INSTANT REACTION: Mistrial Declared In Lindsay Clancy Case

The Lindsey Clancy trial has reached a conclusion for now anyway with a mistrial and I will give my instant reaction and analysis of this news, which comes to us after an absolutely bizarre and unprecedented string of events that are almost hard to believe. But the only reason that we ended with a mistrial at the end of all this madness is simply because of the actions of a lone heroic male juror, as we now know, a lot of people speculated the jury of nine women and three men would break down to men against women. Well, it turns out we were right in assuming that every single woman on the jury would want to acquit a mother who brutally slaughtered her children. But we were wrong to assume that all three men would stand strong for justice in common sense as it turns out only one man did. And because of this one man, Clancy did not get away, not entirely, not yet, anyway, with brutally murdering her three children. Apparently only one male member of the jury was willing to reach the obviously appropriate verdict in this case, which is that there is no excuse either legally or morally for the premeditated and systematic execution of your children. Based on all the information we have, this lone male juror was able to withstand a campaign of public intimidation by the defense attorney in this case, as well as the jury for person. The nine women on the jury and the two other men were apparently not only willing to absolve Lindsay Clancy of these barbaric murders, but they're also willing to pressure the lone holdout. We didn't agree with them. And thank God he fought back. We simply cannot live in a country when murder is considered justifiable because a woman claims that she was insane at the time. It's an incoherent standard, by the way, the insanity standard, as we'll discuss in a moment. And at least for now, there's still a possibility that Lindsay Clancy will face justice for what she did. We'll have to hear from the state about if they're going to refile the charges and what the charges will be. And hopefully they do. And the thing is, if you had asked me a week ago, I would have said that a mistrial in this case instead of a guilty verdict would be a travesty and a tragedy. And it is. That still is, but now that we know that we were one sane member of the jury away from a full acquittal away from a woman admitting that she murdered her children and waltzing away, Scott free. The mistrial seems in that case by comparison, like something of a win or at least closer to a win than the alternative. Clancy's odious defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, did everything in his power to corrupt the process and force the acquittal by any means necessary, when the jury returned today to say that they were still deadlocked, that the lone male juror was, was not intimidated by Reddington or the four person. Reddington initially demanded the jury be sent back to continue deliberations. Otherwise, he wanted the judge to tell the jury for a third time that he would not accept a hung jury. And of course, that would be coercive and inappropriate. So the judge declined. He announced his intent to declare a mistrial and then Reddington walked all over the judge and demanded an hour to file an emergency appeal before the trial was, was finalized because you see apparently when you don't get the verdict you want, you get to demand that an appeals court remove whoever is on the jury that disagrees with you. You get to claim that he's not following the law because he came to a different conclusion about the case and that logic makes perfect sense to Lindsey Clancy's lawyer and to the brain-wrotted legions on TikTok and a lot of people in the media too. And that's where the judge should have denied the appeal and ended the circus for good. But instead, you know, he gave him an hour to do this appeal on the absurd grounds that he, you know, that the lawyer didn't get the verdict he wants. And so he gets to appeal it. And as if the appeal wasn't nonsensical enough on its face, it somehow gets worse. So Fox News obtained the emergency appeal that was filed to the Massachusetts Supreme Court. This again is from the defense. This is their appeal to try to stop the jury from being, to try to, try to stop the mistrial. And what they argue in this appeal, and I'm not making this up, they argue that the lone juror is engaging in a line of reasoning, which quote, reflects a bias against those who are suffering from debilitating mental illness, a protected category under both the fifth and 14th amendments. Yes, the defense seriously argued that by voting to send a woman to prison for killing her children, he was discriminating against the disabled. If you said a disabled person to court, you know, then you're discriminating again. I mean, to send them to prison, you're discriminating against them, I guess is the logic. It's a total farce, but this is a farce that was allowed to play out in court. The whole process was stalled just to allow all of this to happen. And of course, all for the sake of shielding a mass murderer from accountability. Which I mean, you could point out is the is the job of the defense attorney, but even so, it's a farce. And this is a recurring problem, by the way, in our legal system whenever the most loathsome and obviously guilty defendants are put on trial, given enough time, the legal process itself inevitably becomes a farce. It's very difficult to prosecute the drags of society in an orderly and predictable fashion. For the simple reason that the worst of the worst are very adept at, you know, finding ways to manipulate the system. It wasn't too long ago that Somali fraudsters literally delivered a $120,000 cash bribe to a juror just before deliberations began an attempt to secure a not guilty verdict. They blew up the whole trial in the process. This is a big