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.
If and when a prosecutor brings a case against a citizen, he should damn well be ready to make it.
Agreed. Unless the process is the punishment, and the longer it goes on, the more pain that is delivered. This is the informal definition of “lawfare”.
Yeah….supposedly a quick and speedy trial which doesn’t happen anymore unless you’re Hunter. Smith belogns in jail himself.
Perhaps ask who is actually being punished, even if they don’t know it yet, and who is The Punisher?
Trump’s poll numbers are going up?
Smith looks like a clown?
Who is getting punished here?
Durham testifing before Congress is what really hurt…. it exposed the entire charade. I even heard mainstream media reporting on it as a Dem op.
America and its legal citizens.
Yes, the optics are everything truth be damned.
Also bear in mind that pushing the trial start date until December gives the DOJ and the media the preceding 3 months before the start of the primaries in which to leak and smear Trump on TV and in print 24/7, non-stop. The timeline is better for them.
We’ll see how fair this Trump appointed Judge really is. Unless Trump agrees to the delay the trial should go forth on August 14. Trump is guaranteed a speedy trial.
So are the J6 defendants still languishing in the DC jail.
Given the omniscience of the 4th branch total surveillance state, unless Judge Cannon is as virtuous and pure as St. Agnes of Rome or St. Aloysius Gonzaga, she’ll be blackmailed into playing along. Similar to what I suspect is happening with MTG’s sudden 180.
remember that time Mueller was caught off guard by the Russian businesses, actually showing up for trial and demanding their day in court? LOL that was funny
Yeah, put up or shut up.
I see the same thing here also.
I was also thoroughly delighted when those two Russian comedians tricked Schitt into believing he was going to get some actual dirt on Trump. That was hysterical.
“What is the nature of the kompromat?”
“Pictures of naked Trump.”
I remember! And that’s exactly how the Russians got their whole case memory-holed, if I recall.
A wise man once said that “sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
That was SCOTUS Justice Brandeis.
As a GENERAL matter, whst lindak says IS the way it ‘works’ in Criminal trials; Defendants can get delays for all sorts of (legitimate) reasons, but Prosecutors, very few.
Because THEY (Prosecutors) INTIATED the action, they aren’t supposed to indict, unless they are “ready for trial”.
Remember the case agsinst Gen. Flynn, also Lawfare. They got him to plead guilty, by corrupting his lawyers, and then they dragged out sentencing for almost 4 years, ostensibly because he was ‘cooperating’ with Prosecutors, and his legal team kept agreeing to the post-ponement of sentencing (cause why wouldn’t he?).
The whole purpose was to have a headline, JUST BEFORE the election of “Trumps former National Security Advisor Sentenced,..”
Again, I think our VSG has figured out how to successfully beat Lawfare at theircown game, and I think HE is “calling the shots” in this battle.
Flynn pled guilty when they threatened to prosecute his son who just had a new baby.
Yes, that’s exactly what came to mind when reading this story. The Russians actually showed up.
Call their bluff and use their own “speedy trial” words against them.
👌
THAT was hysterical! Egg on your face time!
Doesn’t the Speedy Trial Act apply in this case as well??? Does the RNC exist anymore??? How about investigating and attacking the methods and actions of those attempting the “lawfare”???
How can you ask that when the people in the horrific conditions, in a jail unfit for humans, have been waiting since June 6th for their day in court.
That’s a separate issue and an emotional response at that.
Unfortunately, those defendants’ lawyers should have been making motions on ‘right to speedy’, and if denied, appealing right away, amongst other issues, ie Brady violations.
This is a war, and unfortunately there are casualties in war.
It’s not Trump’s fault nor his purview to be acting as their defense attorneys.
Additionally, and imo, the entire weight of our freedoms and effort to take back control of our government rests on Trump’s shoulders.
No delays for justice concerning him.
Emotional responses will not win legal battles.
Yes, SERIOUS Brady violations.
Doesn’t the Sargent of the Capitol Police report to the Speaker of the House? What is Kevin doing about those conditions???
Do Capitol Police have any control or influence on a non-state DC mayor, police chief, police or jail?
I TOTALLY agree. HOWEVER, and you can research this, DC is a TOTALLY different jurisdiction, and few people, including run-of-the-mill attorneys even realize how this actually affects things!
RNC ?!?!!
They exist for RINORATS, UNIPARTY, Chamber of Commerce moneywhores and Cocktail Party’s … they hate President Trump, WeThePeople and that pesky Constitution.
The RNC is for Ron, not Don and actually care more about themselves than who wins the election in ’24.
Rona’s too busy getting more plastic surgery and buying expensive outfits.
The entire purpose of this case is not to try it in a court of law. It’s to try it in the court of public opinion.
This damn court and all these pesky procedures just keep getting in the way.
Well, it appears the court of public opinion is not on their side right now either. People are waking up.
Yup.
It is not JUST that “people are waking up”.
Firstly, its that WE have largely rendered their primady weopon of MSM/Big Tech impotent to shape public opinion by developing a robust “rebel alliance” of alt-right media.
Secondly, PDJT has developed and is implementing a ‘counter-strategy’ to their Lawfare tactics, effectively thwarting them.
Notice WHO first announced the MAL raid; PDJT. And he immediately dispatched his surrogates to begin getting out his ‘side of the story’, 24 hours before Garlands press conference. The first 24 hours is CRUCIAL in battles in “The Court of Public opinion”.
In the case of the NYC Bragg indictments, if you actually believe it was prosecutors in Braggs office, that leaked the story a week before, well you probably have ‘no idea’ who sent DJT’s tax return to the NYT, back in the 2016 campaign, lol.
(In both cases, its DJT!)
Atta boy. OFFENSE with no let up!
