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A really bad day for Deranged Jack Smith, the wacko prosecutor used for Crooked Joe Biden’s attack on his Political Opponent. Today, as in the past, the Supreme Court gave the Deranged One a high level SPANKING! His “real” bosses, Andrew Weissmann and Lisa Monaco, not to mention Merrick Garland, whose once great reputation has been shattered by these Thugs, and his constant defense of Crooked Joe, must be furious at him. Garland ought to call an end to this never ending HOAX, and let people focus on bringing back Greatness to America!

  Hanlon’s Razor and the Attempt on Trump  

July 15, 2024 / E. Michael Davis II

Preface – I am not claiming to be a Subject Matter Expert or US Secret Service level of a Protective Services Detail (PSD) god.  This is my reflection on the recent incident based on my related experiences in PSD operations. 

My Related Experience:

In 1997/98, I was a US Army Military Police Team Leader as part of a PSD squad in Bosnia. We were responsible for protecting the Provost Marshal of Multi-National Division, North, which was part of the NATO Stabilization Force (SFOR). During that time, we participated in numerous missions in hostile territory, protecting the PM, his strap-hangers, the people he visited, and others, among other ad hoc missions. This included a Presidential visit by then-POTUS Clinton and Senator Bob Dole. 

Near Bijeljina, Republika Srpska, BiH

In 2003 (Iraq), I participated in the protection of several principals as an ad hoc duty, including Paul Bremer – in a counter-sniper capacity.

Bremer Mission

In 2007 (Iraq), I led a team that provided protection of Governor Jeb Bush, when he visited the Theater Interment Facility at Abu Ghraib, and acted as close protection during his visit.

In the TIF with Bush

In 2008 (Iraq), I was the First Sergeant of a dedicated PSD unit responsible for the protection and safety of the General Staff of the Multinational Security Transition Command – Iraq (MNSTC-I), and as such planned, facilitated, led, and participated in numerous missions in hostile territory to protect 18 General Officers and SES types as well as their Sergeants Major, strap-hangers, the people they visited, and others, among other ad hoc missions. This included the protection of Congressional Delegations, Executive Branch missions, Heads of State/Ministers of State (Kurdistan & The Netherlands), and General Petraeus.  During some of these missions, I was the SNCO, enabling the Commander’s intent, and in some, I also actively participated in close protection, over watch, or in a counter sniper role.  

Joint C/S mission during the Dutch Government and Clerical visit to a Christian Church in Baghdad:

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 I would guess Russia thinks they're already at war with the  U.S. because we are supplying the Ukraine with most of it's weapons and ammo and making NO secret about it ! Too many loose tongues in Wahington DC ??

Russia issues ominous threat as it warns of invasion of US state: 'Ready to enter war'  Story by Rebecca Robinson • 6 hours ago Daily Express US

A prominent Russian propagandist has become the latest pro-Putin figurehead to express a desire for Alaska to be under Russian control again, raising fears that the country could make a land grab for the US state. 

Presenter of Russia-1 program 60 Minutes and Putin mouthpiece Olga Skabeyeva referred to the US state as "our Alaska" during a broadcast over the weekend.

Fellow presenter and propagandist Adalbi Shkhagoshev commented on a recent Russian and Chinese joint patrol within 200 miles of the Alaskan coast, prompting the response from Skabeyeva.

Russian and Chinese bombers operated together over the north Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea last week, marking the first time the two countries had been intercepted while operating together.

Shkhagoshev, also a deputy of Russia's Parliament, the State Duma, said, "Our aircraft approached the borders of Alaska" before Skabeyeva interjected, calling it "our Alaska."

She added: "Right now the head of the Pentagon is hiccupping nervously somewhere. You said 'our Alaska,' and he just said that if Russian and Chinese planes penetrate the territory that the U.S. considers its own, the U.S. is ready to enter the war."

 Russia-Ukraine war 

Skabeyeva is not the only propagandist who believes Alaska belongs to Russia and will one day be under its control again. This is a commonly held belief among pro-Putin TV personalities.

Some have even suggested that Russia should strike or seize the US state, part of a NATO member, during the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The US State Department was forced to issue a response in January to a Russian decree that gave Putin more control over his country's "property."