challenge that prosecutors face when they're confronted with overwhelmingly evil defendants who tend to attract very depraved lawyers. As a saying goes, you know, you can't wrestle with the pig without everyone getting dirty. But even with this expectation of mine, especially over the past few days, the Clancy case devolved into a truly staggering, unprecedented display of corruption and lawlessness and moral rot yesterday, as well as this morning before we even get to the preposterous last ditch appeal. Clancy's lawyer engaged in an overt campaign of mafia-like jury intimidation in an attempt to secure an acquittal for his client. John Gotti would look at this trial and blush at the sheer audacity of Clancy's lawyer. His name is Kevin Reddington. For whatever reason, Reddington was allowed in the middle of the deliberations to publicly accost a specific juror and tell the entire world that there's going to be an investigation into this person's statements during deliberations. And the only reason for this investigation is that the juror, all by himself, appeared to be intent on convicting Clancy for the murder of her children, which is something that I'm sure this member of the jury figured he had the right to do, like he's allowed to come to his own conclusion or so he thought. Today in open court before the jury came back and a mistrial was declared, Reddington made it clear that the holdout on the jury is a man. He told everybody that, which is a very specific piece of information because there are only three males on the jury. And during the same hearing, Reddington berated the judge for failing to intimidate the jury. He wanted the judge to scold them for not following the law, meaning not returning the verdict that he wants. And I understand exactly what happened here and how unseemly and corrupt it is. Let's go back to the scene in the court house yesterday during the sixth day of deliberations in the case. So by this point, the jury had already sent two notes to the judge indicating that they were deadlocked. And in response, these notes, the judge followed a established procedure by telling the jurors to return to the jury room and try to reach a verdict if it all possible. This is how the system works. It's not unprecedented. It is really stupid, but I mean, this part, the system does work this way. The jury says they're deadlocked. They're sent back. They said they're deadlocked again, they're sent back again. You know, this is how the system works. It shouldn't work this way. In my opinion, if a jury says that it's deadlocked after hours of deliberation sending them back is just asking them, even if you say you aren't asking them this, you are asking them to bully the minority into caving. If you don't want the minority to be bullied into caving, then why would you force them to stay in deliberations after they've considered the facts and deliberated and made up their minds? I mean, it's pretty absurd. But in any case, if the jury had come back yesterday with a third note insisting that they were still deadlocked as they did today, then the judge would have declared a hung jury. That's generally how it works because under our constitution, the judge is not allowed to hold the jury hostage indefinitely. He can hold them hostage and he did in this case, but there's an end point eventually. In the jury, in this case, almost certainly knew that they, you know, they were not sequestered, so they had access to the internet. They would have known that with just one more note, they could go home and return to their families, but instead of sending another note indicating that they're deadlocked, the four person who's apparently a woman on the jury instead sent a note telling the judge that a particular juror wasn't following the law on reasonable doubt. And somehow this person, the four men, four person, whatever, only decided to send this note on the sixth day of deliberations at the very last possible moment before mistrial was going to be declared because of a hung jury. And we're led to believe that, you know, on the other five days of deliberations, I guess this guy was following the law and then on the sixth day, at the most crucial moment, suddenly he's not following the law. You know, we're meant to believe that somehow this other juror had announced his intention to disregard the law, which of course is ridiculous. Okay, it's ridiculous to claim that he, I mean, we don't. None of us were there. It's highly implausible, implausible rather, that this guy sat there and said, "No, I'm not going to follow the law. I refused to follow the law." Now he was following the law, but the law led him in his view, which was the correct view, to a different conclusion. The other members of the jury didn't like that conclusion and neither did the defense, so they attempted to berate and manipulate him into changing his mind. And they failed. Thank God. This was a clear act of jury intimidation by the jury, the four person by the, and in response, the judge did the appropriate thing. It took, he took each, each member of the jury aside. He reminded them of the law on reasonable doubt. He didn't single anybody out. He didn't put any particular, you know, pressure on any one member of the jury. He asked all of them if they were going to follow the law and they all said yes. But for Reddington, this wasn't nearly enough. He wanted the jury removed from deliberations and replaced with an alternate, presumably so that all 12 jurors could agree on a not guilty verdict. So he essentially made the claim that if a majority of the jury wanted to vote another member of the jury off the island, then they should be allowed to do that. You know, apparently, juries in this country, you know, they, they, they should function like a, like a reality TV show, right? Like survivor where you get the most, the least popular member gets voted off. And he's saying that