….At a certain point Lawfare fails.
Do you remember the prosecution “Witness #8” in the case against George Zimmerman? The person described as Trayvon Martin’s “girlfriend” who was claimed by FOUR state prosecutors to be the star “ear witness” against Zimmerman.
Do you remember how we waited month after month, laughing at how the State of Florida was relying upon their one key witness, and we all knew it was totally made up?
Do you remember the buildup, the drama, the media’s breathless anticipation, and the eventual beverage that flushed out of your nose in laughter when the State called Witness #8, and brought Rachel Jeantel to the stand?
Not only did she have no clue about any detail the prosecution was saying, she didn’t fit any of the profile that was claimed to be her importance in the case. And… not only could she not read the statement the State of Florida claimed she wrote (she didn’t), Jeantel didn’t even know Trayvon Martin. She was completely manufactured by the prosecution because her mom was a friend of Trayvon’s mom. Everyone wondered how the hell the prosecution could even put her on the stand. Remember that?
The reason they put her on the stand was because the prosecution and Trayvon’s family had no choice. For over a year, they had hyped up this imaginary “ear witness” in an effort to convince Zimmerman to take a plea deal. That was the purpose of the fabrication, and when George Zimmerman didn’t take the plea – when he forced the prosecution to put Witness #8 on the stand – the case collapsed, because the case was manufactured.
When people ask me about the DOJ and/or Jack Smith bringing an indictment against President Trump, in many ways I laugh while waiting for the DOJ to bring a proverbial Jeantel to the court. The DOJ has to indict Trump for the same reason Angela Corey had to put Jeantel on the stand. Their political narrative cases have to continue regardless of the evidence. Lawfare is a construct for media consumption intended to manipulate public opinion.
Technically Lawfare doesn’t need an actual viable legal argument behind it. Much like Zimmerman’s imaginary witness #8, Lawfare can be assembled out of loin cloth. However, at a certain point that legal fabrication runs into the reality of a judicial system it is not designed to defeat.
If the leaks to the media are accurate, WE WERE RIGHT!
Main Justice and DOJ special counsel Jack Smith have run head-first into the problem that President Trump declassified all the documents he retained in Mar-a-Lago.
Again, if the media reports are accurate, Jack Smith is now relying on 18 U.S. Code 793, a law created in 1948 intended to stop contractors to the Defense Dept from stealing, selling, or copying U.S. defense system secrets, or patents on defense products. [READ THE LAW]
Here is how the media are putting it:
The Independent has learned that prosecutors are ready to ask grand jurors to approve an indictment against Mr Trump for violating a portion of the US criminal code known as Section 793, which prohibits “gathering, transmitting or losing” any “information respecting the national defence”.
The use of Section 793, which does not make reference to classified information, is understood to be a strategic decision by prosecutors that has been made to short-circuit Mr Trump’s ability to claim that he used his authority as president to declassify documents he removed from the White House and kept at his Palm Beach, Florida property long after his term expired on 20 January 2021.
That section of US criminal law is written in a way that could encompass Mr Trump’s conduct even if he was authorised to possess the information as president because it states that anyone who “lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document …relating to the national defence,” and “willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it” can be punished by as many as 10 years in prison. (LINK)
Main Justice is now stretching Code 793 to claim any document the government designates as a “national security document” is a national defense document.
I am almost certain this is because the 11th circuit court of appeals ruled the DOJ can label whatever it wants, in any form it wants. As long as the DOJ claims it is a national security interest, it becomes a national security interest. This ruling came from the arguments over the Mar-a-Lago documents. REMEMBER:
[SOURCE]
If the DOJ says a box of Cheerios is a national security threat, the Judicial Branch accepts that all Cheerio boxes are proffered national-security concerns. It doesn’t matter what the Trump documents are, as long as the DOJ can claim they are vital national security interests.
In the previous ruling of the Mar-a-Lago documents, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals did what the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) does with the DOJ-NSD and any matters defined by the originating Main Justice officials as “national security.” The 11th Circuit deferred all definitions to the DOJ.
The DOJ is granted legal benefit of the doubt on all matters of national security, which puts the DOJ-NSD in ultimate control over the star chamber they operate.
[NOTE: In the post 9-11 surveillance state, this approach by the DOJ-NSD is a pillar holding the Fourth Branch of Government in place, as we have outlined. The other pillars are (2) the Dept of Homeland Security, (3) the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and (4) the secret FISA Court system. All four pillars maintain an omnipotent fourth branch of government that operates entirely without oversight. As you can see in the 11th Circuit Court ruling, there is no check or balance in the post 9-11 national security state.]
However, their target isn’t an ordinary citizen or target. The target of these “definitions”, and make no mistake – ultimately this is what the case comes down to, definitions – is the former President of the United States who had unilateral authority to define anything he wanted.
The case against President Donald Trump might look bad on paper, because that is what the case against Donald Trump was designed to do. However, ultimately this case is on a trajectory to go up to a much higher court in discovery and pre-trial argument, because eventually these definitions are going to become an issue for the prosecution.
