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A few weeks after Donald Trump announced he expected to be arrested over flimsy charges filed by Soros-backed New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg, now a grand jury in Manhattan has indicted Trump over laughable accusations, while Joe Biden and even Hunter Biden face no similar indictments:

A Manhattan grand jury voted Thursday to indict Former President Donald Trump.

The indictment comes almost two weeks after Trump announced on Truth Social he expected to be arrested in connection to a years long investigation into whether or not he paid hush money to former porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen allegedly sent $130,000 to Daniels so that she would not disclose an earlier alleged affair with the president. Cohen claims Trump then reimbursed him. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office investigated whether Trump forged business records to hide the alleged payout.

He's now the first former president to face such procedures over what's clearly a politically motivated attack, all in an effort to disqualify him from running again for premiership, and it's drawn plenty of just outrage:

Legal experts reacted Thursday to the news of former President Donald Trump’s indictment, calling it a “legal disaster” and “deeply flawed.”

A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict the former president on Thursday after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into his alleged payment of hush money to former porn star Stormy Daniels. The indictment is “patently political prosecution,” according to Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

“[Bragg] has made history, but it is an inglorious moment where even some on the left have criticized the effort,” Turley wrote on Twitter. “This is a patently political prosecution. Bragg and NY AG James ran on bagging Trump. This has fulfilled that pledge but, if the indictment follows the course described in coverage, it is deeply flawed theory. We will have to wait to see the indictment.”

Clark Neily, senior vice president for Legal Studies at the Cato Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that it is “difficult to imagine a more shocking affront to the Constitution’s plan for limited government and the rule of law” than the indictment, which may “end up being an indictment of America’s criminal justice system as well.”

“The Founders were acutely aware of the many ways in which criminal law can be abused by those in positions of power—from being wielded as tool of political payback and oppression, as many see the various criminal investigations against Trump, to our wildly over criminalized society in which most adults have committed crimes for which they could in theory be prosecuted,” he said. “Unlike Donald Trump, however, most Americans lack the resource to vigorously defend themselves in court and thus end up being induced — and in some cases nakedly coerced — by prosecutors into waving their right to trial and pleading guilt instead, as more than 90 percent of criminal defendants in our system do today.”

Florida's governor has announced they won't assist in any extradition:

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday called the indictment of former President Donald Trump “un-American” and said the state would not assist in any extradition request, The Hill reported.

“The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head. It is un-American,” said DeSantis.

“The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent,” DeSantis continued, adding that Florida would not assist in an extradition request “given the questionable circumstances at issue.”

And he's absolutely correct they shouldn't cooperate with such corrupt officials. There is, however, a certain somebody who, in a manner of speaking, precipitated this sad situation, who's also allegedly panned the persecution as well:

Former US Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday called a Manhattan grand jury’s decision to indict former President Donald Trump an “outrage.”

Speaking on CNN, Pence said, “The unprecedented indictment of a former president of the United States on a campaign finance issue is an outrage. And it appears to millions of Americans to be nothing more than a political prosecution that’s driven by a prosecutor who literally ran for office on a pledge to indict the former president.”

Asked whether Trump should be disqualified from being the 2024 presidential nominee or drop out of the race, Pence said, “It’s a long way to that decision.”

“I promise to answer that question if that approaches,” added Pence, who stated he did not want to talk about “hypotheticals.”

Would he be willing, however, to talk about how he threw his former boss under the bus when election fraud came about, serving to unfairly oust Trump as POTUS after the 2020 election? Because Pence has some responsibility to shoulder for leading to this sad situation, and cowering to the violent mobs that were forming at the time, like Antifa and BLM. So where does Pence get off by speaking out on this subject now? He could've prevented us from getting to the fiasco the USA is now experiencing, yet instead, he chose to be a coward, and now the USA and elsewhere are paying a heavy price. Will Pence ever apologize for that?

Update: here's some history of the witch-hunts against Trump from past years.

Update 2: and here's what Trump himself has to say following the awful news.

Update 3: Rajaan Laad says American democracy is on life support as a result of this travesty.

Labels: anti-americanism, Moonbattery, New York, political corruption, United States, White House