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Trump’s ‘Banana Republic’ Conviction Won’t Be Democrats’ Last — Unless There Is ‘Retaliation in Kind’: UC Berkeley Law Prof

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UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo made clear this week that President Donald Trump’s conviction before a Democratic judge in a Democratic enclave on charges brought by a Democratic prosecutor effectively obliterates any remaining pretense that the justice system is a means for resolution and restitution. The courtroom is now instead apparently a vehicle for seeking retribution and political advantage.

With this transformation, Yoo says its high time for “retaliation in kind” by Republican district attorneys.

Ahead of President Donald Trump’s conviction, Yoo noted in National Review that it was abundantly clear the hush-money case was built around “farcical charges” and aimed not at delivering justice but at protecting a decrepit Democratic president from facing his top competitor in November.

“The superficiality of the facts and the vagueness of the crimes magnify the harm that Democrats have inflicted on our political norms,” wrote the former deputy assistant attorney general. “Make no mistake, Democrats have crossed a constitutional Rubicon.”

Yoo issued a note of caution: The “weakness of the case against Trump lowers the bar for prosecuting future presidents below that for prosecuting garden-variety criminals in New York City.” (Read more from “Trump’s ‘Banana Republic’ Conviction Won’t Be Democrats’ Last — Unless There Is ‘Retaliation in Kind’: UC Berkeley Law Prof” HERE3)

Donald Trump Found Guilty of Running for President

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Donald Trump, as you have certainly heard by now, has been convicted.

The verdict is in. Guilty — guilty on all 34 felony counts of running for re-election.

That, after all, is the actual crime that Trump committed. It’s the one and only reason that this case was ever brought. They prosecuted him for trying to be president again. That’s the actual reality. That’s the real crime — which isn’t a crime. But, you might still be wondering, on paper, what crime was Trump just convicted of? Somehow, a day after the guilty verdict was read, the actual crime he was guilty of is still very hard to say.

One possible theory is that the government of New York really doesn’t like it when people overpay their taxes. They’re the first government in the history of the universe that actively punishes its citizens for handing over too much cash. It drives Alvin Bragg absolutely crazy whenever this happens. If New Yorkers pay the government too much cash in April, then the full weight of New York’s criminal justice system will come crashing down on them. A jury will convict them in a day, and they’ll face several years in prison. This is how desperately New York doesn’t want money from its citizens.

That’s what you have to believe if, for some reason, you’re still pretending that there was any legitimacy to the show trial of Donald Trump that concluded yesterday in Manhattan. I’ve been thinking of the best way to illustrate just how unprecedented and disgraceful the trial was. (Read more from “Donald Trump Found Guilty of Running for President” HERE)

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Alvin Bragg’s Own Former Colleague, Casts Doubt on the ‘Contorted’ Case Against Trump

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Elie Honig, once a colleague of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, called Bragg’s “contorted” case against former President Donald Trump an “ill-conceived, unjustified mess” in a Friday op-ed for New York Magazine.

Honig served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2004 to 2012 and worked alongside Bragg. Honig, who now works as a legal analyst for CNN, criticized the legitimacy of the case. He noted its “unprecedented” and “obscure” nature and called the charges “inventive” and “inflated.”

“Here, prosecutors got their man, for now at least — but they also contorted the law in an unprecedented manner in their quest to snare their prey,” Honig wrote.

He laid out a list of “undeniable facts” that cast doubts on the legitimacy of the conviction.

He cited the case’s Judge, Juan Manuel Merchan, and his donation to an anti-Trump operation.

(Read more from “Alvin Bragg’s Own Former Colleague, Casts Doubt on the ‘Contorted’ Case Against Trump” HERE)

Trump Campaign Announces Nearly $53 Million Raised in 24 Hours After Conviction

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Former President Donald Trump’s campaign announced on Friday that it had raised nearly $53 million in the 24 hours after Trump’s conviction by a New York jury.

Jurors in Trump’s business records trial found the former president guilty on all 34 counts related to payments made to adult entertainment star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election.