♦ THE TELL – Here’s the “tell” that every pundit, analyst and litigation expert will pretend they don’t notice. It’s the funniest part of the entire thing and yet no one, again except us, is noticing it. The DOJ has already predicated the baseline of their claim by saying they cannot tell anyone, even the court, what the nature of the documents are that underpin their assertion. Remember, they wouldn’t even let a court appointed “special master” review the documents.
Stop and think about that for a moment. NO ONE knows what the documents are, and the DOJ has stated they will never say what the documents are. The DOJ is filing a case about the mishandling of documents, in whatever legal construct they put forth, while simultaneously saying they are under no obligation to tell anyone what the documents are.
DOJ: Trump violated USC 793 in his discussion and/or handling of documents.
Trump Lawyers: What documents?
DOJ: We can’t say, and we won’t tell you.
😂🤣😂
The case against George Zimmerman looked bad when everyone thought Witness #8 was real. Hell, almost the entire country believed it.
This case against President Donald Trump is of a very similar Lawfare intention in construct.
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It won’t work because the controlling statute is the Presidential Records Act and under the Presidential Records Act President Trump has a right to have a copy of his Presidential records. Listen from 1:30 to 3:40…
https://rumble.com/v2src6k-mike-davis-the-president-makes-the-determination-what-are-presidential-reco.html
I pray you are right!
I want President Trump back in the WH and his opposition with egg all over their slimy faces.
Nothing to pray about. SCOTUS precedent was set on this matter long ago.
Exactly true. The legal and constitutional issue has long been settled.
Two key cases that both agree the President as head of the executive branch has plenary powers to declassify, share, possess any intelligence or security documents he chooses.
1988 Supreme Court ruling: Navy v Egan
Here is an ABC news article entitled:
“Trump Has Legal Authority To Declassify Intelligence
Despite the blowback, Trump is right.”
. . .” The Supreme Court confirmed as much in its 1988 ruling in Department of Navy v. Egan.
“[The president’s] authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security … flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the president and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant,” the court said.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-legal-authority-declassify-intelligence/story?id=47436559
2012 U.S. District Court –the famous Clinton Sock Drawer Audio Tapes case
Here’s an article on the sock drawer ruling.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/22/tapes-stored-bill-clintons-sock-drawer-could-affec/
I don’t trust the Supreme Court! I hope and pray they do the right thing…but I believe even THAT frickin court has been comprimised, maybe individuals even bribed or blackmailed.
That would be considered wise.
“‘I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” – Thomas Jefferson
“To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” – Thomas Jefferson
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and, consequently triffling in their value. Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves on the ruin of this Country. Let us convince every invader of our freedom, that we will be as free as the constitution our fathers recognized, will justify.” – Samuel Adams
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” – Abraham Lincoln
Ya think?
Prayer is not for the establishment of the truth, it is necessary to tear down and defeat the power structures that oppose the truth. And make no mistake, these evil power structures are propped up by Satan himself.
Always pray, in all things:
1 Thess 5:17 “… pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
Hu, your handle totally rocks! When I was attending college in Baltimore, there was a restaurant called Mee Hung Lo!
Ditto!!! But skip the egg on their faces, I want to see them swinging from ropes….a lot of them swinging from a LOT of ropes. Treason deserves the price decreed for the act committed. IF this two tiered justice system prevails, it will lead us, the majority into a judicial slavery whereby we are controlled/manipulated in whatever way our betters need at the time.
“Those who want slavery should have the grace to name it by its proper name. They must face the full meaning of that which they are advocation or condoning; the full, exact, specific meaning of collectivism, of its logical implications, of the principles upon which it is based, and of the ultimate consequences to which these principles will lead. They must face it, then decide whether this is what they want or not.” Ayn Rand
That’s the problem with so many laws. After a while they all together contradict each other. Need something? Just pick a law that kinda sorta fits and run with it.
One other thing Trump needs to do when back in office is put a sunset provision on every law on the federal books.
Yep, with all those conflicting laws on the books, wouldn’t it be nice of those stupid, dead white men who founded this country (USA) had put in place a supreme law of the land, with checks and balanced to use to sort out all the other convoluted laws Congress might right in the future? But hey, everyone KNOWS that Constitutions and Amendments like the “Bill of Rights” are SO yesterday, SO obsolete. I mean, how could a paper written by a bunch of ignorant, racist, now dead white farmers, even compare to the innate beauty and grace, of subjective “LAWFARE!!”.
(Just make sure y’all keep supporting the righteous leftist and Democrats, or you know what could happen to YOU in the dead of night, when we sic our FBI lawdogs and ANTIFA comrades on you and yours. Juz sayin’.)
/end noxious sarcasm
I don’t remember who first said it. But I remember someone correctly observing that every day you violate one or more laws without even knowing it that could land you in prison. It’s just a matter of whether the government decides to target you.
Hmm, if memory serves, something like this was said in a document called “Declaration of Independence”, and it was about some guy named King George. I don’t think our government is operating in the way America’s founding fathers intended.
I think it operates more like the Stalinist Beria who said, “… show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.”
Certainly, the Trump prosecution fits Beria’s formula to a Tee. It’s not hyperbole, when I write that the US Federal government is “authoritarian Socialist”, a term which covers both varieties, Communism and Fascism.
