Update (1834ET): As reactions to Trump’s latest indictment roll in, one notable defender is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who tweeted that he would, as president, “end the weaponization of government, replace the FBI Director, and ensure a single standard of justice for all Americans.”
DeSantis added that DC is a “swamp,” and that it’s “unfair to have to stand trial before a jury that is reflective of the swamp mentality.”
More reactions:
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Another day, another indictment aimed at keeping former President Trump out of the Oval Office.
“I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me, at 5:00 P.M,” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social. “Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign. Prosecutorial Misconduct!” he continued.
And on Tuesday, Jack Smith did just that – indicting Trump yet again for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The indictment focuses on schemes by Trump and his allies to subvert the transfer of power and keep him in office despite his loss to Joe Biden.
Trump has been indicted on four counts:
The Conspiracy
From on or about November 14,2020, through on or about January 20,2021, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the Defendant, DONALD J. TRUMP, did knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with co-conspirators, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to defraud the United States by using dishonesty, fraud, and deceit to impair, obstruct, and defeat the lawful federal government function by which the results of the presidential election are collected, counted, and certified by the federal government.
The purpose of the conspiracy was to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the federal government function by which those results are collected, counted, and certified.
Special Counsel Jack Smith gave a lame speech following his latest ‘win’ (that surely won’t actually help Trump, right?)
Watch:
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The Defendant, his co-conspirators, and their agents made knowingly false claims that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
These prolific lies about election fraud included dozens of specific claims that there had been substantial fraud in certain states, such as that large numbers of dead, non-resident, non-citizen, or otherwise ineligible voters had cast ballots, or that voting machines had changed votes for the Defendant to votes for Biden.
These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false.
In fact, the Defendant was notified repeatedly that his claims were untrue—often by the people on whom he relied for candid advice on important matters, and who were best positioned to know the facts – and he deliberately disregarded the truth.
Read the full docket below:
It’s the third criminal case brought against the former president as he seeks to reclaim the White House.
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As we detailed earlier, on Monday, Trump called the indictments “election interference” and “prosecutorial misconduct,” adding that they’re being used to distract from investigations into the Biden family’s own dealings with foreign nationals.
“The Radical Left Democrat Thugs shouldn’t be allowed to investigate me during, and in the middle of, my campaign for President. Why didn’t they file these ridiculous charges 2.5 years ago?” Trump wrote, adding “They waited because they wanted to illegally and negatively influence the 2024 Presidential Election, arguably the most important Election in the history of the USA. We are going to take our now Third World Nation (Airports, Elections, Roads/Highways, Borders, etc.) and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. BE STRONG!”
Trump’s defenders jump into action
“Yesterday was an awful day for the @JoeBiden crime family,” tweeted former Arizona Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R), referring to bombshell allegations against the Biden family over international corruption. “The regime desperately needs a distraction for their Pravda Press to spread.”
“Watch as they indict @realDonaldTrump again to change the narrative.”
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that Trump is “burning through money on legal fees so fast that it risks leaving him short of cash just when he will need it most — in a potential general election rematch against President Joe Biden next fall.”
The former president raised $54 million from donors in the first six months of the year – more than any other Republican candidate, but that his legal bills are emptying his coffers nearly as fast as he fills them.
Nearly half of Trump’s January-to-June haul went to lawyers, $25.5 million, draining cash reserves left from the midterm cycle, according to Federal Election Commission filings. A person familiar with the finances of Trump’s committees said legal expenses were actually closer to $40 million.
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Two entities, Save America and Make America Great Again PAC — which is separate from MAGA Inc. — are footing his legal fees. They ended June with only $4.2 million cash on hand, about enough to cover another month’s worth of costs. The expenditures forced Save America, which donated $60 million in 2022 to Trump’s super PAC, to ask for a refund. It got $12.3 million back.
To keep the entities paying his legal fees funded, Trump will have to divert about half the money he raises through a joint fundraising committee. From January to June, the joint fundraising committee transferred $29.2 million to Trump’s campaign and $2.2 million to his leadership PAC and ended June with $5.7 million cash on hand. The remainder was spent on fundraising expenses. -Bloomberg
“The weaponized Department of Justice has continued to go after innocent Americans because they worked for President Trump,” said campaign spokesman Steven Cheung. “To protect these innocent people from financial ruin and prevent their lives from being completely destroyed, the leadership PAC contributed to their legal fees.”
