Attorney Robert Barnes appeared on a podcast yesterday to give his analysis of the political indictment of President Trump. It’s a long deconstruction of the Lawfare effort, and contains numerous defenses therein; however, it is a very good encapsulation of the ridiculous issues created by the Biden administration’s efforts to target their political opposition on behalf of the Deep State. WATCH:
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I watched and have to say…..
Really good and highly recommend.
A lot of information!
I’d love him on PDJT team along with Mike Davis 👍💪❤️
Barnes could get guidance from Gerry Spence, whom Barnes mentions. Spence is still alive (age 94). In his prime he won every criminal case he tried, both as a prosecutor and defense attorney.
Atty Spence of the buckskin coat fame?
yes
Matthew Whitaker to Newsmax: ‘End of the Republic Type of Situation’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/indictment-classified-documents/2023/06/10/id/1123098/
Good points made by Whitaker….
Excerpt:
Going into the detail of the indictment, Whitaker said he sees a tough case to prove, particularly with the allegation of moving boxes of classified documents.
“The left-wing media is suggesting that all boxes were filled with documents he shouldn’t have had,” Whitaker said. “That’s just not true. And, in fact, if you lay over the context that Donald Trump was writing his book of all the letters he’s received … in writing through the course of his career, that would make a lot of sense for somebody to want to take their personal records back and forth from their summer home to their winter home.”
… and except for saying “overturn our Constitutional Democracy.” It should be Constitutional Democratic Republic. The word Democratic meant “the people are sovereign” according to the Federalist Papers.
A Constitutional Republic which is based upon equal laws for all. It protects the most vulnerable of all the citizenry, the INDIVIDUAL from the Democratic MOB RULE.
All the issues today are from that “Democratic” (MOB RULE) mindset.
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” – Samuel Adams
Please note that I said issues and not problems.
Problems can never be fully done away with by the very nature of life and random abnormalities. To think that one can correct everything at the expense of others, including those worse off, just to fulfill a self indulging fantasy and ego for the local KABUKI Theater is criminal.
The USA is the only Constitutional Republic of it’s kind. There is nothing else even close.
“Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.” – Samuel Adams
“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let’s tie second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become a legalized version of the first.” – Thomas Jefferson
LOVE ME SOME SAM ADAMS!
I like Whittaker. He could only be acting AG under Trump for a period of time— due to the fact Uniparty has to approve the president’s choices.
I realize this is repetitious— but how the hell DID Trump accomplish all that he did while living in that sewer? God bless him! 🦁🇺🇸🙏
It’s mind-boggling when you actual think about it.
the best solution is civil dissolution
http://www.civildissolution.co
The Special Counsel has a history of misusing the legal process to attack prominent Republicans. He successfully prosecuted Virginia governor Bob McDonnell on corruption charges. McDonnell appealed, eventually to the Supreme Court. SCOTUS excoriated Jack Smith for propounding novel legal theories that had no consitutional nor statutory foundation, and voted 9-0 to overturn the conviction. Although McDonnell was exonerated, Smith’s unprofessional conduct cost McDonnell $27 million in leal expenses.
It has been reported that Smith has gotten advisement from Andrew Weissmann, who was the lead attorney in the Mueller Investigation. Previously, Weissmann obtained convictions of two Merrill-Lynch executives in the Enron case. SCOTUS found that Weissmann had invented law that did not exist, by combining two laws neither of which the executives violated, and SCOTUS ruled 9-0 to reverse the conviction. The same DOJ team convicted Arthur Anderson, as a corporation, which disqualified it from doing auditing work, and drove the company to bankruptcy. SCOTUS eventually exonerated Anderson, but this was too late to save the company.
Put thousands of good people out of pensions and out of work, too.
Washington, D.C. Young Republicans
@WashingtonDCYRs
MUST WATCH: In his address to the
@WashingtonDCYRs, former Assistant Attorney General @JeffClarkUS
calls President Donald J. Trump’s phony indictment “TRASH”and
“EXCREMENT”
Video linked in tweet….👇
And his life is on line over more witch hunts from this coup government of The 2020 election
Please consider donating to this man’s defense fund. They are trying to disbar him in DC, at a minimum.
These guys have had some of the sharpest takes on multiple subjects. I have followed them since the Canadian truckers fiasco where they sliced and diced Trudeau and his draconian methods. Now they are on top of the lawfare machinations.
Robert Barnes is the best. It’s all analysis and the Constitution with him.
Yeah, Robert was on fire wasn’t he.
Viva Frei is from Quebec and moved to Florida to continue his podcasts as he would be unable to do so under Trudeau’s new hate speech and internet laws.
In that case Frei needs to apply for citizenship pronto so that he will be eligible to vote for PDJT in 2024…
….maybe even take a place in his administration.
(I’ve followed him too but was not aware he is in Florida now.)
Fantastic interview. Just watched the whole thing. I’m not sure he’s right on everything, but he’s right on enough so that this case should never make it to jury. It should be tossed if there’s any law left in America. Plus, he has the right attitude.
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS, SUNDANCE!
The biggest takeaway is the speculation as to “why” we are enduring this trauma. Barnes suggests that the endstate is a blanket pardon by Biden “for the good of the country.”
