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May 30, 2024
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Donald Trump’s New York felony trial, a three-ring circus since the opening statements, has its final acts yesterday. Today the case went to the jury, equivalent to a real circus awaiting its critical reviews. Non-jury critical reviews are already in, and almost all of these are pans. Ironically, the only problem a conviction will pose for Trump is further inconvenience, and an unprecedented problem about carceral accommodation of a former President. Does he go to Maximum? Solitary? Is some inmate or inmates already waiting to shiv him? (And what happens if anyone tries it?) No one knows. We do know that this case has brought monumental discredit on the New York Unified Court System. It has brought similar discredit on the Democratic Party – so much so that Donald Trump might actually flip New York, even if, like Rep. Matthew Lyon (Dem-Rep-Vt.), he must do it from prison.

Atmosphere in and outside the New York trial

Closing arguments began at a quarter of nine and actually ran until eight o’clock at night. In some jurisdictions that would be “Wagon Train” hour – when court personnel retrieve their cars from relatively remote parking, and re-park them on the street in front of, or across from, the courthouse. But apparently Judge Juan Merchan didn’t even allow a break for that. Moreover – and only at the judge’s orders could this have happened – someone turned off the HVAC system. Thus a room many wags normally call “The Icebox” went to the opposite extreme: a stuffy room. Not only did court personnel and lawyers (and President Trump) have to sit and swelter, but so did the jury.

Outside, an appalling spectacle took place, as the Biden campaign held a press conference beginning at a quarter after ten. Cullen Linebarger of The Gateway Pundit filed a report at half-past ten. Has-been actor Robert DeNiro actually said that Trump’s reelection would spell the end of freedom in America. He specifically mentioned elections – which was either a flat attempt at irony or yet another insistence that nothing untoward happened in the Election of 2020. Catcalls, most of them unprintable, flowed almost at once. Then someone shouted, “They lied under oath,” referring to some prosecution witnesses standing behind DeNiro. The actor challenged the heckler to be specific, which he was. Then he said, “I don’t know how to deal with you people,” as if he were acting in a movie.

https://x.com/alx/status/1795468691766706629

Other lowlights – and early pans

During DeNiro’s speech, a car horn started honking incessantly but regularly – a typical Panic Button response. Whether someone bumped the car, or its owner pressed the Panic Button on his key fob, no one knows. Nor does it matter – because it rattled DeNiro just the same.

Christina Laila (TGP) filed another report at a quarter to noon. Apparently, as DeNiro walked away from the press conference, he got into a shouting match with another heckler.

https://x.com/MattPieper/status/1795471831362682966

At 9:20 p.m., Mike LaChance (TGP) reported that even Karl Rove, who would just as soon see Trump lose, panned that press conference. From Fox News he got this transcript:

Stupid mistake by the Biden campaign. … While all the cameras were there, they wanted to get their moment in the sun. And it was a big mistake. It politicizes the trial. Better to have waited. And then what was said, with all due respect to Mr. De Niro, who’s a wonderful, wonderful actor… “Donald Trump wants to destroy New York, destroy America, and destroy the world. And if you reelect him, he’s never going to leave office. He’s going to make himself a tyrant for life.”
Are those the kind of credible statements that are going to cause people who don’t like Biden and don’t like Trump, but are trying to figure out who to vote for, are they going to cause people to say, ‘well, geez, you now told me you wanted to destroy our country.’ Of course he did. The people who believe that are already in the Biden camp. That’s not who they should be trying to reach out to. He came close in a moment of talking about January 6th and talking about the two officers, [and] that might have had an impact.
But this was so over-the-top as to simply be useless. And what a stupid mistake on the part of the Biden campaign. More reason why Democratic leaders are probably going to be concerned that he’s the likely nominee of their party.

https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1795533139495776494

Needless to say, dozens of influencers have pointed out that Trump didn’t play the tyrant in his first term. He has in the past talked about “being a dictator from day one,” but that’s a joke. Everyone knows that, but of course the Democrats want to hide that. They also are throwing off on Trump – and everyone knows that, too.

But maybe that press conference – and then someone shutting off the HVAC system in the courtroom – were all part of a plan to intimidate the jury. What made that plan more likely to succeed, is that the jury might know what happened, but “weren’t there.” Without direct witnessing or testimony, imagination supervenes, and can run wild.

Not allowed even to explain New York law?

Paul Ingrassia (TGP) was present and posted live updates, as usual. He named several people who also would be “covering” the trial. They included one from the opposition: former Press Secretary Jen Psaki.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795435464872112415

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795436469873443227

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795446921466699805

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795447977537880490

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795448430166159623

The judge warned both lawyers not to discuss the law – so he would be the sole authority on the law. Simiarly, as the jury came in, he said that nothing any lawyer said, during trial or in summation, was “evidence.”

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795449286118805512

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795449814320062870

The judge further said the jury could decide whether to hold summations through the evening, or break them off at half-past four.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795450366831570995

Todd Blanche evidently wasn’t having that, because he began at once to explain an important point of law. Second-degree falsification of business records is a Class A misdemeanor – but the prosecution was charging a Class E felony. Felonious offenses rate prison time.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795449976811553087

Blanche had three points to make, and he made them over about three and one-half hours (a quarter to ten, to a quarter past one. This evidently did not include a lunch break.

