Was it a campaign scheme to make Republican Ron DeSantis look good, to announce that he wouldn’t assist the weaponized Federal government in the extradition of President Donald J. Trump within an hour and a half of the news breaking that Trump was going to be indicted by a Manhattan DA?
The announcement by DeSantis seems sort of weird. And the timing is odd.
Just the News reported on the heart of the matter: “A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump over his alleged role in a payment to Stormy Daniels in 2016, making him the first former president to face criminal charges.”
DeSantis’s timing for being the hero is something for people to ponder as news cycles play out with the details of what appears to be another example of an out-of-control federal government that has set its sites on getting Trump and stopping his candidacy for President in 2024.
The news of the indictment leaked out, in a series of illegal leaks, around 5:30 PM just in time for the nightly news cycle.
Before 7 PM DeSantis was running to get some attention and apparently hoping to look like the good guy when he posted the following:
“The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head.
It is un-American.
The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent.
“Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue with this Soros-backed Manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda.
6:55 PM · Mar 30, 2023”
The tweet was seen 21 Million times.
The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head.
It is un-American.
The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is…
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) March 30, 2023
Martin Walsh reported for Conservative Brief:
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday night that the state will not cooperate with any request to extradite Donald Trump after the former president was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury.
Extradition would only be required if Trump refused to leave his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to attend an arraignment hearing in New York.
The most recent witness to testify was David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, who appeared before the grand jury on Monday.
“Pecker was a key player in the $150,000 “catch-and-kill” payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, in which the Enquirer bought the publishing rights to her claim that she — like Daniels — had an affair with Trump before he became president. The Enquirer never reported McDougal’s allegations but its parent company, American Media Inc., featured her in other publications. Trump has denied having sex with either woman and has denied any wrongdoing in connection with the payments to them,” according to the New York Post.
Manhattan District Attorney Bragg responded last week to a potential indictment and arrest of former President Donald Trump. Bragg issued a vague statement that did not actually provide any information about what might happen next.
Bragg sent a letter to members of the House Judiciary Committee after they sent their own letter “demanding communications, documents, and testimony relating to Bragg’s unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority and the potential indictment of former President Donald Trump.”
In his letter, the Manhattan DA said his office will “publicly state the conclusion of our investigation—whether we conduct our work without bringing charges, or move forward with an indictment.”
Bragg also addressed the letter the House Judiciary Committee previously sent to his office and said, “Your letter dated March 20, 2023, (the ‘Letter’), in contrast, is an unprecedented inquiry into a pending local prosecution. The letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene. Neither fact is a legitimate basis for a congressional inquiry.”
The case involves Trump’s alleged role in hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, allegedly to keep Daniels quiet about an affair the two of them had in 2006.
The indictment has triggered outrage from many given federal prosecutors in the U.S. attorneys office for the Southern District of New York chose not to charge Trump in 2019 related to the payment to Daniels.
The Federal Election Commission also tossed its investigation into the matter in 2021.
The DA’s reported decision also comes as Trump is running for president in 2024, which has led to some arguing that the investigation and charges are politically motivated.
Legal experts have derided the case as legally baseless and Trump’s new personal attorney, Joe Tacopina, has asserted that the payment Trump made to his then-lawyer Michael Cohen was in fact a legitimate legal fee, Just The News reported, citing Trump’s attorney, Joe Tacopina has argued that Trump’s payment to Cohen was in fact a legitimate legal fee. Trump, he noted, never directly paid Daniels any money. Rather, he only paid his own lawyer for services rendered, i.e. legal fees.
“The payments were made to a lawyer, not to Stormy Daniels,” Tacopina said last week on MSNBC. “The payments were made to Donald Trump’s lawyer, which would be considered legal fees. Michael Cohen … was his lawyer at the time and advised him that this was the proper way to do this to protect himself and his family from embarrassment. It’s as simple as that.”
Folks, Trump is not our Savior. Our Savior is Jesus Christ the great I AM who is really in charge of world events. He puts leaders in and can take them out, it’s His decision to make, not the mafia, Soros, or the demented Demoncrats that think they are in charge. We need to focus on the One who will make the final decision. Pray that the three men can come together as one unit to fight for truth, freedom and justice. Pence, DeSantis and Trump would make a strong good cord made up of three strands. Pray for that to happen. Maranatha