TUCKER CARLSON: The US would never recover from the destruction of the justice system over Trump

The dominant rumor on the web over the weekend was that Donald Trump will quickly be indicted, presumably even handcuffed, on digicam. Is that true? We won’t say. 

We do know that Trump is the topic of a grand jury investigation in Manhattan. That is a metropolis that voted in opposition to Donald Trump by nearly 80% within the final presidential election. We additionally know that the grand jury was impaneled by a Soros funded D.A. referred to as Alvin Bragg, who appears to be like and acts like a Tawana Brawley-era Al Sharpton. So, we’d assume, on the premise of that proof, that it is fairly doubtless Trump does get charged with one thing in some unspecified time in the future.

However charged with what? That is the query that ought to matter in a free nation. Legal guidelines or common legal guidelines apply to all residents equally, exactly as a result of all residents are thought of equal. For generations, this was very apparent to American liberals. The truth is, it was the premise of their worldview. That was again when liberals opposed Jim Crow, and we’re not attempting to reinstate it as one thing referred to as fairness. We’re not liberals, however we retain the normal American view, which is that legal guidelines have to be utilized equally, or else they are not legal guidelines in any respect. Justice have to be blind, or else it’s tyranny. 

So, we spent the day with assist of a lawyer on our employees, attempting to evaluate the doubtless expenses in opposition to Donald Trump and this is what we discovered. Eight years in the past, as he was working for president, Trump paid a porn actress referred to as Stormy Daniels $130,000. Daniels alleged that she and Trump had at one level had intercourse. Trump denied that. He nonetheless denies it. However in alternate for promising to not repeat that declare in public, Trump, by means of his then legal professional, Michael Cohen, despatched Stormy Daniels a verify.  

TRUMP LAWYERS DEMAND NARA RECORDS TO EXPOSE ‘HIGHLY-POLITICIZED’ DOCUMENTS PROBE OF FORMER PRESIDENT 

Was that authorized? Effectively, we are able to reply that query. As a result of there was a marketing campaign in progress on the time, officers on the Federal Election Fee later examined the transaction between Trump and Stormy Daniels. Federal investigators concluded that nothing felony had taken place and actually, settlements like this, no matter you consider them, are widespread each amongst well-known folks, celebrities and in company America. The result’s normally generally known as an NDA, a nondisclosure settlement. 

On this case, you’ll be able to imagine no matter aspect you need to imagine, however paying folks to not discuss issues, hush cash, is unusual in trendy America. In accordance with the FEC, there was no want for Donald Trump to report his funds to Stormy Daniels. Nor was the cash that he despatched or by means of his legal professional topic to marketing campaign finance limitations. The FEC decided your complete factor was a private expenditure. It clearly was. 

So, what’s the crime right here? Effectively, the media do not appear very all for discovering out. That is Donald Trump. He is a felony. Every part he does is against the law. Watch.  

JENNIFER RUBIN, MSNBC: Just because he could have dedicated worse crimes, you do not let him off of lesser crimes. In case you are, for instance, searching for a prosecution for homicide, if the man will get caught drunk driving in one other context earlier than that, you do not simply let him go as a result of you might have larger fish to fry. 

TRUMP LAWYERS DEMAND NARA RECORDS TO EXPOSE ‘HIGHLY-POLITICIZED’ DOCUMENTS PROBE OF FORMER PRESIDENT 

PAUL BUTLER, MSNBC: No person is above the regulation, together with Donald Trump. It would not matter that that is form of a minor crime in comparison with a number of the different allegations.  

MIKA BRZEZINSKI, MSNBC: Against the law is against the law is against the law is against the law. That is what anyone prosecuting or a decide would say.  

JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC: Against the law is against the law is against the law, as Mika mentioned. An indictment is an indictment is an indictment. Once I hear folks saying that is a lot ado about nothing, I take into consideration all of the members of Congress I served with and understanding each single one in all them would have been charged and despatched to jail had they accomplished this. 

