Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“Georgia could determine who is our next president. A TEAM of lawyers needs to watch them count every single vote. They can start in Fulton County where we are having water leaks.” — Fulton County DA Fani Willis, Nov. 4, 2020
What to make of this mugshot? Serious as a heart attack? I’d hate to be you on that fateful day? Table turner? Energy shift? Game on? Daddy’s in da house? Good career move? You can run but you can’t hide? Please, Br’er Fox, don’t fling me in that-there briar patch…!
Good luck trying this case, DA Fani Willis. And by all means roll the TV cameras in the courtroom. You are about to supplant the Scopes trial of 1925 as the most notoriously ridiculous piece of legal work in US history. That one, over in Tennessee, was called “the Monkey Trial” when a high school teacher named John Scopes was charged with teaching the theory of evolution in his biology class. It got the national news spotlight for the duration. The state enlisted three-time Democratic presidential nominee Williams Jennings Bryan as a special prosecutor. Poor Bryan, famously sweating in the southern July heat, was made a fool of by Chicago lawyer for the defense Clarence Darrow. Bryan died of a stroke days after the conclusion of the trial. It also killed what remained of his reputation.
This week, DA Willis staged the circus parade of bookings, forcing the large cast of indictees — most of them attorneys for Mr. Trump — to submit to the finger-printing and mugshot ceremony in the county jail, in case any of them had thoughts of decamping to Uruguay. The cable news peanut gallery went berserk with glee at the humiliation of election denial celebrities Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell especially. On Thursday, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who advised Georgia GOP officials on the process of assembling alternate electors in the case of election fraud under Georgia law, demanded a speedy trial.
Under Georgia’s speedy trial law, Mr. Chesebro’s trial would have to take place this fall. (Such are the guiles of the law.) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper called it, “an aggressive filing.” Ms. Willis had hoped to try all 19 defendants together during the 2024 presidential primary season, to support her RICO charges. Meanwhile, three other defendants, including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, filed to have their cases removed to the federal court, in so far as the actions they are accused of taking happened while they worked in the service of the US government. Mr. Meadows is accused of seeking by email to get the phone number of a Pennsylvania election official.
Ms. Willis’s case hinges on a number of novel propositions. First, that it is somehow against the law to object to the outcome of an election. And second, that the process for relief in such a case, as provided in Georgia’s election contest law and the US Electoral Count Act of 1887, does not apply to Mr. Trump and his lawyers. Anyone who intends to challenge the outcome must necessarily assemble a panel of alternate electors if state officials cannot certify the election properly and in good faith. Ms. Willis refers to these erroneously as “fake electors.” Mr. Trump and his co-defendants will necessarily have to present evidence that the Georgia presidential election of 2020 was not certified properly or in good faith.
Will the defendants be allowed to present evidence of serious irregularities in the 2020 Georgia election results? If not, would that not be grounds for dismissal. So far, Democrats in charge of the machinery of law all over the country have skated on mere assertions that the 2020 election was fair. In Georgia, none of the principals involved in the dispute have been subject to cross-examination, the best instrument for truth-finding in the American legal system. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Sec’y of State Brad Raffensperger may not be so hot for an airing of what actually went on Nov 3, 2000 and the days after, especially the validity of over 100,000 mail-in ballots in a state where “Joe Biden’s” margin of victory was a mere 11,799 votes.
Mr. Trump seems to be thriving under the tribulation of four court cases brought against him as he runs for election in 2024. Each new set of charges boosts his poll numbers. It helps him hugely that the cases are transparently idiotic and mendacious. If he is initially convicted in any of them, he can still run for president and be elected, even if he’s jailed — as Eugene Debs did in 1920 getting 913,693 votes running on the Socialist Party from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where he was jailed under the 1917 Espionage Act for speaking out against America’s entry into the First World War.
The Party of Chaos is running scared. Everybody knows that “Joe Biden” can’t possibly run for another term and yet the public debate is so grotesquely disabled that nobody will talk about it. Most particularly, they will not talk about who might take his place. All they are really demonstrating with this barrage of prosecutions against their chief adversary is how broken, craven, and degenerate the party is, and what a menace it is, as they like to say, to our democracy.
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Because these cases rely on novel applications of the law, the legal fighting in the court room will revolve a lot on the admissibility of evidence. The defense will want to widen the scope of evidence to show bias, selectivity, and justification. The prosecution will want to keep the facts clean, straight forward and narrow in scope; they want the jury to ignore the man behind the curtain. There will be tons of issues be appealed should anyone get convicted, and it will be years before these cases are final. I sincerely doubt this DA has the intellectual firepower to carry out any of this.
Do not forget the president is immune from prosecution while in office for any acts therein, that means also that BIDEN is also immune.
Your missing the point RON. This should not have happened in the first place.
That’s a little premature. Let’s wait for the trials, shall we?
Until he is out of office and that could be soon, assuming the grim reaper doesn’t get him first when his brain synapses fail.
Trump could be reelected, serve another 4 years and be retired for a few more years before this case is ever decided by the Supreme Court as that is where it is going. If that prosecutor thinks it will be over quickly she is insane. She might even lose her law license for this wacko prosecution.
The Court can move much more quickly if it wants to…It can’t ignore this dangerous situation as it did the Texas case…
Like the J6 defendants quick? The courts are much better at slowing things down or coercing confessions than speeding things up. I don’t see Trump confessing.
I’d hate to have to rely on John Roberts.
No….There is no law against contesting elections, period…Or Hillary and Obama and thousands of others would be in jail…Elections have been contested ever since there were elections…And such a law would be unConstitutional if it existed….
The prosecutor, one Fani Willis, has also contested an election…
She needs to indicte herself on RICO charges.
MAGA….for the win, and bring the Storm!
