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That was a foregone conclusion from the moment they hired him. He went from being a bigtime dem advisor to being a so-called "journalist".

Fitting end for her. It was as blatantly political as it could be right from the very start.

A new prosecutor will be assigned . Perhaps that person will see that the case needs to be dropped.

Judge Merchan ;the scumbag partisan judge overseeing the Stormy Daniels case will sentence Trump on January 10 . 10 days before inauguration He is not delaying sentencing . He will proceed and demands that Trump be there physically or virtually .

According to reports he will unconditional discharge Trump . That means that Trump goes into office as a convicted felon ;the record of his conviction would remain on his record.
If Trump attempts to delay then Merchan will delay sentencing until Trump leaves office.

Trump will of course attempt to delay or reverse the Judge's decision.

SCOTUS decided yesterday the Trump can be sentenced by Merchan . Roberts and Barrett sided with the libs 5-4 . Their convoluted logic is that Trump can still appeal .

Meanwhile the libs get what they wanted ;Trump a convicted felon.

Merchan has said that the sentence will be "unconditional discharge " . I'll believe it when I see it . There is nothing to prevent him from sentencing Trump to jail.

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In its order denying Trump’s request to halt his sentencing, the court explained that Trump’s complaints regarding the use of evidence of his allegedly official acts could be addressed on appeal. And it added that “the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of ‘unconditional discharge’ after a brief virtual hearing.”

Supreme Court allows Trump’s New York criminal sentencing to go forward - SCOTUSblog

Whether the sentencing interferes with his transition prep is not as important as the fact that going into the office as a convicted felon undercuts his authority and will be used as an argument against him .

Meanwhile Fani Willis appealed her disqualification of the Georgia case against Trump to the Georgia Supreme Court .

Roberts I get . He believes in a minimalist role of the court . Barrett evidently fooled Trump . She has more often joined the libs in their decisions . Even when she sides with the conservatives ,the left on the court feed on her questions during hearings to bolster their arguments . It is becoming apparent that she wants to be the so called swing vote ;a role that both Sandra Day O'Conner and Anthony Kennedy played .

I expect that much of what Trump does will be challenged in the court . I also expect you will see this headline often....

'Trump appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett sides against Trump '

Let's assume that the Georgia case is still up in the air but going nowhere. Jack Smith is leaving his position having his cases against Trump dismissed . AG Garland will release Smith's report about Jan 6 as a final zinger to the incoming President . His report about the doc case has been barred from being released but I have no doubt it will be leaked to the compliant press by someone.

Trump will still have to deal with the civil lawsuits .

That leaves the case that makes Trump the " 1st convicted President .

SCOTUS allowed it to proceed thanks to Barrett and Roberts (I'm not finished with them yet)
Judge Mechan sentence Trump yesterday.......or should I say he gave Trump a non-sentence for a non-crime.
It's a 1st again for Trump because no one has ever been charged/convicted /sentenced for this series of crimes before .

Basically Trump paid a non-disclosure agreement with Stormy Daniels . His bookkeeping entry of the transaction ;which was a misdemeanor at best ;and past the statutes of limitations ; exploded to a conviction of 34 felonies .
What DA Bragg did was couple this with Federal election law that he had no jurisdiction of ;and that the FEC and the Federal prosecutors in the Southern NY district passed on to turn it into 34 separate felony counts .
Bragg knew he would get a conviction based solely on where the trial was being held . He gave the jury convoluted instructions and got the guilty verdict he wanted .

Trump was held under a gag order throughout the process . But that had to be lifted during sentencing and Trump did not hold back .(he was actually more restrained than I would've been) .

Donald Trump delivers statement during sentencing in hush money case

There is only one criminal in this case . It is Judge Merchan. NY law clearly states that if you have a member of your family who stands to profit from a case before you ;you are required to recuse yourself . Instead the biggest part of the gag order imposed on Trump was to prevent him from stating that Merchan's daughter worked for Clueless Joe's and Kam the Sham's campaigns ;the Adam Schiffhead's campaign and the Dem Senatorial committee.

The judge knows that Trump will win easily on appeal . I suspect that is why he played nice nice with Trump during sentencing . He wished Trump"Godspeed" on his 2nd term . You know he does not mean it.

So now Trump enters the White House as someone who can not vote or carry guns in some states . He will be smeared as a convicted felon by the Dems.It remains to be seen how this impacts his 2nd term.

As a final attempt to undermine Trump . The Justice Department released the findings of Jack Smith's investigation of Trump during January 6 . He decided to pass judgement too saying he thinks Trump was guilty . (So much for the presumption of innocence. ) The fact that Trump's co-defendants from the document case (who do not have immunity and their cases continue ) were incidentally mentioned in his release is of no concern. To him, his power includes the power to pass judgement.