Defense closing argument

Blanche made three main points:

  • The facts do not support a felony charge, and arguably not even a misdemeanor charge, against Trump.

  • Stephanie Clifford (“Stormy Daniels”) sought to extort money from Trump in the context of the Election of 2016. This although the story of Clifford and Trump’s relationship (such as it was) came out in 2011.

  • Michael Cohen, the “star witness” who laid the foundation (such as it is) of the case, is an unreliable witness. In fact, as Jim Hoft (editor-in-chief of TGP) noted, Blanche called Cohen the “GLOAT”: Greatest Liar Of All Time.

In addition, Mr. Ingrassia noted that never once has Judge Merchan apprized the jury of Mr. Trump’s rights under the Constitution or State law.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795473526599676237

The last half hour of Blanche’s summation provoked some high drama in court. Blanche began his peroration at about a quarter of one. In the process he made some off-hand remark about whether Trump should go to prison for a non-crime. Prosecutors objected, and Judge Merchan worked up to an explosion. First he denounced the statement as “highly inappropriate.” Then he roared – as he has done before:

YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO MAKE A STATEMENT LIKE THAT IN MY COURTROOM!

At last, at about a quarter after one, Blanche finished.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795504726194151559

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https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795498602975907853

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795504358576074966

Prosecution closing argument

Todd Blanche argued for a total of three and a half hours. Joshua Steinglass, counsel for the prosecution, argued for six and a half hours. Most of it was a filibuster worthy of Senator Marcus Porcius Cato Junior during Julius Caesar’s tumultuous decade in Rome. As Steven Richards of Just the News noted, Steinglass spent most of his time rehabilitating Michael Cohen as a witness.

CNN seems to be trying to let its audience down easily. Legal analyst Elie Honig said flatly that the prosecution can’t get past Cohen’s unreliability.

[Steinglass is] trying to bridge this gap. He's trying to say he's corroborated with a mountain of evidence everywhere you look, he's backed up. They're going to get into the checks in the ledgers and the handwritten notes.

Which, apparently, Steinglass did, even to rehashing the infamous Access Hollywood tape of Trump making some very crude remarks. But, says Honig, it’s not enough if you can’t “take Michael Cohen at his word.” Similarly, another CNN analyst, former criminal defender Randy Zelin, said the prosecution “fell way short.”

But signs of HVAC failure – or sabotage – became almost immediately apparent. Andrew Giuliani (Rudy’s son) noted in the morning that the overflow room was hot – and stank of someone’s body odor.

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1795477038381293975

At a quarter to four, Steinglass advised the judge that he was only one-third through.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795542947158454378

Then at five past four, Ingrassia noted that the HVAC system was no longer running.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795547008121340399

At five of five, the judge announced that the session could run from seven to eight o’clock.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795559833824854044

A very late finish

Ingrassia offered three possible reasons for Merchan to continue the sesssion for so long:

  1. Simple delight in the suffering of others (without regard to his own personal suffering),

  2. Trying to influence the jury to return a guilty verdict, and leveraging their personal discomfort to that end, and

  3. Securing personal profitability from the case.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795566682200543562

But at a quarter after seven, Ingrassia seemed to think the judge wanted at least to finish by eight o’clock. But if that was not to be, then it was the judge’s fault for letting this filibuster go on.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795594876349784153

At the same time, came a new development: Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) had filed a misconduct complaint against the judge. She accused him of “stacking the deck” to make sure he would get “the Trump case.” (Source: Christine Laila, TGP.)

https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1795585619223081302

Steinglass did finish at about eight o’clock.

An unorthodox – and unconstitutional – jury charge, even for New York

This morning, Todd Blanche declined to make any response. Judge Merchan opened court late – at ten o’clock. Before court began, Ingrassia noted that his X account, and several other accounts, were throttled. He called on Elon Musk, who owns X, to repair what he said was a compromised algorithm.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795807509476786501

Then Judge Merchan charged the jury. When he did, the reason for his forbidding the lawyers to opine on the law became chillingly apparent. He ruled that the jury need not agree on the predicate crime, in aid of which Trump is accused of falsifying his records. The three predicate crimes involve violations of the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act, laws governing business records, and tax laws. According to this judge, jurors can individually pick one of these three predicates, and so long as all agree on what Trump did in furtherance of one of the three, that would be a unanimous verdict. Mr. Ingrassia explained all this in these posts:

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795830028304793685

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795834681201398025

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795835856588014061

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795837757740249372

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795838687516737615

Merchan finished charging the jury at eleven twenty-six. After some “buttering up” of the jurors, the judge excused himself temporarily from the courtroom. At twelve to one, Mr. Ingrassia left this long-form post explaining his outrage at the jury charge. In essence, he said, Judge Merchan has violated the unanimity principle that is fundamental to common law.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795859858064810110

Adjournment

Shortly before three o’clock, the jury “buzzed” the judge and asked for four pieces of evidence, having to do with the testimony of David Pecker and Michael Cohen involving a meeting at Trump Tower.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795896159543718107

At four minutes to four, the jury “buzzed” the judge again, asking to rehear the jury charge.