“In the 24 hours since Crooked Joe Biden and his New York henchmen got their sham trial verdict, the Trump Campaign has raised $52.8 million through the online digital fundraising platform,” the Trump campaign wrote. “THAT’S MORE THAN $2 MILLION PER HOUR!”

The Trump campaign added that over “one third” of these donations were from new donors.

After the Manhattan jury found Trump guilty, WinRed, the Republican Party’s official online donation website crashed due to the high volume of internet traffic. (Read more from “Trump Campaign Announces Nearly $53 Million Raised in 24 Hours After Conviction” HERE)

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Ex-Democrats, Independents, And Newbie Donors Throw Cash At Trump After Manhattan Show Trial; Campaign Raises Record $34.8 Million in Donations After Guilty Verdict

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By The Federalist. When the guilty verdict came down Thursday afternoon in that Manhattan kangaroo court, the credit cards came out in support of former President Donald Trump.

Voters who said they had been on the fence about the GOP’s three-time presidential nominee, resisted him in the past, or had just never contributed to a political campaign are reaching for their wallets following the banana republic prosecution, trial, and verdict.

“I just made my first political donation in my entire life. Those that want to destroy this country left me NO CHOICE. Trump 2024,” Chandler Crump, who bills himself as a 19-year-old Billboard charting artist and freedom fighter, wrote on his X account. . .

The WinRed fundraising platform the former president’s 2024 campaign uses crashed following the jury’s verdict, reportedly because of a surge in interest and donations. The jury found Trump guilty of all 34 nebulous counts of falsifying business records filed by far-left prosecutor Alvin Bragg, who campaigned for the office on a platform of going after Trump. Billed as a “hush money” trial on alleged payments made to a pornographer, Bragg performed extralegal alchemy in transforming a languishing misdemeanor charge into a federal campaign finance felony. Not even the conflicted judge in the case, a donor to President Joe Biden’s campaign, seemed to fully understand the charges but knew enough to block an elections law expert from testifying that there was no crime.

What Americans — and the world — witnessed over the past several weeks was a Soviet-style show trial against Biden’s political opponent and the left’s public enemy No. 1. The stuff of banana republics. They got what they wanted: hanging the albatross of “convicted felon” around Trump’s neck as he looks to chase Biden from the White House and the swamp creatures from the federal government, even though the former president is immediately appealing the guilty verdict. (Read more from “Ex-Democrats, Independents, And Newbie Donors Throw Cash At Trump After Manhattan Show Trial” HERE)

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Trump Campaign Raises Record $34.8 Million in Donations After Guilty Verdict

By CNBC. The Trump campaign said Friday it nearly doubled its single-day fundraising record after a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty in his criminal hush money trial.

The Republican’s campaign said it raised $34.8 million from small-dollar donors in less than seven hours following the historic verdict Thursday afternoon that convicted the former president of 34 counts of falsifying business records.

Nearly 30% of those donors were brand new to the Trump donation site WinRed, senior campaign advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a press release.

The advisors echoed Trump’s post-trial vow that the “real verdict” will come on Election Day, Nov. 5, when he is set to face President Joe Biden in a rematch of their 2020 contest. (Read more from “Trump Campaign Raises Record $34.8 Million in Donations After Guilty Verdict” HERE)

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Former Dem Governor Says Black Voters Will ‘Rise Up’ Against Democrats Following Trump Verdict (VIDEO)

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Former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich stated Thursday on Fox News that black voters, one of the Democratic Party’s key voting blocs, will “rise up” and instead support former President Donald Trump following his guilty verdict.

Blagojevich appeared on “Jesse Watters Primetime” to discuss the verdict. A New York jury found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts for alleged falsified business records. A judge previously sentenced Blagojevich to 14 years for trying to sell then-president-elect Barack Obama’s Illinois Senate seat, and Trump commuted it in 2020. Watters asked the former governor about his thoughts on the former president’s case.

“I see this as déjà vu all over again. I didn’t break a single law, cross a line or take a penny. They failed to convict me at a first trial, tried me a second time, used unlawful jury instructions to criminalize things that were legal. They learned from that, and now they’re doing it at the major-league level — what they did to a Democrat governor at the triple A level — and doing it to the leading candidate of the opposition party, being done by the party in power. My party, the Democratic Party. It’s a very sad day for America on many levels,” Blagojevich stated.