jurors should be able to say whatever they want to a judge, to convince him to throw the loan to send the juror off the panel on the basis that he's supposedly not following the law. You know, it's a funny thing when, when members of the jury accuse another member of the jury of not following the law, because first of all, if you know anything about juries, you know that they don't understand anything about the law anyway. And they're happy to admit this right out in the open. This was the George Floyd jury, just for example, watch. We got to the point actually that we realized for charge two, at some point, I think it was Jodie. I'm pretty sure it was Jodie said, wait a minute. Does the intended act of harm have to be the death of George Floyd, or can it be him not providing the life support? And it was like, all of a sudden, light bulbs just went on for those people, I think, that were undecided or on the not guilty side. Yeah, go ahead. I want to hear from you, Jodie. Why is that? You brought that up. What did you? I brought that up because-- Tell me what you brought up and why? I brought up to the fact that this is not what he did, but more or less what he didn't do. He did not provide life-saving measures for George Floyd when he knew that the die was in pain or needed medical attention. Why do you think that was a light bulb? Well, when we were in deliberations and Jodie did bring that up, and we did look through everything very, very carefully, what I thought about is something that was said during the trial and that is, Minneapolis Police Department has a model. And if I'm understanding it correctly, their model is in our custody, in our care. George Floyd was in their custody, he was never in their chair. And that, for me, it just hit hard. I don't feel like they ever cheered for him. The female jurors clearly dominated the deliberations there. They explicitly decided to convict Derek Chauvin of murder, not because of what he did, but because of what he didn't do. In other words, they ignored the law, they ignored what the charge actually was, presumably because they knew that George Floyd had overdosed. They knew Chauvin didn't kill him, but they thought Chauvin was an unsympathetic guy. And they're probably advocates of BLM or whatever, so they convicted him of murder anyway. They don't mention any arguments about whether Chauvin actually caused Floyd's death at any point in that ten minutes in an interview. They completely disregard the fact that under Minnesota law, third degree murder requires the commission of some dangerous intentional act by Chauvin. Instead, they made up a new law in which the omission of an act, namely failing to care for George Floyd, could somehow qualify as an intentional action. They'd never sent a single note to the judge about this, by the way. They just created the law on their own. And the reason this verdict was not overturned, even after this CNN interview where the jury admits they didn't follow the law is that jury deliberations are considered sacrosanct in every court in this country, or at least they were, even when the jury admits on national TV that they were not following the law and had no idea what the law even was, the verdict still stands. The American legal system allows jurors to misunderstand the law. That's a known risk of having random everyday people on juries, particularly the people who are too dumb to get out of jury duty. You can make the case that, you know, that we shouldn't have the system. You can make the case that there are some fundamental flaws with the system as we have. There are plenty of countries, including Singapore as we discussed earlier this week, that that don't have the system that they have judges decide the case is, but in our system, juries decide guilt or innocence. And if they don't grasp the law, too bad. So with this well known limitation of our legal system in mind, what exactly happened in the Clancy trial? Why might the juror in question have misunderstood the law in this case? And how, given the nonsense that we allow juries to do every day in this country, could this misunderstanding possibly lead to the member of the jury being dismissed from the case, which is what they wanted to have happened? Well, we kind of start piecing all that together yesterday thanks to this press conference Redington gave outside the courthouse yesterday, because for some reason he's allowed to intimidate the jury, who, again, they're not sequestered. Watch. So, the jury has been identified by the note from the floor, and there will be an inquiry by the judge. Tomorrow at nine o'clock, I don't know what his question is going to be, we'll have an argument about it. I don't think it'll be at the sidebar, I think it'll be an open court, which is my concern that we have our arguments in open court at the sidebar. So I expect that, and that's B-A-R, not B-A-H, okay? What is it? Is it one person versus all the rest? Is this one person versus all the rest in the jury? Is it one person holding this up? Yeah. That's, you've heard the question. That's basically that there's a person who has doubt, but will not listen to the judge's instruction. So the defense attorney decided to wage a public pressure campaign against someone on the jury during deliberations. I mean, this is insane, it's totally unprecedented. They want to burn the whole system down for the sake of letting a woman get away with triple homicide. This is textbook intimidation. He's publicly complaining about a specific juror and falsely accusing him of not following the law. And again, doing this during deliberations, but for a second, let's put aside the sliminess of this defense lawyer. The key point in that footage is that he says one member of the jury has doubts, meaning reasonable doubts about Clancy's guilt under Massachusetts law. Despite those doubts, he was allegedly failing to follow the judge's