An historical court hearing in Washington this week put on display the dangerous new lengths to which Biden's Department of Justice and a Democratic federal judge will go to ruin Donald Trump.
Oct 18, 2023·edited Oct 18, 2023Liked by Julie Kelly
When I read David McCullough’s biography of John Adams, I was struck by how an otherwise great president was tainted by the Sedition Acts. McCullough says, “Their passage and his signature on them were to be rightly judged by history as the most reprehensible acts of his presidency." Those acts caused such an outcry and anger that they propelled Jefferson’s victory over Adams.
As we watch these deranged prosecutors and judges attack Trump, I’m hoping there will be such anger and such an outcry that Trump will be propelled into office over any Democrat opponent. Somehow his prosecutors haven’t needed a law such as the Sedition Act which made it a crime for American citizens to "print, utter, or publish...any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" about the government. Trump’s prosecutors just ignore the Constitution and twist and stretch existing laws to get the same effect.
I think Trump is the only one who can do what needs to be done. Let's hope he's learned a lot of lessons about who to trust and how to wield power when you have it. The DOJ and federal court system, especially in Washington, needs to be dismantled. Neither is salvageable.
Agreed. A reminder about a very competent chief executive who understands economic leverage(based on hydrocarbon energy) is our most important weapon as demonstrated:
This is about as salvageable as Gaza is with Hamas leadership.
When you see what is going on consider that, yes, it is possible to fix it but the real issue, which eventually needs to be addressed, is what to do to prevent it from reoccurring. Otherwise it is but temporary. And that concern was addressed at the time of Constitutional ratification. The levers of power should never be just expanded and fortified at the federal level. At the very least when something is done at the federal level it needs to be counterbalanced by something done at the state and local level right down to the level of the individual.
With all due respect, Julie, I believe those decisions were made long ago. What we're witnessing is a bold attempt for the judge to appear "reasonable," which, of course, plays right into the hands of the Socialist-Activist-Jouranalists-Propagandists who inhabit the PR Department, also known as the Mainstream Media. However, it will be interesting, maybe even fascinating, to watch her attempt to pull that trick and, in the process, try to figure-out how to accommodate President Trump's Secret Service detail if she holds him in contempt and orders him to jail. Don't you think? Third World here we come if this is allowed to stand without being overturned on appeal.
Isn't there a tiny part that want to see her enormous ego deal with imprisoning a former president? So she will handle the trial and the sentence. Where will she order him to go? She is beyond arrogant and not exactly very bright. Bad combination
First, I appreciate your response, Julie. She must not be very bright if she was appointed by Osama. Her arrogance is on display daily. I want to see her squirm trying to accommodate the Secret Service protection detail if she holds President Trump in contempt. All the reason for him to push the envelope.
President Donald Trump has the greatest opportunity to demonstrate peaceful protesting by not complying with her illegal contempt charge since Gandhi and MLK made such lawlessness publicly obvious. In fact ask yourself what they would do.
"Judge Chutkan was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1962. Her grandfather Frank Hill and great uncle Ken Hill were key to the founding of Jamaica’s People’s National Party (PNP). Ken Hill was “by far the most influential” member of a Marxist group within the PNP, according to one member of the group."
She actually corrected the Prosecutor in the transcript, stating that No, this defendant is not like any other defendant. This is a former President of the US, running again against Joe Biden. This was after many of Lauro’s points sunk in. I don’t think she’s stupid at all. I think she realized that she could cross the line into illegality herself. I do think she has no motivation for justice, nor any sense of respect for the defendant, who is Mr. President to her, as she is Your Honor.
Rev. Sir, the operative comment is 'appear "reasonable" '. In this case, in my not very humble opinion, no one that is attempting to offer a judicial opinion here is either appearing reasonable or indeed being "reasonable". Not only is Chutkan highly biased, but she is just as outwardly verbose as Donald Trump or Jack Smith (et cetera) at displaying that bias. TChutkan's bias, to me, appears to be actionable in order to force her to be recused!
