Here’s The Latest On The Criminal Lawfare Attacks On Trump

The lawfare attacks on Donald Trump have not been in the headlines lately but that does not mean they’ve all gone away. We’re in a bit of a quiet period at the moment but things will hot up again in the near future just in time for Election Day and a possible Trump victory.

Here’s a quick summary: Trump is still awaiting sentencing in New York in the so-called hush money case. Sentencing was originally scheduled for mid-September but biased Judge Merchan (whose daughter makes millions of dollars doing consulting work for Democrats) pushed the date back to November 26. That means if Trump wins the election, Merchan can send him to the New York State prison and keep him there. The Trump inauguration on January 21, 2025, may have to take place in a prison cell. Welcome to America 2025.

The classified documents case arising from the Gestapo-type FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago has been properly dismissed by Judge Aileen Cannon on grounds that the special prosecutor was illegally appointed in the first place. That ruling is on appeal. The idea that the special prosecutor Jack Smith may have been illegally appointed was raised by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in his concurring opinion in Trump v. United States (2024), the landmark case on presidential immunity.

The Georgia election conspiracy case involving Trump and 18 other defendants is completely bogged down. A Georgia appellate court has dismissed some of the charges. Meanwhile, the prosecutor Fani Willis is under investigation for ethics violations, including appointing her lover, Nathan Wade, to be the lead litigator despite having no experience in large, complex criminal cases. Willis and Wade took expensive holidays using the money he was paid at taxpayer expense based on her hiring decision.

That ethics investigation will take several months to conclude. The result may be that Willis is kicked off the case or even that the case may be dismissed because of her misconduct. We’ll find out early next year.

The Bronx, New York business records case that resulted in over $500 million in fines against Trump related to a loan that was paid on time and as agreed from a bank that said they would make the same loan again is on appeal.

Finally, there’s the January 6^th case pending in the Federal courts in Washington DC, also led by biased prosecutor Jack Smith. The partisan Judge Tanya Chutkan has approved a calendar for both parties that will not result in a trial until early next year. However, she took the unprecedented step of allowing the prosecution to file an “opening brief” on the question of presidential immunity. That violates the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which customarily allows the defense to file a brief first with a prosecution answer to follow.

It may not matter since a conviction is likely to be overturned under Trump v. United States when the case is on appeal. And it’s entirely possible Trump will pardon himself (or require the Justice Department to dismiss the case) if he wins the election and is sworn in on January 21, 2025. You’ll be hearing more about these cases in the weeks ahead. The Democratic lawfare machine never rests.

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