Brief update on Trump's Federal indictment

Kari Lake, speaking in Georgia, said that if Merrick Garland wants to get Trump, he will have to go through 75 million Americans “and most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA. That’s not a threat, that’s a public service announcement.”

“You guys in the Media want to find actual evidence of crimes committed? Check out Hillary Clinton’s server. Check out Hunter Biden’s laptop. Frankly, if you’re looking for evidence of a crime, look at Monica Lewinsky’s dress.”

Standing ovation.

KARI LAKE: “I meant what I said.”

NANCY MACE: “Every time we show corruption by Joe Biden and his family, there’s an indictment on Donald Trump.”

SCOTT ADAMS: "No one is above the law" doesn't mean what it used to mean. Now it's a signal the government is hunting one political party.”

LOU DOBBS: “Go Stick Your Indictment--There's no damn way this ignorant Biden Regime filled with global elitists who sneer down on our citizens, who mean to destroy America, will ever be trusted by patriotic Americans! The corrupt Obama-Biden-Clinton axis and Uni-party and Inter-agency have now gone way too far with another of your legal harassments dressed up as an indictment of our rightful President.

I'm telling everyone of you I won't be among those who sit by silently as you push your venal, vapid indictment of President Trump to court! It's is just another poisonous, vile act by you of the bloodsucking Anti-American Left to add to more than seven years of political persecution of President Trump, whose chief offense has been to put America First.

Each and every one of you of the Left knows where you belong for putting an illegitimate President in the White House, for your persecution of President Trump and cheating him and this great nation of his reelection---so God Speed.”

GLENN GREENWALD: “The Espionage Act of 1917—under which Donald Trump is currently being indicted—is a draconian law that has been cynically weaponized against whistleblowers and journalists for years, with cases skyrocketing under the Obama Administration. From Woodrow Wilson to Julian Assange, it’s essential to understand how this law was transformed from a repressive wartime measure to the attack on freedom it is today…”

https://twitter.com/SystemUpdate_/status/1667166125795299330?s=20

BOTTOMLINE: They couldn’t get Trump under the Presidential Records Act - because he has the right as President to declassify and keep any record he wants - so they pulled out some archaic 1917 “espionage” law that Woodrow Wilson used to round up dissenters and they used to take down mobsters and are going to call some of his papers “national defense documents” and say he can’t have them. It’s all made up. The DOJ is literally making it all up. Weissmann is running the show behind the scenes just like he ran the impeachment nonsense. Merrick Garland and Biden are doing his bidding. Everything you hear will be a lie. They ran the grand jury in DC and then moved it to Florida and rigged it for the narrative.

They coerced witnesses, violated privilege, intimidated attorneys and Judges, hid evidence, manipulated evidence, lied to the jury - you name it - if it was illegal - they did it.

MARK LEVIN: “Here's the damnable truth, and everyone knows it.  If every former president and numerous cabinet members were subjected to an Espionage Act investigation focused on their handling and retention of classified information, we'd have to set up a small penal colony for former presidents and cabinet secretaries -- starting with both Clintons, Biden, Pence, and many more.  And that's just the more recent former top officials.” 

RIC GRENELL: Jack Smith is shaking as he speaks. He’s so nervous.

He has always overplayed his hand in the cases he’s handled because he’s an emotional partisan activist. His Kosovo case is falling apart and his own witnesses there are now claiming he and his team at The Hague faked being CIA officials to intimidate them.

JARRETT: "The Presidential Records Act, a civil statute, gave Trump the right under the law to maintain custody and control of papers whether if they are classified or not."

MIKE DAVIS: “Jack Smith’s legal theory is essentially this:

Even if President declassifies his presidential records and takes them when he leaves office, he can still get charged under Espionage Act.

Because the DOJ can recategorize the documents as:

“National Defense Information.”

Promise that theory won’t fly with Supreme Court.”

CHAFFETZ: “These are documents generated by computers. NARA already has these documents. These are just printed copies.”

Trump’s staff were forced to box up and transport his records themselves. They were forced to move them to Mar-a-Lago because NARA refused to do their job to take possession of Trump’s documents. It was a Set-up by NARA for the LawFare that was to come.

Looks like Jack Smith altered the recording of President Trump & lied to the Grand Jury. We're only on day one. More to come.

TED CRUZ: “Merrick Garland has a sense of self-righteous entitlement. He believes he doesn't answer to anybody & IS the law. He picks and chooses which laws he wants to follow.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: “It is designed to destroy the person who’s leading in the polls (Trump) against Joe Biden. That’s what countries abroad do that are unstable and corrupt—the existing (Biden) administration uses the powers of government to indict his likely opponent in the next election.”

