Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
According to this report–https://www.rt.com/news/585357-powell-pleads-guilty-trump-georgia/ — one of President Trump’s attorneys, Sidney Powell, “pleaded guilty to six misdemeanor counts of conspiring to interfere with election duties and accepted a sentence of six years’ probation and a $6,000 fine. She must also write a letter of apology to the state and its residents and testify against her co-defendants, including her former client.”
I will explain to you what this means. Sidney Powell found herself at risk at the hands of a black prosecutor and a black jury in Atlanta, Georgia in a jury trial. Powell already knew that the prosecutor was biased against her and reasoned the same from the black jury.
Plea bargaining, which is what Sidney Powell has done, arose because prosecutors are more interested in their conviction rate than they are in innocence or guilt, and judges are more interested in clearing their dockets than in trials. To aid their conviction rate, prosecutors have gained the power to withhold exculpatory evidence from the defendant and to bribe other defendants with reduced sentences or with money to testify falsely against the target defendant. This is what Sidney Powell has done.
What this means for Trump is that one of his own attorneys has admitted guilt rather than to undergo the ordeal and risks of trial and has agreed in exchange to testify against Trump. So Trump’s own lawyer provides the black prosecutor and black jury (or white Democrat) with evidence to convict Trump.
As I explained in my book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions in 2000, in a plea bargain a fictional crime is created and it serves as a substitute for the alleged crime. The fictional crime is a lessor one compared to the indictment crime. The defense attorney tells the defendant to accept the plea deal he has negotiated and not risk a jury trial that will annoy both the prosecutor and judge, with a corresponding higher punishment if found guilty.
Plea bargaining results in defendants admitting to what did not happen in order to avoid the more severe charges in the indictment, often orchestrated in order to coerce a plea. Cleary, plea bargaining permits prosecutors to build cases on speculation rather than on evidence.
As I wrote in 2000:
It is only a short step from creating a fictional crime out of a real one to creating a fictional crime out of thin air. The step isn’t taken all at once. When he option of plea bargaining first surfaces, it is considered by everyone involved as a way of meting out punishment in a timely way. But with the passage of time, several things happen.
As Plea Bargaining takes over from jury trials, as it has, the investigative work that is the basis for the indictment is not tested by judge and jury. This permits prosecutors to bring charges for which they have little or no evidence. The public presumes that the prosecutor has a case, and the prosecutor uses the media to create a presumption of guilt. Newspaper and television reports from anonymous leaks from the prosecutor’s office, preceded by the phrase “according to sources familiar with the investigation,” create a presumption of guilt, reducing the defendant’s chance of an objective jury. It would be unusual for a jury to find innocent a person already convicted in the media.
The pressure builds as the prosecutor speaks of expanding the investigation to family, friends, employees, and in Trump’s case his attorneys. The defendant is told by his lawyer that even if a jury throws out most of the charges the one or two that remain may carry severe penalties. In RICO cases, the prosecutor can freeze the defendant’s assets, making it impossible for him to pay his attorneys.
Meanwhile, the defendant’s attorney has been meeting with the prosecutor to arrange a plea bargain. Neither wants the trouble or risk of a trial. When the defendant is worn down and loses all hope of a fair, or affordable, trial, a deal is brokered.
When the defendant, his attorney, and the prosecutor stand before the judge, the judge asks for assurance that the plea was voluntary and no deals prompted it, and he is given assurance. Judges, clerks, defense attorneys, persecutors, the defendant all are parties to the lie.
It is nonsense to expect honesty and justice to characterize a process that bases conviction on plea bargains. Psychological pressure, indeed torture, and exhaustion of the defendant’s resources replace evidence.
Under a plea bargaining regime, law is no longer a shield of the people. It is a weapon against the people in the hands of government. The administration of justice ceases. Prosecutors become copies of Andrei Vyshinsky.
This is America today. To learn more, read my book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions ( https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Good-Intentions-Roberts-Craig/dp/B008AUKNP4/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2BL408ENF6IOO&keywords=The+Tyranny+of+Good+Intentions&qid=1697891400&s=books&sprefix=the+tyranny+of+good+intentions%2Cstripbooks%2C100&sr=1-3 ).
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LOCK HIM UP….reeee
For the record, Powell was not an attorney for Trump. She was working on her own.
The jury won’t understand that or care. This is about get Trump and nothing about this trial will be unbiased or fair. Only appeals, probably to the Supreme Court will get anything overturned, in the meantime they hope to bankrupt Trump and brand him a criminal during the election.
which everyone also knows
12 people will be lead by the nose – and the pos prosecutor will do temporary damage and long term these dem prosecutors will ‘get theirs’
trump can sustain a long term financial attack unlike the others
What a great country. The Soviets would be so proud of what has been wrought in the once free U S A.
