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Victor Davis Hanson: The Fall of the House of Presidential Persecutions
American Greatness ^ | 13 May, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/13/2024 5:16:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber

What will be the endgame of all these attacks on the American legal system and the warping of it for blatant political purposes?

None of the five civil and criminal cases currently lodged against former President Donald Trump have ever had merit. They were all predicated on using the law to injure his re-election candidacy—given a widespread derangement syndrome among the left and a fear they cannot entrust a Trump/Biden election to the people.

These criminal and civil trials are merely the continuation of extra-legal efforts of the last eight years to destroy a presidential candidate in lieu of opposing him in transparent elections.

As such, the current lawfare joins the Mueller investigation of the Russian-collusion hoax. It is a continuation of the laptop disinformation caper and the “51 intelligence authorities” who lied about its Russian origins. It logically follows from the two impeachments, the Senate trial of Trump as a private citizen, and states’ efforts to remove him from their ballots.

The E. Jean Carroll case, the Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and Fani Willis local and state trials, and the Smith federal indictment share various embarrassments.

Suspension of statutes of limitations: Carroll and Bragg could only go to court through the legal gymnastics of enlisting sympathetic judges and legislators to change or amend the law to suspend the statute of limitations as a veritable bill of attainder to go after Trump.

Violations of the Bill of Rights: In the Bragg case, Judge Merchan’s selective and asymmetrical gag order likely violates the First Amendment (prohibiting “abridging the freedom of speech”). Bragg violated the Sixth Amendment by denying Trump the right “to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation”. Judge Engoron, in the juryless James case, violated the Eighth Amendment (“nor excessive fines imposed”)

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billofattainder; civilrights; harassment; lawfare; persecution; showtrials; trump; vdh; victordavishanson
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To: Savage Beast

SCOTUS has more pressing things to rule on like how many weeks is it ok to have an abortion and the rights of ILLEGAL aliens.


21 posted on 05/13/2024 6:59:23 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Savage Beast

When you really need the SCrOTUS to step in, they are not there.


22 posted on 05/13/2024 7:00:05 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MtnClimber

Maybe we can outlaw the laws.


23 posted on 05/13/2024 7:06:24 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: FLT-bird
These cases have shown beyond any doubt that everything I was taught in Law School was pure unadulterated BS. Obviously corrupt federal agencies, prosecutors and judges openly violating the Constitution. Doing so for obviously political reasons. Judges and prosecutors with clear conflicts of interest and in the case of judges issuing rulings that were comically partisan. Federal agencies and prosecutors engaging in obviously selective prosecution refusing to prosecute numerous cases of leftists having done the exact same things.

This is President Trump's forte.

He is Toto in The Wizard of Oz, pulling aside the curtain so we can see the greasy criminals running the rigged and corrupt American system.

God love him.  

24 posted on 05/13/2024 7:08:34 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: central_va; FLT-bird
When you really need the SCrOTUS to step in, they are not there.

aka "The Supreme Fart"...

25 posted on 05/13/2024 7:11:11 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: MtnClimber

Early on VDH was a Stanford never-Trumper stooge. He quickly saw the light after Trump was elected President.


26 posted on 05/13/2024 7:49:02 AM PDT by lewislynn ( Trump accomplished more for Americans in a 4 year term than any President in your lifetime.)
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To: MtnClimber
When all else fails, they will kill him.

And after a week or so of victory dance, shift gears to denouncing conspiracy theories about the killing.

27 posted on 05/13/2024 7:59:16 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

The left will face earnest prosecution, if Trump wins in 2024.


I seriously doubt it. Where will they be prosecuted? NYC, DC, Atlanta, Delaware?


28 posted on 05/13/2024 8:01:02 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Disclaimer

I have serious divergence with VDH

but I watch him

That Aussie pol podcaster author John Anderson dies best interviews with him

I watched this one last nite


29 posted on 05/13/2024 8:03:42 AM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind we’re enduring…Alina Habba is fine as grits I'd drink her bathwater)
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To: SharpRightTurn; Pelham

Did u watch it

He was wrong a few times

He claimed mayors in red states don’t tolerate nonsense like in blue states

Bullshit

In Memphis and Nashville they sure do

I always watch him he’s very erudite

But not always right


30 posted on 05/13/2024 8:06:14 AM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind we’re enduring…Alina Habba is fine as grits I'd drink her bathwater)
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To: central_va

Yes, when the American People need the Supreme Court as desperately as ever in history, the justices prove feckless, incompetent, and paralysed by the lack courage and moral and intellectual clarity.


31 posted on 05/13/2024 8:40:19 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Show me the man and I'll give you the crime. --Lavrentiy Beria, Chief of Stalin's NKVD)
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To: MtnClimber
It is as if the left is afraid of losing momentum in their little communist revolution. I think they will do anything to stop Trump.

I have no doubt - after seeing these insane lawfare attacks - that these people will also allow voter fraud from their base.

32 posted on 05/13/2024 9:58:08 AM PDT by GOPJ ( MSNBC ghouls pretend their 'base' is elites - it's why Biden won't campaign in the black community.)
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To: texas booster
Enemies like China and Russia now boast that America’s new political prosecutions are similar to their own systems, or even more egregious, and will welcome us into their own customs of bastardized justice.

One more reason to elect Trump ... this election really is about saving the country.

33 posted on 05/13/2024 10:01:02 AM PDT by GOPJ ( MSNBC ghouls pretend their 'base' is elites - it's why Biden won't campaign in the black community.)
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To: wardaddy; SharpRightTurn; MtnClimber

I watched this “John Anderson interviews VDH” last night, sounds like it could be the same one:

“The Presidential Election, Failing Higher Education and The End of Everything | Victor Davis Hanson”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZotHFDHwwFU

VDH reminds me of what the late Larry Auster said regarding Dennis Prager- “a confused liberal”. A common affliction of the neoconservative; they want big government interfering with personal liberty when it does something that they like, such as LBJ’s civil rights act. But then they are surprised when that same power that they have granted big government is used to destructive ends as in DEI and affirmitive action.

It’s been a very long time since conservative meant limiting the power and reach of big government. Now it often means conserving the latest advances of bipartisan liberals against the more vicious plans of progressives and socialists.


34 posted on 05/13/2024 2:04:04 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: MtnClimber

Agree w all but the last sentence……


35 posted on 05/13/2024 2:21:13 PM PDT by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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To: wardaddy
But not always right.

Too true. Even at this late date Hanson has yet to accept the 2020 election was stolen. I'm thinking someone will have to treat him like a bad puppy and rub his nose in it.

36 posted on 05/14/2024 10:13:00 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (If you merely LOOK the fool people won't take you seriously.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Also a south basher

Makes Shapiro look like Judah Benjamen


37 posted on 05/14/2024 10:55:58 AM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind we’re enduring…Alina Habba is fine as grits I'd drink her bathwater)
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To: lewislynn

True

Meal ticket or true affection
Who knows


38 posted on 05/14/2024 10:59:16 AM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind we’re enduring…Alina Habba is fine as grits I'd drink her bathwater)
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To: wardaddy

The editors at Chronicles have long had VDH pegged. Neocons are on your side until they aren’t. VDH isn’t Bill Kristol bad, but like the rest he’s anti-paleo at his core. And paleo is where MAGA originated in the 1990s, with the writing of Sam Francis and Pat Buchanan.


39 posted on 05/14/2024 1:55:18 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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