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If they can do that to TRUMP, they can do that to YOU
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| 6/1/2024
| By Laz A. Mataz
Posted on 06/01/2024 6:28:27 AM PDT by Lazamataz
(At the end of this editorial, I'm offering the opportunity to get a bumper sticker to spread this message)
A long time ago, in 2005, I saw something George W. Bush had done, and I remarked: "First we beat the Soviet Union, then we became them." Little did I know that in under twenty years, we would see Soviet-style Show Trials. We just witnessed the most high-profile Show Trial in American history, where the President (and current candidate for a second term) was put through a trial where all of the elements were crafted to ensure a guilty verdict on manufactured crimes.
Consider the following elements:
- This judge was specifically selected to handle this case. This case was judge-shopped.
- The venue was specifically selected to ensure a Trump-hating jury.
- "Judge" Merchan took over Federal jurisdiction of election law, even though this was a state court.
- Further, Trump stood accused of a crime in which he had zero personal participation. Some nameless accountant filled out the expense information offered as evidence.
- Merchan refused to allow the defense to present witnesses that could refute the prosecution claims, most notably, one of the nation's foremost experts on Federal election law)
- The New York law (falsifying records) requires a predicate crime, none of which were proven or even formally alleged.
- Merchan instructed the jury to ignore the above fact and assume that a predicate crime exists.
- Multiple federal and state prosecutors passed on even charging Trump with any of those predicate crimes.
- The state crime that Trump was accused of, falsifying business records in pursuit of any other fraud, had long passed the Statute of Limitations, and could not legally be used as a charge.
- During the entire fraudulent trial, he out a gag order on Trump to ensure Trump could not defend himself in the court of public opinion.
- Merchan allowed elements of character assassination to be entered as evidence. How, exactly, was the Access Hollywood tape pertinent to this case?
- Merchan allowed a convicted perjurer and serial liar (Michael Cohen) to be the lead prosecution witness.
- The timing of the prosecution and sentencing of this case was carefully timed to inflict maximum political damage.
In short, a "hanging judge" was selected in a politically-hostile jurisdiction, wherein which the judge defied nearly every rule of evidence and law, muzzled the defense, and promoted every prosecution request, no matter how outrageous. This harkens back to the Soviet Show Trial era that Josef Stalin used to eliminate his opponents. Joe Biden personally showed that this fake trial was politically motivated by flashing a demonic grin when he was asked about the verdict, as he shuffled away from reporters.... and he sent a Trump-hating actor (Robert DiNero) to the courthouse to further assassinate Trump's character.
The so-called judge in this case, Juan Merchan, Merchan violated President Trump's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights in so many ways.
- Trump's Sixth Amendment right to "an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed" was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by not moving the venue to a more balanced location outside of New York City.
- Trump's Sixth Amendment right to a trial in "which district shall have been previously ascertained by law" was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by trying a federal campaign finance law in a county court in New York.
- Trump's Sixth Amendment right "to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusations" against him was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by not revealing what the underlying charge that bootstrapped the misdemeanors was. Even after conviction, nobody knows what the underlying crime was.
- Trump's Sixth Amendment right to "have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor" was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by not letting Trump put the former Chairman of the Federal Elections Commission on the witness stand to give expert testimony on what constitutes illegal campaign spending.
- Trump's Sixth Amendment right to have a unanimous jury verdict was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by letting the jury pick from several possible underlying crimes without all agreeing on what that crime was.
- Trump's Fifth Amendment right to "due process of law" was violated when Bragg and Merchan instructed the jury to presume guilt of the underlying crime that resuscitated misdemeanors that were past their statute of limitations.
To point out the motivations of this so-called judge (besides, of course, Trump Derangement Syndrome), it was revealed that Merchan's daughter (a Democrat consultant) is poised to receive $125 Million in fees, and was given unlimited access to his court.
If such a political, Soviet-style Show Trial can happen to a former President who also is a billionaire, is most certainly can happen to you.
TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: bumperstickers; convictedfelon; herotrump; hushmoneytrial; talkingpoints; trump; trumpguiltyverdict; trumppersecution; trumpverdict
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To: metmom; laplata
Thanks! Hope you enjoyed. Spread it widely please.
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posted on
06/02/2024 8:18:56 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(We're next.)
To: Lazamataz
“I combined all my other ping lists to get a broader reach on this forum. I feel this article is THAT important. If you have been pinged twice, please excuse that.”
Getting pinged twice on important issues is better than not getting pinged at all. So, thanks.
To: metmom
“What happened to him is what they are planning for all of us.”
I envision a replay of the 1930’s Germany. Only... instead of cattle cars it will be black SUVs outfitted with restraints...
just like in the movies.
To: Danie_2023
I envision a replay of the 1930’s Germany. Only... instead of cattle cars it will be black SUVs outfitted with restraints... Or Soviet-style Black Marias.
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posted on
06/02/2024 8:34:41 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Danie_2023
Thanks for understanding. Please spread this piece far and wide! 😊
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posted on
06/02/2024 8:35:28 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(We're next.)
To: joesbucks
Why would that be any issue. The that was a 2021 decision including that this could not be applied retroactively to old cases. It does apply to all cases going forward.
To: Danie_2023
Or those black, black tinted window transport vans that they use to haul around the illegals.
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posted on
06/02/2024 9:08:34 AM PDT
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
To: Lazamataz
Thank you for the kind words, too.
-PJ
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posted on
06/02/2024 10:20:27 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: dfwgator
Remember , the Soviets used vehicles disguised as commercial
vans...all those Amazon trucks you see.....
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posted on
06/02/2024 10:23:33 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
😱
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posted on
06/02/2024 10:24:07 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
To: Lazamataz; All
The demonrats are probably seething that there wasn’t an Antifa-like riot after the verdict... they were hoping for a response so they could declare martial law and seize all the pew-pews. They are going to double down between now and November.
Keep your eyes up as well as your prayers!
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posted on
06/02/2024 11:10:47 AM PDT
by
Reddy
(BO stinks)
To: eartick
If we are not done today we will be done very soon with all these Harvard graduates (future legislators) marching behind a Palestinian rag. We can expect an anti-American form of government to lead this country in the future. America has lost its American principles and foundation that made us unique in the world.
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posted on
06/02/2024 1:26:52 PM PDT
by
353FMG
To: caddie
>> No human can endure what he is enduring at his age.<<
That is the kind way to kill a politician and his enemies know it. A broken heart kills as surely as a heart attack does. A million people may shout USA USA USA and contribute campaign money and wave Trump flags but the deadly shot has already been fired. The whole trial was a political assassination. Trump’s murderers go Scott free.
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posted on
06/02/2024 1:42:34 PM PDT
by
353FMG
To: kiryandil
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posted on
06/02/2024 2:56:10 PM PDT
by
RasterMaster
("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
To: 353FMG
235
posted on
06/02/2024 3:08:08 PM PDT
by
RasterMaster
("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
To: Lazamataz
I believe that had Trump kept his campaign promise of 2016 and actually locked her up, none of this would have happened.
Ultimately Trump was way too nice, and to the vicious people he’s dealing with, niceness is only viewed weakness.
Hopefully Trump learned his lesson, and is going to wield his political power to the fullest extent and go after all these people, and put the fear of God into all of them.
He’s got to start making the other side play defense at some point.
To: Lazamataz
Given the thread subject, I thought you would appreciate this picture from Saturday in my bluest of blue states:

(image didn't post the other day for some reason)
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posted on
06/03/2024 6:11:25 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
To: rlmorel
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posted on
06/03/2024 6:15:32 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(We're next.)
To: Lazamataz
Are they still available?
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posted on
06/03/2024 4:09:21 PM PDT
by
RoadGumby
(This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
To: RoadGumby
240
posted on
06/03/2024 5:29:56 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(We're next.)
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