D’Souza Speaks Out on Sentencing: There Was ‘All-Out Attempt to Put Me Away’

“Are you suggesting that there wasn’t even a “smidgeon” of political motivation behind this prosecution?”

No, not at all, partisan politics could very easily be involved.

But this isn’t a case of someone having their rights violated by a Lois Lerner. This isn’t a case of someone who unknowingly violated an obscure rule and who was hounded by a vindictive prosecutor.

Dinesh D’Souza knew from the very start that he was breaking the law. That’s why he tried to hide what he was doing.

Dinesh had worked hard to make himself a high visibility opponent of the Obama regime. A wise person would know to keep his nose clean when he’s playing hardball with the big boys. But not Dinesh D’Souza.

IMO he shares a trait with Obama, he’s self-important and thinks the rules don’t apply to him. Well Obama is in a position where he’s been getting away with it. D’Souza didn’t. D’Souza did some things in his past that inflicted a serious cost on a conservative writer he didn’t like. Karma can be a bitch.

I didn't state 'accidental'.

Ironically the assertion belies the assumption that he did it intentionally.

See, had he intended to do it, he would have pulled a Sharpton or a BHO...

He clearly knew this was illegal. is an assumption. He expounds on that here with:

He described his decision to exceed campaign contribution limits as “wrong and stupid” but called for “fair treatment” in the prosecution of campaign contribution cases.

...despite his court statements, which were, in fact, made under duress.

Better, from another perspective he may have been a victim of a honey-trap (question is, by whom?):

The New York Times reported in April that prosecutors were in possession of a recording in which one of D’Souza’s straw donors, who he had a relationship with, is caught on tape discussing the arrangement with her husband.
“Prosecutors also said they had obtained a copy of a recording made surreptitiously last October by the husband of a woman Mr. D’Souza was involved with romantically around the time of the donations, when Mr. D’Souza was separated from his wife,” the New York Times reported. “In making the recording, the husband was not acting at the government’s direction, prosecutors said. The woman, Denise Joseph, was one of the alleged straw donors.”

Summary: The husband recorded his wife discussing, again...with her husband, the donation on tape. He was so torn up over his wife's infidelity he targeted the man, rather than getting her on tape admitting to the affair. Bizarre, if you ask me.

Her husband, by the way (again, the guy that provided a tape to the FBI), is a psychiatrist at Henry Ford hospital in Detroit, MI. Why is that important? Who knows, but he was doing post-graduate work at George Washington University during the Puppet's first term. He & his wife Denise allegedly met at GWU and did get married in December 2011. Does nobody else find it curious that the ONLY political contributions Denise & Louis Joseph have made in their adult lives to-date have been to Wendy Long? Who IS Denise 'Odie' Joseph? Nobody has asked that question. She only met D'Souza in July of 2012 (only 3 months before the scandal that lost him his job of President at The Kings College) according to D'Souza's statements. Nobody has addressed why there is a 5 month gap between D'Souza and his wife's donations to Long and the Louis/Denise Joseph donations. Could it have been Denise that convinced D'Souza to make the donations in the now-well-known stupid manner?

Or perhaps the whole matter is academic: Is there a precedent for men doing stupid things for a woman?

There's an army of a$$hats out there likely being paid surreptitiously to dig up dirt on Conservatives. The alternative to not getting targeted in this environment, under this administration, is to not get involved in politics.

That's raising the white flag, imho...

That he may have done the deed intentionally, and that the prosecution was politically motivated, are not mutually exclusive.

I don’t have a problem with taking Mr. D’Souza to task for doing what he did, because we all know that the media and the liberal establishment does not ask (nor wish) that laws are applied equally.

That much is clear.

But in his position, he should know that it makes no difference if it is an act carried out by liberals in every single county in every single state in the union thousands of times during a given election cycle, and he is the only conservative to ever do it...

The fact that the prosecution was politically motivated and the fact that it was dumb on his part are ALSO not mutually exclusive.

If you are a high profile Republican or a conservative (and they are not the same thing of course) you have to be squeaky clean, if not antiseptic. I’m not saying that D’Souza was innocent but rather making the point that the slightest error in judgment or a moral/legal transgression gets exploited to the max by liberals and their allies in both the media and in the legal system. But for Dems, not so much. They engage in election fraud all the time and get away with it. Its standard operating procedure for them.

Dems are not held to the same standards and more often than not get a free pass. Such incidents are either covered up or we are “informed” by a complicit media that there’s nothing to see here and that we should just move on. The story quickly gets swept off the news pages.

Democrat operatives view conservatives not as political opponents nor do they accord them respect as the loyal opposition. They see them as mortal enemies who must be destroyed. They are experts at vilifying political “threats” and engaging in character assassination. Even if they can’t get something on you, they will fabricate something to cast their enemies in a dastardly and villainous light. Recall that they tried to cast Mitt Romney of being a murderer. They are vicious infighters who play to win at all costs.

In the 80s and 90s California had a superintendent of public education named Bill Honig. He was a prominent liberal activist rumored to be running for governor. Fortunately for California he was also a crook and he got caught spending Department of Education money on a firm that his wife owned. He was convicted of four felonies. So it does happen, just not often enough.

When Dinesh D’Souza conspired to break the law he risked not only himself but the reputation of conservatives who have supported him. He put honor beneath expediency and sullied the good name of conservatives. Not the sign of a great man by any means.

But I’ve regarded D’Souza as a man of poor character dating back to the 1990s when he wrote a hit piece on a prominent conservative writer and badly damaged the man’s career. Then there was The Kings College incident where he was fired for not respecting their moral code. And now this. I just figure it’s poetic justice. Conservatives need to spend their energy on worthier causes than him.

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