It may sound far-fetched, but this is is the ultimate Alinsky-ite move – using your opponents’ own rules, i.e. our Constitution, against We The People.
It neatly fits into a Lawfare construct to vent pressures and reset the board; breathe new life into exposed, used, and contaminated players; continue to sow chaos and undermine the Rule of Law; and, foil any future efforts to bring bad actors to justice. This would be a massive kill shot to the soul of our Republic.
That’s why these alinskies all need to do some yard work with a wood chipper on the weekends and roll the dice
Maximum Effort! 🙂
It’s an interesting theory isn’t it. Explains why all of a sudden seemingly out of the blue boxes of classified docs start showing up in FJB’s garage. Something didn’t see right about that. Now sometime in the future (would expect 2024) FJB the merciful gets so show his magnanimous side as he outstretches his hand to heal the divisions of the country.
Then the next day he goes on to disparage the white working class again.
Yes…..thanks for posting SD!
So let it happen and stop the lawfare. We aren’t going to see any justice served anyhow against the deep state other than firings or irrelevance.
At this point I’d be happy with smearing all their names and firing. Let the billionaires support them all, we can boycott them all.
So from watching it, this Trump indictment seems to be at least partially about the Deep State urgently trying to stop Trump from disclosing to the American people certain declassified material which is his by Constitutional right (and his right to share as he pleases), material that might be damaging to the Deep State.
Do I have this right?
If there is one thing we learn reading SD it’s this – every Trump investigation, indictment and impeachment has been about the deep state covering up their own or Obama’s crimes.
Covering up Obama’s crimes? My gawd..
Who exactly are you expecting to prosecute Obama, for something or other?
Donald Trump was required to surround himself with an executive branch that took its orders from the State. The Legislative branch is now a sinecure, and the executive is becoming the same. And the Judicial branch dared not challenge the hoax election of 2020.
But, but the Constitution doesn’t mention this stuff?
Everything of the State, nothing against the State.
When Biden is dismissed, in a short time and in short order, perhaps you’ll grasp the identity of your new rulers. But I doubt it.
“Donald Trump was required to surround himself with an executive branch that took its orders from the State.”
If not being sarcastic (which you should stop) this is flawed and pointed out in the Barnes video. Article 2 of the Constitution puts the Executive in charge of all the state except the co-equal branches of government.
The Constitution says..
Put that on your tombstone.
I think you’re misreading raptors2024’s comment.
He wasn’t being sarcastic, or misinformed about the Constitution;
He was implying that Trump had very few Maga people surrounding him, and had to use deep state operatives in his administation because there weren’t enough Maga types.
raptors2024’s claim is that all three branches have been captured by the deep state,that neither Congressmen nor Senators nor Justices are independent anymore, all are beholden to the deep state, and are merely figureheads or puppets.
“Everything of the Deep State, nothing against the Deep State”
The Deep Stae is running the show, not duly elected administrations, congresses, nor justices.
In this blog site, we who comment should probably be “implying” less, and “stating clearly and unambiguously” more.
I daresay that by following that guidance, there will be far less misinterpretation which often causes unnecessary arguments, or firing off sarcastic replies (which quite frequently are subject to multiple and disparate interpretations) in reaction to what is (in this instance) essentially a very accurate general observation made by poster ‘Disillusioned’.
IMHO. YMMV.
Thank you, GB.
Oblique comments will no doubt be required, but not quite yet.
The imperviousness of Obama to the law is astounding, but not yet the topic of the lawful.
We are in a sad transition from the government of lawyers, to fascism.
The dopes who populate this transition time can be spotted by their quotations of the Constitution. (Hello, Mark Levin!).
The best analysis I’ve seen states that Obama is the talisman to the left… it would be highly unlikely he’d ever be indicted (he should, rather, be impeached, if evidence is compelling enough). By exposing the Obama crimes, the analysis goes, it would tarnish the golden boy of the left – and thus the underlying liberal and communist movement. Protecting Obama is NOT about keeping him out of jail… it is protecting the “movement” and allowing his image to stand tall over the Marxist march.
Well then – praying for ever-intensifying sunlight.
“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
-Benito Mussolini
I think this quote pretty much sums up the current administrative state.
Clinton, Obummer, and Potato are never held accountable. Occasionally, some matter “is under investigation “ forever. OR the conclusion was- “insignificant— didn’t meet the threshold of criminality “ so no biggy.
😈👺😱🤮😈👺😱🤮
Ad rem, I didn’t mean to flag this comment!
I would say more Obama’s crimes than anything else since he was never a legitimate POTUS according to the law.
Fraus Omnia Vitiat. Fraud vitiates everything.
All to cover up the coup and move on to more tyrrany
And to distract from illegals swarming through the southern border with taxpayer benefits, high prices, inflation, crime, fentanyl, sex trafficking, Democrat cities turned into war zones, Ukraine corruption and finally Biden et al accepting bribes from our enemies like China.
And to keep failed Ukraine counteroffensive out of the news
Who are now being trained in our military. What could possibly go wrong?