What he should do doesn’t matter. He has a “D”beside his name and that means he can do anything he wants to anybody he wants and nobody will ever hold him accountable, unless you consider “a stern talking to” by the GOP as being held accountable.
Right. A criminal case should never be brought unless the prosecutor is ready to prove the allegations beyond any reasonable doubt.
I think the marxists are panicking as President Trump’s numbers get boosted with each move they make.
He still reminds me of Castro. Just like Trupdope is related to Castro. They all look like Castro not to mention their common ideology.
So lil’ Jacky got caught with his paints down. I wonder if the Lawfare vote was 8-0 for him to drop his pants?
We see you Jacky and it ain’t a pretty sight!
Yes! I couldn’t figure out why his pix gave me an uneasy feeling. He does look like young Fidel! They probably have a lot in common.
For some reason I keep thinking of Rasputin when I see this dude.
Anyone able to put up some pictures of Rasputin? Maybe my memorie’s off,
but it would be quite the hoot if it were a “separated at birth” side by side.
Yes! Him too!!
I’ve never been able to post photos here. Can’t understand how others can do it. I gave up posting from Truth Social as it only posts as a link not the full text like Twitter posts. Does anyone know why I can’t post photos? TIA
I have heard that the photo has to be saved as a web address in order to be uploaded. I do not know how to do that but I understand that is why Twitter, YouTube, and Rumble content gets posted here and not photos.
Why does Bjorkdream’s photos get posted?? How does Bjork get his photos saved as a web page?
Gives me the creeps.
Do all commies end up looking like Castro?!
More like Devil!
Looks like it!!🤣🤣
Jack Smith looks like a seedy little Bolshevik with a badly made bomb in his briefcase. He was on his way to blow up the train station, but unfortunately for the plotters, the bomb has gone off early, while still in their possession.
Does katy’s husband even have a clue as to how foolish the “lawfart team” is making him appear???
Nope.
Jack Smith. – “Put up or shut up”
So sick of these mosquitoes at 4:00am
That’s an insult to mosquitoes.
The reason J. Edgar Hoover denied the existence of the Mafia, was that he knew the real Mafia ran the U.S. Government in the shadows.
That and they had photos of him in drag engaging in sexual perversions.
Funny (pathetically so) how J Edgar could perform the same acts in public today and be celebrated for his bold and enlightening behavior.
And then there was his “friend.”
I think this is so very bad. All these attorneys are on the taxpayer dole – we pay for everything, from what they eat and drink, for their offices – for everything.
We are all paying for what I think is a fake case against somebody that I voted for and will vote for again.
A person that many of us voted for.
What the h—?
Perhaps reframing what you’re paying for will change how you feel?
For instance, I’m choosing to frame what I’m paying for as another segment of our real life, interactive “movie”.
Each segment reveals more proof of how much danger we are in due to an utterly corrupt DOJ and DC Cartel.
The cartel is so corrupt that they are now openly persecuting their political opponents, including a President, lying to do it and are totally OK with election interference to maintain the Cartels power.
These are all things normies have been told for YEARS were absolutely FORBIDDEN and only dangerous Nazi demons would even dream of doing such things.
And now we are paying for them to reveal to the world that THEY are those demons.
Great plot twist. A necessary plot twist imo.
J Only when normies grasp, at least rudimentarily that were all in mortal danger will they find the will needed to support the drastic measures that survival will require.
Obviously, my current framing isn’t the only one that can help prevent emotional poisoning. Everyone is able to find the one the offers them the best protection from these 24/7 satanic psyops.
Yet another “conspiracy theory” that turned out to be true. So many …..
Perhaps conspiracy theories are now spoiler alerts that tell people what will be revealed in future segments of our real life movie.
Very, very many
“Lawfare is the opposite of following evidence. In fact, in its purest and most visible form, political Lawfare actually requires the
ignoringmanufacturing of evidence.”FIFY
Retired Magistrate here: I think Objections should have been filed with regard to the latest Magistrate’s Pre Trial Order. That way Defense Objections could have been preserved on the record. If Objections were filed, the Prosecutor had the right to respond and then the matter would go to the presiding Judge, Cannon, and she would rule on the Objections. By waiving the Objections Defense counsel may have waived their right to bring up the Objections later.
The trial court is where a case is made or lost in that the record you make in the trial court is what goes up on appeal. You want to make all your arguments in the trial court because that is what the appeals court will rule on. Unless there was an egregious constitutional error made at the trial court level, the appeals court will not consider new arguments; just what was on the record in the trial court.
Of course, I don’t have access to all the information President Trump’s attorneys do; however, I am concerned that they may have waived their right to object to important issues with regard to the latest Magistrate’s order.
Marcia
I completely agree with your assessment as this is your domain and it makes sense to me, but I think they are going for broke at trial with possible motions to dismiss for various reasons with substantive issues, or putting in front of a non-DC jury that will have hopefully been properly vetted per voir dire by what appears to be a honest trial judge.
I realize the risk as I’m sure they do, but I think they are going for an outright kill shot, strategically speaking.
Maybe I’m wrong though.
Given the obstacles including lawfare raids and other threats up to and including disbarment, facing President Trump’s lawyers in the past, do you believe that President Trump can ever receive fair representation? Or will the treasonous globalists simply continue to threaten and/or bribe his legal team into submission?
I think Trump has terrible lawyers.
Marcia,
I think you are perhaps making the understandable mistake of thinking like a lawyer, which is the trap of lawfare.
If you first adopt the view of the perpetrators OF lawfare, that this is primarily a “P.R. Campaign” and only using the legal system as a pretext, then you FIGHT it THAT WAY.
Were the restrictions on PDJT’s access to the evidence REALLY that onerous? He and his lawyers COULD view the evidence ‘against’ him, so WHATS “the big deal”?