Note: Fascism was Hitler’s Germanic response to the Soviet subversion in Berlin, where the original “ANTIFA” Communists operated. “National Socialism” was a nationalist German response to exported Soviet style Socialism, they called communism. America’s Democrats are on the Fascist path, while the Red Chinese still lean Communist. (Fascist vs Communist, is all about who owns the “means of production”, e.g. private property. However, they are both “authoritarian socialist”, a concept which is 180 degrees out of phase, and in opposition, with a democratic republic like America’s, which pre-existed prior to either type of Marxist inspired socialism. )
Nice summation. The one slight change I would make would is defining our current form of ‘Facism.’
While I agree that Facism is the combining of State and Big Business, in classical Facism, the State was in control and directed Big Business.
In its present form, Big Business is directing the State.
It’s an inversion. The new term being thrown around is Corporatism.
Today’s Democrat Fascism is symbiotic. No one actually knows who the grand wizard is behind the curtain in America’s “Wizard of Oz”. Roles between government and Corporate America interchange so rapidly, the question of which one controls the other, is easy to misunderstand. For example, EVERY CORPORATION fears the visit of the Federal regulators, IRS, EPA, Treasury, you name it. Given the fact that Government still holds the “guns”, i.e. law enforcement operations, one cannot say that Corporate America controls government. It influences government, perhaps more than Germany’s 1930’s industry influences Hitler’s socialists, but that’s as far as it goes.
It’s still classic Fascism, the Democrat leftists eagerly pursue, both in their tactics and methods, their goals, and the results.
Point taken.
I probably should have used the metaphor of the organizations that represent business behind the scenes, ie WEF, lobbyists that influence legislation to corporate interests, etc.
Through the use of bribery, sweetheart deals, extortion.
authoritarian Socialist
True.
“In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior.”
https://www.econlib.org/three-felonies-a-day/
The disconnect is not just notional. In order to create “laws” outside the English Common Law tradition (the “law of the land”), the State had to start enacting “statutes”, i.e. “bylaws enacted by a corporation doing business as a government”, under the framework of Admiralty Law (the “law of the sea”). But why should any free man living on the land pay any attention to the Law of the Sea? Well, good question. In order to get that to happen, the government creates a “legal fiction person” (a.k.a. a “ship”) for you when you are born, and applies the statutes to *that* entity. But then why should any living man pay any attention to charges brought against a ship with a similar name to the one they usually go by, except written in ALL CAPITALS? Well, they use various tricks to get you to voluntarily agree to this procedure, such as “please hand me your ID, sir”, which is a procedure known as “legal joinder”, i.e. “I voluntarily, as a free man living on the land, agree to be held responsible for any charges brought against the legal fiction person/ship described on this document”. Don’t hand it over, and you are once again free…
(So no, they cannot “pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us”, they can only pin “statutory offences” on “legal fiction persons”, which is very different. If you as a living human being cause harm to another living human being, then you are going to be subject to criminal charges under common law, so don’t do that.)
I don’t know if he coined the phrase, but Harvey Silverglate wrote the book Three Felonies a Day.
Alan Dershowittz has been pointing it out for years.
“Lawfare sharpies” assume they can push and squeeze any violation they can think of into a nasty pie to throw into Trump’s face and make him go away!
The town I grew up in had conflicting city ordnances because of the practice of never repealing old city ordnances. Back in the early 1900’s they passed an ordnance making it illegal to drive a car within the city limits because it would scarce the horses. After WWII they passed another ordnance making it illegal to keep a horse within the city limits without repealing the first ordnance. Thus the only legal way to get around town was to walk. They simply stopped enforcing the original 1900 city ordnance however it was still on the books.
That is totally irrelevant to the persecution. The process is the punishment and biased judges and juries will convict in spite of the law and lack of evidence.
As Mark Steyn so wisely put it, the process is the punishment. As much money as PDJT has with which to defend himself, the feds have more.
They don’t want this to get to court because they don’t get any mileage out of it once it does. They want this “investigation” to go on forever so they can subpoena anyone who dares to stand with PDJT, then, now, or in the future. When PDJT begins to build momentum toward the election, we’ll see a flurry of activity and a bunch of breathless talking heads on the television declaring, “We got him this time!”
As much money as PDJT has with which to defend himself, the feds have more.
Thanks to the Republican cave on the debt ceiling, they have all they need until 2025 (coincidentally right after the installation of the next Democrat empty suit if President Trump can’t run). With the slate of candidates the Republicans have outside of President Trump, the Democrats could run AOC and win (in spite of the age requirement–as long as they keep PDJT out of the White House, they don’t care if Putin is the Democrat installed president)! Like the PGA and the Saudis, you are the enemy until you’re not.
It’s amazing how fast this SC acted as compared to the last one that took years. Just as you suggest.
I think the cabal’s idea is to attack Trump, and distract our attention from the Biden crime family as their misdeeds are coming to light. That is Jack Smith’s mission.
Joe’s accepting of bribe money from Ukraine when he was VP, Hunter’s laptop and the coming pedophilia expose on the border and in the elite circles has been hidden from public view for a long time.
They hope Trump’s indictment will keep Joe off the front page.
and we’ll hear …. “the walls are closing in!”
