If you accept a very specific outlook into the mindset of the Lawfare operatives (Weissmann, Eisen, Berke, McCord et al) as strategic thinkers -the brain trust- behind the Special Counsel Jack Smith prosecution, then you might see the dynamic in this story.
Previously, amid his grand prose and proclamations outlining his spectacular and magnificent legal constructs, wunderkind Jack Smith was so confident in his case he strategically announced he would demand a “speedy trial” in order to preserve the great American democracy.
If you see Lawfare as a narrative construct, the pontification made sense.
However, less than two weeks later, suddenly the ever-confident Jack Smith is reversing his position and asking Florida Judge Cannon to delay the trial.
(Via NBC) – Special counsel Jack Smith has asked the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case to delay the start of his criminal trial until December.
The request came in a series of new motions filed late Friday by the special counsel.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had set a tentative date of Aug. 14 for the start of the trial. (more)
Remember, Lawfare is first and foremost a narrative construct intended for public media consumption. Lawfare originates from the perspective of an established legal goal, and then all of the activity is structured around supporting that goal. [A version of find me the man I’ll find you the crime.]
Lawfare is the opposite of following evidence. In fact, in its purest and most visible form, political Lawfare actually requires the ignoring of evidence.
♦ Why the delay?
I think the prosecutors got tripped up by their first motion.
Knowing how Weissmann, Berke, Eisen and McCord think, which is likely similar to how the lesser strategic Jack Smith thinks, the prosecution brain trust likely anticipated a counter motion to their first submission to the court restricting Trump’s access to the evidence being used against him.
The originating defense counter motion, if it had been filed based on substantive grounding around presidential power and ownership of the documents now cited as evidence, legally there would have been a very large constitutional argument sucking up months of court and litigation time.
I think the prosecution team was caught off guard when Trump’s lawyers just simply agreed to the terms and conditions. That has thrown the prosecution strategy into a timeline crunch they didn’t expect.
The DOJ crew were likely prepared to litigate a VERY big hurdle, and whether by accident or defense strategy when Trump’s lawyers acquiesced, they mooted the anticipated prosecutorial hurdle Smith was expecting.
While I don’t personally agree with that Trump defense team approach (if intended), the outcome of their agreement puts the more substantive pre-trial motions on a fast track to the judge.
Regardless of Trump’s defense team intent or strategy, apparently Jack Smith was caught off guard.
Jack Smith wouldn’t ask for a delay, essentially like putting egg on his own face given his prior statements, if he didn’t need the delay. Smith needs the delay.
So, that means the Trial probably doesn’t get started until mid November of 2024 after the election!!! 🤔
The objective isn’t to convict Trump. It’s to have this cloud stay over him during the entire GOP primary calendar so that his opponents and the media can tar him as a criminal (convicted of every charge) and therefore not allowed to be a presidential candidate. The Trump team should push to get this case either dismissed or defeated as quickly as possible to exonerate him.
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How about someone asking Special Counsel Jack Smith why he has not asked Hunter Biden and Joe Biden about the following instead of wasting the time of the court. It will of course not be allowed, but it will be on the record.
China Life and UBS have signed a memorandum of understanding to set up the joint venture, the formal launch of which will be subject to approval from the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC), said one of the sources.
https://www.reuters.com/business/exclusive-ubs-talks-with-china-life-china-asset-management-jv-sources-2021-12-16/
So on one side of this you have the China Pacific Insurance Company acquired by Carlyle Group and the other you have UBS signing a memorandum of understanding to set up the joint venture, China Life Insurance Company.
What we didn’t know was Biden’s sponsors and investors in BHR are strategic partners with COFCO Group which owns 14% of UBS Securities, hence own an interest in Dominion Voting Systems.
If Smith keeps his substantive charges, he will not get to trial for 3 years long after the election because to many complex legal issues and Smith will eventually lose them- the process crimes fall as a result of the momentum. Smith got greedy.
Smith’s only chance to try the case before the election and for him to have remote chance of winning, is for him to dismiss out all of the substantive allegations and most of the process allegations except one or two, a la Scooter Libby or Martha Stewart.
Look for the snake to start shedding his skin or dumping his baggage. Of course the jury ultimately may not be made aware of that.
The goal is not to put Trump in jail. The goal is to keep him off the 2024 ballot and out of the Oval Office forever…
But putting him in jail would go a long way to keeping him out of office don’t you think?
No, not really.
