THE TWO FACES OF RUDY GIULIANI

  

       

                                     BY BILL JUNEAU

                        In today's fast-moving world, there are two Rudy Giulianis:  the crime busting hero and ex-mayor of New York city; and the despised and disparaged defender of former President Donald Trump.

                        In the 1980s, 90s and into the 21st century, Giuliani was nationally and internationally celebrated as the "Toast of New York."   His name was magic and huge crowds gathered wherever and whenever he spoke, and citizens reacted with emotion at the man who had made New York into the safest big city in the country; and whose presence promised that New York would emerge from the  Muslim attack on the twin towers with greater strength than ever; and that the ugly terrorists who caused the deaths of 2,500 Americans would be brought to justice and pay the price.  

                        In 2001, the liberal "Time" Magazine named Giuliani as its "Person of the Year," saluting him as the 107th mayor of New York and the "greatest mayor" to have ever held that office. Magazine editors lauded Republican Giuliani as "America's mayor," and even referenced him as the "Mayor to the World."

                          He was made an honorary Knight of England by Queen Elizabeth II, and the Italian government presented him with an award for his fight against the mafia, which was being dominated by Italians. He was nominated for receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize, and millions clamored for him to run for U.S President in 2000 and again in 2008, but he declined to do so, and provided his support to George W. Bush in 2000 and Sen. John McCain in 2008. 

                           Awards and commendations were frequent as he was congratulated with a special medal from the American Bar Association and with a commendation from the Ronald Reagan Freedom association. The Gov. Thomas E. Dewey association was always pleased when he would speak at its luncheons. The George C. Marshall Foundation singled out Giuliani for an award, as did the Christopher Leadership organization.  Films, books and articles were written with stories of his courage and resolve and how he put crooks, thieves and con artists behind bars. 

                           Some even compared Rudy Giuliani to brave Horatius of the poem "Horatius at the Bridge."  In that classic  poetic ballad, the story was told of how Horatius stood at the mouth of the bridge over the Tiber river and slew the criminal Etruscans who sought to invade the Roman empire. 

                                    In and  around 2015, the admired and respected Giuliani became an adviser to candidate for President, Donald Trump, and in 2018, he signed on as the president's "personal lawyer."  That was around the time that the lies and fabricated reports began appearing, all designed with the assistance of the Democrat controlled media,  to torpedo the nation's 45th President and to take down with him his fighting personal lawyer. 

                                   It was Giuliani, now 79,  who spearheaded the defense of President Trump who was being accused of "colluding" with Russian President Putin.  After a long investigation ordered by Congress,  at a cost of some $33 million, Trump was cleared of all seditious charges, and FBI leaders who commissioned the probe subsequently acknowledged publicly that the investigation was a "hoax" designed to bring Trump down--and his attorney with him. 

                                   Trump, with Giuliani at his side, came upon evidence that Vice President Joe Biden had taken bribes from Ukraine bosses, and also had provided a job as a board member of a gas company for his son, Hunter, a cocaine addict who had been kicked out of the navy because of his uncontrolled drug use.

                                   For sitting as a member of the board of Burisma Holdings, Inc., Hunter was paid $83,000 per month, and there was evidence that he was periodically kicking back thousands of dollars to his dad, the Vice President under President Obama.   The story of Biden family corruption was outlined by Hunter in  emails found on his lost lap top computer. Hunter spoke of money for the "Big Guy" or "Pop," affectionate names which Hunter  had for his dad who was arranging for him contracts with China, Russia and the Ukraine and for all of his financial needs. 

                                   In a telephone conversation, Trump asked  the new Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate the corrupt practices of Joe and Hunter Biden in Ukraine.  To punish Trump for calling for an investigation into Biden family corruption, a partisan Congress impeached President Trump and castigated Giuliani as a collaborator. Subsequently, the Senate heard evidence and declared President Trump "not guilty" of all charges. The impeachment was another hoax created and designed to bring down the nation's 45th President. 

                                     Following the election in 2020 in which Joe Biden won and narrowly captured electoral college votes from six battleground states,  Giuliani saw evidence and asserted his belief as an attorney that the election had been "stolen" from the incumbent President seeking reelection to a second term.                       

                                     Voting laws were ignored; and non citizens were alleged to have cast votes which were counted in Biden's favor, said Giuliani. It is believed that hundreds of thousands of votes were counted  for Biden even though the ballots contained only a single mark, and that was for Biden. 

                                    Recounts never included an actual examination of ballots which would have revealed more basis for the allegation that the election was "stolen.".  Democrats  accused Trump and his lawyer, Giuliani, of pushing a "big lie," and the tethered media became the mouth piece  of lying democrats.   

                                  President Trump has been indicted in four different jurisdictions on some 91 counts for alleged misdeeds. The ex-President is said to have retained in his home confidential documents, even though as President he had declassified them. Also, Trump has been accused of giving hush money to a woman some 20 years ago, and of taking steps to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state  of Georgia.  In each case, Atty. Giuliani has been accused of misstating facts in his defense of  the President and of misconstruing evidence concerning the rigging of the election in that state.  