Yes our tax dollars. Our tax dollars to harm and conduct nonsense with
“It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see how it works out.”
The problem they have is that neither an indictment nor a conviction disqualifies Trump from the Presidency. At which point he can pardon everyone and begun collecting heads.
Correct- it’s all for narratives, campaign ads, and of course pearl clutching.
What is the RNC chooses not to approve his nomination? Can they reject him even if he has the most votes? I’m wondering about that because I can see them saying they don’t choose him because he has criminal charges hanging over his head and it’s a distraction blah, blah, blah.
I believe the flurry you mentioned is already here. My wife listens to local news on TV every morning, for traffic an weather.
The lead news story, every morning, is Trump to be indicted.
The media are now telling lies, prosecutors are claiming are true.
There is the evidence they claim to have, it isn’t working.
The noise is deafening, and will get louder every day.
If one makes noise, with the truth, you will be attacked, by the myth keepers.
Agreed.
This chaos is the vision of Barack Obama’s mentors:
Communist, Pedo-porn author – Frank Marshall Davis
Anarchist, pamphleteer – Saul Alinsky
Convicted domestic terrorist – Bill Ayers
Marxist evangelical – rev Jeremiah Wright
MORE EVIDENCE THAT JACK SMITH IS COMPLETELY CORRUPT
Smith was the Chief of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section in the nation’s capital from 2010 until early 2015. In September 2014, Smith took out Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a potential GOP presidential contender, with bogus corruption charges. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned 8-0. The Court ruled the judge and the prosecutor made up a law that didn’t exist. Smith is a political hit man with low moral values. He is in no position to prosecute anyone.
Andrew Weissmann, of the Mueller Special Counsel Task Force, is a talking head on CNN and MSNBC. He was also responsible for prosecuting the Enron case. In that case, he convicted the accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, of obstructing justice. On August 31, 2002, Arthur Andersen surrendered its CPA license, as ordered by the court, and 85,000 employees lost their jobs. Weismann was unanimously overturned in the US Supreme Court 9-0 because he and the judge made up a law that did not exist. Do you think CNN and MSNBC do not know this. On air, Andrew Weismann is insinuating that Trump is guilty while heaping tons of praise on his fellow corrupt prosecutor, Jack Smith. See how this works? Corrupt prosecutors work with corrupt media.
Oral arguments of McDonnell v. US Government at US Supreme Court.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?408774-1/mcdonnell-v-us-oral-argument
Andrew Weissmann also overturned unanimously by US Supreme Court
Andrew Weismann as talking head on MSNBC.
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/andrew-weissman-if-audio-of-trump-discussing-document-exists-a-question-of-when-there-will-be-charges-178957893896
Trump Attorney says the prosecutors displayed ethical misconduct in the grand jury.
Jack Smith and integrity or Andrew Weissmann and honesty in the same sentence is enough to keep the world in stitches for years.
The longer this corruption against PDJT goes on the more convinced I am that was the reason Sidney Powell was targeted by being suddenly surrounded with people that could block her access to getting to the bottom of things by forcefully distracting her (through the likes of an attorney name Woods and a federal asset named Byrnes) – because of
her success in defeating Weissman on his Enron antics and the current successful inroads she was making in her representation of Gen. Flynn. To me she posed an imminent threat to their lawfare plans.
Prayers continue for Ms. Powell and those likewise who had blankets of distraction thrown over them. That she continues to fight also puts her in my category of current day American heroes.
It will work because Marxist’s don’t think the way we do. What they desire is what holds them together.
Isn’t it also true that what WE desire, what our leader, President Trump desires, holds US together?
Throughout history, the side with the greatest desire has had a great advantage.
Additionally, doesn’t the side that allows God to work with them and through them so He can perform miracles to help them, have the greatest advantage of all?
If so, then how things turn out will depend on each of us.
This is OUR Time for Choosing; our Deciding Time. Our D Day is now every day.
Semper fi?
The key to any citizenry fighting a corrupt government is the ability to find a common injustice to rally behind. The whole point of the divide and conquer strategy is to limit the ability to find the common ground. Absent a shared focus, cooperation and coordination fail.
‘You Don’t Know What The Warrant Says?’
‘There are no criminal penalties attached the the Presidential Records Act… does not exclude classified documents either…’
‘personal records are excluded from the Acts preservation requirements’
‘the Court’s view under the statutory scheme established by the presidential records act the decision to segregate personal materials from presidential records is made by the president during the president’s term and in his sole discretion’
‘according to the presidential records Act only President Trump had the authority to determine presidential versus personal records…’
Wow…thanks for posting that video.
He was sooooo quick to retreat to his silo it wasn’t funny.
Good questions of Wray except there was no final stab with this. “Director Wray, if as you say you can’t or won’t or don’t have a legal opinion on all this, then how in hell do you do your job? Isn’t every investigation predicated on an opinion of investigators that laws have been broken? If you and all your investigators cannot or will not or just don’t know laws, couldn’t we just have your office janitor out there arresting people?”
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Agree. Thank you for pointing this out. Most of these Congressers are lawyers; wth is wrong with them. And also, “you run the FBI — who is telling you what to do”.
