I’m not going to say I toldyaso; I’m just smiling.
After a full media cycle of apoplexy and pearl-clutching, which included Andrew Weissmann appearing on MSNBC to declare “It’s the end of Trump,” CBS is now reporting there is no Defense Department memo about attacking Iran – the foundation of the media claims surrounding the leaked audio tapes from Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Worse still, and exactly as CTH previously outlined, despite the claims by CNN about how this audio would be used as the “central element” by the prosecution of Trump, the audio and mysterious memo are not part of the Special Counsel case.
So, why was the transcript of the audio recording used by Jack Smith in the indictment if the audio and nonexistent memo were never going to be used? Because it’s Lawfare, that’s why. Everything, yes including the specific language being deployed (ie “documents containing classification markings“), is hype for public consumption.
(Via CBS) – The Defense Department memo on Iran — at the heart of the now-public audio recording that captured a July 2021 meeting with former President Donald Trump — is not part of the 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information charged in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of the former president, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News.
[…] The document and recording are described in the indictment Smith’s team secured against Trump earlier this month, recounted as an alleged meeting with “a writer, a publisher, and two members of” Trump’s staff, “none of whom possessed a security clearance.” But according to a source familiar with the matter, Trump was not charged with unlawfully holding onto the Iran-related document discussed in the recording.
[…] Multiple sources familiar with the investigation previously told CBS News that defense attorneys were not certain the Iran memo in question was ever recovered and returned to the government. (read more)
There never was an Iran memo document. President Trump was discussing newspaper reports, “newspapers” and stacks of “papers”, as he originally told Brett Baier. Duh.
Reminder, in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier on June 19, Trump said that at the meeting with the book’s publisher, he was not referring to the document itself, but newspaper articles:
“There was no document… That was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about Iran and other things. And it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. I didn’t have a document per se. There was nothing to declassify. These were newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles.”
Watch til the end… very important. There is NO IRAN DOCUMENT! Trump was showing newspaper and magazine articles.
Jack Smith is going to have to produce this document, he can't, and he's scared shitless, so he leaked the audio tapes. WE WILL ALL GET TO SEE SMITH'S DOCUMENTS!… pic.twitter.com/pK3dGedLBQ
— Joni Job (@jj_talking) June 27, 2023
Lawfare is unlawful.
LawFARCE.
Lawunfair
Brettie Boy is gonna be bummed Bigly today! Simpering Fox Rat.
Since I do not watch fox I had no idea who he was. He sure tried to out talk Trump. Afraid the truth would get out.
How do cnn and FAUX remain in business??? Who/what sponsors such garbage???
IMAO, the inner circle of billionaire Star Chamber types of the WEF
Just like all of them.
🤣
this whole “espionage” hoax is absurd. Lawfare trying to convince the public (& court?) that President Trump is equivalent of Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden and Benidict Arnald. Even more absurd than the NY indictment, Russia hoax, Impeachment 1 & Impeachment 2
I agree. Desperation moves by those whose heads are at risk if PDT gets back into the White House.
…”Benedict Arnold, Joe XiDung and Barry Soetero”
Can you imagine the fix we’d be in if these people were as intelligent as they are malicious? That’s one silver lining I suppose.
love the photo of Wolf Bagdad Bob Blitzer!
Navel gazing. The documents case is prelude to the upcoming Jan/6th indictment.
elaborate?
they hope to hang a federal insurrection charge on PDT based on J6. Yet, we’ve got recordings and video of PDT asking everyone to protest but peacefully if they go to the protest.
Every time I see Catherine Herridge’ byline, what follows confirms that her departure from FOX signaled her matriculation into the club’s made man status. We were Cat fans; and she was always welcome in our home – these days, not so much. If she only dared to use her access to career parasites to return to relevant journalism, her legacy could be rehabilitated.
I agree. I used to believe that she was trying to be fair and that gave her some credence. Money talks .She might as well have a candy dish full of it on her desk while she nibbles on it. Captured by the deep state.
I used to believe she was trying to be fair and that gave her some credence. Money Talks. She might as well have a candy dish full of cash on her desk and be nibbling on it while she propagandizes. Captured by the deep state.
Had President Trump conducted the meeting in Florida, where two-party consent laws exist, no one could secretly record him. So many snakes waiting to strike him.