The decree directed and funded the administration and foreign ministry in "searching for real estate in the Russian Federation, the former Russian Empire, the former USSR," referring to the "proper registration of rights...and legal protection of this property."

The State Department was quick to shut down any notion of Alaska being recaptured by Russia. The state was sold to the US by RussiA in 1867 via the Alaska Treaty.

State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said: "I speak for all of us in the US government to say that, certainly, he is not getting it back."

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Kamala Harris' great-great-great-great grandfather was 'notorious' Irish slave owner who bought Jamaican plantation and travelled to London to fight abolition, historian claims

By Martin Robinson, Chief ReporterPublished: 23 July 2024

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Kamala Harris (Alias "The Cackler") is descended from an owner of 120-plus slaves who ran a Jamaican plantation and fought against the abolition of the abhorrent trade, a British historian claimed today.

The Democrat would-be President is of Indian and Afro-Jamaican descent with her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan, born in Madras, now Chennai, while her father, Donald Harris, is from Jamaica.

The Vice-President's father, a Stanford University academic who is 85, was born in Brown's Town on the Caribbean island – named after Hamilton Brown, who is believed to be Kamala's slave-owning great-great-great-great grandfather.

In an article published by the Jamaica Globe in 2019, Kamala's father Professor Harris wrote: 'My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown) descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown's Town, a town in Jamaica.'

Northern Irish historian Stephen McCracken said today that Brown was a 'notorious' slaver and 'not nice fellow' who was born in Antrim but later settled in Jamaica.

'I actually thought this was going to be a nice story, like (former US presidents) McKinley, Nixon, Jackson, Roosevelt, all of whom have links to Antrim, but it wasn’t', he said.

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THE DIVIDING LINE
R** S******Z   July 26, 2024

The fundamental dividing line in American society today is power — between those who have it and those who do not. Between those who control the financial system, justice system and information system and those who are at their mercy. Between those who can create hoaxes of whole cloth and make them the centerpiece of our political lives and those who can be framed and defamed without recourse. Between those who can persecute the innocent and those who are innocent. Between those who can flip narratives on a dime and between those who are the targets of those false narratives.

Between those who can lie to us for four years and tell us Biden is mentally sound and then, within a week, declare him unfit, defenestrate him, nullify the primary, and coronate a new nominee and proclaim it all as democracy and those who can be censored and blacklisted merely for questioning power.

Between those who can author an invasion and beat back all attempts to stop illegal alien voting and those who can face arrest for even raising questions about the security of our elections.

Between those who can decide which crime story is international news and which murdered American’s name will never be heard.

Between those who can spend a large fortune on wars overseas and those who cannot even afford to pay for rent or groceries.

Between those who can offshore their factories and grow their wealth and those who are left jobless and penniless.

The security, financial and political state is not fundamentally ideological. Its objective, down through time, remains the preservation of its own power. But these interests must form political alliances. And, in America, permanent power has aligned itself, conjoined itself, in a complete symbiosis with progressive ideology and the Democrat Party.

Why? Because first, both are united in their desire for top-down control over our lives, especially by the appointed and unelected. And second, because the Democrat Party is willing to accept the terms of the grand bargain: to do exactly as they are told.

They control Biden. But when his impairment laid bare their propaganda wall, he had to go. Now they control Harris: she will never challenge entrenched power in America, she will facilitate its every demand. On foreign policy, migration policy, justice policy, financial policy, security policy.

The most important fact in this, however, is that there is one leader in all of American politics they do not control. Will never control. One man who answers to the people and only to the people: President Donald Trump.

That is why those who hold permanent power are furiously hellbent on stopping him.

That is why the corrupt political class is panicking and breaking every rule in pursuit of its own victory.

And that is why this is the most important election in the history of our country.

Vote to reclaim your freedom and your future. Now or never.

.........Stephen Miller

Morning Glory: The cover-up, the coup, and Kamala   

Opinion by Hugh Hewitt

   Fox News

It wasn’t the plan and it wasn’t smooth. But when the cover-up of President Joe Biden’s physical infirmity fell apart, the left wing of the Democratic Party, led by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former President Barack Obama and supported by the American Left’s vast "dark money," carried out a coup. Out with Joe and in with Kamala. The out-of-power Clinton clique tried to prop up Biden but to no avail. The American Left is nothing if it isn’t ruthless in its drive for political power.