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795907286616953237

For answer, the judge ordered a thirty-page printout of a transcript of the jury charge. Or so Mr. Ingrassia assumes; apparently the judge’s instructions were barely audible. Finally, at five after four, Judge Merchan adjourned court for the day.

Analysis

Everyone commenting on this case, except for die-hard leftists and Never-Trumpers (and not all of these), professes shock and astonishment. What, they ask, does Judge Merchan think he’s doing? His handling of this case is without precedent, in New York or any other State. Indeed, Donald Trump, speaking to reporters, ruefully observed that even Mother Theresa couldn’t beat this rap. Not, that is, with such an open-ended jury charge that significantly lowers the bar for a conviction.

Alan Dershowitz has suggested all the defense can do is file exception after exception, to build an appealable record. Obviously the New York Court of Appeal, the State’s highest, can void or reverse any conviction in a trial court. But if they do not, the United States Supreme Court could find that the New York courts have effectively:

  1. “Enforce[d]” a “law infringing the privileges and immunities of [a citizen] of the United States,”

  2. “Depriv[ed] a person of … liberty or property without due process of law,” and/or:

  3. “Denied to [a] person within [their] jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” [Amendment XIV Section 1.]

This jury could stop this by acquitting Trump, or deadlocking. At least one commentator has suggested that the first jury note suggested that several jurors were voting to acquit. If so, the rest of the jury, constituting a majority, was trying to apply pressure to them. But the pressure-cooker scene in Sidney Lumet’s 1957 film Twelve Angry Men will not take place.

How soon is a verdict required?

Technically no law sets a limit on jury deliberation. The only limits are practical – how long can a court keep a case on its docket? So deliberations could last a week, or more.

True, the New York Court of Appeal, or the U.S. Supreme Court, could quash a conviction. But neither court can remove a judge from the bench who so flagrantly violated a defendant’s right to due process. That requires the impeachment process, and in New York the only competent trier of fact is the State Senate, on a resolution of impeachment from the State Assembly. Proof of venal profiteering by the judge – through his daughter the political consultant – might create a situation neither Senate nor Assembly can ignore. Or not.

At least, not before the next Senate and Assembly elections. The people of New York State must now decide whether they care to live under courts that can run roughshod over people’s rights for political convenience. Judge Merchan, and District Attorney Bragg, might argue they were trying to stop the next Adolf Hitler. But after Trump’s South Bronx rally, that argument won’t convince.

But New York must do more than remove one judge who indulged his ideological (and venal) corruption. A good-hearted legislature might need to examine the record of every judge on the New York bench. To get that kind of legislature will require a leader of sufficient vision – and courage. Does New York have any such person waiting in the wings? Only time will tell.

Link to:

The article:

https://cnav.news/2024/06/02/news/new-york-trial-final-acts/

Video:

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Sample video of Robert DeNiro’s speech:

https://x.com/alx/status/1795468691766706629



Shouting match:

https://x.com/MattPieper/status/1795471831362682966



“Stupid mistake”:

https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1795533139495776494



Paul Ingrassia’s posts during defense argument:

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795435464872112415

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795436469873443227

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795446921466699805

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795447977537880490

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795448430166159623

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795449286118805512

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795449814320062870

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795450366831570995

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795449976811553087

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795473526599676237

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795504726194151559

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795498069150019733

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795498602975907853

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795504358576074966



Andrew Giuliani noting conditions in the overflow room:

https://x.com/AndrewHGiuliani/status/1795477038381293975



Paul Ingrassia’s posts during prosecution’s argument:

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795542947158454378

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795547008121340399

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795559833824854044

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795566682200543562

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795594876349784153



Elise Stefanik announces her complaint:

https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1795585619223081302



Paul Ingrassia notes throttling on X:

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795807509476786501



Paul Ingrassia explains the predicate crimes mix-and-match jury charge:

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795830028304793685

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795834681201398025

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795835856588014061

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795837757740249372

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795838687516737615



Paul Ingrassia summarizes what’s wrong with that jury charge:

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795859858064810110



First jury note:

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795896159543718107



Second jury note:

https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1795907286616953237



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What a gift to us for the midterms. Thanks Beto!

https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1954309853360410732

Retaliatory redistricting?

The governors of California, New York, and Massachusetts have all threatened to retaliate in kind with their own redistricting. But each State has a problem:

  1. Massachusetts already sends no Republicans to the House of Representatives. So the Massachusetts General Court (their name for their legislature) can do nothing beyond what they’ve done already.

  2. New York would have to amend its Constitution to get rid of the independent districting commission that draws districts in that State. That would take time Democrats don’t have; they’d never get it done by Midterms.

  3. California has an independent redistricting commission of its own, which came about through a voter initiative.

To work around this last problem, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) has announced his intention to place on the ballot for this November’s election, a referendum to bypass that commission. But such bypass would be temporary and contingent on Texas finishing its redistricting law.

In reply, Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) has introduced a federal bill to forbid mid-decade redistricting in any State. That, of course, is a weapon of last resort – but one that Article I Section 4 Clause 1 makes available.

Republican heavyweights like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Charles Munger, Jr. have pledged to campaign to defeat the referendum. The sheer brazenness of Newsom’s action might cause enough voters to recoil in horror and vote against it.

