Trump’s opponents are making effective use of lawfare

Drill, Baby, Drill 9 Comments
Trump on a viewscreeen in North Dakota. No shades of Big Brother here, nope. Photo by Brian Zinchuk

If this hush money thing was such a big deal, why did it take 8 years to get to trial? Why not when he was in office, or right afterwards? Why now? Ask yourself that.

Some might accuse Trump’s opponents of specifically holding legal action against him for various alleged misdeeds until such time that he would otherwise be on the campaign trail. Guess what? It’s working.

Eight years ago, Trump made a big deal out of his North Dakota campaign stop. It’s when and where I got to ask him if he would approve the Keystone XL pipeline. This year, Trump’s legal battles kept him from the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, which I attended two weeks ago. Unfortunately, I’ve been pretty busy, so I haven’t had the time to write this until now. But the timing is fitting, with the trial wrapping up.

 

 

 

Burn The Capitalists!

Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing We Are All Treaty People 32 Comments

At this rate, will any businesses be left in the Winnipeg core within 5 years?

A rash of violent incidents targeting a Winnipeg grocery store came to a head Friday with a brazen daytime arson attack caught on camera.

Security footage from the incident shows the moment two women approached a couple of cars belonging to co-owner Tarik Zeid and his cousin. They smash a window, douse the car with a flammable liquid, and set it on fire.

He believes the suspects are the same women involved in a shoplifting incident inside the store the day before.

Just over two weeks after the first incident, three staff members were assaulted when five masked attackers stormed the store.

Kangaroo Court News

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Law & Order: New Jersey Democrats

A Manhattan federal judge has blocked prosecutors from introducing text messages related to a 2019 debate about aid to Egypt in the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez — exchanges the government has called “critical” to their case.

US District Judge Sidney Stein agreed with the New Jersey Democrat’s defense team Friday that allowing the messages between an Egyptian government official and Menendez co-defendant Wael Hana into evidence would violate the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause, which holds that members of Congress cannot be held criminally or civilly liable for actions related to their legislative duties.

Stein also ruled that prosecutors could not introduce another exchange from 2022, in which Menendez’s wife Nadine allegedly forwarded a link to Hana about two military sales to Egypt worth about $2.5 billion, writing, “Bob had to sign off on this.”

h/t Melinda Romanoff

You Can’t Cheat Father Bell Curve

Khmer Noir Quackery 12 Comments

Via Instapundit;

[N]ew investigative reporting shows that the anti-meritocratic ideology of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” has even infiltrated some medical schools — to disastrous results.

These revelations come from the Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium, who just published a remarkable exposé on the University of California, Los Angeles, medical school. It alleges that the university has systemically violated laws prohibiting race-based admission and held applicants of different races to wildly different standards, all in an effort to boost diversity, while instead producing incompetent and unqualified doctors.

More: Over 50% of UCLA med students failed standardized tests on family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and pediatrics.

None Of Your Business

Climate Cult Drain The Swamp The Libranos 15 Comments

Stop asking.

Blacklocks- Keeps $8B A Secret From MPs

The Department of Industry is refusing MPs’ order for terms of billions in federal climate subsidies to manufacturers. Deputy Minister Simon Kennedy called it “highly sensitive confidential information to be safeguarded.”

Deputy Kennedy in reply said terms must be concealed to protect corporations that received subsidies. “Disclosure of sensitive business information without prior consent of the third party including commitments found in contribution agreements would put the government in violation of its contractual obligations,” he wrote.

Kangaroo Court News

CreepyJoeBiden Democrats Trump 23 Comments

Team Lawfare loses a round;

On Friday, special counsel Jack Smith asked the judge to issue a gag order on Donald Trump in his classified documents case. Taking a page out of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s playbook, Smith thought he could successfully prevent Trump from being able to freely express his opinions about the case.

Unlike Bragg, who has a Biden donor as a judge, Smith had to convince Judge Aileen Cannon, a fair-minded, Trump-nominated judge, to buy into his argument that Trump should be silenced.

Cannon refused, calling Smith’s demand for a gag order “wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy.” […]

It gets better. Cannon didn’t just refuse to silence Trump the way Judge Juan Merchan has in New York, but she also warned Smith that she’s not going tolerate future ridiculousness from him.

Good.

Related: The probability that the last three Trump-related cases in New York would randomly be assigned to the same judge is one in 15,625.

Bumped for Mark Steyn update;

The law is being trimmed to fit the man. Much of America is now institutionally rotted to the core: millions of citizens seem to have internalised that but reckon that, if they just keep their heads down, maybe it’ll be the guy three doors down who catches the state’s eye. You’ll understand that, after twelve years in the DC Superior Court, I’m less sanguine about that.

Still, if there is a “verdict” by 3pm Eastern, we shall certainly discuss it.

The Libranos: Bam Bam Bambiscam

The Libranos You Might Be A Liberal 12 Comments

National Post;

Employing foreign sharpshooters in helicopters to cull deer inhabiting a small coastal B.C. island could cost taxpayers over $12 million, suggest newly released government documents.

According to figures unearthed by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation via an access-to-information act, Parks Canada has earmarked $12 million to fund a multi-phase “Fur to Forest” program, which employs non-Canadian helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to eradicate an invasive herd of European fallow deer from Sidney Island — a nine-square-kilometre tract of land off the coast of Vancouver Island.[…]

A total of 84 deer were killed during last year’s cull between Dec. 1 and 11.

As well, Parks Canada confirmed a little under a quarter of the culled animals weren’t actually invasive deer, but species native to Sidney Island.

Someone in the deep bowels of Libranos Inc. cashed in on that contract. Count on it.

Wednesday On Turtle Island

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Dementia Joe’s America:  AMC places a trigger warning.  Disney cancels Tinkerbell.  Saint George Floyd.  FBI Director met with Hamas supporters.  Biden’s Black Lies Matter.  The Biden campaign shows up at the Trump trial.

Blackie’s Canada:  The Indians are upset again (Warning: CBC).  Education in Doug Ford’s Ontario.  CBC concealed bonus.

Today In Islam:  Two Muslim girls.  Interfaith dialogue in Egypt.

Your morning meme.  Another meme.   A cartoon.

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