The Democratic Party is lurching left, just as it did in 1984. That year the Democrats gathered for their convention in San Francisco; this year it will be in Chicago. But no matter the city, the leftist pull of the Party’s power centers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manhattan and the Beltway is never out of power within the party, though it prefers to pretend that there are moderates in the leadership.

With the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris, the American Left will openly and inarguably be at the controls. Then candidate Barack Obama pretended on 2008 to be a centrist, but he governed from the left and shifted the entire party to the left. President Biden’s disastrous term cemented the left and its ideology into the driver’s seat of the Democrats. What Kamala Harris says over the next three months as she rhetorically tries to tack to the middle does not much matter. She and her party are from and for the American Left’s vision for the United States.

We have rarely seen that agenda on full display. It’s been 40 years in fact since the mask was last off the Democrats in a presidential election. It was a different set of radicals atop the party then. The country was bitterly divided in the 1980s over how to confront the Soviet Union, and the American Left’s embrace of appeasement was on full display.

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 Is this how the DemoRats are going to win the election?... By killing Trump ??

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SO, now there's no question who's been running the country and continues to do so out in the open. He (obama) is selecting the nominee to run for president...

Tucker Carlson Reports That Obama Is Souring On Biden, Wants Him Replaced At Convention     Mark Steffen  July 1, 2024

Former President Barack Obama is growing disillusioned about President Joe Biden’s chances in November, according to an “unusually good source” who spoke with Tucker Carlson about the growing rift between both families.

While the Obamas and Bidens have never been especially close, the president’s poor debate performance last week has turbocharged anxiety about his declining mental acuity and ability to refute attacks by former President Donald Trump. Carlson, posting on X, said Obama is privately airing his grievances to allies, admitting Biden “can’t win” and has so far failed to tell his former vice president the truth about his feelings.

“Obama’s tweet supporting Joe Biden was disingenuous. In private, Obama is telling people Biden can’t win, and he is therefore in favor of an open convention,” Carlson reported. “Obama will not say whom he supports, nor as of yesterday afternoon had he met personally with Biden to deliver the message.”

The same source confirmed reporting by other outlets that first lady Dr. Jill Biden has “cloistered” her husband away from aides and outside influencers who might try to encourage the 81-year-old to suspend his presidential campaign ahead of the party’s August convention.

“Relations between the Obamas and the Bidens have never been warm. At times they’ve been hostile. But recently they’ve deteriorated further, mostly due to Jill Biden. In the hours and days after the debate, she kept her husband cloistered away from anyone who might convince him to drop out. Jill Biden is the driving force behind her husband’s reelection campaign, just as she was in 2020, when other members of the family (including Biden’s sister Val) considered him too impaired to run,” Carlson added.

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The Supreme Court’s January 6 Decision Is Utterly Baffling Opinion by Randall D. Eliason    Opinion by Randall D. Eliason

Today, in Fischer v. United States, the Supreme Court ignored the clear language of a federal obstruction-of-justice statute to hold that the January 6 rioters who breached Capitol barricades, assaulted police officers, broke doors and windows, and forced members of Congress to flee for their life did not “obstruct or impede” the congressional proceeding to certify the election.

This 6–3 decision, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, can’t be squared with the language of the statute—or with common sense.

The justices purport to believe in textualism, an approach to the law that says that when interpreting a statute, a judge should first defer to the plain language as written by Congress. But the mental gymnastics employed by the Court to reach the result in Fischer highlight how this Court often only pretends to deploy textualism in pursuit of its preferred outcome.

The statute at issue in Fischer, 18 U.S.C. 1512(c), reads:

Whoever corruptly —

(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or

(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,

shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

This language is very clear. Subsection 1 prohibits obstructing a proceeding by tampering with physical evidence, and Subsection 2 is a catchall that prohibits “otherwise” obstructing a proceeding through means not encompassed by Subsection 1. The words or and otherwise signify alternative ways to violate the law.

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Supreme Court Thoroughly Rebukes Biden DOJ For Abusing Law To Go After Trump And His Supporters   Opinion by Katelynn Richardson 1d

The Supreme Court held Friday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) interpreted an obstruction statute too broadly when using it to charge hundreds of defendants for their behavior in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The court sided 6-3 in Fischer v. United States with a defendant who challenged the statute, Section 1512(c)(2), which holds up to 20 years in prison for anyone who “obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding.”

