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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Wild E. Jean Carroll Suit Fiasco, November 2022–December 2024, Part One

Victor Davis Hanson The Bragg, James, Smith, and Willis criminal/civil 91 indictments were, as widely agreed, outrageous weaponizations of the Justice system. They will remain Biden’s legacy and a stain upon the entire American concept of equality under the law. Yet, there was something about the E. Jean Carroll civil and criminal suits—especially the methods […]

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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Fani Willis Trump Mug Shot, August 24, 2023. Part Two.

Victor Davis Hanson VDH Ultra Willis indicted Trump for the crime of asking the registrar to “find” (not invent) Trump votes that he claimed he knew existed, but were likely “missing”.  Like Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, and Letitia James, Willis coordinated her writs with the White House. Remember that special counsel Jack Smith was appointed

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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Fani Willis Trump Mug Shot, August 24, 2023. Part Two. Read More »

VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Fani Willis Trump Mug Shot, August 24, 2023. Part One

Victor Davis Hanson VDH Ultra In our chronicle of key moments that might explain how Trump went from a departing approval rating of 34% to sweeping the Republican primaries and trouncing Kamala Harris, we now list a fifth turning point in his rebirth.  Following the Mar-a-Lago FBI Swat raid, the Trump East Palestine, Ohio visit,

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VDH UltraAlvin Bragg’s 34-Count Felony Indictment of Former President Donald J. Trump April 4, 2023

Victor Davis Hanson VDH Ultra There would be five civil and criminal suits and indictments lodged against Donald Trump. All of them shared at least three things in common: 1) none of them would have been gone forward had the accused not been Donald Trump; 2) none would have been filed had Donald Trump not

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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: Visiting and Non-Visiting East Palestine Ohio. East Palestine February 23, 2023

As a reminder of the themes of this present Ultra series, we are reviewing in chronological order key, iconic events that fueled both the political recovery of Donald Trump and encapsulated and were emblematic of why he ran far ahead of Joe Biden and later defeated his successor Kamala Harris.  We are trying again to

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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Letitia James Real Estate Lawsuit, Sep 21, 2022

Victor Davis Hanson About six weeks after the Mar-a-Lago raid, it was the turn of the New York Attorney General Letitia James to continue the lawfare. On September 21, she filed a civil suit against Trump, his corporation, some of his employees, and even members of his family—which was designed to bankrupt and neuter the

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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Mar-a-Lago Raid, August 8, 2022 (Part Two)

Victor Davis Hanson From special counsel Robert Hur, the twin Biden special prosecutor to the Trump prosecutor Jack Smith, the nation would learn of the sloppy storage of the Biden documents and their multiple unsecured locations. And, in addition, Biden discussed their classified contents with his own ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer. The latter lacked a security

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VDH UltraTurning Points on the Road to Trump’s Election: The Mar-a-Lago Raid, August 8, 2022 (Part One)

Victor Davis Hanson Donald Trump was three months away from announcing his presidential candidacy on August 8, 2022, when Merrick Garland ordered an FBI raid on the ex-president’s private residence. The swoop-down was the first time in presidential history in which an archival bureaucratic/civil dispute with an ex-president over the storage and possession of presidential

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VDH UltraControversial Cabinet and Agency Picks—Part Twelve

Victor Davis Hanson The Prerequisites for Trump Nominees So, if the traditional criteria for high government positions do not much matter to Trump, what does? There are many requirements for a Trump nominee—loyalty, competence, energy, communication skills, and in some cases prior business success. But one plus is clear and prior demonization by the very

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