I appeared this morning on the Tony Katz Show on Rumble to discuss the only thing anyone is talking about: The indictment and arraignment of Donald Trump.
The full video is at the bottom of the post. In this video excerpt, we focused on the bigger picture of how that indictment of Trump fits into a fissure in society (this is two clips combined into one video):
Katz: …. legally it’s referred to as stacking. When you don’t have a lot, you make one thing look like a lot of things. So you stack them one on top of the other. So if you have 11 checks and you have seven journal entries and four of this, and two of those, it’s like Rodney Dangerfield in Caddy Shaq, gimme two of those, gimme six of those, gimme a couple of those naked lady tees. That’s the stacking. So that’s the process that Alvin Bragg, the district Attorney Manhattan, used in in this case. But what you are bringing up is this idea that what Trump did in paying Stormy Daniels the way he did was that this was an intent to well engage a fraud and it does engage another crime. But he doesn’t mention what the crime is. And a matter of fact, in the press conference that the DA Alvin Bragg had, he states that he doesn’t have to mention what the other crime is. How does that pass your sniff test?WAJ: It doesn’t pass it in any case, but it certainly doesn’t pass it in what legally is a groundbreaking case of bringing an indictment against a former president and leading political opponent. The president of, I forget if it was Guatemala or Honduras [note: it was El Salvador] put out a tweet about that. If this happened in any other country where a major political opponent was arrested on flimsy charges based on a far-fetched legal theory with little disclosure, we would laugh at that. We would not call that democracy. And that’s what’s happened here. It may be that Trump did everything Alvin Bragg said that there were false checks for, but it would never, we know it would never be prosecuted against anybody else. And it was only prosecuted because Donald Trump’s running for president. I don’t think there’s a person on the face of this earth who thinks that this case would’ve been brought if three months ago or four months ago, Donald Trump had announced I am not running for president again.So that’s what this is about. This has all the appearances of a political prosecution. And you’re right, there are a lot of commenters from the left who recognize this is really weak stuff. There’s a guy at Vox who is usually brutal towards people like Trump. And even he said this is not the sort of legal theory that you bring for the first time a former president is going to be indicted, that this whole thing could collapse, there were numerous legal infirmities with it, unresolved legal questions. And this is not what you do to a former president and political opponent* * *Katz: But when we live in a world that has such little trust in the institutions, you can’t trust the FBI, the IRS went after the Tea Party, you look at how the DOJ treats parents — and you cover that at legalinsurrection.com over and over and over again. Does there begin to be a worry that people like Alvin Bragg are going to hurt the profession in a way that there’s a total lack of faith in the profession? Or do they feel we’re lawyers, we’re totally insulated, we can do whatever we want, with impunity. And what’s worse comes to worse, I’ll end up getting a job in some other way because the progressives will take care of me.WAJ: I think this is the sort of thing that tears at the fabric of the country. If you’re going to charge a major political figure during the early stages of the primary season with a crime, you better have really solid ground and it better be a serious crime, not a bookkeeping crime that’s seven years old. So I think this really does tear at the fabric. It feeds into the distrust of institutions. I’ve written a lot about institutional capture and how almost every major institution, with the exception of the Supreme Court, has been captured by the left. And of course, now that the Supreme Court is not captured by the left, they want to de-legitimize it, so they’re attacking the Supreme Court. And there is a real concern in this country that people completely lose faith, and it leads to a fracturing of the country.We’re not going fracture along geographic lines, we’re too integrated as a country But it;s the so-called national divorce, I think a lot of people are tuning out and checking out and creating alternative systems. You’re on Rumble now, why are you on Rumble? Rumble was created because YouTube was being abusive towards conservatives? YouTube was shutting people down. YouTube was captured part of Google. It’s captured. So people are finding we are fracturing not necessarily geographically as a country, but socially as a country into our own little silos and our own pockets. And that’s not healthy.
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WAJ: Well, There’s a great deal of deference given to the prosecutors to present their case the way they want to. So a judge is only going to throw this out is if there’s some legal problem with it, and many people have pointed out there are many potential legal problems with it, including it’s a novel theory, that a county prosecutor, this isn’t even a state attorney general, that a county prosecutor can upgrade a misdemeanor to a felony based on an alleged intent to violate a federal law when the person has not been charged with actually violating the federal law. So this is like a hypothetical. If Donald Trump intended to violate a federal law, can we upgrade this from misdemeanor to felony? So this is like a law school exam, except it’s not law school, it’s real life and it’s a gross interference in our political process.It’s a gross manipulation of the Republican primaries. The obvious thing is it’s an attempt to get Trump, that’s clear, right? But it’s also a manipulation because as I think was pointed out or on Tucker Carlson last night, he didn’t necessarily endorse it, but he pointed out that one of the theories here is that the Democrats, this is their master manipulation, that they are not only going to raise Trump to martyr status so that he gets the Republican nomination, they’re also going dirty him up in the court case so that he can’t get elected president in the general election. People have to remember that a lot of the reaction coming from Republicans is to rally around Trump. That’s not necessarily the reaction in the rest of the country. That’s not necessarily the reaction with the so-called suburban women who sunk the campaign for Trump last time. So this really appears to be a master manipulation by Democrats.
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