Flotsam and Jetsam - Merchan Sets Trump Sentencing After Election

James Lynch at Da Caller, Judge Delays Trump Hush-Money Sentencing Until after Election. Althouse, "Judge Delays Trump’s Sentencing Until Nov. 26, After Election Day." "The NYT reports. As I predicted. The NYT assesses this development: "It is unclear whether sentencing Mr. Trump in September would have helped or harmed him politically; his punishment could have been an embarrassing reminder of his criminal record, but could have also propelled his claims of political martyrdom." Also, "If the judge proceeds with the sentencing this month, Mr. Trump will accuse him of meddling in the election." ""But if he postpones it, Justice Merchan will undoubtedly face accusations that he put Mr. Trump’s political considerations above the rule of law." From From "Judge Will Decide Friday Whether to Postpone Trump’s Sentencing/Justice Juan M. Merchan, who presided over the trial that led to Donald J. Trump’s conviction, faces a fraught decision amid the thick of the presidential election" (NYT). Sundance, Merchan Delays Trump Sentencing Until After November Election. Vicky Taft at PJM, Harris Campaign Is Paying Trump Judge's Daughter. Yeah, That's Happening. At NewsMax, Napolitano to Newsmax: Judge Chutkan Giving Feds Election Day Advantage. "By allowing the federal government to bolster its "election interference" case against former President Donald Trump before his lawyers can move to dismiss, Judge Tanya Chutkan is giving the Justice Department an Election Day advantage, retired New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano suggested." Usually the defense moves and the government responds. 

BREAKING: DOJ Chief of Public Affairs Admits Trump Indictments Are a Politically Motivated "Perversion of Justice"; Reveals Lawfare Involved in Making Former President a "Convicted Felon" Backfired on Democrats; Claims His Former Colleague Alvin Bragg's Case is "Nonsense" And… pic.twitter.com/IQhR0ax2pw

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) September 5, 2024

'Bonchie' at RedState notices The Press Finally Notice Kamala Harris Is Playing Them for Fools. Nah, they knew it all along. They just didn't care. ian bremmer@ianbremmer, "some positions kamala harris has flipped on via @axios. PJM's Rick Moran swears There's a Method to Kamala Harris's Flip-Flop Madness. "Easy answer: She believes whatever it will take to win the White House.. . .  I am betting that six months after she takes office if she's elected, most of those radical-left positions will make a sudden reappearance. She will explain that her "time as president" has changed her mind." WUWT cites AXIOS: Harris campaign dodges over EV mandate walkback – ‘Axios asked Harris campaign to clarify her position’ but the ‘Harris’ campaign ultimately declined to comment. Ace, The Media Which Applies No Scrutiny to Kamala Harris Wonders, "How is Kamala Harris Managing to Avoid Scrutiny?" "The Politico knock-off with the Nazi-sounding name, Axios, wonders how Kamala Harris is avoiding the scrutiny that they refuse to give her. Bear in mind: This is the same outlet that insisted Kamala Harris was never "border czar" despite their own "reportage" calling her that in 2021." Ruy Teixeira, The Rise of Vince Lombardi Democrats, "Policies? We don’t need no stinkin’ policies"  Bob Hoge at RedState sees MORE LIES: Kamala Harris, Associated Press Completely Distort JD Vance's Message About School Shootings. 

Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.06.24, American Greatness: The 2024 Democrat Presidential Ticket that was Twenty Years in the Making, Media Outlets Lie About J.D. Vance’s Comments on School Shootings, Legal Insurrection, CNN Shockingly Calls Out Kamala Harris Hypocrisy Over Trump Border Wall, This Ain’t Hell, Vladimir Putin hinted at Kamala Harris preference, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on military issues, The Federalist: Harris And Walz Avoiding The Press Isn’t A Savvy Campaign Strategy — They’re Just Cowards,

Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.06.24, Twitchy, Oh? THAT Dick Cheney? Greg Byrnes at PJM notes Vladimir Putin and Liz Cheney Endorse Kamala Harris and Other Never-Trump Insanity. Da Blaze, JD Vance celebrates Liz Cheney's endorsement of Harris, says they're well-paired: 'They get rich when America gets weaker'. Sundance at CTH, Liz Cheney Says Her and her Father Will Vote for Kamala Harris. Ace, Dick Cheney Is Voting for Kamala Harris, "I'm sure the cokehead ne'er-do-well half-tard George Bush will come toddling along shortly." From Da Caller, Literally No One Cares What John McCain’s Son Thinks. I literally wasn't aware he had one. Pretty unremarkable. Get Bright decries The Media's Campaign Against Gold Star Families 

Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.06.24, American Thinker: Coming Soon to a Town Near You: The Aurora Illegals Invasion

From the Jewish Insider, Walz: Anti-Israel protesters ‘speaking out for all the right reasons’. "The Democratic vice presidential candidate failed to mention Hamas or the six murdered hostages in his response to a local radio station." Gabe Kaminsky at WaEx reports Tim Walz promoted research facility that partners with China’s Wuhan lab. 

Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.06.24 Twitchy notices  WaPo Pumps Out a Pardon-Prepping Puff Piece Painting Hunter Biden As the Heroic Victim, Dana Loesch: Hunter Biden Pleads Guilty In Tax Case  At NewsBusters, ABC/CBS/NBC Led With Hunter Biden's GUILTY Plea -- What Was Left Out?. The laptop. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, "Tim has plenty more about what was left out, including NPR entirely, it seems." Stephen Kruiser at PJM, All of This Hunter Biden Stuff Might Have Been Helpful Four Years Ago.

