Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is demanding answers after whistleblowers revealed that the "lead site agent" at the rally where former President Donald Trump was shot was "inexperienced," Breitbart reported. Hawley sent a letter Monday to Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe.
On July 13, a would-be assassin fired several shots at the former president at a Butler, Pennsylvania rally. Hawley believes Rowe should answer whistleblower accusations that could point to how this could have happened.
"Whistleblowers tell me the lead site agent in charge of the Butler rally was known to be inexperienced, ineffective, and not up to the job - and on the day failed to implement basic security protocols - yet this person is STILL on active duty. Why?" Hawley captioned a copy of his letter in a post to X, formerly Twitter, Tuesday.
đ¨đ¨ NEW - Whistleblowers tell me the lead site agent in charge of the Butler rally was known to be inexperienced, ineffective and not up to the job - and on the day failed to implement basic security protocols - yet this person is STILL on active duty. Why? đ pic.twitter.com/EhfUSCvnJ0
â Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) August 6, 2024
"New whistleblower allegations to my office directly question decisions made by Secret Serviceâs lead site agent principally responsible for securing the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. These allegations suggest that the lead site agent failed to implement appropriate security protocols," Hawley charged in the letter.
"This is especially alarming because, during your testimony on July 30, you stated that this agent was âstill operationalâŚTheyâre still doing protective visits," the Missouri Republican added.
If this is true, it would mean anyone under this team's protection could be in danger. "One whistleblower with direct knowledge of the event alleges to my office that this lead site agent was well-known in campaign circles as lacking competence and experience in the role," Hawley added.
"This specific allegation follows similar public reports that this agent was 'new' to the local field office and had 'relatively little experience. The whistleblower alleges that this individual was, as part of securing the site, specifically responsible for line-of-sight concerns."
Rowe was not in command at the time of the incident, but the problem is ongoing as this agent is still on the job. "I urge you to suspend the lead site agent from all Secret Service duties immediately while these claims are investigated," Hawley concluded in his letter.
Hawley outlined the specific failures that fall squarely at the feet of the lead site agent. Another whistleblower charged that the "lead site agent personally made decisions that likely compromised the overall security of the event," Hawley wrote.
"First, campaign material such as flags were permitted to be placed around the stage and catwalk used by the former president, despite the fact that these items were typically prohibited because of how they affected the line-of-sight of those agents responsible for identifying threats," Hawley said. The Secret Service also didn't properly screen personnel at the rally.
Anyone in "restricted areas of the site" is supposed to have their identification checked before credentials are issued, which did not happen. Shockingly, Homeland Security Investigations agents employed to protect Trump that day "told campaign officials that they had never staffed a rally."
Hawley is right to demand this person resign or at least be removed from protecting Trump and other dignitaries. Unfortunately, this is just one of many aspects of this situation that point to major failures that day.
The attempted assassination of the GOP candidate is the most significant failure in Secret Service history. This should have never happened to begin with, and they certainly need to make sure it won't happen again.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said on "Fox News Sunday" that there are too many federal laws on the books in the United States and that the sheer amount of laws "impair" Americans' freedoms.
Host Shannon Bream said, âI think it will be eye opening to the American people, the idea that so pretty much of our conduct is over regulated and over criminalized many cases. Apparently you and are committing felonies every day without possibly even knowing it.â
Gorsuch answered, âI think that might be true. Some professors say there are now so many federal laws on the books that every American over the age of 18 commits one felony a day. Thatâs happened in my lifetime."
Gorsuch pointed out that from "1970 to the present weâve seen maybe a doubling the number of federal crimes on the books. And this just counts within the U.S. code passed by Congress and the tip of the iceberg because federal agencies have been busy.â
Gorsuch just released a new book "Overruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law," which explains in greater detail the impact of having too many laws.
He said, âOn the one hand we need laws to keep us free and safe, on the other hand, if you have too many laws you impair the same freedoms and our aspirations for equality too are because who can deal with a world with so much law?â
Gorsuch suggested, in the words of James Madison, that only people with money and connections would be able to do so.
