I’ll make this plain and simple. If Traitor Tot loses on November 5th, sometime in the next 12 months he will be a convicted federal criminal. And while he’s futilely trying to fight that conviction in the appellate courts, he’ll go on trial in a slam dunk federal case in Florida under a judge who doesn’t have his head up his ass.
I’ve been touting the supreme education, training, and skills of Special Counsel Jack Smith since he was appointed, and now you know why. The guy is a legal piranha, even bone doesn’t deflect him from finding more meat, and he never stops until the carcass is clean bone.
When the train wreck Supreme Court gave Traitor Tot limited immunity, Smith didn’t just throw his hands up, yell F*ck it!, and shut the whole thing down. Instead, when the Supreme Court threw a roadblock up in front of him, he did what any qualified battlefield commander would do.
Smith called in the engineers to blow up that roadblock in his way. In this case that meant every top legal mind in the DOJ. Now you know why Smith asked for and received permission from the court to delay his filing. Rather than try to sanitize his existing indictments to cover the SCOTUS ruling, he used the best brains in the DOJ to go before a brand new grand jury and obtain a new, bulletproof superseding indictment and basically rewinding the case.
Smith did the most intelligent thing imaginable, he laid out everything, laying out not only his entire case for the public, but also for the appellate and even Supreme Court. And put them on notice. Letting the public see everything so early, he made it more difficult for the Supreme Court to find acceptable ways to weasel around their own previous ruling.
In reality, the ballgame was over even before Smith laid out an intricate Rocky Mountain range of damning evidence against Traitor Tot. He put Traitor Tot in an orange jumpsuit in his preamble. He advised the court, and I mean all of the courts that under the United States Constitution, the President has no constitutional role in the state counting and certifying of votes, nor in the ceremonial certification of the electoral college votes. He went on to point out that the Founding Fathers designed the Constitution that way to keep a corrupt President from trying to put his sticky fingers in and change the results.
Then Smith went on to deal with the Pence Factor. Smith advised that any communications between Trump and Pence about official duties under the executive branch were removed. But like Traitor Tot, Pence had no constitutional duties in the counting, certifying or counting the electoral votes as a member of the Executive branch as Vice President. His ceremonial duties in certifying the electoral vote count as the President of the Senate, meaning a member of the legislative branch, made any conversations on that subject outside of presidential immunity.
That was basically the legal ballgame right there. Smith hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 9th inning. And then Smith went on to hammer home the point in every critical area. Just a few:
- Traitor Tot had no constitutional authority to contact the Georgia Secretary of State to demand that he find him 11,780 votes, since the President has no role in the states vote tabulation or certification
- Trump’s personal phone calls to the GOP state legislatures to press for alternate slate of electors were unconstitutional, and therefore personal campaign communications
- Which means that a whole passel of Trump dipsh*t *ssholes are going to federal prison or state prison, since they had no executive authority in advising them to take legally criminal actions
- Rudy Giuliani is on the hook for his personal appearance before the Georgia GOP Senate to push for a slate of alternate electors. The Ghoul Man was Trump’s personal attorney, with no official authority to give such advice
- At one point Traitor Tot called for an in-person meeting with Pence to discuss the certification of the electoral vote. He invited Pence, Giuliani, his personal lawyer, as well as White House Counsel Pat Cipollone. At the last minute he pulled Cipollone’s invitation. It’s not an executive discussion with a personal attorney, you need the White House Counsel. But Traitor Tot knew that Cipollone would have told him the discussions were out-of-bounds
It goes on and on and on. A complete demolition of Trump’s legal bullsh*t excuses. Of course El Pendejo ex Presidente is screaming out on Bullsh*t Social about unabashed political election interference! There’s just one small problem with that.
