Pelosi Bungles the Law on Trump's Indictment: 'Everyone Has the Right To a Trial to Prove Innocence'

Brittany M. Hughes | March 31, 2023
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In response to news that former President (and current presidential candidate) Donald Trump has been indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on charges related to so-called “hush money” he allegedly paid to porn star Stormy Daniels years ago, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to Twitter with her own hot take on the matter - and summarily bungled it.

“The Grand Jury has acted upon the facts and the law,” the California congressman posted. “No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence. Hopefully, the former President will peacefully respect the system, which grants him that right.”

Ignoring the laughable claim that “no one is above the law,” given known suspicions of the Pelosi family’s own insider trading habits and, well, the fact that every single Clinton is still walking about breathing fresh air, Pelosi made another major boo-boo in her breakdown of Trump’s situation.

As anyone who’d been in a position of legislative leadership should know, the American justice system isn’t based on the premise that the accused must “prove their innocence” before a court of law. In fact, quite the opposite - the U.S. judicial structure assumes innocence until proven guilty, and it’s the accuser who bears the burden of proof that the person they’re accusing has actually committed a crime.

Which is a pretty major distinction, and one Pelosi ought to understand. The screw-up was so glaring, in fact, that Twitter users slapped a "context" disclaimer on Pelosi's tweet, adding, "Ms. Pelosi mistakenly says that Trump can prove his innocence at trial. Law in the US assumes the innocence of a defendant and the prosecution must prove guilt for a conviction," along with a link to a Cornell University Law page on the matter.

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But while her error could be laughed off as an embarrassing fumble made by an aging lawmaker in a late-night tweet, Pelosi’s Freudian slip more likely belies a truth that's just a bit more sinister.

To liberals like Nancy here, Trump’s already guilty - guilty of things they think he’s done, guilty of things they imagine he might have done, guilty of things no one’s even accused him of yet. He’s a Republican, he stands against much of their big government agenda items, and he once beat a Clinton out for the nation’s top spot and hopes to pull off another upset against Biden. Regardless of what the facts show, what this politically motivated AG proves, or what the law says, to Pelosi and her ilk, Trump’s just guilty. And he always has been.

And now it’s up to him to prove he’s not - which he’ll never be able to do in the eyes of those who’ve already decided he is.

And therein lies the problem. And it becomes an even more dangerous one when sitting lawmakers go from believing it in their warped minds to thinking this is how our nation's justice system should be structured.

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