                                   In April of 2021, federal lawyers and FBI agents raided the Manhattan home of Attorney Giuliani and seized computers, telephones and records, all of which were considered to be a violation of the Attorney-Client privilege. 

                                 Most Giuliani supporters recognize that  the midnight raid was intended to humiliate the former mayor rather then to serve any legal purpose.  Subsequently, Giuliani was suspended from the practice of law in New York, on grounds that he made false statements while attempting to persuade courts to overturn the 2020  election which put the dim and corrupt Biden in the White House.     

                                Referencing Joe Biden, Trump has described him in interviews as "stone corrupt" and a compulsive "liar" for all of his many years in government.  Said Giuliani: "I know it; I have seen his corruption; I have papers demonstrating his corrupt practices,  and I can prove it and will prove it when the opportunity presents itself."  

                                 Trump and Giuliani have predicted that right will win over wrong, and that the corruption of President Biden will become apparent to honest and patriotic Americans. Currently, the House of Representatives is considering the impeachment of President Biden for accepting bribes, and millions of Americans are eager for that to happen.   

                                 Giuliani has said the indictments against him and President Trump are “an affront to American Democracy” and have caused permanent, and irrevocable harm to our justice system."  It is “just the next chapter in a book of lies with the purpose of framing President Donald Trump and preventing him from being a candidate for the office of President in the 2024 election. 

                               Said Giuliani: "This is a completely unjustified and disgusting act of retribution, because I had the temerity to unveil the biggest scandal in American history."

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THE WALL THAT HAD TO BE

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                                      BY BILL JUNEAU

                         Back in 2016 when there were 18 GOP candidates  vying to become  America's next President to succeed Barack Obama, one of them was the billionaire, mouthy, real estate mogul from New York, Donald J. Trump. His presence as a contender drew criticism and fire and the media wanted to know, "who did he think he was--- running for President.....he never held an office and he lacked the political skills which the high office demanded." 

                         Outlining his credentials for the Presidency, Trump said:  I will build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border --and immigrants and visitors will be welcome---but they "must come in legally." 

                       The wall, he said, while responding to jeers from other Republican candidates during debates and from a host of Trump haters, would be tall and steel-strong and would keep out dangerous thugs and  assorted miscreants coming to America by way of the border with Mexico with pockets filled with fentanyl and other illegal drugs. No one is vetted and as a result, young and old Americans are dying from overdoses. 

                       And, he added, that he would see to it that Mexico paid for the structure, since it was Mexico with its coyotes and cartels which were promoting the problem and the discord which has made the barrier essential and which has been causing chaos in the USA. 

                       The wall became an all around controversial issue with millions applauding Trump for a good thing, and others claiming it was raw racism because of hate for Muslims and African Americans. 

                         Pope Francis injected  himself into the fray and said that Trump  "is not Christian" if he pledges to build a border wall between the USA and Mexico. A Trump spokesman reminded the pontiff that the Vatican is surrounded by massive walls, and America  and its citizens are, like his eminence, entitled to be safe in their home from criminals. Nancy Pelosi said that the wall was "immoral," but conservative Christians and Catholics called her a hypocrite, noting her strong support for  abortions at "any time" and for "any reason."                  

                         It was a surprise to the nation--and perhaps to the world---when Trump was elected the nation's 45th President in 2016, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton who was to be the nation's first woman President. Trump called her "Crooked Hillary" and said her election would be a big mistake given her corrupt ways. He took office in January, 2017 and thereon put forth an "America First" agenda, and a Trump way of governing. And he never forgot his promise to build a "great and beautiful wall," and his search for the funds began  immediately. 

                          President Trump was beset from many areas with allegations that he was in the pocket of Russian President Putin, but subsequently he was cleared and the charges were found to be untrue and based upon political lies fostered by Democratic opposition. 

                         But through it all he fought for construction of the wall and for the necessary funds to get the job done, and  prior to his leaving office in January, 2021, some 458 miles of the needed structure were completed. Some of the wall was brand new and in other places the wall represented a redo and upgrade of ineffective border fences and barriers which had been constructed and installed in past years. 

                           Did Mexico pay for the wall?  Under Trump orders,  new and heavy tariffs were paid to the USA by Mexico, and Trump has said that the additional revenues were deposited in the treasury; and the additional money found its way to the wall through appropriations.  Also, said Trump, through his insistence, Mexico assigned and paid a battery of national officers along the border to discourage illegal entries into the United States.

                          At the end of his four year term as President, the  "Trump" wall  with its 18 to 30-foot steel bollards anchored in concrete in many sections, was completed save a far south 20-mile section of border in the Rio Grande valley of Texas.                      

                          On January 20, of 2021 Trump turned the Presidency over to Joe Biden, and he presented him a country with a nearly finished wall and with immigration under control and with policies which encouraged immigrants to come to America in accord with existing law.  Immigration was still a problem, but was controlled and it was anticipated that Congress would consider new immigration reform. 

