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This week Donald Trump got two huge legal victories:
FL Trial Suspended Indefinitely - the trial regarding mishandling of classified documents brought by Jack Smith.
GA Trial Delayed - Trump’s request to disqualify Fulton County DA Fani Willis will be considered by an Appellate Court, delaying the trail possibly beyond the election.
Besides this great news, we have the results of an election integrity hearing in Georgia, plus the signing of three new election integrity laws for 2024. And finally, we’ll look at what’s happening in the absurd New York bookkeeping trial stemming from an alleged tryst between Trump and pornographer Stormy Daniels.
1. Trump FL Trial Delayed Indefinitely
On Tuesday, Judge Aileen Cannon announced she will indefinitely postpone Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida. She cited significant problems that would need to be worked out before trial.
Judge Cannon set evidentiary hearings based on key motions raised by Trump’s defense team, including:
Selective, Vindictive Prosecution - Cannon criticized the double standard and selective prosecution of the Espionage Act. Trump’s motion asks why Biden, Pence, and the Clintons aren’t being prosecuted for the same crime.
Unlawful of Appointment of the Special Counsel - Jack Smith has nationwide authority to pursue his prosecutions of Trump in DC and Florida, but was neither nominated by the president, nor confirmed by the Senate. These are constitutional requirements.
The Scope of the Prosecution Team - this is the question of whether Smith’s indictment of Trump for conspiring to subvert the 2020 election is too broad.
Judge Cannon’s announcement came just days after the Department of Justice admitted it tampered with evidence during the raid on Mar-a-Lago. The image below was published by the FBI to suggest President Trump was careless about these documents.
But Special Counsel Jack Smith now concedes that some of those paper-clipped "top secret" cover sheets do not match the relevant documents underneath. In a court filing Friday, he also agreed that some of the documents they seized were re-arranged, and others may have been mislabeled or misplaced entirely.
Cannon says that setting a new date with so many outstanding matters would be “imprudent.” It is unlikely that a trial of Donald Trump for the mishandling of classified documents could happen before November.
Why this Matters: It’s now evident that Jack Smith might not be able to bring either one of his federal cases to trial before the election. The DC trial may not go forward because it hangs on the question of presidential immunity, which is being considered by the Supreme Court. If President Trump is re-elected, he can have Jack Smith and both of his cases dismissed.
2. Thrown out on her Fanny?
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired her lover Nathan Wade to prosecute Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants for questioning the 2020 election and setting an alternate slate of electors. Willis made headlines for her belligerent behavior in the conflict of interest hearing where she insisted that although Wade paid for the hotels, airfare, restaurants, and cruises the couple shared, she always paid him back—in cash, from the piles of money she has lying around the house.
Judge Scott McAfee declined to throw Fani Willis off the case, but gave her the option of removing Wade, which she chose. McAfee pointed out there was “an odor of mendacity,” or deceit, which clouded the case.
The Court of Appeals has sided with Donald Trump and several of his co-defenders, and will be looking at Willis’ misconduct. They must hear and rule on the question within two terms, or about six months. According to the court, cases docketed in the current term must be decided by November 1, and motions to reconsider must be adjudicated by November 18. If Willis is removed, then the case is unlikely to be resurrected under another DA.
Why this Matters: The delays mean that the ongoing New York bookkeeping trial is likely to be the only trial Trump faces before the election.
Request for Review After Georgia’s 2020 Election Hearing
The one thing that the ruling elites in America don’t want us to discuss has become impossible to ignore in Georgia. Tuesday was the end of the Georgia State Election Board’s hearing about apparent discrepancies between initial recount totals and corrected totals. The Secretary of State’s office has been working to diminish the evidence, but several findings were confirmed by investigators.
A Fulton County official admitted that 3,075 ballots were double-scanned in the 2020 recount, and don’t know how many of those were tabulated.
There are 380,761 ballot images that are not available.
The Board acknowledged there were 140 violations of election laws and rules, and this was for just one of the 159 counties in Georgia.
Why this Matters: Trump lost Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes, and a recount was requested by his lawyers. Fulton County (Atlanta) officials acknowledged that data was not properly backed up to servers during the recount, but insist that Biden still won the county. The violations were such that the Election Board ordered a review by an independent investigator.
Click here for a more complete detail of the election hearing in Georgia.
Three New Election Integrity Laws in Georgia
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed three important election integrity bills on Tuesday—the same day that the election board released their conclusions that the 2020 election was fraught with problems. Kemp claims it was accurate. Either way, this is good news for Georgia elections.
