The Trump Admin Arrests Dangerous, Power-Hungry Judge And The Media Has A Total Meltdown

A few years ago, in a small courthouse in Cincinnati, Ohio, something unprecedented and unthinkable happened — something that’s never happened before in all of recorded human history: A judge was sentenced to prison for committing a crime. Up until this moment, which took place in the summer of 2019, no judge had ever done anything illegal for any reason, in any context. You can go back to biblical times if you want to. No judge had ever gone to jail. And that makes sense, of course, because judges are the ones who adjudicate legal problems. So it would make no sense for a judge to cause a legal problem in the first place. That would just be completely backwards. It would be like a postal worker going postal, or a chiropractor breaking someone’s neck, or a firefighter deciding to commit arson. These are things that, by definition, are physically impossible.

And yet, in Cincinnati of all places, it happened. Somehow, in defiance of the laws of physics, a judge named Tracie Hunter was convicted of the crime of corruption. And as you’d expect, especially if you’re a student of history, it was a shocking moment for everyone involved. There were gasps both inside and outside the building. Judge Tracie Hunter herself made it clear that she wouldn’t stand for the decision — as in, she literally wouldn’t stand for it, which meant that a bailiff had to drag her out of the courthouse and place her in a cell. If only for the entertainment value of the footage, let’s play that again quickly:

Well, there it is. Documented video evidence that, as of 2019, it is indeed possible for judges to be arrested, convicted, and sentenced. After thousands of years of uninterrupted good conduct by judges, Tracie Hunter blew it all up. But at least she kept her dignity throughout the entire process. That’s the important thing.

Actually, to be more precise, Tracie Hunter was not the only judge in the history of the world to commit a crime. In fact, she wasn’t even the only judge to commit a crime in the year 2019.

In April of that year, a Massachusetts state court judge named Shelley Richmond Joseph helped an illegal alien evade an ICE officer who was waiting to arrest him in the lobby of the courthouse. The judge eventually turned off the court’s microphones, but before the audio was cut, she could be heard working out a plan with the defense attorney to help the illegal alien escape out of a back room in the courthouse. Essentially, the judge allowed the criminal to go down to the lockup, supposedly to retrieve some “property.” But really, the point was to keep him out of the lobby, where the ICE officer was. And then, when the illegal alien was down in the lockup, a court officer let him out the back door. It wasn’t exactly a subtle plan. Federal authorities immediately understood what had happened, and they charged both the judge and the court officer with obstruction.

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

This is all relatively recent history. So to recap: In order to be shocked by the news that a judge has been accused of a crime, you’d have to be extremely confused about two very important facts.

First, you’d have to be ignorant of the fact that judges are human beings, and are not granted magical powers of immunity simply by virtue of their job. They do not have a James Bond-style license to kill or anything like that. Secondly, in order to think that judges can’t commit a crime, you’d also have to ignore the fact that judges commit crimes all the time. So you’d have to stack astronomical ignorance on top of astronomical ignorance. Either that, or you’d have to be so shameless that you don’t mind pretending to be monumentally uninformed and unintelligent. For most people, being this dumb is a lot of work, in other words.

But for the mainstream press and their allies in the Democrat Party, it’s second nature at this point. Shameless and ignorance are the defining features of their existence. That’s why, for the past several days, we’ve been treated to nonstop outrage over the recent arrest of a county judge in Milwaukee named Hannah Dugan. The way this story is being presented, you’d think that it’s the outrage of the century.

Dugan’s arrest, according to Rachel Maddow, is tantamount to a declaration of war by the White House against the judicial branch. It’s the end of separation of powers in this country, if not the end of our Republic itself. Watch:

It’s an “unmistakable descent into authoritarian chaos,” the congressman says.” It’s a “whole new level,” according to Rachel Maddow. Just look at the 100 people who spontaneously decided to protest on a moment’s notice at the courthouse, without any payment or any connection to a shady Democrat-run nonprofit of any kind. That’s how you know how serious and unprecedented this development is.

We’ve talked a bit about this case before, but here are some of the details that Rachel Maddow glosses over. This is a writeup from Fox, which for some reason uses the term “undocumented” to describe illegal aliens: “Federal agents from ICE, FBI, CBP and DEA attempted to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an undocumented Mexican national, following his scheduled criminal court appearance before Dugan on April 18 to face three misdemeanor battery charges for allegedly beating two people. Dugan demanded that the officers proceed to the chief judge’s office and – after his hearing ended – escorted Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out a restricted jury door, bypassing the public area where agents were waiting, in order to help him avoid arrest, per the complaint.”