Gorsuch said, âAs a judge for 18 years, I just came to see him case after case in which ordinary Americans just trying to live their lives, raise their families are just getting whacked by laws unexpectedly.â
As an example, he pointed to the IRS hotline, which was found to give wrong answers to tax questions about a third of the time. When asked why it did so, officials said it was because the tax code was so complex.
Rather than settling everything in the courts or relying on courts to determine the rules for society, Gorsuch pointed to trust between people as an important part of being able to act fairly and get things done independently of the courts.
Disagreements coupled with a lack of trust lead to division and that leads to people running to the courts to settle their differences, he said.
In situations where court intervention might be required, Gorsuch said the Constitution is the decider.
He advocated "listening as much as talking" and "trusting the person with whom you disagree loves his country as much as you do."
That would be nice to see in this country right now.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has never made any secret of her burning White House ambitions but given her own lack of electoral success in that realm, her attentions have reportedly turned to her daughter's potential as a high-ranking member of a new administration.
Inside sources have revealed that Bill and Hillary Clinton are now working to grease the wheels for their daughter, Chelsea Clinton, 44, who is interested in becoming U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom in a prospective Kamala Harris administration, according to the New York Post.
The news of Chelsea Clinton's previously undeclared vocational interest has come from a source with inside knowledge of the family, as the Post explains.
âChelsea really wants to be the ambassador to the U.K.,â the insider asserted.
In fact, her interest is reportedly so intense that it may have played a role in her parents' recent -- and very public -- decision to endorse Harris' campaign for the presidency.
âThere's a reason why Bill and Hillary came out in the first five minutes to support Kamala's presidential bid -- they were currying favor,â the source claimed.
The insider suggested that this prospective career path for Chelsea is something that has been on the Clinton radar for a while, adding that the political power duo has been âworking on this idea for a long time.â
Though reports suggest that Chelsea Clinton would also be willing to consider an ambassadorship in France, the U.K. position is the one she truly wants.
A source familiar with the workings of the British embassy opined to the Post, âI can well imagine that the U.K. ambassadorship is an aspiration for Chelsea, although she is a bit junior still... .â
The individual noted that a plumb role such as the London job âusually goes to a massive donor or fundraiser,â and despite Chelsea Clinton's obvious high-powered connections, the idea remains something out of âfantasy land.â
Even so, the source suggested that in terms of the diplomats sent to work within their borders, âForeign countries love high-profile people as ambassadors because it brings them more attention.â
âThey would rather have someone more famous and less rich,â the insider added.
Though she may be considered young for the job, Chelsea Clinton's ties to the U.K. are undeniable, in that she holds both a Master of Philosophy and a Doctorate in international relations from Oxford University, as her Clinton Foundation biography notes.
Even so, the Clinton camp has taken pains to deny that Bill and Hillary's endorsement of Harris was offered for any other reason than pure conviction, with a spokesperson saying of the notion, âAmong stupid things said by clueless people, that's pretty high up there.â
Hunter Biden is set to be sentenced on Nov. 13 after being convicted of three felonies in connection with a gun purchase, The Hill reported. The hearing will take place one week after the election that determines who will replace his father, President Joe Biden, in the White House.
U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika set the date for the sentencing hearing on Friday. Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison and $750,000 in fines.
As a first-time offender, Hunter Biden is unlikely to get the maximum sentence. Instead, he will probably be sentenced to between 15 months and 21 months in prison, if at all, after meeting with a federal probation officer.
The sentencing comes after he was found guilty in June of lying about his drug use on an application to obtain a firearm and his subsequent unlawful ownership of the weapon. Hunter Biden's conviction marked a first for the child of a sitting president.
In 2018, Hunter Biden purchased a Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver in Delaware. As per the law, he filled out an application that included a question about whether the applicant used or was addicted to drugs.
At that time, Hunter Biden struggled with addiction to crack cocaine following the death of his brother, Beau Biden, from a brain tumor in 2015, CBS News reported. Despite this fact, he checked off "no" to that question on the application in violation of federal law.
His lie allowed him to purchase the firearm, which he had in his possession for 11 days. When his then-girlfriend Hallie Biden, who was his late brother's widow, found the firearm in his truck, she threw it in the trash.