“To prove a violation of Section 1512(c)(2), the Government must establish that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or as we earlier explained, other things used in the proceeding, or attempted to do so,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority ruling. “The judgment of the D. C. Circuit is therefore vacated, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”

Of the 1,424 defendants charged following Jan. 6, over 350 were charged with “corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding,” according to May numbers from the DOJ. Multiple defendants charged under the statute were granted early release in light of the justice’s decision to hear the case.

Joseph Fischer, who was charged under Section 1512(c)(2), argued the DOJ’s use of the statute to prosecute Jan. 6 defendants for obstructing Congress’ certification of the 2020 election was an “unprecedented expansion.”

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According to this article the United States followed by China and Japan  lead the World in public debt.  The U.S. is $35 Trillion, followed by China at $15 Trillion and Japan at $10 Trillion.  I assume all that data is converted to U.S. Dollars to be comparable.  Friends that is a total of $50 Trillion with the U.S. share being 34% of the World total public debt in 2023!  There are no plans to pay any of it off!  

 

Yet the United States has pledged up to $21 Billion to the International Monetary Fund to help--get this now--relieve global debt!  

 

To do that will not the United States have borrow another $21 Billion on top of the $35 Trillion we already owe????  Who is minding this Bailey Brothers Building and Loan?  Janet Yellen?  Antony Winken Blinken?  Please do not say Kamala Harris!  I am certain Biden is not, he and Jill are trying to find the outhouse on Omaha Beach!

 Russia warns US to brace for retaliation after Crimea missile attack   ©EPA

The Kremlin accused the U.S. of ‘killing Russian children’ after a Ukrainian attack on occupied Crimea with long-range ATACMS missiles supplied by Washington. Moscow summoned the U.S. ambassador to issue a formal warning, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov issued a biting public comment blaming the U.S., calling the strike 'barbaric.'

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The illegals want GUNS!! A federal judge in Illinois, (an obama appointee) ruled that they can have them!!!

The constitution wasn't written for mexicans, guadamalans or columbians as well as middle easterers or chinese or europeans...!! It was written for AMERICANS !!

Illegal immigrants have 2nd Amendment rights, judge rules  Fox News  March 21 2024

‘Outnumbered’ panel discusses whether illegal immigrants should be allowed the right to bear arms following an Illinois judge's ruling.

Don’t Believe Your Own Eyes: Biden’s Re-Election Hopes Hinge On Convincing Americans To Ignore Reality  OAN’s Daniel Baldwin June 20, 2024

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre articulated the Biden campaign’s true re-election strategy this week when she was asked about multiple viral videos of President Joe Biden appearing old, frail and sleepy.

The video of Biden wandering away from Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni was not edited. The video of former President Barack Obama having to lead Biden off the stage at a fundraiser was not edited. Yet, Jean Pierre, and by extension; the White House told the American people to not trust their own eyes.

“Instead of talking about the president’s performance in office, and what I mean by that is his legislative wins, what he’s been able to do for the American people across the country, we’re seeing these deepfakes, these manipulated videos,” Jean Pierre said. “And it is, again, done in bad faith.”

There you have it. The Biden re-election team’s motto might as well be, “Who are you going to believe; me or your lying eyes?”

This is a jarring instruction. 80% of the information the human brain absorbs from the environment comes from the eyes. When more than two thousand participants were polled, 61% agreed sight was the one sense they could not surrender.

But this has been the Biden strategy from the start: convince the American public to ignore what they are seeing. In other words, ignore reality.

Look at the economy for starters. Prices are up nearly 20% since the inception of the Biden presidency. The median home price has reached $396,000 – a 45.4% increase in just four years. Gasoline is up more than 50%. Energy costs and eggs are each up more than 40%.

Yet Biden, and his allies in the corporate press, have repeatedly boasted that the economy is roaring for the average American.

“They have the money to spend,” Biden told CNN in May. Additionally, the White House has consistently argued that prices are coming down under the Biden administration.

The Wall Street Journal reported that net worth, adjusted for inflation, was up just 0.7% through Biden’s first three years. But it was up 16% through Trump’s three years.

