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rump's "hush money" trial is all about smearing Donald Trump One year ago, New York City district attorney, Alvin Bragg, was asked by a reporter, "What crime did Trump commit to be on trial?", and Bragg replied that he didn’t have to tell him what the crime was, because the law doesn’t require it. The legal theory behind the People v. Trump Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s "Theater of the Absurd" entered its third week, still without any evidence of crimes committed by the accused. When Bragg first brought charges against Donald Trump in March 2023, the legal theory behind...

Yahoo News’ Michael Isikoff, an early public conduit for Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier, now says the former British spy’s sensational Russia collusion charges lack apparent evidence and are “likely false.” As Election Day loomed in September 2016, Mr. Isikoff was the first Washington journalist to write about Mr. Steele’s memos. He focused on Mr. Steele’s contention that Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page met with nefarious operatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a publicly announced trip to Moscow in July 2016. As reported by the Daily Caller, Mr. Isikoff this month told Mediaite columnist John Ziegler: “When you actually get...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Just about 24 hours ago, a local man didn't know if he would be leaving the Duval County Courthouse a free man. He faced three years in prison on an aggravated assault charge. His attorney said he simply stood his ground. And Thursday, a jury agreed. The charge stemmed from a May 2011 confrontation in the parking lot of the Jacksonville Beach Pier. A local man was left beaten and bloody after a fist fight. He pulled his gun and was arrested. But his attorney, Lee Lockett, says that should have never happened. "My client was simply...

Gerald Amirault was on WEEI radio's Dennis and Callaghan show today, discussing the shameful role of Martha Coakley in the prosecution of a false child molestation case. Audio here. The hosts talked about how the entire Fells Acres trail was a truly shameful episode in local history. Amrirault himself recounted all the years he spent in "protective custody" i.e. solitary confinement, because of concerns that as a convicted child molester he would not be safe in the general population. When he finally did go into the general population, the reaction of the other inmates was be cool man, we know...

Bush won't pardon agents immediately By DAVE MONTGOMERY Star-Telegram Washington Bureau JOSE ALONSO COMPEAN More photos WASHINGTON -- Are they mistreated heroes or rogue lawmen?That question is at the heart of a nationwide uproar over Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, who are beginning decade-long sentences in federal prison for the nonfatal shooting of a suspected drug smuggler given immunity to testify against them.Scores of Republican lawmakers and thousands of grassroots petitioners have besieged President Bush with demands that the agents be granted immediate pardons.But to federal prosecutor Johnny Sutton and his defenders, the two Texas-based agents...

The North Carolina Bar has filed charges against Durham District Attorney Thomas Nifong. The Center for Individual Freedom's Freedom Line reports: On December 28, 2006, the North Carolina State Bar filed ethics charges against Durham, North Carolina District Attorney Michael B. Nifong for public statements made related to the so-called Duke University rape case. As noted earlier on Karnick on Culture (see articles here, here, and here) and elsewhere, the case was a blatant instance of false prosecution from the beginning. The Freedom Line article nicely summarizes Nifong's motives in pressing the entirely groundless case forward: As most everyone now...