House Bill 974 adds watermarks to ballots, displays them online, and requires more audits.
House Bill 1207 requires election workers to be US citizens, limits the number of voting machines, and guarantees machines are completely accessible to poll watchers. Candidates may also proofread their information on ballots ahead of the election.
Senate Bill 189 changes rules for challenges, eliminates QR codes from ballots, adds security procedures, and eases requirements for third-party presidential candidates.
Trump’s New York Bookkeeping Trial
Stormy Daniels was the star witness in the New York bookkeeping trial of Donald Trump on Tuesday. This case concerns a sexual affair she alleges occurred in 2006, and the accounting method Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen used to pay her according to a $130,000 non-disclosure agreement. District Attorney Alvin Bragg says this form of bookkeeping was an attempt to defraud the American people before the 2016 election, but he has refused to define the actual crime.
Above: Daniels and Trump, who must stay in the courtroom for the duration.
Daniels, who was put on the stand to make Trump look bad, may have hurt the prosecution instead of helping. First, she gave conflicting testimony.
In her book “Full Disclosure,” Daniels said that while talking to celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred she denied having a tryst with Trump
On the stand, Daniels testified that she told Allred she did have an affair.
When presented with the book, Daniels was speechless for a moment before saying, “I denied it in a phone conversation, but when I met her in person I told her everything.”
Daniels testified she didn’t care about the money paid by Michael Cohen in the non-disclosure agreement, but later said that she had her attorney send a threatening letter demanding the money.
Next, Daniels has a court order to pay Donald Trump’s lawyer’s fees—$560,000, plus 10 percent annual interest, per the state of California. Daniels said she hates Trump so much that she refuses to submit to the Court.
Q: You haven’t taken one penny out of your pocket to pay President Trump, is that correct?
Daniels: Yes.
Q: You are ignoring a court order not because you don’t have money. You have announced publicly that you will never pay President Trump any money.
Daniels: That’s correct.
Q: Did you tweet, “I will go to jail before I pay a penny.”
Daniels: I did.
Daniels gave gritty, absurd, and revealing details of their alleged tryst, laced with her attempts at sexual humor. This was completely extraneous to the charges. The judge’s job is to restrict inadmissible and/or unduly prejudicial evidence. He did not do that but allowed Daniels to make a farce of the trial. Afterward, he blamed the defense for not objecting more.
After the lunch break, Trump’s lawyers moved for a mistrial. They argued that Daniels’ testimony was completely different from what she said in 2016, it was salacious, prejudicial, and not related to bookkeeping. They argued that her testimony had just two purposes: to embarrass Trump, and to inflame the jury. Judge Merchan agreed with Trump’s team. “I think the witness was a little difficult to control,” he said, but then denied their request.
Merchan has continued slapping fines on Trump for violating the gag order. Historically, gag orders are intended to silence the prosecution, not the defendant. His daughter has raised millions of dollars for Democrats off of President Trump’s indictment and this trial. The prosecutor, who questioned Daniels, donated $500 to Joe Biden in 2020 and $900 to ActBlue, the fundraising arm of the Democrat National Committee (DNC). Another of Bragg’s prosecutors, Matthew Colangelo—whom we’ve discussed previously—was number three at Biden’s DOJ and worked for the DNC. The trial is being held in a district that voted against Trump 84.5 percent to 14.5 percent in the 2020 presidential election.
Why this Matters: The trial is not a slam dunk for DA Bragg. Daniels signed two separate statements in 2018 denying she had a sexual relationship with Donald Trump or received hush money from him. In one statement, she says these allegations were also denied by both parties in 2006, 2011, 2016, 2017, and 2018. She is neither a credible victim, nor a credible witness. It was Michael Cohen, now famous for being a serial liar and convicted felon, who arranged the non-disclosure agreement—not Trump. Judge Merchan ordered Trump to remove these letters from social media.
If Trump is found guilty, the verdict will be appealed. But maybe (please God!) there are some sound-minded people in the jury who will vote to acquit.
This trial has not seemed to hurt Trump’s poll numbers. States that were never considered in play are now “swing” states, such as Washington—where Trump is up by one point—and Minnesota, where he’s tied with Biden. In Pennsylvania, a traditional swing state, Trump is up by four points.
How to Pray: God’s mercy for Trump, and that he would receive justice. Maybe the Lord will give us one more election reprieve! Pray for citizens to wake up and demand election integrity on every level. Pray that believers will hold fast for God’s answer, whatever it is, and not faint. He is worthy of our trust.
Exodus 34:6-7 - The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Ps. 27:13-14 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.