This is what happens when you put 3rd world savages into 1st world positions.
You must be referring to niggers.
no – democrats have put people with no love of america in office
you’re crass and a child
Stalin is taking notes in hell.
“A republic if you can keep it AND EVERY MAN KNOWS THE LAW.”
We could stop this BS if people knew the law and demanded a jury trial.
Depending on what they charge you with and the cost the risks becomes to expensive and the punishments to severe for most people to fight. Also as the author pointed out if you know the judge and jury are prejudice against you common sense says to take the plea deal. It is exactly the reason they overcharge and little the accused can do about it. Most people don’t want to risk twenty years in prison even when innocent to prove their innocence. The fact the plea deal basically lets them walk tells you they were overcharged. If it is a real crime that is that serious and they have a real case, no plea deal is offered.
It is only expensive if you higher a lawyer. But you missed the point. What would happen if everybody demanded a jury trial? It isn’t reasonable or sane to expect that there will be no casualties in war.
they put trump in this court (without a jury – because it’s a set up – not because trump didn’t want a jury
pay attention
That is a strawman argument that has no relation to what I wrote or the article. Not once did I mention Trump, which was a civil case in this instance if I recall, not a criminal case, and was ruled on over a motion for summary judgement. Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong without resorting to insults and dishonest arguments.
The justice system in this country, both criminal and civil, is seriously broken. But incredibly, it is still better than most other countries. But ours is still awful. The best smelling turd in a pile of turds is still a turd.
That being said, the current indictments against Trump are all theater. Most of the lawyers, prosecutors and judges involved don’t realize that, and I’m not even sure that Trump himself realizes that, but it is all theater. Trump is the best asset that the NWO has had in a long time. The slavish devotion of his followers, and the intense hatred of him by those with TDS, make him ideal for manipulating the sheeple. The NWO intends to select him to “win” in 2024 to pick up where he left off in January 2021. One of the main reasons is so that he can neutralize the Right during the upcoming climate lockdowns, just as neutralized the Right during the scamdemic lockdowns, which is the main reason he was selected in 2016. The current indictments against him are mainly to boost his popularity with the Right to help ensure that his “win” in 2024 will be more plausible. An added benefit of the indictments is that they heighten the already intense divisiveness between the Left and the Right, which helps keep people distracted. And, by proving hopium to the Left that Trump will end up in jail and thus not be able to win in 2024, it will increase their demoralization when he wins. (The NWO despises the Left as much as they despise the Right. They often use the Left as useful idiots to achieve their goals, because the Left is more likely to believe nonsense like man-made climate change, but the NWO still despises the Left.)
Makes sense IF they want to demoralize the left. I haven’t seen any demoralization of the left.
Not yet. But they will be demoralized when he wins in 2024. If you thought they were distraught when he won in 2016, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
You’re playing -5D chess in your mind.
After Trump wins in 2024 and the climate lockdowns begin shortly thereafter, I will remind you of this comment.
There will be no Trump victory because he won’t be permitted to run – however far they have to go to ensure that this will be the case.
So many words that really mean nothing. The president certainly does have immunity from prosecution for speech while in office. If he doesn’t then let’s blow up the country with both sides attacking each other.
Daniel 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
One way or another they’ll lock up Trump. Otherwise what was the point of all their scamming?
This is slightly O/T … about President Trump and one of his current legal battles …
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/taking-trump-s-presidential-immunity-briefing-seriously
“Presidential immunity from criminal activity ” , so what was the crime in the first place ? Questioning the integrity of the 2020 election ? Lol? Prove he didnt believe what he was saying , prove the election was totally on the up and up ? Now there is your high bar People really are much dumber than they believe themselves to be , and I guess that includes The Brookings institute aaand Trumps legal team . Fuck, we are really screwed with so many dummies in the halls of power . I know , dont shoot the messenger ( you ) , sorry bud .
jenna ellis pled out today too —
they might convict trump & get him off the ballot,which might be enough to blow the lid off people’s fear and complacency —
based on what?
they can’t ‘get him off the ballot’ = you’re ged fails you
a judge has already shot that down (supreme court judge)
the libs are desperate to keep pushing that lie – who pays you to lie?
1. no it doesn’t
2. she was sued and squeezed – due to financial constraints she pled out
3. dems are taking cheap victories and trying to pretend they lead or will lead to trump
4. the media and people on the burning platform are not correct in assuming everything is going to get trump
5. 12 people are going to screw america
But not of racketeering. They all took the misdemeanor plea bargain as they knew the government would just keep bleeding them. It shows how weak the government cases have been.