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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday about whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution on charges of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, as Special Counsel Jack Smith has accused him of doing. A majority of the Supreme Court justices appeared to agree with Trump’s attorneys’ arguments that a president does enjoy some level of immunity that continues past the term of office. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito was one of them, citing the “old saw about indicting a ham sandwich” while questioning the government’s Michael Dreeben. “[T]his case will have effects that go...

Viva Frei breaks down the GA indictment from a Canadian lawyer’s perspective.

CNN marveled over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lunch stop at Subway. “[Jack Smith] was spotted today by CNN going to Subway for lunch, picking up a sandwich, leaving and not saying a word,” CNN said. CNN’s John King said Jack Smith buying a $5 dollar sandwich from Subway is a message to Trump. “Jack Smith going to Subway today is a message to Donald Trump. … Jack Smith with no words and a simple $5 sub in his hand saying ‘I’m not going anywhere,'” John King said. CNN’s Dana Bash added, “The imagery was intentional and spoke volumes.” WATCH:

Shocking news of a Florida grand jury was revealed this week through leaks to the media. Bloomberg noted evidence collected from the grand jury in Florida may be used in the DC case against Trump. ..SNIP "Trump was indicted on at least 7 counts, according to ABC News. The charges range from conspiracy to willful retention of national defense information to a scheme to conceal to false statements, ABC reported. Reporters swarmed the Miami courthouse on Thursday. Trump will be arraigned in federal court in Miami next Tuesday afternoon. ABC News reported: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for...

Pretty much everybody knows the old expression that says a prosecutor can even persuade a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich because the defendant hasn't been allowed his day in court and the testimony presented is all one-sided. Ironically, it was none other than former New York state chief judge Sol Wachtler who famously uttered those words in a 1985 interview with the New York Daily News, long before Donald Trump became an unstoppable force in American politics.For the first time in history, a state prosecutor has filed criminal charges against a former U.S. president. Alvin Bragg has charged...

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz says the indictment of Donald Trump is the “worst case of prosecutorial abuse I have ever seen.” And he’s not the only one calling out this raw exercise of political power over the rule of law. Thursday night, Trump’s attorney echoed that sentiment, declaring, “today the rule of law in the United States of America died.” Trump was charged in a sealed indictment handed up on Thursday that is believed to concern a non-disclosure agreement signed by porn actress Stormy Daniels, which the legacy media calls “hush money.” Daniels was paid $130,000 by Trump’s...

Trump was indicted Thursday Night 45th President Donald J. Trump was indicted by a Manhattan Grand Jury Thursday evening. President Trump is expected to be arraigned in the Manhattan Courtroom at 2:15 pm eastern time on Tuesday. Tuesday’s arraignment will be the first time a president, past or present, has been arrested in American history. Trump took to TruthSocial on Friday to express his concerns that the judge overseeing his arraignment will not give him fair due process. “The Judge “assigned” to my Witch Hunt Case, a ‘Case’ that has NEVER BEEN CHARGED BEFORE, HATES ME. His name is Juan...

The first thing to understand about the indictment of Donald Trump by the Manhattan Grand Jury convened by the George Soros-funded District Attorney Alvin Bragg is that it is only incidentally a legal proceeding. Don’t be distracted by the avalanche of analyses that are poised to descend on the public. All the legal mumbo-jumbo is beside the point. At its core, the indictment of Donald Trump is a political exercise, not a legal proceeding. That is to say, it involves the deployment of state power against an individual, not the impartial application of the law. Indeed, what...

Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist, issued a warning after former President Donald Trump was indicted by a grand jury late Thursday for allegedly violating presidential campaign rules ahead of the 2016 election, saying "sow the wind, reap the whirlwind." Bannon told Newsweek on Friday afternoon that his warning is in reference to the "American globalist elites [prosecutors] who persecute Trump through tools like [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin] Bragg for leading a populist movement that is focused on stripping them of their unearned wealth, power, and privileges." Additionally, in a post on Gettr on Thursday, he warned that the...