"I panicked. I realize it was a stupid idea now. But I was panicking," Hallie Biden said in her testimony.
Two felony convictions come from charges related to the application, including making a false statement on the application and lying to the gun dealer. A third stemmed from being in possession of the gun despite being a drug user.
Unfortunately for Hunter Biden, his legal woes won't end with the gun crimes. The president's son is facing a trial Sept. 5 for tax evasion and filing false tax returns after he skipped out on a $1.4 million tax liability between 2016 and 2019, Fox News reported.
During that time, he allegedly spent that money on a debaucherous and luxurious lifestyle. Hallie Biden will once again be called to the stand against her ex-lover.
She was granted immunity in exchange for her testimony against Hunter Biden, just as she was in the gun trial. U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi promised her that "no testimony or other information compelled under this order, or any information directly or indirectly derived from such testimony or information, shall be used against Hallie Biden in any criminal case" except her own perjury.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden, who has abandoned his reelection bid, has said that he will not commute his son's sentence or pardon him. "I am satisfied that Iâm not going to do anything â I said Iâd abide by the jury decision. I will do that. And I will not pardon him," the president said in June after Hunter Biden's conviction.
Hunter Biden is finally facing consequences for his criminal behavior. However, with Joe Biden no longer up for reelection, it's doubtful that his powerful father won't do anything about it before leaving office despite the promises made.
A federal court has blocked net neutrality regulations that would have increased the federal government's power over the internet, the Washington Examiner reported. The Federal Communication Commission sought to reinstate the regulations first proposed under former President Barack Obama.
The FCC imposed the regulations in 2015, but former President Donald Trump nixed them shortly after taking office. The agency reinstated the regulations under President Joe Biden, but it was met with a legal challenge.
On Thursday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a temporary injunction. "The final rule implicates a major question, and the commission has failed to satisfy the high bar for imposing such regulations," the decision stated.
"Net neutrality is likely a major question requiring clear congressional authorization," the court added. The regulations are suspended until legal arguments resume in the fall.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel issued a statement denouncing the court's decision. "The American public wants an internet that is fast, open, and fair. Todayâs decision by the Sixth Circuit is a setback, but we will not give up the fight for net neutrality," the statement said.
Net neutrality was proposed as a way to regulate internet providers in the name of fairness. The FCC rules would mean they fall under Title 2 of the Communications Act as common carriers, similar to phone companies and other utilities.
The companies would be forced to treat all content and carriers equally, which sounds good on paper, as government programs always do. However, critics point out that it is an unnecessary intervention and would lead to government overreach.
As Taxpayers Protection Alliance President David Williams put it, net neutrality was "an attempt to correct a problem that didnât exist. And quite frankly, itâs just wanting to grow the size of government because this gives the FCC more power and more control over the internet."
While the FCC acts as if this would be for the benefit of the consumer, it's clear that the federal government has been attempting to get its tentacles into what goes over the internet. There is already proof of that meddling from the 2020 presidential election.
While the FCC wants to regulate data traffic, it's clear that other parts of the government are quite comfortable with censoring content. The proof comes from how the FBI handled the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
According to a July 2023 report in the New York Post, the FBI knew the laptop was authentic but pressured X, then Twitter, to censor the story about it. The laptop contained information linking Hunter Biden to shady business dealings with his father, who was running for office.
A letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials said the laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." The truth would come out years later that that was not only false but that they knew it and still pressured social media companies to quash it.
The Post's deputy politics editor Emma-Jo Morris, who penned the infamous scoop, summed up the reason. "This elaborate censorship conspiracy wasnât because the information being reported on was false. It was because it was true. And it was a threat to the power centers in this country," Morris said in her testimony to Congress.
The FCC and other agencies should stay out of as many areas of American life as possible. Handing over the keys to the internet to these people is irresponsible and will lead to the loss of freedoms Americans already enjoy.
Former President Donald Trump paid special tribute to the person who produced the chart that caused him to turn his head away from a would-be assassin's bullet, the New York Post reported. Trump called the unnamed woman a "computer genius" and invited her on stage during his rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
During a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired a shot likely aimed at the former president's head. However, a split-second change in the position of his head to review the chart saved the former president's life.