And in this setting, that is being used to prosecute this messed up court case, both Chutkan and Smith (as well as Bragg and the New York A.G. Letitia James) have no ability to be anything other than bragging (no pun intended) about their campaign to "get Donald Trump". And this is being done at a pace that is tantamount to what happens on a race track for either Horses or Dogs.
It's wrong and it's being done all for affect, appearance, influence and without any care as to how it will be remembered in real time or in the future. They are mounting a highly biased and racist lynching on a political and otherwise encompassing personal and professional election interference basis. There seems to be no "reasonable" logic because it's so existentially wrapped in bias beyond an emotional game plan.
There is no regard for comparison of a successful presidency in advancing the safety and proven profitable gain for this country as opposed to the current devolvement of most things successful for the United States of America. under POTUS J.R. Biden. The design is to "take down" in particular Donald Trump at any and all costs on various levels of existence! And the legal citizens of the USA by design will have to be collateral damage. That's a given.
Forgive me for the tardiness of this reply but I'm not the most facile when it comes to computers and responding to a previous post. Of course, I agree with your perspective and your very thoughtful statements about the Banana Republic behavior of the Soviet-Show-Trials. Your observation that this is driven by outward bias is accurate. But my point is that this circumstance was created in order for the PR Department, also known as the Mainstream Media, to be able to spread the propaganda that her unconstitutional gag order was a measured response to President Trump. This establishes the precedent to chase and arrest anyone who supports President Trump or who deign to have the temerity to believe that the 2020 Presidential Election was stolen. In other words, this lays the foundation for the Marxist-Democrat-Party to continue to turn this country into a complete totalitarian State once these precedents are available to imprison anyone who attempts to use the First Amendment right to address grievances. As you know, (and to use a popular cliche) the guilty verdict was already baked-into-the-cake, as it were; all that was needed was the theatrical performance by a fellow traveler in a black robe. This will eliminate any opposition to the radical Islamist who inhabited the Oval Office for eight years and provide that inexorable person a fourth term. Should she be recused? Of course. Will that ever happen? Absolutely not. As I said, the objective of the Marxist-Democrat-Party, with the able assistance of the Stasi-style-Secret-Police, is to complete the utter "transformation" of America advocated by the above-mentioned radical Islamist. God help us.
And with the radical occupation of the USA Capitol rotunda yesterday by pro Hamas/Palestinian "insurrectionists" who doggedly refuse to recognize that the barbaric actions of their beloved warring and evil mercenaries was categorically wrong on every and any human basis possible, those "protesters" will still be treated with more care than any Jan. 6th human being who is and was incarcerated with complete abandon to the Geneva Convention statutes of proper care for prisoners, as they still rot in prison. And that is specifically because those Hamas/Palestinian protestors will be and are considered Leftists/Liberals/Progressives/Democrats! There is no disavowing that this an example of a two-tiered justice system in these United States!
Of course those Capitol protesters will be excused just as the Marxist-controlled black lies matter and antifa were ignored in the summer of 2020. And it's despicable that nobody who purports to be conservative in DC, regardless of which chamber of the legislature to which we refer, has the spine to shout from the roof top about how unconstitutional the DC gulag is. They appear to be more concerned about maintaining receipt of those precious cocktail party invitations. What really irritates me as an observant, patriotic conservative is that it appears that the revolution was already won by the Marxists' before our side even realized it occurred. The two-tiered justice system is simply the outward indication that we seem to be headed hell-bent-for-leather toward complete tyranny. I don't know if it will have that much of a effect on me but it certainly will effect our kids and grand kids.
Yes they did. The state republican parties in at least AZ and GA actively violated their state election laws regarding accepting ballots well past lawful times.
"And anyone who thinks that’s a bridge too far (throwing Trump in jail) isn’t paying attention to the hellishly rigged and unaccountable judicial system in our nation’s capital." This corruption, likely operating for years, just couldn't contain itself when this one man showed up. These revelations may be Trump's gift to America. Now we know.
