Ponder Trump’s Happy New Year post on Truth Social.
Happy New Year
Truth Social: God Bless Tina Peters, who is now, for two years out of nine, sitting in a Colorado Maximum Security Prison, at the age of 73, and sick, for the “crime” of trying to stop the massive voter fraud that goes on in her State (where people are leaving in record numbers!). Hard to wish her a Happy New Year, but to the Scumbag Governor, and the disgusting “Republican” (RINO!) DA, who did this to her (nothing happens to the Dems and their phony Mail In Ballot System that makes it impossible for a Republican to win an otherwise very winnable State!), I wish them only the worst. May they rot in Hell. FREE TINA PETERS!
Rot in Hell Analysis
I Wish Them the Worst says Trump to Colorado Officials. May they Rot in Hell.
Peters is a former Mesa County clerk convicted of allowing unauthorized access to election system data in an effort to overturn the 2020 election. Trump went after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein, who oversaw the case, ending with a harsh curse.
Trump’s post portrayed Peters as a 73-year-old grandmother suffering for trying to stop “massive voter fraud.” However, several details in his message did not align with publicly available information about her situation. Peters is actually 70, serving a nine-year sentence, and is in a medium-security women’s facility, not a maximum-security prison. Trump also claimed she had served two years, but she is only about 15 months into her sentence.
The president cannot pardon Peters, since she was prosecuted in Colorado’s state system, not federal court. His clemency power does not apply here.
Polis responded with a sharp statement, drawing attention to the New Year’s timing and criticizing Trump’s focus. “I hope the President’s resolution this year is to spend less time online talking about me and more on making America more affordable by stopping his disastrous tariffs and fixing rising health care costs,” the governor said. He also wished all Americans, “including the President,” a happy and healthy New Year.
Rubinstein also fought back, delivering a message that felt like a combination of legal brief and warning. “There’s a saying in the law: If the facts are on your side, pound the facts; if the law is on your side, pound the law; if neither is on your side, pound the table,” he wrote. “President Trump has no facts and no law here. After trying and failing to create both, he’s left with nothing but pounding the table.”
Trump’s message about Peters was not an isolated incident. He expanded his target list, taking aim at George Clooney and his wife, Amal, while mocking their politics and citizenship choices. He also hurled insults at Democrats and continued the onslaught, even misspelling Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s name as “Tim Waltz” during his online attacks.
Trump Attacks George and Amal Clooney
Truth Social: Good News! George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France which is, sadly, in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under Sleepy Joe Biden. Remember when Clooney, after the now infamous debate, dumped Joe during a fundraiser, only to go onto the side of another stellar candidate, Jamala(K!), who is now fighting it out with the worst governor in the Country, including Tim Waltz, Gavin Newscum, for who is going to lead the Democrats to their future defeat. Clooney got more publicity for politics than he did for his very few, and totally mediocre, movies. He wasn’t a movie star at all, he was just an average guy who complained, constantly, about common sense in politics. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Trump Targets Former Special Council Jack Smith
NBC News reports Jack Smith told lawmakers Trump was ‘the most culpable’ in election interference case, deposition transcript shows
The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday released a full transcript and video of former special counsel Jack Smith’s closed-door deposition before the Republican-led panel earlier this month.
The release consists of a 255-page transcript and more than eight hours of video. Smith sought to testify publicly, but his request was denied by Republicans on the Judiciary Committee.
In the deposition, a confident, candid and straight-to-the-point Smith described in great detail why he believed he had enough evidence to not only try but convict President Donald Trump of conspiracy to obstruct the certification of the electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021, along with the other criminal charges against him in Washington, D.C., and Florida.
During his opening statement, Smith told lawmakers that his team found “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump engaged in a “criminal scheme” to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Smith also testified that Trump “repeatedly tried to obstruct justice” in the classified documents case, as previously reported by NBC News.
Since returning to office, Trump has repeatedly called for Smith to be prosecuted. Smith said during his testimony that he would not be surprised if he himself was indicted by the Justice Department.
“There is no historical analog for what President Trump did in this case. As we said in the indictment, he was free to say that he thought he won the election,” Smith said. “He was even free to say falsely that he won the election. But what he was not free to do was violate federal law and use knowing — knowingly false statements about election fraud to target a lawful government function.”
Smith told lawmakers multiple times that he could prove Trump knew the claims he was making about election fraud were false.
“When he was told that a fraud claim wasn’t true, he didn’t stop making it,” Smith said.
“These would be false claims about dead voters. It would be false claims about underage voters. It would be false claims about illegal alien voters. The false claims were generally, as a general matter, about urban centers where he had lost the vote in a particular state that was otherwise close by a lot,” he added. “And, again, these were claims that were rebutted by people around him who knew that they were false and in many cases told him they were false.”
Smith also addressed Trump’s attacks on him and other career civil servants in the Justice Department.
“I am both saddened and angered that President Trump has sought revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff simply for doing their jobs and for having worked on those cases,” he said. “These dedicated public servants are the best of us, and they have been wrongly vilified and improperly dismissed from their jobs.”
He also told committee members: “I made it clear from the day that I began at the Special Counsel’s Office this was going to be a nonpartisan investigation, this was not — that politics would play no role in it. I think everybody in my office agreed to that.”
Reflections on Jack Smith’s Testimony
Smith was calm, yet defiant. Importantly he did not fall into any traps.
There is no case to pursue against Smith. In short, the testimony backfired on the Administration. But that probably won’t stop Trump from pursuing further, to his own detriment.
Reflections on Election Cheating
These are not normal circumstances. This is exactly what we have come to expect from Trump.
He was personally charged with election interference in Georgia. That was arguably a winnable case. But Democrats blew it by piling on nonsensical tax charges in New York, a trial that happened first.
Now, in Colorado Trump seeks clemency for crooks.
Justice is on sale and the going price is a $1 million donation to Trump or his family.
The asymmetry is amazing. Trump wants to ignore sworn testimony, even convictions when it implicates MAGA.
He is proven beyond shame. And so are his MAGA supporters.
Justice for Sale
In case you missed it, please see Justice for Sale: Current price for a Trump Pardon is $1 million and Rising
Actually, it’s injustice for sale. Pay the fee and Trump will sign.