STEPHEN MILLER: “It is not a coincidence that this indictment comes out on the same day that we have credible evidence of a BRIBERY SCHEME that goes all the way up to JOE BIDEN. It is not a coincidence that this comes on the heels of a Durham Report showing how the Department of Justice tried to engineer a COUP against a duly elected President (Trump) of the United States…”

PAUL SPERRY: “DOJ must respond to a complaint filed under seal in DC court by the lawyer for indicted Trump valet Walt Nauta alleging that Democrat prosecutor Jay Bratt threatened Nauta to cooperate against Trump by suggesting Nauta's application for a judgeship would be blocked.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: “Special counsel Smith indicted Trump aide Walt Nauta for an allegedly false statement of “I don’t know”. John Brennan and James Clapper both lied under oath to Congress. Andrew McCabe lied three times to federal investigators. James Comey 245 times under oath claimed ”I don’t know/remember.” Equal Justice?”

SUNDANCE: “The DOJ is no longer legally arguing that Donald Trump held any classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The DOJ is arguing that President Trump held documents vital to U.S. defense security. It’s a farce but that’s their position. The DOJ defines what is considered a defense document, and that intentionally has nothing to do with classification.

You might have heard that two of Trump’s lawyers, Jim Trusty and John Rowley, quit today. The two lawyers who "quit" had their illicit forced testimony in the indictment, so they had to leave.

As soon as Trusty and Rowley saw their forced testimony was used in the indictment, they had no option except to exit the case. Despite the lawyers providing no damaging information against Trump, the DOJ used language in the indictment to turn Trump’s lawyers into material witnesses. Weissmann’s Lawfare tactic create a conflict, forcing the two Trump lawyers to depart.”

SUNDANCE: “Here's me possessing and distributing a document with classified markings. But it's not classified. This is what DOJ claimed to have found in Mar-a-Lago!”

PAUL SPERRY: “Special Counsel Jack Smith is banking on Trump body man Walt Nauta copping a plea under threat of 20 years in prison and turning state's evidence against Trump to prevail in otherwise weak, circumstantial case.”

MARK LEVIN: “Is this some kind of a sick joke on the AMERICAN PEOPLE?

Joe Biden says he never told them what to do—Joe Biden had to sign off on this becoming a National Archives case, to have it go to the Department of Justice!

Who does he think he’s lying to, the AMERICAN PEOPLE? This is a guy that’s got documents from the time he was in the US Senate…in his garage!”

If Trump gets convicted on all of Smith's federal charges, he faces 100 years in prison. If convicted in NYC, it's 136 years.

MIKE TRACEY: “The sitting president can authorize himself to classify, de-classify, possess, transport, etc. any document because the president is the highest authority of the Executive Branch as per the Constitution. This is true whether you think it's normatively good, bad, or neutral.”

JOSH HAWLEY: “If the President in power can just jail his political opponents, which is what Joe Biden is trying to do tonight, we don’t have a Republic anymore…nobody should be in doubt of what’s happening tonight. Joe Biden and his cronies are trying to take out their chief political opponent.

This has never happened before in American history—we are in dangerous, dangerous waters, and it is because of Joe Biden.”

People who’ve had their political opponents arrested:

Mao

Stalin

Mussolini

Pol Pot

Castro

Hitler

Amin

Chavez

Ortega

Morales

Biden

FACT

JOHN RICH: “If you can indict one former President on the state and Federal levels, you can indict all former Presidents on the state and Federal levels. New precedent has been set.”

JOSHUA STEINMAN IS A FORMER NSC MEMBER AND CLOSE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP:

“The President of the United States is the “Original Classification Authority,” and holds the ultimate authority to classify and declassify information. This power is typically delegated to various departments and agencies. But ultimately it is POTUS’s.

Classification process is for every person **but** the President, who, as Original Classification Authority, can do anything he wants. None of the rules apply to him, because they are **his** directives to all others. The VP. The Cabinet. Everyone else.

POTUS could tweet out the PDB. Legal.

Sometimes I would travel with POTUS on AF1 — there’s always an NSC staffer in case of emergency — and the rule was, no matter where you were, you gave him the full briefing. Because it was **his** information you were protecting, per Article 2 of the US Constitution. Backstage at a rally in WV? Full briefing. Middle of a golf course in Virginia? Full briefing. The mere act of packing up the documents and sending them to his designated archive location — completed while he was President, and Original Classification Authority — is sufficient.”

Christina Bobb, a Trump attorney who used to work for OANN, says that DeSantis is part of the swamp and the Uniparty establishment and only pretends to be MAGA. We know!