Not at all. I’d vote for him in jail. In a heartbeat.
And, I suspect, so would the young Turning Point crowd who are flocking to MAGA. They would relish it.
And, I thought the goal is to continue running a totally corrupt government. Better Trump go to jail than me, attitude.
MAGA 👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
How did a Grand Jury accept his position but seems like he is not ready or hoping something else comes along. Justice delayed is Justice denied.
Typical Political mess.
I’m not so sure a grand jury indicted him. I thought DOJ just did it unilaterally
delay should be granted till last of King Charles etcc etcc
So the question becomes, WHY does Smith need a delay?
Because he has no case and wants to drag it out into election season.
Smith claims it will take more time for Trump’s lawyers to receive security clearances. Recall, this material is so sensitive not even the FISC cleared Dearie could be special master. How can this material be presented to jurors?
The Democrats ARE on the defensive from several attack points. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pulling the rug out from under these scoundrels. Government whistleblowers are cutting them off at the knees. The foreign policy of these lunatics is an unmitigated disaster. Even the White House press corps smells blood in the water. The fake president is a demented buffoon declaring, “God save the Queen” (when she happens to be dead). The Secretary of State is desperately trying to appear rational while his boss calls Xi a “dictator.”
Biden can no longer even climb the “big boy” stairs to Air Force One. He has to climb up the short “kiddie stairs” in the back of the plane. What’s next? Will they be hauling Biden around in the “yellow short bus?”
The leadership of the USA has become a Saturday Night Live skit. It is so absurd, comedy writers would not get these real happenings approved as a spoof for SNL.
Is Aug too early somehow?
Doc case not as strong as they want?
Keeping their powder dry.
Not expending ammo.
The persecution of POTUS serves two purposes simultaneously.
They’re not doing so hot with #1 there.
His popular (populist) support just continues to grow with every new trick they try.
Mark Levin Blasts Indictment: Presidential Records Act ‘Not A Criminal Statute,’ Trump Faces 100 Years In Prison, Case Undermines Country, ‘Sickening!’
Author, political commentator, and constitutional lawyer Mark Levin joined Hannity on Thursday night and Martha McCallum on Friday to discuss President Trump’s indictments over the “boxes hoax”. This happened as the corrupt DOJ ignores the illegal classified documents stolen by Joe Biden going back to 1974, when he was a Senator, that he kept in his homes, offices, and open garage.
During his appearances, Levin highlighted the improper use of the justice system, and an unprecedented attack on a former president.
Mark Levin:
President Trump is 76 years old. If the Department of Justice gets his way, he will die in federal prison just by one of these counts. Conspiracy to obstruct justice, which has a 20-year maximum sentence. This is a disgusting, disgusting mark on American history for the future to come by these bandits in the White House, by the Democrat Party that don’t play fair anymore. They don’t want to just win elections. They want to take control of this country. They want one-party rule and they have used the Department of Justice and the FBI to get what they want. Merrick Garland is a mob lawyer. That’s what he is. Jack Reed (Smith) is a rogue Soviet-style prosecutor. The Presidential Records Act is not a criminal statute, and it was never intended to be. The Espionage Act of 1917 was passed under Woodrow Wilson, another corrupt president. Woodrow Wilson used it to go after his adversaries and they imprisoned 2000 people. So, I suppose over there at the Department of Injustice and this clown prosecutor spent a lot of time at The Hague, they probably figured these laws could be used to try and entrap Trump…
…There’d be no obstruction issue of any kind. Not even in anybody’s imagination had they not criminalized this case. This is a document case. A document case! where a President of the United States or a former President faces 100 years in federal prison. Is this some kind of a sick joke on the American people?! Joe Biden says he never told them what to do. Joe Biden had to sign off on that’s becoming a National Archives case to have it go to the Department of Justice! Who does he think he’s lying to? The American people. This is a guy that’s got documents from the time he was in the US Senate, for God’s sakes, in his garage! I don’t want to hear from the legal analysts, the technicalities about false statements and obstruction. This should never have been a criminal case. Willful retention of documents. Well, what’s the unwillful retention of documents mean? They’re throwing all these process crimes and all these crimes that grow out of the criminal investigation against Trump. What did he do with the documents? Did he sell them to the enemy? No!! That’s why we have an Espionage Act, not the trick of a President. What did he do? Did he burn them all? NO! The Government has all the documents back. So, there is no violation of the Presidential Records Act, at this point. But, they throw the book at him?!