And littleflower; I think PDJT is fully in charge, and “calling the shots” in his legal defence, his lawyers are simply carrying out his instructions, and so far he is beating them at their own game.
Get the case to Court, asap cause the basic case is without merit. THATS the “legal strategy”.
Fight the cade “in the Court of public opinion” by being “quick out of the gate” to beat the prosecutors in getting your “case” out to the American people, in “the Court of public opinion”.
The foolishly have engaged with PDJT in a “battle of wits”, and they just don’t have the ammunition to sustain the battle.
Exactly like Ukraine, they are losing, and can not recover.
BINGO and a MAGA men.
BINGO!
On a side note, Dutch, you ever consider writing your life story in book form? I think it would be great!
Pass, but thank you.
I tried my hand, several years ago at a novel that would change forever how people view “mass shootings” and probably eliminate them, but then current events overtook my approach and largely made the book,…moot.
The pawns chosen by Lawfare are Puppets told by their handlers they are competent, capable & strategic … the Puppet proceeds with Plan A believing he is competent, capable & strategic … immediately proving he is incompetent, incapable & stupid … retreat … Lawfare & handlers regroup … send Jack the Puppet back with Plan B … rinse, repeat.
May God Continue to Bless President Donald John Trump, WeThePeople and the United States of America. Amen.
And help us turn back to Him!
Retired Magistrate here: Yes, you could very well be correct on President Trump’s strategy. With my legal training, I do think like a lawyer and I am just explaining the procedures that an attorney would go through to make a good record for appeals purposes.
All I attempt to do here is explain what the legal processes should be; not what they in fact turn out to be.
And that’s why we love you. ❤️
Please don’t ever stop your contributions. We need them for perspective, and correcting us when we misunderstand a step in procedures.
I think Dutch and I are just looking at it from a strategic view, albeit somewhat politically motivated, as opposed to a procedural view.
I know my view is to get it to a stage for dismissal, nolle prosesqui, or heard on its merits and get it over with.
Thank you for all you do for us!!!!
Agree, and fully support what you post marcia.
We all appreciate your perspective.
I on the otherhand am a lifelong “jailhouse lawyer” having represented en proper in everything from traffic tickets to felonies, and federal offences in Criminal law, as well as cases of civil and administrative law.
I was always going up against professional lawyers, and in some cases I prevailed BECAUSE I took approaches no professional would take.
Valuable to know the legal “take” on these cases, and please marcia keep posting, I was just aknowledging that lawfare is NOT “the practice if law” and as such, while bearing in mind the legal aspects, one needs to look at the bigger picture.
I think PDJT has this nailed, and as a result their efforts are effectively not just thwarted, but turned.
Speaking of which, I have posted another *pancake* recipe, for those interested.
Usual place.
Retired Magistrate here: Of course I will continue to post. I am honored to be a member of the Tree House and appreciate everyone’s take on different issues. That is what makes the Tree House special; all the different views on a particular subject. It is a big club, and yes, I am thankful to be part of this big club.
GOD Bless you Black Knight, dutchman and everyone else in this Tree House.
This site amazes me daily. Most of us wouldn’t ever be in the same room to bounce ideas off of one another. Thank You Ma’am for the inside baseball.
And the resources needed by Jack Smith to help bully his way through with responses he wants and time stalling tactics have just been put in a bind: Monaco and Garland will be defending themselves as a result of a few IRS WBs bringing receipts showing they impeded an investigation and illegally intervened.
To what impact it has….I think it all depends on how hard the House goes after them and keeps on it. I.E., Garland’s impeachment should already be ready to go. IDK of Monaco can be impeached….then you commission the Congressional Special Prosecutor to look into Garland and Monaco. Or something.
Outstanding. A Congressional Special Prosecutor would be the exact definition of going on the offensive as Trump recently stated.
I know from my ‘troubles’ years ago, that once I got cleared and started getting evidence of the wrongdoing against me, I learned real quick to go on the offensive and from multiple directions simultaneously. And never let up!
I had the whole courthouse, police department and DA’s office scurrying like rats on a sinking ship by employing that very strategy.
Way to go, BK!
Love to hrar about it, sometime.
We could swap “war stories” of our legal battles,…over a few cold ones.
I’ve commented tidbits of it in the past, in particular in more detail to a request for more background from another one of our ‘colleagues’ here recently in the last week or so.
Good for you!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and perspective!
The DOJ has 63,000 lawyers , last I heard. I don’t think they’ll run out of help soon. Or they’ll just borrow a few from the FBI 🙄
What Smith has run out of is lawfare, ie public attention. That’s now all on Garland and Monaco at least for now.
I personally think Smith is stalling because they think the IRS/Biden scandal will blow over in a few months (or Biden will be shoved out within a few months), so there sits Smith waiting to rev back up for maximum attention.
🤷♂️ but who really knows
If the Deputy Attorney General is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, yes Monaco can be impeached.
I thought so too and not only now but during his time in the WH.
Well Jack Shit used the grand jury to get an indictment. The grand jury is secret. That is controlled by prosecutors.
No telling what kind of deranged Trump haters he had sitting on the Grand Jury.. He needed it in the news and so did deep state.
No trial delay should be granted to a prosecutor because he has already had you indicted. The prosecutor should have been ready. The Judge should slap request down.
I believe Judge Canon is pushing the speedy trial. I think she is looking for pay back on the deep state lawfare. I am hoping and praying she takes this opportunity to destroy these snakes.
I see the possibility of Prosecution misconduct may be the outcome here.
I pray I am on the right track.
Same here.
Activist Judges, paid commie activist jurors,commie regime prosecutors equals an illegitimate freak show because Biden lost and was installed in 2020. The regime knows that we know; that’s why the regime WILL DO ANYTHING to steal again in 2024. Steadfast. Trump 2024
Judge should slap request dwon, prosecutor should have been ready.
Hopefully…the judge sees and knows what’s going on and tells Jack Smith…you wanted a case…you have the case…now it moves forward as I said in August. If you weren’t ready…you shouldn’t have moved on this!!! NO DELAY!!!
Retired Magistrate here: The Judge has cleared her docket for this case so in all probability it will go forward.
Yes!!! Thanks for the update. I think that is great news!
Becoming more and more convinced that they’re being called out, which fits in with my earlier comments this morning, page 1.
Retired Magistrate here: I am making an assumption that she has cleared her docket. Trial scheduling is a complex process and for a high profile case like this you would have to move other cases around to get this one scheduled for an early trial date and make sure you give the case enough time on your docket. In my experience, this is not something that can be switched overnight.
Again, I do make some assumptions based on my experience as a former trial attorney and magistrate. Sorry if I misled anyone.
10-4. Thanks for the clarification.
Great to clarify exactly what your saying, i.e. you hadn’t personally CHECKED her “docket” but were speaking from experience.
Speaking of which, how accessible IS Judge Cannons docket ‘to the Public’ and how much could YOU, with your experience decypher from it?
Smith argued that the Aug. 14 date “would deny counsel for the defendant or the attorney for the Government the reasonable time necessary for effective preparation.”
Also presenting a challenge is the need for Trump’s defense team to obtain the appropriate security clearances to view the evidence Smith has against the former president.
“[T]he case does involve classified information and will necessitate defense counsel obtaining the requisite security clearances,” Smith wrote, noting it may take up to 60 days for the defense team to be cleared to view some of the most sensitive material.
He (Jack Smith) added: “the inclusion of additional time for defense counsel to review and digest the discovery, to make their own decisions about any production to the government, and for the government to review the same, is reasonable and appropriate.”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/23/special-counsel-jack-smith-asks-judge-to-delay-trump-trial/
motion document filed:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.34.0.pdf
per the cited filed motion:
9. For all of these reasons, the government respectfully moves the Court for an Order1 : a) continuing trial in this matter until December 11, 2023 (jury selection to begin that date); b) excluding the delay resulting from the continuance of trial from the speedy trial calculation in this case under 18 U.S.C. § 3161; c) continuing the Calendar Call for trial until December 5, 2023; d) setting the deadline for pretrial motions under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3) as July 31, 2023; and e) continuing the deadline for all other pretrial motions and motions in limine until November 20, 2023.
also noting: cannon will have to determine classified clearance decisions ALSO for jury members, which at earliest selection does not begin until December 11, 2023;
so imagine all jury ARE selected before christmas, which is unlikely, but lets just assume it happens…then we are looking at another delay in getting those jury members cleared..at least another 45-90 days of delay…with the assumption that some of the jury will have something spotty in their records that disqualify them from getting clearance.
see how this is going to shape up now?
it’s not just delays.
As I have said before this CASE IS ABOUT CLASSIFIED MATERIAL. In every respect, DOJ will use CLASSIFIED MATERIAL , nation defense security or not, marked or not, closely held or not, as a means to steer this case, form the jury it needs to fulfil a conviction…and failing that, to assassinate the character of President Trump.
ultimately, I believe this case will go the same direction as LTGEN Flynn…that DOJ will be forced into a box where they must withdraw the 693 and mishandling charges..and drop back to false statements. But what they do not have in this case, is a complicit evil mf’er like sullivan.
regardless it is clear to me the strategy here by DOJ is to continue to master over what materials are shared, what materials can be viewed…
and ultimately that this case is about welding the doors shut that any future ability BY ANYONE to share or divulge the secret crimes of the secret stasi spy state will never happen without great legal consequence..and a grave threat of danger. (grave danger..is there any other kind?)
unlike the movie, we are not going to get the colonel in the stand and admit he ordered the code red.
but we know it was a code red.
God Bless America
Kinda sounds like the defense employed by their Weather Underground way back when, huh?
Put up and out, or drop the case.
Prosecution folded like a cheap tent in a wind storm.
I think regitiger certainly details one aspect of what the enemy PLANS, and is now goung to confron the oft stated “No war plan survives first contact with the enemy”.
IMHO, PDJT has already made significant progress in fighting this “in the court of opinion” and both in that realm, and in the court battle, pushing the process forward as fast as possible is key.
And pushing for TRANSPARENCY. WE all know this “classified” and ‘National Security documents” is B.S.
There is nothing in the documents that would hatm National Security if it were published on the front page of the NYT, and it is the Prosecutiin that doesn’t want anyone to SEE that.
THAT is their vulnerability, in both “Courts” and so moving for speed and transparency is the way to go.
If PDJT has security clearance to view the documents, and he has attorney client priviledge, why do his lawyers need clearance?
HE can view the documents, with prisecutors watching, and then discuss with his lawyers.
Or, say he will be representing himself, he has the clearance, let him see the documents?
This whole b.s. delay, for his lawyers to get clearance, and how THEY must oversee him viewing docs, etc. goes away, if he just files papers with the court that he is representing en proper.
And,….it would confound the crap out of Jack Smith.
Yep. We called it pro se back in the day.
And I agree with you. You got it, bring it. Let’s get it on!
Personally and referring back to your comments earlier, I think there’s going to be motions to dismiss on Records Act & Socks case, maybe Brady, and if the judge is as honest as she appears – case DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE! Hopefully with sanctions after that.
See Jack fall. Fall Jack fall. And his handlers Weissman, Eisen, Berke, and McCord exposed. Maybe ole Jack will flip on them.
edit: 793 (not 693)
I had not thought about the jury members needing security clearances. That opens another can of worms, not only for delays but also for mischief by the ‘oh so trustworthy’ FBI to pick and chose jurors by the depth of clearance probing they perform.