"I love that chart. Iâm going to sleep with that chart for the rest of my life," Trump, who is the GOP presidential nominee, quipped at Wednesday's rally.
TRUMP: "This chart saved my life." đ pic.twitter.com/7VrnXAoZnH
â Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 1, 2024
At Wednesday's event, Trump began speaking about illegal immigration and asked for the same chart showing the numbers that became his saving grace earlier this month. "You know, this chart saved my life," Trump said as the crowd cheered.
"Where is that chart? I love that chart," he added. "Iâm going to sleep with that chart for the rest of my life. That chart ⌠you know the amazing thing? You know, the people that operate the computers and all the brilliant equipment we have backstage," Trump said.
He then invited the young woman, who he credits for the chart, to come up on stage. "Sheâs never done this before. She saved my life in a sense," Trump said.
"I said you saved my life. Here she is. Wow," the former president added. It appeared Trump asked her if she wanted to say anything to the crowd. She shook her head no, but then Trump whispered into her ear. The woman then approached the microphone and said, "Hi."
"Sheâs a computer genius. She saved my life," Trump said.
It's amazing what a difference a split-second movement made for Trump. Instead of taking a kill shot to the head, Trump's ear was clipped by Crooks' bullet only because the former president turned to look at the chart at the last moment.
Aaron Cohen, veteran of the Israeli Special Operations, later explained to Fox News' Trace Gallagher exactly how close to death Trump was that day. "God must have been watching down on the president," Cohen said.
"Snipers are typically trained to shoot into the cerebral cortex of the cerebellum at the top of the brain stem. It incapacitates you, it keeps your hands from moving," Cohen explained. Crooks had an easy and direct shot, which Cohen called "a putt," but he missed it.
"It's very clear to me that had the president's head been straight, and if that round had gone into the ear, it would have been lights out. The fact that he just happened to be turned this way with that shot coming in is what saved his life," Cohen added.
It was a miracle that Trump's life was spared that day. Despite all of the security failures and the determination of one dangerous young man, Trump lived to tell the tale because he turned his head just in time.
Vice President Kamala Harris is on record stating she'd like to end private health insurance, Breitbart reported. This extremely unpopular position is one of many that will be problematic for the newly-minted presidential candidate.
In 2019, Harris championed all-out socialism as the senator representing California on her way to a presidential run. When asked about her plan for healthcare, Harris said she felt "very strongly" about switching completely to a government single-payer option.
"We need to have Medicare for all," Harris said. "We have to appreciate and understand that access to health care should not be thought of to be a privilege. It should be understood to be a right," Harris added.
Harris seemed adamant when giving her answer the first time she was a presidential hopeful. However, now that she's the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, Harris must answer for that record.
In 2019, GovTrack named her the most liberal senator, ranking her above avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). She and Sanders co-sponsored the "Medicare for All" bill, which would have eliminated the private health insurance option.
It was wildly unpopular with Americans and, therefore, rejected. This is an inconvenient fact in her past, as is GovTrack's concussion about her record that year.
In an effort to rehabilitate her image, the organization retracted its previous assessment of Harris that year. This comes as the vice president has also backpedaled on her radical plan for allowing a government takeover of the healthcare system.
Recently, campaign staffers told the New York Times that she doesn't support the single-payer option after all. This is just one of the many radical positions Harris is attempting to disavow just in time for the presidential election in November.
Harris leaned into her leftism while vying for a spot as the presidential nominee in 2020. It made her unpopular then and is sure to be her undoing this time around as well.
There are many problematic positions Harris took that she can't run from, even with the media and others changing history. Some of those include her tacit support of defunding police, her promise to "think about" dismantling Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and a "mandatory buyback program" for certain guns.
However, the one her opponent, former President Donald Trump, is hammering her with lately could have a profound impact on her chances in Pennsylvania. Harris is on the record saying she wants to ban fracking, which is an important industry in the Keystone State.