To be more specific, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz is accused of nearly beating a victim to death by punching him around 30 times. One of his victims had to be hospitalized. He also punched a woman who tried to interrupt the fight, knocking her to the ground. Eduardo had already been deported once in 2013, but apparently he came back into this country. So already, we have a situation where witnesses in this case might be hesitant to testify. They’re understandably terrified of this criminal. And the judge — rather than protecting these victims — does everything she can to ensure that the attacker is released.

The specifics, as alleged in the federal complaint, are actually worse than you might have heard:

The complaint reads, “Members of the arrest team reported the following events after Judge Dugan learned of their presence and left the bench. Judge Dugan approached members of the arrest team in the public hallway. … Witnesses uniformly reported that Judge Dugan was visibly upset and had a confrontational, angry demeanor.”

She then tells a deportation officer that he needs to leave the building, at which point the officer says he’s there to make an arrest. Then, “Judge Dugan asked if Deportation Officer A had a judicial warrant, and Deportation Officer A responded, ‘No, I have an administrative warrant.’ Judge Dugan stated that Deportation Officer A needed a judicial warrant.”

Then the deportation officer says she’s wrong, and that he has the right to arrest someone in a public building with a valid immigration warrant. In response, the judge orders the entire arrest team to report to the chief judge’s office.

By the time the chief judge tells the officers that it’s fine to arrest the guy in the courthouse, Dugan has apparently accelerated Ruiz’s hearing, so that it was adjourned while the officers were talking to the chief judge. (And by the way, it was adjourned without the prosecutors’ knowledge; they just weren’t invited to the sidebar where the judge made that decision). In any event, during this process, Ruiz was not in the gallery. For reasons that weren’t clear to anyone at the time, he was instead sitting in the jury box for his hearing. So let’s read on:

According to the complaint, when Ruiz was leaving the building with her attorney, the judge said “Wait, come with me.” 

Despite having been advised of the administrative warrant for the arrest of Ruiz, Judge Dugan then escorted Ruiz and his counsel out of the courtroom through the ‘jury door,’ which leads to a nonpublic area of the courthouse. These events were also unusual for two reasons. First, the courtroom deputy had previously heard Judge Dugan direct people not to sit in the jury box because it was exclusively for the jury’s use. Second, according to the courtroom deputy, only deputies, juries, court staff, and in-custody defendants being escorted by deputies used the back jury door. Defense attorneys and defendants who were not in custody never used the jury door.

To be clear, this judge did not issue any kind of lawful order or ruling as part of her judicial responsibilities. That’s not why she was just arrested. Instead, she tipped off a criminal who was about to be arrested and helped him hide from authorities. If the allegations in this complaint are true, then no matter who you are, that is a crime. And it’s not a close case. We’re not talking about digging through this judge’s business records, going back eight years, and cobbling together some brand-new theory for why she belongs in prison because she overpaid her taxes based on some arbitrary retroactive determination we’re making today. This is nothing like the Trump trial. Judge Dugan is accused of committing a very straightforward crime, one that’s been illegal for a very long time. 

And yet, the very same people who insisted that “no one is above the law,” just a year ago, are now saying with a straight face that it’s a constitutional crisis to arrest a judge. They had no problem with prosecuting the leading presidential candidate for fake crimes. But prosecuting this random judge, for them, is a bridge too far. They’re losing their minds over it.

One account, the “Brooklyn Dad” personality, was particularly unhinged: “For the people celebrating the weaponized arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan by the Trump administration because ‘she broke the law,’ just remember that it also used to be against the law to hide folks like Anne Frank. What side of history are YOU on?”

I’m not cherry-picking one insane online reaction here. This is how a lot of mainstream personalities on the Left view this issue. They’re essentially admitting that the judge committed a crime. But at the same time, they’re saying it was justified.

Here for example was David Brooks of the New York Times the other day. Watch:

He doesn’t want to comment on “this specific case,” probably because he knows the facts completely disprove everything he’s saying. Reality happens to demolish the narrative he’s trying to create. Therefore, he says, let’s just ignore reality. Let’s pretend the guy’s not accused of beating up a woman. Let’s pretend the judge didn’t deliberately help him evade arrest. Let’s focus, instead, on a fictional world in which judges are being rounded up and sent to the gulag because they make rulings that the president doesn’t like.

