ATLANTA, GA - Lest anyone believe the United States of America hasn’t descended into the realm of a banana republic, meet Fulton County, Georgia Sheriff Patrick Labat. That Labat is on a giant-sized power trip is a vast understatement.
First, we can dispute whether or not the charges levied by a highly partisan Fulton County grand jury against former President Donald Trump and a gaggle of “co-conspirators” are legitimate.
District Attorney Fani Willis stretched various laws and statutes so far that a five-year-old playing with Play-Doh would be jealous.
In our system of justice, Trump and the other political prisoners are innocent until proven guilty and will have their day in court. But this is a show prosecution, and everything must be done for maximum political effect.
With that said, the show being perpetrated by Willis and Labat is, to be diplomatic, over the top. Labat, speaking to official Biden-state media CNN, offered the following when speaking of the former president:
“If you’re indicted, then we’re going to treat you as though you’re indicted here locally, and so we’ll consider you to do fingerprints, mugshots, etc.”
Aside from the apparent fact that Labat seems to have a battle with the English language, let’s examine what he said he would do. He said he would take a former president of the most powerful nation in the world and make him into department store window dressing.
Trump is the most well-known political figure in the world. Why on earth would it be necessary to subject a former president, who at one time held the highest national security clearance in the country, to have a mug shot and fingerprints taken?
Is it possible that Trump’s fingerprints and picture are available elsewhere?
The bottom line is Labat, probably padding his “resume” for a US Marshall’s appointment by Biden, feels it necessary to add insult to injury by subjecting Trump to such humiliation.
Have you heard of Lashawn Thompson? How about Christopher Smith? We’ll assume you have not. CBS News reported that on August 10, Smith was found unresponsive in a medical unit cell at the Fulton County Jail, which Labat oversees.
He was transported to a local hospital, where he later died. His cause of death is under investigation.
Smith’s death was less than one year after Thompson's death. Also an inmate at the Fulton County Jail, Smith died last September in an insect-infested cell in the jail’s psychiatric wing. Thompson’s family and attorneys are calling for a criminal investigation into his death.
In April, his attorney gained the family’s permission and showed pictures of Thompson’s body, covered in bugs, saying, “he was found in a filthy jail cell after being eaten alive by insects and bed bugs.” His death led the Department of Justice to open an investigation of Labat’s facility.
CBS Atlanta reported that Labat offered a flimsy excuse after Thompson’s death, claiming the jail was suffering from overcrowding and, of course, required more funding. Among issues are inmates, some 500 in number, being forced to sleep on floors, which a city commissioner called a “humanitarian crisis.”
According to family attorneys Ben Crump and Michael Harper, Thompson’s family sued the county and reached a settlement.
Two deaths in less than one year would be questionable, but in reality, five inmates have died in Fulton County custody this year. That is Labat’s legacy. If anyone should be having a mugshot and fingerprints taken, it’s Labat. However, he accepts no accountability in his jail, but three of his top officials resigned after Thompson’s death. Labat continues to be fat, very dumb, and happy.
Labat took over the jail in 2020 and promised to fix the jail, which had been under federal oversight from 2004 through 2015 due to “overcrowding, raw sewage…flooding cells, and inmates able to wander because of faulty locks.” Apparently, those problems still exist in some form, with Labat doing nothing.
Ironically, when Labat was sworn in, he vowed to “advocate for the release of inmates who pose no danger to the public.”
“Keeping people out of jail has to (drive) our thought process,” he said at the time.
That is only if they are not political opponents.
Instead, we have the former president being treated like a common criminal. Compared to the criminal justice system in most Democrat-run cities, he is treated worse. He must put up a $200,000 bond to secure his release. Murderers in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and, yes, Atlanta rarely receive bonds that steep.
Charles Rambo, a retired lieutenant from the sheriff’s office, explained to CNN what would happen, “…they would be pat down, led to the booking office in the rear. From there, they probably have to have ties and shoestrings and all those types of things taken. Then, from there, the persons would be fingerprinted, given a booking photo.”
