Posted on 10/22/2021 8:37:17 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
All of them were arrested after Trump left office. And no, he isn't paying any of their legal bills. Why should he?
They pled guilty. That makes appeal pretty difficult since they have to prove their plea was not made voluntarily, knowingly, or intelligently.
Fair point!
We need to put some serious hurt on the communists in DC.
You say that like it’s a bad thing...
Who would want to donate to Trump? He abandons the little people who put him in the White House. He didn’t pardon any of these people, is he helping to pay the legal defense of any of them?
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He was exiting the white house in a few days, and the people charged had not even been rounded up in January. How could he pardon them?
And pay for their legal costs? Why? He didn’t tell them to go inside the building.
I am disgusted by the actions of this man.
Since when is administration of justice equivalent to “I want this sentence to hurt.”?
Trump should’ve pardoned all of these people before he left office.
What is “TDSB”?
FIve freakin’ charges for a single incident? I know prosecutors can do it. But...what puepuse does it serve in this instance other than to allow the court to be overly punitive in sentencing...as we see here.
THere has to be a review of this entire affair, and not hte hack partisan crap from the Congress.
Video clips of the the Capitol Police holding open the doors, and directing folks in should shut sown this whole garbage persecution.
Did they make a plea "bargain", a guilty plea for reduced sentence, and then got the maximum?
And while we're at it, isn't a plea deal ALWAYS made under duress?
I seem to recall a case recently where they utterly broke a man financially, and he wouldn't cave. Then they threatened to do the same to his son with (like in his case) no real underlying crime.
The press crowed for days about how he plead guilty and what a great victory it was for the regime!
The judge is a tyrannical tool that must be eliminated as a domestic enemy that many are sworn to protect us from
I don’t think he was a FISA judge at that time...when I saw that graphic, I had to look, it was a while back...as far as I could tell. But that said a lot for me that he was one of them at one point, because I don’t trust any single one of them at all.
And Wikipedia, as Leftist as it is worded his entry disgustingly to make him sound like some kind of friend of citizens against government intrusion, but when you read the cases he has been involved in, it is clear he is Deep State, and an affirmative action hire it is certain.
From Wikipedia:
“During his FISC tenure, Judge Walton was “exceptionally concerned” about the NSA’s “flagrant violation” of the court orders regarding privacy, and he accused the agency of “misinterpretations.” In another paragraph , it had this obvious ball-washing description: “The Washington Post reported, “fellow judges and lawyers who appear before him say Walton’s decisions do not appear to be guided by politics but by a tough-on-crime mentality.” It also said this: “Walton is known by local defense attorneys as a “long ball hitter” – a judge willing to impose long sentences in order to deter future crimes.”
And these are some of the cases:
United States v. Libby
Walton also presided over the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, Scooter Libby. I don’t know anything about whether Scooter Libby is good or bad, but this was a travesty.
Whitewater
Main article: Whitewater controversy
On October 4, 2016, Walton rejected the release of Hillary Clinton criminal indictment drafts prosecutors prepared, but never issued, during the Whitewater investigation in the 1990s. He ruled that Clinton had a “substantial privacy interest” when he rejected a Judicial Watch lawsuit under FOIA. Deep State scumbag.
Mohammon v. Bush[edit]
Walton presided over Mohammon v. Bush, a set of amalgamated habeas corpus petitions, submitted on behalf of Guantanamo captives. On August 21, 2009, Reuters reported that Walton issued a ruling about “hearsay evidence” that applied to all the Guantanamo detainees’ habeas petitions before him. Much of the evidence the Department of Justice is presenting in the habeas petitions is hearsay evidence. Ruling for the murderous human stains being held there.
Mueller Report redactions
On Monday, August 5, 2019, Politico reported that while hearing arguments regarding lawsuits by BuzzFeed and the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center, as they seek to reveal the approximately 1,000 redacted items in the publicly-released edition of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, Walton indicated that he would review the redactions before determining whether to grant making them public. On Thursday, March 5, 2020, Walton described Attorney General William Barr’s public statements about the Mueller report as “misleading”, and said that Barr’s representations regarding DoJ redactions from the report could not be credited. nOn October 6, 2020 President Trump, referencing the Mueller report, tweeted “I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax”. In response to the President’s statement, BuzzFeed requested an unredacted versions of the report; however, BuzzFeed’s request for an unredacted report was denied by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ told Walton, “…the President’s statements on Twitter were not self-executing declassification orders...” To clear up the position of the President, Walton ordered a continuance until October 21, 2020 so, “I can get something from White House counsel saying that they conferred with the president, and the president, in fact, did not intend to declassify the information…in other words...kicking the can down the road so voters won’t see it. Deep State POS.
The prosecution wanted 30 days in jail and they got probation, public service, and a fine. Sounds like what he imposed was less than the maximum under the plea agreement.
And while we're at it, isn't a plea deal ALWAYS made under duress?
Unless you know you're guilty.
on the contrary
There is that.
Or you know that the entire full might of the federal government will be used with the full deliberate and malicious intent to make a beaten-to-a-bloody-pulp example of you. Exculpatory evidence will be suppressed, witnesses intimidated, jurors suborned. Good luck.
You are destined to be one of the eggs in the omelet they so desperately crave.
Maybe you can get away with only being soft boiled in exchange for giving them a poster boy instead of a full Emmanuel Goldstein?
Room 101 awaits your decision...
Yet the black kid that shot those kids in school is walking the streets right now.
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