It’s all about public perception. What is laughable, is “they” (the media, the lawfare conspirators, the government, et. al.) are showing all of us that they believe we are too stupid to read beyond the headlines, or to do any independent investigative research.
They are trying to play us all for fools, but a LOT of us are LOAO (laughing our a**es off). Example:
I attended a “concerned patriots” meeting Monday evening in the little town where I live, population of the entire county here in central OK is about 6,000. I expected to see about 20 familiar faces there; the ones who show up to the OK2A and GOP meetings.
This was about Biden’s land grab known as The National Heritage Area Act which will effectively allow the feds to seize 30% of all farmland as “natural resources” and force people into 15 minute cities. (loosely translated – it’s known as 30×30)
What I found instead was the sheriff, county commissioners and at least 60 people, maybe more all up in arms and ready to fight. These are cattle, wheat and soybean farmers, some fresh off the tractor and out of the field.
What surprised me was the ones who spoke sounded like they read CTH! I was totally shocked at how they spoke about what we are seeing here in these discussions! They were loud and they were verbal and their opinion of this federal government is unmistakably negative.
So, if the feds can’t pull the wool over the eyes of some local hayseeds that sit on a tractor most of the day, then they have a YUGE wakeup call a-coming.
CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD
We may be ignorant hicks, but we ain’t stupid. Freedom is precious. Liberalism is a mental illness. And there is absolutely no way ‘ding dong’ got 81 million legitimate votes.
amen to that, Ed
They keep on throwing stuff at him and hoping it will stick, sorry children it will not and you people are wasting taxpayers money and don’t care. Well when he gets in again get ready for the tornado he’ll make in swamp town and YOU will be in the unemployment line.
Not that we need any more slime from these Demon Possessed Cretins, but Jeez. As Sundance keeps saying, they simply know no bounds. That they’re willing to push this crap which is so easily and quickly countered is a clear indication of just how panicked they are that their election cheating has run its course and that Our President WILL fulfill his promise to wipe out the Deep State.
IMESHO, Dimocrat = Desperation. So many times it appears that Dimocrat is a synonym for Desperate, Despairing, Distracting, Delusion, and DUMB!!
Part repost
In order to bring the indictment in the first place, LawFare had to violate the grand jury venue process, so they could then abuse an always willing to be abused DC grand jury.
They knew that in Florida they could not control the grand jury. Nor could they easily find the right judge (one that hates President Trump), a Judge willing to breach attorney client privilege, and issue subpoenas under a false predicate. They charged the President with crimes that ‘can not exist’ under the ‘Presidential Records Act’—an extension of Article II of the Constitution.
The correct venue to bring the indictment was only Florida’s Southern District, not the District of Columbia. Smith’s LawFare whisperer’s knew that. They consequently are now in enemy territory. They need time to search for novel tricks or just want to overload the Trump legal team before they invent a new indictment in DC.
Simply put, the “The Espionage Act” violation or any other charge cited in the Indictment could only prevail in the DC Swamp environment—at least until it would be overturned by a higher court as unconstitutional.
(Weissmann) Smith backed off—a four month delay—just to keep the indictment hanging over President Trump’s head, which will linger and likely lead to being dropped on similar grounds the Concord Case (Russian interference in the election) was dismissed.
Just think. Are we going to have six more months of trial by leaks to the press and media or will this judge put and end to this looney toon indictment—how many of these made up prosecutorial connivances must we have to tie down our next president?
When last we left this Cat and Mouse Saga, the Specious Counsel (the Lilliputians) were asking for four months delay; now they want more rope to tie the MAGA King down and dangle catnip for the press, which is the whole purpose of this doomed indictment—unconstitutional on too many levels.
The Judge should smack them down on the grounds that—they violate President Trump’s first amendment rights—they are using the Court as a weapon to destroy his campaign for reelection.
President Trump should use every absurd motion and leak thrown at him as a stepping stone to the White House.
Well stated. IMESHO, why hasn’t the RNC gone after the Lawfart clowns?? Does the RNC still exist? Is there another way to donate to the MAGA effort without using “winred”?
Because the RNC is in on it. Remember, both sides of the coin are corrupt. This is the reason nobody dares to out another for shady dealings.
I’m certain that would be the plan.
Wolf Blister should go back to his real talent, doing voice over in porn movies.