My
Ass
Got
Arrested !!!
To sum it up, WITCH HUNT! Never in the history of this country has a candidate for president, seated president & past president been pursued, demonized by MSM more than this man. Yet we let a laptop with criminal behavior go. The congress, alphabet soup agencies and the government in general has crossed the line and become a criminal organization of the first order. We as citizens of the once great USA should be ashamed of what we have let happen. JMO.
We don’t, but the Democrats hold most of the cards right now. That will change, it always does.
When Trump won in 2016, he let the media do his PR for him. The media couldn’t take their eyes off Trump. They wrote about his every strange move because they never saw a candidate like Trump. The media’s PR work was so successful, Trump beat Hillary.
You would think the media and the dems learned their lesson in 2016, but as John Belushi used to say: “but nnnnnnnnnooooooooo!” Now the media goes wild over every new indictment and Trump gains more support. The media talks about how Trump can’t run for President with so many charges against him. And Trump gains more support. The dumbshit dems even take a mug shot of Trump that is better than the best campaign photo.
By Election Day even people who did not support Trump in the past will support him because of how the system is screwing him. If you think people voted against the system in the last two elections, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Yes, I didn’t vote in Trump/Hillary because I didn’t think there were any good candidates. In Trump/ Biden I voted Jo Jorgenson as I thought Trump spent to much and signed every domestic spying bill they put in front of him. But I will vote Trump this time because Biden is so bad and the Democrats so out of hand.
Everyone will….If Hillary had gotten in, there would have been war with Russia–the end of the USA…Trump stopped that nonsense…
Yes, but will the additional votes be sufficient to overcome the margin of fraudulant/questionable “ballots”?
With the same people counting the ballots in Philly, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Detroit and Atlanta, it does not matter how much support he gets, it will not be enough.
I really have to laugh when people claim the Democrats/RINOs/Deep State are “scared” or “running scared.”
Why would they be scared when it’s now firmly established that they can cheat in elections with “mail-in ballots” and get away with it?
Additionally, it’s now been established that they can prosecute and/or sue civilly anyone who dares to challenge the “election” results.
Give me a break, they’re not scared in the least.
They are scared that Trump’s support will be so great that the steal will provoke outrage…and maybe rebellion, like 1876…
Gotcha. So now that they’re prosecuting “election deniers,” how will that outrage manifest with people afraid to be prosecuted? And who’s left in the power structure to act on behalf of the outraged majority to fix it?
These fuckers aren’t going to voluntarily relinquish power.
The whole thing is ridiculous…Hillary’s team in 2016 attempted to turn Trump electors into Hillary electors after the election…Obama won his first election in Chicago by getting a court to disqualify his much more popular female opponent, a civil rights hero, because signatures on her nominating petition were defective…
The old, VERY appropriate name for his website is now a given reality of what we have today.
The Party of Chaos is running scared. All they are really demonstrating with this barrage of prosecutions against their chief adversary is how broken, craven, and degenerate the party is, and what a menace it is, as they like to say, to our democracy.”
Meh. This is reality TV. Trump is a narcissist…and this fact has been good for the country.
He supported sensible, sane, popular policy positions FOR HIS OWN BENEFIT.
He keeps the political clown show alive FOR HIS OWN BENEFIT.
He intentionally did not do the bold, hard things he said he would as president FOR HIS OWN BENEFIT.
But when it was only controversial (read: not risking his life), he would “deliver” in order to maintain his brand.
All of this is marketing. Trump is maintaining his brand.
I say this is good because he is taking the heat off of YOU. The individual. Who can actually affect real change in the lives of those around you. Please grow your roots where you’re planted.
Funny I don’t feel any cooler. It feels more like we’re all in a pressure cooker at the moment.
outta be allowed to give a 1/2 an upvote when dumbasses fuck up their post. try proofreading stupid shit exiting the brain when typing before hitting post
Hmm. Maybe you should read more.
Yeah, I said exactly what I meant to say. But seems you’re projecting your opinions onto mine in assuming there’s something misstated there.
Did Trump “drain the swamp?” Did he try? Was he serious about it? Or was the pantomime better for his brand?
W.C. Fields always said…”Never give a sucker an even break.”
Orange $ucker grifter confidence manchild echos Field’s sentiment.
MOU
I wish some one would start going after the leftist scum in this country
That is one punchable face! I call that particular expression “Beggin’ for a bitch slappin'”.
Agreed.
MOU
It would help if you got that thing out of your mouth before you come out of your mom’s basement. I know, it’s hard to get up the steps when you’re 5’2, and 300 lbs.
Ex-President Orange Inveterate Liar Slimebag Douchewhore-TARD
clearly & without equivocation ordered his throng of mindlessness
[read proto-Fascist Republican adherents] to ‘stop the steal’ and
‘attack’ the Capitol Hill legislature which is not domain that the
Democratic Party controls unilaterally in any way.
Orange effin’ Scumbag is seen on video evidence commanding the
ignorant masses to attack his political opponents criminally and
not as a matter of democratic process.
Attacking the Capitol Hill legislature is an attack on the free world
and on all free thinking individuals throughout the world.
Fuck Orange Prison Suit and his lame Henny Youngman act.
P.S. Bess Levin said that Trump was going to be reincarnated
as a urinal cake in a Jersey truck stop in his next life.
God bless Bess Levin.
MOU
So far, not a single court has allowed ANY evidence of election fraud to presented. I am willing to guess the judge in this case will follow suit and not allow it to be used for the defense.
The objective is to get a conviction of Trump so state officials in swing states can declare him ineligible to run and remove his name from the ballot. If the case is overturned on appeal, it will be long after the election is over.
When you go into a kangaroo court, the kangaroo wins every single time!
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