Posted on 08/01/2023 4:30:59 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Fox News Contributor and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump “basically just accuses him of disinformation. This is a disinformation indictment” and charges “many” things that are protected by the First Amendment.
Turley said, “There’s less than meets the eye in this indictment. I thought the last indictment was a very serious threat for Donald Trump. When I take a red pen through material that is protected by the First Amendment, it reduces much of this to a haiku. Many of the things that the prosecutor is charging here [are] protected speech.”
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Turley is too fair-minded to be a Washington attorney.
Maybe you hadn’t understood it. I’ll leave it to a jury, but the fraudulent behavior about the electors is pretty open/shut.
He could have come up with alternate security, if he wanted to still have the event. He’s supposedly a billionaire, and was President at the time. But as I said, no security should have meant no event.
And to try to blame Pelosi just sounds suspect, if not ridiculous. I literally laugh every time I hear that. It just doesn’t sound believable, that was his only option, or, that he would have even trusted her in the first place? Would you?
Here’s why it doesn’t sound believable. The very next day, Trump himself was calling it a “heinous attack on the United States Capitol. Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness, and mayhem. I immediately called out the national guard, and other federal law enforcement to secure the building, and expel the intruders.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYKkQ3BOo_E
Wait, what? He claims he called out the National Guard to stop the heinous attack, but waited until there was an attack already underway before worrying about security?
And how is this supposed to square with his attempted alibi for not having security, that he came up with later, that ONLY Nancy could do that at the Capitol?
He did vote for them, but he also supported impeaching Clinton. When it comes to impeachment, he seems to be nonpartisan.
I have given up trying to communicate with Golden Eagle.
“...and the evil doers and seducers shall wax worse and worse”
II Timothy
“And to try to blame Pelosi just sounds suspect, if not ridiculous. I literally laugh every time I hear that.”
Of course I believe you, since you cash the check she sends you every month for your services rendered.
Sadly, you’ve gotten weak in your retorts. I’m disappointed in Trump from the right, not the left. So I agree with what Trump said on January 7th. Here it is again.
“I’d like to address the heinous attack on the United States Capitol. Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness, and mayhem. I immediately called out the national guard, and other federal law enforcement to secure the building, and expel the intruders. America is, and must always be, a nation of law, and order.”
My position on the subject is simple. If he couldn’t, or wouldn’t provide sufficient security, he shouldn’t have had the event.
To have supposedly up to a million, angry, protestors milling around the capitol building on the day of the electoral college vote, with no real security on site other than just the normal capitol police, was an obvious recipe for disaster.
Feel free to argue against that, but if the best anyone has is that it’s all Pelosi’s fault, then I believe there’s an issue with your logic. Thanks.
You must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.
Deut 19:19
“I have given up trying to communicate with Golden Eagle.”
Smart. I expect he’s on the DNC and/or Soros payroll.
“you’ve gotten weak in your retorts.”
Sorry. Will try to do better. We’re in the middle of a stressful move now so I’m not at the top of my game.
“Turley is a thousand times better, smarter, sensible than Dersh ever was”.
While Turley pointed out the absurdity of Smith’s indictment regarding January 6, don’t forget that Turley said Trump is in serious legal jeopardy for the Mar Lago documents matter.
Yes. Donald Trump clearly engaged in terrible free speech they didn’t like to complain about the results of the “most fair election in history” and wasn’t present where some people who supported him committed crimes (trying to overthrow the government without any weapons), but he’s definitely responsible for those crimes and of a vast conspiracy to stop the government from transferring his presidency to the rightful “winner”. I think I have it about right. He will likely be convicted in a D.C. court comprised of 95% Democrat voters (clearly “a jury of his peers”).
well, I don’t agree with THAT!
When does this lawfare against our constitution become a coup to overthrow our government?
Already has.......................
Ok. Is that the narrative from the media sphere? That this is free speech being prosecuted as criminality?
I would think that it doesn’t matter what is said by anyone at this point in a politically charged zeitgeist, especially on either side of the aisle. I’ll make my own conclusions based on the facts I have on hand, and I am saying I don’t have enough of those facts to finalize anything — but the legal facts established by this indictment, read in whole, are pretty damning.
Do we want a man that can just be led around like a leash by whoever says a honeyed word he is primed by self-interest to want to be true, in office? To be led into criminality? We know that this is likely going to be his defense: he truly believed in what he was saying, and was led astray by bad counsel, so you must acquit. There is very little other strategy I can come at this with, and while it might remit some of the guilt it doesn’t absolve it.
Yes your honor, I might have conspired to kill that man. However, I was told that he was a serial killer by my subordinates, and those subordinates were very persuasive. I did not listen to the 94 out of 100 other subordinates and colleagues who said it’s a conspiracy from the mothership, because I wanted to believe I was performing justice.
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