Posted on 07/13/2025 8:10:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Attorney General Pam Bondi has trouble enough on her hands. I write not to add on to her woes, but to seize the opportunity to call attention to those poor souls sacrificed on the altar of racial appeasement, most notably George Zimmerman, but also Greg and Travis McMichael. They share the dubious honor of being abandoned by Republican governors and attorney generals too spineless to resist a Democrat-fueled mob.
Bondi’s original sin was her framing of Zimmerman for the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. I use the word “framing” with precision. I know the case as well as anyone other than Zimmerman and his attorneys. I wrote the definitive book on the subject, If I Had a Son, and consulted extensively with Joel Gilbert on his brilliantly researched film and companion book, The Trayvon Hoax. Over the years, I have become good friends with George and see him often. I have witnessed up close the toll the injustice he suffered has taken on his life.
There is no doubt that Zimmerman, 28 years old at the time, shot and killed the 17-year-old Martin. But there is also no doubt that Zimmerman was framed for Martin’s murder. He should never have been arrested, and should never have had to stand trial. He was saved from a life in prison by a six-woman jury too naive to anticipate the public shaming that awaited them when they voted to acquit.
Within weeks of the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting it was clear to anyone paying attention — shout out here to Sundance and the “Treepers” at the Conservative Tree House — that Zimmerman was the victim of a vicious, unprovoked assault by an aspiring MMA fighter nearly half-a-foot taller. Had Zimmerman not shot Martin he very likely would have been beaten to death.
On March 23, 2012, then-President Barack Obama yielded to the pressure from a leftist mob hopped up on four weeks of disinformation. By this time, the White House had access to all of the information the Sanford Police Department did. The courageous step for Obama would have been to defend the Sanford Police and to demand an end to the media lynching of Zimmerman — a Hispanic Obama supporter and civil rights activist.
As an African-American, Obama had more latitude to speak out than a white politician would have. He chose not to. Concluded Obama after some meaningless temporizing: “But my main message is to the parents of Trayvon — If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.”
The State of Florida’s Republican leadership showed no more courage than Obama. After consulting with then-Attorney General Bondi, Gov. Rick Scott appointed Angela Corey as special prosecutor and washed his hands of the mess on his doorstep.
A week after Obama threw in with Martin’s family, Bondi did as well. She called his negligent parents “amazing people” and described the family attorneys as “friends of mine.” Ever judicious, Bondi added, “You never want to make an arrest too soon. We need justice, but you never want to make an arrest without having all the answers.” That said, she too backed away from the case — well, almost backed away.
Those “friends of mine,” most notably Martin attorney Benjamin Crump, were in the process of making Bondi’s life more difficult. Crump was badgering “Diamond,” the girl who was on the phone with Martin in the moments before his death, to tell the state attorneys a story Crump had concocted. ABC’s Matt Gutman might as well have been Crump’s press agent, headlining his article, “Trayvon Martin’s Last Phone Call Triggers Demand for Arrest Right Now.”
On April 2, 2012, State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda showed up in Miami expecting to depose Martin’s girlfriend, but the 16-year-old Diamond refused to perjure herself. The girl de la Rionda met instead was the 19-year-old, mentally challenged, morbidly obese Rachel Jeantel. Crump and Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, insisted that Jeantel was Martin’s girlfriend, the “phone witness” who would testify that it was Zimmerman who provoked Martin. This interview led promptly to Zimmerman’s arrest.
Fearful of backlash from the Left, the state attorneys allowed the charade to proceed. For months, they did their best to hide Jeantel not only from the public but also from Zimmerman’s attorneys. Sensing something amiss, the defense attorneys asked to depose Crump. After a judge ruled against them, they appealed. In April 2013, Bondi put her thumb on the scale of justice and left fingerprints. She wrote a 41-page document arguing against the defense team’s request. Their request was denied.
The case proceeded to trial. In June 2013, Jeantel took the stand and tried to relate the story that Crump had fed her. For those who cared to see, her testimony confirmed what a sham the whole proceeding had been, but few bothered looking. The media had convinced their audiences to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears.
When Zimmerman was acquitted in July, the left erupted in outrage. Said Crump, “Trayvon Martin will forever remain in the annals of history next to Medgar Evers and Emmett Till, as symbols for the fight for equal justice for all.” Al Sharpton called the verdict an “atrocity.” In sympathy, three Marxist females coined the phrase “black lives matter” and launched a movement.
The useful idiots in the entertainment world joined the mindless rush to pile on. In Ireland, Bruce Springsteen sang a song in Trayvon’s honor. Justin Timberlake dedicated a song to Trayvon in Yankee Stadium. Stevie Wonder promised to boycott Florida unless the state repealed its Stand Your Ground law, which had nothing to do with the trial. Beyoncé sang “I will always love you” to Trayvon in Nashville then joined billionaire multimedia mogul Jay-Z for a vigil in New York....SNIP
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Trump is no fool.
He knows that “our swamp is better than their swamp” is not the way to win elections nor the confidence of the public.
Hiding evidence and entreating false evidence in their place......allowing that will definitely create another swamp and once you start on that course, there is no turning back until the ultimate crash.