As a post mortem to the failed lawfare effort of Trump I offer a warning . It came from Justice Robert H Jackson ;who temporarily left SCOTUS to become the lead prosecutor at the Nurenberg Trials.

He wrote of the danger of over zealous rogue prosectors.

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The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America. His discretion is tremendous. He can have citizens investigated and, if he is that kind of person, he can have this done to the tune of public statements and veiled or unveiled intimations. Or the prosecutor may choose a more subtle course and simply have a citizen's friends interviewed. The prosecutor can order arrests, present cases to the grand jury in secret session, and on the basis of his one-sided presentation of the facts, can cause the citizen to be indicted and held for trial. He may dismiss the case before trial, in which case the defense never has a chance to be heard. Or he may go on with a public trial. If he obtains a conviction, the prosecutor can still make recommendations as to sentence, as to whether the prisoner should get probation or a suspended sentence, and after he is put away, as to whether he is a fit subject for parole. While the prosecutor at his best is one of the most beneficent forces in our society, when he acts from malice or other base motives, he is one of the worst.

The_Federal_Prosecutor.pdf

The Friday Night Massacre .

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The Trump administration has fired a group of Justice Department prosecutors involved in the 6 January criminal cases and demanded the names of FBI agents involved in those same investigations so they can possibly be ousted.
The jobs of about 24 employees at the US attorney’s office in Washington were terminated late on Friday, said a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel issues.

The acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, a Trump appointee, ordered the firings, according to a memo obtained by the Associated Press; and in a separate, earlier memo identified more than half a dozen FBI senior executives who were ordered to retire or be fired by Monday.

Trump appointee fires January 6 prosecutors and issues threat to FBI agents | US Capitol attack | The Guardian

Many of them were hired on a temporary basis to prosecute the mostly peaceful protesters of January 6 2021 .
( I agree with Kash Patel that only the ones who were non-violent and did not vandalize should've been pardoned The ones who rioted and attacked Capitol police should've had no mercy granted
Violent Jan 6 rioters should not have been pardoned, says Trump’s FBI director nominee )

Many prosecutor's were hired on a temporary basis in 2021 . They went on a crusade in Stalinist fashion .In court the defendants were portrayed as domestic terrorists . Many of them did not have the resources to defend themselves and were represented by public defenders .....who frankly did a lousy job (and that's giving them the defenders the benefit of the doubt. )

The prosecutors (many of them originally hired on a temporary basis ) made their case on behalf of the government. They worked with a stacked deck . Knowing they had a judge and jury in their pockets , they made sentencing recommendations to inflict maximum pain and punishment .

This proves that the corruption at the FBI went deeper than the upper brass .
US District Attorney for DC made them permanent in an attempt to make them firing proof. Graves stepped down when Trump was sworn in.

These were the ones fired Friday. Besides being fired Trump's assigned Deputy Director FBI is opening up an investigation into their temporary hiring.

The upper leadership at the agency are also being purged .

Acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, has ordered the acting director of the FBI Brian Driscoll to compile a list of all current and former FBI employees who were assigned "at any time" to the Jan. 6 investigation for review "to determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary," .
Driscoll is resisting the order. But has complied with his instructions to fire 8 senior FBI officials.
Senior FBI official forcefully resisted Trump administration firings

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David Sundberg, the assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office, was notified Thursday that he was going to lose his job and is preparing to leave the bureau, according to two senior law enforcement sources

Head of FBI Washington Field Office is forced out

Also canned were the heads of some FBI field offices .

Several top FBI officials are told to resign or be fired as Trump continues federal purge

Senator Grassley during the Kash Patel hearings tried to make the case that the corruption in the FBI was confined to the top brass in the 7th floor. But apparently it runs much deeper.

Let's put it this way. Almost everyone from the prosecution and many in the Kangaroo court in Congress violate one of more provision of Federal law code 1512
18 U.S. Code § 1512 - Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute

Justices rule for Jan. 6 defendant - SCOTUSblog

For those wringing their hands about the purge I give you
Flashback 2021

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The Biden administration is preparing to remove nearly all the remaining federal prosecutors former President Donald Trump appointed across the country, while making accommodations to allow a couple handling highly sensitive investigations to continue with their work, a senior Justice Department official said Monday night.

Biden move to replace U.S. attorneys looms - POLITICO

So the FBI handed over the list that Bove demanded on time . They claim only 5,000 agents were involved in the January 6 cases.

FBI turns over details of 5,000 employees who worked on January 6 cases to Trump Justice Department, as agents sue | CNN Politics

That number has to be severely under reported . There are apx 1,600 defendants over the 4 year investigation and the reports were that if Trump had lost .the investigations would've continued . Wray speculated about 2,000

FBI chasing 2,000 domestic terror cases, Christopher Wray testifies

I'm betting even more were under investigation.

