A New York court indicted former President Donald J. Trump on Thursday, March 30, 2023. That’s historic. A former president has never been indicted.
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| Trump speaks at rally in Waco, TX, March 25, 2023. Getty image by Brandon Bell, found here |
You’d think for this historic moment to happen, it would be
for some extremely nefarious act, like using his influence with foreign nations
for profit in ways that hurt the United States (like Joe Biden has actually
done). But no. It’s for a non-crime. It’s for what appears to be a possible error
in bookkeeping, which couldn’t be more than a misdemeanor, and on which the statute of
limitations passed years ago.
However, there’s some loophole, if they can connect the
dots, claiming that the misdemeanor was committed with the intention of being able to
accomplish a federal criminal act, then they can extend the statute of
limitations. However, it’s a state misdemeanor and state court; they do not
typically adjudicate federal crimes. Not to worry. They’re just glad to be of
service—by prosecuting this “crime” that multiple federal and state officials
have passed on, because it takes some contortion to frame it as a crime at all.
What Was
the Crime?
What are the details? Well, the indictment is under seal and
hasn’t been leaked yet, so we don’t know all the counts. But the prosecutors
claim that Trump paid hush money to a porn star just before the 2016 election to
keep her from talking about a long-ago supposed affair, and that he did that to
affect the election, and then he called it legal fees.
So the underlying misdemeanor is calling something legal
fees instead of hush money. Hush money, by the way, is not illegal. In this
case both Trump and the porn star calling herself Stormy Daniels say that the
affair never happened. Despite Trump’s history as a lothario, committing
adultery during previous marriages, this particular affair seems implausible to
people who know him. It supposedly happened when his wife, Melania, was
pregnant with son Barron, who is now in his teens and taller than his dad. So Trump
was younger enough then for more plausibility. However, people who know him point
out both that he is a germophobe and that he has a certain style preference,
and a porn star is not that style nor level of cleanliness. A more likely story
is that lawyer Avenatti, who has specialized in blackmail for a living and is
currently serving a 14-year prison term, threatened put out the story, releasing it to the media right before the election when he wouldn’t have
time to defend himself—unless he paid. Blackmailing is a crime; paying a
blackmailer is not.
Trump’s lawyer/fixer, Michael Cohen, probably said he could
take care of it. He may or may not have gotten instructions from Trump on how
to do that; he may not have asked for instructions. The easiest and quickest
way, and possibly even the cheapest way was to pay her off. It was $130,000. To
a billionaire, that is probably in the range of worth it to make a problem
disappear. Cohen paid the fee—the blackmail—out of his own funds and then
charged Trump for the legal services—time and expenses.
Did it help with the election? Maybe, but not necessarily.
Just before the 2016 election, the tapes of him in locker room talk about
women practically throwing themselves at people like him came out. But they
made nary a blip in the polls. That kind of past was baked in with Donald
Trump. He had a reputation as a billionaire playboy, not a churchgoer. Second,
the tape didn’t say he actually took advantage of women in that way, just that
it was possible to. Anyway, the public didn’t seem to care. Chances are this
Stormy Daniels thing would have been dismissed in much the same way, as
irrelevant to the current election.
And it is just as likely—or more so—that Trump would not
want Melania to have to hear the accusations, from years ago, with someone so
inferior to her in beauty and class.
Then there’s the fact that Trump paid Cohen with his own
money. He is allowed to use unlimited funds of his own in a campaign. But he’s
also allowed to use his own money to “make problems go away,” as in paying off
a blackmailer if it’s not worth going through the alternatives.
So there is no federal crime for the supposed state
misdemeanor to connect with, and that means the state misdemeanor passed the statute
of limitations and shouldn’t be prosecuted at all. And if it hadn’t passed that
deadline, it would be worthy only of a fine, not a big news indictment, perp
walk arrest, jail time, and eventual show trial.
So why are they doing it? We call it Trump Derangement
Syndrome, and that seems to be quite a real affliction. But it’s more than
that. Trump represents us, the people of the United States who do not easily
submit to the tyranny of the elites. He’s just the symbol. They hit him; that
is how they hit us—and warn us that, if they can do it to him, they can do it
to us, so we’d better learn to shut up and submit.
As President Trump puts it, “They’re not coming after me;
they’re coming after you. And I’m just standing in their way.”