Thank you Julie, for your reporting on this matter. We'd be nearly completely in the dark without you. I also appreciate your explanations of how the judge has written it in order to trip President Trump up in the future.
Thank you, Patricia, and thank you for your support. Yes, it's a joke of an order and her goal (and DOJ's) is to jump on either Trump, his lawyers, or a "surrogate" for violating the terms. Only a matter of time.
It is Judge Chutkan, as a judge, who has no right to publicly make opinionated comments on this case, even if her opinions about Trump are 100% correct, because opinions by a judge, in or out of the courthouse, may shape the outcome more than the law itself which is fundamental to justice in America. If she were not presiding over the case she could publish a paper, or write an article, because she is entitled to her opinions, just as Donald Trump is, but not in her court where the law presides even over her. Donald Trump not only has the Constitution on his side, as originally ratified, but he also has the First Amendment on his side, which was ratified a year later, so as to double down on the concept of free speech, and especially political speech, directed against the government, so that agents within the government would not be confused over what the Constitution meant about free speech and, thus, not attempt to limit it.
The First Amendment, as part of the Bill of Rights, does not belong to the government, which includes Judge Chutkan, but to the people, which includes Donald Trump. And that also goes for the rest of the Bill of Rights which belongs to the People and the States. Since Judge Chutkan has made her incomprehension of the US Constitution publicly obvious she should not be on the bench, ruling on any case and, on this particular case, her decisions will be successfully appealed, even by the least Constitutional judges, on the appellate court.
Reading the transcript yesterday, I was struck by the Court completely ignored the electorate’s right to hear a candidate whom they may vote for. As Lauro argued about the former President’s First Amendment, and the Judge kept harping on his First Amendment rights being limited, she was essentially leaving out millions of people whose rights are not limited by the more important trial. The prosecution kept arguing that Mr. Trump can campaign as long as he says this but not that. These people are not strangers to Donald Trump. They have listened to him speak for nearly 20 years now, and also know a 77 year old does not change his style of speech unless it is curtailed by disease- or a court order. It is election interference to interfere with what a candidate can or can’t say.
Seriously, millions of Trump supporters will potentially act violently to Milley? Courtroom drama.
The Court does not want the electorate to hear what the opposition candidate has to say any more than the congressional progressive left wanted Mike Pence to allow speakers on J6 to give their raisons d’être as to why, perhaps, Pence's certification of the electoral votes may not represent the will of a significant number, of the electorate, legally entitled to vote. The number that might have been contested, had J6 gone as 99% of the crowd wished it had, and as has now been demonstrated in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin would have, quite likely, given us a different President.
If you concluded that the supposed "accidental" pulling of the fire alarm, by congressional representative Bowman, may not have been an accident then you know what Judge Chutkan is also about. Pulling the fire alarm prevented a House vote. What J6 turned out to be about is no different than what pulling the fire alarm was about and what Judge Chutkan is also about. All of it is designed as a way around the First Amendment. Open, free and abundant speech is anathema to those who are afraid of discourse. The only speech, press and redress of government they will tolerate is what they can orchestrate, choreograph and control to obtain the outcome they need to obtain and keep power.
The American legal system is in shambles and those responsible no longer even try to hide it because they control most of the levers of power and have no intention of letting the electorate, no matter how large a majority they may represent, take any of it back.
Judge Chutkin may be dressed in a black robe, and has been appointed as a federal judge but, in my opinion, she has about as much comprehension, respect and belief in America's Constitution as does Hamas for Israel's sovereignty. And the same goes for the President that appointed her.
When I read David McCullough’s biography of John Adams, I was struck by how an otherwise great president was tainted by the Sedition Acts. McCullough says, “Their passage and his signature on them were to be rightly judged by history as the most reprehensible acts of his presidency." Those acts caused such an outcry and anger that they propelled Jefferson’s victory over Adams.