AL SHARPTON, MSNBC: I used to be studying the Bible which mentioned that which a person sows, that he can also reap.  

Joe Scarborough, women and gents, telling us what against the law is, against the law with a girl. Look, there’s Al Sharpton lecturing us in regards to the Bible. It is hilarious. Oh, the hypocrisy, however it did not actually reply the query: Why are we handcuffing Donald Trump? Liberals do not appear to care in any respect so long as it occurs, so long as Trump will get handcuffed, however actually, there’s loads of proof that Trump dedicated no crime in sending cash to stormy offers. We do not have to guess.  

Contemplate the case of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards. Edwards was usually described as a fiery liberal, however actually, he was a populist. He ran for president twice and within the course of infuriated the leaders of the Democratic Get together by speaking approach an excessive amount of about earnings inequality. They actually hated him for that. Lengthy after Edwards left workplace, Barack Obama’s DOJ charged him with federal finance violations. The premise of the case in opposition to John Edwards was that he had obtained $1,000,000 in presents and that he spent that cash in hush cash funds to his mistress, with whom he later had a toddler.  

Obama’s DOJ argues that the cash that Edwards despatched to his girlfriend amounted to marketing campaign contributions. Edwards by no means reported that cash, so Obama’s DOJ tried to ship him to jail. Effectively, in the long run, the case fell aside beneath the burden of its personal incoherence. Obama’s legal professionals argued that any fee that would conceivably assist a politician politically is by definition a marketing campaign expenditure. There is not any regulation that claims that, by the way in which, they simply made it up. But when you consider it for a second, it would not make sense. If that have been true, flip it round. It could imply that candidates might use donor cash and in addition taxpayer cash within the type of federal matching funds to pay for any private expense, so long as that expense might conceivably profit them politically. 

Candidates might take federal matching funds, tax {dollars} to purchase Ferraris so long as they argued these Ferraris would seem in marketing campaign adverts, and so on., and so on. It is nonsensical.  

MANHATTAN DA GETS PUMMELED FOR POSSIBLE TRUMP INDICTMENT: ‘IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERSTATE MR. BRAGG’S BAD JUDGMENT’ 

So, not surprisingly, John Edwards was acquitted in that case. It was a humiliating defeat for the Obama administration, however it additionally despatched a transparent message and set a precedent, which Alvin Bragg apparently is ignoring. 

We do not know that an indictment is coming, as famous and if it does come, we’re undecided what it may say. We have not seen it. But when Trump is indicted for sending cash to Stormy Daniels, properly, you will be watching the abuse of regulation enforcement energy.

However you’ll be able to’t complain about it as a result of as Congresswoman Maxine Waters has defined, political protests staged on behalf of Donald Trump usually are not constitutionally protected. They’re home terrorism. Watch.  

MAXINE WATERS: That is Donald Trump sending messages out to home terrorists that he is labored with and he helped to arrange for the invasion of the Capitol on January fifth. He is sending out a message to them to get able to protest any arrests, indictments, and so on., that he could have. So, he is mainly speaking to the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, QAnon and the KKK.  

Although January 6, the one actually organized group on January 6 was the FBI, after all, however contemplate the thought and the place it is coming from. That is Maxine Waters. That is the woman who cheered on the L.A. race riots three many years in the past. That is the exact same particular person only a few years in the past mentioned, “If you happen to see anyone from the Trump cupboard in a restaurant, in a division retailer at a gasoline station. (she’s very outdated) “Get out and create a crowd and also you push again on them and also you inform them they are not welcome anymore anyplace.” Principally, necklace them. Oh, yeah Maxine Waters? However she’s a Democrat. So, that is only a civil rights train. She’s protected against home terrorism expenses and Alvin Bragg is, too. 

He is a Democrat and it is best to know we do not need to impugn his character or something. We do not need to counsel that there is a connection between politics and the indictment of Donald Trump, however Alvin Bragg did run for workplace, promising as a marketing campaign promise to indict Donald Trump. We’re not guessing. He gave televised interviews about it. Watch. 