Judge Tanya Chutkan doesn’t run her court based on a political calendar. She runs her schedule according to her court calendar. And His Lowness isn’t the only case on her docket. She has to juggle things. And as much as Traitor Tot hates this simple fact, when you enter the sanctuary of Judge Tanya Chutkan’s courtroom, Trump is no longer a presidential candidate. What Traitor Tot is just another skel in front of the bar of justice. And the federal just didn’t delay Michael Milken’s case just because he had a board of directors meeting he couldn’t miss.
Judge Chutkan’s revenge against Team Traitor Tot is the coldest, most delicious kind possible. A 12-year veteran of the federal bench, Judge Chutkan knew that the issue of presidential immunity would end up before the Supreme court at some point, so rather than waste a trial only to have the SCOTUS overturn the verdict and have to do the whole shooting match all over again, she put the trial on hold to allow the appellate process to play out. And it did.
But now Chief Justice Roberts has put the case back in her court, ordering her to proceed with all due dispatch to trial. The Supreme Court has ruled, and it’s her job to apply that ruling to the issues in this trial. Which means that from this point forward, Traitor Tot is sh*t out of appellate delay runway.
From this point forward, every time the two sides meet in Judge Chutkan’s court, it will be for pre-trial motions. And the rulings on those are in the dictatorial control of the presiding judge. If the defense doesn’t like a ruling, then they have no choice but to make a note of it for possible grounds for a post-conviction appeal. And the same thing goes for any rulings Chutkan makes during the trial that the defense doesn’t like.
If Trump is defeated on November 5th, a morally enraged Judge Chutkan is going to proceed to trial with all due diligence and speed. I’m figuring a March trial date. And by the 4th of July Trump will be a convicted federal criminal. And granting that Kamala Harris wins in November, who knows what the Supreme Court will look like in 18-24 months, or what ethics rules they will operate under? Keep punching and keep the faith.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
Jack Smith has been brilliant on this – as we expected.
Now the trial begins, and Mr Trump is out of legal moves to delay.
Justice and karma are going to be doing a nice double act.
Trump and the GOP will whine about the DOJ and the so-called 60 day rule but it’s not a law. It’s a fairly common sense policy. However, it applies to the DOJ only. The federal courts are OUTSIDE the jurisdiction of the Attorney General and the DOJ! Once a case is in the system it’s in the judge’s hands and that’s that. If Trump doesn’t like the timing he shouldn’t have filed his appeal with SCOTUS. He knew damn well the fix was in with them and they’d delay issuing a ruling as long as they could to hopefully make it impossible to proceed with a trial.
Roberts in particular (I think) realized that he was dealing with a regular, no-nonsense federal judge who would run her calendar as she saw fit. And, more importantly not treat Trump any differently than any other defendant. That’s why he engineered such a sweeping immunity ruling. He hoped it would cause Smith to do as you suggested and just give up. Or ask for a months long delay to try and rework any case against Trump over Jan. 6. Smith used all that time SCOTUS gave him to prepare for what he did. Create a presentation to a brand new grand jury that could approve that superseding indictment and do so well before that infamous 60 day deadline.
THAT put things right back in judge Chutkan’s capable hands. She will move the case along and doesn’t care that Trump is Trump. As you say he’s just another ‘skel’ in her court. Having defense experience before she became a judge he will get fair treatment, but nothing special. Smith’s team will have to be on their toes but clearly they will be. Roberts is probably beside himself because he’s looking more and more the fool. He COULD have dragged out issuing his ruling without making it so sweeping. If he’s got any sense of smarts left, when this case eventually gets back in front of SCOTUS he will find a way to rein in some of the breathtaking excesses of the original immunity ruling.
And down in FL, if the appellate court decides they’ve had enough of babysitting Loose Cannon and orders the case be re-assigned Trump will be well and truly fucked down there too. That case should have gone to trial last December, or right after the holidays. There is NO reason it shouldn’t have. The only complexity to it was how to handle the introduction of highly classified information BUT there is plenty of past practice and procedure laid out for just that. It’s not the judge’s job to decide what can be shown in court but a group created for just that purpose out of members of the intel community.