I don’t know, is it me or does the Wolf man look like he’s always constipated or scared about something? Every clip or picture I see of him I think, that man needs to take a major dump!
A document that contains the marking ‘Declassified’, is, definitionally, a “document[s] containing classification markings“.
Not what they mean to imply, of course.
Most of this is super silly stuff designed to keep us distracted. DJT is not in legal trouble. This is his role to play out for as long as necessary. Once they have CBDC we deplorables will not have access to our assets unless we think and speak and act “correctly”. No one is going to save you. Get your core group together and make a plan. And pray!
So did someone successfully troll CNN with a fake audio tape then?
Eggs look good on Jack Smith’s face! And again, Sundance is smelling like a rose!
Who was taping Trump at the meeting in question at his New Jersey golf club, the NSA?
“is hype for public consumption.” well, yes and no. It is to preload prospective jurors with edited and spun “evidence” before the trial to guide them to the ‘correct’ decision during deliberation. I’d call it jury tampering and ask to have the whole thing dismissed immediately.
More Trump “chaos”. More TDS ginned up aberrations.
Just like any other Democrat demand – it is endless. Yet they still blame Trump for what they themselves are doing.
CAUTION: It is EXTEMELY easy to create deep-fake audio files– all you need is about 2 sentences spoken by the intended victim, and you can make that victim say anything you want them to say.
NOTE ALSO: This same technology is rapidly advancing in the VIDEO domain, and 100% fake videos of victims doing whatever the creators want them to do, will be shown. Biden could be dead and gone, yet his television appearances can continue, for example.
BEWARE! Seeing and hearing is no longer believing.
With the ACTUAL evidence (checks, bank records , and phone calls) that are coming out about the Biden Family’s Criminal Enterprise, the consistant walking back of the Left’s claims against Trump are becoming comical…..and the lack of indictments and legal action towards the Bidens are raising some very uncomfortable questions about the FBI and the DOJ.
What is being asserted by PDJT is that he held no Iran documents (vice artifacts) – the obvious. So there is a possible next step. That said, we’re back to the insidious/calculated moves at the beginning of all this vis no legal representative present, no chain-of-custody, etc.
These people are out of control.
To me The thing seems to have fizzled as soon as people like mark Levin said trump could ask for dismissal of the case because of this leak. So now they admit there was nothing to it
These banana republic tactics are more obvious every day. Controlling the vote counts as they now do means they won’t have to worry in the future as we’ll have a permanent democrat ruling class…they hope.
Early this morning I listened to random news in my garage .
Then I took a break and read Sundance.
I assume Lawrence O’Donnell was a nutjob and thanks to Sundance my assumption was right on.
Lawrence O’Donnell spent a lot of time accusing Trump of lying.
He needs to apologize.
Lawrence O’Donnell’s barely contained glee as he walks us through how Donald Trump stepped in it this week.
Sundance: I’d like to see Congress investigate what discussions/emails, etc. Millay and Pelosi had prior to 1/6 . It seems the only way Pelosi could ignore a contesting to the election in the house was to declare an emergency meeting. Ergo, no debate. PDJT request the military for 1/6, Pelosi refused the Nat’l Guard, D.C. Mayor browser a “good dem” refused the MPD and now we find the FBI viewed there were no “credible threats.” You have a “lucky we found it” bomber at the DEM and GOP headquarters who has yet to be uncovered; yet they have the license number. In my “little” conspiracy mind, things point to a planned operation to avoid debate.
Gee, how awkward. Now waiting for the MSM to do a ‘clean up on aisle three’ but not holding my breath.
Some of those papers could be considered “energetic material,” which is essentially material that gives off heat and energy through a reaction to heat, shock, or friction.
The only way that this will be resolved is by public trials and, when convicted, the very public executions of the corrupt, treasonous coup conspirators who plotted the destruction of our constitutional republic. PERIOD.
Is it just me or does Smith’s picture look like it was taken in a Police lineup
Line up in a morgue more like it George.
The new media are NEVER to be trusted. They must be shamed and harassed wherever they rear their ugly heads.
Bret is viewed by most as a TWAT and I am sure a lot of folks roll their eyes at his prevarications!!! 😝
Did Jack Smith actually present his “DoD Attack-Iran Memo” narrative to the Grand Jury? Since Smith did not include charges related to this narrative, its only purpose is to create prejudice against Trump via a tale of significant recklessness regarding war and peace with a major adversary.