REPORTER: All proper. So, newspaper experiences as we speak say we might count on to see an indictment to be handed down in opposition to Donald Trump quickly. Any ideas on how you’d deal with such a high-profile case?  

ALVIN BRAGG: Definitely all through my profession, I’ve gone wherever the details have taken me and the kinds of allegations which were reported publicly, valuation of belongings, maybe using shell corporations, tax fraud. I did. I’ve accomplished all these type of instances. I’ve tried a mortgage fraud case. I’ve tried one of the crucial vital cash laundering instances within the New York area. So, of all of the candidates, I type of stand on the prepared with all of the instruments and a software equipment.  

MANHATTAN DA’S OFFICE ‘ASKED FOR A MEETING’ WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AHEAD OF POSSIBLE TRUMP INDICTMENT 

Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg speaks at a press convention after the sentencing listening to of the Trump Group on the New York Supreme Court docket on January 13, 2023 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photographs)

Yeah, we will go after Trump and by the way in which, he listed some actual crimes there, they usually have spent years attempting to pin these crimes on Trump, even get his tax returns illegally, they usually discovered none of them. Not a protection of Trump, simply true. So, we wind up with this, which is piddling.

However what’s attention-grabbing is, at the same time as Bragg has been single-mindedly centered (Bragg is a graduate of Harvard School) on Donald Trump and his crimes – sending cash to a porn star – he has been not solely ignoring actual crimes, however downgrading felonies to misdemeanors and letting precise violent criminals out of jail as rapidly as doable. 

On his first day in workplace, first day, Bragg per the concepts of the person who paid for his marketing campaign George Soros, issued a memo explaining his workplace will “not search a cursory sentence besides in instances involving homicides, financial crimes and a small variety of felonies.” 

That was nice information for individuals who commit violent felonies, together with rapists like Justin Washington. Washington struck a take care of Bragg that allowed him to serve simply 30 days in jail beneath the speculation that his rape was actually simply second-degree coercion. So. he acquired out rapidly and when he did, police say this identical man sexually attacked 5 different folks within the Bronx, even tried to rape a homeless lady at ten within the morning.  

In one other case, a profession felony who was arrested 3 times in 4 months for severe crimes, together with assault and aggravated harassment, skipped court docket and when police lastly discovered him and hauled him to court docket, Bragg’s workplace let him go in January of final yr. Guess what he did when he acquired out? He murdered a girl.  

REPORTER: A rising makeshift memorial in entrance of a New York Metropolis residence constructing honoring Christina Yuna Lee after police say a person adopted her house and attacked her, stabbing her to loss of life. This safety video obtained by NBC Information seems to point out Lee being adopted by the suspect. Once they arrived, the door was barricaded. When cops went into the residence, investigators say they discovered the physique of a 35-year-old lady later recognized as Lee in her rest room and the suspect coated in blood. Police say Assamad Nash was arrested and charged with Lee’s homicide. This was his eighth arrest since Could of 2021.  

What’s attention-grabbing is that nobody cares. The place’s Joe Scarborough on that? Is he upset about it? Is his spouse upset? Energy to girls? Proper. All of the arch feminists who must be on the market defending girls, they do not care in any respect. 

Right here you might have a D.A. who treats violent felonies like they’re misdemeanors, even when it will get folks killed, who’s unleashing criminals on the inhabitants, however then spending all of his time attempting to destroy his political opponents, on this case, elevating a misdemeanor cost to a felony for the aim of taking down Trump.

Now, this is what we predict, if there’s an indictment, will type the core of the cost. Bragg appears to be alleging that Trump violated New York’s Enterprise File Act by falsely reporting the payout to Stormy Daniels as “authorized charges.” Now, if this have been true, it might represent a misdemeanor, and the statute of limitations has already run out for that for the bookkeeping error, assuming it even occurred. However Bragg apparently is considering charging Trump beneath a felony model of the Enterprise Data Legislation, one which punishes companies for falsifying information as a method to commit one other separate crime. 

