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Trump indictment, even conviction, won’t bar him from Presidency

When Trump said to the Sec. of State of Georgia, “find 11,780 votes,” it was preceded by Trump’s crazy-town claims about illegal voters. Trump’s lawyers will argue, in the UNLIKELY case he’s indicted, that Agent Orange was relying on a legal memo by professor of law John Eastman. They’ll also claim that Trump truly believed the goofy BS about stuffed ballot boxes and illegal voters from grifter groups like True the Vote.

Sorry to give you the bad news about the prosecutions. But that’s why they call it LAW school and not JUSTICE school.

Trump’s Jim Crow Came After Me and My Family
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There’s something dangerous happening to American democracy and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. Sometimes it looks like a computer algorithm. Sometimes it looks like a letter telling you that your voter registration needs to be verified. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all. And that may… READ MORE

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The OG of Political Documentary

Yes, that’s me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I’m celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert Carl Cohen, who is celebrating his 96th birthday this year. Bob is the legendary history making documentarian, the first… READ MORE

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How Paxton Will Steal Texas

The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again. The attack on drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because … READ MORE

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A similar problem arises with the case in Georgia, which will soon go to a new grand jury. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will have to PROVE that Trump KNEW he’d lost the election and KNEW that he was committing a crime by promoting a bogus slate of Electors to the Electoral College.

When Trump said to the Sec. of State of Georgia, “find 11,780 votes,” it was preceded by Trump’s crazy-town claims about illegal voters. Trump’s lawyers will argue, in the UNLIKELY case he’s indicted, that Agent Orange was relying on a legal memo by professor of law John Eastman. They’ll also claim that Trump truly believed the goofy BS about stuffed ballot boxes and illegal voters from grifter groups like True the Vote.

Sorry to give you the bad news about the prosecutions. But that’s why they call it LAW school and not JUSTICE school.

Trump’s Jim Crow Came After Me and My Family
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There’s something dangerous happening to American democracy and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. Sometimes it looks like a computer algorithm. Sometimes it looks like a letter telling you that your voter registration needs to be verified. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all. And that may… READ MORE

Read More »

The OG of Political Documentary

Yes, that’s me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I’m celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert Carl Cohen, who is celebrating his 96th birthday this year. Bob is the legendary history making documentarian, the first… READ MORE

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How Paxton Will Steal Texas

The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again. The attack on drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because … READ MORE

Read More »

And let’s not sugar-coat the problems for prosecutors in Manhattan. Their two key witnesses are creeps: Michael Cohen, a convicted felon knuckle-breaker for Trump, and Stormy Daniels, a woman who blackmailed Trump into paying hush money. (On the other hand, Cohen and Daniels come off as sincere and contrite about their affairs with The Donald.)

A similar problem arises with the case in Georgia, which will soon go to a new grand jury. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will have to PROVE that Trump KNEW he’d lost the election and KNEW that he was committing a crime by promoting a bogus slate of Electors to the Electoral College.

When Trump said to the Sec. of State of Georgia, “find 11,780 votes,” it was preceded by Trump’s crazy-town claims about illegal voters. Trump’s lawyers will argue, in the UNLIKELY case he’s indicted, that Agent Orange was relying on a legal memo by professor of law John Eastman. They’ll also claim that Trump truly believed the goofy BS about stuffed ballot boxes and illegal voters from grifter groups like True the Vote.

Sorry to give you the bad news about the prosecutions. But that’s why they call it LAW school and not JUSTICE school.

Trump’s Jim Crow Came After Me and My Family
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There’s something dangerous happening to American democracy and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. Sometimes it looks like a computer algorithm. Sometimes it looks like a letter telling you that your voter registration needs to be verified. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all. And that may… READ MORE

Read More »

The OG of Political Documentary

Yes, that’s me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I’m celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert Carl Cohen, who is celebrating his 96th birthday this year. Bob is the legendary history making documentarian, the first… READ MORE

Read More »

How Paxton Will Steal Texas

The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again. The attack on drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because … READ MORE

Read More »

This is nearly identical to the case of ex-Sen. John Edwards [D-NC] who paid off the girlfriend he got pregnant during his run for President and for Vice-President (as John Kerry’s running mate). The jury didn’t buy the line that hush money was a hidden campaign contribution. The case was then dropped.

And let’s not sugar-coat the problems for prosecutors in Manhattan. Their two key witnesses are creeps: Michael Cohen, a convicted felon knuckle-breaker for Trump, and Stormy Daniels, a woman who blackmailed Trump into paying hush money. (On the other hand, Cohen and Daniels come off as sincere and contrite about their affairs with The Donald.)

A similar problem arises with the case in Georgia, which will soon go to a new grand jury. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will have to PROVE that Trump KNEW he’d lost the election and KNEW that he was committing a crime by promoting a bogus slate of Electors to the Electoral College.