Did the Grand Jury members that delivered the indictments all have to have top clearance also and how long did that take?
Imagine the info they can glean on prospective jurors, who they voted for, donated to, social media, job history. Jury tampering a la DS/FIB.
Jury clearances definitely give the FBI an excuse to slow walk the process.
GJ information is sealed…(well, unless the DOJ desires to leak…which it does routinely).
it would be assumed that GJ would have been given clearance…but then there is also the possibility (as I have stated in various ways) that the DOJ would not share specific materials TO ANYONE…even if it means in the end that this court case fails. that is NOT THE TOP GOAL OF DOJ, to win this case. The TOP GOAL is to prevent that damning material from EVER being seen or read out in court or outside of court. President Trump retained material that shows evidence of criminal violations from quite a few people in US Government. That is what the raid was about. and it’s time we stop pretending it’s not.
God Bless America
Important question! If the grand jury didn’t have security clearances, how could they have the ability to evaluate the evidence to indict P. Trump in the 1st place.
VERY IMPORTANT.
Remember Obama having a Connecticut Social Security Number? Well for some reason it’s back in the news.
Maybe there’s a connection.
Supposedly Obama had a Connecticut SSN since he was 15yrs old … who? how? & why? made this happen? is of course “unknown”.
But … the corrupt & immoral left inevitably screw up and make a mistake … Dear God, May they forever screw up. Amen.
Despite sealing, disappearing, covering up & lying about Obama’s past … these brainiacs actually showed President Obama’s 2009 tax returns without blacking out his SSN … wow … now the world knew that neither the Kenyan, the Hawaiian or Foreign Student Barry Soetoro EVER lived in Connecticut !!!
These RATdevils actually confirmed a sitting President was/is a felon for using a stolen SSN. Dutifully ignored by the Media.
In 2011 Obama changed the wording/meaning of the 1936 SSN law assigning the SSN to the address on the SS-5 application form … to allow a “randomized”consideration of where the applicant “lives” … “voila” Obama is no longer a felon.
Sound familiar ?
These current demons changed the wording/meaning of the 1917 law regarding legal/classified documents handled by presidents as legal … the change made it illegal for President Trump?
There are ZERO coincidences in the Deep State Sewer.
Ps… compliments of Susan Daniels … The Rubbish Hauler’s Wife versus Barack Obama.
But, in regards to the materials shared, PDJT declassified them ALL, and no pretender can, “reclassify” them.
IMHO
Perhaps the globalists leading the ONGOING, TREASONOUS COUP against our duly elected President, are simply falling back on tradition. How can we forgot that June is pride month and July is typically their 2a psy-ops month?
Their commie newscasts, movies, music festivals and talk shows are all pre-determined. Every narrative *must* have its own allotted news month, silly.
August must either be earmarked for little green men or else it’s a climate emergency month. How else can the DS bombard us into the next ‘mass formation’ news hysteria cycle?
#theMOREweKNOW 🇨🇳
This is total nonsense(Smith’s wanting a delay, not your article.) If a prosecutor brings an indictment, arraigns the accused, and all the crapola that goes with such a thing, s/he had damned-well be ready to proceed. The judge should throw the case out. There’s no circumstance in which this should be permitted.
Exactly, Mark!
And even more so in Federal cases where fast and speedy is not only a Constitutional (6th Amendment) right but has been upheld in subsequent litigation regarding such.
Don’t indict unless you are ready to proceed, at the Federal level!
Spot on, brother!
About time we started referring to these Lawfare persecutors as Assault Lawyers.
You should have stopped after the first 3 letters and just added “holes” at the end of the first word.
Does the RNC still exist? Does anyone there understand what the term “lawfare” means??? Would someone please explain how andy can still practice “law” after having 90% of his Enron cases OVERTURNED by SCOTUS because he hid exculpatory evidence???
There actually are several, seperate but coordinated efforts to counter lawfare.
America First Legal has been racking up a list if victories, as has KL’s legal team.
Our team has ‘suited up’ and is on the field.
The enemy forces were having a hayday, scoring when they were unopposed, but not so much any more.
Nice! I like it!
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-2054-synopsis-classified-information-procedures-act-cipa
F*ckers. All of them. Especially the prosecutors from Project 65 who attack any lawyer who signs up to help Trump.
I secretly wish Mitch Rapp shows up while they sleep. May they all end up like Arthur Higgins in “Term Limits”.
This is a sham trial to get Donald Trump nothing more nothing less the whole damned thing should be thrown out especially now that we know what a crook The Sniff really is
“This Nation Cannot Stand,” John Durham, June 21, 2023.
For MAGA Trump Patriots: What is the MAGA Solution to the Collapse of the American Rule of Law?
June 24, 2023.
Laurie Thomas Vass, http://www.civildissolution.com
Introduction.
In the last part of his Congressional testimony this past week, John Durham explained that the constitutional principle of the equal application of the rule of law is over in America.
He added,
“I don’t think that things can go too much further with the view that law enforcement, particularly the FBI or Department of Justice, runs a two-tiered system of justice. The nation can’t stand under those circumstances.”
We slightly disagree with part of Durham’s statement,
“The nation can’t stand under these circumstances.”
A more accurate statement would have been,
“The rule of law in the United States collapsed on November 3, 2020, in a successful coup by the forces of the New World Order to overthrow the constitutional rule of law and the sovereignty of the United States.”
In addition to identifying the New World Order as the evil force behind the collapse of the American concept of the rule of law, we would add the point that no one in America is doing anything to stop the forces of evil from destroying the culture and social order in the United States.