MANHATTAN DA BRAGG DECRIES TRUMP’S ATTEMPT TO ‘INTIMIDATE’ HIS OFFICE IN PRIVATE MEMO 

That will be the marketing campaign finance violation, which, as we talked about, was not a marketing campaign finance violation, and we all know that from the FEC, which polices marketing campaign finance violations, by the way in which, if it have been, then that may be a federal crime, not one thing that Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan D.A., can be prosecuting. The entire thing would not make any sense in any respect on a authorized stage. On a political stage, it does as a result of Trump is working for president. 

So, what’s behind this? Is he performing alone? We could quickly discover out. Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio sits within the Home Judiciary Committee, is looking on Bragg to testify earlier than the Congress. He needs to listen to Bragg clarify whether or not or not he is had any contact with the White Home or the Biden DOJ, and if he has, perhaps that may clarify these expenses. He additionally needs to know whether or not this prosecution will use any federal funds. Let’s hope Alvin Bragg was dedicated to the rule of regulation, complies or is pressured to conform very quickly.

However it doesn’t matter what occurs if this indictment arrives, irrespective of who you voted for, I plan on voting for it. Make no mistake, it is a turning level for the nation.  

Now, the headline right here just isn’t that they are being unfair to Donald Trump once more, although. After all, they’re. And even that Trump is the previous president of the US. Who cares? I imply, although, so long as we’re indicting retired presidents, the place are the fees in opposition to George W Bush for invading Iraq beneath false pretenses and giving everlasting regular commerce relations to China, which utterly wrecked our financial system? The place are these expenses? 

Do not maintain your breath.In Washington, wrecking your personal nation just isn’t thought of against the law and naturally, George W Bush is aware of that properly, which is why he would not appear apprehensive in any respect. Criticizing the ruling class, that is what they indict you for. However both approach, Donald Trump’s former job as president of the US just isn’t actually the purpose right here.  

Sure, after all, you’ll be able to indict former presidents in the event that they’ve accomplished one thing incorrect. That is not what that is about. The headline right here is that there’s, as famous, a presidential race in progress proper now, and should you verify the polls, you can see that Trump is main the Republican subject. That is the unprecedented factor, taking out your opponent, utilizing the justice system. 

If the Democratic Get together is allowed to do that, allowed to crush the presidential front-runner, the principle menace to their energy, with a bogus felony case, the place does that go away us? We’re accomplished as a result of that precedent will stay endlessly and voters won’t ever once more decide the end result of a presidential election. It is exceptional when you consider it. 

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After all of the yelling from everlasting Washington about January 6 and the way it was a menace to our democratic norms and the peaceable switch of energy, they’ve determined to utterly quick circuit our democratic norms, to not point out the peaceable switch of energy utilizing the courts and prosecutors. What occurs in the event that they get away with this? Nobody appears to be considering this by means of. Everybody’s all spun up, however what occurs in the event that they get away with this? 

In the event that they use the Justice Division in full view of everybody to settle a political rating and to maintain the White Home simply to take a man out of the race who appears to be doing pretty properly. We’ll destroy the justice system and that is not a small factor. A functioning justice system has stored this nation peaceable for a whole lot of years. The aim of a justice system is to manage justice in order that residents do not need to do it themselves. You outsource that responsibility to the federal government. However what occurs while you take that away, when there is no such thing as a justice system? 

What occurs when the Division of Justice decides that its aim just isn’t justice, however defending the ruling class in any respect prices? Take into consideration that. Individuals are nonetheless going to demand justice. The need for justice is an inherent human need. We’re born with it. But when there is no impartial place to do it, some folks will resolve they will need to do it themselves. Now, we do not know precisely what that is going to appear to be, however we are able to say for sure it may be actually ugly. 

So, they hate Donald Trump. Advantageous, however they do not get to destroy America’s justice system as a result of they do. We’d by no means recuperate from that.