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And welcome to the stupider show I'm Paul Harrell filling in for Stu, so we all know what the big news is today, yesterday Donald Trump was indicted.

Specifically, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has a novel legal theory as the New York Times puts it that Trump's payoffs to Stormy Daniels are actually a felony.

Now to be clear, having an affair is a sin, but it's not a crime, and neither is paying hush money to cover one up. But according to Bragg, paying hush money to Stormy Daniels was a felony because Trump was actually making an illegal campaign contribution to himself.

Get it? Trump used his own money to try and avoid a scandal for himself, so actually that was a political expense. And we don't need to explain it any further than that. Here's what you need to know top to bottom. This is political.

The Manhattan DA has spent two years hunting for something to stick on Trump, they couldn't find any real crimes, they couldn't find any questionable crimes, so they just had to invent a crime from scratch and then charge Trump with that.

This is hugely damaging to whatever is left of the American Republic. No U.S. President has ever been charged with a crime. When Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, one of the reasons he gave is that it's impossible for a U.S. President to receive a fair trial, and it would do nothing but divide a damaged country. Ford was right.

Unless a President's crimes are absolutely flagrant and undeniable, prosecuting an elected leader is hugely dangerous. The premise of electoral politics is that we solve our disputes peacefully with voting.

Throwing your enemies in jail on a pretext is what they do in third world dictatorships like Ukraine. And now, we do it in third world dictatorships like America. Why are they doing it? Well, for the same reasons, they let mobs riot in every city in 2020.

And for the same reason, they rigged that year's election. It's all to get revenge for 2016. Trump upset their narrative and called out their lies. And ever since then, they've been obsessed with destroying him totally and utterly. To get that, they're willing to destroy everything about this country.

We'll destroy our elections, our cities, our laws, and our Constitution. Now, according to reports so far, it sounds like Trump plans to peacefully surrender himself in New York.

I don't think that's what 2016 Trump would have done. I think 2016 Trump would stay at Mar-a-Lago and say, go ahead, make my day. Put the onus on Ron DeSantis to have Florida police help arrest Trump. Now, so far, DeSantis has responded, releasing a statement. Yeah, here it is.

This quote, the weaponization of legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head. It's an American, the Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet now, he is stretching the law to target a political opponent. Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue with this Soros-backed Manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda.

Okay, so here's the truth. DeSantis is deflecting here. He's saying that he will not assist in an extradition, but that's what always happens. Extraditions from one state to another don't require a governor's involvement. So DeSantis is just saying he'll do what he normally does.

If DeSantis was actually going to do something about this, he would have to take action. If DeSantis is the kind of based leader he likes to pretend he is, he ought to protect Donald Trump. State troopers in Florida are under the personal command of the governor.

So here's an idea. Invite Trump to the Florida governor's mansion and declare him to be under the state's protection from this illegal politically motivated indictment from New York. Dare them to try and enforce it.

This isn't even legally unprecedented, by the way, for more than a hundred years, Supreme Court President said that state governors had the power to refuse to extradite prisoners to other states and the federal government was powerless to step in.

It's time to consider reviving that precedent or else these radical prosecutors from New York and California will abuse their powers to arrest every single one of their political enemies.

At a minimum, that's what Ron DeSantis needs to do if he even wants a prayer of sniffing the presidency. He can't simply condemn this circus. He has to stand up against it. He has to have skin in the game. The way Trump has skin in the game.

But we don't expect DeSantis to do that. We don't think Trump should surrender though either. There's nothing to be gained from treating this system like it has legitimacy. It doesn't.

Trump would better off, I don't know, ordering his plane to fly him to another country announcing that he'll be happy to return to America when it's a democracy and not a dictatorship.

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