Yes to a point, but the main goal is to negate the Constitution and handcuff our rights under it. If the unelected deep state and iC can be allowed to bypass our Constitutional laws, we are cooked. If they take away the Executive branch powers, it is pretty much over. That is the main thrust of Barnes explanation I believe.
Trump should get Barnes on his lawyer team. The two lawyers that caved should be ashamed of themselves….but won’t be.
I hope Trump or someone on his team views this interview with Barnes. Tucker too.
Agree. I hope and pray that someone from Team Trump sees this and hires Mr. Barnes ASAP.
Meanwhile, I am very disappointed that less than 100 Treepers have commented on this video.
In my estimation, this is the key to President Trump’s defense. Robert Barnes is one of the best and he has presented a slam dunk strategy for PT.
We need to share this in as many places as we can.
IMHO.
I, also, am very disappointed in the Treepers. That video is such an education on Article 2 of the Constitution!! If people would watch it and LEARN then it would stop a lot of ignorant comments and questions that have been ASKED and ANSWERED in the Frei/Barnes video.
It reminds me of the rich man who approached Jesus and asked to be a follower. Jesus replied that the man must give up his worldly goods to follow. The man walked away because that was too much to ask.
How in the world can we fight back from all of the lies about Trump and HIS Constitutional Rights IF FEW OF US BOTHER TO WATCH THIS VIDEO???
in my defense, I can read while at work but cannot watch videos; plan to watch when I get home
I have not watched it yet…at work til night…skimming news in spare moments…
I do agree. I think folks see “50 minutes” and look at their watch. I am particularly glad I took the time to soak this all in. We need to make sure others do as well. Share and share. When Sundance says “must watch”, it is folly to second guess.
Now that I had time to watch, I did, and agree it’s fantastic.
Already shared and more sharing to come…
This video was linked to at least two days ago by one of our fellow treepers. I have personally forwarded the link to many of my cohorts of the local guard and their associate leadership.
Yes Barnes made excellent points in my opinion
His prior two lawyers did not cave, they are required to leave the case when the prosecutor decided to put them on a witness list. It is a LAWFARE tactic of destroying the opponents ability to defend themselves …nullifying the Lawyer -Client privelage
Retired Magistrate here: You are correct.
The era of the lawyers is swiftly coming to an end.
No one, outside the legal profession, will mourn the end of this plague.
I post facts and truth, and my responders quote passages from the Constitution: usually, barely relevant.
The Constitution only works as a source of government if all parties agree.
The Founding Fathers were quite candid on this.
In the late nineteenth Century, a conviction appeared to bring about a new form of government and culture based on leftist principles. Marxism, fascism, progressivism etc. The American Constitution was their enemy, but still we fight upstream against Americans who have missed centuries of legal and cultural history.
The goof Mark Levin insists he has the answer in Constitutionalism: just sue somebody, somewhere. Funny how the under-employed lawyers are so captivated by this.
Barnes, in his video, said that these Lawyers had the opportunity to REFUSE to betray President Trump by breaking Attorney-Client Privilege. The lawyers would have been threatened with going to jail AND THEY SHOULD HAVE. If one is going to be an attorney for PRESIDENT then one must expect to commit to serving that PRESIDENT. The PRESIDENT is not some two bit street criminal. His lawyers should have gone to jail and refused to break privilege. DO NOT TAKE THE JOB OF SAVING THIS COUNTRY IF YOU ARE UNABLE/UNWILLING TO FIGHT LIKE OUR FOUNDERS DID.
Maybe PDJT said that it way okay to break privilege.
Which Trump employee refused to tell a lie about Trump when threatened by these goons? I cannot remember. THAT IS LOYALTY.
They caved when they accepted being on the witness list. They should have said FOAD.
So Barnes opinion that they shouldn’t have broken attorney-client privilege no matter what they were threatened with is wrong?
So, you mean that if I am an prosecutor that all I have to do is decide to put the opposition attorney on a witness list and, boom!, they are gone??!!! Wow. Do you really think that that was all that happened? Why don’t prosecutors do that all of the time if they are facing a fantastic defense attorney?? Just put them on a witness list and they are gone. How easy!!
Two of Trump’s attorneys were “encouraged” to break Attorney-Client Privilege which is a sacred legal right. They could have refused. A REAL ATTORNEY to the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA would have manned-up, refused to violate a sacred, legal Right, and spent a few days in jail OUT OF LOYALTY TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE USA!!! It’s kind of like the Secret Service who are protecting the President. There should be the highest level of loyalty given.
Didn’t they threaten/bribe one of them with a judgeship?
It is a sign that the Deep State is “winning”, in the sense that those weak-knee attorneys are seeing grandmas throw in the gulag, and Trump attorneys and advisors being raided in the middle of the night and dragged out of their homes in shackles…
Before this is over, we may all have a moment of decision.
Those lawyers did not cave.
I tried to put myself in the shoes of two who resigned — probably the pressure is more than we can imagine, to family, safety, and the swarm of misinformation that is thrown at them. Barnes is clear headed partly because he has distance. But I do think if he were on the team he could keep a clear head.