Trump, meanwhile, can continue to tap his allied super PAC, Make America Great Again, Inc, which had $31 million at the end of June after depleting 44% of its cash in the first six months of 2023.
More via the Epoch Times;
Mr. Trump said on July 27 that his lawyers had met with the Justice Department and had a “productive meeting,” and that “an indictment of me would only further destroy our country.”
Jurors were seen entering a courthouse Thursday morning, and news reports had claimed an indictment could come as soon as that same day.
More than 1,000 people have already been charged with Jan. 6-related offenses.
Multiple Cases
Mr. Trump is facing another investigation in Georgia, where Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney on Monday rejected Mr. Trump’s bid to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the case.
The criminal investigation centers around a phone call Mr. Trump made to Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in 2020, asking about the number of votes for him in the state.
“I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” then-President Trump said to Mr. Raffensperger.
Ms. Willis maintains that Mr. Trump tried to illegally overturn the results of the presidential election in the state of Georgia. Mr. Trump says the investigation is “strictly a political witch hunt.”
Mr. Trump’s legal team argued that she had a partisan interest in the case, which should disqualify her. Judge McBurney wrote that the team failed to show Ms. Willis was biased in her actions.
The case will be heard on Aug. 10.
Meanwhile, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has been contacted by Mr. Smith’s office, presumably about the Jan. 6 case.
Mr. Smith is also in charge of the Mar-a-Lago case concerning classified documents, in which he last week announced three new charges.
Last week, the special counsel charged Mr. Trump with willful retention of national defense information and two charges in connection to the claims that he told a Mar-a-Lago worker to delete security tapes to prevent a grand jury from seeing them. In that filing, the Department of Justice (DOJ) named Mar-a-Lago staffer Carlos De Oliveira as a third defendant in the complaint.
On Sunday, Mr. Trump denied all three charges.
“Mar-a-Lago security tapes were not deleted,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. “They were voluntarily handed over to the thugs, headed up by deranged Jack Smith. We did not even go to court to stop them from getting these tapes. I never told anybody to delete them. Prosecutorial fiction & misconduct! Election interference!”
“They knowingly accuse you of a fake crime, a crime that they actually make up, you fight these false charges hard, and they try and get you on ‘obstruction,’” Mr. Trump wrote. “We are dealing with sick and evil people!”
Alina Habba, spokesperson and attorney for Mr. Trump, told Fox News in a July 30 interview that Mr. Trump never directed an employee to delete tapes.
“When he has his turn in court, and when we get to file our papers, you will see that every single video, every single surveillance tape that was requested, was turned over,” Ms. Habba said. “If President Trump didn’t want something turned over, I assure you, that is something that could have been done. But he never would act like that. He is the most ethical American I know.
“The new superseding indictment that came out, which they tried to get another headline for President Trump, was facts that said that President Trump did what? What was the obstruction of justice because no tapes were deleted. He turned them over; he cooperated as he always does. But they would like the American public to believe in these bogus indictments that there are some facts that say that President Trump was obstructing justice.”
Mr. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges and maintains that as president, he had the right to take the documents as well as the right to declassify them. The case is set to go to trial in May 2024.
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DeSantis has too much common sense to ever be selected. Simply stating the obvious has given the impression that he is a mealy mouthed flip flopper sucking an orange dick. That’s exactly how the retarded plebs will see this, and that’s the narrative you’ll see coming from the Trump camp…you heard it here first.
The unwashed lack the nuance to realize that standing for Justice doesn’t turn on the fact that you either like or dislike someone. DeSantis gets it, but he’s close to alone in that virtue.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzDaZQhXoAAoTd5?format=jpg&name=small
Whining to the master……pfffftttt!..
Shilling for Meatball Ron again I see. You’ve got to be a bot.
Scru is indeed a glowbot.
He is a shitbag grifter and a creep.
Same could be said about anyone who seeks the presidency.
Except Ron Paul
HAHAHAHAHA! A quarter of a CENTURY in Government and the guy did jack shit!
Fuck that guy. He was NEVER relevant.
Elect me and I wont just end the fuckery………………I,ll hang every gawd damn vermin-maggot-parasite in dc !
Which is basically everyone there.
There are people that actually believe a President has autocratic power.
Those executive orders sorta are.
EO’s pertain ONLY to the Executive Branch!…what’s so difficult?….have you noticed EVERY TIME DJT issued one, all these “judges”jumped up and issued a “ruling”opposing WHATEVER it was(a power they DO NOT possess) while the lapdog media called him a Tyrant(still do)Yet when the most corrupt pile of shit to occupy the Oval office does the same thing,everybody complies…….EVERYBODY…….why???