instruction in the case. He was ignoring the law, in other words, according to Reddington. So he puts this jury on blast during deliberations and threatens this one specific guy with a witch hunt. Well, why might this guy be interested in disregarding, quote unquote, the law of Massachusetts? Now, I don't think that he did disregard it, but let's follow that thread for the sake of argument. Okay. Let's see. According to Massachusetts law, someone is criminally insane if, because of some mental problem, they lack the substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness or criminality of their conduct or to conform their conduct to the requirements of the law. A defendant is considered not guilty if there's reasonable doubt as to whether the defendant possessed this capacity in any way. And here's the important point in Massachusetts, the prosecution has to prove the state, the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was criminally responsible meaning they have to prove the defendant not just that he did the thing, but that he did not have a serious mental defect and that he retained the capacity to appreciate his conduct during the commission of the crime. Okay, so basically the prosecution has to prove a negative, basically. They have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was not crazy. Even though crazy is something that's going on inside her head, right? So we have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt what was going on inside her head in the moment when this thing, when this crime occurred, when it was committed three years ago. Well, the problem here, which should be obvious is that there is doubt. There's at least doubt, some doubt for every single homicide under this standard. It is a ridiculous, unworkable standard because we don't know what's going on in anybody's mind beyond any doubt. It's impossible to know. No doctor can run a lab test or a diagnostic scan to determine whether someone could appreciate the wrongfulness of their conduct or whether they lack the ability to control their actions. That's impossible. Even if they were hooked up to a brain scan while they committed the murder, which nobody ever is, obviously, that still wouldn't prove beyond any doubt what was going on inside their mind. And there's no testimony that can provide definitive proof on Then that point one way or another, you know, if a woman goes to the shrank and says she's losing her mind, and then she commits mass murder, how exactly were you supposed to determine whether she was done the truth? How are we supposed to determine whether her medications caused her to do something? When, when, you know, no one understands how these medications even work in the first place, how would you're supposed to come to any kind of conclusion when the trial features 20 different experts, all of them saying conflicting things about the state of this woman's mind at the time of the murders? You know, there's no getting around the fact that doubt and maybe reasonable doubt, depending on how you define reasonable, can theoretically apply to, I mean, if you apply it very liberally to any case, you can contort your reasoning in such a way as to excuse pretty much any homicide that remotely resembles this case or any other case, because you can never know for sure what's going on in someone's mind. That's the point. And that's why the insanity defense itself should be abolished entirely. It's totally incoherent. As I've said before, we need to get these psychiatrist quacks out of the court system entirely. It's an absolute farce that a person can commit murder and then the defense can drag in a bunch of random psychiatrist to perform some retroactive mind reading stunt, right? Like it's like they're, you know, they're an act on America's got talent or something. And you know, doing card tricks, appearing into the mind of this person three years ago to determine what was going on inside the consciousness of this killer at the time of the crime. As if he has any, as if you know, they have the slightest clue at all. There is no expert on the face of the planet, okay, that has the supernatural ability to peer back in time and examine the unspoken thoughts of another human. You might as well let the defense present evidence from astrologists and fortune tellers, which by the way, these, these retarded TikTok feminists, they would be perfectly fine with that. They would consider that to be bulletproof evidence. So your honor, she's a Leo, she couldn't have. That's literally what they think. This country really needs to get over its completely unwarranted reverence for psychiatrists. These people are just making stuff up as they go. That's what they're doing. And if you watch this trial, you're well aware of that fact. The testimony from the shrinks was extremely unimpressive and medically wrong in many cases, like when they claimed the serotonin theory of depression is real when it was debunked years ago. But here's the key point. Clancy's insanity defense rests almost completely on the claim that she heard a voice telling her to kill her kids. It's the only insane mental state ever reported by Clancy herself because aside from that, the only mental state she ever reported were, you know, she's really sad, she's upset. She's having disturbing thoughts. None of that is insane. None of that means you're insane. I don't care how sad you are. I don't care how depressed you are. I don't care how stressed you are. It doesn't matter. You could have the worst case of postpartum depression of all time. It doesn't matter. You're not insane. You're not supposed to kill your kids. The only insane thing that has ever been reported about Lindsey Clancy is that she heard a voice, which told her to kill her kids. Well, the problem is number one, there's no way to prove or disprove in imaginary voice. Okay. Any murderer can make this claim. And if