Summary

Texas is not the only “red State” to consider mid-decade redistricting. Consider this:

🚨BOOM 🚨
GOP could permanently CRUSH the Democrats… if they grow a spine 💀
Ned Ryun [head of American Majority] says Republicans could pick up to 40 HOUSE SEATS by 2030 if they get rid of all the CORRUPTION.
@NedRyun: Democrats have been gerrymandering Republicans out of existence in these blue states. It is time Republicans stepped up to the plate and did EXACTLY what Democrats have been doing to us for YEARS.

https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1953990856383320126

Gov. Newsom thinks he can take five or six seats from Republicans in his State, if his referendum passes. But that will be of no moment if other States follow suit. And again, Massachusetts can do nothing, for the same reason one cannot obtain blood from a turnip. New York State won’t have time to act by Midterms. By the time they do act, Census time will come again.

We now know that the Biden administration sought to skew the Census to Democrats’ political advantage. They might even have had more nefarious plans: to cast ballots in the names of those illegal aliens. By far the best remedy the Trump administration has used, is to remove as many of these aliens as possible. And that remedy has been effective. Emergency room visits are down. Government “social programs” have shut down for lack of clients. Crime has declined to a manageable level. All this is taking place in “sanctuary cities” and other places to which illegal aliens once flocked.

Mid-decade redistricting shows that Republicans have come out swinging. Democrats, for their part, aren’t even pretending to any even-handedness. So the one fraud Democrats once perpetrated easily – that theirs was the voice of reason and help for the “working stiff” – has lost its effectiveness. Shortly, voters, in California and elsewhere, will have their most stark choice.

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Ken Paxton’s “see you in court” post:

https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1953913485576003592



Application for TRO – and granted TRO:

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https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Beto%20Bribes%20TRO.pdf



Two posts covering Beto’s angry speech in Fort Worth:

https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1954319711199760881

https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1954309853360410732



Jesse Watters’ interview with Ned Ryun:

https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1953990856383320126

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/ned-ryun-predicts-huge-gains-republicans-through-redistricting/



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Secular government and its failings

America began its experiment with secular government after the War Between the States. Now we have the data, and they show demonstrable failure. Low birth rates, a population increasing (if at all) through immigration, and corruption of all human institutions tell the tale. America must abandon secular government, or die.

Roots of secular government in the United States

The United States government, in the days of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, was anything but secular. John Adams, in his letter to the Massachusetts Militia, famously said,

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

But in 1875 Rep. James G. Blaine (R-Maine), then Speaker of the House, promulgated his Amendment to all but twelve State Constitutions. That Amendment essentially forbids any State to do anything for its religious community. Louisiana repealed its Blaine Amendment in 1973. Ironically, Maine never ratified a Blaine Amendment, but they might as well have.

Blaine shares the blame with three other nefarious social scientists. Rep. Horace Mann (Whig-Mass.) gave us government schools even before the War Between the States. John Dewey ensured that those schools would be secular. Democracy – as Jean Jacques Rousseau might have imagined it – was his ideal.

Those three men fought to destroy the influence of Catholic schools in America. But they didn’t stop there. Without them, a Communist named Roger Baldwin would never have succeeded, with his American Civil Liberties Union, in driving religion out of the public square.

What secular government promotes

Secular government, the ideal of Blaine and company, promotes nihilism and despair in all areas of human endeavor and law. Every school in America, except for Christian schools and maybe those of some other religions, teaches the Grand Evolutionary Paradigm of the origins of the universe, the Earth, and life. That Paradigm pervades all debate on public policy, on everything from “climate change” to the “endangerment of species.” According to it:

  • The ages of the universe, the Solar system, and the Earth, are 13.7 billion years, 4.6 billion years, and 4.5 billion years, respectively.

  • Life on Earth began 3.8 billion years ago. But it somehow “exploded” into its dizzying variety slightly more than half a billion years ago.

  • Human beings have existed on this Earth for at least four million years, and perhaps as long as eight million.

Of course, civilization did not begin with such a dry vision of how humans came to be. That would come with the sophistication that has always characterized civilization. The ancient Greeks flirted with this idea – and then, of course, the Romans conquered them. Rome eventually fell, and the constituents of the Western Roman Empire continued with the Roman Catholic Church to guide them.

But with the coming of secular government came the promotion of the Grand Evolutionary Paradigm, or “Evolution.” With that, have come all the moral, philosophical, and legal ills of the “developed” world today.

Depopulation and the pursuit of immortality

Among those ills, we now see the depopulation of the Earth. The United States remains today the only “developed” country with a growing population. One should note two things:

  1. That growth is through migration only, not “natural increase” (the excess of births over deaths).

  2. Even in the United States, population is peaking, if it hasn’t peaked already.

Furthermore, one sees explicit holdings of a depopulation ideology in Western law. These include:

  1. Abortion on demand, for any reason or no reason, and

  2. The Alphabet Soup paradigm, which states that gender, and intimate attraction, are fluid.

With regard to that last: occasionally one hears of “promising research” aimed at allowing humans, born into one gender, to exercise the reproductive functions of the other. Don’t believe it. The Western elites, who run the United Nations, specifically say that life expectancy will continue to increase. For that reason, they insist, the world needs fewer people, not more. Thus they have tipped their hand. They are researching immortality, not flexible reproductive options. So they won’t do a thing for those Alphabet Soupers who want to have children other than in a marriage of a man to a woman. The elites want the planet to themselves, and want the rest of us to die out. Which is also why they promote abortion on demand, enlisting the feminists with lurid tales of death in childbirth.