We agree with the analysis of Charles Hugh Smith, in his article, This Is Why Nobody Will Do Anything Until It’s Too Late,” that the nation does not have countervailing forces in place to change the trajectory of collapse of the American rule of law. (ZeroHedge, June 14, 2023.).
Smith writes,
“The current system is sinking and nobody will do anything other than more of what’s failed until it’s too late.”
This idea that the current system is “sinking,” using the present tense of the verb, is like Durham’s statement that the nation will not stand.
This nation is over with. It died, along with the rule of law. It is fully cooked. And, it ain’t coming back. It is hurtling to a new one-world government ruling class totalitarian regime.
Smith uses the analogy of a Hollywood movie always having a happy ending as a way of disabusing MAGA Trump voters that America can survive the collapse of the rule of law.
For the nation, Smith states that there will not be a Hollywood ending.
“Sorry, there’s no Hollywood ending [for American political corruption] until we change the inputs… If the inputs and processes don’t change, the outputs don’t change either. [corruption in – corruption out.]
Smith writes,
“The real world doesn’t follow a storyline, it operates according to the dictates of systems: inputs are taken up by processes which then generate outputs. If the outputs and processes don’t change, the outputs don’t change either… The [American} system is set up such that elites and self-serving interests have most of the wealth and political power, and if even the tiniest bit of their skim is diminished, they will instantly devote the entirety of their resources to reversing this outrage, for they all know how power works: if others manage to cut 1% from your skim, they’ll sense weakness and come back for 10%. [Biden’s cut]. ..To cloak this reality, the Powers That Be [New World Order] promote public-relations propaganda that depicts their pillage, looting, fraud and destruction as a Hollywood story we can all consume and love, just as we love our servitude once it’s been properly packaged into a Hero / Heroine’s Journey or a Love Story.
We offer MAGA Trump patriots an alternative strategy than simply standing idly by and watching individual liberty in America being destroyed by the ruling class elites of the New World Order.
For MAGA Trump patriots, the best solution is civil dissolution because the corrupt inputs into the current New World Order are too powerful to change the corrupt outputs of the American political system.
This is the introduction to a much longer article available at Substack http://www.civildissolution.substack.com
The other sections of the longer article are:
Section 1. Understanding the G-7 Global Corporate Totalitarian Uni-Polar Order.
Section 2. The War in Ukraine as Keeping the Status Quo Military/Industrial Ruling Class in Place.
Section 3. The New Single-Tiered System of Justice after the Civil Dissolution.
At Gabby Press, [www.gabbypress.com] we have written a series of books to help MAGA Trump patriots learn more about the strategy of creating a social class awareness of Trump patriots, whose mission is to create a permanent social class political movement.
These books include:
1. After the Collapse of America: The Democratic Republic of America, 2019.
2. America’s Final Revolution: Reconstructing Jefferson’s American Dream of An Entrepreneurial Capitalist Society. 2022.
3. Reclaiming the American Democratic Impulse. 2023.
4. George Mason’s America: The State Sovereignty Alternative to Madison’s Centralized American Ruling Class Aristocracy. 2023.
In all of our books, we cite the historical importance of John Locke, George Mason, and Thomas Jefferson, in guiding MAGA Trump Patriots in creating the new American Covenant, for the new nation that we call the “Democratic Republic of American States.”
I have said that I didn’t see the restrictions as ‘onerous’ and didn’t see why everyone was goint to the matteresses over them.
Also, that the lawfare idea was to drag this out as long as possible, delay delay delay, cause its not about convictions in legal court, its aboutfighting it out in the Court of Public Opinion.
I think thr Trump legal team strategy shows they truly “get that”; the way both with MAL raid, then with Bragg indictment THEY “broke the story” FIRST, so much so that Garlands (MAL raid) and Braggs (NYC Indictments) announcements were anticlimactic, and PDJT had the TRUTH running around the World, before their lies got their shoes laced up.
I also think this “project 65” of trying to prevent PDJT from having effective council isn’t working; cause HE is effectively his own chief council, and is beating lawfare at its own game.
Point being, I think PDJT figured out their “play”and so didn’t ‘fight’ those ordered restrictions on his access to evidence.
If I am right, watch for Smith to try other, similar actions to ‘pick a fight’ with Trump legal, and Trump legal to not respond.
Could call it “rope-a-dope”, or “don’t swing at every pitch” and when the pitcher is this lousy (basic case is without merit) maybe you don’t swing at ANY pitch.
Just keep saying “Ready for trial, your Honor!”
And in the Court of Public Opinion “Presidential Records Act, Clinton Sock Drawer case, and ELECTION INTERFERENCE.”
Yes sir!
And maybe Brady violations also.
Apparently the prosecution hasn’t created the evidence yet.
Unbelievable. Judge should dismiss the case if prosecutor has no evidence of crime.
what to expect if jack smith present witnesses without sharing pre-trial witness statements and evidence?
https://www.illinoiscriminallawyerblog.com/the-jencks-act-and-defending-federal-criminal-cases/#:~:text=The%20origins%20of%20this%20Act,353%20U.S.%20657%20(1957).
The Jencks Act, codified as 18 U.S.C. 3500, does a number of things–none of which are designed to compel the Government to turn over witness statements to the defendant in a meaningful way. In paragraph(a) it protects the Government from having to disclose the statements of witnesses or prospective witnesses (other than the Defendant) until after the witness has testified on direct examination. Imagine that. Americans have a right to a trial where the government has the whole burden of proof, but no American is entitled to the statements of the witnesses or potential witnesses against him/her until after that witness has testified during trial. As a practical matter this means that during trial, after each government witness testifies, the defense attorney must ask for, receive, and review statements, determine inconsistencies, and formulate a cross examination. The Government, on the other hand, has had access to these statements and witnesses for months, if not years.
