Bobbing For Cannon

Unfortunately for Senator Bob Menendez, he got an honest judge.

The Democratic senator from New Jersey was found guilty by a New York jury on all 16 charges he faced that included wire fraud, bribery, and extortion in a scheme to sell his office to foreign powers and crooked businessmen in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, a luxury car and bars of solid gold.

Menendez is only the seventh sitting senator to be convicted of a crime. We may have a president in January who has been convicted of a crime, but not the crime of stealing classified documents and obstructing justice.

Democrats are calling for Menendez to resign whereas Republicans believe Trump’s conviction has made him more powerful and tomorrow night, they’ll officially make him their nominee.

Federal judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the case against Donald Trump that was brought by the government over the classified documents he stole.

Cannon wrote, “The Superseding Indictment is DISMISSED because Special Counsel Smith’s appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.” She said the Constitution gives only Congress or the president the authority to appoint a special counsel — not the U.S. Attorney General.

Cannon is asking us to believe she’s the first federal judge to catch this clause in the Constitution. This would mean every special counsel investigation into the administrations of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump has been illegal. Even the appointment of a special counsel into Hunter Biden is now illegal…well, according to Judge Cannon, so his recent conviction should be overturned. See how that works, MAGAts?

But here’s the thing… Cannon made this ruling the first court business day after Trump was grazed in the ear by what was probably shrapnel or a piece of his teleprompter after someone shot at him. This is a gift from Cannon to Trump, who appointed her to the bench despite the fact she had zero experience as a judge beforehand. To be fair, I do believe she did watch Law & Order a few times and did stay in a Holiday Inn Express once.

And I’m sure it’s just a mere coincidence that Judge (sic) Cannon’s ruling came down on the very first day of the Republican National Convention.

Judge Cannon isn’t clever enough to come up with this argument alone. Her ruling closely tracked the reasoning outlined by conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a recent concurrence in a separate case against Trump.

MAGAts are right. We do have a corrupt justice system, but it’s not the Justice Department for charging Trump in legitimate cases. The corruption lies in our federal court system where we have Supreme Court justices accepting bribes and a justice in South Florida who’s probably going to be rewarded with a seat on the Supreme Court for her Monday ruling.

This ruling will be appealed and Special Counsel Jack Smith will win, but by then, Donald Trump may be in office and he’ll appoint a corrupt Attorney General who’ll then throw out the case.

Judge (sic) Aileen Cannon was appointed by Trump. The judge in the Menendez case was appointed by a Democrat, but that didn’t stop him from being a fair and honest judge in a case involving a Democrat.

I’m still skulking around the convention zone in Milwaukee which feels like a police state with all the out-of-state cops in the area. In fact, five cops from Ohio shot a homeless man Monday night, the first night of the convention. Note, Milwaukee is in Wisconsin, NOT Ohio.

Somehow, it seems fitting that at the Republican National Convention, it’d take five cops from Ohio, the home state of Trump’s running mate, to shoot a homeless black man armed with a knife.

These cops are all over the place and they shouldn’t be here. I asked cops from Miami/Dade last night in an ice cream shop if they’re going to help secure the security of the Democratic convention in Chicago as well, and they told me don’t have any plans for it.

There are over 4,500 cops in Milwaukee to join this police state circle jerk. I’m going to remember and document this when I’m in Chicago next month.

The cops from out of state aren’t here to assist security. They’re here as a sign that they support Trump and the military state he plans to install if he retakes the White House. These cops should not be armed while in Milwaukee, outside of their jurisdiction. If I shot a homeless man in this city on Monday night, I would be in jail. These cops don’t have any more authority to “police” the area than I do.

But I guess the Milwaukee Police gave them the authority to come to their city with their guns and tiny dicks and welcomed them to shoot black homeless men. This shooting also occurred several blocks away from the convention area.

Cops who are supposedly policing outside of their jurisdiction shouldn’t be armed. Allowing cops from out of state to come into your city to shoot your citizens is a bunch of bullshit. The Milwaukee government never should have allowed this.

I visited a pub in the security zone last night along the first block before “the wall.” There were two customers in the place. It was a little after 9 p.m. The bartender asked rhetorically, “There are 50,000 people visiting for this convention…where are they?”

A server at that bar told me that not only are MAGAt tourist not giving them business, but they and the police presence have chased off their regulars. Typically, summertime increases business for these establishments in the riverwalk area but the convention is killing them when they were promised an economic boost. Some establishments were even forced to shut down for the week because they’re in the convention perimeter.

One pub manager told me, “I see why cities turn this shit down now.”

Reportedly, there’s about six miles of fence surrounding the Fiserv Forum, the home of the Milwaukee Bucks and where the convention is being held. Republicans, who were upset over businesses forced to close over a deadly virus are just fine with businesses being forced to close so they can attend the Kiss-Trump’s-Ass-Party.

I made a friend who works at one of the pubs in the convention zone. He told me that a group from Fox News visited his pub yesterday and it included cameramen and some of their most famous personalities. He reported that Sean Hannity is a great tipper and he personally took care of the check, which was $500 and he tipped 100 percent. That’s awesome of him but he’s still a slimy shitweasel.

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