The lawyers did not cave, they were forced out by the DOJ
Lawfare tactic and illegal
The motion to dismiss will contain this glaring misstep bu the commies
They were pushed into violating Attorney-Client Privilege. They could have said NO and spent a few days in jail. That is what usually happens when an attorney chooses to protect his client. Maybe PDJT gave them permission to waive A-C Privilege and maybe he did not.
Catherine Engelbrecht and Greg Phillips could give them lessons!
They did NOT cave. Where did you get this info? From CNN?
Nope. I got it from Barnes. from watching the video, which, apparently from posters like you here freaking out that I said “caved”, have not watched.
Take it up with Barnes, who said that they should not have broken attorney-client privilege no matter what they were threatened with.
Hear, hear. We’ve got a lot of posters here giving legal advice when they haven’t even bothered to listen to the video of a USA Constitutional expert lawyer EDUCATING an ignorant Canadian Lawyer about the entire indictment and the Constitutional Rights that PRESIDENT Donald J Trump should enjoy.
I believe Barnes called them pussies. Highly appropriate.
The attorneys did not cave. They were called as material witnesses by the prosecution and could no longer serve President Trump.
Again, at least watch the video and then take it up with Barnes, explain how he is wrong. If they gave up their notes, disclosed what was discussed, did they
break attorney-client privilege?
I stopped watching at 5′, the time attorney Barnes began saying it was at the discretion of the President to decide about retention of the documents, which has been legally unsubstantiated for 10 months.
In the meantime, I hope President Trump found a practicing or sponsored attorney to be a member in good standing of the Florida bar before appearing in federal court. Christopher Kise (worked for him last year on that case) and Lindey Halligan could be an option.
Re-roll tape and play from 4:51 to the end. Barnes is dominant about the various constitutional, evidentiary and grand jury abuses in this case and reasons for dismissal
Exactly and the comment about “legally unsubstantiated for 10 months” is a crock also.
Case law says otherwise – Clinton ‘socks’ case.
It came down if we are surrounded by some or countless contraflow drivers which we might know in due course, or never!
Clinton Socks Case was yet another brilliant name for something coined by PDJT.
I loved that he initially made it sound like “sucks.” He’s the best at InfoWarFare.
Deranged Jack Smith is something else I hope will stick…
Waste of my time, I am focused on afternoons procedures at court hearings, especially
Everything else will sort itself out in due course, or not!
Wise to focus on those aspects right now.
Yes. Do not waste your time learning about the Constitutional Rights that any President should have if we were a law abiding nation. Do not learn the fundamentals which would lead to a proper defense in court today.////
I am positive that President lawyers’ will include Mr Barnes remarks in court filings! If not, ask them why?
Are you missing Sundance and Atty Robert Barnes’s major point,… that this case by SC, Smith is FAR bigger than about PDJT, that it will destroy our US Constitutional Republic by the illegal precedent it will create?
I suggest you view the entire video, you may change your opinion?
Maybe, but that’s irrelevant! I am positive that President lawyers’ will include Mr Barnes remarks in court filings! If not, ask them why?
#s 1 and 2 were thoroughly covered by Barnes.
Jury selection is, I agree, crucial. But it’s far from the first crucial thing.
Sort of reminds me of the attorney in the hilarious flick She-Devil. He banks his entire white-shoe case on the fact that he plays golf with the white-shoe judge, until the opposition gets the judge reassigned, something he knows only the day they walk in. “So sorry – if only we’d had Judge Phillips!”
Focusing on getting the best possible jury is only one of the knives in the drawer. All should be used. Barnes provided a butcherblock full. Deciding he is not worth listening to here is hubris.
Barnes explains his reasoning quite clearly and why. Watch the whole thing.
I am positive that President lawyers’ will include Mr Barnes remarks in court filings! If not, ask them why?
utter nonsense…….the president has total control in this area and that has been CONFIRMED contrary to your false claim
Flagged him. P>O> appears to be here to sow discord and disinformation.
How has confirmed that the president has total control in this area?
Mr. Barnes is very compelling.
Barnes describes what would be the opening salvo of Trump’s ‘Retribution’
Pardons en masse for all victims of the deep state. Whoever has been convicted, detained or harmed in any way by the deep state—in particular—Assange, Snowden, the J6 patriots, and whistleblowers should be pardoned
Winning the case and winning back the presidency is paramount for Donald Trump and us. Ultimately this is a constitutional fight between the deep state and the existence of the presidency. It is a fight to keep our democratic republic from falling.
It is for all the marbles… so we should expect China to make a move because Joe Biden is owned….
Thanks for publicizing this SD
It’s really down to the details and how rediculous these people are. Everything is a made up seditious witch-hunt and nothing more, all meant to hide the trillions at stake white collar crimes of DC
Those who argue President Trump does not have the “right lawyers” are off base.
How would you select the “right lawyers” in China? the old Soviet Union? Nazi Germany?
Donald Trump is such a gigantic threat to the criminals in charge of America, no legal brilliance is going to make a difference.
They are furious Trump has exposed them but their obsession with him won’t change the outcome.
It should be no surprise their “legal” case is patently ridiculous.
The scoundrels cannot win this war. Too many people see this tyranny clearly. It is the strong common sense of millions of Americans that cannot be defeated.
