If they can do that to TRUMP, they can do that to YOU

Original Content | 6/1/2024 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

(At the end of this editorial, I'm offering the opportunity to get a bumper sticker to spread this message)

A long time ago, in 2005, I saw something George W. Bush had done, and I remarked: "First we beat the Soviet Union, then we became them." Little did I know that in under twenty years, we would see Soviet-style Show Trials. We just witnessed the most high-profile Show Trial in American history, where the President (and current candidate for a second term) was put through a trial where all of the elements were crafted to ensure a guilty verdict on manufactured crimes.

Consider the following elements:

• This judge was specifically selected to handle this case. This case was judge-shopped.
• The venue was specifically selected to ensure a Trump-hating jury.
• "Judge" Merchan took over Federal jurisdiction of election law, even though this was a state court.
• Further, Trump stood accused of a crime in which he had zero personal participation. Some nameless accountant filled out the expense information offered as evidence.
• Merchan refused to allow the defense to present witnesses that could refute the prosecution claims, most notably, one of the nation's foremost experts on Federal election law)
• The New York law (falsifying records) requires a predicate crime, none of which were proven or even formally alleged.
• Merchan instructed the jury to ignore the above fact and assume that a predicate crime exists.
• Multiple federal and state prosecutors passed on even charging Trump with any of those predicate crimes.
• The state crime that Trump was accused of, falsifying business records in pursuit of any other fraud, had long passed the Statute of Limitations, and could not legally be used as a charge.
• During the entire fraudulent trial, he out a gag order on Trump to ensure Trump could not defend himself in the court of public opinion.
• Merchan allowed elements of character assassination to be entered as evidence. How, exactly, was the Access Hollywood tape pertinent to this case?
• Merchan allowed a convicted perjurer and serial liar (Michael Cohen) to be the lead prosecution witness.
• The timing of the prosecution and sentencing of this case was carefully timed to inflict maximum political damage.

In short, a "hanging judge" was selected in a politically-hostile jurisdiction, wherein which the judge defied nearly every rule of evidence and law, muzzled the defense, and promoted every prosecution request, no matter how outrageous.

This harkens back to the Soviet Show Trial era that Josef Stalin used to eliminate his opponents. Joe Biden personally showed that this fake trial was politically motivated by flashing a demonic grin when he was asked about the verdict, as he shuffled away from reporters.... and he sent a Trump-hating actor (Robert DiNero) to the courthouse to further assassinate Trump's character.

The so-called judge in this case, Juan Merchan, Merchan violated President Trump's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights in so many ways.

• Trump's Sixth Amendment right to "an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed" was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by not moving the venue to a more balanced location outside of New York City.
• Trump's Sixth Amendment right to a trial in "which district shall have been previously ascertained by law" was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by trying a federal campaign finance law in a county court in New York.
• Trump's Sixth Amendment right "to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusations" against him was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by not revealing what the underlying charge that bootstrapped the misdemeanors was. Even after conviction, nobody knows what the underlying crime was.
• Trump's Sixth Amendment right to "have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor" was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by not letting Trump put the former Chairman of the Federal Elections Commission on the witness stand to give expert testimony on what constitutes illegal campaign spending.
• Trump's Sixth Amendment right to have a unanimous jury verdict was denied to him by Bragg and Merchan by letting the jury pick from several possible underlying crimes without all agreeing on what that crime was.
• Trump's Fifth Amendment right to "due process of law" was violated when Bragg and Merchan instructed the jury to presume guilt of the underlying crime that resuscitated misdemeanors that were past their statute of limitations.

To point out the motivations of this so-called judge (besides, of course, Trump Derangement Syndrome), it was revealed that Merchan's daughter (a Democrat consultant) is poised to receive $125 Million in fees, and was given unlimited access to his court.

If such a political, Soviet-style Show Trial can happen to a former President who also is a billionaire, is most certainly can happen to you.

[TexasGator]

“I will quote Mark Twain: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”

Which newspaper did you read that fake quote in?

[Lazamataz]

Yup, after a little investigation, I find that this was indeed misattributed.

However, I have it on good authority that this quote was real:

[wjcsux]

“About once every three years or so we’ll get a MurryMom reference on here and I actually start laughing out loud. Her and old A+Bert were priceless.”
Some of us here are old enough to remember Ash and WillieGreen.

[combat_boots]

Holy cow.

Ash

[Lazamataz]

Because not all of what I opine or link to is liberal lunacy. In fact much of it.

Show me solid conservative positions you have taken extemporaneously.

And if you’re not consuming all sides of the narrative, you aren’t well informed.

I will (mis)quote Mark Twain: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”

“All sides of the narrative” includes people who think there are 57 genders, that global warming will kill humanity, and that men who pretend they are women should compete in women’s sports. Sorry, these people are insane. They live on a different planet than I do. I have no desire to hear the ravings of madmen.

I know many here stick fingers in their ears and scream La La La when it comes to differing perspectives.

I don’t mind different perspectives, I see those here all the time. What I do mind is rabid liberals who, after I lay out very clear bullet points on why the Soviet-Show-Trial nature of Trump’s prosecution was quite outrageous, and smacks of Banana Republic tactics.... when those people come on this forum and claim the trial Trump got was fair.

You know, people like you.

And by the way, I am not alone in my opinion about you. I see MANY people who dislike your presence on this forum.

But just as they whine when Coulter (when she was still welcome here) or Benson or some other bomb thrower is a speaker at a college campus and people protest, this forum in general makes fun of those seeking safe spaces from the hurtful words of those speakers.

I don’t give two rats testicles and a moldy muffin what you call it. Safe spaces? Fine. That’s what I want, then. I want ONE PLACE ON THE INTERNET where I do not have to see liberal lunacy.

You are doing the same with those who have differing worldviews here.

Differing viewpoints is fine when the people are mostly aligned with my values. However, when a rabid liberal stays on this forum, that’s where I draw the line.

When was the last time you watched CNN or MSNBC or CBS et al for news?

For news? About 20 years ago. I might visit them briefly to see if they are still completely crazy, and always find they are.

[Kathy in OC]

Did Trump’s lawyers not agree on the jury panel? Each side got the same number of challenges. There was even a guy who gets his news from Truth Social on the jury. What are you talking about?

[joesbucks]

You’re not worth my time.

[Lazamataz]

Even if a few jurors may have started with neutral opinions, the prosecutor’s side was vastly over-represented, the defense was mostly muzzled, and the judges instructions fairly ensured a set of guilty verdicts.

[wjcsux]

Hey TeslaGator! I didn’t know that you were still here.

[TexasGator]

“Hey TeslaGator! I didn’t know that you were still here.”

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[Nifster]

Of course we love you

[Lazamataz]

Thanks. Spread this work everywhere you can. The points all the pundits (Levin and so on) were rambling narratives that nobody would read or comprehend.

I felt putting them in bullet points would make the facts far more accessible.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

[thecodont]

Thank you.

[Lazamataz]

You’re not worth my time.

Ah, but YOU are worth MY time.

[Lazamataz]

Thank you.

My pleasure, FRiend!

[Songcraft]

That was after Abe shaved his beard off.

(Back in 1945, Abe probably used a shaving mug & brush and a straight razor to do that.)


 

[simpson96]

*bump*

[kiryandil]

Play that chin music, Laz!

I wanna watch him squirm in the dirt after you back him off the plate. :)

[Dick Bachert]

[kiryandil]

You’re not worth my time.

To: kiryandil

I believe Trump has had a fair trial. Should I be charged with crimes, I hope I would be treated as well as Trump.

148 posted on 5/29/2024, 11:06:08 PM by joesbucks
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