What happened to all those “guardians of democracy”???….plaintiffs???we don’t need no stinkin’plaintiffs!
BIDSO…….(burnitdownstartover)…..
They believe it WHEN it suits their purpose…just like every Trump fanatic on the planet. Just like every other flavor of fanatic. It’s not just fake and gay, it’s satanically inspired. They lie to everyone, but they always lie to themselves first.
We’re not going to need a leader to pull that off.
Boundless Hypocrisy – They’re stealing the presidency by trying to lock up political opponents. Banana Republic Extraordinaire. We’re next.
” We’re next.”
Perhaps,but you can make it a costly/Pyrrhic victory,then,as a nation rinse/lather /repeat,just saying.
The China-Russia-Africa summit stuff is interesting on many levels but what it portends is actually encouraging.
You know you have hit banana status when the official banana continent is laughing and pointing and ridiculing the fake and gay of the empire’s various productions.
But the real banana gets split when the people finally wake up to the fact they are living in a banana republic.
These strokes of state that seat and unseat “governments” like so many moon cycles are most insidious when cloaked in the garments of mythological parchments and traditions such is the case with FUSA.
But when stripped to their ugly, naked, and clumsy machinations the people are actually liberated from the philosophical own-goals of participating in the facades for the sake of upholding empty principles.
The “founding fathers” tried to bake this into the apple pie but they were just old white men who weren’t smart enough to see that the future is an atheist numale and a brown female, who are legally the same person, “voting” the treasury for themselves. Its true. Just check the constitution.
Imagine how powerful Orange Man will become when dressed in the orange jumpsuit and chains. If its all just symbolic, lets make it dramatic enough to perhaps awaken the slumbering masses to the fact that you cannot make a banana split without machetes.
ahahahahaha… coming from a lawyer, the most ethical person she knows. Doesn’t that speak volumes.
Trump Indicted (Again) For ‘Efforts To Overturn 2020 Steal’
FIFY
POWERFUL: A PLEA/WARNING FROM A SERBIAN MAN TO AMERICA. WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THEIR ELECTION WAS STOLEN
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Foreigner begs Americans to save their country . . . like he did with his.
The documents read like a child wrote them in a huff!
There is NO SUCH THING as a FAKE ELECTOR!!!……thanks to NOT teaching the AMERICAN CONSTITUTION…..nobody seems to have an inkling how any of this works!!!!! Heard a “Republican”say a freakin peep about it??? Not NO,but HELL NO!!!…..Jack(wagon)is literally prosecuting the 1A!….Desanta Claws want to “modify”
It’s all theater, largely to keep the sheeple distracted, but also to ensure that Trump is the Republican candidate in 2024. His poll numbers and donations increase every time he is indicted or raided. I’m not sure why they want to make sure he is the Republican candidate. It could just be to maximize the distraction, because Trump is extremely polarizing. DeSantis is more like a typical Republican candidate, despised by the Left because he has an “R” after his name, but he doesn’t induce the total insanity displayed by those with TDS. But it also could be that they intend to select him as president again, as they did in 2016. With the inevitable climate lockdowns coming, they could want Trump back to ensure the Right complies just as readily as they did during the scamdemic lockdowns.
Rhonda Santis: “I will end the weaponization of government”.
Pablum. That guy would be 100% in favor of these political indictments of Trump if he thought it would benefit him.
Both Trump And DeSantis made a career of taking money from Jews and look what it gets them.
All of this can be explained by a single word
JEWS
Wrong.
Two words:
Mass compliance.
This was always The Plan. They had to indict him in DC because no R can win there. The other indictments all over the country were just news fodder and to drain his defense funds. This is the one they have always been seeking.
Orange Jesus won’t recover from this one.
This is something that could obviously be an unintended omission, but given his rejuvenated campaign, where we get a DeSantis ad about every 3 minutes, the narrator mentions his time playing baseball at Yale. It’s not difficult to find myriad people on YouTube during the college games, but I didn’t find one single video of DeSantis playing for Yale. Not one. However, the funny part to me, and words matter, it says “He earned a Yale jersey”. Doing what, selling the most girl scout cookies? But the most contradictory part is that the entire narrative presented at the outset is uniforms don’t define a man, then the whole of the ad talks about the uniforms he wore.
I’m of course picking on him, but don’t think I don’t pay attention to what’s said, unless my wife is talking to me.