                         On his first day in office as the nation's 46th President, Joe Biden declared that wall building was over and that "not one more foot of a wall" would be built under his administration. "Is a wall helpful in controlling lawless border crossings," he was asked.  "No," said the slow moving American president whose mental acuity has been challenged with demands from many members of Congress that he take a cognitive exam to determine if he has the wits to serve as President.  Biden has ignored the requests. 

                    Biden announced that America was the land of the free and he messaged to the world that immigrants were welcome, because "that is who we are."  "Com'on in" he shouted and the world heard him and they poured on in----by the millions.  They waded across the Rio Grande and slipped in from behind bushes.  They were ushered to the borders by Mexican cartels and coyotes charging money. Besides Mexico, they came from scores of different countries including Iran and other parts of the Middle East; Europe and Taliban-run Afghanistan; and from various other areas in Asia and Africa. 

                      No one knows for sure just how many illegal aliens have poured into the United States over the past 34 months under the feckless leadership of Joe Biden. The number, depending upon who you listen to, seems to be somewhere between 2,000,000 and 6,000,000 illegal entries. The numbers are staggering, greater than at any time in U.S. history. 

                     Some have commented, that the new residents could fill up a bunch of new states. They noted that in Delaware, President Biden's home state, there are about 1,000,000 residents.  Wyoming has a population of 579,000 and Vermont has 645,000 residents.  North and South Dakota, together, are home to about 1.6 million persons. Alaska has 732,673 residents. 

                       In the past six months, it has been reported, hundreds of thousands have used the unfinished 20 miles of border in the Texas Rio Grande valley to come into the United States. Virtually none have been interviewed or vetted, and apparently they have gone to destinations in large urban cities like New York and Chicago.  

                     One analyst has speculated that if the trend continues unchanged through 2024, a total of 12 million immigrants will have entered America illegally and the cost of their care and sheltering will approach $12 trillion dollars. 

                        In early October of 2023, President Biden finally reacted to the humanitarian crisis at the southern border and declared that he would direct that the final 20-mile segment of the Trump wall be finished in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. It was a full U-turn on his declaration that "not another foot of Trump wall" would be built under his administration. 

                       His explanation was that he had no other choice since  millions of dollars had been appropriated in 2019 for the wall and that his hands are tied.  ""I tried to get them to re-appropriate it and to redirect that money. They didn't. They wouldn't. And in the meantime, there's nothing under the law, that allows for use of the money for something other than that for which it was appropriated, and that was the wall."  So, says the whispering and embarrassed  Biden----the "Trump wall" will be completed after all."

                        Then in his announcement a few days ago, according  to news reports, Biden said that he  has sent an urgent funding request to Congress for some $14 billions for use managing the US-Mexico border and for coping with the millions of illegal migrants. The border money would be a part of a new $106 billion dollar budget request for funds for Ukraine and Israel, and to Gaza for humanitarian aid. 

                        So perhaps Biden is learning that open borders and telling the world to  "com'on in" was not such a a good political move --and that he is going to have to do something to hold back the surge of migrants into New York, Chicago and other major urban cities; or he can wave good by to blue state supporters. 

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"FETTERMAN RULES" ARE NOT TO BE

 

                                                      BY BILL JUNEAU                            

                               The towering senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, is going to have to abandon his hooded sweatshirt, golf shorties and sneakers if he intends to participate in legislative rhetoric on the senate floor in the capitol building in Washington, D.C.   But he says he will do it to "save democracy." 

                               The order for a formal dress code for the 100 members of the U.S. Senate,  the upper house of Congress, was put into place a few days ago by Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat.  It wiped out Schumer's "Fetterman Dress Code" of  10 days earlier in which he okayed a "come as you are" code of attire, which was grounded on the desire to accommodate the troubled Fetterman and allow him to wear his hoodies and short pants to sessions on the floor and at committee hearings. 

                              The Fetterman-sweet dress code was done to  assist the recovering big guy, who at six-feet, eight inches tall is the giant of the Senate.  He has been troubled with cognitive issues and speaking problems due to a stroke last year followed in 2023 with severe depression.  

                              Schumer's rewriting of a dress code so as to allow Fetterman, who some say is a ringer for "Lurch" who became famous in TV's The Addams Family, to wear his hoodies and lounging clothes, and flip-flops if preferred,  triggered complaints from other senators. To demonstrate his annoyance with the new "Fetterman Rules," Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky showed up  barefoot and wearing a red bathrobe for a session on the floor of the senate. 

                               Sen. Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia who often challenges the laws set down by Majority leader Schumer and the Party of the Jackass, let it be known that he planned to introduce a resolution calling for a dress code of suit and tie for men and appropriate attire for the woman members of the senate which is regarded by many as the most elite and exclusive club in the USA. 

                                Faced with the dissent, Schumer rolled back his redo order and put forth a formal dress code in writing which will mandate suit and ties, sports coats and slacks for men, and appropriate business-like attire for the distaff members.   