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Thank you, Sundance, just what I needed. 🙂
This article did make my day, I needed a good laugh. I remember the “proverbial beverage through the nose moment” in the Trayvon trial when Jentel was asked…..”how were you and Trayvon communicating on the evening in question” and her response was….”Trayvon had a boof toof device”. (bluetooth)
Still laughing to this day.
That gives you the “Ham sandwich “ scenario -to quote another cliche – Not surprising though …so bad
The Grand Jury transcript is a record of everything that prosecutor said!
MAGA 👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
ULTRA MAGA. 😘
MAGA PRIDE
Lawfare is a construct for media consumption intended to manipulate public opinion.
A good reminder that a lot of DC corruption would not be possible without a complicit [social] media.
My current generic framing:
Lawfare == part of PsyWarfare
Indictments == a false flag event that allows the Regimes Media Machines to deploy PsyOps that politicians et al then weaponize.
In a famous video, Nancy Pelosi described a variation of these Ops, calling them Wrap Up Smears.
Obviously, President Trump knows this.
Fortunately these Cabal Wile Es are smugly stupid and Roadrunner Trump is not. Neither are his supporters.
Meep. Maga. Meep.
“A good reminder that a lot of DC corruption would not be possible without a complicit [social] media.”
And, even more importantly, an apathetic public!
The media and social media is a game changer for the elected scum that have turned on society. When the media does all the leg work to present a false pretense and run cover for all things corrupt, it shall have free rein to do as it pleases. As it does at present.
If you have read “Rules for Radicals” by Saul Alynsky, you recognize this instantly.
Except that Lawfare ended with Trump being impeached by the House twice. Trump was a few senate votes from being removed as President. It also lead to General Flynn being ruined financially and pleading to a crime to save his son from prison.
Lawfare is far from a construct for media consumption to manipulate public opinion.
MAGA The Great 2024,
Lawfare. I can’t help but think back to Monty Python and The Holy Grail.
Except that the “witch” in this very funny Monty Python video was killed after a sham trial.
I may be wrong _ But based on that open -ended theory , couldn’t DOJ bring that claim against anybody/anytime , even a Sitting President ?? .BTW that would also seem to cover a lot of people like Joe’s garage stash or Bill/Hill as well ?
That’s the point.
Broad brushed, open ended interpretations of the law allows for abuse and keeps the fear going. Never know if you’re breaking the law.
Yes – that Soviet quote -“ show me the man / I’ll show you the crime” – has almost become a worn out cliche…
It has become reality!
This insidious law fare won’t work in a properly functioning constitutional republic. It wouldn’t even be whispered in the halls of Justice because of the derisions and denouncements that would follow. But this is no longer a functioning constitutional republic. The walls may seem to be closing in on the Obama/Biden regime but the cornered rat bites the hardest.
The corruption of our judicial ststem has increased a thousandfold since the Zimmerman case. We’re not even near Kansas anymore.
“But this is no longer a functioning constitutional republic.”
And I blame the MSM Press. They are the reason we are losing the Republic. They are no longer acting as a free press and holding the government accountable for its actions. They now are acting on behalf of the government like Pravda and we all know how that turns out.
If the media were functioning as intended, there would be derision. I have believed for many years that media reform is absolutely necessary before anything else changes.
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Overturn NYTimes v. Sullivan and progeny.
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YES! The insanity that malice cannot be proved of an institution like the NYT — is insane in itself. Any intelligent child can tell when another “has it out” for them….but our courts say they cannot? Yes, incidents like the multi-year “Russian agent” hoax (now reappearing in the DOJ’s latest indictments) that keep on occurring — well, those are merely coincidental, right? Sure.
NYT vs Sullivan was a huge break for dirty tricksters (which, of course, includes campaign consultants whose work consists of creative “dossier”-compiling)
Much obliged, Sundance.
Thank you!
So they are allowing the application of Chevron deference to evidence in a criminal case now? Just…Wow!
Isn’t there a current SCOTUS case dealing with “Chevron deference”?
If so, how fortuitous.
What do you know. There just happens to be such a case in front of SCOTUS
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
Issue: Whether the court should overrule Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted elsewhere in the statute does not constitute an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency.
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/loper-bright-enterprises-v-raimondo/
At what point has the doj emasculated itself & the specific attorneys involved & made themselves a complete laughingstock?
At what point can they be sued for malicious prosecution?
At what point have they made CONgress & the judiciary a complete laughingstock?
Oh… we passed that point already. We’re just waiting for everyone to notice.
Merciless ridicule.
A tough, but informative first read this morning.