that counts as a reasonable doubt, then we can never convict anyone of anything ever again. Okay. Anyone can say, yeah, I did this terrible thing, it doesn't even have to be murder. Maybe I stole a car. Yeah, I stole a car, but a voice told me to do it. Can you prove? Can you prove a voice didn't tell me to do it? Can you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that I didn't have an imaginary voice in my head telling me to do this? Well, no, I can't prove anything about an imaginary voice. No one can prove anything about that, neither can you. Second, she never reported this voice before or since the crime, strongly indicating that she made it up. And most importantly, even if she did hear a voice, why didn't she refuse to follow the command? That's the interesting thing when she talks about hearing a voice. She's actually separating her consciousness from the voice, right? She's saying, I heard a voice. So what you're telling us is that in this moment, when you allegedly heard the voice, that you still, like you yourself were still there, you still, your consciousness was there. And so your consciousness was experiencing this voice, right? Because she didn't say, oh, I was, I felt compelled, like I couldn't even, I couldn't, I couldn't stop my arms from moving and strangling my kids. She said, I heard a voice that told me to do it, told who to do it, told you to do it. Okay, so you were there, not just physically, but like consciously. And if the voice told you to kill your kids, then why didn't you refuse the voice? If a voice told me to murder my children, I would simply refuse. If the voice threatened and harassed me, I would still refuse. If a real human voice, belonging to a real human being told me to kill my kids and put a gun to my head and told me to do it, I would still refuse. So if this imaginary voice did appear, Clancy could have chosen to not obey it. But instead by her telling the voice spoke exactly one time and she just immediately complied with what it told her to do, not even a moment of pushback. Even if I bought that nonsense, which I don't, she would still be guilty as hell. Of course, the great irony, by the way, is that like 95% of the women blaming psych drugs for Lindsey Clancy murdering her children are also on psych drugs themselves. They supposedly believe that these drugs can cause you to annihilate your whole family. And that doesn't stop any of them from taking the drugs. 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That's what jurors are supposed to do when the law is wrong, incoherent, and unjust. When there's no legitimate way to apply the law, when the law is unintelligible, you have to disregard it. To be clear, jurors should not disregard the law because they identify with the race or gender of the defendant, like what happened with the OJ jury, for example. They disregard the law, they disregard the evidence simply out of racial tribalism. That can't happen, I mean, it does happen all the time, but it shouldn't. They shouldn't disregard the law because they've been bribed or because they have some hidden bias in the case. But in cases where a jury is being asked to follow rules that don't make any sense and are unintelligible and incoherent in self-contradictory, and that prevent the prosecution from winning the case by default, then it's their right to vote guilty. This is one of the few benefits of the jury system that we currently have. It does at least still allow common people to serve as a bulwark, a last line of defense against ridiculous laws and deranged government policy. There's plenty of Massachusetts precedent on this question, by the way, which I've found in about five minutes. Here's a case called commonwealth, the Hebert from 1980, which is still cited by courts today, quote, "although it's improper for a juror to disregard the law as given by the judge, it remains within the power of a juror to vote his or her conscience." So that case is about a juror who refused to convict a man for gun possession. Even though she knew he had violated the law, the issue was that the man simply wasn't aware of a brand new law requiring him to carry a firearm identification card when he carried the gun. So it was a ticky-tack charge, and the juror thought it was stupid, so she wanted to acquit. It was basically jury nullification. And in response, the judge should have accepted the holdouts decision and declared a hung jury in a mistrap, but instead the judge berated this person, said that she should have followed the law and basically ignored her and accepted a perverted guilty. And the judge was overturned because in our legal system, jurors have the ability to vote in accordance with their conscience. There's really no way to prevent them from doing so. Now, it's true that if a juror explicitly refuses to follow the law and decides not to participate in deliberations at all, if the juror were to say, "I'm not even going to do this because I don't care about the law and I'm not going to deliberate." Well, then yeah, in that case, the judge could have the juror dismissed and should. But that's not what happened here. It's also true that it's technically improper for jurors to ignore the law, but at the same time, judges are not allowed to grill the jury about their reasoning during deliberations and throw out anyone on the jury who doesn't have the correct arguments. Once that starts happening, there's no longer any secrecy in deliberations. There's no way to ensure that jurors won't be intimidated into changing their minds, and there's no way for jurors to serve as a last-line of defense against the government. Might as well not even have jurors. Maybe more importantly, there would be no way for jurors to serve as a last-line of defense against the TikTok mob, because whoever this holdout is, he put himself an extraordinary jeopardy to do what's moral and lawful, which is to