                               Caught in the halls of the capitol still wearing a dark-hooded sweatshirt, Fetterman told a reporter, "don't you think that we have many more important issues to deal with than a dress code"?  What is important is what is going on inside a person, not what he is wearing,  the somewhat peeved Fetterman told a  newsman.  But yes, he said he would wear a suit so as "to save democracy--but there are conditions." 

                                Another newsman reported that Fetterman said that  Republicans must pass a government funding bill and support Ukraine in order for him to suit up. 

                               "If those jagoffs in the House (meaning Republicans) stop trying to shut our government down," he asserted,  "and fully support Ukraine, then I will save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor...."

                                 A  mayor for 16 years at Braddock, Pennsylvania, a community with 1,721 residents; and Lt. Governor of the state for three years, Fetterman was elected in 2022 as a Democratic senator and was sworn into office on Jan. 3, 2023.  The election was close and controversial with arguments and comments concerning  Fetterman's acuity, and his ability to speak sensibly or respond to questions asked him. Fetterman's style is similar in many respects to the stammering, gaffe-filled rhetoric of President Biden who campaigned hard for Fetterman's election.   

                     Fetterman was elected last November with 51 per cent of the votes cast, defeating TV's medical doctor, Mehmet Oz, a Republican, who had gained popularity as a frequent guest and weight adviser to pudgy Oprah Winfrey on her TV show. 

                     Shortly after Fetterman won the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania senator in May of 2022, he suffered a debilitating stroke, but opted to remain as a candidate.  His supporters and Democratic leaders downplayed the seriousness of the malady, and kept him out of the spotlight as much as possible.  Fetterman's  wife, Gisele, described the stroke as just a "a little hiccup," and predicted that he would regain his strength; and in November he won the general election.  

                      So, as of now, Fetterman promises to be neat and suited and that he will vote the Democratic menu; and his rhetoric and legislative activity is said to be improving.  The chamber’s Sergeant at Arms office has installed a permanent live-captioning display at Fetterman’s desk that can be raised or lowered, depending on whether the towering pol is standing or sitting.      

                      The senator has said that he endorses abortion as a woman's right to choose right up to those seconds before the baby draws its first breath.  Also, he supports a $15 per hour minimum wage.  He advocates legalizing cannabis, abolishing capital punishment and making health care a right for all Americans. 

                      As a U.S. Senator, Fetterman is paid $174,000 annually, with perks.  According to reports he has a net worth of $2 million. He and his wife Gisele have three children and they have two dogs, Levi and Artie, and both have twitter (X) accounts with 25,000 followers. The Fettermans have lived in Braddock since 2006 in a remodeled Chevrolet dealership building. 

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THE GEORGIA DEBACLE AND FANI WILLIS

 

                                           BY BILL JUNEAU 

                         Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani Taifa Willis is doing her part as a loyal Democrat to destroy former President Trump, and prevent him from running for President in 2024.  But her political torpedo has gotten repositioned, and the 54-year-old Willis has herself become the target of an investigation for misconduct by the powerful Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives. 

                       

                         On August 15, in an indictment of about 100 pages, the former President and 18 allies were accused of endeavoring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, a state in which incumbent Trump lost to Joe Biden by 11,779 votes.  At Willis' direction, Trump's team efforts challenging the honesty of the balloting, were alleged to constitute a "criminal enterprise" punishable under the state's RICO statutes which were enacted to  bring down racketeering and corrupt organizations.  

                                       Subsequently, the ex-President, and his co-defendants were arrested and processed as criminals and their mug shots were distributed to the media and elsewhere as Willis demonstrated her strength and her value to Washington Democrats on the top political rung.                                 

                        Willis has made it her mission to bring down the popular Republican ex-President, and to make him squirm and scream "Uncle" under her growling attack. But it appears that Willis may be squirming too as she copes with congressional discovery demands for documents linked to her alleged misuse of federal funds given to the state and county.                          

                         The ill-tempered Willis, who appears to want the approbation of the Department of Justice and the owly and disingenuous Attorney General, Merrick Garland, through whom all  intended poison for Donald Trump flows, may have crossed lines and improperly made use of federal dollars in her take-down political scheme. The misuse of federal funds by Willis allows the United States House of Representatives to exercise oversight and to force Willis to reveal all details of  her  "investigation" and political collaborations. 

                         Following her unconscionable actions against Trump and other defendants, Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the People's House, sent Willis a letter calling into question her political mission which allegedly made use of federal funds in an unauthorized manner. 

                  The irony of her conduct is rich, observed one attorney.  Is State's Attorney Willis  herself engaged in a conspiracy with Attorney General Garland and Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, who President Trump describes as "deranged"; and New York's unethical  District Attorney Alvin Bragg to take down Donald Trump by accusing him of crimes which he did not commit and to block him from  seeking reelection to that office in 2024?  

                  Currently, Trump is leading in all polls as the GOP preferred standard bearer in next year's presidential election. Is Willis responding to directions from the "Party of the Jackass," as the Democratic Party is known historically, said Congressman  Jordan. .   