"The governor of Florida is not supporting the president. The pathetic little statement that he made about how, when I'm president, I'm going to clean this up. First of all, he's never going to be president. And second of all, why would we believe that you're going to clean this up when you're president? If you're the governor of Florida? This case is happening in Florida. Why don't you do something about it?"

"He is corrupted with the Swamp. He's hoping the establishment wins. He's hoping the establishment successfully removes Donald Trump from the race so that he has a shot at being president. He doesn't."

BEN STEIN: "We have a group of plotters now focused on taking over the key elements of the US government. It reminds me very much of the way the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia.

They did not have a giant, nationwide revolt. They seized power in a couple of key places and then said “We are done. Anyone who marches against us will get shot.”

They meant what they said. They shot a lot of people."

I agree! It's exactly like that! The Bolshevik coup against Russia is being repeated in America. Same playbook. NEVER EVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS. BUY MORE.

The Bolshevik Revolution, also referred to as the "Great October Socialist Revolution," was the first successful COMMUNIST Marxist coup in history.

As I’ve said for years - that’s what the Communists are going for in America and they’re using Biden, Garland & Weissmann to do it. To turn the US into the Soviet Union. The United Socialist States of America - the USSA - just like the USSR.

MARK LEVIN: “My first take on this:

When an indictment is released, as in the case of President Trump, it presents a completely one-sided story developed by the prosecutor. Witnesses are not represented by attorneys, there is no opportunity for cross-examination, there is no opportunity for presenting exculpatory information, etc. It is not a trial jury.

The indictment appears to me to be a piling on, which explains why the prosecution brought in as many witnesses and documents as possible, cherry-picking information, etc. Even now, nobody is present to deal with these charges in the media -- for example, why is it assumed in some instances that the movement of some boxes was for the purpose of concealment.

Remember, virtually none of this would be an issue but for the original decision by the Biden White House and DOJ to turn this into a criminal case. Most of what is claimed in these charges flow from that decision. And attorney-client privilege was circumvented in at least one instance, I would argue, which will be a basis for challenge, among other things.

If any of the alleged evidence is based on violations of privilege, due process, etc., would result in the prosecution having to figure out what parts of that information was used to poison other witnesses or the presentation of information to the grand jury.

Now, they are trashing the federal judge in the Miami arraignment (perhaps the entire case), who is a Trump appointee (the judges handling all motions respecting the grand jury were Obama appointees, and that did not draw the criticism of these same critics, of course).

The Hillary Clinton case does, in fact, matter. The Justice Department's official position was not to criminalize that case. There were denials of the possession of classified information, but there was classified information. And thousands of emails were permanently deleted, even though Hillary's lawyers did not read the emails, only the headers. Cellphones were destroyed by hammers and discarded. And there was no grand jury or warrant or swat seizure of documents. Document retention, false statements, conspiracy to obstruct, etc. And Hillary was secretary of state, not president or a former president.

I see nothing that suggests the Espionage Act of 1917 (since amended several times) was ever intended to apply to a president (which raises very serious constitutional issues) or a former president (the first time the Act has been used against an ex-president is Trump).

Indeed, if the intention was to apply it against even an ex-president, and there is no legislative history to suggest such a thing, then wouldn't all the post-presidential activities of a former president require oversight by the DOJ to ensure that the former president did not violate any aspect of the Act? After all, a former president has an institutional memory about all kinds of top secret and national security information that could be passed, even accidentally, in the form of a private discussion, etc.

How would this even be managed? It is true that a former president is not explicitly exempted from the statute, but the history and practice over the last more than 100 years suggests its inapplicable. This is the ONLY instance in which it was even considered.

Moreover, re the Presidential Records Act, a federal judge in 2012 held in a case involving Bill Clinton, the court has no power to retrieve documents from the former president and the former president has extremely broad authority to retain documents.

Importantly, the Presidential Records Act has NO criminal penalty because the Congress and Carter had no intention of criminalizing document retention matters. And never before has the 1917 Espionage Act was never even discussed as applying to a former president. There is no justification for criminalizing this matter against Trump.

Let's be clear: the Biden regime has brought charges against President Trump that are intended to imprison him for more than 100 years, meaning -- they seek to imprison him for the rest of his life! Think about that. Not only is this the first indictment of an ex-president, not only is this the first indictment of a candidate for president by an opposing party president, but they seeking to send Trump to prison where he would die due to the sentences these allege crimes incorporate!”

Remember this video? This is the first one that ACCURATELY called out the 2020 stolen election and it was banned on social media…WATCH IT AGAIN.

https://twitter.com/WeAreWoke1776_3/status/1667324033631756296?s=20

If you can be in Miami on June 13th to support President Trump, please do so.

BEN STEIN: “The darkness will pass and it will be light. God Bless President Trump and his family. God Bless you and God Bless America.”

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