Perversion of astronomy

Secular government, with its education system, has twisted our understanding of astronomy. Of course this twisting has lasted a long time, to support the notion of “billions of years.” But the recent appearance of three long-period comets has introduced absurd pronouncements and predictions.

The three long-period comets, which the astronomical community calls interstellar objects, are:

  1. 1I/Oumuamua,

  2. 2I/Borisov, and

  3. 3I/Atlas.

Each of these objects is appearing, or has appeared, in our skies for the first time – ever. Borisov need not concern us here, and does not concern anyone. It came in 2019, no closer than two AU to the Sun, and went. (AU stands for Astronomical Unit, the semimajor axis of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun.)

But Oumuamua, with its unusual features (in addition to its orbit), scared the living daylights out of many astronomers. It has the shape of a cigar, not the usual snowball. It tumbled as it passed close to the Sun, then the Earth. And on its way out, it allegedly accelerated. This led Jordan “The Angry Astronaut” Wright to conclude that Oumuamua is an uncrewed probe from a galactic lighthouse parked outside the Solar system, at what astronomers call the Galactic Standard of Rest – the frame of reference for motion applicable to the Galaxy as a whole. This probe had orders to sniff at the Earth, then switch on its engines (ion engines?) and blast out.

The aliens are here!

Never mind that any ship that tumbles as it passes, is a derelict, and that no shipwright would ever design a ship with engines that could propel the ship on a straight course while it is tumbling. That hasn’t stopped modern graphic artists from creating fanciful graphics of Oumuamua as a ship.

CNAV has said before what Oumuamua is: a long-period comet, made of material left over from the Global Flood. But of course, the perennial UFOlogist Avi Loeb refuses to consider any theory but one. That is, that an extraterrestrial civilization built Oumuamua, and launched it at us for a closer look.

Now Dr. Loeb is back in the news again, and scare-mongering feverishly about the third “interstellar” object, Atlas. Atlas is much larger than Oumuamua, by an order of magnitude. In fact it is more than six miles wide – wider than the fictitious “Meteor” of the 1979 American International movie. Apparently Atlas is on a course (or rather, trajectory, the path of a thrown object) that will not let it come anywhere near Earth. (Or at least, no nearer than 130 million miles, or about 1.4 AU.) Loeb asks, what if the Atlas object is not only an alien vessel, but a hostile one?

Again Jordan Wright ran with that speculation. He attributed to Loeb a chilling scenario: that Atlas is a gigantic robot with engines that could brake it and send it crashing into Earth. Such an outcome would, of course, destroy civilization.

Why would they do this?

Why, indeed? Because, says Wright, these aliens consider us a threat to the galactic order. We are, says Wright, an angry and hostile race, always inventing – and deploying – cruel weapons against one another. Therefore the Galactic Empire – or whatever Wright (or Loeb) might call the launch authority for Oumuamua, Atlas and perhaps Borisov also – has determined, to quote Douglas Adams,

Terra delenda est! [Earth must be destroyed!]

From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and its sequels

Forget Douglas Adams and his Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here Meteor meets The Day the Earth Stood Still or even Plan 9 from Outer Space!

This is the poisonous fruit of secular government. If we were still that “moral and religious people” John Adams said we were, we would not make these mistakes. We would know that those objects all consist of Flood ejecta, that have come inside the orbits of even more massive objects beyond sight of our telescopes. (Has anyone trained the James Webb Space Telescope on any of these objects, to look for gravitational assistant objects?) We would also know not to expect any of those objects to be anything but big rocks – and not to expect any of them to brake and steer toward Earth.

Furthermore, our birth rate would be higher – much higher. And how do we know this?

The control against the secular government experiment

We know this because – against the wishes of the Blaine-Mann-Dewey-Baldwin Axis – their experiment in secular government has a control. That control is the population of Old Order Amish that settled in Pennsylvania before the War Between the States. Since then they have spread to Ohio and then into Indiana.

These Old Order Amish are the “Amish” of popular lore. (The New Order Amish are the “Mennonites.”) The Amish, from the start, separated themselves from the rest of us, whom they call “The English World.” (Amish speak a dialect of German.) Not only do they avoid our notions of secular government and education, but they also avoid every institution that might tie them to the rest of us. That most famously includes the electric grid and the Public Switched Telephone Network. A typical Amish village might have one telephone, usually in its general store, to serve the entire community.

Amish women enjoy a Total Fertility Rate (the number of children an average woman has during her lifeftime) of at least 4. In years of robust commerce with “The English World,” the TFR climbs to 6 or 7. They doubled their population in 25 years and show every sign of continuing that growth. Furthermore, all the growth of the Amish population is through natural increase. That growth always exceeds the “losses” to the custom of Rumspringa, in which Amish youth sample “English” ways and decide which is more attractive to them.

Possible reasons

Naturally advocates for a secular government – when they’re not cursing Amish women’s unusual fertility as evidence of their exploitation – will protest that the Amish could have many reasons for their extra fertility and overall thriving. Some of those reasons might interest Health Secretary Kennedy. The Amish drink their cow’s milk raw, not heat-treated, and are much more careful when collecting it. They do not add artificial dyes or anything else to their food that God didn’t put there. Nor do they expose themselves to noxious chemicals (including motor fuels) or electric fields.