                           It may not be a RICO conspiracy into which Willis has waded, but it is, no less, a conspiracy.  It makes use of political needs, and a common mandate to accuse Donald Trump of fabricated misdeeds, and to force him to stand trial in four different venues to answer assorted state and federal charges and effectively disable him from campaigning and running for the office of President in 2024. 

                            It is the Democratic mission, Jordan has said, to keep their party in power, and to reinstall the corrupt, manipulable and senile octogenarian, Joe Biden, again in the oval office where he will read scripts written for him and do and say as he is told.            . 

                    The Georgia case has landed on the docket of 34-year-old Judge Scott McAfee who was appointed as a Fulton county Superior court judge last February.  According to his biography, he has a degree in music and earned a law degree in 2013 from the University of Georgia; and has served as Georgia State Inspector General and as a federal and state prosecutor.  

                        In his letter to District Attorney Willis, Rep. Jordan listed demands for documents in the hands of the Georgia prosecutor which must be turned over to the Congressional  committee.                                      The demands were:

                        1. All documents and communications referring or relating to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office’s receipt and use of federal funds;            

                        2. All documents and communications between or among the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and DOJ and its components, including but not limited to the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith, referring or relating to your office’s investigation of President Donald Trump or any of the other eighteen individuals against whom charges were brought in the indictment; and; 

                       3. All documents and communications between the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and any federal Executive Branch officials regarding your office’s investigation of President Donald Trump or any of the other eighteen individuals against whom charges were brought in the indictment discussed above. 

                        No trial date has been set by Judge McAfee, but he has said that he is "very sceptical" of Willis' plan to try all 19 defendants together.  To many legal observers, the idea of trying 19  defendants at one time, including a former President of the United States, may not be possible.          

                        Trump also is facing criminal charges in D.C court on grounds that he promoted mob action in the capitol on January 6, 2021.  Also, in a Manhattan state court, he is accused of paying hush money to an adult film star; and in a Florida District court, Trump is accused criminally of retaining classified documents in his home, even though he had declassified them. 

                          The deck has been stacked against Former President Trump, but he asserts that the charges against him are fabricated and that they are a continuance of the democratic attack upon him which began as he campaigned for the Presidency in 2015.  He predicted that the charges against him will be dismissed and that he will 

be the GOP candidate in 2024, and will be re-elected as the nation's 47th President. 

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KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, THE BIDEN PRESS OFFICER

 

       

                                     BY BILL JUNEAU                                           

                                          She was the daughter of Haitian parents from Martinique.  Her dad drove a taxi and her mother styled hair in a New York beauty salon. They wanted their daughter, Karine Jean- Pierre to be a doctor, but Jean-Pierre lacked the brain power to be a physician and correspondingly failed the medical entrance exam.  So Jean-Pierre opted for journalism and public service.

                             At college, she earned a bachelor's degree from New York Institute of Technology, and in 2003, a master's degree in public affairs from Columbia University. 

                             "KJ,"  as she is frequently called by newspersons, is diminutive in height, and her hair is whirly, curly and moppy and of various colors including red, yellow and black.  Always well coiffed, her sparkly, metallic eyelids shine in the overhead lights of the Brady Press office in the White House.  At 49, she is the first African -American woman  to serve as Press Secretary to a President.  Also, she is a proud lesbian, and for 11 years and until very recently, had been in a relationship with former CNN reporter, Suzanne Malveaux, 56.

                              As partners, "KJ" and Sue had adopted a daughter, Soleil.  The story of their split was revealed in a recent article in Vogue magazine. 

                             Jean-Pierre has embraced all tenets and pronouns set forth by the LGBTQ-plus community, and her beliefs are consistent with those of her boss, Joe Biden, the nation's 46th President. Biden has said that he regards the Woke and Pride-Lifestyle and the men and women involved as the "most courageous and brave persons" that he, at 80 years old, has ever met.

                             First lady Dr. Jill has praised Jean-Pierre for her "grace, integrity and insight" as the "pioneering " first gay and non-white press secretary.

                            Biden told of his high regard for the pride lifestyle following a recent LGBTQ picnic-like party  on the lush Green White House lawn. Bare chested trans-men and trans-women danced to music and the President and First Lady Jill watched and applauded the "courageous" participants.   

                             About 15 months ago, KJ was appointed Biden's press secretary, and she replaced Jen Psaki who had served in the position for some 16 months of the President's scheduled four year term in office. KJ had been a deputy to Psaki in the  communications department, and prior to that, was an adviser to Vice Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris.  Before  the Biden-Harris days, Jean-Pierre was the senior advisor and national spokeswoman for the progressive advocacy group, Move On.org. 

                               There is a significant difference in her style alongside Psaki's.  Psaki was considered brighter, quicker on her feet,  and more able to handle tough inquiries while defending and speaking with a positive spin about the clumsy and slow thinking 46th President of the United States.

