Donald Trump’s conviction is nothing
more than a ‘thrill kill’
New York Post,
by
Jonathan Turley
Original Article
Posted By: 4250Luis,
6/1/2024 7:51:08 AM
After years of trying — in the words of the judge — “to get the damned rascal in this court,” it was a conviction that many welcomed.
But those words were not from Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, and the conviction was not that of former President Donald Trump.
Rather they were from US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase, at the end of the 18th century, when America embraced political prosecutions to target critics and opponents.
The man on trial then was James T. Callender, a muckraking writer critical of President John Adams.
For accusing politicians of corruption, Callender was charged with sedition, fined $200 and put in prison.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/1/2024 8:46:07 AM (No. 1728945)
"It's only a flesh wound." Monty Python
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 6/1/2024 9:14:24 AM (No. 1728965)
The Dims are the party of corruption, using a porn star and a swindler as their star witnesses. For the Dims, it was the easter miracle: a dead misdemeanor arose from the dead and became thirty four felony indictments. The question Turley asks is: Have the Dims succeeded in turning the nation into a whore house- a Potterville- or does some decency yet abide?
It's a very good read.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 6/1/2024 10:52:41 AM (No. 1729041)
They "killed" nobody and nothing. In fact they made him STRONGER.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Moritz55 6/1/2024 1:16:06 PM (No. 1729126)
Excellent article. Thanks for posting
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DVC 6/1/2024 2:11:44 PM (No. 1729154)
Turley is a law professor who teaches at Georgetown.
FTA, Turley, the law prof says:
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Donald Trump’s conviction is nothing more than a ‘thrill kill’
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Published May 31, 2024, 8:04 p.m. ET
Former President and Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Trump Tower on May 31, 2024 in New York City.
Former President and Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Trump Tower on May 31, 2024 in New York City. Getty Images
After years of trying — in the words of the judge — “to get the damned rascal in this court,” it was a conviction that many welcomed.
But those words were not from Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, and the conviction was not that of former President Donald Trump.
Rather they were from US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase, at the end of the 18th century, when America embraced political prosecutions to target critics and opponents.
The man on trial then was James T. Callender, a muckraking writer critical of President John Adams.
For accusing politicians of corruption, Callender was charged with sedition, fined $200 and put in prison.
It was one of the many political prosecutions carried out by the Adams administration.
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Undeniable reality
Political prosecutions are something most citizens associate with dictatorships.
But the Trump prosecution has forced many to confront the undeniable reality of the politicization of our legal system.
In many respects, President Biden and Democrats have re-created the Adams era.
Biden has led calls for censorship of political critics and his administration has coordinated the silencing and the blacklisting of those with opposing views.
Democratic politicians have pressured social-media companies to serve as surrogates for the government in banning, throttling and defunding individuals and groups.
Indeed, I have previously written that Biden is now the most anti-free-speech president since Adams.
The Adams era also reflected the same blind loyalty of many media outlets.
Federalist publications supported the crackdowns while echoing charges against political opponents as seditionists and insurrectionists.
Jeffersonian publications, like Callender’s, attacked Adams for his “unbounded thirst for ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avarice.”
The nation was divided down the middle as both sides accused each other of being traitors and insurrectionists. Sound familiar?
A chilling return
Yet, it is the politicization of the legal system that is the most chilling return to the Adams era.
Even liberal legal analysts have admitted that the case against Trump was unprecedented and would not have been brought against anyone other than Trump.
CNN legal analyst Elie Honig recently wrote that there should be concern over a judge being appointed (not randomly selected) who is not just a Biden donor but someone who “has earmarked donations for ‘resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.’ ”
Adding to these concerns is the movement of the third-highest official in the Biden Justice Department to the staff of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to build the case against Trump.
Before joining the case, Matthew Colangelo was also paid by the Democratic National Committee for “political consulting.”
So Trump was convicted in a trial with a Biden donor judge, who has a daughter who is a major Democratic operative, a lead prosecutor previously paid as a DNC political consultant and a jury selected in a district that voted roughly 90% against Trump.
The trial itself was a travesty.
Even after sitting in the courtroom watching the trial and the verdict, I still have no idea what Trump was convicted of in the case.
The charges were built on a dead misdemeanor barred with the passage of the statute of limitations.
It was zapped back into life by alleging that the falsification of business records occurred to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election. "
If a law professor who was present in the courtroom literally has "no idea what Trump was convicted of",
how in hell can the defense fight these "charges" which aren't based on any particular law which they say was violated?
At the end Turley says "We are better than this."
I have become highly skeptical that this is true of the people who are the majority in the NE states and the Left Coast states. These people do not seem like the Americans that I know, and these states routinely violate the Constitution with laws restricting freedoms which have been "guaranteed" to us. And yet, these rights don't exist in any real sense in those areas.
Out in the middle, what I call Free America, those rights are more prominently protected. We have become two nations....the NE and Left Coast are totalitarian leftist states where the populace is happy to go along with these losses of rights and central control of everything.
In Kurt Schlichter's books he writes of some fictional future America, perhaps a few years away, where there is a division of the country and war between these two portions of America. While thrilling to read, they are chilling to contemplate. I hope we don't go down that path, but the NE and Left Coast seem to be hell bent on driving us to civil war and division. They seem to insist on it no matter how much we want to go back to the old normal place where the Constitution was applied everywhere.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 6/1/2024 2:15:02 PM (No. 1729155)
Turley is a law professor who teaches at Georgetown.
FTA, Turley, the law prof says:
"The trial itself was a travesty.
Even after sitting in the courtroom watching the trial and the verdict, I still have no idea what Trump was convicted of in the case.
The charges were built on a dead misdemeanor barred with the passage of the statute of limitations.
It was zapped back into life by alleging that the falsification of business records occurred to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election. "
I have become highly skeptical that this is true of the people who are the majority in the NE states and the Left Coast states. These people do not seem like the Americans that I know, and these states routinely violate the Constitution with laws restricting freedoms which have been "guaranteed" to us. And yet, these rights don't exist in any real sense in those areas.
Out in the middle, what I call Free America, those rights are more prominently protected. We have become two nations....the NE and Left Coast are totalitarian leftist states where the populace is happy to go along with these losses of rights and central control of everything.
In Kurt Schlichter's books he writes of some fictional future America, perhaps a few years away, where there is a division of the country and war between these two portions of America. While thrilling to read, they are chilling to contemplate. I hope we don't go down that path, but the NE and Left Coast seem to be hell bent on driving us to civil war and division. They seem to insist on it no matter how much we want to go back to the old normal place where the Constitution was applied everywhere.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 6/1/2024 2:17:28 PM (No. 1729157)
I would request staff to delete my erronious post #5.
My apologies for comment #5. My 'cut and paste' of a few sentences from the article, somehow jumped up and took in the entire article. As it scrolled up automatically in the "Enter Reply" box, I could see the portion I intended to paste....but not the huge amount of unintended material above it.
I have reposted what I intended.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
5 handicap 6/2/2024 6:19:28 AM (No. 1729372)
It's not a thrill Kill... It's TREASON! and they should DIE because of it.
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