"She pledged to ban fracking â no fracking, oh, thatâs going to do well in Pennsylvania, isnât it? Remember, Pennsylvania, I said it. She wants no fracking. Sheâs on tape. The beautiful thing about modern technology is when you say something, youâre screwed if itâs bad," Trump said at a rally in Minnesota last weekend.
Harris will try her best to distance herself from her previous record on these issues to garner more votes. However, Trump is correct that it's all out there for the world to see, regardless of how Harris tries to pivot away from them.
Fox News Sunday host Shannon Beam hammered Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Democrats' mishandling of illegal immigration, the Daily Caller reported. Buttigieg and others are attempting to rewrite history on the issue for presumptive presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.
Shortly after his inauguration, President Joe Biden put Harris in charge of fixing the illegal immigration problem at the U.S.-Mexico border. She did nothing to stop migrants flowing in by the millions, and Democrats have paid the price.
Now that Harris has replaced Biden as the Democratic candidate for president, party surrogates have been out in full force to convince Americans that she never really was in charge anyway. Buttigieg was following those marching orders when he downplayed migrant crime, but Beam schooled him on Sunday's program.
In an attempt to steer away from talking about Harris' part in the crisis, Buttigieg disputed a point about migrant crime made at the Republican National Convention earlier this month. Buttigieg tried to say claims about crime caused by illegal immigrants are overblown, to which Beam shot back that victims would "still be alive" if criminals weren't allowed in to begin with.
âI saw something else really important happening at the Republican National Convention on the border and the talk about immigration, which we all recognize as a problem. Which is, they try to paint this narrative that if you live somewhere far from the border and immigration hasnât impacted you personally, you need to think that immigration is a driver of crime," Buttigieg claimed.
"That was the real message. Immigration leads to crime," Buttigieg added.
âWell, there are blue state governors and mayors who say that every state is a border state now. Thatâs Democrats," Beam shot back while Buttigieg tried to talk over her.
"Yeah, now theyâre saying, but what the false message of the RNC was that this was leading to an increase in crime," Buttigieg claimed, trying to pivot to statistics that can be manipulated. Instead, Beam plainly said that if these criminal migrants had "not been in this country illegally, people would still be alive."
The Democratic Party knows that Americans are frustrated with the problems brought on by illegal immigration. They also know that it falls squarely at the feet of Harris, who was charged with fixing the problem.
Fox News reported that in March 2021, Biden tapped Harris to determine why there was mass migration from Central and South America in hopes of stopping it. From then on, Harris was known as the "border czar."
Though the administration rejected that moniker, friends and foes alike used it when referring to Harris. However, with her new role as electoral savior of the Democratic Party after Biden dropped out of the presidential race, the media has launched a coordinated effort to rewrite history.
One of the news outlets that tried and failed was Axios which claimed that "the Trump campaign and Republicans have tagged Harris repeatedly with the 'border czar' title â which she never actually had." Unfortunately, the internet is forever and people quickly found examples from their own reporting using that title.
Democrats are weak on the border issue as it is, but especially Harris who was specifically tasked with fixing it. She may have Buttigieg and all of the rest in her corner, but what she doesn't have on her side is the truth.
The 2024 Summer Olympic Games are underway in Paris, France, and amid the excitement of global competition on Friday, tragedy struck one of the national teams in attendance.
As Fox News reports, Lionel Fatu Elika, coach of the Samoan boxing team, died due to an apparent cardiac arrest at the age of 60 at the Olympic Village where athletes are housed.
Reports suggest that though Elika received emergency treatment on-site in the Olympic Village after collapsing in what was later determined to have been cardiac arrest, he was unable to be saved, and his cause of death has since been attributed to ânatural causes.â
A statement was subsequently released by the Samoa Association of Sport and National Olympic Committee (SASNOC) confirming Elika's tragic and unexpected passing.
The official release included reactions from Pauga Talalelei Pauga, president of the Samoa National Olympic Committee, who praised the late coach.
âLionel was one of Samoa's top boxing coaches and a great believer in the Olympic ideal,â Pauga declared.