Nor do they “veg out” in front of television sets – because they consume no television, nor any other mass medium. As one result, they get exercise – far more than we “Englishers” get.

But most of all, they have hope. The Grand Evolutionary Paradigm offers no hope, and says what you do makes no difference to anyone else.

Religion attends the birth of civilization; philosophy accompanies it to its grave.

Will Durant

And because they do not consume mass media, they do not pollute their minds with mass media content.

Tellingly, no trustworthy independent clinical authority has studied the epidemiology of Alphabet Soup urges in Amish society. Naturally Alphabet Soup propagandists say that Alphabet Soup individuals, born into that society, either:

  • “Flee” it, usually at Rumspringa, or

  • Suffer shunning as adults upon failure to repent.

So no one really knows whether the Amish develop “Alphabet Soup” tendencies as often as “Englishers” do.

Secular government has failed

We do know that the Amish, the controls of the secular government experiment, are thriving. In contrast, “The English World” is dying. In fact, if the Amish are thriving less well now than they did before, that’s because they have allowed “English World” values to creep into their society. Perhaps that was inevitable when the Amish expanded beyond their first settlement and had to buy land – with “English” currency – from “English” landowners.

All of which to say: the culture that includes secular government is not only dying, but has deleterious influences. The most deleterious influence of all is surely secular government itself. It is buying the loyalty of its subjects (citizens might not be the word anymore) with cheap, immediate thrills, just as Roman society bought off its “Head Count” with bread and circuses. And it’s not working. Or rather, it is not working as advertised. But secular government is working according to the designs of the elites who likely built upon the work of Mann, Blaine, Dewey, and Baldwin (and don’t forget Darwin), and added to that work through the contributions of such “geniuses” as Darrow, Friedan, Steinem, Dworkin – and the incomparable (in the negative sense) Earl Warren, who famously dictated that the Constitution should mean whatever he said it meant, any time he said it.

Thankfully, Earl Warren is dead, and the Supreme Court today is in wiser hands than his. But the problem remains.

The solution

To continue that thought, the Supreme Court signaled, in its 2021 Term, a sea change in its attitude toward religion. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District destroyed the “Lemon Test” of “secular applicability.” Carson v. Makin laid a foundation for invalidating Blaine Amendments everywhere. That invalidation requires only the will to find plaintiffs in the thirty-seven States that still have Blaine Amendments, and file lawsuits that will lead to Supreme Court orders like this:

The petition(s) for writs of certiorari is/are granted. The judgment(s) of the lower court(s) is/are vacated, and the case(s) is/are remanded to [that/those] court(s) for further proceedings consistent with this Court’s opinion in Carson v. Makin.

The immediate effect would be to nullify those Blaine Amendments. Thereafter, education systems, going beyond private Christian academies, could lay the foundation for faith-based government.

A faith-based government would teach the Bible as not only Beautiful Poetry and a Quaint Historical Artifact, but as Fact. Honest findings in biology, chemistry, geology, archaeology, astronomy and cosmology, to name six, support the Bible, rather than contradicting It. The government, and other Major Scientific Grantors, would for the first time consider creation as a valid scientific model, and evidence in its favor worthy of scientific investigation.

More to the point, abortion would be unlawful, as is murder according to conventional definition. Furthermore, society would treat loose talk of extraterrestrial fleets including “meteoric” planet-wrecking mass drones with the contempt it deserves. And maybe someone will study Alphabet Soup epidemiology, intending to heal people of such tendencies, not “celebrate” them as ideal.

Donald Trump might not be the man to lead this charge. This will require leaders dedicated to erasing the secularism of government, and returning to the ideals of John Adams.

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The Obama Conspiracy

The past week and a half have seen some astonishing activity in our nation’s capital. This activity rivals the Dobbs Decision, and the Great Leak that preceded it, for its shock value alone. Evidently, then-President Barack Obama convened a meeting of top intelligence advisers after the Election of 2016. At that meeting, he told them: “Make it look as though Donald Trump had Russian help in gimmicking the election.” Today we have more than what Obama and his supporters have dismissed as unfounded speculation. We have the minutes of that meeting, after Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, declassified them – and much else. This shows that Barack Obama, unhappy with the election result, engineered a deliberate effort to undermine his successor. That effort has continued from that day to this. Trump knows it – and has threatened Obama with arrest. For America’s sake, now he must carry that threat out.

Why would Obama do such a thing?

Barack Obama would do such a thing for the same reason he spoke of “fundamentally transform[ing] the United States.” As his memoir Dreams of My Father makes clear, he despises America and everything for which it stands. He dismisses the Constitution as “a charter of negative liberties,” making clear that citizens should have allowances, not rights. He would dispense those allowances as he saw fit – and cheerfully negate the rights of anyone standing in his way.

The Obama story might involve more than this. Hillary Clinton’s infamous private email server might have evidence implicating him in more crimes. Or might have had such evidence, until Hillary destroyed her server with the Bleachbit reformatting program. But did Hillary “get it all”? Maybe – or maybe not.

