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Letters: Wheeler, Welch on Trump verdict

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There is no longer any doubt!  Guilt has now been proven!  Not the phony verdict of the corrupt New York state court but the true nature and traitorous activities of the Democrat Party. 

Not only have Democrats adopted the philosophy of Marxism but also the tactics and total disregard for the Rule of Law and the US Constitution.  Our judicial system has been politicized and it will take significant purging to restore its intended nature.

The RNC and maybe others should take this outrageous outcome directly to the US Supreme Court.

Meanwhile “We The People” are not going to let the Marxists take down the United States.  We will prevail in November! – Ed Wheeler, Middlebury

Statement by Sen. Peter Welch: “No person is above the law” – The following statement was released by Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vermont) yesterday:

“All of the evidence was presented by both sides and ultimately the jurors decided – that is a fair justice system at play, and the former president and his supporters must respect that. As I have said throughout the former president’s legal proceedings: no person is above the law, including a former President of the United States.

“Donald Trump spent this trial attacking the Judge, the prosecutors, the witnesses, the jurors, and others who were not remotely involved in this case. Unfortunately, this behavior is part of a dangerous pattern of inciting his supporters to target those with whom he disagrees, as we all remember from January 6th. Those who worked on this case, and heard the facts of this case, should be protected through the next steps of this process and beyond.”


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  1. I pray that Vermonters look and listen intently. Our judicial systen has been perverted and has been for years.

  2. The judge did NOT allow all the evidence to be heard as he did not allow witnesses for President’s Trump side. Daniels lied as she had said earlier that she never had an affair with Trump and that is on tape , Conan lied and the Judge is/ was so crooked he should be disbarred. If a Republican appointed judge trying a Democrat acted like Merchan did the media and all the democrats would have been screaming to high Heaven that he- the judge- should recuse himself. Never though I’d ever see a judge who is suppose to be partial act like this and get away with it.This is a sign to N.Y. businesses , they’ll do the same thing to you- ONLY if they lean Republican and I hope businesses start leaving New York. An unfair travesty of justice !

  3. Our divided country has just become even more divided, to quote an old idiom : divided we fall, united we stand. Looks bleak for our Republic.

  4. Indeed, a major PURGE is in order. The survival of our Constitutional Republic hinges on said PURGE.

  5. “Give me the man and I will give you the case against him”[1] (Polish: Dajcie mi człowieka, a paragraf się znajdzie; translated to English more literally as “give me the man; there’ll be a paragraph[a] for him”,[2] Russian: Был бы человек, а статья найдется (“If there is a person, there will be an article [in the criminal code]”), also interpreted as “give me the man, and I will find the crime”,[3] or “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”[4]) is a saying that was popularized in the Soviet Union and in Poland in the period of the People’s Republic of Poland, attributed to the Stalinist-era Soviet jurist Andrey Vyshinsky,[2][5]: 200 [6] or the Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria.[3][4] It refers to the miscarriage of justice in the form of the abuse of power by the jurists, who can find the defendant guilty of “something” if they so desire. — Wikipedia

  6. Found a guilty by a jury of his peers. Justice has been served. I’m looking forward to the next three trials.

    • I suggest you do some research that includes looking into what Alan Dershowitz has to say.

      He’s not a Trump supporter and he votes for Joe Biden however he is a law scholar and what he has to say about what just took place is something everyone should pay attention to.

      Everyone should be educating themselves because our country is at risk because of a corrupt DOJ..

      Like Trump says and I agree wholeheartedly… If they can do this to me just think about what they can do to you.

      What happened to Trump is the biggest travesty of justice ever in United States history

  7. Now that this is over, let’s get back to what we can influence, State politics.

    VTGOP RULE 16 – CANDIDATE RULE

    1. The state committee will not support or promote any candidate for elective office who:

    (a) is a convicted FELON;

    • State politics are intertwined with and driven by federal politics. The two can’t be separated.

    • Rule 16 is at the discretion of the VTGOP executive board on a case-by-case basis and it applies to Vermont candidates. It does not apply to federal candidates from other states. YUP we will still be voting for President Trump with enthusiasm.