But Biden, again, is telling the American people to not believe their own eyes.

This mantra extends to Biden’s handling of the U.S. Southern border.

“Two weeks ago, I did what Republicans in Congress refused to do: I took action to secure our border,” Biden said this past week.

Instead, at the press conference Biden spoke, he unveiled an immigration policy that would provide a pathway to citizenship for more than 500,000 illegal aliens. Under Biden’s watch, more than ten million illegal aliens have entered the country. Innocent young women such as Laken Riley, Ruby Garcia, and Rachel Morin have lost their lives at the hands of illegal aliens. Border patrol agents have apprehended a total of 367 migrants at both the Southern and Northern borders between the fiscal years of 2021 and 2024 whose names have appeared on the terror watch list. This marks a 2,521% increase from the 14 suspected terrorists caught under the Trump Administration.

Biden also enjoys projecting himself as the official defender of democracy from what he calls extreme MAGA Republicans.

“American democracy only works only if we choose to respect the rule of law and the institutions that were set up in this chamber behind me,” Biden said in Philadelphia in 2022.

Yet Biden’s own Department of Justice, and many other Democrat legal allies, launched an assault that broke 250 years of American precedent: lawfare targeting his top political opponent.

In September 2022, New York AG Letitia James, who campaigned on ‘getting Trump,’ filed a lawsuit seeking to ruin Trump’s business empire. In August 2022, Biden’s DOJ approved an FBI raid on Trump’s personal residence regarding classified documents. In March 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg bootstrapped two expired misdemeanors into 34 felony counts of falsifying business records against Trump. In June 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith, appointed by Biden’s DOJ, indicted Trump on 40 felony counts in the classified documents case. In August 2023, Smith indicted Trump again over allegedly attempting to subvert the 2020 election.

These lawsuits allowed the Biden campaign to release an advertisement that labels Trump a “convicted criminal” just months before the November election. The lawsuits allowed the Biden campaign to explicitly say Trump has been “convicted of 34 felonies” and that he “committed financial fraud.”

Again, these lawsuits from Biden’s DOJ and Biden allies violated 250 years of American legal precedent. Does that sound like Biden, in his own words, respecting the rule of law to defend democracy?

But then again, the Biden campaign has very little to stand on. Joe Biden’s record is no match for Trump’s.

The Pew Research Center found that only 23% of Americans believe the country’s economic conditions are excellent or good.

A YouGov poll found that 62% of registered voters support the government starting a mass deportation program to remove all illegal aliens. An ABC/Ipsos poll revealed that Biden’s advantage among ‘defending democracy’ has been completely wiped out. That is why the latest Emerson College state poll shows Trump ahead in all six swing states, and tied in Minnesota.

Much to Biden’s chagrin, it’s clear Americans are trusting, and will continue to, trust their own eyes.

 What to Do About the DOJ |  Newt Gingrich   Hillsdale College  2 weeks ago

 I put a lot of HOPE into Jim Jorden, even though I had read before that Jordan was a great investigator but when it comes down to the "nitty-gritty" he NEVER able to get anything done. So where do we go from here? He can't get the US attorney general to comply, so ge goes after the NY attorney general who he has no jurisdiction over ????? 

Jim Jordan Continues To Make A Fool Of Himself For Trump

Jun 20, 2024 ROF Daily Updates

Republican Congressman Jim Jordan is once again making a complete ass of himself in order to make Donald Trump happy, and Jordan doesn't seem to care that the whole country is laughing at him. Jordan is now threatening to subpoena New York Attorney General Letitia James for information regarding prosecutor Matthew Colangelo, who served as one of the lead prosecutors in Trump's hush money criminal trial. Colangelo once worked at the DOJ, which Jordan thinks proves some kind of conspiracy. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

Where we stand being $35 Trillion in DEBT !

 From a friend.

 

According to this article the United States followed by China and Japan lead the World in public debt. The U.S. is $35 Trillion, followed by China at $15 Trillion and Japan at $10 Trillion. I assume all that data is converted to U.S. Dollars to be comparable. Friends that is a total of $50 Trillion with the U.S. share being 34% of the World total public debt in 2023! There are no plans to pay any of it off!

Yet the United States has pledged up to $21 Billion to the International Monetary Fund to help--get this now--relieve global debt!