As may be, Barack Obama very much wanted Hillary Clinton to win the Election of 2016. When she did not, he took greater alarm than she took. And that’s saying something! Rumors at the time had her receiving the news of her defeat while in a hotel ballroom with tables laid out for her victory banquet – and proceeding to pull food, plates, utensils, and everything else off those banquet tables, by seizing tablecloth corners and pulling with all her frenzied might. Whether this happened or not, one thing definitely did. She withdrew from public view and did not come out until 11:00 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Release of the Obama scandal documents

On or about Wednesday, July 16, investigative reporter Paul Sperry revealed a meeting of “Trump administration officials,” held July 13. “New information on Russiagate” (the notion that Trump was a Russian asset) headed the meeting’s agenda. Sperry mentioned a December 2016 meeting of intelligence agency heads and seconds-in-command, the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, and the “Steele Dossier.” He also mentioned Hillary Clinton’s private server, and what now is called the “Clinton Annex,” showing that Hillary, as far back as July 2016, sought to frame Trump as a Russian asset.

Worth remembering now is that Vladimir Putin, the effective head of Russia, cut short an overseas trip that summer. Upon his return to Moscow, he issued a ukase ordering his people to arm themselves.

Two days later, Tulsi Gabbard, as DNI, declassified key “smoking guns,” exactly as Sperry predicted. These include a detailed time line in the form of a memorandum with this subject:

Intelligence Community suppression of intelligence showing “Russian and criminal actors did not impact” the 2016 presidential election via cyber-attacks on infrastructure.

Five bullet points, from August 31 through October 7, 2016, make one thing clear. No one had any evidence that Russians planned to alter reported vote counts in the upcoming election. An Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on September 12 stated in part:

The report finds “foreign adversaries do not have and will probably not obtain the capabilities to successfully execute widespread and undetected cyber attacks” on election infrastructure.

On October 7 came a brief mention that the FBI and the National Security Agency had “low confidence” that Russians had hacked the Democratic National and Congressional Campaign Committees.

The election blew up everything

Then came the election. To be sure, the results surprised everyone. Trump shocked the world by carrying Pennsylvania, of all States. That State alone gave Trump momentum he would never lose. He carried it by carrying every Pennsylvania county outside the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh television markets.

Then came these key events in December of 2016. On December 7, then-DNI James Clapper was ready to conclude that:

“Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome.”
“We have no evidence of cyber manipulation of election infrastructure intended to alter results.”

Intelligence officers were still planning to say that on December 8. But then, FBI Director James Comey took his name off the memo and said he would write a dissenting memo. Late that afternoon, the DNI buried the “Presidential Daily Brief” saying there was nothing to the Russia story.

Then on December 9, Ambassador Susan Rice convened ranking Cabinet officials in the Situation Room for an emergency meeting.

James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Brian McKeon, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, and Avril Haines are among those in attendance.

X account DeepFakeQuotes has a video presentation describing that meeting.

The Meeting That Changed Everything – Dec 9, 2016
Two days after intel said no foreign actor changed the 2016 election, Obama met with his top officials.
What followed? A reversal. A dossier. A soft coup.
The documents are declassified.
The evidence is real.
The republic was targeted from within.

https://x.com/DeepFakeQuote/status/1946654472522064294

The minutes say definitely that “Moscow used [certain] tools” and “took [certain] actions” to affect the outcome of the election. They speak of asking, not whether Russia influenced the election, but how and why. In sum, those setting the agenda had by then made up their minds to accuse Russia of election interference.

That very day, intelligence officials, speaking as “Senior Administration Officials” and “Persons Familiar With The Situation,” dropped hints to The Washington Post accusing Russia of gimmicking the election – and Trump of benefiting from that.

Assertion of facts not in evidence

One of those “hints” says the CIA had “concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened” in the election. But the CIA had made no such determination – at least, not yet. Five days later (December 14), intelligence officials were openly accusing Vladimir Putin of active and “personal… involve[ment]” in altering the election.

Two days later, Obama himself spun the scenario, as follows:

What I was concerned about in particular was making sure that [Wikileaks/Clinton emails] wasn’t compounded by potential hacking that could hamper vote counting and affect the actual election process itself. And so in early September, when I saw President Putin in China, I felt that the most effective way to ensure that, that didn’t happen was to talk to him directly. And tell him to cut it out.

Cut what out? Obama had to admit he had no “evidence” that Russian operatives gimmicked actual voting scanner-tabulators.

Later that month, someone, now a “whistleblower” to the ODNI, “question[ed] his leadership” about the sudden change in tune. The results of that, including “sidelining” and pressures to “go along to get along,” were entirely predictable.

Director Gabbard described all this in a lengthy X thread, using the strongest language short of profanity or obscenity.

🧵 Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump, subverting the will of the American people and undermining our democratic republic. Here’s how:

https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1946271402971312514

Among other phrases Gabbard used was the phrase treasonous conspiracy.

