June 27, 2024

The real significance of Judge Merchan’s campaign contribution

Providentially, Judge Juan Merchan has partially lifted his gag order on Donald Trump. Trump is now allowed to criticize Merchan and the jurors who convicted him of a nebulous “crime” in the New York bookkeeping case. Trump might want to ...

April 24, 2024

Why 2020 ‘Election Denialism’ Is Not Denialism at All

The penultimate stolen-election argument of Democrats is roughly as follows. Premise 1: Trump says the 2020 election was stolen. Premise 2: Trump’s testimony is untrustworthy. Premise 3: It's unreasonable to accept testimony that...

March 23, 2024

Thinking of the Fake Things

The Democrats’ last good chance of keeping the White House, aside from trying to steal the election outright, is to quickly take Donald Trump to trial after the Supreme Court hands down its decision in the presidential immunity case, insofar as...

February 23, 2024

The perverse roots of anti-Trump lawfare

What’s driving the lawfare against Donald Trump and MAGA? Superficially, the answer is politics and the quest for power, where lawfare is the only practicable way for power to be gained.  That’s because Democrat policies...

September 1, 2023

The True Big Lie

The entire case against Trump and his fellow defendants in the 2020 election-interference prosecutions can't even get off the ground unless it is more or less evidently true that the election was not stolen. The fact of the matter is that it...

August 19, 2023

Reasonableness and the Trump Indictments

Following the principle of interpretative charity, it is safe to say that Donald Trump's basic idea regarding the 2020 election is that his belief that the election was stolen is reasonable.  This means that Trump is not like a bank robber, ...

August 9, 2023

Jack Smith's impossible task

Trump lied.  He acted corruptly.  He conspired to deprive the government of its rightful function. All of these claims in Jack Smith's new indictment depend on it being unreasonable to believe that the 2020 election was sto...