Politics
3-Minute video Trump posted directly after FBI raid goes viral: ‘we are a nation in decline’
“We are a nation in decline. We are a failing nation. We are a nation that has the highest inflation in over 4o years. Where the stock market just finished the worst half of the year in more than five decades. We are a nation that has the highest energy cost in its history and we are no longer energy independent or energy dominant which we wee just two short years ago.”
Those words are among the pointed message in a three minute video former President Donald Trump posted to his Truth Social media app which went viral after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago home. The media speculates the video is a “campaign style” ad, potentially signaling a 2024 presidential run.
National Review reports “the three-minute video went live after federal agents stormed his Palm Beach home, with a search warrant reportedly obtained in the county, to scour for classified documents Trump allegedly took from the White House at the close of his presidency.”
Additionally, “throughout 2021, the National Archives and Records Administration had been in contact with Trump about retrieving such records from the estate, 15 boxes of which it recovered in January including items ‘marked as classified national security information.”
Elections
‘Federal Warfare is Winding Down’ as Judge Grants Request to Cancel Further Proceedings in Jan 6 Case
“Federal lawfare is indeed winding down” now that former President Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election, National Review shrewdly points out. One of the most significant examples is that of Judge Tanya Chutkan, the Obama appointee who is presiding over the 2020 election interference case against President-elect Trump.
On Friday, Chutkan issued a brief order on the docket vacating all proceedings scheduled in the case. That includes any briefing on pending issues; she ordered that on or before December 2, 2024, Biden-Harris DOJ special counsel Jack Smith must file “a status report indicating [the government’s] proposed course for this case going forward.”
The course for the case is to dismiss it. Judge Chutkan’s order was a result of a brief application by Smith’s staff. The Trump camp did not oppose the application which stated:
As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, the defendant is expected to be certified as President-elect on January 6, 2025, and inaugurated on January 20, 2025. The Government respectfully requests that the Court vacate the remaining deadlines in the pretrial schedule to afford the Government time to assess this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy.
National Review states what many in the political sphere have avowed all along: the entire thing was a theatrical and costly attempt to prevent Trump from being elected.
Judge Juan Merchan is due to rule next Tuesday on Trump’s motion to vacate the guilty verdicts. The motion includes the defense claim that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s trial presentation violated the principles set out by the Supreme Court in its immunity ruling (in the January 6 case) a month after Trump’s Manhattan trial ended.
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