Americans cannot “unsee” what is clear to them.
The war on Donald Trump is being fought by corrupt monsters in their death throes. A thrashing barbarian who is mortally wounded cannot see how pathetic and impotent he appears.
So true, gnome.
The path forward is surely not through the lawyers.
The lawyers have manifestly chosen the path of thwarting democracy.
Ironically, the surplus of lawyers will end their pretensions of grandeur.
Getting a plumber will be hard and expensive, while lawyers will go door to door, like Fuller brush salesmen.
I exult!
A thrashing deep state barbarian…..cannot see how pathetic and impotent his corrupt barbarian actions are.
To kinda over simplify things I usually go and read the Constitution. It has this uncanny ability of clearing things up.
Regarding the federal indictment of Trump.
It’s all about controversy over stuff he kept from his Presidency.
So that means that he has control over everything regarding his Presidency.
I mean the Constitution is clear:
Article 2 Section 1 Clause 1
” The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” The President is top brass. He doesn’t take orders, he gives them.
Article 2 Section 2 Clause 1
“The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States.” The President is top brass of the military. Everything military, his decision is final.
So, based on these two alone, the federal indictment of Trump is inapplicable.
The laws cited against him do not apply to Presidents.
I was arguing with my employer years ago and he said something to me that has stuck forever.
“It doesn’t matter what you think, it matters what I think!”
Trump was Chief executive, The Boss. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks, it only matters what he thinks.
This indictment only shows the complete arrogance of the DOJ/FBI
You’re starting to get it.
I watched it the other day and posted my takeaway here, and more than once.
It was that the classifications are for everyone but the President. The rules they must follow. He is the Classifier.
I tried watching it the other day too but the first link I tried kept getting all gobbledygook on my phone. I did watch it a few hours ago when my old body woke up way too early. Yup, Barnes was on fire. Strikes me as an ethical honest person.
The President is the OCA – Original Classification Authority.
Exactly what Barnes outlined and why it is so dangerous. His only mistake was we are a constitutional republic not a democracy.
THAT continuously drives me NUTS!
Me also!
Kinda like the Constitution is THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND, that leftists think they amend with a simple statutory law??
Like that??
This is the one. Expert content begins at 4:51.
Thank you Conservative Treehouse for putting this up. I included the link
Why is this not blaring from loudspeakers in every city of this republic? On loop.
I intend to make it so in my circles.
It’s our job to bring about the obvious answer to your rhetorical question, which is: it should be.
Magna Carta – King is subordinate to the Nation
Charles I – King commits treason against the greater State.
French Revolution – The State is above the King. He is just a citizen.
That said, I agree with Barnes’ analysis. I hope it prevails.
I have been dealing with classified information my entire adult life. The originator is the classifier. They determine the Declassification of the material.
And this is what allows the deep state to keep the secrets that are destroying our country. The elected President has the ultimate classifier authority according to the Constitution.
Remember the goal of All these swampy people is to destroy the Constitution. If they do that, no individual is safe. No individual has rights. It’s all democracy without restraint which equals mob rule.
You’re missing the point. The President is chief of the Executive Branch. Nothing but the Constitution informs his actions. Therefore no subordinates can stand above him, he commands it all.
US has 14 Circuits with 179 judges. Under these are 670 District court judges. When these kangaroos are too lazy, or politically intimidated to hear a case, they can assign a “magistrate”
A magistrate judge may hear “pretrial motions, or settlements, hold trial with parties consent or issue criminal MISDEMEANOR case search warrants”
Bruce Reinhardt did not have authority for a felony search warrant. Interview with Larry Klayman on my TNT Radio show, he stated Reinhardt had repeated public statements against DJT. Reinhardt is a deep state kangaroo in a DNC star chamber court
Without watching the video, I wanted to comment on Matthew Whitaker. PDJT’s greatest folly, no fault of his own, was trusting the wrong people. I believe Mr. Whitaker would have been far more loyal than Mr. Barr. Now that he’s aware of how deep the state burrows, PDJT will be far more selective with his choices. His instincts are always right, and I believe those poor choices were because of his trust in others.
The Turtle had control of Advice and Consent. PDJT could nominate by the Turtle could block that nomination.
My guess is that all those against MAGA and thus PDJT by definition have alot to hide. Something that can be found in the suspicious banking reports would be my guess.
Once back in office PDJT could clean house quickly via a Stay and Prosecute or Leave and Pardon strategy.
A key requirement of the Pardon would be to bring forth voluntarily what you want to be pardoned for. Anything not admitted to could be prosecuted.
We need the history books to reflect just how evil this DC cabal became, and put in place better methods of keeping honest people honest.
I trust God will take care of them in the end far more effectively and justly than anything our broken legal system could do.
Given the age of many of these traitors, it’s likely God’s Justice will get to them well before our slow and expensive broken legal system could anyway.
The Rube Goldberg indictment, originally constructed for a simple-minded biased DC jury and a gullible public, was invented by the same deviant Worms of LawFare who were behind all six or seven iterations of Spy-gate.
They work for the ‘deep state.’ Their immediate goal is to get Trump. But there is more to it than that. They want to control all presidents.
