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Rogan rips Fani Willis, multiple Trump indictments: ‘Seems like what happens in banana republics’

March 18, 2024 | | Print Article

Joe Rogan tore into Fulton County DA Fani Willis just before Judge McAfee gave her a pass, claiming that the whole sordid mess seemed like something out of a banana republic.

“It’s crazy how many times they’ve indicted him because it seems like what happens in banana republics, but just somehow or another, it’s okay? The exact same thing? Did you see when that guy from Shark Tank? Kevin O’Leary was discussing this whole thing, saying, you’re gonna ruin real estate development in New York,” Rogan commented to writer James Lindsay on his podcast.

“People won’t want to do real estate deals there because this is how they do it. When they say my building is worth $400 million, you’re supposed to say no, it’s worth $300 million. Here’s a loan on $300 million. To say that that’s fraud when he paid the loans back. Yeah, this is crazy. That is the epitome of, what are you doing? What are you chasing? What did you not chase down? And you’re chasing this down?” he railed, referring to the civil case in New York brought by Attorney General Letitia James.

Rogan then posited that the persecution of former President Trump has to do with his running for the presidency. He intimated it’s purely political and it’s something you would see in corrupt third-world nations.

“Is it possible that you’re doing this because this guy’s running for president? Because it kind of seems like it to the world. It looks like you’re trying to prosecute your political opponents. 360-something million dollars. That’s insane. It’s a lot of money. Where does it go? Because there are no victims, right? That’s a problem. Elon tweeted that. It’s just kind of bonkers,” Rogan remarked.

“And then you got the Georgia one with that Fani lady. That lady is in trouble. She’s in trouble. She’s in real trouble. The whole story is amazing. To see her on the stand getting sassy and see that her explanation was cash. She keeps a lot of cash around the house. Like, where do you get this cash? Why do you have so much cash to pay for all these vacations? You paid him back? What? It’s like a little kid’s explanation. Oh, I paid them back in cash,” he sneered.

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“The other thing she tried was, I am not about to emasculate a black man. What does that mean? That is not an answer to a question. But that’s a way to throw up that race card and get out of this question. We’re just talking about what you did with the money. What happened here?” Rogan asked.

Rogan is far from alone in asking that question. Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley was very blunt in commenting that there is no way to ignore the blatant political bias taking place against Trump. Others are lining up with similar commentary.

“Channeling Tennessee Williams in his play ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ Judge Scott McAfee wrote that, after their testimony, there remained ‘an odor of mendacity,'” Turley noted in an opinion piece following the judge’s ruling on Willis.

“That odor was particularly strong after the hearings indicated that Wade may have committed perjury in his earlier divorce case and that both Willis and Wade were credibly accused of lying on the stand about when their relationship began,” the professor at George Washington University Law School wrote in the piece published by The Hill.

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He noted that Fani Willis and her special prosecutor Nathan Wade are being accused of the same things that former President Trump is. The difference is the two attorneys are allowed to skate over it.

“They are prosecuting defendants in the Trump case accused of the same underlying conduct, including 19 individual counts of false statements, false filings or perjury,” Turley wrote. “Yet, that distinct odor noted by Judge McAfee goes beyond the sorted (sic) affairs of Willis and Wade.”

“For many citizens, mendacity, or dishonesty, is wafting from various courtrooms around the country. The odor is becoming intolerable for many Americans as selective prosecution is being raised in a wide array of cases,” the legal scholar wrote, pointing out the obvious.

In comments about Trump’s prosecution over his business dealings in New York City, Turley pointed out that in New York, “the legislature changed the statute of limitations to allow Trump to be sued while New York Attorney General Letitia James effectively ran on a pledge of selectively prosecuting him. She never specified any particular crime, just promising to bag Trump.”

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Many feel that the bias is playing in Trump’s favor, making him more popular and more likely to be re-elected president.

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