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Lying Eyes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To be honest, I feel like the American Justice system has let us down.  From the Supreme Court to the line judges and prosecutors, our Judicial system was \u201cplayed\u201d.  If justice delayed is justice denied, then we, the American people, have been left high and dry.  And if our justice system was supposed to be the last bulwark, the final defense of democracy, I have a sad conclusion.  It doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have eyes and ears.\u00a0\u00a0I sat horrified on January 6th<\/sup>, 2021, watching as the Capitol was stormed by a mob. It was sent by a President trying to remain in office.\u00a0\u00a0Then, I listened to the President of the United States, on the phone with the Secretary of State of Georgia. He demanded that Georgia \u201cfind votes\u201d so that he could remain in office, and threatened retribution if they didn\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0And I viewed the photographs of classified documents. They were stacked on the performance stage of a supper club and piled in the shower of the \u201cgolden bathroom\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But our Court systems, from a Georgia county judge to the Supreme Court of the United States, failed. They are telling me not to believe my \u201clying eyes\u201d or my \u201cfailing ears\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mueller <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve heard it all before.\u00a0\u00a0I watched as a good man, a powerful public official, was stymied by those who were willing to \u201cfix the game\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Robert Mueller may not have been at his best at the end. He was dragged into a House hearing really physically incapable of\u00a0\u00a0testifying.\u00a0\u00a0But what Mueller didn\u2019t tell us was that his investigation, the first foray into the ugly world of Trump, was hamstrung.\u00a0\u00a0He reported to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who placed guardrails that Mueller felt duty-bound to follow.\u00a0\u00a0So he never, to use a Watergate phrase, \u201cfollowed the money\u201d \u2013 that wasn\u2019t inside the \u201clines\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0And he allowed the Trump team to \u201cstonewall\u201d his investigation He sadly lamened the fact they lied to his investigators. But he did not file charges against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Rosenstein\u2019s boss, \u201cthe institutionalist\u201d Attorney General William Barr, set the political stage for the judicial failure of the Mueller investigation.  He doctored the outcome, leaving his \u201cfriend\u201d Mueller high and dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, it shouldn\u2019t be a surprise that Rosenstein\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Robert Hur, found a way to ambush President Biden without bringing charges<\/em>. <\/em>He learned from a master (see an essay earlier this week,\u00a0Comey Revisited<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perfect Calls<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And Trump\u2019s phone call to Raffensperger in Atlanta now falls into the same category as Trump\u2019s call to Zelenskyy in Kyiv; a \u201cperfect call\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The Senate failed in their duty to protect the Nation. They let Trump \u201coff\u201d for the Zelenskyy call, extorting a foreign President to find \u201cdirt\u201d on his political opponent, Joe Biden, in exchange for US military aid. This week, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee threw the Raffensperger call out of the Fani Willis trial. (Though it might be refiled).\u00a0\u00a0The Judge is telling us all, our \u201clying ears\u201d didn\u2019t hear the most powerful man in the world try to intimidate a state official into \u201cgiving\u201d him votes \u2013 even though we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shooting Straighter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hard to imagine, but I do need to give the Trump legal team credit.\u00a0\u00a0For years, the \u201cTrump lawyers\u201d have been a laughing-stock of the legal community. They’re briefs and pleadings looked worse than high school performances, much less law school graduates.\u00a0\u00a0But the \u201cgang that couldn\u2019t shoot straight\u201d are batting nearly a-thousand right now. The Trump strategy of delay-delay-delay worked at every level.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court did their \u201cduty\u201d. They decided to hear the specious \u201cI\u2019m immune from any prosecution\u201d case and delayed the January 6th<\/sup>\u00a0trial until after the election. And the Department of Justice, (the President Biden appointed Garland Department of Justice), managed to stall the New York-Stormy Daniels case. SDNY held thirty-one thousand pages of evidence until the last minute, then dumped them on both the prosecution and the defense.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That fits with the entire Garland Department handling of the Trump cases.\u00a0\u00a0While it\u2019s easier to blame judges, in the end, it was main-Justice that held the cases away from Trump. It took almost two years before a Special Prosecutor was even appointed to investigate the twice-impeached former President.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course, the Trump sycophant Federal Judge in Florida is running the classified documents\u00a0\u00a0case with \u201call deliberate speed\u201d. The emphasis is on deliberate.\u00a0\u00a0It still bears examination:\u00a0\u00a0how did \u201crandom chance\u201d get that case in front of Judge Cannon,\u00a0\u00a0the one judge in the district, bound and determined to protect the former President above all else.\u00a0\u00a0Don\u2019t believe me:\u00a0\u00a0ask the 11th<\/sup>\u00a0Appeals Court, who overruled her twice in the beginnings of this legal debacle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Last Defense<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For those few who had hope that our legal system would stand when the House, the Senate, and the Executive branch did not, if have bad news.  It didn\u2019t happen.  If Donald Trump by hook or by crook, wins the Presidency again, the Federal cases will \u201cgo away\u201d, and the state cases will be delayed until, if or when, he leaves the Presidency.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s left is us, both in the you and me meaning, and the United States meaning.  We are the last bulwark of justice and democracy.  We have the \u201cfinal answer\u201d to this long running show, the ultimate authority in what will sadly be called by future history teachers as the \u201cTrump Era\u201d.  America gets to vote in November, and decide the most important issue:  is our future with Trump, or with democracy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can\u2019t depend on anything else.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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