    • Well shouldn’t we wait until the appeal takes place and we know what happens after they sort through all of the corruption that just happened in New York in this trial..

    • Just curious Tom. Are you suggesting the VtGOP needs to remove that rule or, that the NY Democrat lead kangaroo court helped convince you to not support Trump?

    • Just because the VTGOP won’t support Trump doesn’t mean others can’t vote for him. Who cares what the VTGOP does? They can’t get out of their own way in any case.

  8. Senator Peter Welch. The man who told me, as the Vermont Senate Pro Tempore, when the Federal government demanded States raise the drinking age to 21 or lose highway funding was wrong and he whole-heartedly admonished the deed. Fast forward to now and he is whole-heartedly in favor with the installed belligerent regime. There are lawyers with ethics worthy of their profession, and then there are the treasonous traitors with law degrees. The pantsing of 2024 continues. The precedent is set – no stopping going after The Biden, Obummer, Bush or Clinton.

    By the way Senator Peter, why did three Supreme Court justices recuse themselves from hearing a 2020 election case? (The Signal/Santa Clarita Valley May 29, 2024)

    “The case at hand is known as Brunson v. Sotomayor. The petitioner sued Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in their official capacities for voting on Feb. 21, 2023, to deny the petition for certiorari, or review, in his previous lawsuit, Brunson v. Adams.
    The three Democrat-appointed justices recused themselves, citing judicial disqualification mandates in the U.S. Code and the Code of Conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, which the nation’s highest court adopted in November 2023. ”

    “The previous lawsuit was Brunson v. Adams, in which Brunson sued hundreds of members of Congress in 2021, claiming that they violated their oath of office by not investigating election fraud in the 2020 election and by certifying the election victory of then-challenger Joe Biden, over then-incumbent President Donald Trump in a vote that concluded in the early morning of Jan. 7, 2021, following the security breach at the U.S. Capitol.”

    “The court denied a petition for rehearing on Feb. 21, 2023, in an unsigned order without providing a reason. No justices dissented.
    This week, the Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari in Brunson v. Sotomayor in an unsigned order without providing a reason. No justices dissented, but Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson did not participate in the ruling. ”

    “In the Supreme Court proceeding, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, functioning as attorney for the justices being sued, waived the federal government’s right to respond to the petition in the Supreme Court in a document that was docketed on May 2.
    Brunson argued that the three justices violated their oath of office “by giving aid and comfort to enemies of the Constitution, which is an act of treason, fraud and a breach of contract.”

    For those who follow law proceedings: Why would the federal government WAIVE it’s right to respond? Wasn’t the J6 Congressional hearings a prime time exhibition to provide evidence of an insurrection to the American people? No reason provided for a denial to hear, unsigned with none dissenting? What are they sitting on that hasn’t leaked from the judicial clerk’s offices?

  9. Can’t wait to see where the goalposts get moved to now as people are going to justify voting for a convicted felon

    • There’s no need to move goalposts. It was a Stalinesque show trial from the very beginning, and pales in comparison to the crimes committed by the likes of Biden, both Clintons, Obama & George Bush. Still voting Trump. More so inclined, in fact.

    • Biden (Tara Reid) Obama (floating chef/Maggie Nixon) Bush (Katrina,9/11 WMDs) Clinton ($850,000 to Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, et al.)

      I’m glad to see the kool-aide drinkers celebrate the corruption inside the American Justice System at the hands of documented felons, perverts, and war criminals. It clearly shows the power of the propaganda machine and the willful ignorance of believing fiction over facts.

      Considering Trump raised $52 million in 24 hours means not every American agrees to go along to get along and will now fight the corrupted system harder than ever. God bless America!

    • Chris
      Why would anybody need to “justify” their vote to you or anyone else?

    • Wake up Chris, no one has to “justify” their vote. Although I am sure the party you support will attempt to change that too. Yet, no comment from you on how the judicial goalposts were changed to get a conviction. What did your party promise us to keep Trump out of the running….”whatever it takes”. Now that we have a clear understanding of whatever is, we can begin to save what little is left of our democracy.

