Bernie Kerik to Newsmax: No Surprise If DOJ Arrests Trump Before Election

NewsMax ^ | Saturday, 01 October 2022 07:07 PM EDT | Sandy Fitzgerald

[Peter ODonnell]

The charge is being a popular and successful white guy. How do you plead?

[Greg123456]

My fear is that Trump is caught in the middle of the shootout.

[Amendment10]

"There are something like 100,000 federal laws and regulations that carry a criminal penalty. We’ve all probably (accidentally) broken a few. So as the old saying goes, if the Feds want ya, they’ve got ya."

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Thank you for posting Leaning Right.

Regarding your comment, in case you have not already seen the following material, you might find it interesting.

Note that the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A), had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to make peacetime penal laws - not even for murder!

• "Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

• "Our Constitution never conferred upon the Congress of the United States the power - sacred as life is, first as it is before all other rights which pertain to man on this side of the grave - to protect it in time of peace by the terrors of the penal code within organized states; and Congress has never attempted to do it. There never was a law upon the United States statute-book to punish the murderer for taking away in time of peace the life of the noblest, and the most unoffending, as well, of your citizens, within the limits of any State of the Union [emphases added]. The protection of the citizen in that respect was left to the respective States, and there the power is to-day.” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See bottom half of third column.)

So the question regarding the ballpark 100,000 federal criminal laws that you mentioned is this. Other than bonafide, 14A-based federal laws that Congress intended to discourage state actors from abridging personal rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect, how many of those federal criminal laws are unconstitutional? Such laws based on constitutionally nonexistent federal government powers, actually state powers that the alleged election-stealing Congress has stolen from the states.

"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters, including closet Democratic Trump supporters, will inevitably need to support Trump-endorsed federal and state lawmakers in dealing with the question of what to do with people who are in federal prison for breaking a criminal law that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress the specific power to make.

Corrections, insights welcome.

[laplata]

I hear you. He also has private security that works with the SS. I don’t trust the SS, either.

[Lisbon1940]

You have to get the precise date and time to win the prize.

[Hiddigeigei]

"It really needs to be fixed, if not 2023, then never."
J. Edgar made the Bureau untouchable by getting the dirt on so many politicians. Remember what Johnson said, "I would rather have him in the tent pissing out than outside pissing in."

[Eagles6]

The SS will stand down.
He did have his own security, at one time, I think.
Ex military.
Hopefully, he still does.
The SS can’t be trusted.

[laplata]

You’re right, the SS would get advance notice.

I’m sure he still has his personal security.

[GulliverSwift]

This guy is talking out of his ass, just like his fellow Newsmax colleague Dick Morris.

He knows nothing about what is going to happen and he hasn’t had any connection to federal law enforcement in decades.

No way in hell DOJ would arrest Trump right before an election. That would backfire tremendously. They also don’t arrest people once they are in litigation against them. Kerik is a moron.