As we watch these deranged prosecutors and judges attack Trump, I’m hoping there will be such anger and such an outcry that Trump will be propelled into office over any Democrat opponent. Somehow his prosecutors haven’t needed a law such as the Sedition Act which made it a crime for American citizens to "print, utter, or publish...any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" about the government. Trump’s prosecutors just ignore the Constitution and twist and stretch existing laws to get the same effect.
I think Trump is the only one who can do what needs to be done. Let's hope he's learned a lot of lessons about who to trust and how to wield power when you have it. The DOJ and federal court system, especially in Washington, needs to be dismantled. Neither is salvageable.
Agreed. A reminder about a very competent chief executive who understands economic leverage(based on hydrocarbon energy) is our most important weapon as demonstrated:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/08/19/the-day-i-went-head-to-head-with-donald-trump/#624a2a035570
This is about as salvageable as Gaza is with Hamas leadership.
When you see what is going on consider that, yes, it is possible to fix it but the real issue, which eventually needs to be addressed, is what to do to prevent it from reoccurring. Otherwise it is but temporary. And that concern was addressed at the time of Constitutional ratification. The levers of power should never be just expanded and fortified at the federal level. At the very least when something is done at the federal level it needs to be counterbalanced by something done at the state and local level right down to the level of the individual.
With all due respect, Julie, I believe those decisions were made long ago. What we're witnessing is a bold attempt for the judge to appear "reasonable," which, of course, plays right into the hands of the Socialist-Activist-Jouranalists-Propagandists who inhabit the PR Department, also known as the Mainstream Media. However, it will be interesting, maybe even fascinating, to watch her attempt to pull that trick and, in the process, try to figure-out how to accommodate President Trump's Secret Service detail if she holds him in contempt and orders him to jail. Don't you think? Third World here we come if this is allowed to stand without being overturned on appeal.
Isn't there a tiny part that want to see her enormous ego deal with imprisoning a former president? So she will handle the trial and the sentence. Where will she order him to go? She is beyond arrogant and not exactly very bright. Bad combination
First, I appreciate your response, Julie. She must not be very bright if she was appointed by Osama. Her arrogance is on display daily. I want to see her squirm trying to accommodate the Secret Service protection detail if she holds President Trump in contempt. All the reason for him to push the envelope.
President Donald Trump has the greatest opportunity to demonstrate peaceful protesting by not complying with her illegal contempt charge since Gandhi and MLK made such lawlessness publicly obvious. In fact ask yourself what they would do.
"Judge Chutkan was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1962. Her grandfather Frank Hill and great uncle Ken Hill were key to the founding of Jamaica’s People’s National Party (PNP). Ken Hill was “by far the most influential” member of a Marxist group within the PNP, according to one member of the group."
Nuff said.
She actually corrected the Prosecutor in the transcript, stating that No, this defendant is not like any other defendant. This is a former President of the US, running again against Joe Biden. This was after many of Lauro’s points sunk in. I don’t think she’s stupid at all. I think she realized that she could cross the line into illegality herself. I do think she has no motivation for justice, nor any sense of respect for the defendant, who is Mr. President to her, as she is Your Honor.
Rev. Sir, the operative comment is 'appear "reasonable" '. In this case, in my not very humble opinion, no one that is attempting to offer a judicial opinion here is either appearing reasonable or indeed being "reasonable". Not only is Chutkan highly biased, but she is just as outwardly verbose as Donald Trump or Jack Smith (et cetera) at displaying that bias. TChutkan's bias, to me, appears to be actionable in order to force her to be recused!
And in this setting, that is being used to prosecute this messed up court case, both Chutkan and Smith (as well as Bragg and the New York A.G. Letitia James) have no ability to be anything other than bragging (no pun intended) about their campaign to "get Donald Trump". And this is being done at a pace that is tantamount to what happens on a race track for either Horses or Dogs.