Trump’s refusal to submit galls them. They think that with
him out of the way, the rest of us would fold. Because they do not know the
real American people.
The
Talking Point Giveaway
There’s a talking point the opposition to freedom is using—that
no one is above the law, which we can agree with, even though we know they don’t
mean it; and that it was on a small crime, like tax evasion, that they finally
got Al Capone, even though they knew he was guilty of a great many heinous
crimes that they couldn’t prove. There’s a difference. They haven’t got
something as big as tax fraud here. And they don’t have a long list of heinous crimes
they can’t prove because of reasons like no one willing to testify against
Capone. So those using this talking point are giving themselves away as Deep
Staters, which may be relevant when power shifts back to the American people.
These Deep Staters do have a list; it’s just not of real
crimes:
·
He colluded with Russia to interfere with the
2016 election—actually that was a lie paid for by the Clinton campaign and the
DNC.
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He had a phonecall with the president of Ukraine
asking for dirt on his opponent, Joe Biden, for which he was impeached and
acquitted—actually, when we all heard the phonecall, it was obvious he hadn’t
done what they had accused, but was warning the Ukrainian president about
possible corruption, for which there is now proof on the Hunter Biden laptop.
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He is a racist who said white supremacists were
good people—actually, in reference to the conversation about the confederate
flag he said there were good people on both sides, which was obvious to anyone
who heard what he actually said instead of what they claimed he meant.
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He cleared protesters from a church for a photo
op—actually that never happened. The police cleared the area earlier, where
there had been some violence. It was clear already, and his going there later
that evening had nothing to do with its being cleared.
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He refused to accept the results of the 2020
election—this is true, but it is not illegal. A candidate can question the
results and ask for remedy. There are many possible ways for that to be
handled. In this case, some legal means were tried, but for reasons we don’t yet
understand the courts refused to see the evidence. Most of the country looks
at Biden winning and asks, “How could that have happened?” The final remedy was
to be at the counting of conflicting slates of electors on January 6, a legal
means the Democrats had attempted several times this century.
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He made a phonecall to the Georgia Secretary of
State asking him to “find more votes” related to the Georgia Senate runoff. This
one is in court. But the call was recorded, and it appears to a fair-minded
person that he was trying to get an accurate count of the votes, not get fake
votes added in.
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He instigated an insurrection on January 6, 2021—actually,
he encouraged people to come for a peaceful rally. He was still speaking a mile
from the capitol when some violence started. His speech was on video and
recorded, and we can all witness that he never called for violence, only
peaceful protest. When he later became aware that there was some rioting, he tweeted a
message for everyone to go home; we need peace—Twitter deleted it, and deleted
his entire account. His press secretary then put out a video message letting
people know the President was calling for peace and for people to go home; it
was deleted as well.
o Even
though he was out of office, they impeached him for this, but failed in this
second impeachment—again for lack of evidence that he had done anything wrong.
o Trials
are ongoing for people who entered the capitol that day. It seemed likely from
the beginning and is becoming clearer that this was likely a false flag
operation; agent provocateurs were instigating violence. There were many paid
confidential human sources (essentially FBI agents and/or informants) were
involved and actually trying to increase the violence.
o It was not a violent insurrection. There was no insurrection—no takeover of the
government. No one has been charged with insurrection. The very few who have
been charged with seditious conspiracy are beginning to appear to be victims of
a setup. No police officers were killed by the rioters. It may be that no
officers were severely injured. One protester, Ashli Babbitt, was killed at
point blank range by a capitol police officer, while she was unarmed. Another
woman appears to have been beaten to death by police, but other protesters
along with other police tried unsuccessfully to revive her; her death is called
natural, possibly because of a drug overdose.
o Additional
security was offered by President Trump, knowing the crowd was going to be very
large, but refused by Capitol Police, Nancy Pelosi, and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.
o There
are multiple anomalies, like the planting of the bomb at DNC headquarters not
showing up on the surveillance video. And the more capitol surveillance video
that comes out—which was withheld from defendants—the more it seems obvious the
police allowed people in, they walked through peacefully, and then they left.
Very little damage was done. Business continued that evening. There was no
insurrection. There were no arms. And there was no planning for an insurrection.
