Quote of the week

Via Sean Collins at Spiked, a great summary of what is going on leading up to the 2024 election:

The first of Donald Trump’s criminal trials kicked off in earnest this week in New York. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has charged Trump with 34 felony counts, alleging that he falsified records to cover up a ‘hush money’ payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

It’s an unprecedented case. Never before has a former US president, or a leading candidate for an upcoming presidential election, faced criminal charges. There’s a good reason why America hasn’t had such a case before: seeking to jail your political opponent is generally understood to be something only banana republics do.

It’s also an absurd and unjust case, involving novel legal theories and obvious political intent. No one other than Donald Trump would be subject to such charges.

The Manhattan trial is part of the ‘lawfare’ offensive that is currently being waged by President Joe Biden and the Democrats against Trump. It is one of four criminal cases that Trump faces. He also has two federal cases, related to his handling of classified documents and to the ‘January 6’ riots, and one in Georgia, alleging that he subverted the 2020 election. These other cases are delayed, so the Manhattan case may be the only one to be tried before the November presidential election. Democrats have even tried to knock Trump off the ballot in multiple states, an anti-democratic scheme that was stymied by the Supreme Court last month.

Um, what?

JUST IN: DOJ lawyer Michael Dreeben says it's perfectly fine for Obama to drone strike innocent civilians while arguing in favor of prosecuting Trump for "election interference."

Remarkable.

The comment came after Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh cornered Dreeben by asking… pic.twitter.com/sNmHj7VwZo

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 25, 2024

I think it is reasonable to consider the president ordering drone strikes against a terrorist target not a prosecutable offense, even if unfortunately, innocent foreign civilians are killed. But then contrast that position to the president questioning the veracity of election results as being a prosecutable offense and it just becomes weird. Really, quite, weird.   

Funny but true

SCOTUS getting to the root of the matter

In The president Trump criminal immunity case, the justices, even the leftist justices, are asking the real questions, not the questions being asked in the lawfare cases against Trump. Even far left judge Ketanji Jackson Brown, asking a left-leaning question, is addressing a legitimate concern, even if it doesn't apply in the Trump case.

Of course the conservative justices are asking the better questions but the two questions are flip sides of the same coin; "Can the president do whatever he wants with total immunity?" vs. "Can a political candidate be prosecuted for political reasons, by his opponents, with total immunity for the false prosecutors?"

Really they are the same question to some degree because it's what we are seeing the Let's Go Brandon administration trying to do to Trump; prosecute an opponent as president, with total immunity and no consequences.

The answer to the question should not be an easy simple one for political expediency.  Suggesting the president can do anything he wants with total immunity (murder?) is dangerous. Suggesting that a president or former president or a presidential candidate can be prosecuted by anyone for any reason, real or fictitious, is equally dangerous.  There must be some balance in the answer that supersedes the  immediate political interests of the two political parties.  That's not something to be solved with expedience.  It requires a sound ruling from SCOTUS and a subsequent reasonable legislative discussion and eventual law based on that ruling.

That is not to Trump's immediate benefit, but it is to the country's benefit.  What as Trump supporters we can hope for is something that lays waste to the lawfare for the time being while a longer, broader and more thoughtful approach takes place after the 2024 election. 

This ought to help his reelection chances

And by 'his', I mean Trump's, not Let's Go Brandon's...

Because what America needs at this point in time, is a massive tax hike. Okay.

People afraid to stand behind what they said [Episode 1]

There's making a mistake like misspeaking, then there's running and hiding when you get pushback: