Nov212021

Episode 450 – What’s Taking So Long?

Nancy Pelosi dumps garbage on the Senate.

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is heading to a mistrial.

And I think it’s time for Merrick Garland to resign.

 

What Is Taking So Long

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is still going on. The jury is still deliberating. What’s taking them so long is a curiosity because this case is so obvious. Not only is there reasonable doubt about Rittenhouse committing murder but the prosecution’s own witnesses have basically proven Rittenhouse’s innocence.

And, let’s not forget about the hours of video showing Rittenhouse being attacked and defending himself and only targeting the people who were attacking him.

But that doesn’t mean there aren’t things happening. Let’s go over them.

 

The Media

The judge, who has obviously reading the newspapers, has been heavily criticized by the media. That criticism includes:

  • Being a racist (Trump supporter) because he had a patriotic country song as his ringtone.
  • Being a conservative for wearing a tie with U.S. flags.
  • Being too hard on the prosecution and favoring the defense.
  • Letting Rittenhouse pick the jurors from the bin.
  • Not ruling on the mistrial requests.
  • Not allowing the use of the word “victim” during the evidentiary phase of the trial (he allowed it during the closing arguments).

Some things about this judge. He’s been a judge for 50 years. In that time, he only had one conviction overturned by the appellate courts. That’s pretty good. He has also been known as a pro-prosecution judge. The prosecution has screwed this thing up so badly, it’s not surprise he’s leaning toward the defense. He was also appointed by a Democrat.

He made it clear that he did not know if he would ever allow cameras into a courtroom again:

It would probably be a good idea if he didn’t allow cameras in the courtroom again. After the behavior of the media, we don’t deserve the transparency. It’s not like the calling the court case accurately.

 

Jury Intimidation

Though the crowds have been relatively small outside the courtroom, a pretty peaceful (only one guy was arrested that I know of), they are loud and can be heard from the jury room. They also have been growing as the days of deliberation increase.

Black Lives Matter and Antifa members have been seen there. This would not be a problem under normal circumstances but they keep talking about burning the city down again. I cannot see how this is not grounds for a mistrial or a direct verdict. This is pure jury intimidation.

The judge even had to pull a couple of spectators from the audience because they kept taking pictures of the jury. I’m sure those people know the jury members are worried about being doxxed.

 

More Signs of Corruption

There has been a ton of corruption by the prosecution in this case and it continues all the way to the end. Remember:

  • The FBI lost drone footage of the riot and when Kyle Rittenhouse was attacked.
  • The prosecutor question witnesses about why they got lawyers before speaking to them.
  • The prosecutor asked Rittenhouse why he would not speak to police after he was arrested. This is huge and might lead to a mistrial with prejudice. Even I know the 5th Amendment and the Miranda precedence.

But the prosecution did it again. They had a full color, HD video from the FBI and gave the defense a pixelated, black and white copy of the same video. The prosecution kept saying it had to do with the compression that was done when the video was sent. There were a couple of problems with this line of thinking. The video was not sent, phone-to-phone, it was sent via a drop box. Not conversion could have happened. The second problem is that the video name changed also. That’s not going to happen during the compression of a video. I was an IT guy and know this for a fact.

So I call bull crap. This is another reason this case could be judged as a mistrial with prejudice.

 

They Knew Who “Jump Kick Man” Was?

There was a picture during the riots of a tall black man jumping in to kick Kyle Rittenhouse in the head. They say they did not know his name and just called him “jump kick man”. He was important because Rittenhouse testified that he took a couple of shots at him.

Guess what? The prosecution knew who he was.

His name a Maurice Freeland. He has a record (there’s a shock). He said he would testify for the prosecution in exchange for immunity for an unrelated DUI. The prosecution declined and he just went unmentioned throughout the trial.

I’m not sure of the legality of hiding this witness. He was never brought up during the case so I’m not sure disclosure is an issue. A legal scholar on Fox News, Jonathan Turley, said it might be because the defense has a right to know who he is and there is a charge based on Rittenhouse shooting and missing him. At best, this shows how unethical this prosecutor is.

 

Frigging Media

This came up yesterday.

Apparently a freelance writer for MSNBC was following a bus that was carrying the jury. He got stopped for running a red light and then arrested for, what I think, will be called jury tampering. MSNBC got banned from the courtroom by the judge. Listen:

After a few hours to figure out how to put out that fire, MSNBC released the following statement:

“Last night, a freelancer received a traffic citation. While the traffic violation took place near the jury van, the freelancer never contacted or intended to contact the jurors during deliberations, and never photographed or intended to photograph them. We regret the incident and will fully cooperate with the authorities on any investigation.”

Now, MSNBC is going to have to get their news from Fox News.

I don’t know about you but this sounds like jury tampering and intimidation. I bet this becomes the third call by the defense for a mistrial.