That’s preposterous for about a million reasons, of course. But I do have to admit that, if Judge Dugan does end up in a gulag, it’d be a fitting punishment — and not just because of this whole situation with the illegal alien who’s beating up women. This is apparently a sign from the door of Dugan’s courthouse, according to Fox. Let’s put that up on the screen:

It says that, if any “person” feels “unsafe” about showing up to the courthouse, that person can request a Zoom hearing instead: “If any attorney, witness coordinator or other court official knows or believes that a person feels unsafe coming to the courthouse, please notify the clerk to request appearance via Zoom.”

Now, as you may know, I was a highly credentialed and well-respected judge for some time. You may have seen my work in a recent Daily Wire mini-series. And if you saw that series, you know that a lot of things happened in my fake courtroom that were embarrassing and frankly demeaning to the very concept of law and order, civil liberties, and fundamental human decency. And yet, nothing that occurred during that show can compare to this notice that Judge Dugan put on the door of her courtroom — which, again, is an actual courtroom. She’s openly treating the courthouse like a therapy session for violent thugs and gang members, many of whom have no right to be in this country.

As it happens, a lot of judges in this country think like this. It’s not just Judge Dugan. 

Here’s NBC News: 

Dugan’s arrest came one day after federal authorities arrested a former New Mexico judge, Joel Cano, and his wife on charges related to the Canos’ reported harboring of an undocumented immigrant with alleged ties to the notorious gang Tren de Aragua. … Federal agents had received a tip in January that Cristhian Ortega, an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela whom authorities suspect of being a Tren de Aragua member, and others were staying on the Canos’ property. Ortega is charged in a separate federal case in New Mexico with possessing a firearm as an illegal alien. … Cano, who had served on the bench since 2011, submitted his resignation letter March 3, days after Homeland Security raided his home.

Normally, this gang has to take over apartment buildings by force, which is what they famously did in Colorado. But in this case, a judge allegedly just let one of these gang members live in his home, along with a bunch of other illegals. If these allegations are true, there’s really no way to spin it: He facilitated a foreign invasion, in a very direct and deliberate way. Just like Judge Dugan, he’s accused of aiding and abetting people who want to destroy this country from within. And as we all know, many more judges are like this. These two judges have just been incredibly obvious about what they’re doing. But the smart judges are using their rulings to undermine this country, which is why, as I’ve said many times before, many of these rulings should simply be ignored.

But even ignoring these rulings won’t stop the underlying problem, which is that this country is being invaded in more ways than one. It’s not just the court system that’s compromised. Congress has begun to fall as well, as we’ve seen from representatives like Ilhan Omar, who openly advocate foreign interests over America’s. 

This week another congressman joined in the revolution. His name is Shri Thanedar, and he apparently represents Michigan, even though no one’s ever heard of him. His biography says that he moved to his country in the 1970s, after growing up in India, where he was born. Here’s a video that he just put out. And as you watch this, keep in mind that this man is 70 years old. So we’re talking about a lot of plastic surgery here. And on top of that, understand that he has a lot of support in his own party. Watch:

There’s that theme of “no one is above the law” again. They’re very selective about when they deploy that particular cliche. But the bigger issue isn’t the hypocrisy. It’s that this guy can barely speak English and yet he’s one of our elected representatives. Despite living in this country for decades, it’s hard to understand what he’s even saying. And if that doesn’t seem completely insane to you, just imagine the absurdity of a white guy with a thick southern accent moving to India and then trying to impeach their president. Imagine if I moved to India and started lecturing them on how to run their country. How do you think that would go over?

Of course, that could never happen. India wouldn’t be crazy enough to allow it. The moment I started telling them that they should remove their president, they’d deport me on the spot. In fact they probably wouldn’t even let me into the country in the first place. It’s a type of madness you can only find here. Multiple branches of government, from Congress to the courts, are working in tandem to undermine our national sovereignty, and they’re doing it right out in the open. Contrary to what the corporate press is saying, what’s remarkable about this situation isn’t that the Trump administration has just arrested two corrupt Democrats in positions of power. What’s remarkable is that, at this point, the Trump administration has only arrested two of them, when it’s obvious there’s a lot more to go.