Posted on 03/17/2024 6:06:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
he removal of lead special prosecutor Nathan Wade from Donald Trump’s prosecution had the feel of a Southern Gothic.
Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis had described Wade as “a Southern gentleman. Me, not so much.” For weeks, the public has been enthralled by accounts of Wade’s illicit affair with Willis. Then there was the roughly three-quarters of a million dollars paid to Wade before he was booted from the case this week.
Channeling Tennessee Williams in his play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Judge Scott McAfee wrote that, after their testimony, there remained “an odor of mendacity.”
That odor was particularly strong after the hearings indicated that Wade may have committed perjury in his earlier divorce case, and that both Willis and Wade were credibly accused of lying on the stand about when their relationship began.
They are prosecuting defendants in the Trump case accused of the same underlying conduct, including 19 individual counts of false statements, false filings or perjury.
Yet, that distinct odor noted by Judge McAfee goes beyond the sorted affairs of Willis and Wade.
For many citizens, mendacity, or dishonesty, is wafting from various courtrooms around the country. The odor is becoming intolerable for many Americans as selective prosecution is being raised in a wide array of cases.
The problem is that courts have made it virtually impossible to use this claim to dismiss counts. Yet there is a disturbing level of merit to some of these underlying objections.
For years, conservatives have objected that there is a two-tier system of justice in this country. I have long resisted such claims, but it has become increasingly difficult to deny the obvious as selective prosecution in a variety of recent cases and opinions.
I have long stated that the charges against Trump over documents at Mar-a-Lago are strong and based on established precedent. However, the recent decision of Special Counsel Robert Hur not to bring criminal charges against President Joe Biden has undermined even that case.
Hur described four decades of Biden serially violating laws governing classified documents. The evidence included Biden telling a third party that he had classified material in his house and actually reading from a classified document to his non-cleared ghostwriter. There is evidence of an effort to destroy evidence and later an effort of the White House to change the report. There is also Biden’s repeated denial of any knowledge or memory of the documents found in nine locations where he worked or lived.
Hur ultimately had to justify the lack of charges based on a belief that he could not secure a conviction from a D.C. jury with an elderly defendant with diminished mental faculties.
Although Special Counsel Jack Smith could still proceed on obstruction counts, his prosecution of Trump for the retention and mishandling of national security documents is absurdly in conflict with the treatment Biden is receiving.
In New York, the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. She never specified any particular crime, just promising to bag Trump....
The two-tiered system of justice is becoming impossible for even leftists to deny.
thats their very goal
Why deny it?
The mistake is to think that they are trying to deny it. They are making the two-tiered system as clear as possible.
“...the sorted affairs of Willis and Wade.”
Sorta sorded if you ask This Guy.
I don’t see this stopping until those doing are made to absolutely Cleary understand they have great personal skin in this “game” of selective prosecution and that it will have horrific personal and professional consequences for them. There was a time when the average decent God-fearing citizen would not think of doing behavior such as selective lawfare prosecution out of shame that it was wrong. I think that time is long gone and it’s now purely partisan political lawfare and warfare, done gleefully with little worry to consequences, reputation, eternal judgment from God, etc.
While ‘The Hill’ is a provably leftist rag that is read by most communists seeking justification for their untenable political viewpoint, this article would jolt their sensibilities ... if they read it. Most will note the author and move on, the truths in JTs writings will not be absorbed in those that most need it.
It would not surprise me to hear that ‘The Hill’ is inundated with emails from leftists chastising the editors for allow any neutral or leans right opinion to sully the site.
Good point.
One might argue that the two-tiered justice system is being used as an unspoken threat to any and all who might speak out against those in power.
For weeks, the public has been enthralled by untoward accounts of Wade and Willis in l/e
<><>her paying incompetent him and his law firm roughly $750,000 tax dollars for his “expertise”
<><>and the spectacle of Wade being booted from the case this week.
The public wonders how many tax dollars the generous willis gave him as a “separation fee.”
Remember, the federal and state investigations of Fani
Willis are far from over and are enough to get her disbarred:
<><>she needs to explain her tax-paid meetings at the White House
<><>her contacts with Jack Smith,
<><>her contacts w/ the J6 committee Trump haters,
<><>why she stored campaign cash in her house
<><>she leaked grand jury testimony to Michael Isikoff for his book about her “integrity”
<><>she had hold of an illegally recorded conversation
<><>she made this illegality one of the pillars of the Trump case
<><>a GA County DA cannot immunize testimony WRT a violation of FL state law.
<><>a DA poisoning the Jury Pool is unheard of
<><>and she went to church to do the poisoning.
<><>she falsified cell phone location tracking data (usually puts people in prison)
<><>she flat-out lied to a judge,
<><>she committed perjury in a court of law,
<><>she fired her subordinate who blew the whistle WRT Willis’ abuse of a $500,000 federal grant.
It started when Fanny and NayNay sorted themselves out years back and drew swords deposing each other on the sly.
Then they had to keep it under seal, and now you’ve got this sordid mess.
finally more people are starting to open their eyes to the truth of what is happening.
This is nothing but Jim Crow justice aimed at conservatives this time instead of blacks.
Appropriate
[[For weeks, the public has been enthralled by accounts of Wade’s illicit affair with Willis. ]]
Um, they spelt “Revolted” wron
My word! Turley can't see the inequities of Joe's sloppy, clearly illegal, very likely bribery-based retention and dissemination of SCIF-absconded classified documents over several decades versus the PRA-protected PDJT having to sort out NARA's dump on the street of classified information, then being charged with violating national security by Jack Smith after only months of having those documents under USSS protection!
Turley apparently can't see selective prosecution while Joe's got kid-glove treatment over far, far worse national-security-related behavior and likely bribery, Barry's, Reagan's and Mike Pence's non-prosecution, and Bill Clinton's controlling legal (albeit sock-drawer) precedent.
Hur's likely Garland-instructed contortions apparently fit right in with Turley's perception of strong legal precedent against PDJT! Balderdash!
I believe Judge Cannon will soon show Turley that she is the far more thoughtful contemplator of prosecutorial misconduct, PDJT's sound classified document actions, legal precedents and the law itself.
Sordid!
This Guy can’t spehl.
Turkey must still be getting some cocktail/garden party invites to come out with that B.S., ...strong...established precedent. Yikes what a suckup.
Turley should stop reminding that he’s a Rat and will continue to vote Rat.
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