Fantastic overview. There is another (possible) Zimmerman case going on in Marion County, FL. Same lawyer, same MO. Light on facts, heavy on narrative, this case has reached national media attention and was discussed last two days on Joy(less) Reid (another MO and outlet for the race grievance industry). Crump is working it hard, trying it in the media. It is likely just a tragedy, played out all over, but it’s all one-sided at this point. Perhaps to use against FL politics? Not sure yet, but mark it on your calendars. It’s of interest right now…
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-charged-fatally-shooting-neighbor-history-harassing-children-res-rcna88138?cid=eml_nbn_20230607&user_email=d512b3c72b8f8f42d0596ca2d9d8356b2eea7d4768bde0e5660f9cd7166422f2&%243p=e_sailthru&_branch_match_id=941544793015191882&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAAzVP0WrEIBD8mvTNu2RNjCkcpVDuN8KqmyhnNKgh3N%2FXQAsLO8zMDrO2lD1%2F3u9B6UBnvuG%2B37wLrzvfvxro%2Bf6gOaPzxabjoxIxudUF9POR%2FMNexw3%2FbuBZ5zzP23%2BMjltlLljXkdkfOuOGgWmLaSXDFizo%2FZtlG2NxYa0ut1oVE7Mul5jerBox50vS1nmTKLBEmSUdUMqOy4Y%2FtTMN%2F6HNz0GFGVrgrWjHBsSRKc201e5VN0MHiusRlFzk0oNph0loBDMZyQehgAhH049CKkMtDUK0y6TN2AnRAyxw5ZVt1rjt6NZQE1UifNVm12e%2FbkRpFUUBAAA%3D
Sounds exactly like Bragg’s non-case. I can’t tell you what he did wrong, he just did wrong.
Or pencil neck, it’s collusion in plain sight.
I needed this today. Thx. I am beyond depressed about the lawlessness. I fear bad things are coming over the next 18 months.
CTH has all the receipts. The first part of Dan’s show on the radio last night (down here) presents the overview for the noob masses, if you know any. Spread it. Dan usually does the radio show off the script of his 11:00am podcast. 715K views as of this morning.
If you can run the rumble link listen to the first part. I have to do Dan through Roku, and my Linux balks at the rumble stuff but give it a go.
It’s all about Obama and his weaponized system, as SD always mentions.
https://rumble.com/v2snwms-they-arent-protecting-biden-theyre-protecting-obama-ep.-2026-06072023.html
how to get Dan through Roku? Is is streaming somewhere? I’d like to know ..thank you!!!
Jack Smith is definitely one creepy-ass kracka!
Rat bastagees….
Hopefully someday, these bastagees won’t be able to safely or pleasantly appear anywhere in public in the USA.
Meanwhile- Mike Pence…DOJ clears him even though he had classified documents.
And of course you can’t ignore the corrupt big ass blue dementia ridden elephant in the room: Joe Biden and his over 1000 boxes of classified documents, taken from multiple locations, most without proper security, all taken while he was VP or a Senator.
Some how the MSM and DOJ seem to walk around that elephant as if it doesn’t take up 98% of the room.
Comey: Trump will be the retribution president.
Us: exactly, that’s why we will vote for him.
Wish I could vote like a democrat for Soap lady’s statement. Unfortunately, with the entire federal government, meaning the 3 constitutional branches and the new Bush-Obama branch, I don’t see a way forward for President Trump to be re-elected. If we can watch people pull ballots stored in suit cases out and start running them through the machines ON VIDEO in the middle of the night and there is no response, they know they can do it again. And worse. At least thanks to the brilliant work by Sundance, we know what’s going to happen. And the fearful results:
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them…”
That’s all well and good, but when the government is a weapon, they can and will indict, convict, and win on appeal. In the meantime, I wonder but haven’t looked it up, if there is a way for “them” to remove Trump from the ballot in some states once he is a convicted felon. Mike Davis keeps saying SCOTUS will have to make this right, but are they willing to take on the case? Are they unwilling to consider the correct legal arguments? They can’t be Trump in a fair election, and maybe in an unfair election. So, they simply need him off the ballot. Write in campaigns will result in a Dem win.
The key problem here is that he is a [Former] President. The one-person “Executive Branch” of Government. Permanently holds the highest possible level of security clearance. Entitled to [classified] national security briefings every day forever. He is the one person for whom “the rules” do not apply.
Bragg wants to indict and try him for furthering a criminal act which he hasn’t invented yet. Now, these clowns want to indict him for possessing documents they haven’t invented yet – even though they possess a written memo (not required) in which he declassified them all. Navy v. Eagan is abundantly clear.
Never mind that Biden will never be charged for any of his lifelong pattern of serious crimes, including the unlawful possesssion of classified materials which he stored in a box in his garage. I guess the applicability of Federal Law now depends on who you are.
The timing of events is not in their favor because it looks like they going retrospectively to reclassify something as now national security and override a previous declassification! One would think that all presidential records are part of national security, that is why they either to NARA or with the former president and can ONLY be accessed by his permission!
The DOJ works for the president. They can not override his decision on what is classified.
So you would think , but if he is not “Your” President , the rules don’t apply, you see ( sarcasm )
It depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is……
I remember when they put that slug on the stand in the Trayvon case. That idiot couldn’t read cursive and “her” statement was written that way!
Maybe Trump had in his possession of those black US government pens.
That’s how serious this may be.
For anybody who has dealt with as well as been trained in the “handling” of classified materials they know darn that there are PARTS to Federal Codes for handling materials and issuing clearances.
First: Handling = decisions and access
Second: Authority to make decisions and have access
Third: The proper procedures for both access and MAKING DECISIONS
Fourth: Consequences for failures in Parts 1, 2 and 3
The third part is crucial because it DEFINES THE PROPER EXECUTION AND APPLICATION OF AUTHORITY. Part 3 also defines how proof is to be established that AUTHORITY WAS PROPERLY Executed for the mutual protection of ALL STAKEHOLDERS.