 

What’s Taking Them So Long

Why the jury takes so long is a big question. Anything we come up with is pure speculation. Heck the OJ Simpson jury only took four hours. But there are some reasons why:

  • Jury dynamic.
  • The jury is stalling because of the threats from the Left. Don’t forget: this jury is not sequestered.
  • The jury is being very detailed, making sure they understand all the evidence or some want some clarification.
  • There are some in the jury that think he’s guilty and other do not and they are debating with each other.
  • They think he’s guilty but can’t agree on what charges.

I hold to my original theory:

  • The jury will not come up with a verdict.
  • The judge will review arguments from the defense of a mistrial with prejudice.
  • The judge will rule for the mistrial with prejudice.
  • Riots will happen.

Mark my words.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rittenhouse-prosecution-admits-they-sent-different-video-to-defense-team-blames-witness-email
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/rittenhouse-case
https://www.foxnews.com/us/anti-rittenhouse-protestor-body-slams-reporter-arrested-battery
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/rittenhouse-judge-bars-msnbc-from-trial-for-allegedly-following-jury-bus
https://www.foxnews.com/us/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-identity-of-mysterious-jump-kick-man-revealed

 

Resign

Last month, Merrick Garland went in front of the Senate and talked about how parents who complained to schools boards weren’t being identified as domestic terrorists and weren’t being investigated by the FBI. He said this multiple times and he said this under oath.

Guess what. A whistleblower from the FBI sent some E-mails to the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. These E-mails pointed out that parents who complained at school boards were being marked with a “threat tag”. This was done via the Patriot Act. A law that specifically said that the government could not monitor American citizens.

We knew that law was going to be dangerous.

Well, Merrick Garland has some questions to answer. The House of Representative sent a letter to Garland asking, “Hey, what’s up?” Here’s the letter:

Oops.

Merrick Garland is going to have to admit something.

  • He lied.
  • He forgot about it.
  • There are rogue elements in the FBI.
  • He didn’t know anything about it.

Any of those makes him look really bad. And the Democrats wanted to make this a Supreme Court Justice? He should just resign but he won’t.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/whistleblower-garland-doj-fbi-targeting-parents-school-board-meetings-biden

 

Just Keeps Getting Worse

Quinnipiac University released a poll and Joe Biden is getting murdered here. I like Quinnipiac. It always seems very accurate. They ask great questions. Let’s go over it.

Some things:

  • 36% is an 8 point drop compared to the last poll. The largest drop they have ever had.
  • Democrats have also lost some faith in Biden. His poll was at 98% earlier this year.
  • The dirty secret is the Independent, who got Biden elected. They’re turning against him big time.
  • I included the age breakdowns just to highlight the younger folks are not in love with Biden. It’s like this throughout the poll.

This is bad:

  • He’s actually at 35% with approval of his job as president.
  • 29% of Independents approve of him. That’s really bad.
  • Only 58% of Democrats approve of his job. That’s down over 40 points since the beginning of the year.

Understand, no one is thrilled with Congress. But this is bad for the elections in eleven months. The Senate is the same way.  Here’s the problem Democrats have. Republican always vote. Democrats have to be motivated to take the time to vote. Motivation is a real hard thing to come by on midterm elections.

By the way, where did climate change rank in the list of worries? Ranked at 8 with only 4%. Division and polarization was at number one with 11% and the economy was number two with 10%. This just shows how out of touch Democrats are.

https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3827

 

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

Joe Biden’s next crisis is on the horizon.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress that the signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act means that lawmakers should raise the debt ceiling “as soon as possible.”

Question, why? I thought it was fully paid for. Well, that was crap and there is two weeks before the debt ceiling is hit.

I’m a little worried about the Republicans here. Mitch McConnell already raised the debt ceiling last month. I think he did this because he had a deal with Joe Manchin. But nothing has been done by Democrats but spend more and to raise it and McConnell should say “no”. Close the government. F-it.

Yellen said that the debt limit would go up by $115 billion right off the bat. So…the bill is not paid for? Isn’t that what Biden and Pelosi were saying. Were they lying…perhaps.

What about that reconciliation bill, that build back better crap? Would that bill, that we’ve been told is fully paid for, raise the national debt? Hmm…

Moderate Democrats and Republicans asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to give a BS score on this bill. Yeah, it didn’t go well.

The $1.75 trillion bill is expected to dump, according to the CBO, $367 billion dollars into the national debt. By the way, it doesn’t account for the fact, per economists and if all programs are renewed, would cost $5 trillion dollars at the end of the 10 years.

Oh, but tax the rich, tax the rich!

The CBO also found that the tax increases that Biden is proposing, if they all got implemented, would only bring in $127 billion out of the $400 billion the Biden administration said it would bring in. In other words, Biden is lying to you and the bill will not be paid for.

Nancy Pelosi tried to vote for that bill tonight.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellen-says-bidens-1-2-trillion-infrastructure-bill-demands-raising-of-the-debt-limit-as-soon-as-possible
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/cbo-biden-spending-bill-add-367b-deficit-irs-tax-enforcement-plan

 

https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-embassy-hangs-up-veteran-pakistan

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-desantis-trolls-president-biden-brandon-vaccine-mandates