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Victor Davis Hanson: Blue Laws for Red Citizens
American Greatness ^ | 22 Feb, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 02/22/2024 5:29:24 AM PST by MtnClimber

We are entering a dangerous era in America. The left is waging lawfare with the implicit message to political opponents: either keep quiet or suffer the consequences.

One state prosecutor and one civilian plaintiff have already won huge fines and damages from Donald Trump that may, with legal costs, exceed $500 million.

Trump awaits further civil and criminal liability in three other federal, state, and local indictments.

There are eerie commonalities in all these five court cases involving plaintiff E. Jean Carroll, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, federal special counsel Jack Smith, and Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis.

One, they are either unapologetically left-wing or associated with liberal causes. They filed their legal writs in big-city, left-wing America—Atlanta, New York, Washington—where liberal judges and jury pools predominate in a manner not characteristic of the country at large.

Two, they are overtly political. Bragg, James, and Willis have either campaigned for office or raised campaign funds by promising to get or even destroy Donald Trump.

Carroll’s suit was funded by left-wing billionaire Reid Hoffman.

Smith sued to rush his court schedule in hopes of putting Trump on trial before the November election.

Three, there would not be any of these cases had Donald Trump not run for the presidency or not been a conservative.

Carroll’s suit bypassed statute of limitation restrictions by prompting the intervention of a left-wing New York legislator. He passed a special bill, allowing a one-year window to waive the statute of limitations for sexual assault claims from decades past.

Until Trump, no New York prosecutor like James had ever filed a civil suit against a business for allegedly overvaluing real estate assets to obtain loans that bank auditors approved and were paid back in full, on time...

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson
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To: rlmorel

Im fine thanks

How are you ???

Ive already voted for President Trump in our early voting here in TN...

:)


21 posted on 02/22/2024 6:33:18 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

I am great...good to hear you already cast your vote before they outlaw elections!


22 posted on 02/22/2024 6:39:43 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: MtnClimber

I can’t think of any reason why Trump could not sue Reid Hoffman for, say, $10 billion dollars once he successfully gets this Engoron judgment thrown out.


23 posted on 02/22/2024 6:50:42 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: texas booster

Ideology and party affiliations increasingly determine guilt and punishment. Opponents are first targeted, and then laws are twisted and redefined to convict them. The left is waging lawfare with the implicit message to political opponents: either keep quiet or suffer the consequences.

Biden's goons and thugs are going full commie totalitarian. How charming.,

24 posted on 02/22/2024 7:25:21 AM PST by GOPJ ( New York Bank loans can bankrupt YOU if some Soros Bimbo doesn't like you. Just ask Trump.)
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To: TTFlyer; wny
Define “conservative”

Please do not question our self-appointed arbiters of who is and who is not a conservative. This determination must be left up to the arbiters who maintain complete autonomy from interference from outside sources such as definitions or the actions of the person in question.


25 posted on 02/22/2024 7:27:29 AM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: MtnClimber

Criminalizing opposition


26 posted on 02/22/2024 7:56:46 AM PST by combat_boots
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To: MtnClimber

While much of the problem is with America/American-hating Democrat/Communists who will stop at nothing to preserve their power and to eliminate (in every sense of the word) their competition, the problem is also with members of the “opposition party” — the GOP — who, other than screaming about the unfairness of it all and vowing to “do something” about it, are completely, totally, utterly entirely ineffective because of their paralyzing fear of the Democrat/Communist Party and the American Left.


27 posted on 02/22/2024 8:20:55 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: silent majority rising

Hitler didn’t form the Nazi party he initially spied on it as part of a German army intelligence unit, like what he saw and joined up.

Hitler found he was good at making rabble rousing speeches and rose to prominence in the party.

The actual founder of the Nazi party then called the German workers party or DAP was about very in locksmith named Anton Drexler.


28 posted on 02/22/2024 8:28:31 AM PST by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: skepsel

The core of the Nazi Party came from the Freikorps, which Hitler was not a member of.


29 posted on 02/22/2024 8:30:09 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: skepsel

So much for talk texting, that’s “a Bavarian locksmith”, not “about very”, smdh!


30 posted on 02/22/2024 8:30:26 AM PST by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: Taxman

ping


31 posted on 02/22/2024 8:48:58 AM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: MtnClimber

One of the sparks that ignited the French Revolution were the infamous “lettre de cachet” where anyone could be imprisoned at the kings whim. The storming of the Bastille prison by a Parisian mob was prompted by rumors that these political prisoners were being held there. While any political prisoners had been moved prior to July 14, 1789, the mob attacked the hated Bastille, butchered the defenders, torn down the Bastille with their bare hands and ignited a bloody revolution. I see many parallels between our current political divisions and those in France in 1789 and fear they could start a similar bloody revolution here.


32 posted on 02/22/2024 9:15:20 AM PST by The Great RJ ( )
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To: dfwgator; skepsel
Check out the brains on Florida Man and the newbie! Junkie Travolta watch that boy in the bathroom. What kind of burger is that?

Opponents are right saying Trump isn't conservative. He's lived life to the fullest while blessed with fortune and fame yet chooses to devote the last of it trying to save our country as a populist, representing we bitter clinger sorts in the higher realms where our better interests and very survival we're literally judged having "no standing" in.

Rematch, bitches. Before the the turds actually turn power on oppressing citizens with their legion of illegals legalized, militarized and putting boots on our necks.

33 posted on 02/22/2024 9:47:16 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (Justice for the gulaged J-6ers. Rope for their persecutors.)
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To: dfwgator

34 posted on 02/22/2024 2:48:06 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: skepsel

I’ve read a few in English. He sounded like every leftist Dem politician.


35 posted on 02/22/2024 2:55:11 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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