The Office of the PRESIDENT IS NOT EXEMPT from ALL PARTS of the law.
If people screeching about the Authority of the President would actually bother to educate themselves, they would realize a case can be made vs President Trump as he has handled and participated in 1,000’s of classified related things. All that has to be established is that there is NO PROOF OF HIS DECISIONS to declassify materials the Government claims he “mishandled” for ANY of those 1,000’s of contacts with classified stuff. This extends far beyond the scope of the Mar-Lago raid.
If the screechers would pull their heads out of defilade for just on few simple points within their arguments … they would realize there is a possibility that a case can be built by a CORRUPT DOJ and equally corrupt JUDICIARY vs President Trump.
First: President Trump’s AUTHORITY has NEVER been questioned a single time by ANYBODY involved. That makes ALL the case law addressing authority by people 100% MOOT. The DOJ is questioning if there is PROOF the President actually used his authority in the 1,000’s of times he actually was involved in ANYTHING Classified.
Second: In ALL the public statements bandied about by the screechers by President Trump … NOT a single one contains the words “I have declassified … “. Read and listen for once, he stated clearly “I have DELEGATED authority to classify and release ….”. Note: DELEGATE DOES NOT EQUAL DECLASSIFY.
As Sundnace very clearly states with drawing the parallel to the Zimmermann and Trevon Williams case in Florida … it will come down to the evidence produced by both parties. If President Trump’s personal staff has the records PROVING HE APPLIED his authority in the 1,000’s of times he actually touched anything classified. It then becomes a matter of how the corrupt Judiciary reacts.
Yes, this is a vicious and selective application of the law to remove President Trump as there is not a single US President nor Government Official (since 1787) who could NOT be charged for the same “crime” of mishandling classified materials. Given the amount of materials handled and contacted, it would be humanly impossible to NOT make an honest mistake or omission.
All that is needed is a felony conviction and the RNC as well as State Legislatures can do the rest via a rules change to disqualify President Trump from being on the ballot in 2024.
They’re gonna get him, it matters very little what the charges are.
This is only a matter of time now.
‘The DOJ is filing a case about the mishandling of documents, in whatever legal construct they put forth, while simultaneously saying they are under no obligation to tell anyone what the documents are.’ – Sundance
Thus the Beria Garland Justice Department unwittingly echoes a securities prospectus from the South Sea Bubble of 1720: “a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.”
As Sundance points out, Jack Smith’s reckless ham-sandwich indictment does have its ludicrous aspects.
But I find it absolutely alarming – to the ‘fly the flag upside down’ level – that our corrupt national institutions have degenerated into an opaque Third World junta, which now seeks to jail an ex-president.
No doubt the day will come when the US clowngov has five presidents in two weeks (with one of them evacuated by helicopter), as Argentina did in 2001 after going broke.
Say pal, could you spare me $31.7 trillion for a cup of coffee?
“The DOJ is granted legal benefit of the doubt on all matters of national security, which puts the DOJ-NSD in ultimate control over the star chamber they operate.”
This looks like a great opportunity to get a SCOTUS ruling against this practice. This premise is completely unconstitutional as it defines our adversarial justice system which means the COURTS have to decide on definitions and under which categories evidence falls. And given the EXTREME mistrust the public holds against the FBI and DOJ right now, we are ripe for such a decision.
Then this applies to every US President. And if it applies to Trump than every US President must be arrested.
I look forward to seeing what happens when Trump’s team wants Brady material. Brady recognized the constitutional right to see exculpatory evidence, and arguably the documents contain that.
Trump also has a constitutional right to cross-examine witnesses, so his counsel would have to have access to the documents to prepare cross-examination.
The cases cited on deferring to the government on what constitutes a “national security” document do not appear to be criminal prosecutions or at least ones in which the defendant challenged the label “national security” as applied to the documents.
As far as “ultimately this case is on a trajectory to go up to a much higher court in discovery and pre-trial argument, because eventually these definitions are going to become an issue for the prosecution” goes, that would be an interlocutory appeal, such as a writ of mandamus. Those are not easy to get. They’re like instant replays, and courts do not allow a constant going back and forth between trial and appellate courts.
That said, this is unusual, and the possibility of trying the case without any public disclosure of the documents is absurd (not that Smith might not try it), so the DC Circuit might take such an appeal.
But as Sundance and others have said, “the process is the punishment,” and making Trump go to trial on frivolous charges during the primary and general elections is part of the Dems’ 2024 playbook.
Makes you wonder about everything our government says. Starting to wonder about this “Smoke cloud” floating over the northeast. Who knows?
I wish I had the same faith as you Sundance but I don’t see it.
Trayvon Martin cas was in Florida if I remember?
They’ve already revealed there hand by asking Desantis if he would pardon Trump.
Trump is going to prison, I just see no other outcome.
DC is such an evil place and I don’t think there’s one honorable person who lives there anymore.
thedocuments.info
do the work, read the documents…and stop whining…!
The big issue is PDJT went to Mar a Lago as POTUS.