If I understand Robert Barnes correctly, the letters from Obama and Kim are President Trump’s letters—period.
If [They] decide that one of Kim Jong-un’s personal notes to President Trump contained a DNA sample vital to National Security, and it is so designated—after the fact—then it would be up to the discretion of the former president to do what he wants.
“The entire legal framework is centered around documents [they define] as vital to the defense security of the United States.”
Sundance
The old question [who are they?] is answered. [They] are the keeper of secrets.
In essence, the records are his. National security laws do not trump presidential records laws. He could classify them or not classify them. Nobody else can do it. Everybody else is subject to the classification rules—except him. The Alphabet agencies serve at the pleasure of the President and not vice versa.
All of this is for the benefit of the presidency, otherwise the deep state can keep secrets from the American people. The one who holds the secrets holds the power. In our Constitutional Republic, the one who holds the power is duly elected by the people. The one who occupies the seat of power today was not.
The contours of this latest fraud generally follow those of the Russia hoax. NARA plays the role of the Clinton campaign. No laws violated, just scary-sounding allegations that become media sound bites, serving as a pretext for a fraudulent investigation.
No. Underlying. Crime. committed.
Then, use the phony allegations to entrap various people in process crimes like “lying to the FBI” and “obstruction” – crimes that cannot exist unless there’s a phony-baloney investigation. These give the appearance that the investigation has merit. Run the whole thing out of FBI HQ because field offices might not be loyal to the main hive. Find some corrupt judges and you’re off to the races.
Target the President’s allies with process crimes to defenestrate his ability to defend. Hide all evidence using phony “classifications”. Conduct a media campaign.
It’s disturbing that not one judge, so far, has held the DOJ to account for its well documented history of breaking the law in its attempts to “get Trump”. if the judicial branch has anyone in it with integrity and desires to keep the trust of the American public, that needs to change in a hurry.
Because if they continue to rubber-stamp the actions of a corrupt Deep State, then we’re officially done as a republic and are instead a one-party police state.
I think Trump needs to hire Robert Barnes pronto.
The Worms of LawFare have written:
“In considering prosecution of a former president, we begin with the standard articulated by Attorney General Merrick Garland: “upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without fear or favor.”[1] In other words, this case must be evaluated for prosecution like any other case with similar evidence would be, without regard to the fact that the case is focused on the conduct of a former president of the United States.”
In this methodology as proposed to Specious Counsel Jack Smith by LawFare, the former President is stripped of executive privilege. Gone is his national security clearance. Plenary powers, granted to him by Article II of the Constitution, are moot.
His identity—having been President of the United States—is divested. It is emptied out by the indictment. Information directed by a biased press/media through the court of public opinion seeds a potential jury pool with the misleading idea, “why shouldn’t Donald Trump be treated the way you or I would be treated?” “Is he above the law?”
Robert Barnes says, Obama, Bush, Clinton and Carter can all be prosecuted under the very same contrived indictment. They won’t be. They were players in the deep state game. It is only Trump, the outsider, who must be removed from that so called exclusive circle of being former president.
We are familiar with how the GOP Club structures its opposition to President Donald Trump. They similarly strip his identity. His name shall not be spoken.
“Throughout the [Harry Potter] series, [author] Rowling establishes that Voldemort is so feared in the wizarding world that it is considered dangerous even to speak his name. Most characters in the novels refer to him as “You-Know-Who” or “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” rather than say his name aloud.”
The surveillance state fears Donald Trump, so they vilify him. The indictment reads and reverberates the same way. It strips the title from the man.
He is to be treated and judged by a standard set by the words of a controlled Attorney General. An Attorney General who has selectively prosecuted/persecuted hundreds of patriots perceived to be political enemies of the installed regime.
I have to agree that this was a very informative discussion/dissection of the charges facing Trump. The only thing that puzzles me is how can 1) a president pardon himself and 2) issue a pardon for crimes that have not yet been adjudicated. A pardon is forgiveness and if you are innocent (presumed so before trial) you cannot BE forgiven; there is nothing to forgive.
Nixon was pardoned. Wikipedia references Ford carrying a copy of Burdick vs United States. Pardon of Richard Nixon – Wikipedia .
I don’t understand/buy/accept that a President could pardon himself but that’s my religious/moral upbringing rather than a legal one. And Lord knows, legal has little to do with moral.
Nixon should have pardoned himself. I was in grade school at the time and would have paid all pennies I owned to see that one!
And then Nixon and PDJT became…friends.
Good point – I had forgotten about that. After reading up on the controvesy surrounding it, I found that Nixon was essentially admitting guilt by resigning. Sadly, I think the law is whatever those in power say it is nowadays.
This was amazing. Must-see TV. Still praying for President Trump.
Outstanding dialog. Attorney Robert Barnes is amazing and should be employed by DJT immediately. Thank you, Sundance.
This guy is a composite of all the decent barristers who have chimed in on this. His key premise is that with this process the intelligence state and unelected bureaucracies take the power from the president. That’s what they want!
They’d give it all back to Obunghole, in a New York minute.
