Lock him up

Rubashkin will arrange his release!

besalel – work on your sentence structure. Democrats are evil, is that what you imply? Who invited neo-nazis for dinner in his home? Who proclaimed ‘there are good people on both sides’ when neo-nazis marched? Convenient to ignore the truth and the facts, eh?

It is common in many countries to use the legal system to “lock up” the opposition. Putin and Xi do it all the time. One of China’s “selling points” in seeking allies many Afro-Asian and Latin American countries, is that unlike all those western “do gooders”, they have no problem with countries in which the “rule of law” means prosecuting those opposed to the ruling party. Would you really want the authorities wasting their time chasing down petty criminals (muggers, burglars, murderers, rapists, etc.), when they should be devoting their energies to getting the “enemies of the people” off the street (and off the ballot). America has fallen behind the other major powers in this respects, so of course there is pressure to catch up. Only some antiquarian from the “good old days” would argue that what makes America great is that we tolerate political opinions even of those we don’t approve of.

My personal feelings about Trump (mixed feelings) are irrelevant to the issue at hand. Democrats were so worked up about the “lock her up” chants and whined about the fact that locking up your political opponents is so un-American. But they knew and we all knew that Trump was never serious about locking her up. But the Democrats have spent every second trying to drag this man into prison for the terrible crime of entering politics. We all know that had he never entered politics, Bragg wouldn’t have cared about Daniels. So this makes Democrats hypocrites for behaving in a way they decried and it makes them evil for hunting down people with an opposing viewpoint. Contrary to CT’s defense that political parties lack the jurisdiction to carry out prosecutions, Tish James ran on the platform that she will use her position to prosecute Trump. Before she even knew for what.

Not that it matters at all but I voted for Obama twice. I am definitely not MAGA. On many social issues I am far-left. But you need to call a spade, a spade. This isn’t Bill Clinton’s Democrat party and its not even Obama’s. What we have today is a Democrat party that is quickly spiraling into a Nordic-style socialist, oppressive, regulatory, Big-Brother (and by the way, anti-Jewish) party.

CTL: Even the left acknowleges that Bragg is using a novel legal theory to bring this “prosecution”. Additionally, Bragg rejected prosecuting this a year ago. but he came under intense political pressure from the left to change his mind. Furthermore, his predecessor didn’t prosecute this, even though this incident is 7 years old. And as mentioned earlier, Bragg campaigned for the office of DA promising to prosecute Trump, before he was even elected.

Its a stupid prosecution that could (politically) jeopardize the Georgia case and several pending federal investigations for election interference. And in a rare case of agreement, Reb Yosef correctly notes the “novel” (aka dubious) application of the underlying statute here. Republicans should be supporting the right of every American to pay off their former mistress to avoid having their wives make their lives miserable.

What is especially amusing are the efforts by House Republicans to further twist themselves into know to protect this cholerah. They are insisting that the Manhattan DA come to testify about a prosecution that is still in progress and an indictment that doesn’t exist other than in Trump’s paranoid mind.

Dear N0,

You don’t need to be competing for the same office as Trump to hate him. Indeed, most of his political enemies aren’t running against him.

Dear Ujm,

So maybe this enmity is not political. They just hate him besides for politics. It would explain why someone would want to deface Trump Tower.

Of course nothing happened today to arrest trump. he never will be.
Its something in his dna that prevents him for being indicted for the numerous crimes and misdemeanors he committed.
you will never see him in jail.
chaval ! too bad !!

Dear Ujm,

Trump has faced federal charges in every decade (Six!) since he started his bankruptcy enterprise.

Dear Ujm,

Fair point. But your also playing with the goal line. Your conflating putting an opponent in prison with pandering to the base.

PS I don’t think either of these are playing a role in Mr. Bragg’s mind. It’s more like he thinks this is his
job. Not that we agree with him.

Joseph,

What was the topic of and degree for which you wrote your dissertation?

@jackk

Quick question- all I’m asking for in the answer is either “yes” or “no”.

Would Bragg have acted the same way if it was President Biden?

No one really knows what the charges are, however everyone knows that Bragg is a meshuganeh in general. I find it hard to simply trust that because he’s a prosecutor he’s probably just doing his job in prosecuting criminals. (Which would also be surprising because I don’t think he ever did his job of prosecuting criminals.)
Pashtus there is some type of “Sort-Of-Crime” here, like some technical reporting requirement that Trump skipped for whatever reason, the kind of thing that people wouldn’t normally care about until it’s a guy from the other party.
I’m just waiting for Biden to announce that he also did the same thing, but he’s coming clear within three months of realizing, so it doesn’t count 🙂

Aside from chants at MAGA rallies, Trump has at various times called for the prosecution and imprisonment of the 4 most recent Democratic presidents or presidential nominees (Biden, Clinton, Obama and Kerry) along with about a 20 other federal and state judges, senators, Congressman and other elected officials. What goes around comes around.