Former President Trump has said it repeatedly.
“In the end, they’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you — and I’m just standing in their way,” says the former president in his rallies.
As if to vividly illustrate Trump’s point, yesterday the far-left Democrat congressman from California, Eric Swalwell, made plain that this is indeed the mindset of the American Left.
Yesterday during the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, the topic was the gathering of the Trump criminal trial in New York City. A trial presided over by a decidedly conflicted left-wing Judge Juan Merchan, whose blatant anti-Trump bias and family conflict of interest has been discussed previously in this space.
As I noted then:
Fact: New York state Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, who has issued a gag order to silence former President Donald Trump, has been revealed as the father of a far-left anti-Trump political activist daughter. And allegedly the husband of a one-time staffer for the infamous Trump antagonist, New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Regarding yesterday’s opening day of trial, Clay observed on X and mentioned on the show:
If you’re a Trump supporter in New York City who is a part of the jury pool, do everything you can to get seated on the jury and then refuse to convict as a matter of principle, dooming the case via hung jury. It’s the most patriotic thing you could possibly do.
And, in a blink, in exactly the manner that Trump was describing when he said, “In the end, they’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you — and I’m just standing in their way,” Clay Travis became a target, notably from leftist Swalwell. Said Swalwell of Clay’s remarks: “Jury tampering. That’s what they do. *It’s a felony.”
And someone identified in Mediaite as “National security lawyer Bradley Moss” freaked that “Clay is arguably conspiring to commit jury tampering here by encouraging someone to deliberately engage in jury nullification. Not a wise move by Clay.”
Hello? Let’s start with an obvious basic. Clay Travis is a talk show host. It is his job — say again his job — to offer opinions on the news of the day. In his case, he is joined by co-host Buck Sexton to do the same. As if it needs recalling, Clay and Buck are the successors to the landmark show that was hosted by Rush Limbaugh. Who surely would be proud of them.
The last I checked, offering an opinion is not a felony. Unless, apparently, that opinion runs counter to the left-wing groupthink of the moment. Opining on the news is not limited to Clay and Buck. Talk radio, televised talk shows, and print/internet publications — like the one you are reading here at The American Spectator — are in the business of doing so.
And make no mistake. What Swalwell is about is trying to silence, to intimidate, Clay Travis from offering his decidedly legitimate opinion on what’s going on in this farce — say again farce — of a criminal trial that is designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to keep former President Trump from winning reelection and going back to the White House. Which is to say that this trial is about election interference.
The legal process in New York has been decidedly corrupted by a clique of Trump-hating lawyers in various positions. And if those they are trying to force into finding Trump guilty — potential jurors in this case — decide to stand up for honesty and integrity by rejecting the corruption being used to create and run this trial, as Clay suggested, then good for them.
To say so, as Clay Travis did, is called free speech. And to suggest that Clay be threatened with a potential felony for giving his opinion is, all by itself, a serious warning that Trump’s point is spot-on.
It is a perfect illustration that, again in Trump’s words, “In the end, they’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you — and I’m just standing in their way.”
The not-so-veiled threat here is that they will come after Clay Travis if he doesn’t stop doing what he is professionally and constitutionally protected in doing: giving his opinion and speaking his mind.
Swalwell’s words are a decidedly on-point illustration of the authoritarian leftist mindset at work.
And it won’t work. Neither Clay Travis or anyone else in conservative media will be intimidated into silence.
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