I knew at the time and now, there had to be a strategic move on choosing this path. There’s probably a litany of reasons, but one could be:
How does someone move documents from point A to point B when the opportunity to unilaterally deem the documents “unclassified” will expire at a known moment in time?
It’s amazing how these pundits, in pure partisan positioning, – and they continuously did since high noon Jan 20, 2017 – forget that Donald J. Trump was the President of the United States and sat a top the Executive Branch where no executive branch entity could control him (although through political gamesmanship they did to an extent) and he could ultimately do a lot of things unilaterally.
For instance, he could have issued himself a pardon for all prior and future federal prosecutions because the Constitution sets no limits on Presidential pardon power – specifically to quash any attempts such as this, it checks and balances – however, meh “Obstruction!!!!” Would’ve been the talk and much easier to “convict” in the court of public opinion because the Deep State would just present the ironclad “evidence” of the heinous crime they can’t prosecute because Trump “saved” himself.
BO and JoeBama can do anything they want, but PDJT couldn’t have more than 1 scoop of ice cream.
Laws and mores don’t apply to Democrats. We are in an alternative universe now.
The American Apocalypse:
Reminding MAGA Trump Patriots That Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.
June 8, 2023.
Full article available at Substack http://www.civildissolution.substack.com
Laurie Thomas Vass. http://www.civildissolution.com
Introduction:
Both John, the Baptiser, and Jesus, described the coming Kingdom of God, after the Apocalypse.
In their message, after the apocalypse, God would come to earth and destroy the evil Roman Empire, and replace it with a heavenly kingdom on earth.
Their message, in the year 20 CE, has a certain type of similarity to the American society in 2023, and can serve as a metaphor for MAGA Trump patriots to better understand their duty to God in creating the pathway out of the dysfunction in American culture and government.
The apocalypse metaphor works well if certain elements about the origin of evil on earth, in the early message, are modified to accommodate the origin of evil, in the modern era.
The end of the story, after all the elements about evil in the metaphor have been modified, remains the same:
After the apocalypse, the evil on earth is destroyed, by the Coming Kingdom of God.
In the early message of the apocalypse, the first part happened. The evil Romans destroyed the Jewish nation.
The second part about God coming to earth to destroy the evil never happened, and early Jewish Believers were left trying to figure out what the delay in the end of time meant for their faith.
In the modern message, the evil American Apocalypse is happening right before the eyes of the Believers in the goodness of America, in real time.
The modern forces of evil are systematically and methodically destroying the concept of American national sovereignty and individual liberty, in the original American Covenant of liberty.
Like the evil of the Roman Empire that destroyed the Jewish nation and culture, there is no bottom depth to the evil of the New World Order crimes against humanity.
American patriots are watching the events of the apocalypse unfold, and trying to figure out what the New World Order maelstrom means for their faith in the principles of American Covenant of liberty, called the Spirit of ’76.
In the earlier message, the Jewish nation was being destroyed by an evil outside power, called the Roman Empire. The outside power was aided and abetted by an inside power that collaborated with the outside enemies in the destruction of the Jewish nation.
In the modern story, the American nation is being destroyed by a global outside power, called the New World Order. The outside power is aided and abetted by an inside force, called the Marxist Democrats.
After the Romans destroyed the Jewish Temple, in 70 CE, the Jewish people wandered around in the desert for 2000 years, until 1948, trying to keep their traditions and faith alive.
The message of the restoration of Israel, in the metaphor, is powerful for American patriots today, because the message of the early Apocalypse contains an element of hope that a new American Covenant can restore the Spirit of ’76, without wandering around in the intellectual desert for 2000 years, trying to keep the idea of individual liberty alive.
In other words, in the metaphor, a good nation that is destroyed by an evil force, can be restored to its earliest principles.
Unreal, gouhls I tell ya .
It’s not whether you can make a case in court it’s the narrative and the process that’s the punishment.
These are criminals to the bone and appear to be getting more desperate by the day.
There is another important point to remember here.
Trump is wildly popular and his record of success EXPOSES the GOPe Big Club as a farce.
Right now, if you watch Fox News or many other “conservative” news outlets, they have many influencers who still pretend to support Trump.
But many of them are just shills for their globalist paymasters and so they need an event that allows them to “change their mind” and throw their support to DeSantis.
The indictment is the event. They will say,”I love Trump but, oooooh, this indictment is a bridge too far, so DeSantis is now my guy.”.
That’s was and still is the plan . . . and they are sticking to it.
Oh, no, this is the one. After 8 years, the walls are finally closing in. Trump the criminal will finally get what’s coming to him. But if not, then it will be the next one, or the one after that, or the one after that.
What will be really hilarious is when the prosecution has to reveal in court that the subject NATIONAL SECURITY SECRET is a thank you note from Little Rocket Man, a cocktail napkin signed by Derek Jeter, and a ball cap from Vladimir Putin.
Trump had dirt on them, and they just wanted it back.
The only obstacle I see in President Trump beating the never ending persecution by corrupt democrats isn’t that they will come up with some obscure law they can actually prove he violated it’s the place where the fake charges are heard. In New York, Georgia or D.C. neither the judge or the jury pool will be impartial or fair.
In these places the prosecution could charge him with a DUI and enter a 0.00 BAC into evidence and the jury would convict.