    • So you would agree then that the DOJ should hurry up and bring the Biden crime family to trial so he can be convicted of his crimes against America before people are allowed to vote for him after he is a convicted felon on real charges and real crimes committed by him and his son Hunter..

      We have a corrupt DOJ are you in favor of the corruption taking place in the United States of America today that will eventually destroy our country?

      Has your hatred for one man so filled your heart that you lost your love for America?

      People better wake up and research what is taking place in our country before it is too late!

    • “Moving goalposts”… Like how Bragg changed the statute he was convicted of from a misdemeanor to a felony in 2021??

  10. If Trump committed election interference by paying off someone under a private NDA to hide his personal life from the public, what is the coverup of Hunter Biden’s laptop (verified, including the iCloud back-up. Of same, and hidden by the FBI before Oct 2020)?
    The FBI/CIA/DNC and Biden himself said it was fake and a Russian disinformation campaign. All the while knowing the opposite was true.
    That sounds like election interference! 15% of voters agreed that it would have effected their votes in 2020. The hypocrisy astounds!

  11. Welch: “Donald Trump spent this trial attacking the Judge, the prosecutors, the witnesses, the jurors, and others who were not remotely involved in this case.”

    This is a false statement. You know as well as everyone else that Mr. Trump was placed under a gag order many weeks (months?) ago. He has not been able to voice his opinion. What you may be hearing, Mr. Welch, is the steady and increasing scream of people, Trump supporters or not, who see through this veil of constant repetition of falsehoods.

    Article VI of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America:

    “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law,

    ** and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; **

    to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”

    It seems no specific crime was charged as the basis for these proceedings. The presumption was obviously that the crime was somehow connected to the alleged extra-marital affair between Mr. Trump and Ms. Daniels (or whatever her real name is).

    We simply STILL do not know what crime was committed to cause the ill-begotten misdemeanor fruit (rotten at that) to become a criminal offense.

    Bill of rights violations = the federal government has been dissolved and the people who once agreed to governance under the law of the land (Constitution + Amendments) simply no longer give their consent.

    • Adam,

      Judge Merchan found Trump in contempt of court 10 times because Trump mouthed off. But you said “He has not been able to voice his opinion.”

      You weren’t listening.

    • “Mouthing off”, John McCormack, is covered under the First Amendment, you know, “free speech”, particularly as applied to criminal defendants.

      Enjoy your private Stalingrad.

    • The only person impeding a speedy trial, in this case and in the several others, is Trump himself.

  12. Hey Peter Welch remember BLM and how they burned down cities I don’t recall hearing you say anything? We will see how HUNTER BIDEN makes out and we will need to see what you say👊

    • Antifa and BLM actually attacked a court house for an extended period of time, but no one cared or did anything about it. Our politicians called it “beautiful protest.” Why, because we live in Herbert Marcuse’s of Repressive Tolerance. Herbert Marcuse was a neo-communist and Marxist who was forced to leave Germany. He came to America and worked in many universities. Pegressive Tolerance advocates for the censorship, harassment and removal of rights for all conservative, while amplify the voices of progressive causes and narratives.

  13. Innocent until proven guilty in a real court, not a third world kangaroo court, or one of those southern courts that DemocRATS tried and hung innocent black men in.

  14. The problem:
    Someone figured out many years ago that the taking and keeping of governmental control away from ‘the people’ rests with control of our judicial system. Ultimate power does not reside in the Executive or Legislative Branches of our government, or with the States, or even with the military, or with voters. Control of the judicial branch of government is key. And it provides two significant political weapons used in what we today characterize as ‘lawfare’.

    First, while the election of Judges, State and District Attorneys, and their appointments, aren’t your typical high profile political contests, they should be. These officials can, and do, ‘legislate from the bench’ with impunity as they see fit. Not only are many of them not elected, we see now that they can make up the law as they go. And once they’re entrenched, removing them is politically impossible.

