Jay Weber Show transcript 8-3-23 7:10am
My friends...I was gone for two weeks-leading the WISN trip to the British Isles- and I come back to a situation in which- nothing has changed.
It is remarkable- how little ‘new news’ or world events have happened over the last two weeks.
Our cruise ship had Fox and MSNBC in the cabins, and that made it easy for me to check in for a few minutes every day - to hear about Trump and Hunter—Hunter and Trump-
Those are the only two stories that got covered or saw any updates-
The big news out of the entire two weeks occurred on the last day of the trip-when Biden’s scummy prosecutor leveled a pile of new charges against Donald Trump -related to January sixth.
Folks-when the never-Trump editors of the national review say the indictment is another sham-
When the editors of the Wall St journal say it’s, another sham-
When former federal prosecutors like Andrew McCarthy say its’ another sham-
And when constitutional scholars like John Yoo and Jonathan Turley say it’s another outrageous sham-
It’s a sham.
The left might be able to argue the merits of the charges leveled against trump over hiding documents from the national archives and the FBI-
I don’t think there’s a case there, either, but at least there’s a legal argument-
But these latest charges are so foolish that they actually-prove- that Merrick Garland and prosecutor Jack Smith are going after trump politically.
I think you know what I mean by that: we have believed that this has been nothing more than a politically engineered witch hunt that is meant to both-ensure trump gets the GOP nomination and at the same time cannot win it-
But this Jan sixth indictment proves it. Jack Smith’s charges are wildly out of bounds. As Ben Shapiro put it: Smith must purposely misread statues and try to ‘make them fit’.
He impugns trump’s integrity and motivations with no evidence. And in the end-there’s no way to prove ‘intent’ on any of this. All the charges hinge on Smith and the prosecutors magically knowing what Trump was thinking in his own mind on January sixth-and there’s no way to prove that-of course-
Jack smith cannot -know- what trump knew. He cannot simply state that ‘Trump knew he didn’t win and didn’t believe what he was saying’.
How can smith know that?
That’s the sort of sloppy crap you’d expect from Liz Cheney or Nancy Pelosi or members of the impeachment committee: an attorney cannot credibly insist that he knew what trump really believed in his own mind-and while offering zero evidence to back it up.
And so-it’s a wild stretch of an indictment.
But hey- it will be heard in front of an Obama appointed black female judge who was particularly harsh in sentencing January sixth rioters-
And it will be heard in front of a dc grand jury. And so, we can’t just dismiss this as nonsense.
Its’ another legal action that puts Donald Trump’s freedom in jeopardy.
Do you know that-according to the Washington Times- if you add up all of the charges against trump-currently- it amounts to 600 years in prison?
Yep.
It’s insane-but this is the lengths the Biden team and the dems are going to-in order to bury Trump and Jack Smith leveled these new charges while providing-zero-new evidence that Donald Trump incited an insurrection or otherwise was looking to overthrow the government.
As I say-even the Trump-hating editors at the National Review called it bologna
Folks...the Trump-hating editors of the national review say that Jack Smith doesn’t have a single statute violation to rely on: as in- he cannot enumerate how Trump broke a law.
Instead, he’s trying to criminalize trump’s attempt to persuade people that he had a way to block the 2020 election from being finalized until the results could be examined more fully.
In short: making a political argument isn’t a crime. Not even if it’s a forceful one and this entire indictment is a joke and in a fair America-should not stand.
It is clearer than ever that this is simply a political exercise- and an abuse of prosecutorial power against Donald Trump.
Smith is labeling Trump as a liar- and going along with the left’s narrative on the events of January sixth- completely.
He really is trying to criminalize Trump’s actions because his buddies in the democrat-led congress couldn’t block trump from holding any future public office. This is simply a continuance of the Dem’s attempt to make sure that Donald Trump cannot regain the presidency-
And to wait two and a half years- and then drop these charges into the middle of a presidential campaign proves it.
Understand that Jack Smith is adding nothing new here. He has no additional information or evidence to prove Donald Trump did anything criminal on January sixth, or in his efforts to delay the election results-
This isn’t like the hidden documents case, in which smith and his team have spent two years digging up additional information, interviewing witnesses, and building a case.
There is zero reason that Smith waited two and a half years before dropping these four charges related to January sixth on Trump’s head, too.
They come out of nowhere-
And are blatantly political.
In fact, the timing is highly suspect: they came a day after Devon archer’s testimony to congress proved that Joe Biden has been selling access to foreign governments in a decades-long scheme to enrich himself and his family.
What a coincidence that smith’s next set of bogus charges against trump would come when the archer news was dominating the headlines.
This is all too well planned to be coincidence.
Constitutional scholars Jonathan Turley and Andrew McCarthy were particularly negative on this latest Smith move-
And neither one of them are Donald Trump fans. They’re simply honest analysists.
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