Never forget it; “our swamp is better than their swamp” is not going to win elections nor the public trust.
quotes:
The first memorial service will be on June 4 in Minneapolis at North Central University’s Frank J. Lindquist Sanctuary, where Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver a “national eulogy” and one of the Floyd family attorneys, Ben Crump, will give a “national criminal justice address.”
Another memorial service will be held on June 6 in Raeford, North Carolina
Houston, Texas....A public visitation will occur at The Fountain of Praise on Hillcroft Avenue
A private funeral service will be held at the same location on June 9 at 11 a.m. local time, which former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to attend, Crump said at a press conference on Tuesday.
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Crump announced on Monday that an independent autopsy determined the cause of death was by asphyxia “due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain.” The autopsy results from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner concluded Floyd’s death was caused by a cardiopulmonary arrest.
That’s what it sounds like to me.
Nice job of covering for what we know is the truth. I have seen people all day try to whitewash that satanic cesspool that Epstein and his operations actually were.
It would probably be better to quit trying to put a halo on all the wrongdoing and just accept that this will remain covered up for good and move on. That at least acknowledges that we know it was wrong but we are just going to forget about it.
The sweet takes are nauseating.
I hope we aren’t going to have to do this too many more times and be blamed by the admin for promises that have morphed into something else and be treated as though we are disloyal for expecting better.
Monday may be another day for this. I hope not. I would like POTUS to quit shoving that rotten piece of crap Lindsay Graham down our throats because if I lived in SC he would not get my vote no matter who endorsed him.
Pretty obvious from Bondi’s involvement in the Trayvon Martin travesty that she was always a light-weight.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-if-i-had-a-son-hed-look-like-trayvon/
POLITICS
Obama: “If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon”
By Stephanie Condon
March 23, 2012 / 2:37 PM EDT / CBS News
Updated at 1:50 p.m. ET
(CBS News) President Obama spoke out for the first time on Friday about the fatal shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old African-American boy in Florida named Trayvon Martin, calling it a “tragedy.”
“I can only imagine what these parents are going through,” Mr. Obama said from the White House Rose Garden, “and when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids, and I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together, federal, state and local, to figure out how this tragedy happened.”
Mr. Obama said he is glad the Justice Department is investigating the shooting and that Florida Gov. Rick Scott formed a task force in response to the incident as well. The president suggested he was sympathetic to suspicion that the shooting may have been racially motivated.
“You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon,” Mr. Obama said
“You are such a sucker! This was the narrative back in 2012. You are a sucker if you blame Bondi.”
First of all, why the personal attack?!
Second, Bondi was Florida AG, not a federal prosecutor. She did not have to cooperate with Obama’s agenda. She didn’t work for him. She chose poorly.
Ok. So justice is not in your equation. If Bondi did indeed do as you say, she has no integrity.
Michael Wolff /massive eyeroll
It is Letitia James, the Attorney General of the State of New York, who would have primary responsibility in the matter, and the best legal tools to work with.
She oversold the Epstein with the binder clown show and files on desk and undeserved with simply nothing but garbage of insulting lies. The overall problem is the inadequacy of the law and order justice agenda of MAGA.
“according to recordings obtained exclusively by the Daily Beast.”
“Wolff says he has up to 100 hours of recordings of interviews with Epstein”
“Wolff told the Beast he interviewed Epstein, then 64, in a “gargantuan” study in his townhouse on East 71st Street in Manhattan two years before his death. The Beast has reviewed the entire recording, which is one hour, 44 minutes long. The voice on the tape clearly matches recordings of Epstein’s voice from depositions in 2012 and 2016.”
“The Trump campaign has already attacked Wolff for releasing audio of Epstein, calling the author “a disgraced writer who routinely fabricates lies in order to sell fiction books because he clearly has no morals or ethics.”
link given previously:
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG-119-JU08-20250227-SD006-U6.pdf
“Stevie Wonder promised to boycott Florida...”
He saw the whole thing with his own ears.
“The overall problem is the inadequacy of the law and order justice agenda of MAGA.”
Justice is often going to be unobtainable because the related federal district jury pools are generally filled with Democrats on the dole.
Changes in the federal law should have been possible, but RINO senators retained the filibuster.
The Titanic was thought to be unsinkable.
The USA is still thought by too many to be unsinkable.
To me that was one of the most bizarre thing of all, the media so weirdly racist that it could not bring itself to say watermelon in connection with a black, so they have almost all called it "iced Tea".
Even online it is hard to find a good photo of the actual can.
They are all adult now, some with children. And most if not all have been paid a lot of money.
“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”
President Barack Obama, March 2012
https://www.amazon.com/If-had-Son-Railroading-Zimmerman/dp/1938067215/
Everyone high up in govt pretended that they were all about bringing justice for Trayvon. They had to ignore a mountain of evidence to take that side. They were all cowards afraid of being accused of racism if they didn’t jump on the Zimmerman’s guilty bandwagon.
That is not integrity, that is the polar opposite of integrity. That Bondi couldn’t bring herself to believe the evidence that was right in front of her eyes says that she is just another cowardly political animal, and doesn’t belong as AG.
CHECK
Bondi claimed the (now disavowed) files had 250 female victims.
Roughly 100 have had their cases adjudicated at this point.
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