Interviewed by 54-year-old former Fox News host Tucker Carlson Aug. 23, 77-year-old President Donald Trump was asked whether he fears getting killed, especially if he’s acquitted in his four pending criminal cases. Trump ignored Tucker’s question, more related to the fact that if the left can’t put him in jail, they’ll try to vaporize him the old fashioned way. Trump didn’t quite get Tucker’s gist, knowing that other political figures, like President John F. Kennedy were taken out by what looks like the government. Trump survived two impeachment trials, now facing four separate indictments fabricated by why he calls the “deep state,” a group of Democrats abusing the federal government’s intel and law enforcement agencies for political persecution. Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland and Special Counsel Jack Smith hasn’t confirmed what changed at the DOJ.
Garland and Smith haven’t faced “deep state” corruption at the DOJ and FBI, something that hasn’t changed since Trump was investigated by the DOJ and FBI for his 2016 campaign and through most of his presidency. After Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey May 8, 2017, Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein was hounded by House and Senate Democrats to appoint former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel. Instead of Mueller looking into the corruption at the DOJ and FBI, he spent two years investigating Trump at a cost of $40 million. Mueller finished his final report March 23, 2019, clearing Trump of any wrongdoing with the Kremlin. Mueller’s conclusions didn’t stop House Democrats like former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and former House Intel Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) from insisting Trump was a Russian asset.
So when it comes to the DOJ’s current case against Trump, it’s highly dubious because nothing has changed since Comey’s counterintelligence investigation. Mueller knew from Day One that the probable cause used to investigative Trump alleged ties to the Kremlin was former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fake Steele Dossier, a compendium of lies to discredit Trump’s 2016 campaign. So how can anyone trust that Smith latest charges against Trump have any real probable cause let alone validity? Smith wants the public to believe that charging Trump on classified docs found in moving boxes at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence have any relevance to anything. Smith went on record saying that the boxed docs threaten U.S. national security. What does Smith think 80-year-old President Joe Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin does to U.S. national security?
Trump has said all along that the four indictments against him are bogus, politically motivated cases to interfere with the 2024 election. When it comes to the case against Trump by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, he campaigned on the promise to indict Trump. How much more political does it get? When it comes to the charges in particular, Bragg upgraded all bookkeeping charges from misdemeanors to felonies. How can a DA arbitrarily decide to upgrade charges simply because he wants more serious charges? Either the charges are misdemeanors or felonies but they can’t be both. Looking a Smith’s cases against Trump, you’d think any rookie defense attorney could get Trump off. Charging Trump with defrauding the U.S. government or on technical violations of the Presidential Records or Espionage Acts stretches the criminal justice system to the breaking point.
Smith has no real case against Trump for either the Mar-a-Lago classified docs case or the fraud case over Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots. Smith has no facts in evidence that show that Trump planned and orchestrated the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. House Jan. 6 Select Committee Democrats concluded that Trump planned the orchestrated the Jan. 6 riots. They have no facts to support the charge, only more wild conjecture. Democrats in and out of the DOJ want Trump prosecuted but they lack the facts in evidence to warrant any probable cause. Smith must show that Trump knowingly lied about his belief that he won the Nov. 2, 2020 presidential election. Trump has said consistent that he was defrauded out of the election by unscrupulous Democrat election workers. Whether that’s true or not, Smith can’t say Trump is not entitled under the First Amendment’s Free Speech rights to his opinion.
Putting Trump through the indignity of mug shots and bail at the Fulton County jail, DA Fani Willis give her friends in liberal press all the red meat to satisfy their Trump-hating audience. But what type of nonsense is Willis trying to prove charging Trump and his campaign with racketeering under Georgia’s RICO statutes? Willis’ case of racketeering is the biggest stretch of all because it clearly doesn’t apply to the facts presented in Trump’s election fraud case. Willis has an ambiguous Jan. 2, 2020 phone phone call between Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Trump where Trump asked him to find 11,780 votes. Trump thought Georgia election officials failed to count the appropriate votes. He never asked Raffesnperger to fabricate votes so he could beat President Joe Biden.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