Chris Timmons, a former Georgia prosecutor, told CNN he didn’t “expect Trump to spend hours in this jail because the longer he is, it’s a pain. It’s going to be a hassle for the entire sheriff’s department or at least those who are at the jail when the president’s there. It’s going to be a circus. The ‘Rice Street’ jail is not a pleasant place. It’s dirty. It’s scary.”
Along with Trump, Willis secured indictments for former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Trump attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and other Trump attorneys, including Jenna Ellis and John Eastman.
The charges were lodged in response to Trump's attempt to challenge Georgia’s election results, whereby he and the others alleged fraud in counting votes. The ability to challenge votes is something Democrats have undertaken on numerous occasions, including presidential elections in 2000, 2004, and 2016. Of course, they are Democrats, so they are treated differently.
While Trump is being accused of attempting to interfere in the 2020 election, the fact that prosecutors like Willis, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and Special Counsel Jack Smith have all had Trump indicted amid a presidential election appears to be election interference on steroids, all likely being pushed by Biden's Department of Justice.
Conservative radio host Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, suggested one interesting idea. He suggested on his podcast that Trump should not post bond in the Georgia case. “I don’t think the Trump team should post the bond," he said. "This may sound like a crazy idea. But folks, we’re living in crazy times. And crazy times require different crazy, bold approaches.”
He continued, “Fani Willis wants to be a smart ass tyrant, little socialist communist like she is down in Fulton County, Georgia. Don’t post the bond. You gonna jail him? Let’s elect our first political prisoner. Go ahead. Go to jail. Let the Secret Service shut the entire jail down, and we’ll see how long you’re willing to keep this entire charade going.”
Bongino was somewhat facetious, but he makes a good point. The Secret Service is charged with protecting the current and all former presidents. They, not Labat or Willis, would be running the show.
However, given Labat’s record of running a jail reminiscent of a Russian Gulag or the Sona prison from the old television program Prison Break, one can understand why the former president wouldn’t want to spend an extra second in the Fulton County Jail.
First, we can dispute whether or not the charges levied by a highly partisan Fulton County grand jury against former President Donald Trump and a gaggle of “co-conspirators” are legitimate.
District Attorney Fani Willis stretched various laws and statutes so far that a five-year-old playing with Play-Doh would be jealous.
In our system of justice, Trump and the other political prisoners are innocent until proven guilty and will have their day in court. But this is a show prosecution, and everything must be done for maximum political effect.
With that said, the show being perpetrated by Willis and Labat is, to be diplomatic, over the top. Labat, speaking to official Biden-state media CNN, offered the following when speaking of the former president:
“If you’re indicted, then we’re going to treat you as though you’re indicted here locally, and so we’ll consider you to do fingerprints, mugshots, etc.”
Aside from the apparent fact that Labat seems to have a battle with the English language, let’s examine what he said he would do. He said he would take a former president of the most powerful nation in the world and make him into department store window dressing.
Trump is the most well-known political figure in the world. Why on earth would it be necessary to subject a former president, who at one time held the highest national security clearance in the country, to have a mug shot and fingerprints taken?
Is it possible that Trump’s fingerprints and picture are available elsewhere?
The bottom line is Labat, probably padding his “resume” for a US Marshall’s appointment by Biden, feels it necessary to add insult to injury by subjecting Trump to such humiliation.
Have you heard of Lashawn Thompson? How about Christopher Smith? We’ll assume you have not. CBS News reported that on August 10, Smith was found unresponsive in a medical unit cell at the Fulton County Jail, which Labat oversees.
He was transported to a local hospital, where he later died. His cause of death is under investigation.
Smith’s death was less than one year after Thompson's death. Also an inmate at the Fulton County Jail, Smith died last September in an insect-infested cell in the jail’s psychiatric wing. Thompson’s family and attorneys are calling for a criminal investigation into his death.