To do that will not the United States have borrow another $21 Billion on top of the $35 Trilliln we already owe???? Who is minding this Bailey Brothers Building and Loan? Janet Yellen? Antony Winken Blinken? Please do not say Kamala Harris! I am certain Biden is not, he and Jill are trying to find the outhouse on Omaha Beach!

 
https://www.unitedvoice.com/u-n-report-claims-us-leads-the-world-in-public-debt/?utm_source=uv-aw-cf&utm_placement=UVnewsletter&utm_medium=email

New revelations in Florida documents trial put Trump on offense against 'deranged' special counsel   Story by Emma Colton • 4h Fox News

Former President Trump returns to Trump Tower, New York City, Monday, April 15, 2024. Trump was in Manhattan Criminal Court today for jury selection in the so-called "hush-money" case. Fox News© Probe-Media for Fox New Digital

Former President Trump is calling for Special Counsel Jack Smith’s arrest after the prosecutors handling the 45th president’s classified documents case admitted seized documents are no longer in their original order and sequence.

"Now, Deranged Jack has admitted in a filing in front of Judge Cannon to what I have been saying happened since the Illegal RAID on my home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida – That he and his team committed blatant Evidence Tampering by mishandling the very Boxes they used as a pretext to bring this Fake Case," Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday. "These deeply Illegal actions by the Politicized ‘Persecutors’ mandate that this whole Witch Hunt be DROPPED IMMEDIATELY. END THE ‘BOXES HOAXES.’ MAGA2024!"

"ARREST DERANGED JACK SMITH. HE IS A CRIMINAL!" Trump added in a follow-up post.

Prosecutors admitted in a court filing on Friday that "there are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans." The prosecutors had previously told the court that the documents were "in their original, intact form as seized."

"The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court," a footnote in the filing reads.

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IN ADDITION....This trial should never been started, the "equal justice under the law" did not prevail here. When they refused to charge Biden for practically the SAME CRIME (because of his age and mental incapacity that he wouldn't remember doing the crimeand the people would only see Biden as an aged, feeble, mentally challenged old man. Just remember this...HIS MIND WAS FUNTIONAL WHEN HE STOLE THOSE DOCUMENTS! But unlike Trump, Biden had no right to even read those top secret documents. He STOLE them and left them in the open in various places.

Where is the crime here?: Tomi Lahren  FOX News 8 hrs ago

OutKick host Tomi Lahren and Fox News senior political analyst Juan Williams join ‘MediaBuzz’ to discuss former Trump aide Hope Hicks’ testimony in NY v. Trump.

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Was Jack Smith's appointment unconstitutional? He has no more authority than Taylor Swift, amicus brief argues  BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS DECEMBER 21, 2023,

Jack Smith’s appointment as special counsel has been a subject of constitutional debate. According to an amicus brief signed by former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese and two law professors, Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional1. The argument centers around the process of appointing a special counsel, which typically involves the President or the Attorney General appointing an individual who is then confirmed by the Senate2. Here are the key points from the brief:

Improper Appointment: Attorney General Merrick Garland allegedly “exceeded his statutory and constitutional authority” when he appointed Smith in November 2022. Smith was not nominated by President Joe Biden or confirmed by the U.S. Senate, which raises concerns about the legitimacy of his appointment.

Null and Void Actions: Because Smith’s appointment was deemed unconstitutional, every action he has taken since his appointment is now considered null and void. This includes any legal proceedings related to immunity claims by former President Donald Trump1.

Nationwide Jurisdiction: Despite lacking proper appointment procedures, Smith has nationwide jurisdiction, making him more powerful than any of the 93 Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys. Federal law allows the attorney general to appoint attorneys to assist U.S. attorneys, but not to replace them1.

Appointments Clause: The appointments clause in the Constitution requires that all federal offices “not otherwise provided for” be established by law. However, there is no statute establishing the Office of Special Counsel within the U.S. Department of Justice, nor is there a statute allowing the attorney general to appoint an inferior officer with the powers given to Smith. Additionally, inferior officers must be controlled by a superior officer, which does not apply to Smith under DOJ regulations1.

In summary, the constitutional validity of Jack Smith’s appointment remains a contentious issue, and legal challenges continue to question the legitimacy of his role as special counsel