Posted on 06/23/2023 6:54:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of those little unexpected perks in life is being able, in our electronic age, to email well known, well regarded experts all over the world and, sometimes, if one is lucky, receive a reply. This writer has, over the years, exchanged emails with historians, investment bank officers, journalists, legal analysts, (he said, proudly) late former New York City mayor Ed Koch, and others.
It was during one such correspondence, with a well known, well respected attorney and legal analyst, that I posited a problem I saw with the Trump documents case.
I am keeping the analyst's name confidential. What matters is that this expert agreed that the following analysis does indeed identify a problem.
The problem has to do with the need in any trial to ensure an impartial jury — no easy task in these highly politicized times if the defendant is Donald Trump. Harvard professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, in a recent article, stated one such problem: Trump was indicted under the Espionage Act, even though the indictment contains no charge of actual espionage. "Espionage," Dershowitz pointed out, is a highly charged word, evoking images of the most egregious betrayers of America, people like Robert Hanssen and the Rosenbergs — a word, according to Dershowitz, sufficiently prejudicial to a jury as to require the judge to declare a mistrial if the word "espionage" is merely uttered at trial.
But there's another problem, one apparently not identified, at least not publicly, by any expert or journalist.
Can there be any potential juror who has not seen at least one of the following photos?
In these photos we see dozens and dozens of boxes transported from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, filled with classified documents.
Or do we?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
One hundred two documents. Total. Not enough documents to fill one box, let alone the many boxes in the above photos.
In Manhattan DJT will be convicted...after 45 minutes of deliberation. In DC he’ll be convicted...20 minutes of deliberation. In Miami he just might get a hung jury.
If they could get away with it, the DOJ would stage something similar to the 1938 Moscow trials, some of which can be seen here.
It would be difficult to assemble an impartial jury, but I don’t think that will be the plan.
Dozens of Declassified Boxes is more like it. The President can declassify anything he wants to. This is such BULL SHEET. The American people can’t be this stupid to fall for this or are they?
Surely there are 3-4 MAGA folks smart enough to get onto the jury...
One box is labeled MAL (MaraLago) Bedroom.
It only takes one juror. Americans need to use their constitutional and lawful powers.
You betcha. Trump’s defense will be able to get a few prospective jurors dismissed. But then the liberal judge will step in, and put an end to that.
Trump might successfully appeal that to a higher court. But in the meantime he’ll be convicted.
Now that Trump has legal standing to be in court, Trump’s lawyers should argue that Joe Biden has no lawful right to be the 46th President given Amendment IV and Amendment XIV, Section 3.
Amendment IV provides that:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...
The Brady Bill Joe Biden (and Chuck Schumer) voted to approve violates the Amendment IV right to be secure in the possession of firearms listed on 4473 forms as it is quite reasonable to believe a confiscation list could be compiled from 4473s and federally required gun dealer records.
Quotes on an Amendment XIV, Section 3 use by a judge:
A judge in New Mexico declared Tuesday that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was an “insurrection” as he ruled that Otero County Commissioner and “Cowboys for Trump” founder Couy Griffin must be removed from office for participating in the attack.
Griffin is barred for life from holding any federal or state office — including his current role as county commissioner, from which he will be ousted “effective immediately,” Judge Francis Mathew ruled.
Griffin became “constitutionally disqualified” from those positions as of Jan. 6, 2021, the judge concluded.
With a weaponized FBI and DOJ? Any MAGA person on that jury who doesn't vote to convict will get the Jan 6th treatment.
Meanwhile, leftists DC jury members can post on twitter to brag about voting guilty before the trial even begins without any consequences whatsoever.
But can't a single document consist of two, five, thirteen, fifty-one pages? (Devil's advocate)
The white file boxes depicted can hold 10 reams of packed paper, 500 sheets per ream = 5000 per carton. Assume the boxes aren’t full, and aren’t packed like new paper, and you easily can still likely average 1000 pages per box. The brown boxes are larger...