Twitchy has Here's the 'Most Telling' Part of the August Jobs Report the Dems Won't Be Highlighting. Greg Price@greg_price11, "Two stats are everything you need to know about the August jobs report: Jobs for native born Americans over the last year: -1.3 million Jobs for foreign-born workers over the last year: +2 million Full time jobs: -438,000 Part times jobs: +527,000." Matt Margolis at PJM, The August Jobs Report Is Bad, July’s Decline Far Worse Than Reported. YaHoo! Private sector tallies lowest monthly job gain since January 2021. Althouse cites the NYT, "The labor market appears to have shifted into a lower gear, reinforcing concerns that businesses have little appetite to hire..." Nick Arama at RedState, Biden Slides Into Series of Unhinged Rants During Detroit Remarks on Jobs. Trump War Room@TrumpWarRoom "BIDEN: "A trillion three hundred billion dollars over ten years! And we reduced the budget at the same time!" This is the cognitive decline Kamala covered up for 3.5 years." Sundance, Biden Admits “Inflation Reduction Act” was actually the “Green New Deal” Con. Ace, Job Creation Slows as Foreign Workers Take the Lion's Share of What Few Jobs Were Created, Plus: Appeals Courts Remove RFKJr's Name from Ballots in MI and NC!

At the College Fix, Professors rally academics around ‘less bad’ candidate Trump. At Ace's THE MORNING RANT: A Study Shows that Blue State Refugees Are Voting Heavily Republican in Tennessee. Matt Vespa at TownHall, Trump Spills What He'll Never Do Again If Elected Again. Trust the bureaucrats. 

Hat Hair's Dave Strom wonders Can Kamala Survive Tuesday's Debate? "First, the bad news: Kamala could appear on stage drunk out of her mind, vomit on the moderators, and do a striptease revealing she is a lizard person, and her poll numbers would only drop by 3 points." At TownHall, Salena Zito explains What Really Happened to JD Vance in Erie "It was a speech that connected so well with those in attendance that one woman wondered out loud where the heck his teleprompter was, to which Vance quipped, "Ma'am, I don't need a teleprompter. I've actually got thoughts in my head, unlike Kamala Harris.""

Stacy McCain, Liberals Have a Jewish Problem (and Also, Jews Have a Liberalism Problem). 

JUST IN: Lifelong Democrat Alan Dershowitz announces his departure from the Democrat Party. pic.twitter.com/uJxH2wfW0D

— Awesome Jew (@JewsAreTheGOAT) September 6, 2024

Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.06.24, Legal Insurrection RFK Jr. Wins Appeal to Remove Name From Ballot in North Carolina. Jazz Shaw, And Now, RFK is Back OFF the Ballot in Michigan, Sundance, North Carolina Appeals Court Orders RFK Jr Name to be Removed from Ballots. All of which is good for Trump. 

Ace, America First Legal Sues Every County in Arizona to Force Them, as the Law Requires, to Remove All Illegal Aliens from the Voter Rolls. Physics Geek@physicsgeek, "Are you claiming people smart enough to sign their names on a ballot are too stupid to write in a date as well? Is it disenfranchisement because they need a pen? What exactly is your beef here? Okay, we all know the problem. It reduces the opportunity for fraud." Althouse offers When people vote about the visualization of the concept of voting. Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.06.24, EBL: Kamala Harris: Dangerously Liberal, also, Partisan Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson Reversed by Michigan Court of Appeals. 

Bonchie@bonchieredstate "For those wondering, what the AP pulled last night bolstered by the Harris campaign repeating the lie will have more effect on the election that $10 million from Russia." At Da Wire, Tim Pool Tells Ben Shapiro ‘Russia Sucks,’ He’s ‘Pissed’ About DOJ Claim That Tenet Was Funded By Russia. Capt. Ed, "It seems pretty clear that Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Blaze Media, and others got victimized by this scheme. Even the DoJ described them as victims. I don't share Tim's views about Ukraine, but it's certainly possible to oppose Western support for Kyiv while still "hating" Russia and Putin."

Althouse, You, the commenters, talked a lot yesterday about that A.G. Sulzberger column blaming Trump for efforts around the world to censor the press. "The #1 thing I didn't say but wanted to say was that contrary to Sulzberger's perverted argument, criticizing the press is not censorship. Criticizing the press is more speech. Trump has been criticizing the press. It is Trump's antagonists who have pursued censorship, for many reasons, including his criticism of the press."

db@tier10k "Telegram quietly updates FAQ, removing: "All Telegram chats and group chats are private amongst their participants. We do not process any requests related to them."

From the Free Bacon, Harvard University Not Cooperating With DA's Investigation Into Students Charged With Assault of Jewish Classmate, "Two students were charged over the viral October incident, but other assailants remain unknown." At Campus Reform, New School course poses ‘(eco)feminism’ and ‘(eco)Marxism’ as ‘viable alternatives’ to capitalism. 

Matt Vespa claims CNN Made an Interesting Edit to Their Story About the GA School Shooter. "Mia wrote earlier today about the latest development that’s bound to sink any liberal media narrative about this tragic incident: the shooter, Colt Gray, 14, was supposedly angered over society's progress in accepting transgender people." Ace, CNN Confirms: Discord Linked to School Shooter Expressed "Frustrations with Acceptance of Transgender People," Claimed He Was "Bullied for Being Gay". "It was technically illegal for me to even speculate about his motives -- only the media is permitted by law to do that -- especially if that speculation impacted one of the "disadvantaged" (actually, "greatly advantaged") Democrat client group. So I am wiping my brow in relief that yes, this is yet another teen filled with hate and hormones and whipped up by the left to kill normal people for the crime of being normal. They don't say he was trans -- just that he was very, very upset about the lack of "acceptance of trans people."

At the Hollywood Reporter, Why ‘South Park’ Will Skip the Election and Return in 2025. Burned out on elections. 

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