Trump Derangement Syndrome

The attempted assassination of former president Trump – which came within centimetres of succeeding – reveals the incompetence of the secret service in preventing even the most amateurish of efforts to kill a presidential candidate.

Despite the heroism of agents near Trump when he was wounded, no armed shooter should have been allowed anywhere near any building with a line of sight to the speaker. Yet this 20 year-old with a large rifle was able to get off multiple shots. Any protective service should know that all buildings in rifle range and line of sight must be cleared before a protectee is allowed on the platform.

“He is dangerous in word, deed and action.”

“He puts self over country.”

“He loathes the laws we live by.”

So begins Thursday’s New York Times editorial, ominously casting the words against a black-and-white image of an American flag fluttering in the background. The Times renders these indictments with the gravitas of an undertaker, like Moses descending the mountain with stone tablets in hand. In reality, the Times has proven it’s entirely unfit to evaluate the fitness of presidential candidates, whether it’s Joe Biden or Donald Trump.

And Donald Trump really is the hero in this hero’s journey election.

Icame in for some guffaws — and, I’m happy to say, more than a few bouquets — a while ago when I wrote here at The American Spectator that the 2024 election is shaping up as a classic hero’s journey story starring Donald Trump as The Hero.

As the cacophony of Democrat supporters, big money donors, and liberal political pundit voices rises to fever pitch over Joe Biden’s disastrous debate, coupled with Mr. Biden’s less than convincing televised ABC network interview with George Stephanopoulos, hysterical predictions of a second Trump presidency are gaining ground.

They are afraid that what they did unto him, he will do unto them. That’s the crux of it all.

Up ahead, should Trump become president again, the Democrats foresee judgment days…karma well deserved. They know that they have, unjustly, tormented him every single day for eight years, and got away with it all that time because the Establishment was in their hands. They could not foresee their cruelties coming back to haunt them, until now.

Now they are afraid that payback is coming, and the reason they are so terrified is that they know that they have wronged him, and the nation. They know that they are guilty.

Judge Aileen Cannon has granted Donald Trump’s motion to pause his classified documents case in Florida after the Supreme Court decision in his immunity case. The case stems from the Department of Justice’s allegation that Trump should not have held onto some classified documents after leaving office. In his defense, Trump has cite the Presidential Records Act.

h/t Mauser

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that presidents had immunity for official acts while in office. In the Trump v. United States case, the former president was granted substantial immunity from prosecution when dealing with official acts. The ruling does not grant Trump, or any other president, immunity for unofficial acts.

Never-Trumpers, like much of Hollywood, were obviously peeved at the news. They hate when anything good, even when completely just, happens to Prez 45. Many of those irritated expressed their worries on X.

Donald J. Trump’s lawyers want to argue that a Supreme Court decision giving presidents immunity for official acts should void his felony conviction for covering up hush money paid to a porn star.

Manhattan prosecutors on Tuesday agreed with Donald J. Trump’s request to postpone his criminal sentencing so that the judge overseeing the case could weigh whether a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling might imperil his conviction, new court filings show.

It is up to the judge to determine whether to postpone the sentencing, though with both sides in agreement, it seems likely he would do so.

h/t DS

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump enjoys “absolute” immunity from prosecution for “official acts” during his presidency, although it left the exact extent of that protection for lower courts to decide.

The high court’s 6-3 ruling vacated an earlier decision by a DC federal judge and cleared the way for more appeals by Trump’s legal team that could set the trial schedule in the 2020 election case against him back months or years — if it ever happens.

More … SCOTUS Ruling Granting Trump Immunity

Supreme Court rules president enjoys absolute immunity for core constitutional powers

h/t XC & DS

On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Fischer v. United States that a federal obstruction law does not apply to January 6 protesters. The case affects hundreds of individuals who participated in the mostly peaceful “breach” of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Those sentences will all need to be reviewed now. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion. Justice Amy Coney Barrett dissented, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan.

Liberal media won’t let this be a fair fight.

Donald Trump faces on Thursday what Andre the Giant experienced most nights of his professional wrestling career: A handicap match.

Lacking the decency of so many (including the Grand Wizard, Captain Lou Albano, and Classy Freddie Blassie) in the old WWF, CNN does not acknowledge the debate as a three-on-one match or even a two-and-a-half-on-one affair. Instead, they depict the tag team of Tapper and Bash as essentially referees when even their names indicate aggressive designs. It all recalls when a heel Andre the Giant defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF championship via a quick count from referee Dave Hebner’s evil twin Earl.