American Liberty Report – The week of March 11th was extremely consequential in terms of the 2024 election, but one very important story that got buried was the hearing that took place in federal court in Florida. Judge Aileen Cannon held a hearing to discuss President Donald Trump’s motions to dismiss the classified documents case against him on the grounds of the vagueness of the Espionage Act and Trump’s protection under the Presidential Records Act.
Judge Cannon denied those motions on Thursday but signaled very strongly that she could dismiss the entire case based on the selective prosecution of Trump.
Independent journalist Julie Kelly was inside the courtroom for the hearing. President Trump also made an appearance in person. Kelly says that the elephant in the room during the entire hearing was Special Counsel Robert Hur’s testimony before Congress earlier this week.
Hur testified to Congress that Joe Biden stashed his hoard of stolen classified documents in seven different unsecured locations. Biden lied about the fact that he had shown those classified documents to other people. At the end of that entire investigation, Hur declined to prosecute Joe Biden because he is an incredibly stupid old man with dementia.
Kelly says that Judge Cannon repeatedly used the phrase “selective enforcement” during the hearing. It’s clear that she was directly referencing Joe Biden and the fact that he was not charged with stealing thousands of classified documents.
Smith’s indictment states that President Trump began “willfully” retaining national security information on January 20, 2021—the day when he left office. Cannon asked for the historical precedent of when a former president has ever been charged with retaining classified materials after he left office. Of course, there is no such precedent.
Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all took classified documents when they left office—and they kept them. None of them were ever charged, despite doing the exact same thing that Donald Trump did. Vice President Mike Pence skated on charges, as did former Vice President Joe Biden this week.
Hillary Clinton deleted 33,000 classified emails from the illegal server she had set up in her bathroom closet at her home in Chappaquiddick, from the time when she was Obama’s Secretary of State. She wasn’t even supposed to have those documents, and by deleting them, she destroyed evidence in a criminal investigation. Yet former FBI Director and bumbling stooge James Comey announced that “no reasonable prosecutor” would have brought charges against Hillary Clinton.
That’s why Judge Cannon kept repeatedly bringing up “selective prosecution.” Nobody else ever gets indicted for fumbling around with classified documents—except for Donald Trump.
Judge Cannon also called out Jack Smith’s team of prosecutors on the fact that the Department of Energy revoked President Trump’s “Q” security clearance. That’s never happened to a former president before—but it’s even worse than it sounds. It was only after Jack Smith charged Trump with 32 crimes in Florida that the Department of Energy retroactively revoked Trump’s clearance. Smith’s team had no answer as to why the DoE did that but only after Trump was indicted.
Julie Kelly noted on Twitter/X:
“’Given the constellation of what happened before’–meaning no criminal prosecution of former presidents including Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan and vice presidents–Cannon suggested Trump could have reasonably expected he was in the clear.”
There is still a motion to dismiss the case that Judge Cannon has not ruled on yet. That’s the motion to dismiss based on selective and prejudicial prosecution. Judge Cannon hammered the point over and over again that no one else has been charged with these crimes. Kelly predicts, based on how the hearing went, that Judge Cannon is ultimately going to dismiss this BS case.
The most ridiculous thing about all of this is that Trump didn’t retain those documents after he left office. The National Archives dumped an enormous pile of boxes on the White House driveway on January 14, 2021, and told Trump’s team to come pick them up. Trump didn’t pack those boxes and certainly didn’t know that within that giant pile, there would be 100 pages of classified docs. (Far fewer documents than Joe Biden STOLE.)
The National Archives packed the boxes! That’s not willful retainment of anything. It’s a setup.
We’re not speculating about this. There’s plenty of photographic evidence.
Check out this photo on Business Insider. Or this one at the Associated Press.
SF Source American Liberty Report Mar 2024