                              Jean-Pierre comes off to viewers of her press briefings as intellectually slow, much like her boss.  Some reporters and other observers consider her to be obtuse.  With the President as her role model, she distorts the truth whenever she feels the need.  But like her predecessor in the $180,000 a year position, she is determined to protect the stumbling and gaffe-ridden President against any and all criticism.

                              In response to some queries, Jean-Pierre seems to be reading  prepared answers from her three-holed binder in much the same way as President Biden  reaches for his crib notes to deliver appropriate answers. At press briefings, she has been accused of calling, all too often, on reporters known to praise Biden and to exclude aggressive newspersons who see the President as  inept and corrupt. One newsman, Simon Ateba of Today News Africa,  has formally accused the Press Secretary of  discrimination and of trying to silence him. 

                             After it became known that Biden had confidential documents lying about his oily garage, on the floor and alongside  his cherished 1967 convertible, Jeanne Pierre declined comments on reporters' questions about the how and why of the red-stamped, protected  documents for more than 20 times, advising the press to take their questions to another source for the answers. 

                            When a cellophane packet of cocaine was found in the west wing of the White House, in a spot under the eyes of "everywhere" cameras, Jean-Pierre snapped at reporters who wanted to know if a Biden was responsible. The President's chief spokesperson said that the Bidens were gone from the White House on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday of the period when the "white gravel" was discovered....period. The secret service is conducting an investigation, she said, adding that she had nothing "else to share" on the matter....and the questions from reporters were "incredibly irresponsible.". 

                             Questions of Biden familiarity with Cocaine are reasonable. Son Hunter is a confirmed cocaine addict who was thrown out the navy for his addiction, and daughter, Ashley Blazer Biden has spent time in a drug rehab facility trying to dump the habit.  Even  daughter-in-law, Hallie Biden, widow of Biden's son Beau, has been wrestling with the habit and has been to rehab quarters several times. Hallie's visits to rehab facilities have, according to emails written by her brother-in-law, Hunter, cost around $100,000 and were paid for all or in part by her father-in-law, President Biden.  

                             Jean Pierre has drawn criticism with her comments on the transporting of migrants from the open southern border alongside Texas to New York, Chicago and the bay area of Massachusetts and other urban centers. 

                             Bussing and flying migrants around the country without coordination by the federal government, is "dangerous and unacceptable," said the press secretary.   "We will continue to be very clear about that. It is dangerous and unacceptable because it is putting people's lives at risk.  Also, you are putting a lot of pressure on these states and local areas."

                              What Americans should know, she added, is that the president has done the work to deal with what we're seeing at the border "since day one," she said.  Their criticism amounts to "political stunts." 

                             A Republican researcher who heard Jean-Pierre on television, quipped that "her irony is rich."  It takes a "special kind of stupid to say something that absurd.  Doesn't she know that 6 million illegal migrants jammed into a few states along the border puts pressure and stress on these states and communities?  

                      News analyst Tucker Carlson who is never reluctant to provide his assessment of political figures, summed up his opinion of Karine Jean-Pierre prior to leaving his prime time anchor position at Fox News.  She is "the dumbest, nastiest, most dishonest, and most ridiculous person Biden could possibly find for the very public position of White House press secretary." 

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SUPREME COURT ASKED TO CONSIDER THE GEORGE FLOYD CASE.

                  

                                       BY BILL JUNEAU

                              I am just one retired lawyer, and I get my information from home research and the reading of newspapers and magazines, and by listening to TV talking analysts. Others may not agree with me. But one thing that I am sure of is that Policeman Derek Chauvin, 47, did not receive a fair trial on the charges of murder and manslaughter of George Floyd, a hardened criminal, high on heroin and fentanyl. 

                               Floyd succumbed  on May 25, 2020 while being detained as a suspect by police on a Minneapolis street.  Officer Chauvin was convicted by a twin-city jury in April, 2021 of unintentional murder and manslaughter and sentenced by Judge Peter Cahill to 22.5 years in prison.  The recommended prison time in Minnesota for the specific offenses is 12.5 years.  However, Judge Cahill added 10 years onto the  sentence  because of the officer's alleged unnecessary "cruelty" in making the arrest.

                               Chauvin used his knee on the suspect's throat to detain him and settle him down.  It is a technique taught policemen in Minnesota and in police departments across the country, and Chauvin made use of it. The fact that Floyd was an African American had nothing to do with his method of detainment, nor was it an exercise in "cruelty." 

                       Floyd's death created a firestorm of rage in  black communities across America. That rage was exacerbated and transmitted by a media which thundered the calls for punishment for the white, racist cop and three rookies who assisted him in subduing  Floyd and in exercising crowd control.    

                             The unintended death of George Floyd, whose lengthy police record was known to Minneapolis officers, and whose precise cause of death was never scientifically determined, triggered riots, arsons, deaths and billions of dollars in destruction of property in major  cities across America.  Demands for the punishing of the Minneapolis policemen were overwhelming. It was all about race and police denigration of blacks.   Conviction for murder by the policeman was an absolute given and a foregone conclusion. 