(Mar. 31, 2023) — To begin, I remind you of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office emblem displayed on the home page of your office’s website with the following motto: “ONE STANDARD OF JUSTICE FOR ALL.” No comment needed from me, is there? By the way, I am not a “white supremacist domestic terrorist.” Nor am I a racist. To the contrary, I am a military veteran, a retired (30+ years) law enforcement officer, and a believer that all men and women are made equal. That, however, is only the beginning. Here are the kinds of things that come next. Permit...

WASHINGTON — Thursday’s indictment of former President Donald Trump has set a precedent enabling Republican prosecutors to seek criminal charges against President Biden, conservative legal experts told The Post Friday. “All bets are off. You can expect grand jury indictments of leftist politicians like Biden, [former House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer as surely as night follows day,” said Tom Fitton, president of the conservative legal group Judicial Watch. “You can be sure that there are prosecutors across Florida and Texas right now who are looking for a state law hook into the Biden family,” he...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that the Manhattan indictment of Donald Trump was “un-American” and that his state would not help hand the former president over to New York officials. The conservative Republican, who is expected to challenge Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, said District Attorney Alvin Bragg was weaponizing his office by bringing charges after impaneling a grand jury to look into hush money payments to pornstar Stormy Daniels “The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head. It is un-American,” DeSantis said on Twitter.

The indictment of former President Donald Trump on Thursday by a grand jury in Manhattan is an assault on democracy. There is no evidence of a crime being committed in the Stormy Daniels affair; even if there were, the statute of limitations on the supposed charge has expired, and the state cannot evade it by inventing a federal crime. The indictment is simply an attempt to prevent the leading opposition candidate from contesting the 2024 election. Worse, the indictment was purchased by notorious left-wing billionaire George Soros, who hates Trump and spent $1 million to elect Manhattan District Attorney Alvin...

A grand jury in New York has indicted former President Donald Trump, according to emerging reports. “A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges,” the New York Times reported on Thursday evening. “The felony indictment, filed under seal by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, will likely be announced in the coming...

This is vengeance pure and simple. We threw a wrench into their carefully crafted works. And destroyed their insidious plans. And so, punishment must be meted out. As we have seen.

On Thursday, a grand jury in Manhattan voted to indict President Donald Trump in the case revolving around alleged “hush money” payments made to Stormy Daniels many years ago, according to multiple reports. Per RSBN, although the allegations have long since been debunked, The New York Times reported that the grand jury still voted to indict the 45th president of the United States.“This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history,” Trump wrote in an official statement. “From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in...

President Donald Trump reacted on Thursday to news that the grand jury in Manhattan had voted to indict him as they are investigating the age-old allegations surrounding “hush money” payments to Stormy Daniels.He released an official statement shortly following the shocking news, decrying “Election Interference” and slamming the ongoing “Witch-Hunt” that is aimed at destroying the “Make America Great Again movement:”“This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history. From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as your President of the United States, the...

March 30, 2023On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, WREC radio host Ben Ferguson fills in for Mark Levin. (Mark Levin isn't on tonight but calls in live at the top of the show as he just spent 2 hours interviewing Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago for his Sunday Fox show. Then he left and within an hour he hears on the radio about this indictment.) Donald Trump is the first former president to face criminal charges now that a Manhattan Grand Jury has decided to indict Trump. We’ve turned the corner from talk to action, and we are in an extremely troubling...

A Message from Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United StatesThe Left thinks that if they bury me with enough witch hunts and intimidate my family and associates that I’ll eventually throw up my hands and give up on our America First movement.Let me be as clear as possible: I WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR YOU.I walked away from a very nice life where the media never said a single mean thing about me.I knew the price I’d have to pay for running a campaign that promised to take on the Deep State, the Open Borders Lobby, global...

Manhattan prosecutors investigating Donald Trump’s role in paying hush money to a porn star also have been examining a $150,000 payment to a former Playboy model who alleged that she had an affair with the former president, according to people familiar with the matter, raising the prospect that Mr. Trump could face charges connected to the silencing of both women. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has been presenting a grand jury with evidence of Mr. Trump’s involvement in a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels since January. In those proceedings, the people said, Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors also have...