It's wrong and it's being done all for affect, appearance, influence and without any care as to how it will be remembered in real time or in the future. They are mounting a highly biased and racist lynching on a political and otherwise encompassing personal and professional election interference basis. There seems to be no "reasonable" logic because it's so existentially wrapped in bias beyond an emotional game plan.
There is no regard for comparison of a successful presidency in advancing the safety and proven profitable gain for this country as opposed to the current devolvement of most things successful for the United States of America. under POTUS J.R. Biden. The design is to "take down" in particular Donald Trump at any and all costs on various levels of existence! And the legal citizens of the USA by design will have to be collateral damage. That's a given.
Forgive me for the tardiness of this reply but I'm not the most facile when it comes to computers and responding to a previous post. Of course, I agree with your perspective and your very thoughtful statements about the Banana Republic behavior of the Soviet-Show-Trials. Your observation that this is driven by outward bias is accurate. But my point is that this circumstance was created in order for the PR Department, also known as the Mainstream Media, to be able to spread the propaganda that her unconstitutional gag order was a measured response to President Trump. This establishes the precedent to chase and arrest anyone who supports President Trump or who deign to have the temerity to believe that the 2020 Presidential Election was stolen. In other words, this lays the foundation for the Marxist-Democrat-Party to continue to turn this country into a complete totalitarian State once these precedents are available to imprison anyone who attempts to use the First Amendment right to address grievances. As you know, (and to use a popular cliche) the guilty verdict was already baked-into-the-cake, as it were; all that was needed was the theatrical performance by a fellow traveler in a black robe. This will eliminate any opposition to the radical Islamist who inhabited the Oval Office for eight years and provide that inexorable person a fourth term. Should she be recused? Of course. Will that ever happen? Absolutely not. As I said, the objective of the Marxist-Democrat-Party, with the able assistance of the Stasi-style-Secret-Police, is to complete the utter "transformation" of America advocated by the above-mentioned radical Islamist. God help us.
Well stated, Sir.
And with the radical occupation of the USA Capitol rotunda yesterday by pro Hamas/Palestinian "insurrectionists" who doggedly refuse to recognize that the barbaric actions of their beloved warring and evil mercenaries was categorically wrong on every and any human basis possible, those "protesters" will still be treated with more care than any Jan. 6th human being who is and was incarcerated with complete abandon to the Geneva Convention statutes of proper care for prisoners, as they still rot in prison. And that is specifically because those Hamas/Palestinian protestors will be and are considered Leftists/Liberals/Progressives/Democrats! There is no disavowing that this an example of a two-tiered justice system in these United States!
Of course those Capitol protesters will be excused just as the Marxist-controlled black lies matter and antifa were ignored in the summer of 2020. And it's despicable that nobody who purports to be conservative in DC, regardless of which chamber of the legislature to which we refer, has the spine to shout from the roof top about how unconstitutional the DC gulag is. They appear to be more concerned about maintaining receipt of those precious cocktail party invitations. What really irritates me as an observant, patriotic conservative is that it appears that the revolution was already won by the Marxists' before our side even realized it occurred. The two-tiered justice system is simply the outward indication that we seem to be headed hell-bent-for-leather toward complete tyranny. I don't know if it will have that much of a effect on me but it certainly will effect our kids and grand kids.
Par Excellence!
Collateral damage as in election interference in having our First Amendment right to hear a candidate removed from us.
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.
The national republican party is disgusting for assisting in this attack on their former president.
Well, first they helped him "lose" the election.
Yes they did. The state republican parties in at least AZ and GA actively violated their state election laws regarding accepting ballots well past lawful times.
Scandalous and shameful
"And anyone who thinks that’s a bridge too far (throwing Trump in jail) isn’t paying attention to the hellishly rigged and unaccountable judicial system in our nation’s capital." This corruption, likely operating for years, just couldn't contain itself when this one man showed up. These revelations may be Trump's gift to America. Now we know.
