Trump fans reacted and not well to DC Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan setting the start date of the fat bastard’s federal trial on his post-2020 election attempt charges for Monday, March 4, 2024, just a day before “Super Tuesday,” which is typically the decisive day of the presidential primaries.
“The Supreme Court of the United States found in Nixon v Fitzgerald (1982) that the president has absolute immunity from civil damages actions regarding conduct within the ‘outer perimeter’ of their duties. The DA doesn’t have a leg to stand on” – The current top comment on the Breitbart article by some genius who literally used the words “absolute immunity from civil damages” in his own assertion that “The DA doesn’t have a leg to stand on” in a criminal prosecution. There’s also no “DA” in this case. The prosecutor will be a federal special counsel, Jack Smith, or a member of his team.
“Maybe one day the Trumpers will realize how badly they are getting played by the Dems and the Deep state. It’s so obvious to anyone with a brain that they desperately want to run against Trump” – Top comment on RedState.com’s article. We would much rather Trump have been convicted and sentenced to prison already than where we are now with the (decreasing) risk of his reelection.
“It couldn’t be any more blatant. The federal judge presiding over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against former President Trump alleging interference in the 2020 presidential election set the trial date for March 4, 2024 – right in the middle of the GOP presidential primary calendar… SO it is now okay for a judge to insert herself and engage in the 2024 election interference” – Top comment on Fox News’s article. Weird how we don’t hear the same thing about Judge Aileen Cannon.
“It’s an insurrection when political opponents are prosecuted. It’s totalitarian. It’s a one-party system in the making……Thus, not the (used to be) American Way” – Top comment on OAN’s article.
“The only way to end the arguments of election interference and constitutional issues is for the Supreme Court to interject itself now and answer the constitutional challenges to all these Trump indictments. The American people’s’ conference in the justice system must be restored. The way to restore that confidence is for the Supreme Court to speak now and settle the constitutional questions now” – Part of the top comment on the New York Post’s article, which was way too goddamned long to copy and paste the whole thing. Says a lot how this asshole doesn’t trust a DC Circuit judge to be apolitical but he demands the MAGA-majority Supreme Court step in immediately.
Judge Chutkan is a political operative in a robe.
We should set her censure for a vote ASAP to expose this sham and restore our republic. https://t.co/mwdUljM8UQ
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) August 28, 2023
“It’s clearly election interference. They could have brought these charges a year ago, why didn’t they?” – Top comment on Daily Wire’s article. Trump repeatedly sued to assert executive privilege to block his minions from testifying to grand juries and to slow down the House January 6th Select Committee’s investigations, going all the way to the Supreme Court in some cases.
“They’re trying to provoke a response so they can justify further illegal action against the Republicans before the election” – Top comment on Twitchy’s article, which is basically the same as saying Trump can’t be trusted by his own fans to not violate his pretrial release conditions.
Most guys would have tapped out years ago
Here’s the thing – Trump is not most guys
With this news, we’re going to have to rename Super Tuesday – MAGA Tuesday – to remind the left of their latest fumble https://t.co/Il66NbeYGF
— Angelo Fazio (@TheLoFaz) August 28, 2023
“It seems odd that whenever you talk about the Delaware prosecutor, we are reminded he was a trump appointee, but only talk about this DC judge no one ever mentions that she was an Obama appointee, even in Obama acolyte” – The top comment on TownHall’s article. There’s probably a pretty good reason “why no one ever mentions that she was an Obama appointee” because it would require 17 prominent conservatives to explain why they voted a certain way back in 2014.
“Today a biased, Trump Hating Judge gave me only a two month extension, just what our corrupt government wanted, SUPER TUESDAY. I will APPEAL!” – Trump’s biggest fan, Donald J Trump on Truth Social. Scheduling orders are the sole discretion of presiding judges and not subject to appeal.
“No such thing as a coincidence. RINOCRAT Ron DeSoros is paying this so called ‘judge’ to undermine our greatest president Donald J Trump. It Liddle Meatball Ron somehow rigs this primary, I’ll be writing in Trump” – Top comment on WLT Report’s article. The commenter’s avatar and name might look familiar to National Zero readers. The second-most upvoted comment, said almost exactly the same thing and was timestamped just a minute prior, too tight to have been cribbed.
Like we wrote, this scheduling is bad for Trump, very bad. A better outcome would’ve been if Chutkan had stuck to Smith’s proposed January start date, but most important was to make sure it came before the Mar-a-Lago docs trial, which will likely be the last before November.