I am going to laugh so hard in your face when this all blows up!
Pretty obvious now he’s a fucking troll.
Fuck you, you shallow cunt. Your mother’s a troll and your daddy is Jeffrey Epstein.
We can do this ALL DAY LONG.
Older folks may do that, sort of like Trump. lol
Someone said Trump is possessed. Just saying…
At the very least he is oppressed.
the government has Trump on audiotape boasting about how incredibly “secret” and “highly confidential”
Yeah, as a guy with 40 years in recording studios….with today’s tech you can literally create an accurate audio recording of anyone saying anything regardless if it ever really happened.
Even real time deep fake video is a reality.
So, no Ann, my friend, the government having audio tapes means exactly bupkis.
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Please Notice:
I am not a Trump supporter or hater.
Just can’t stand it sometimes, when people ignore the technical world we live in, and take “audio tape” or “video tape” as gospel truth.
Any of it is fakeable.
Edit: accidently hit the 5 instead if the 4.
40 years in studios. My bad
Do you realize how desperate you sound ?
Do you realize how much like a paid troll you sound?
I get it. Your sacred cow has been gored by his own stupidity and you’re so invested in HIM that YOU feel his pain. That says WAY more about you than it does me, so who’s REALLY glowing here? You are…with shame!
Why don’t you defend Nixon’s reputation while you’re at it?
An orphaned comment is a sad thing.
Won’t you give generously to The Orphaned Comment Foundation.
Together we’ll find the cure.
Jes playing tcs
If you’re expecting me to throw myself on my sword, you’ve got a LONG wait! And no offense taken. We all shit standing up around here.
I’ve had this exact same thought over the last few days.
Then the outcome is predetermined and we’re all wasting our time here discussing it, wouldn’t you say?
I would say that audio and video “evidence” is no longer trustworthy.
There are experts on government that have never warmed a chair in a civics classroom.
Cryptically put!
Good show lad!
Serious felonies? What a pitiful existence this old maid must lead to spend her declining years as a professional liar.
What a stupid bitch
The feral government is your enemy.
It will remain your enemy no matter who is anointed king.
DeSantis, Biden, M. Obama, Newsome, Trump. The show apparently goes on even after the curtain has been pulled back and the brick wall (against which you or your progeny will be lined up) has long since been revealed.
Ann you used to be an enjoyable read today you are just another National Enquirer with an opinion that most of us care nothing about.
“This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this.” – 300
What in hell is the matter with this author??????? SO EASILY BAMBOOZELED!!!
SHE SUFFERES FROM TDS.
Its fascinating that someone out there still pays this dopey whore for her thoughts. You pay people like Horse Faced Ann to shut up and leave, not to hear them babble on and on and on.
I understand that there is no cure for your end stage TDS.
Fuck Ann Coulter. That bitch is a never-Trumper. She is about as “conservative” as Sean Hannity and my dog.