When Trump said to the Sec. of State of Georgia, “find 11,780 votes,” it was preceded by Trump’s crazy-town claims about illegal voters. Trump’s lawyers will argue, in the UNLIKELY case he’s indicted, that Agent Orange was relying on a legal memo by professor of law John Eastman. They’ll also claim that Trump truly believed the goofy BS about stuffed ballot boxes and illegal voters from grifter groups like True the Vote.

Sorry to give you the bad news about the prosecutions. But that’s why they call it LAW school and not JUSTICE school.

Trump’s Jim Crow Came After Me and My Family
Support my fight

There’s something dangerous happening to American democracy and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. Sometimes it looks like a computer algorithm. Sometimes it looks like a letter telling you that your voter registration needs to be verified. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all. And that may… READ MORE

Read More »

The OG of Political Documentary

Yes, that’s me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I’m celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert Carl Cohen, who is celebrating his 96th birthday this year. Bob is the legendary history making documentarian, the first… READ MORE

Read More »

How Paxton Will Steal Texas

The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again. The attack on drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because … READ MORE

Read More »

The prosecutor has to prove that Trump INTENDED to hush up his affair to save his election — as opposed to saving him from the Wrath of Melania.

This is nearly identical to the case of ex-Sen. John Edwards [D-NC] who paid off the girlfriend he got pregnant during his run for President and for Vice-President (as John Kerry’s running mate). The jury didn’t buy the line that hush money was a hidden campaign contribution. The case was then dropped.

And let’s not sugar-coat the problems for prosecutors in Manhattan. Their two key witnesses are creeps: Michael Cohen, a convicted felon knuckle-breaker for Trump, and Stormy Daniels, a woman who blackmailed Trump into paying hush money. (On the other hand, Cohen and Daniels come off as sincere and contrite about their affairs with The Donald.)

A similar problem arises with the case in Georgia, which will soon go to a new grand jury. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will have to PROVE that Trump KNEW he’d lost the election and KNEW that he was committing a crime by promoting a bogus slate of Electors to the Electoral College.

When Trump said to the Sec. of State of Georgia, “find 11,780 votes,” it was preceded by Trump’s crazy-town claims about illegal voters. Trump’s lawyers will argue, in the UNLIKELY case he’s indicted, that Agent Orange was relying on a legal memo by professor of law John Eastman. They’ll also claim that Trump truly believed the goofy BS about stuffed ballot boxes and illegal voters from grifter groups like True the Vote.

Sorry to give you the bad news about the prosecutions. But that’s why they call it LAW school and not JUSTICE school.

Trump’s Jim Crow Came After Me and My Family
Support my fight

There’s something dangerous happening to American democracy and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. Sometimes it looks like a computer algorithm. Sometimes it looks like a letter telling you that your voter registration needs to be verified. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all. And that may… READ MORE

Read More »

The OG of Political Documentary

Yes, that’s me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I’m celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert Carl Cohen, who is celebrating his 96th birthday this year. Bob is the legendary history making documentarian, the first… READ MORE

Read More »

How Paxton Will Steal Texas

The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again. The attack on drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because … READ MORE

Read More »

 

Other problems with New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case…

The prosecutor has to prove that Trump INTENDED to hush up his affair to save his election — as opposed to saving him from the Wrath of Melania.

This is nearly identical to the case of ex-Sen. John Edwards [D-NC] who paid off the girlfriend he got pregnant during his run for President and for Vice-President (as John Kerry’s running mate). The jury didn’t buy the line that hush money was a hidden campaign contribution. The case was then dropped.

And let’s not sugar-coat the problems for prosecutors in Manhattan. Their two key witnesses are creeps: Michael Cohen, a convicted felon knuckle-breaker for Trump, and Stormy Daniels, a woman who blackmailed Trump into paying hush money. (On the other hand, Cohen and Daniels come off as sincere and contrite about their affairs with The Donald.)

A similar problem arises with the case in Georgia, which will soon go to a new grand jury. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will have to PROVE that Trump KNEW he’d lost the election and KNEW that he was committing a crime by promoting a bogus slate of Electors to the Electoral College.

When Trump said to the Sec. of State of Georgia, “find 11,780 votes,” it was preceded by Trump’s crazy-town claims about illegal voters. Trump’s lawyers will argue, in the UNLIKELY case he’s indicted, that Agent Orange was relying on a legal memo by professor of law John Eastman. They’ll also claim that Trump truly believed the goofy BS about stuffed ballot boxes and illegal voters from grifter groups like True the Vote.

Sorry to give you the bad news about the prosecutions. But that’s why they call it LAW school and not JUSTICE school.

Trump’s Jim Crow Came After Me and My Family
Support my fight

There’s something dangerous happening to American democracy and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. Sometimes it looks like a computer algorithm. Sometimes it looks like a letter telling you that your voter registration needs to be verified. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all. And that may… READ MORE

Read More »

The OG of Political Documentary

Yes, that’s me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I’m celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert Carl Cohen, who is celebrating his 96th birthday this year. Bob is the legendary history making documentarian, the first… READ MORE

Read More »

How Paxton Will Steal Texas

The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again. The attack on drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because … READ MORE

Read More »

I hate to rain on the parade, but Trump’s indictment — even felony conviction — will not bar Trump from holding office. While I’ve reported on Trump as a one-man crime wave, the cold truth is, if convicted, it will be his first offense for low-level felony — so forget jail time.