The Democrats began doubling down on their Russia, Russia Russia story immediately. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued this angry attempt at rebuttal:

It seems DNI Gabbard is unaware that the years-long Russia investigation carried out by the Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed that ‘the Russian government directed extensive activity against U.S. election infrastructure’ ahead of the 2016 election, and that it ‘used social media to conduct an information warfare campaign’ in order to benefit Donald Trump. This conclusion was supported on a unanimous basis by every single Democrat and Republican on the committee. (1/2)
It is sadly not surprising that DNI Gabbard, who promised to depoliticize the intelligence community, is once again weaponizing her position to amplify the president’s election conspiracy theories. It is appalling to hear DNI Gabbard accuse her own IC workforce of committing a ‘treasonous conspiracy’ when she was unwilling to label Edward Snowden a traitor. (2/2)

https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/1946322743042998684

https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/1946322744565784854

Never mind that this committee worked with material from the Obama CIA. Reaction to his posts was almost uniformly negative. That reaction included reminders that Sen. Warner has his own scandal involving communication with a Russian oligarch.

Further releases

Yesterday the Justice Department received from Gabbard a formal referral of Obama for criminal prosecution. Also yesterday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released his own report – the “Clinton Annex.”

I’m making “Clinton annex” public today so the American people have all the facts. Sen. [Ron] Johnson [R-Wisc.] & I have requested this document’s declassification together since 2020 & Pres Trump/Pam Bondi/Kash Patel + others finally got it done. Thanks for your dedication to transparency.

https://x.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1947324460983296172

Here are the press release, to which Sen. Grassley shared the link, and the Clinton Annex.

According to it, the FBI had all the evidence it would have needed for a criminal investigation. And they didn’t even start one.

From lawyer Julie Kelly comes this excerpt – alleging credibly that Obama’s email was hacked.

NEW: According to just released declassified annex to DOJ OIG report on Hillary Clinton email investigation, Barack Obama's email were hacked and the FBI was aware.

https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1947332087196868982

Trump has been trolling Obama and his defenders mercilessly since the first revelations came out. For instance, this video contains a montage of every Democrat who said, “No one is above the law.” It ends with a generated clip showing FBI agents entering the Oval Office, during a “photo-op” session between Trump and Obama, and arresting Obama.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114887992924632896

Similarly he shared this video of Tulsi Gabbard’s interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox’ Sunday Morning Futures:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114888219088263084

Then consider these two posts:

HOW DID SAMANTHA POWER MAKE ALL OF THAT MONEY???

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114888263063561606

Obama himself manufactured the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX. Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe, and numerous others participated in this, THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY!. Irrefutable EVIDENCE. A major threat to our Country!!!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114893984552850709

Finally, Mike Davis, head of the Article III Project, insists that Presidential immunity cannot cover Barack Obama for these deeds. The reason: Obama has continued the conspiracy even today, long after leaving office.

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1947342358170796352

Analysis

The President is head of his Party, and that was certainly true of Barack Obama. As the head, Obama took the Democratic Party into banana-republic territory, long before the Mar-A-Lago Raid. Tulsi Gabbard has now released definitive proof that Obama was behind the abrupt change of tune by the intelligence community regarding Russian “interference” in American elections.

Wayne Allen Root, Assistant Editor of The Gateway Pundit, flatly accuses Obama of all the above, and much more. Root’s allegations seem to go far afield, but they do require investigation. They include weaponization of the IRS and the beginning of the Great Immigration Flood. Root also lays the questionable results of the Election of 2020 at Obama’s feet – and even accuses him of arranging with the Chinese to infect the country with coronavirus. Then after Biden became President, Obama actually ran the Biden White House, through his agents.

Then Root asks:

Now the question is does the Trump DOJ have the [gonadal fortitude] to do what needs to be done? This is the biggest criminal conspiracy in U.S. history. This is a treason case. And this is either a death penalty case, or life in Gitmo.

Certainly what DNI Gabbard and Senator Grassley have released, is damning enough of Obama. Furthermore, anyone who defends him the way Senator Warner did, convicts himself of ignorance – or collusion.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has a chance to redeem herself after her Epstein Files blunders. Obviously, prosecuting a former President for an extension of his conduct in office does not make for a happy situation. But Democrats started it with their specious cases against Trump. This case is anything but specious. That’s worth remembering next year – at Midterms.

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ODNI time line of perfidy:

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/DIG/DIG-Russia-Hoax-Memo-and-Timeline_revisited.pdf



DeepFakeQuote post:

https://x.com/DeepFakeQuote/status/1946654472522064294



Tulsi Gabbard’s July 18 thread beginning:

https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1946271402971312514



Sen. Warner’s rebuttal:

https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/1946322743042998684

https://x.com/MarkWarner/status/1946322744565784854



Sen. Grassley’s Clinton Annex release:

https://x.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1947324460983296172

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/newly-declassified-doj-watchdog-report-shows-fbi-cut-corners-in-clinton-email-investigation

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/download/horowitz-2018-midyear-appendix-released-by-chairman-grassley

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/horowitz_2018_midyear_appendix_released_by_chairman_grassley.pdf



Julie Kelly’s post:

https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1947332087196868982



Trump’s Truth showing the “arrest” of Obama, and other Truths:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114887992924632896

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114888219088263084

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114888263063561606

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114893984552850709



Mike Davis’ interview with Benny Johnson:

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1947342358170796352



Wayne Allen Root essay:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/wayne-root-does-trump-doj-have-balls-charge/



Declarations of Truth:

https://x.com/DecTruth



Declarations of Truth Locals Community:

https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/



Conservative News and Views:

https://cnav.news/



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