And if Trump loses next month and the cases go forward even if Roberts wants to find a way to give Trump a pass on Jan. 6, when it comes to the NATIONAL SECURITY case in FL there’s no leg to stand on. It was ALL private conduct AFTER Trump left office AND had his security clearance revoked. So please Secret Service do your job and keep Trump alive and unharmed. I have to believe, even when the doubts creep in at night and keep me from falling asleep that he’ll lose next month. And that in 2025 he’ll be a convicted FEDERAL felon and on the hook for years worth of time in prison.
I want that fat orange painted P.O.S. to die in prison. Preferably after having suffered through at least a couple of years behind bars before he finally loses the will to live, and just cries himself to sleep one night and never wakes up.
Denis m’man, you’re missing the simplest point of all…A DOJ opinion has ABSOLUTELY NO hold or truck over a sitting federal district court judge…She’s NOT a part of the DOJ…
Oh, no! Is this just another case of Melon Felon lying about something again?
Discovery was proceeding in the J6 trial before Judge Chutkan. Melon Felon argued he had “immunity” and filed appeal. Judge Chutkan ruled he didn’t. Appellate Court ruled he didn’t. Supreme Court ruled he had limited immunity in official acts and kicked it back to Judge Chutkan’s court to “determine facts of the case.” THIS is what Mr. Smith’s brief is all about. Melon’s 7 page brief argues Smith’s 165 pager is “evidence before a trial” and, therefore, out of order. Nonsense, it is not. It is exactly what the SC REQUIRED to be done.
Another Melon Felon example of “be careful what you ask for.”
John Roberts thought he’d gotten away with the big cahuna. Smith just gave him the finger, legally, “just the way you asked for it, Mr. Chief Justice.”
If, when it gets back to Roberts, he says trumpy still has immunity, after this filing which will only get worse during the actual trial, Roberts will be seen as a lunatic.
The filing’s first paragraph starts like this:
The defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct. Not so.
Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one. Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted—a function in which the
defendant, as President, had no official role.
What Smith did was lay the cards out on the table for everyone to see. He did that with all honesty and integrity, backed up by the depth and breadth of his competencies, knowledge, shills and experience in the field he excels in. He’s served notice, to all those that need to know and understand, that he’s not an unthinking, reactionary, emotive pushover. He’s a logical, thinker and planner, with an dogged intelligent demeanour. His gunpowder is kept dry, until needed. He’s not going to let go, until he completes the task at hand. That’s why he has Trump’s measure, and Trump knows it. It’s odd but at times it comes across of Trump that he’s never provided evidence that he’s innocent of his unlawful and or illegal deeds, but resorts to shadow boxing, delaying tactics, name calling, using fiction to refute and or dilute what confronts him, morally, legally and ethically. Smith has documented factually based ‘all and sundry’ that is to be Trumps bitter pill. Bravo, Mr Smith, don’t stop until you have dismantled Trump’s boardroom table, chair and office desk, and turned them into kindling for the eventual fire sale.
Wonder what Melon’s defense regarding the “evidence and facts” in Mr. Smith’s filing will be?
Will he argue: I never did any of those things.
Problems with that are:
— Much of it is in writing
— Many conversations were recorded
— The idiots went and made a VIDEO of the false electors meeting and signing their fake elector thing (I forget whether it was Michigan or Wisconsin or Georgia)
This is why Murf keeps saying The Gang Who Couldn’t Sh*t Straight!!! 🙂
The fly in the ointment is in your first line at the top: “If Traitor Tot loses on November 5th”.
If, on the other hand, “… Traitor Tot wins on November 5th”, there is only until Inauguration Day for the Federal side of things to try to cook his goose and beyond that it is unlikely whether the goose will stay cooked. The only sure path then is the State Court case(s), which may not be capable of hogtying TFG.