It’s all over. The election interference lawfare cases against President Donald J. Trump came sputtering to a halt on Friday. All the efforts of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the Department of Justice, and the Democrat Party have utterly failed.
Trump was supposed to be sentenced in Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom on September 18. That was their last chance to throw him in prison before the election. Judge Merchan just announced that he is delaying the sentencing until November 26th, well after the election.
Trump had been charged with dozens of accounting errors and was found guilty by a jury of rabid leftwing Democrats in the kangaroo courtroom. Trump was originally going to be sentenced back on July 11th. That was delayed because they had decided they’d try to shoot him instead.
Now that the sentencing has been delayed yet again, it feels like this is the final surrender to the inevitable. They’ve either resigned themselves to the fact that Donald Trump is going to be overwhelmingly reelected, or they’ve got something else planned to try to stop him between now and the election.
It’s important to note that a new ethics complaint was just filed against Judge Merchan before he made the announcement. We’ve previously reported on how the judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, and her business partner have made millions of dollars off of fundraising while her father oversaw the trial.
Kamala Harris’s latest FEC filing shows that she hired and paid Loren Merchan’s firm while the trial was going on. Oops!
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) filed the ethics case against Judge Merchan. She notes that under New York law, judges are supposed to recuse themselves from cases where any family member up to the sixth degree has a financial interest in the outcome of the case.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) also subpoenaed Loren Merchan last week. The committee has repeatedly asked politely for Loren Merchan and her business partner, Michael Nellis, to come in and testify as to whether they were fundraising for Kamala Harris while the trial was going on. The pair ignored all those requests from Congress.
In a letter that Jordan sent to Nellis, he wrote, “The Committee is left with no choice but to resort to compulsory process. Popularly elected prosecutors, such as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, have engaged in an unprecedented abuse of authority by prosecuting a former President of the United States and current nominee for that office.”
“Of relevance to the Committee’s oversight is the impartiality of Judge Juan Merchan, the presiding trial judge, due to his refusal to recuse himself from the case in light of his apparent conflicts of interest and biases.”
It’s unclear whether all this pressure on Merchan and his daughter led him to postpone the sentencing until it will no longer matter. For all intents and purposes, this case is over.
Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Trump was thrown out last month. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon threw the case out after finally ruling that Smith’s appointment by Merrick Garland had been illegal. That case never should have been brought since Smith was never approved as a special prosecutor by Congress.
The same goes for the DC January 6 case against Trump. Smith is still prosecuting that case, despite Cannon’s ruling that he is illegitimate. Judge Tanya Chutkan, who used to work in the same law office as Hunter Biden, is overseeing that case. Judge Chutkan admitted in a hearing this week that she realizes the truth of what she’s doing. She acknowledged that no matter what she does to Donald Trump in his case, the Supreme Court is going to overturn her.
That’s true. Everything about the case falls under the scope of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling earlier this summer. Any additional activity in the January 6 case is delayed until after the election.
The same goes for the case in Georgia, where Fulton County DA Fani Willis made a hash of everything because of her corrupt soap opera actions.
It’s over. They lost. Again.
Now the only thing left for us to do is win the November election. That’s still a tall order, but it feels like we’re one step closer now that all the lawfare BS is effectively at an end.