    But second, and most importantly, folks like George Soros figured out that control of judicial officials and appointees also creates an insurmountable financial weapon. Individuals must spend their own money to defend themselves against the government. However, those in control of the public judiciary use taxpayer dollars exclusively to fund their charades, ill-advised as they may be.

    Is this current episode of Trump Derangement Syndrome finally putting this issue to rest? Hardly, folks. While TDS sufferers appear to think so, to quote Sir Winston Churchill, “This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is perhaps just the end of the beginning.”

    • https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/samuel-alito-upside-down-american-flag-supreme-court.html?pay=1717198978053&support_journalism=please

      Jay, your only problem with legislating from the bench is when its not your team. There is NO GREATER group of people legislating from the bench than the Supreme Court. Once, just once admit that yeah maybe sometimes they can give off the note of impropriety. You won’t because you can’t, because while you cry TDS, you are in your own cult.

      https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-cannon-petty-ruling-could-134807494.html

      Aileen Cannon? C’mon you can’t be serious. By the way, whatever your reply is, I don’t care, because no matter how you frame or justify it, TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON!!!!

    • Nice try… again… Chris ‘whoever-you-are’. Your problem, ‘whoever you are’, is that you can’t read. Want proof? Show us, where in my above comment I said the SCOTUS doesn’t legislate from the bench? And where did I say Trump wasn’t a convicted felon?

      As usual, I look forward to your whimpering silence, yet again – at least until you succumb to the next bout of TDS’s inevitable myopic dysphoria.

    • Perhaps ‘whoever you are’ and other TDS sufferers will better understand this vernacular.

      To quote Yogi Berra: ‘It’s not over ‘til it’s over’.

    • As many legal scholars have opined, precedent is set, now any Attorney General or State Prosecutor can go after any political figure they want to railroad. As the saying goes, what is good for the goose is good for the gander. They want to play dirty, well let the games begin…careful what you wish for, you may just get it, sideways and the hard way.

  15. Where were you people so outraged here when we gave up on being a nation of laws? Four cops who did their job arresting a resisting subject were railroaded in the show trial of the century. Ring a bell? It was only four years ago. (hint-it was intended to prevent rioting and looting on a national scale, so therefore probably worthwhile, right!?)

    • I was and still am outraged. And if I remember correctly one juror openly admitted he was tainted. Nothing was done about it. What I ask is where are the so-called independent journalists that wouldn’t (or were told by manager editors) not to report the truth.

  16. Hillary Clinton committed the same crime of mislabeling the payment when she paid Christopher Steele for the Steele Dossier. Her campaign was fined $150’000 dollars.

  17. Here is the difference between Trump and Biden voters. Trump voters are voting for someone who showers with porn stars and super models. While Biden voters are voting for someone who showers with his own daughter.

  18. Thank you, DemocRATs, for your nonsense BS trial that just pushed Donald J Trump farther ahead ” again ” over Feckless Joe……..34 guilty votes = $52M………. thanks.

    The left never learns, I wonder when they’ll toss dementia, Joe, to the curb, these rabid progressive dogs will eat their own, as they see it all slipping away !!

  19. Senator Welch presented a rather glaring instance of what I characterize as TDS misinformation in his remark that:

    “All of the evidence was presented by both sides and ultimately the jurors decided “.

    When, in fact, only the ‘admissible’ evidence was presented to the jurors. The Judge deemed a significant amount of defense evidence as ‘inadmissible’. His call. Judge Merchan, for example, sustained only three objections from the defense, while overruling only two objections from the prosecution. This in response to the dozens of objections made each day.

    In fact, Judge Merchan ‘so restricted’ defense testimony by former Federal Election Commissioner, Bradley Smith, an ‘election law expert’, that the defense decided not to call him. At one point, despite a multitude of objections, Judge Merchan even had the press removed from the proceedings.

    But hey, it was Judge Merchan’s court proceeding to manage. And, apparently, it was Senator Welch’s right to misinform the public.

  20. Alvin Bragg: Wasn’t Alvin one of those Chipmunks? You know the one that was always late or in some other trouble. Alvin, Alvin, ALVIN !!!!!