If you listen to all the liberal talks show hosts-and-pundits you’d think the government has an open and shut case against 77-year-old former President Donald Trump. Forget the presumption of innocence in the American judicial system, all the liberal networks have Trump convicted-and-sentenced to life in prison. Liberal news networks in their lust to see Trump convicted, preach to the choir, unable to see the other side of the case. “We’re not concerned because we know the facts of these cases, which I can’t get into obviously for privileged reasoned,” Trump legal spokeswoman Alina Habba told Fox News Shannon Bream. “But I can tell you that it’s to tie him up, it’s definitely political,” giving a hint at the legal theory behind Trump’s defense. Trump claims political bias and persecution. Democrats and liberal news networks don’t want to talk about Trump’s history.
For years, Democrats, the liberal press and government accused Trump of colluding with the Russian Federation to steal the 2016 presidential election. Despite the 22-moth, $40 million Mueller investigation clearing Trump of any wrongdoing with Russia, the New York Times said recently that Russian “troll farms” interfered with the 2020 presidential election. New York Times and Washington Post printed untold numbers of articles tying Trump to the Kremlin. Yet no publication ever apologized for going beyond the facts to frame Trump of colluding with the Russian Federation to win the 2016 election. Mueller’s final report March 23, 2019 cleared Trump of any wrongdoing with the Russian government. Yet Democrats and the liberal press continue to say Trump colluded with the Russian government to win the 2024 presidential election, beating former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
When Trump lawyers say in his defense that the Department of Justice and FBI can’t be trusted, the burden of proof goes on the government to show that the departments are no longer biased against Trump. Jurors will hear all the facts of how the government used Hillary fake opposition research AKA the Steele dossier as probable cause to launch a counterintelligence investigation into Trump and his 2016 campaign. Jurors will have to decide how, if anything, has changed at the DOJ or FBI when it comes to extreme prejudice against Trump. Charging Trump with defrauding the government won’t be easy for Special Counsel Jack Smith. Smith will have to convince a jury that Trump secretly knew he lost the 2020 election but deliberately deceived the public. Trump statements from 2020 Election Day through current time indicates he thinks he was robbed of the 2020 election.
Smith also charges Trump with conspiracy to defraud the government by preventing the orderly transfer of power to certify the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, 2021. “The purpose of the conspiracy was to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by knowingly using false claims of election fraud to obstruct the government function by which those results are collected, counted and certified,” said Smith’s indictment Aug. 2. How can Smith say Trump used false claims of election fraud when he believed he was cheated out of the election? When Smith talks about Trump attempt to obstruct the government function to certify the election, he’s assuming facts that are not in evidence. Smith has no proof that Trump participated in any way with rabble-rousers violently protesting at the Capitol Jan. 6, 2021. No one has evidence of Trump’s participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 mayhem.
Trump’s attorneys will show the jury that Fulton County DA Fani Willis coordinated with Smith, despite her denials or refusal to comment. “There’s very much a coordinated effort,” Habba told Fox New Shannon Bream. “ And if you ever doubted it, think about how Fani when she was asked at her press conference if she was ever coordinating with Jack Smith in D.C. and the government couldn’t give us a yes or no. That says it all,” Habba said. Any conspiracy shown to a jury suggesting that Willis coordinated with Smith would be devastating to the government’s case. But beyond the secret coordination, how is Willis supposed to show that Trump broke RICO laws proving he turned his campaign into a mafia-like operation? Any appearance that Willis coordinated with Smith’s Special Counsel would prove to jurors that the charges against Trump must be tossed out.
All the liberal press, both broadcast and print, have tried-and-convicted Trump without facts only pure conjecture. All four cases against Trump lack the facts needed to convince a jury beyond-a-reasonable-doubt that Trump’s guilty as charged with violating the Presidential Records and Espionage Acts, engaging in illegal bookkeeping in the hush money case, violating Georgia’s RICO’s statutes seeking a fair vote count and engaging in conspiracy to defraud the government on the Jan. 6 riots. Smith doesn’t have the facts to accuse Trump of planning-and-orchestrating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, or, as Democrats like to call them, the insurrection. Once the four cases against Trump go before a jury, it will be a different ball of wax than prosecuting the case to the media. Criminal defense trials require a high burden of proof, far beyond the liberal press standard of tabloid gossip-and-innuendo.
About the Author
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.