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If Jack Smith attempts to “surprise” the defense counsel with witnesses and then after they make statements, the defense can then motion for a long period of delays to prepare for cross examination…
In short, if jack smith attempts to force this trial to a faster pace and uses the jencks act 3500 strategies, which doj prosecutors are famous for deploying…then the defense can slow this entire care down considerably and the judge is likely to allow that delay.
the point of posting this, is to present some expected development and to point out that in my opinion this case will roll well past the 2024 election cycle…at a point where President Trump will then be in the White House and these charges will be …????
God Bless America
Jack and jill b went up to the hill.
Jack came down and broke his case.
Jill b came tumbling after.
😳
Still wondering what President Trump meant when he mentioned “Jack Smith or whatever his real name is”.
Maybe he has constructed bio like Pushaw, or a lot of other personalities over the last few years involved in this stuff who have ‘scrubbed’ bios.
Wonder who all those people really work for?
BTW, I’m glad I’m not the only one who caught that by Trump.
Or, PDJT just “needling” Jack Smith on his name, which is the classic alias for (for example) checking into a no-tell motel with your neighbors wife.
Smiths probably heard it his whole life, and it may be a sore spot for him.
And old streetfighter trick is to needle your opponent, something personal that triggers them to fight emotionally, rather than coldly unemotionally.
If you succeed, you’ve won the fight before the first blow is struck.
I’ve used the tactic before, and succesfully resisted the tactic when used against me.
But, it IS difficult and may are unable to resist, and its effective.
Maybe 🤔
Maybe not 😎
In other words…PreeJackUlation.
I saw the original indictment as a news cycle item to take away from the Joe Biden bribe issues. Now they’ll pocket this delay for the next great Biden corruption problem.
I seriously pray that this shows the weakness of his hand and his tactics. I pray to Lord God in heaven to prove them fools, please bring justice.
Updated : Updated June 23, 2023
https://www.justice.gov/sco-smith/pr/statement-special-counsel-jack-smith
Jack Smith is a traitorous scum bag, plain and simple.
THAT is an understatement.
In summary, Lawfare’s mode of operation breaks every concept of jurisprudence with respect to the prosecution, jury and sitting judge in order to illegally obtain the conviction and incarceration of a political opponent.
Yes. But sometimes only in the public opinion political career dead but not legal avenue.
Don’t f-ing give it too him.
N.F.W.
Put up or STFU.
I do not care whether you agree with Trump’s defence team’s approach (if intended); I am grateful for your honest reporting and analysis.
Thank you Sundance.
smitty looks like he is half a milligram of xanax away from a total breakdown.
I was thinking Prozac
His shakes and hollow stare scream benzo withdrawal to me, only because I know exactly what that looks and feels like unfortunately. That damn Prozac will throw people off bigtime as well. It’s funny that the only thing Prozac is actually good for is stopping the neurochemical breakdown of brain tissues during MDMA intoxication. My UCF psych Professor told me that in 1998. You should have seen how many of my classmates made instant notes of that factoid!
Ha. That’s a hoot!
His staring at our Lion during the arraignment as if to intimidate him says it all…he doesn’t have a case and knows it.
Any “experienced” prosecutor… confident in his case wouldn’t attempt such a juvenile move.
An “experienced” prosecutor confident in his case with evidence against the defendant can’t wait for a trial.
This is all about the court of public opinion…
And President Trump is standing there calmly thinking, “With all the Lawfare lined up against me, how will I sleep at night? Oh well, I guess I’ll sleep the same way I always do. Naked and right next to a Super Model.”
Jack Smith? is he living up to the #ComDem mascot’s image?
Jack (as)S
Hee Haww! Hee Haww! Hee Haww!
Expose all of their lies and destroy their Evil Plot.
In most dictatorships the Department of the Interior is not for managing trees and wildlife. It is the highest domestic police force in the land and basically the organization empowered, albeit surreptitiously, for eliminating the regime’s political opposition. In Beria’s USSR that usually meant a bullet in the back of the head in a concrete room with a sloped floor. In the case of Merrick Garland, that little fascist creep, they don’t have the power – yet – so the next best is to make their opposition ‘legally dead’ so to speak. They do that by criminal and civil investigations that suck up attention, resources, and someone’s reputation or revoking professional licenses or getting them fired so they cannot earn a living, etc. And of course those ‘unpersons’ are deleted from social media and mass media and hence disappeared to make is as if they never even existed much the same way Trotsky’s picture was cut out of books. That is Lawfare folks, and it is coming to a digital GULAG near you.
If Charles Manson had a son
I think he looks like Hunter. Crazy eyes, twins separated at birth.
Hunter, really?
This one needed a soapbox to stand on.
Hope you have a fine day BK
Same to you, friend!
Ok, that’s perfect 🤣
Nullification is the answer. You cannot win court cases in banana republics. You either accept the corruption and try to get your own slice of the pie, or you abandon the system completely.
DO NOT COMPLY
I will not shop in your woke stores, I will not drink your woke beverages, I will not watch your ‘programming’, I will not donate to your puppet shows, I will not answer poll questions, and I will not vote in stolen elections.
THAT is nullification. If you do not participate, and if enough other people do the same, then the evil DC eye of Sauron falls.
You can only fuq this up by continuing to vote.
Not voting even while thousands of people are working hard in many places around the country fighting election integrity issues is called surrendering without a fight.
Voting when you know the CIA and Dominion are going to TAKE your vote and SELL it to some purple haired marxist is called collaboration. Don’t be a collaborator.
I suggest you do what you think is correct, and allow others to do the same. Name calling is not allowed here.
Leaving your vote blank so the Uniparty can vote it for you is not a great option.
Well, then, I guess at 70+ I’m a fk-up because yeah, I’m voting.