For more on this, listen to this week’s Election Crimes Bulletin,
on your favorite podcast app or via the player above.

 

Other problems with New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case…

The prosecutor has to prove that Trump INTENDED to hush up his affair to save his election — as opposed to saving him from the Wrath of Melania.

This is nearly identical to the case of ex-Sen. John Edwards [D-NC] who paid off the girlfriend he got pregnant during his run for President and for Vice-President (as John Kerry’s running mate). The jury didn’t buy the line that hush money was a hidden campaign contribution. The case was then dropped.

And let’s not sugar-coat the problems for prosecutors in Manhattan. Their two key witnesses are creeps: Michael Cohen, a convicted felon knuckle-breaker for Trump, and Stormy Daniels, a woman who blackmailed Trump into paying hush money. (On the other hand, Cohen and Daniels come off as sincere and contrite about their affairs with The Donald.)

A similar problem arises with the case in Georgia, which will soon go to a new grand jury. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will have to PROVE that Trump KNEW he’d lost the election and KNEW that he was committing a crime by promoting a bogus slate of Electors to the Electoral College.

When Trump said to the Sec. of State of Georgia, “find 11,780 votes,” it was preceded by Trump’s crazy-town claims about illegal voters. Trump’s lawyers will argue, in the UNLIKELY case he’s indicted, that Agent Orange was relying on a legal memo by professor of law John Eastman. They’ll also claim that Trump truly believed the goofy BS about stuffed ballot boxes and illegal voters from grifter groups like True the Vote.

Sorry to give you the bad news about the prosecutions. But that’s why they call it LAW school and not JUSTICE school.

Trump’s Jim Crow Came After Me and My Family
Support my fight

There’s something dangerous happening to American democracy and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. Sometimes it looks like a computer algorithm. Sometimes it looks like a letter telling you that your voter registration needs to be verified. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all. And that may… READ MORE

Read More »

The OG of Political Documentary

Yes, that’s me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I’m celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert Carl Cohen, who is celebrating his 96th birthday this year. Bob is the legendary history making documentarian, the first… READ MORE

Read More »

How Paxton Will Steal Texas

The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again. The attack on drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because … READ MORE

Read More »

I hate to rain on the parade, but Trump’s indictment — even felony conviction — will not bar Trump from holding office. While I’ve reported on Trump as a one-man crime wave, the cold truth is, if convicted, it will be his first offense for low-level felony — so forget jail time.

For more on this, listen to this week’s Election Crimes Bulletin,
on your favorite podcast app or via the player above.

 

Other problems with New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case…

The prosecutor has to prove that Trump INTENDED to hush up his affair to save his election — as opposed to saving him from the Wrath of Melania.

This is nearly identical to the case of ex-Sen. John Edwards [D-NC] who paid off the girlfriend he got pregnant during his run for President and for Vice-President (as John Kerry’s running mate). The jury didn’t buy the line that hush money was a hidden campaign contribution. The case was then dropped.

And let’s not sugar-coat the problems for prosecutors in Manhattan. Their two key witnesses are creeps: Michael Cohen, a convicted felon knuckle-breaker for Trump, and Stormy Daniels, a woman who blackmailed Trump into paying hush money. (On the other hand, Cohen and Daniels come off as sincere and contrite about their affairs with The Donald.)

A similar problem arises with the case in Georgia, which will soon go to a new grand jury. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will have to PROVE that Trump KNEW he’d lost the election and KNEW that he was committing a crime by promoting a bogus slate of Electors to the Electoral College.

When Trump said to the Sec. of State of Georgia, “find 11,780 votes,” it was preceded by Trump’s crazy-town claims about illegal voters. Trump’s lawyers will argue, in the UNLIKELY case he’s indicted, that Agent Orange was relying on a legal memo by professor of law John Eastman. They’ll also claim that Trump truly believed the goofy BS about stuffed ballot boxes and illegal voters from grifter groups like True the Vote.

Sorry to give you the bad news about the prosecutions. But that’s why they call it LAW school and not JUSTICE school.

Trump’s Jim Crow Came After Me and My Family
Support my fight

There’s something dangerous happening to American democracy and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. Sometimes it looks like a computer algorithm. Sometimes it looks like a letter telling you that your voter registration needs to be verified. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all. And that may… READ MORE

Read More »

The OG of Political Documentary

Yes, that’s me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I’m celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert Carl Cohen, who is celebrating his 96th birthday this year. Bob is the legendary history making documentarian, the first… READ MORE

Read More »

How Paxton Will Steal Texas

The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again. The attack on drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because … READ MORE

Read More »

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