It reminded me of Mae West when a judge said, you’re showing contempt for the court and Mae West said no, Your Honor, I’m trying my best to hide my contempt for the court. 

Since I do not watch, read or listen to the NZ MSM I’ve wondered how all these trials are being covered here in NZ. A quick search of the NZ Herald revealed an almost exclusive focus on the New York criminal trial, undoubtedly because it involves sex, a porn star and mucho sleazy behaviour, mostly by lawyers. It’s now awaiting a jury verdict and I predict they’ll find Trump guilty – even though the prosecution effectively blew themselves up with their witnesses, let alone the thin gruel that was their argument, which has been trashed by many legal commentators, including heavyweight law professors like Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley. It won’t matter because Trump will appeal and win, but not until after the election, and meantime the Democrats will get to scream “Convicted Felon” for the next six months, which was always the plan. But that’s for another post.

Despite following American politics closely, and with especially interesting Presidential elections in 2016, 2020, and now 2024, with Donald J Trump at the centre of all three, I really haven’t spent much time looking at the details of the four cases aimed at him (see the NYT’s helpful diagram above), or the fifth one about his real estate that has seemingly concluded in NYC but will also be appealed.

That’s because the details are irrelevant bullshit. All of these trials are political lawfare from Democrat Party operatives, using crafted up theories designed to go after Trump and which will likely never be used again (unless a future GOP administration decides to have some payback fun), designed to defeat Trump by pushing him out of the 2024 race. They were not good faith legal efforts but Stalinist show trials, complete with the help of the always-on-their-knees-fellating-Democrats MSM:

The kicker is that not only have they completely failed to knock Trump out, they may even have helped him once again win the GOP nomination, since his polling gaps against Ron DeSantis (his main competition in that race) didn’t start opening up in his favour until the first indictments dropped. And of course he’s beating Biden to death in the crucial swing state polls. That’s because few people care about these trials:

According to Zeleny, despite exhaustive media focus, the trial has not resonated as a critical issue among these voters. Instead, economic issues, particularly inflation, are at the forefront of voters’ concerns as they assess their choices for the upcoming election.

Something also noted by the NYT in a recent moan and whinge about how the NYC criminal trial feels “anticlimatic”:

In a recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll, only 16 percent of respondents said they were following the trial very closely, with an additional 32 percent following it “somewhat” closely. “Those numbers rank as some of the lowest for any recent news event,” wrote Yahoo News’s Andrew Romano. When people were asked how the trial made them feel, the most common response was “bored.”..

Awwwwww…. Waaaahhh!

Entirely as expected was that the big news about one of these trials was buried by the MSM, both in the US and here; the classified documents case, which was supposed to be the most slam dunk of all of them.

The judge has postponed the trial indefinitely because the FBI tampered with the evidence and then the prosecutors lied to the court about that.

The following photo released in late 2022 by the FBI after their raid on Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, amped up the legal and MSM pressure in favour of the FBI and the DOJ prosecutor Jack Smith, even though critics expressed doubts because it seemed so staged.

But the fun started back in late April this year when the same judge, Aileen Cannon, unsealed a whole bunch of documents that prosecutor Jack Smith had fought hard to keep hidden. Julie Kelly, an actual investigative journalist who has been following this trial and others related very closely to it for years now, immediately saw the issue:

So an entire pallet full of boxes that had been held by GSA somewhere outside of DC is dumped at Mar-a-Lago. Apparently these are the boxes that ended up containing papers with ‘classified markings.’

But as others trawled through the unsealed documents over the following month worse was found and by early May it was obvious: the FBI had staged the photo:

In what must be considered not only an act of doctoring evidence but willfully misleading the American people into believing the former president is a criminal and threat to national security, agents involved in the raid attached the cover sheets to at least seven files to stage the photo.

Classified cover sheets were not “recovered” in the container, contrary to Bratt’s declaration to the court. In fact, after being busted recently by defense attorneys for mishandling evidence in the case, Bratt had to fess up about how the cover sheets actually ended up on the documents

Jay Bratt, was the lead DOJ prosecutor on the investigation at the time and is now assigned to Smith’s team (what a surprise). And do read all of Julie Kelly’s article. Judge Cannon’s indefinite postponement came as no surprise.

Not as much noticed at the time was something indicated by Bratt’s movements inside the DOJ, but fully revealed by the unsealed emails, texts and letters exchanged between the FBI, DOJ and NARA (National Archives and Records Administration), was the extent to which the Biden Administration has been involved in this case from the start.

An FBI document from February 18, 2022, reveals clear political taint. DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General Emily Loeb and Associate Deputy Attorney General David Newman are politicals who both served in the Obama White House Counsel’s Office.
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On August 30, 2021, Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero, sent an email titled “NARA documents” to a redacted non-governmental Gmail account stating “At this point, I am assuming that they have been destroyed. In which case, I am obligated to report it to the Hill, DOJ, and the White House.” This is patently incorrect, as 44 USC 2203(e) applies only to proposed dispositions. Ferriero is referring to laws that apply ONLY to federal, NOT presidential records.

The DOJ needed NARA to pretend that Trump wasn’t cooperating and that nefarious things like document destruction had occurred, and thus the FBI had to be called in. Ferriero duly obliged. Here he is: another unbiased, upstanding American civil servant, undoubtedly a respected member of The Establishment, and someone who would never tolerate partisan, political corruption //.

Summing up the whole thing I’ll use a comment from Alan Dershowitz in describing the NYC Criminal Trial, but which really could apply to all of them:

It reminded me of Mae West when a judge said, you’re showing contempt for the court and Mae West said no, Your Honor, I’m trying my best to hide my contempt for the court.