(However, I have faith that what Julie Kelly spells out isn't the way it's actually going to unfold. We'll see more legal maneuvering by President Trump's legal team, and it will be effective.)
Posted on 09/05/2024 6:13:08 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2
Guys, it’s not a win that the J6 case against Donald Trump is not going to trial before the election.
What Chutkan did today by taking the rare—unprecedented?—step of allowing DOJ to file an “opening brief” on additional immunity questions is a way to put Trump on trial without a jury and little recourse.
Tom Windom, Smith’s prosecutor, told Chutkan the brief would be “comprehensive.” The document will include grand jury transcripts, 302s (FBI) and other cherry picked “evidence” to salvage the “Big Lie” narrative as people start to vote.
You can GUARANTEE DOJ will release new bombshells to put Trump on the defensive and create damaging headlines.
It’s a paper trial but without cross examination, defense witnesses, or other due process rights.
Nothing to celebrate.
6:26 PM · Sep 5, 2024 ·
(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...
Even if he wins, he can still be impeached and removed.
‘Even if he wins, he can still be impeached and removed.”
Any president can be impeached and removed.
And it begins. Julie Kelly is right:
Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 Case Could Give Donald Trump an October Surprise
https://www.notus.org/courts/jack-smith-jan-6-case-hearing-donald-trump-october-surprise
Donald Trump faces a neatly packaged and nasty October surprise documenting his conduct leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection from Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith.
After Thursday’s long-anticipated federal court hearing about Trump’s election interference case, the judge overseeing the case demanded prosecutors put together a formal report by Sept. 26 detailing why they believe Trump was acting as a private politician on Jan. 6 and not in his official capacity as president.
Prosecutors proposed filing such a report as a way to move the proceedings forward in light of the Supreme Court’s July opinion granting the former president an extensive and redefined version of presidential immunity.
Although it’s unclear how much new evidence would be on display, the plan put forward by prosecutors — and agreed to by the judge — threatens to once again direct the American public’s attention to Trump’s aggressive attempt to cling to power in 2020 in the closing weeks of this presidential election. It also highlights the fact that Trump’s criminal charges have not been dismissed.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered Smith to file the report in three weeks.
A report of this nature, if filed in late September, could bolster the historical record about Trump’s behavior as an outgoing president, adding to what the House Jan. 6 committee released in December 2022.
Trump wasn’t in the courthouse Thursday when Smith, flanked by an extensive security detail and the rest of his team, met with his defense lawyers in this fourth-floor courtroom for the very first time since the Supreme Court’s opinion on presidential immunity. The Supreme Court’s opinion forced prosecutors to reset and whittle down their election interference case against him with a superseding indictment. Trump’s lawyers entered a not guilty plea on his behalf to the amended charges.
During the hearing, Chutkan openly contemplated how to move the case forward without repeat trips up the appellate ladder that could severely slow this case down.
Thomas Windham, a prosecutor, said his team is already putting together a comprehensive report that would carefully document how Trump’s conduct was “private in nature and not subject to immunity.” He said the court filing could be ready by Sept. 26, if the judge allows them to file it.
“We have begun, it is underway and we have to package the exhibits,” Windham said, referencing the “substantial number of exhibits” that hint at the sheer breadth of the evidence that could be on display.
He said evidence would largely consist of grand jury transcripts and “FBI 302s,” the paperwork that federal special agents use to memorialize interviews. That means the American public could get their first glimpse at what key witnesses — including Trump administration insiders and perhaps even Vice President Mike Pence himself — testified behind closed doors last year.
Windham asserted the filing was crucial in allowing Chutkan “to consider the circumstances, form and context” before determining whether the case can stand after the Supreme Court granted Trump a wall of protection on the grounds that official presidential conduct is completely off-limits to criminal charges.
The judge seemed to remain open to the idea of a minitrial around such a report
Election interference
I know. But they wouldn’t do that to any other President just because they can.
Then JD Vance will become President and pardon Trump.
None of this matters “Peacefully and Patriotically” the end
IMO
If Trump wins, another impeachment is very unlikely.
Even more unlikely would be an impeachment & removal.
AMEN TO THAT!
The media will bark the details. Voters don't trust DOJ or the media. Trump should be like Kamala and ignore it.
Stick to Kamala’s policies are to blame. She's responsible for everything wrong right now.
Bump
It’s a Hail Mary move by the judge in concert with the illegitimate prosecutor, a private citizen named “Smith”.
By allowing this Venezuelan sideshow to continue, John Roberts has delegitimized the Judiciary in this country.
The media will bark the details. Voters don't trust DOJ or the media. Trump should be like Kamala and ignore it.
Stick to Kamala’s policies are to blame. She's responsible for everything wrong right now.
Stalin would be proud of his apprentices in the Democrat Party.
She’s right.
She makes a good point. Undoubtedly that is their strategy (i.e. to try the case in the media). But, in all honesty, I think most people are on to the lawfare. They see it for what it is and have largely tuned it out.
If Julie says it, I believe it...
I am sure all the judges who handle Hunter’s trials will have convictions from guilty pleas on Nov 6th. Pardons that afternoon with an assortment of left wing communist terrorists.
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