AMAC EXCLUSIVE
With Donald Trump’s New York trial officially underway, one of the key questions emerging this presidential campaign cycle is how each of Trump’s four trials—and their eventual outcomes—will affect the looming November election.
Into this media maelstrom comes CHASING TRUMP: Political Prosecutions. Justice Gone Wrong, a new documentary from Morningstar Studios produced in conjunction with American Greatness, a popular conservative online publication.
The 30-minute film, which has been made available online for free, addresses each of the four Trump indictments in-depth — as well as New York Attorney General Letitia James’s unprecedented civil lawsuit against Trump — and summarizes how each of them poses a threat to the rule of law in America.
Though the corporate media has vigorously attempted to frame the trials as legally legitimate and uninfluenced by political motivations, any honest assessment of the four indictments shows that they are really just thinly veiled attempts to prevent Trump from returning to the White House this fall.
More voters are coming to see how the indictments against the former president and now presumptive Republican nominee pose a sinister threat to the quintessential American principle of equal justice under the law. And with Election Day just over six months away, this film reveals just how dangerous they are.
“You have four or five different prosecutions in different forms on different highly aggressive theories and applications of the law,” criminal defense attorney George Bochetto says in the film. “On the eve of an election [for] the President of the United States. Can there be any doubt that there’s a sentiment of ‘this is get Trump?’”
Mike Davis, a prominent legal commentator and founder of the Article III Project, echoed these sentiments, describing the prosecutions as “blatant election interference” and instances of “Democrat lawfare to take out President Trump.”
“They fear that they can’t beat Trump on November 5th, 2024, and so they just want to throw him in prison for the rest of his life,” Davis bluntly states.
The documentary then pivots to a discussion of the two Trump indictments brought by Jack Smith, the Biden administration-appointed special counsel who has become notorious for his aggressive—and political—approach to legal prosecution.
The film highlights the double standard in Smith’s Mar-a-Lago documents case, which seeks to imprison Trump based on his supposed mishandling of presidential documents even though Biden has faced no legal consequences for his willful retention of top-secret national security documents following his vice presidency and even during his time as a U.S. Senator.
“There is no one doing more damage to the First Amendment than Biden special counsel Jack Smith,” says Davis. “They are eviscerating the First Amendment with this bogus legal theory that they’re using to go after Trump… where they’re trying to criminalize clearly protected speech and conduct.”
Bochetto goes on to outline the dangerous precedents Smith’s prosecution could set for future political leaders. “Jack Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump will chill every future president, every future leader, from expressing themselves about the operation of government, and whether it’s lawful or not, and whether there are forces at work that are trying to undermine our American constitution and our values, and our way of life,” he warns in the film.
“And when you chill free speech, you seriously undermine our ability as a government to act in a transparent, open, and honest way.”
During the film’s discussion of Smith’s January 6th case against Trump, which is being tried in Washington, D.C., Bochetto and Davis note the hypocrisy of the left’s attempts to criminalize Trump’s questioning of the results of the 2020 presidential election, even though Democrats have habitually objected to election results, including Trump’s 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton.
The documentary then shifts to a discussion of Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, who is attempting to use RICO laws to prosecute Trump as well as 18 other defendants for pursuing legitimate legal challenges to the presidential election results in Georgia.
The film notes that, in addition to Willis’s long and well-established history of Democrat activism, she has used her indictment of the former president to raise money for her campaign—a move that casts significant doubt on the legitimacy of the charges. Willis has also come under fire for her lover Nathan Wade, who was hired as a lead investigator in the case despite his lack of prosecutorial experience—a move that a judge condemned as showing a “tremendous lapse in judgment.”
White House visitor logs also show that Willis visited the Biden White House in the months prior to the indictment, raising questions of her potential coordination with the Biden administration.
Moreover, as Davis notes, Willis has “let crime get out of control in Fulton County” and has elevated her commitment to prosecuting Trump over her duty to keeping Georgians safe.
The film concludes with discussions of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Bragg, the film notes, has overseen massive crime spikes in New York, letting violent criminals roam the streets of Manhattan while focusing his time, energy, and resources on going after Trump. On Bragg’s watch, the New York Police Department has also seen a staggering 117 percent increase in resignations.
Bochetto observes that Bragg’s prosecution of Trump is “dramatically” changing the role of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. “He’s derelict in his duty to carry out his functions for the everyday law and order on the streets of New York City,” Bochetto said of Bragg, who is opting instead to wage a legal war against Donald Trump out of a desire for “national attention.”
Davis observes that Bragg’s indictment, which includes 34 felony charges and has been described by legal scholars and pundits of all political stripes as a staggering overreach, relies predominantly on a “convoluted campaign finance theory.”
Finally, the film addresses Letitia James, who has received funding from leftist billionaire George Soros and actively campaigned on prosecuting Trump. Among other politically motivated actions, James has sought to seize Trump’s assets as part of her civil fraud case. She has also faced bipartisan criticism for allegedly convincing a judge to undervalue Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence at a mere $18 million, a laughable amount given that the property is likely worth a minimum of 10 to 20 times that amount.
“Real justice. Honest justice. Blind justice. Our Constitution demands it. These four prosecutors are shredding it,” the film’s narrator concludes. “America deserves better.”
Chasing Trump can be viewed here in its entirety for free.
Aaron Flanigan is the pen name of a writer in Washington, D.C.