                            Alan M. Dershowitz, retired Harvard university professor of criminal law, and a nationally recognized legal scholar, stated prior to commencement of the trial, that there is "no way" that Derek Chauvin could ever receive a fair trial in Minneapolis. 

                             

                                         George Floyd 

                             The Chauvin conviction and the enhanced sentencing for an unintentional and accidental crime was appealed, and in April of this year, was affirmed by the Minnesota Appellate court.  In July, just last month, the Minnesota Supreme Court denied the appeal  in a one-page order without comment, effectively exhausting the defendant's state remedies. 

                            Attorneys for the 19-year-veteran police officer, who is serving his enhanced prison sentence designed by the trial judge to assuage the BLW organization lest it continue its  warlike activities,  said that the case will be appealed to the United States Supreme Court and the necessary petition to the court for certiorari is being prepared for filing, according to available information.  

                           There is confidence in some areas that SCOTUS, the nation's highest court, whose courage to follow the law became evident when it overruled Roe v. Wade in June of 2022, will accept the Chauvin appeal and will ultimately make a final determination.  

                           Let the court, headed by Chief Justice John Roberts,  examine the Floyd case with fresh, unstained glasses and it is my opinion that it will see that Chauvin was denied a fair trial and was made to suffer at the hands of a judge who erred in countless rulings and who declined several petitions for a change of venue where a "fair trial" could be provided in accord with the U.S. Constitution. 

                           The high court needs to consider the lawlessness which was  sweeping Minneapolis and other urban centers as the trial went forward.  As a jury was being finalized, the city of Minneapolis announced that it was awarding $27 million to the Floyd family in view of the death of George Floyd. The jury that had not been sequestered, very likely became aware of the award and may have considered the dire consequences if it failed to find Officer Chauvin guilty of murdering the black man.  

                          One juror selected, an African American high school coach, lied during a voir dire examination by asserting that he had no prejudice or opinion favoring Floyd; or negative assessments of policemen. He was promptly approved  as one of the 12 jurors.   Later, it became known that the juror had participated in a rally on behalf of George Floyd and had worn a tee shirt inscribed with the comment, "get your knee off of my neck." The jury was tainted from day one.  

                            The courthouse where the trial took place was converted into a fortress and was rimmed with coiled wire as the unsequestered jurors passed in and out during the six weeks of trial.  Down the street were areas where buildings and shops were torn apart and had suffered damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars.  The nearby intersection where Floyd died, was transformed into "George Floyd Square," and it contained pictures of Floyd and other momentos calling attention to the racial killing by police.  

                             Congresswoman Maxine Waters of Texas, an African American, announced that there would be trouble if the jury failed to deliver a verdict of murder. If the defendant is not found guilty of murder, she said, there will be retaliation, and "we will get confrontational."                        

                              President Biden was always in the corner of the prosecutors and while not singling out defendant Chauvin for misconduct, commented publicly that police departments were  "systemically racist," and that the nation's problem was caused by white supremacists. 

                             Judge Cahill declined to allow as a defense witness at trial the companion of Floyd whose testimony would have contradicted much of the testimony on which the prosecution had built its case for  murder or manslaughter by a police officer prejudiced against blacks.  

                             On several occasions during the trial, defense lawyers petitioned Cahill to grant a change of venue and allow the trial to be held in a less stormy area; and which would help in guaranteeing that the defendant received a fair trial, pursuant to the U.S. Constitution. Cahill denied the petitions commenting that the anti-police sentiment would be the same in every other jurisdiction.  

                             The enhanced penalty of 22.5 years with the last 10 tacked on for "cruelty," was among rulings of Judge Cahill in his biased attempt to please the enraged black community which was tearing up the streets of cities across the country, with calls for the defunding of police departments. 

                             If it grants the Writ of Certiorari as anticipated, the  Supreme Court with its nine justices will examine all aspects of the case and determine if the defendant was treated fairly.  The court can affirm the conviction; or it can reverse findings, or it can order that a new trial be held in a different venue before a sequestered jury.  

                            Was Prof. Dershowitz wrong when he said that there was "no way" that Derek Chauvin could receive a fair trial in Minneapolis?                             

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TRUMP AND THE STACKED DECK

 

       

                                     BY BILL JUNEAU  

                                     Without a doubt, the terrain is rocky and rough for Donald Trump as he pursues the Presidency in 2024.  Democratic  cannons are aimed at him and the deck has been carefully and conspiratorially stacked against him.  But the former President who has been accused of misdeeds in three pending legal cases, does not scare easily.  He is running again for the office which he once held as  President, and says he will win  and will restore common sense, honesty, civility and patriotism to the United States. "Yes, we will Make America Great Again," he asserts. 

                            His latest legal encounter was in Washington, D.C. where a grand jury has returned indictments alleging that he was the catalyst and conspirator who promoted the mob action in the capitol on January 6, 2021. The political charges are rooted in his unsuccessful effort to demonstrate that the election which put dim Joe Biden in the White House was dishonest, and in fact, "stolen." If you are a Democrat and a liar and a progressive loon, D.C. is ground zero, and the place to go to take down Republican Donald Trump. 