In April, his attorney gained the family’s permission and showed pictures of Thompson’s body, covered in bugs, saying, “he was found in a filthy jail cell after being eaten alive by insects and bed bugs.” His death led the Department of Justice to open an investigation of Labat’s facility.
CBS Atlanta reported that Labat offered a flimsy excuse after Thompson’s death, claiming the jail was suffering from overcrowding and, of course, required more funding. Among issues are inmates, some 500 in number, being forced to sleep on floors, which a city commissioner called a “humanitarian crisis.”
According to family attorneys Ben Crump and Michael Harper, Thompson’s family sued the county and reached a settlement.
Two deaths in less than one year would be questionable, but in reality, five inmates have died in Fulton County custody this year. That is Labat’s legacy. If anyone should be having a mugshot and fingerprints taken, it’s Labat. However, he accepts no accountability in his jail, but three of his top officials resigned after Thompson’s death. Labat continues to be fat, very dumb, and happy.
Labat took over the jail in 2020 and promised to fix the jail, which had been under federal oversight from 2004 through 2015 due to “overcrowding, raw sewage…flooding cells, and inmates able to wander because of faulty locks.” Apparently, those problems still exist in some form, with Labat doing nothing.
Ironically, when Labat was sworn in, he vowed to “advocate for the release of inmates who pose no danger to the public.”
“Keeping people out of jail has to (drive) our thought process,” he said at the time.
That is only if they are not political opponents.
Instead, we have the former president being treated like a common criminal. Compared to the criminal justice system in most Democrat-run cities, he is treated worse. He must put up a $200,000 bond to secure his release. Murderers in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and, yes, Atlanta rarely receive bonds that steep.
Charles Rambo, a retired lieutenant from the sheriff’s office, explained to CNN what would happen, “…they would be pat down, led to the booking office in the rear. From there, they probably have to have ties and shoestrings and all those types of things taken. Then, from there, the persons would be fingerprinted, given a booking photo.”
Chris Timmons, a former Georgia prosecutor, told CNN he didn’t “expect Trump to spend hours in this jail because the longer he is, it’s a pain. It’s going to be a hassle for the entire sheriff’s department or at least those who are at the jail when the president’s there. It’s going to be a circus. The ‘Rice Street’ jail is not a pleasant place. It’s dirty. It’s scary.”
Along with Trump, Willis secured indictments for former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Trump attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and other Trump attorneys, including Jenna Ellis and John Eastman.
The charges were lodged in response to Trump's attempt to challenge Georgia’s election results, whereby he and the others alleged fraud in counting votes. The ability to challenge votes is something Democrats have undertaken on numerous occasions, including presidential elections in 2000, 2004, and 2016. Of course, they are Democrats, so they are treated differently.
While Trump is being accused of attempting to interfere in the 2020 election, the fact that prosecutors like Willis, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and Special Counsel Jack Smith have all had Trump indicted amid a presidential election appears to be election interference on steroids, all likely being pushed by Biden's Department of Justice.
Conservative radio host Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, suggested one interesting idea. He suggested on his podcast that Trump should not post bond in the Georgia case. “I don’t think the Trump team should post the bond," he said. "This may sound like a crazy idea. But folks, we’re living in crazy times. And crazy times require different crazy, bold approaches.”
He continued, “Fani Willis wants to be a smart ass tyrant, little socialist communist like she is down in Fulton County, Georgia. Don’t post the bond. You gonna jail him? Let’s elect our first political prisoner. Go ahead. Go to jail. Let the Secret Service shut the entire jail down, and we’ll see how long you’re willing to keep this entire charade going.”
Bongino was somewhat facetious, but he makes a good point. The Secret Service is charged with protecting the current and all former presidents. They, not Labat or Willis, would be running the show.
However, given Labat’s record of running a jail reminiscent of a Russian Gulag or the Sona prison from the old television program Prison Break, one can understand why the former president wouldn’t want to spend an extra second in the Fulton County Jail.
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