I presume the article’s first point is that it is impossible to avoid using the word “espionage” when the defendant is charged with violating the Espionage Act, i.e. committing statutorially-defined Espionage.
Next problem: what juror does not know who Donald Trump is, and have a pre-formed positive or negative opinion of him? The only jurors that can be seated are vegetables or liars, with “both” being another possibility.
But, this case should never make it to a jury. Everything about it is a question of LAW, not fact. Jurors could possibly determine whether Trump physically possessed certain sheets of paper, but are not competent to address the make or break legal questions or whether that possession was illegal.
Our greatest fear is being tried by twelve people not smart enough to get out of jury duty...
The author can’t be this impossibly naive. They’ll have no difficulty finding eager jurors because leftists lie - it’s what they do.
Good point.
IIRC-—The National Archives refused to take Trump’s boxes-—and returned them to the White House lawn.
“on the way to acquiring weapons, there are all sorts of thresholds that we would like to prevent. And one of them was portrayed by Mr. Netanyahu in the U.N. about a decade ago, where he drew a line of Iran acquiring one bomb’s worth of 20% enriched material [which would represent 90% of the process of making bomb-grade material]. And by the way, the Iranians respected that, and did not cross that line until 2021. I think it should be understood by everybody that for Israel, this is a threat of existential dimension, a strategic threat. Israel is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring the capability to become a nuclear-armed state.”
“When it comes to the fissile material, as the U.S. administration has indicated, and we agree, the timeline is such that Iran within weeks could acquire one bomb’s worth of military grade fissile material.”
Mossad Director David Barnea:
“In a speech at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism on Sept. 12, 2022: ‘The Iranian leadership must understand that attacks against Israel or Israelis, directly or indirectly by proxies, will be met with a painful response against those responsible, on Iranian soil… The deal [2015 nuclear deal] is based on Iranian lies. Iran has sought to build a nuclear weapon that endangers Israel’s existence. The deal will easily help them reach this goal under international legitimization.’”
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi:
“The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA – the 2015 Iran nuclear deal] was signed with Iran when it already had enough nuclear material for seven potential nuclear bombs: six bombs from low-level enriched uranium and another one from 20% enriched uranium.
“The situation today [is focused on] four potential bombs, even less. It is true that one of them is based on 60% enriched uranium; the distance between 60% and 20% is only a few weeks, so it does not really matter. What is important is not to allow Iran to obtain a nuclear bomb, but also not to get to the point where it can rapidly break out into a nuclear bomb within weeks.
“That was, in my view, the biggest problem with the JCPOA. I thought it was a bad deal at the time, and I did not hide my view. Our responsibility in the IDF is to be ready to strike a substantial blow against the nuclear facilities and also against second-level military targets, and to be ready for a broader conflict with Iran.
“This is what we did in recent years. One, we upgraded our intelligence to greatly increase the number of targets. Second, we increased the number of munitions and systems needed to attack Iran, with the process now at a peak. Third, we built operational plans. Fourth, and most important, we are training for this. We finished two drills. One was during the IDF’s War Month, and the second was at the end of November. We are about to hold a third very large exercise.
“In under a year, we are going to have carried out three training exercises with dozens of aircraft, refueling aircraft and all of the operative units. In addition, we also established an Iran Department in the IDF, led by a major general. All of this speaks for itself regarding the level of preparation that we are achieving.”
National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi:
“The central mission of the prime minister and his primary obligation is to ensure that Iran does not obtain nuclear weapons. The alternative to an attack is accepting a reality in which a radical regime has nuclear weapons. No Israeli leader can accept that.”
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant:
“One thing have to be made clear, loud and clear: Israel will not allow Iran to possess weapons of mass destructions, nuclear weapons aiming Israel.”
Defense Minister Benny Gantz:
“Israel has significantly increased its preparedness in recent years and is preparing for the possibility of an attack on Iran… You may cross the sky to the east in two or three years and take part in an attack on nuclear sites in Iran, for which we are preparing.”
https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2023/jan/25/israel-iran-threat-options
The Israeli Iranian plan will be executed before any US plan would be.
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