                            GOP-hating Democrats dominate the District of Columbia, the nation's capital, like no other spot in the country.  In the 2020 election, Joe Biden received 92.1 per cent of the total votes cast to Trump's 5.4 per cent.  In numbers, it was about 317,000 votes for Biden and 18,000 for the incumbent President. Since D.C. became a special territory in 1961, able to cast three electoral votes, democratic candidates for president have always drawn majorities,  but the Biden victory there in 2020 set records. 

                            So it was not difficult for the Party of the Jackass inside the District of Columbia to assemble a Grand Jury of  23 local residents to return indictments accusing the former President of criminally attempting to turn around the alleged results of the 2020 election. In a grand jury proceeding, the prosecutor presents only evidence of guilt and jurors will, with rare exceptions, acquiesce and return a true bill. 

                            A bitter Trump hater, Jack Smith was tabbed as  special investigative counsel by the owly and disingenuous Attorney General, Merrick Garland. Smith, who Trump has labeled as "deranged," presented flimsy, one-sided and fabricated  evidence that Trump and his attorneys committed criminal offenses when they argued without basis that the election was dishonest. The indictments were returned in shotgun fashion by the cooperating D.C. grand jury. 

                            While the Biden victory was manipulated in a variety of ways, the Trump team demanded to know how the clumsy and befuddled Biden who rarely campaigned for the Presidency, relying on scripts written for him and read by him via television from the basement of his Delaware home, could have earned several million more votes from the African American community than Barack Obama had ever received in his successful races in 2008 and 2012. Trump has contended that the ballots, many blank except for a single mark for Biden, had to have been faked to provide such a count, yet judges declined to recognize the obvious incongruity, and order an investigation. 

                             On August 3, former President Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges against him concerning alleged criminal efforts to change election results.  He appeared before the 35-year-old Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, who nastily referred to the ex President as "Mr. Trump," while warning him that any further criminal activities by him will trigger additional legal actions against him. Upadhyaya was appointed a magistrate judge in September of last year.  

                                      Magistrate Upadhyaya was born in Gujarat, India in 1988 and, according to her biography, which raises many questions, is a prodigy who graduated from law school when she was 15. The law degree followed undergraduate studies at the University of Missouri where she obtained bachelor degrees in journalism and in Latin arts. 

                                    She received her J.D., cum laude, from Washington College of Law at American University in 2003. making her about 10 when she began her studies there.  Correspondingly, it appears that she was 6 or 7,  barely out of kindergarten,  when she began her undergraduate studies at the University of Missouri and subsequently earned two bachelor degrees.   After law school, she was said to have clerked for judges and for a period was a partner at a law firm, doing pro bono work for which she won awards.  

                    After Upadhyaya dealt with the arraignment of the defendant, all subsequent matters and motions, will be given to Jamaican-born District Judge Tanya Chutkan, for pretrial motions and the jury trial. An appointee of President Obama, Chutkan, a former public defender, has been outspoken about the harm caused by the capitol melee, and in other rulings and writings she has not concealed her negative assessment of former President Trump who has described Judge Chutkan as the democrats' "number one draft pick."    

                                    Mark Levin, a respected lawyer who hosts "Life, Liberty & Levin" on Fox News, has described Chutkan as the most "radical, partisan activist judge in the entire federal judiciary.  Gee, I wonder how she got chosen.”    

                                      Trump, President from 2016 to 2020, made his first appearance before Judge Chutkan on August 11, and Chotkan raised her concerns that the ex-president must be limited in what he can say about the pending case and the charges against him even though he is a candidate for President in 2024, and is campaigning for the nomination of his party.  Well, he cannot say what he wants to say in a political speech; "that is just how it’s going to have to be.” said Chutkan. Trump lawyers are arguing that the judge is stepping upon freedom of speech rights provided all Americans, including  those facing federal charges. 

                            Chutkan scheduled another hearing for November 4 at which the court will determine the extent of records which the Trump administration must release to the prosecutors. 

                                         Trump is the defendant in two other lawsuits accusing him of felonious conduct. One deals with his possession of classified documents kept in his Florida home under the protection of secret service agents.  The other, brought by a New York district attorney,  accuses the ex president  of a  hush money scheme involving adult film star Stormy Daniels. Both are deemed political fabrication by Republicans and fair minded Americans who expect that the charges will be dismissed via motions, or after a trial.

                                          So for the ex-President, seeking his second term in the White House, the obstacles thrown into his path are vicious, but Trump says that they are surmountable. His followers will never desert him, and lawsuits aimed at him by an authoritarian group which has abandoned all objectivity, honesty and honor, and  according to polls, seem to be making him stronger.  

                                           Democrats and the top level in the politicized FBI and the Department of Justice should be worried if Donald Trump again becomes president. He does not take kindly to liars and corrupt officials; and he is not projected to be a forgiving person. 

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