This has the appearance of Jack Smith using the “DoD Attack-Iran Memo” narrative to chum the Grand Jury waters, never intending for it to make the actual indictment, to give the GJ a motive to indict Trump at all. The actual document-retention charges in the indictment are dubious, and contradicted by the PRA and court rulings. Smith would have needed to give them a reason to indict an ex-President running for re-election for retaining documents he VERY likely had a right to possess.
Given Smith’s history, would he stoop to such chicanery? Uh, yes. He would. Prosecutors can omit to tell the Grand Jurors things, but tricking them with known falsehoods should be grounds for dismissal — of both the charges and the Special Prosecutor they rode in on.
Who is stupid enough to still believe anything that comes out of Trump’s mouth
Perhaps the Jack Smith/Herr Weissman cabal will be interested in knowing that their outrageous, illegal behavior has induced me to donate generously to PDJT’s defense fund. I’m looking for an alternative to winred, and unfortunately it seems all roads lead to winred.
Suggestions anyone?
MAGA
FJB
A writer, a publisher, and two members of Trump’s staff, “none of whom possessed a security clearance” walk into a bar…
Jack Smith doesn’t have any kind of case against Donald Trump or anyone else involved in the ideas that a candidate can come up with new slates of Electors for different states and that Mike Pence could reject slates of Electors simply on his say-so. That is because the Trump people did not come up with this plan in secrecy, but discussed it openly whenever and wherever they could. Democratic Party affiliated organizations knew the entire Eastman theory in every detail and published it prior to January 6, 2021 in this booklet still on-line.
https://statesuniteddemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/VPP-Guide-to-Counting-Electoral-Votes.pdf
I found this booklet while Googling for any information as to whether or not a MOTION for any reason other than an Objection to a slate of Electors could:
Be brought forward by a Senator or Member of the House in the 1/6 Joint SessionBe acknowledged by the President of the Senate.
The answer to both is “NO,” and that is in the Electoral Count Act. The Google search was done in regards to another article about the Electoral Vote Count in 2021. There was an article about a motion that was supposed to be brought to the President of Senate regarding Suspending the Electoral Vote certification in favor of performing forensic audits of some of the elections in different states. No such motion can be started. This booklet covers that, but it also describes, in different pieces, the Eastman Plan in the most important parts, namely the “Sham” Electors, as they were called by the States United Democracy Group, and the claim that Mike Pence would have the power to reject Biden Electors unilaterally. Actually, Rudy Guiliani, Eastman, and Trump (including in his speech to the 1/6 rally), made no secret about this and discussed it publicly several times for these Democrats to know all about it. Trump still insists it is actually a valid position; convinced it is more than just a legal theory.
Since this plan was known to the Democrats prior to January 6, 2021, there can be no conspiracy charged in any attempt to execute it since it was publicly known. Conspiracy cannot be charged, and attempted Sedition cannot be charged, since it was well known that, with their majority in the House, and Effective Majority in the Senate with the anti-Trump RINOs voting with the Democrats, no attempt to execute the Eastman Plan would work. This is difference in legal opinion about what Mike Pence, as President of the Senate could do, and that a candidate could have more than one slate of Electors. In fact, it is so easy to find that this theory is just wrong, and would not survive a Supreme Court test (probably a unanimous decision, too), there was never any danger to Biden’s Electoral Vote being certified, even if the Supreme Court had to do it. This booklet concurs with the notion Biden’s victory was not really seriously in doubt, and was written to reassure Biden supports the Democrats know about this and would be able to stop it easily.
There are no criminal penalties attached to the Electoral Count Act, and no sign of any conspiracy to defraud or commit sedition, so I don’t know what the Department of Justice is doing continuing to investigate it.
Some of the reason why the public is behind learning about the Eastman Plan was the result of CENSORSHIP on social media, for one thing. Challenging the 2020 election was not tolerated on most platforms, so discussion of this kind was not permitted. Because of the limited coverage of the Eastman Plan, the bulk of the public is playing catch-up, but the Political Class knew all about it.
Sundance—Norm Eisen was a co-author of this States United Democracy outfit booklet. That’s a real kick in the head.