Pauga went on, âOur thoughts and those of the entire Samoan sporting community are with Lionel's family, his boxers, and friends. He will be greatly missed.â
The International Boxing Association also issued a statement in the wake of the sad event, extending âheartfelt condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Lionel Elika Fatupaito, the national boxing coach of Samoa, who tragically passed away during the Paris 2024.â
According to People, the well-respected coach had traveled to Paris to support the competitive efforts of boxer Ato Plodzicki-Faoagali, who has since offered words of tribute for his beloved mentor.
Taking to Instagram to express his emotions, Plodzicki-Faoagali write, âNo words can express how I feel but rest in love coach Lionel.â
The boxer also posted a photo depicting a smiling Elika to his account, which he captioned, âOur last picture together before you passed yesterday Grand Master.â
In a more detailed post to Facebook, Plodzicki-Faoagali detailed his relationship with the late coach, saying, âI first met coach Lionel when I was 15 trialling for Samoa's Youth team. He was a kind and generous coach, not only with his time, material things, but also his knowledge.â
Referencing the joint support he felt from the coach and his own father throughout his competitive endeavors, Plodzicki-Faoagali said, âYou will be sorely missed coach, your dream was to attend an Olympics with me and dad, now you've left too early."
The grief-stricken athlete added, âRest well old man, gonna miss you out there, you were the calm one and dad the storm of our corner.â
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is urging a New York State judge not to toss former President Donald Trump's conviction in his hush-money case, The Hill reported. Trump's legal team has requested a review in light of a recent favorable U.S. Supreme Court decision for presidential immunity.
Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in his hush money trial in May. Sentencing was set to take place this month, but New York State Judge Juan Merchan has delayed it until September.
The judge will have to consider how the Supreme Court decision in favor of Trump's presidential immunity could impact the verdict. The high court ruled on the issue in relation to a separate trial.
However, Trump's legal team believes that the decision still nullifies the guilty verdict since some of his conduct, now protected by the office thanks to the immunity decision, was brought up during the trial. Merchan countered that the high court's decision does not provide sufficient justification for his New York case.
Trump's attorneys contended that because of the Supreme Court's decision, any "impermissible official-acts evidence" that made it into the Manhattan trial was inadmissible if it was adjacent to the "core" of his official capacity as president. For example, they argued that Trump's conversation with then-White House Communications Director Hope Hicks was improperly included.
Trump had discussed topics such as his activity on Twitter as president and his pardon power with Hicks. "In order to vindicate the Presidential immunity doctrine, and protect the interests implicated by its underpinnings, the juryâs verdicts must be vacated and the Indictment dismissed," the legal document argued in light of those discussions being included in the trial.
To rebut Trump's position, Bragg's office submitted a 69-page response that was released publicly Thursday. As NBC News reported, Bragg said in the filing that the immunity decision "has nothing to say about the defendantâs conviction" in the Manhattan case.
"At issue in the Supreme Courtâs decision was whether defendant could be federally prosecuted âfor conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.â The criminal charges here, by contrast, exclusively stem from defendantâs âunofficial actsâ â conduct for which 'there is no immunity,'" Bragg's filing said.
The district attorney went on to say that "the evidence that he claims is affected by the Supreme Courtâs ruling constitutes only a sliver of the mountains of testimony and documentary proof that the jury considered in finding him guilty of all 34 felony charges beyond a reasonable doubt." It remains to be seen whether the court will agree with Bragg or Trump.
Regardless of how this particular matter is settled, the conviction itself was unprecedented. Trump is not only a former president but also a current Republican candidate for president.
Moreover, Trump also has the distinction of being the subject of four separate criminal cases, though the New York case is the first to turn up felony convictions, Reuters reported. These facts already hinted at a politically motivated justice system that was trying to keep Trump out of the running.
The former president warned that booking him into jail would be the final straw. "I'm not sure the public would stand for it. I think it'd be tough for the public to take. You know, at a certain point, there's a breaking point," Trump said in June.
This all came before what Fox News confirmed was an attempted assassination against Trump in July. After seeing Trump's enemies attempt to kill him, seeing him jailed might be a bridge too far indeed.
There are many angles Trump's attorneys can use to dismantle this sham conviction. If the immunity angle fails, perhaps one of the others would do the trick in a case that stands on shaky legal ground.