This gag order is unconstitutional and will not stand
Thank you Julie, for your reporting on this matter. We'd be nearly completely in the dark without you. I also appreciate your explanations of how the judge has written it in order to trip President Trump up in the future.
Thank you, Patricia, and thank you for your support. Yes, it's a joke of an order and her goal (and DOJ's) is to jump on either Trump, his lawyers, or a "surrogate" for violating the terms. Only a matter of time.
It is Judge Chutkan, as a judge, who has no right to publicly make opinionated comments on this case, even if her opinions about Trump are 100% correct, because opinions by a judge, in or out of the courthouse, may shape the outcome more than the law itself which is fundamental to justice in America. If she were not presiding over the case she could publish a paper, or write an article, because she is entitled to her opinions, just as Donald Trump is, but not in her court where the law presides even over her. Donald Trump not only has the Constitution on his side, as originally ratified, but he also has the First Amendment on his side, which was ratified a year later, so as to double down on the concept of free speech, and especially political speech, directed against the government, so that agents within the government would not be confused over what the Constitution meant about free speech and, thus, not attempt to limit it.
The First Amendment, as part of the Bill of Rights, does not belong to the government, which includes Judge Chutkan, but to the people, which includes Donald Trump. And that also goes for the rest of the Bill of Rights which belongs to the People and the States. Since Judge Chutkan has made her incomprehension of the US Constitution publicly obvious she should not be on the bench, ruling on any case and, on this particular case, her decisions will be successfully appealed, even by the least Constitutional judges, on the appellate court.
Well said.
Is “Chutkan” a real name? Seems made up for a moron-token.
I think Judge Chutkan is being paid by Putin to get Trump re-elected.
Reading the transcript yesterday, I was struck by the Court completely ignored the electorate’s right to hear a candidate whom they may vote for. As Lauro argued about the former President’s First Amendment, and the Judge kept harping on his First Amendment rights being limited, she was essentially leaving out millions of people whose rights are not limited by the more important trial. The prosecution kept arguing that Mr. Trump can campaign as long as he says this but not that. These people are not strangers to Donald Trump. They have listened to him speak for nearly 20 years now, and also know a 77 year old does not change his style of speech unless it is curtailed by disease- or a court order. It is election interference to interfere with what a candidate can or can’t say.
Seriously, millions of Trump supporters will potentially act violently to Milley? Courtroom drama.
The Court does not want the electorate to hear what the opposition candidate has to say any more than the congressional progressive left wanted Mike Pence to allow speakers on J6 to give their raisons d’être as to why, perhaps, Pence's certification of the electoral votes may not represent the will of a significant number, of the electorate, legally entitled to vote. The number that might have been contested, had J6 gone as 99% of the crowd wished it had, and as has now been demonstrated in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin would have, quite likely, given us a different President.
If you concluded that the supposed "accidental" pulling of the fire alarm, by congressional representative Bowman, may not have been an accident then you know what Judge Chutkan is also about. Pulling the fire alarm prevented a House vote. What J6 turned out to be about is no different than what pulling the fire alarm was about and what Judge Chutkan is also about. All of it is designed as a way around the First Amendment. Open, free and abundant speech is anathema to those who are afraid of discourse. The only speech, press and redress of government they will tolerate is what they can orchestrate, choreograph and control to obtain the outcome they need to obtain and keep power.
The American legal system is in shambles and those responsible no longer even try to hide it because they control most of the levers of power and have no intention of letting the electorate, no matter how large a majority they may represent, take any of it back.
Judge Chutkin may be dressed in a black robe, and has been appointed as a federal judge but, in my opinion, she has about as much comprehension, respect and belief in America's Constitution as does Hamas for Israel's sovereignty. And the same goes for the President that appointed her.
So this is allowed now?? https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/10/18/hamas-sympathizers-stage-insurrection-inside-us-capitol-assault-cops/
The article states they are being charged with illegally protesting. Three assaults on CP.
Is there anyway that Julie could get a Sammy Hagar AI voice to read the articles?