Those of us that know better have been asking how did they get away with this, it is unconstitutional to bring an indictment for documents against the president. How did we get here? is the failure within our government that egregious that no one said “Hey, You can’t do that” No one! Are they all waiting with bated breath to see the outcome to respond? It boggles the mind.
Barnes is a very smart guy. What he says is all true. The case has no constitutional merit or legality. He says if the prosecutors are successful against Trump it is the end of our Constitutional Republic.
What Barnes does not mention is the fact that the “Constitutional Republic” he references is already dead. It has been dead for a long time but the obvious stolen election and subsequent complete takeover by the thugs has made it undeniable. We are at a place now where the cabal can not only charge but 99% of the time convict any given person for whatever crime they come up with.
Notice Barnes calls out Trump’s lawyers as incompetent and basically border line corrupt. So Trump once again shows his less than stellar judgement in who he hires.
haven’t you caught on to the game yet?
Not sure as to what game you are referencing. I am slow so maybe you could spell it out for me.
The prosecution called President Trump’s attorneys as witnesses. I do not believe they could have refused, since then they would have been treated as hostile witnesses, etc.
So, they had to resign.
There are others who say the opposite; not being an attorney, I am not certain.
I’m not sure it’s fair for Barnes to criticize Trump’s attorneys. Trump’s attorneys are doing all of the hard work. Barnes is in his comfy chair opining. Yes he’s very smart and has a good understanding of the matter, and his argument seems entirely credible. But being an attorney is more than just providing an opinion. Do you know what I’m saying?
Yes. It is a fair point. I am sure Trump’s attorneys were more than a little bit intimidated and with good reason. We see what the cabal is willing to do.
Right now, this Lawfare is for ALL OF THE MARBLES. PDJT needs to hire attorneys who understand that they will be persecuted also. Just like these armchair warriors who speak fighting words but then really do not have to put their necks on the line, Trump cannot hire those types.
If you bothered to listen to the Frei/Barnes video, Barnes says that THIS IS TO DESTROY THE AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT AND MAKE THE DEEP STATE THE ARBITER OF WHAT CAN AND CANNOT BE DONE.
PDJT needs REAL MEN AND WOMEN who will fight like our Founders did. Nothing less than that will suffice.
Any new attorneys not involved with the document debacle origination would not be subject to being a demanded witness.
JMHO.
Been listening to Barnes every now and then since early 2021. The language he disseminated (cough cough) about applying for a religious exemption for the covid vax mandates was extremely helpful. It was approved for my friend at a major hospital chain.
Have listened to him surrounding anti-lawfare tactics as well. Everything I have heard come from him has been fiercely loyal to Trump. I always thought they knew each other but doesn’t sound that way. He would be a fantastic addition to the team.
Sounds like based on Article 2 The POTUS is insulated from all classified document situations regardless if classified or not. The people who would not be are Pence, JRC, Biden who obtained the docs when he was Senator. Its not a perfect situation but had been decided best to leave the decisions on classified docs in the hands of a person (POTUS) elected by the people as opposed to shadowy group (DS) with no face or accountability.
Also sounds like this should be drug out past 2024 so it can be decided by the American People. Unless of course it gets thrown out before it gets to that point.
It’s worth noting that the “Clinton sock drawer case,” for all its helpful Trump-favorable language, resides in an unappealed U.S. District Court decision.
Consequently, while it may be cited for the cogency of its legal reasoning, as precedent it is mandatory authority nowhere; not in Judge Jackson’s Circuit, not in Judge Cannon’s Eleventh.
But as the Barnes piece clearly shows, Merrick Garland, through his repatriated lackey Smith, has helpfully repositioned similar issues of executive authority in a forum that could well ultimately lead to binding precedent from the U.S. Supreme Court.
And concurrently placed in jeopardy the deep state’s rickety basis of”national security” for its claim of supremacy over information.
In the process, raising the absurdity of the notion that the Art. II plenary power of the unitary executive is subordinate to subsidiaries of its own creation, and powerless against invasion by Congress.
“In the process, raising the absurdity of the notion that the Art. II plenary power of the unitary executive is subordinate to subsidiaries of its own creation, and powerless against invasion by Congress.”
This sounds like the winning strategy to me.
(FYI – Holiday In last night. Was fun.)
Why does Trump never have attorneys like this? He seems to hire establishment types who seem to need approval from the prosecutor…like they want to be liked? I hate to see him have such horrible attorneys.
As a delay tactic, can the defense roll out one objection at a time? Barnes lays out about a dozen potential Constitutional defects in the prosecution’s case. Can the defense object on the grounds of one of them, fight it out and then if it is not a winner….then rollout objection #2 and so forth?
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Here’s a question that hasn’t been asked: how is it OK for Gen. Mark Milley to leak to the media that Trump supposedly ordered an attack on Iran, but not OK for Trump to leak to the media in response? Is anyone going to prosecute Milley for leaking national defense information?
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Alexander Haig “corrected” his infamous, “I’m in charge here” boast to mean, as administrative head ot the wounded Reagan’s staff, and not as the acting president.
Milley suffers from no such sense of subordination.
Trump NEVER ordered any attack on iran that claim is just stupid
Who is the “wimp” lawyer R.Barnes mentions regarding lawyer – client privilege?