·
He had classified government documents in his
possession after leaving office—actually, as president he had the unilateral power
to declassify; also, he does not lose his top secret clearance upon leaving office.
Also, he was cooperating with Archives to return any documents they asked for.
They knew where he was keeping them—locked, under video surveillance and his secret
service detail. Yet they raided Mar-a-Lago and tried to claim he was illegally
holding classified documents, possibly for the purpose of betraying the country. It has been very inconvenient for them that Joe Biden has documents stashed all over the place, from as far back as his days as senator. And former VP Pence also has some. Neither of them had power to declassify.
These things they’re accusing him of aren’t just hard to
prove—like Al Capone calling for a hit on someone; these things never happened.
They can’t seem to come up with anything heinous. In fact, for someone involved
in real estate in New Jersey, where a person might have had to deal with crime
bosses, Trump has an astoundingly clean record. He might be right; he might be
the most innocent person they’ve ever accused. Well, with the exception of all
those J6 “insurrectionists” languishing in solitary confinement for taking a
tour of the capitol on the wrong day.
What
Next?
What is going to happen from here? I expect the New York
jury will find him guilty, even though the evidence will prove that he is not.
Then there will be appeals, eventually to a level that is not replete with
people suffering from TDS, and then he will be exonerated.
I expect other cases to continue as well, with similar
results.
By the way, indictment in these cases does not mean he cannot run for president. So I guess they’re hoping that just the stain of being indicted will be off-putting enough for him to lose support.
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| The airport rally crowd at Waco, TX, March 25, 2023 image from Donald J. Trump for President campaign, found here |
But it might be the opposite. It might be that there are
voters who are tired of the drama surrounding Trump and were willing to be
looking at other candidates. But now they see that this is a line that cannot be
crossed without consequence. The only way to protect all of us from these evil tyrants
is to fight them, to vote for the one person who will stand up to them—stand up
to them for us. So it’s likely to backfire and actually strengthen support for
him. In between his announcement and the indictment, he had his first official
campaign rally, in Waco, Texas, last Saturday, where the worst thing the media
could say about it was that the crowd wasn’t as big as he claimed—their usual.
(Epoch Times places the crowd count at around 25,000.) By the way, the rally was
on the 30th anniversary of the Branch Davidian standoff, at which
law enforcement burned the place down, killing women and children inside. Some
say that’s a call to right-wingers to revolt; or, it could be a way of pointing
out who the tyrants are.
I’m wondering about the announcement Trump made about the
indictment ahead of time. He gave people a chance to find out the details of
the case and prepare. He put the accusers in a bad situation. First they
claimed he didn’t know what he was talking about; they had no definite plans to
indict—because they didn’t want him to be right. But then they were setting up
barricades as though expecting (hoping for) large protests or riots in the
streets. Then they sent the grand jury home. And we thought maybe they realized
their case was too weak to move ahead. But then they felt like they had to move
ahead or lose face. So they indicted. In other words, was Trump controlling the
entire situation?
One more thing. They have set a precedent: a former
president can be indicted. While some people express concern that this
will cause a tit for tat political prosecution the other way when power
eventually changes parties, it is also possible that actual crimes will be
revealed and prosecuted—no matter how high up the perpetrator might be. That
will be a good thing. But it will also be ugly and messy and very full of
drama. As the scriptures say, with much “weeping and wailing and gnashing of
teeth.”
Resources
News will continue to come out. My commentary is mainly to
help me think through and try to understand this history as it’s happening.
Here are a few sources I went to the first day:
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“Trump indicted by N.Y. grand jury, first ex-president charged with crime” story by Shayna Jacobs, Jacqueline Alemany,
Josh Dawsey, and Devlin Barrett for the Washington Post, March 30, 2023.
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“Former President Donald Trump indicted by Manhattan grand jury” by Carlos Garcia for The Blaze, March 30, 2023.
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“TRUMP INDICTED” Robert Gouveia podcast, March
30, 2023.
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Bourbon with Barnes livestream March 30, 2023.
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“Ep 3033b – [DS] Lost The Court Of Public Opinion, The Bait Has Been Set, Years Of Planning” X22 Report, March 30, 2023
(before the indictment).
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“Ep 3034b – Bait Taken, Hunters Now Become The Hunted, Precedent, Pandora’s Box Has Been Opened” X22 Report March 31,2023.
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