ensure that no woman who deliberately murder her children can just walk away, or roll away as the case may be, like nothing happened. It's a profound failing of our civilization, maybe the greatest failing imaginable that we're apparently relying on only one juror to make this stand. So again, even if this brave member of the jury did disregard the law, this brave man, he would have been totally justified in doing so, in my view, but he did not actually disregard the law. In fact, even by the totally ridiculous standards of Massachusetts law and even with the existence of the insanity defense, a defense that shouldn't be allowed in the first place, but it is, still, Clancy's guilt was still clear beyond the faintest shred of reasonable doubt. The evidence is overwhelming that she planned the murder and then carried it out methodically and systematically over the course of several minutes. There is no reasonable doubt about either of those things. The notion that a person can engage in planning and forethought and then act methodically and systematically, and also have no idea what they're doing is incoherent. Clancy engineered a window of time to murder her children. This is a matter of the digital record. She sent her husband away because she knew that murdering her children was wrong and that her husband would try to prevent it. You see, if she were actually insane, that would mean that she didn't, she doesn't know that it's wrong to murder her kids and so then she wouldn't have needed to send her husband away. She wouldn't have waited for her husband to be gone to do it. She would have just went and done it. But she did wait because she wasn't insane. She also confessed thoughts about harming her children to her family, demonstrating that she knew the thoughts were wrong and then she did not confess those same thoughts to her doctors again because she knew those thoughts were wrong. And through the course of the murder, she not only had to make the willful choice to do it, but she had to reaffirm that choice three times as she systematically slaughtered three children. And she murdered them in a way by strangulation that would have required continued determined willful action for an extended period of time. And she did this again and again and again. And then she attempted suicide either because she felt guilty demonstrating that she knew that what she did was wrong or the attempt was fake, which is my theory, which even more demonstrates that she was sane and lucid. So either way, these are all facts that altogether remove reasonable doubt. And if they don't, then again, we don't have enough certainty to convict anyone of anything. If a person can function, act, speak, and in every way appear and behave sane as in Lindsey Clancy's case, and yet in some mysterious way still be insane, then the word insane has no meaning at all. And it's impossible to ever know whether someone is sane or insane. You know, this is one of the claims that the defense's experts made, which is that yeah, someone can, by all appearances be totally sane, but, but, but actually be not sane. Okay. Well, then we, then you can literally just never know about anybody. I mean, if, if, if we cannot prove insanity or if we can't prove sanity based on someone's words, actions, and behaviors, then you can never prove it ever, ever. That makes it an incoherent standard and it would make it impossible to prosecute any crimes. So if that is actually the standard, then again, any member of the jury would have not only the rights, but the moral obligation to disregard it. Lindsey Clancy by any reasonable standard, by any moral standard, by the standards of any decent, rational, intelligent person, deserve to be convicted and thrown in a hole to rot and die. But instead, we're left with a mistrial, which itself was somehow a positive outcome when compared to the alternative, but that silver lining view does not erase the dark cloud, you know, that, that is in the middle of that silver lining. A dark cloud where 11 people wanted desperately to let a woman escape consequence for slaughtering all of her children, and where a defense lawyer demonizes an attempt to intimidate a stranger, and where thousands of women flock to the murderer and defend and celebrate and canonize her, rallying to her side, writing her fan mail to gush over. This trial has truly been one of the bleakest, most eye-opening criminal cases in modern American history. This is an evil that can only be countered by men who are totally unafraid of the mob and whatever consequences they might bring. There's at least one man in this case who recognized that. And what we need now before more children are slaughtered is many more like him. The prosecution has to bring this case once again. The jury should be sequestered the second time around. And if we're going to have a worthwhile legal system, Lindsey Clancy must be convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of her life in a dungeon, precisely the kind of hellhole where if she were actually a worthwhile human being, she would admit she belongs. In all of my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook, but I'm not a crook. In 1972, Nixon won the biggest electoral landslide in modern American history with grand plans to remake the federal government. Two years later, he was out of office. You were taught that Nixon's men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to spy on his political opponents. You were taught that when he found out, Nixon covered it up, and that the cover-up was worse than the crime. You were taught that two heroic Washington Post reporters, guided by a righteous FBI whistle blower, brought the most powerful man in the world to justice. But you were never taught what we really had. I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Real history of the Watergate scandal is available now at the early bar, plus.