Or was he referring to the two lawyers that resigned and Barnes is saying these guys should have stood their ground even if it meant jail?
He was referring to the “two lawyers” who did not refuse to reveal information that is Attorney-Client privilege. They were not even willing to spend a few days in jail to show their loyalty. Maybe PDJT allowed them to break A-C privilege.
Thank you Cat. So basically they did ‘cave’ in reference to the discussion up thread. Caved as to remaining loyal to PDJT.
Loyal, rather, I think Barnes would define it, to the Constitutional reality that attorney-client privilege has always been sacrosanct until the Get Trump era of the Xiden Regime.
I rather agree on the wuss thing (though I might reconsider if knowing that their children had been abducted). Plenty of so-called “journalists” ready to go to jail to defend their First Amendment rights..
The Marxists are fighters and PDJT deserves the same.
I believe Eric Corcoran was the attorney who put negative stuff in his notes about the client (Trump) that he was supposed to be representing and protecting. Now those attorney notes are being used against Trump. The negative stuff was something along the lines of “Trump made a dismissive gesture.”
Corcoran is the 3rd lawyer being talked about, in addition to the other two who resigned.
Thank you 1000Pumpkins. So it’s a combo of two scenarios. That’s a bigger picture (for me) to pay attention to.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower must be looking down from above shaking his head with a wry smile saying, “I tried to warn the country about the military-industrial complex in 1960. Too bad no one paid attention.” Trillions and trillions spent on our youth’s blood and sacrifice. How dare DJT try to throw a tire iron into the cogs!
Yes. And JFK is having a beer with him, I expect.
so, we’re going to see this amazing analysis plastered all over the news today, right? the talking heads on Faux Noose will be sure to point these facts out to their sheeple right? I won’t be watching, of course, but someone please post them finally telling the truth, Ok?
Great video and commentary. I hope trump hires him as one of his attorneys
If by some felonious act Biden is re elected and does, as this attorney suggests, pardon Trump and all of the deep state criminals then it will be up to our military to bring treason charges against all of these traitors. If they do not then it will truly be the end of our constitutional republic.
I live-steamed this and I have listened to it 3 more times.
Robert Barnes has presented an oral argument that is suitable for SCOTUS.
If Team Trump doesn’t hire him….good luck.
INTENT = something those criminals after Trump CANT show
Not an atty but sounds like Barnes nailed it. I wonder if Biden pardons himself and the Deep State, does that preclude uncharged crimes, charges of Treason, or MIL Code of Justice?
Makes the mind spin …
If you have BILLIONS of dollars you can save the world from tyranny by buying back all the leaders who work for big money and no longer care how they govern or about the peasantry (voters). If you don’t, then world tyranny is coming this decade and you will not stop it. They almost have it, they will not stop or pause for anyone.
Next? The antichrist and tribulation. Jesus saves if you want to miss all that (rapture).
Barnes laid it out fairly nicely, I’d say.
You’ll notice those Republicans, at least those who even dare to make the attempt, who raise half-hearted attempts to decry Trump’s prosecution that amount to Me-tooisim viz-a-viz other Presidents but that never address the enormous Constitutional issues created by indicting a President for acting within the scope of his powers and authority. They tend to leave the impression that, “well, sure, he took docs that maybe he shouldn’t have, but others have done it too!” Spare me this mealy-mouthed defense that is the wicked step cousin of the damnation of faint praise.
President Trump, as Barnes has laid out, IS the Chief Executive while in office. He is the only person in the Executive branch with his bona fides in the actual Constitution – all others derive their authority from him via delegation. Those who benefit from that delegation, as long as the President operates within the scope of his Constitutional mandate, do not enjoy the luxury of dictating to the Chief Executive how he will exercise his powers and authority, yes, even to the handling of classified documents, the authority for whose classification derives from the President. Enough of the Kafka-esque nonsense, are we still a Constitutional Republic or aren’t we?
That is a good point. I too, thought the “defense” of Trump was mealy mouthed, but I also thought he had no legal authority to take the documents unless he “declassified” them, somehow. But per Barnes, he is it, and his mere taking of the documents “declassifies” them and he can do what he wants with them. And although we can think of people who do not have good judgement/do bad things with the info they take as President (Johnson was his example) that is the tradeoff we all accept: we elect the man, or woman, who becomes President, so we have some control over who that is. The alternative is unelected, anonymous bureaucrats of intelligence, or the military, or you-fill-in-the-blank department decide what or if information germane to our individual lives ever gets seen or known by anyone directly accountable to the citizens.
Both great comments!
Will it take a referral to the SCOTUS to get this out to the public?
Deep state is not above the law
McConnell’s RINO GOPe will NEVER convict IF impeachment of Biden/Harris passes the House.
The Uniparty protects itself.
Viva is a Canadian who became well known when covering the Truckers’ protests in Ottawa. I remember him with his wife and dancing young children, walking on a bridge from Quebec, across the frozen river, to join and interview the truckers — and thus clearly demonstrating how peaceful and civilized the protesters were. Since then he has moved to Florida, freedomland. He is a delightful, positive person, educated in law like Barnes.