Defendants were claiming that when they were arrested some 20 or more agents were involved in the raids alone. Agents were needed for surveillance and interrogations ,interviews with witnesses and family ,coworkers ,searching social media ,bank records ,travel records etc just to build the cases in field offices around the country ..... and the prosecuting the cases in court .

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The questions, obtained by CBS News, ask what role the respondent may have played in any cases, such as acting as an agent, providing management support or collecting online data. The survey also asks if the respondent made any arrests, conducted interviews, participated in search warrants, testified in court or appeared before a grand jury.

FBI distributing questionnaire probing agents' work on Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases, sources say - CBS News

Now the DOJ has said that agents "following orders " will not get fired .

FBI agents who 'simply followed orders' in Jan. 6 probes won't be fired, a Justice official says - ABC News

So why the lowball number ?

The probable reason is that they don't want the public to know how much FBI manpower and resources went into taking down defendants ;many of who's only crime was being in the Capitol. It may have taken a quarter to a third of the total FBI's efforts while more serious crimes were overlooked.
Merrick Garland calls Justice Department's Jan. 6 probe the 'most wide-ranging investigation in its history'

The Justice Department has told Congress that more than $34 million in funding is "critically needed" to fund the investigation.

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“The cases are unprecedented in scale and is expected to be among the most complex investigations prosecuted by the Department of Justice,” the Justice Department wrote to the legislative branch.

DOJ says it needs more money for the Jan. 6 probe. The next spending bill may be its last chance.

The compliant press says that if they get fired we will be short handed to tackle real crimes . You mean like the ones they were ignoring in their Inspector Javert zeal to go after J6ers ?

Joining Kash Patel at FBI will be Dan Bongino . He is appointed as Deputy FBI Director.

That is a dynamic duo. While Kash has a lawyer background (public defender ,Justice Dept lawyer and assistant to Rep Devin Nunes's Russiagate hoax investigation ) ; .Bongino is a law enforcement expert . He served in the NYPD and Secret Service.

Bongino will lose $ millions in accepting this appointment . His podcast is the top conservative podcast in the nation trailing only NPR News Now and Up First from NPR

Dan Bongino Stays Near Top of January Triton Digital Podcast Rankings as Shawn Ryan Climbs Into Top 5 | Barrett Media

It is top in live streaming

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When Rush Limbaugh passed away it was Bongino who filled his time slot on most stations that ran Rush's show.

To be honest ;he would serve the administration better if he were to take over Secret Service. But still this is a great addition .

The Dams hair is on fire
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“This is beyond problematic,” said Christopher O’Leary, a former senior FBI official who retired in 2023. “Any hope that Kash could be steered by having experienced leaders around him is out the window. We now have two conspiracy theorists and election deniers running our premier law enforcement and intelligence agency.”
Some current FBI employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to talk to reporters, were even more blunt. They said they feared Bongino's appointment spelled the end of an independent FBI and put the bureau’s fearsome investigative and intelligence capabilities in the hands of political actors with radical agendas.

FBI agents express shock and dismay over naming of right-wing podcaster to No. 2 post

OH the irony !!!

Andrew Weissman who was once a council for the FBI said basically the FBI agents; who are presumably the toughest law enforcement agents in the nation ;who used storm trooper tactics to raid Mar a Lago ;need to be coddled and given an atta boy from their bosses as if they need emotional support pets.

‘Beyond imaginable’: Trump chooses right wing podcaster, Dan Bongino to be Deputy FBI Director

One thing about Trump's second term. It is not going to be boring.

chalk this one up to 'they always accuse you of what they are doing.'

The left media calls this a revenge attempt. Maybe it is ;but a quick look makes me believe there is more legitimacy to this than with what Letitia James charged Trump

She is accused of real estate fraud on a number of occasions .

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Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director William Pulte sent the missive to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche, alleging that James had “falsified records” to get home loans for a property in Virginia that she claimed was her “principal residence” in 2023 — while still serving as a New York state prosecutor.

“Ms. James was the sitting Attorney General of New York and is required by law to have her primary residence in the state of New York — even though her mortgage applications list her intent to have the Norfolk, VA, property as her primary home,” the letter stated.
“It appears Ms. James’ property and mortgage-related misrepresentations may have continued to her recent 2023 Norfolk, VA property purchase in order to secure a lower interest rate and more favorable loan terms.”

In February 2001, James also purchased a five-family dwelling in Brooklyn — but has “consistently misrepresented the same property as only having four units in both building permit applications and numerous mortgage documents and applications,” the letter noted.

Pulte attached several documents also showing that James purchased another property with her father as a co-signer — but falsely listed the pair as “husband and wife” in 1983 and 2000.
“While this was a long time ago, it raises serious concerns about the validity of Ms. James representations on mortgage applications,” he wrote.

She was referred to the DOJ for criminal prosecution.

In her own words
“No matter how big, rich or powerful you think you are, no one is above the law.”