Philadelphia’s progressive District Attorney, Larry Krasner, is considering bringing state charges against Pennsylvania residents involved in the January 6th Capitol protest, despite their being pardoned by President Trump on his first day in office, CNN’s Marshall Cohen has reported on Tuesday.
For many families, the news is distressing as they had just been celebrating what seemed like an end to the legal battles instigated against them by the Department of Justice under the Biden administration. Some of them had only recently been released from prison after serving time, often for minor offenses.
In a conversation with Cohen, Krasner expressed a determination to pursue pardoned J6 defendants, mentioning potential legal barriers such as the risk of double jeopardy. Despite the challenges, Krasner seems resolute in his decision to continue with this course of action, despite the executive directives issued by the President.
“You can have a state prosecution for conduct that was not fully encompassed in the federal prosecution,” Krasner argued.
Krasner mentioned that his office is currently examining federal documents to determine the best approach to bring forth new charges. He aims to expand this examination to include individuals who had affiliations with “far-right extremist groups” like the Oath Keepers or Proud Boys, with the hope of uncovering any overlooked offenses that could potentially be the basis for new state-level charges.
Krasner is one of many district attorneys across the U.S. supported by George Soros, taking his funding and carrying out his agenda. For Krasner however, it appears that his plan is driven by personal animus, more than it is driven by Soros’ money. His disdain for Donald Trump and Trump supporters is glaringly obvious.
Krasner went on to make the following shocking declaration; one that reveals the true motive behind his vengeful push: “Those of us who actually believe in the rule of law, and actually believe in the law, and actually believe in order — in other words, those of us who are not MAGA — intend to preserve the values, traditions, laws and Constitution of the United States. And that means accountability for the co-conspirators of the 34-time felon president.”
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Despite ensuring that Pennsylvania’s Trump supporters feel the hot breath of retribution breathing down their necks, Krasner’s lenient approach to crime has only made Philadelphia more dangerous since he took office in 2018. In 2021 the “City of Brotherly Love” saw its deadliest year yet; with 562 homicides.
This brand of political targeting, while commonplace in banana republics and communist dictatorships, is something that President Trump has vowed to dismantle in the U.S.. President Trump’s DOJ nominees have echoed this sentiment.
Given the new administration and leadership in the nation, it will be interesting to see how Krasner’s bloodthirsty fantasies play out. Will the Soros funded sock-puppet, Larry Krasner, find the legal loophole he seeks – or will Haman, again, fall into his own trap?
Soros has waged war against the Rule of Law famously over the last decades. That spending has often targeted Pennsylvania, but it has targeted other states as well.
The Heritage Foundation reports:
On May 16, Matt Dugan, the chief public defender for Allegheny County unseated the incumbent district attorney, Stephen A. Zappala, Jr., in the Democratic primary. The Pennsylvania Justice and Public Safety PAC, funded by billionaire George Soros, contributed the overwhelming sum of money to Dugan’s campaign.
Dugan promises to use his discretion on choosing which charges to file, divert “low-level, nonviolent cases out of the criminal justice system” rarely ask for bail, give lenient plea offers, and concentrate on violent crimes.
If these campaign promises sound familiar, that’s because it’s the standard boilerplate recited by Soros-financed candidates for district attorney.
But once these candidates get elected, they quickly turn their anodyne statements into something different and engage in prosecutorial nullification by refusing to prosecute entire categories of crimes, watering down felonies, refusing to ask for bail, and refusing to prosecute violent juveniles as adults. Of course, violent crime rates often explode in their cities.
George Gascon of Los Angeles, Chesa Boudin of San Francisco, Kim Foxx of Chicago, Kim Gardner of St. Louis, Rachael Rollins of Boston, and Marilyn Mosby of Baltimore all made the same or similar campaign promises, and each turned out to be a disaster once they were elected district attorney.
Boudin was recalled, Gardner and Rollins recently resigned in disgrace. Mosby lost her primary election and is being prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department. Foxx bowed out of running for re-election due to political pressure, and Gascon has barely survived two recall attempts.
With the exception of Gascon (who couldn’t because of civil service protections for his deputies), all of these DAs either fired career prosecutors once they assumed office or created such a toxic, anti-prosecutorial atmosphere in the office that law-and-order prosecutors left in droves.
Worse yet, there are eerie parallels between Dugan in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia’s Soros-funded district attorney Larry Krasner.
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Before he was elected in 2017, Krasner was a career criminal defense attorney who sued the Philadelphia Police Department repeatedly. In his first run for District Attorney, Krasner received $1.7 million from Soros-funded groups—90% of his campaign cash. For his 2021 re-election campaign, Krasner received a combined $1,259,000 from Soros-funded groups.
For his part, Dugan has been a public defender his entire career and was appointed chief public defender in 2020. To date, Dugan has received $734,000 from a Soros-funded PAC, representing 90% of his fundraising.
Crime has exploded under Krasner’s pro-criminal policies. Murders are up 63%. Shootings are up 78%.
At the end of 2021, when confronted with the spike in murders and shootings (among other crimes), Krasner said, “We don’t have a crisis of lawlessness, we don’t have a crisis of crime, we don’t have a crisis of violence.”
Michael Nutter, the former mayor of Philadelphia, called Krasner’s comments, “Some of the worst, most ignorant, and most insulting comments I have ever heard spoken by an elected official.” Writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Nutter said that Krasner owes an apology to the 521 families of Philadelphia’s homicide victims.
Krasner fired 31 career homicide and violent crime prosecutors immediately upon taking office. He replaced them with public defenders and defense-oriented criminal attorneys and ordered them to decline to prosecute most drug cases, charge lower gradations of crimes, offer sweetheart plea deals, require shorter probation and parole periods, and more. Sound familiar?
The rogue prosecutor movement is dangerous, well-funded, and systematically destroying America’s communities. When these progressive zealots take office, everyone loses, except the criminals.
Enforcing the criminal laws of the state is a sober responsibility. A District Attorney should be devoted to upholding the rule of law. The people of Pittsburgh must now decide who they want in that position.