“On a personal level, I’m grateful to President Trump for commuting my sentence. My heart sinks when I think about what he has to go through, what his family has to go through. My heart is broken for our country because this is serious business and these Democrats, my fellow Democrats who run the show now, are coordinating these prosecutions against Trump from the Democratic National Committee in Washington D.C. with assistance from the White House and Biden.”

“It’s so obvious to me because I’ve lived it myself. In my case, these were Bush-appointed Republicans who did it to me. Now the Democrats are doing it to Trump, but what they’re doing is they’re destroying the rule of law, our constitution, which will eventually lead to the loss of our freedom. Nothing is sacred with these people, nothing is sacred. It’s politics at all costs and forget about the law, and forget about injustice and forget about destroying somebody through prosecution, persecution and the politics of personal destruction.” (Read more from “Former Dem Governor Says Black Voters Will ‘Rise Up’ Against Democrats Following Trump Verdict (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Democrats, Media Hype Trump as a ‘Convicted Felon’

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Democrats and the leftist media are now hyping former President Donald Trump as a convicted felon following a Manhattan jury finding him guilty on all 34 counts in his business records trial.

It did not take long for the anti-Trump world to run off with the guilty verdict, framing Trump as a convicted felon. That coincides with reports of the Biden-Harris HQ celebrating the verdict.

The New York Times editorial board released an op-ed with the title, “Donald Trump, Felon,” beginning it this way:

In a humble courtroom in Lower Manhattan on Thursday, a former president and current Republican standard-bearer was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The jury’s decision, and the facts presented at the trial, offer yet another reminder — perhaps the starkest to date — of the many reasons Donald Trump is unfit for office.

(Read more from “Democrats, Media Hype Trump as a ‘Convicted Felon’” HERE)

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Tucker Carlson: Trump ‘Could Be Killed’ Before Having Chance to Win Election

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Tucker Carlson took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to throw his support behind Donald Trump after he was found guilty in the criminal hush money trial.

The political commentator … claimed the former president “could be killed” before making it to the November 5 election.

He wrote: “Import the Third World, become the Third World. That’s what we just saw. This won’t stop Trump.

“He’ll win the election if he’s not killed first. But it does mark the end of the fairest justice system in the world. Anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and your family.” . . .

The Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records after more than nine hours of deliberations over two days in the case stemming from a hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. (Read more from “Tucker Carlson: Trump ‘Could Be Killed’ Before Having Chance to Win Election” HERE)

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‘We’re Going to Fight’: Donald Trump Vows to Appeal Guilty Verdict

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Former President Donald Trump on Friday vowed to appeal the guilty verdict for falsifying business records.

“We’re going to be appealing this scam. We’re going to be appealing it on many different things,” Trump said.

“He [Judge Juan Merhcan] wouldn’t allow us to have witnesses, he wouldn’t allow us to talk, he wouldn’t allow us to do anything. The judge was a tyrant,” Trump said.

“We’re going to fight,” Trump said. “I’m wired in such a way that a lot of people would have gone away a long time ago. They would have gone away after impeachment hoaxes.” . . .

Trump’s campaign raised $34.8 million from small-dollar donors after a Manhattan jury found him guilty on Thursday, the Trump campaign announced Friday morning. Small-dollar donations are significant because donors can give again and again. (Read more from “‘We’re Going to Fight’: Donald Trump Vows to Appeal Guilty Verdict” HERE)

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Former Prosecutor Weighs in on Jury Deliberations in Trump’s Criminal Case

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The jury in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan began deliberations Wednesday after closing arguments. The 12-member jury is tasked with determining whether to convict or acquit Trump on the 34 charges he faces.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to an alleged “hush money” payment to porn star Stormy Daniels late in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Zack Smith, a former prosecutor who now is a Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow, sits down with “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain what discussions the jurors likely are having and possible outcomes of the trial. (Heritage launched The Daily Signal in 2014.)

(Read more from “Former Prosecutor Weighs in on Jury Deliberations in Trump’s Criminal Case” HERE)

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