As this string touches on election fraud, I’ll just say;
“Dominion” system of stealing elections is “off the menu, wasn’t used in 2022, and won’t be used in 2024.
Whats left to the cheaters us voter suppression and ballot stuffing.
On voter suppression, if we EDUCATE our voters to NOT vote in person on election day, we can largely negate such efforts.
THATS “voting SMARTER”
In addituin, yes we STILL need to “Vote Harder” i.e. make it as hard as possible for them, by having as many of our people vote as possible, which is why such comments as m. shoemaker makes, are totally counterproductive.
As for ballot stuffing, there ARE remedies,..
By the way, check out my pancake recipe, on the O/T page.
TY Dutch for this excellent point…it needs to be relayed to everyone. I’ve done that in my district…and our community conservative christians are showing why the change is necessary this cycle.
If I could ask you politely, when you have the time, can you please do a nice write up to explain fully your thoughts and opinion about why the “dominion” method of fraud is not going to control the election this cycle. I’ve mentioned your name in recent threads about this, and would appreciate it if you would write something up or copy paste what you have posted again, so that others can read it and understand the position.
God Bless America
Vote.
They will delay this until Trump leaves office in 2028. What they want is insurance. If this is ongoing, PDJT will not be able to replace anyone DOJ, FBI, IRS, DHS, associated with any trial or investigation because, “OBSTRUCTION”. And they will have corrupt judges ready to rule even if they are in minority in House and Senate.
If Trump gets this over with they will start another fake investigation.
I think Trump has some strategies if he gets in again. He can pardon himself and then there’s no investigation or witnesses to obstruct or intimidate.
that’s definitely a part of it.
what they really want out of the raid and this court case is to weld the doors shut and make it a criminal red line if President Trump decides to use his COPIES of the damning material of criminal violations committed by MANY within the US Government. They needed this court case to make that legal position filed and adjudicated. The strategy is to insulate the secret police spy state from the obvious crimes it has committed..and not just the election fraud and the russia russia hoax before it. I will presume that President Trump has material evidence of many more crimes we can only imagine….The DOJ has moved to raid and steal these documents, KNOWING they are simply copies (except for presidential personal notes, or materials that President Trump marked and classified exclusively). The intent of this court case is to get the court to make all of these records unavailable to him…meaning a legal definition that if he uses any of this knowledge and copies to seek redress or to transparently expose these corruptors to the public or to any court or special counsel…he would be found liable under the burden of “NEW LAW”..that this court case is expected to realize…that is what they want.
they will fail.
severely.
God Bless America
First class JERK! This is exactly why Merrick Garland picked him. He has nothing and knows it!
I hate Merrick Garland, I wish ill on his progeny.
Kind of reminds me of when Mueller and his lawfare pranksters charged Concord Management and Consulting LLC. They didn’t expect them to appear, were shocked when they did, requested a last minute delay in the case, the judge refused, and later dropped the case.
https://spectator.org/muellers-concord-mismanagement-is-convulsing/
Was the extension granted?
There are literally millions of people around the world praying for our President Trump.
Election interference that is the game. If it where me, I would be asking for a speedy trial. No dragging it out till Oct. 2024! But, Trump does like the free press!
Biden is not going to be re-elected. This Smith guy should be getting back to ‘The Hague’ as fast as he can buy a ticket. Just like Durham, Smith look at me, I’m a tough prosecutor, NO, just a sissy boy that works for government.
I think the DOJ is coordinating with the State Courts. They want to spread the various indictments out to give the impression of ongoing turmoil. Georgia, IMO, will be the next to indict and set a court date prior or during the primary. New York will fill a slot as well. The goal is to wear down the voters. They expect you to take this attitude:
“I don’t care if Trump is the best thing since sliced bread, I’m tired of this shit.”
A speedy trial is one thing. Coordinating it for maximum optics against a presidential election is another.
Sleazy guy with a spotty record of success. Perhaps they want Smith to loose, but wound Trump in the process.
Can we get that Wagner Group leader to show us how to march on DC?
Find a crazy old uncle leading a group of convicts and its on.
In my view, Smith is seeking the delay so that when the DC indictment happens, they can transfer cases to the DC District instead of facing the chance of the cases moving to the Southern District of Florida. If the FL case is moving ahead at the time the DC indictment is returned, a motion to consolidate the cases for judicial economy etc. would be stronger to have both cases heard before the Judge already in-progress.
he has no case!
As Troublemaker10 noted earlier
“Why would prosecution need more time to prepare? You don’t indict unless you are fully ready to prosecute the case in court.
And, BTW, that reminds me….
Flash from the past…
Mueller did the same thing with his Russian troll farm case. Asked for a trial delay and was denied:”
In attorney Eric Dubelier’s motion for Concord, below, substitute President Trump in the place of Concord. I may be wrong, but I think there are similarities here.
“In this first-of-its-kind, make-believe case the Special Counsel now seeks to completely obliterate any remaining rights of Concord to defend itself, and in typical fashion provides only completely misleading case authority for the remarkable proposition that he should be able to continue to whisper secrets to the Court. Since the Special Counsel has already gotten away with this once as he notes in his Motion, this Opposition is likely fruitless, but object we must both for Concord and every other defendant to whom the Special Counsel believes the laws and rules of the United States no longer apply to his novel adventures.”
“The Special Counsel has made up a crime that has never been prosecuted before in the history of the United States, and now seeks to make up secret procedures for communicating ex parte to the court which have never been employed in any reported criminal case not involving classified discovery.”
In order to bring the indictment in the first place, LawFare had to violate the grand jury venue process, so they could then abuse an always willing to be abused DC grand jury.
They knew that in Florida they could not control the grand jury. Nor could they easily find the right judge (one that hates President Trump), a Judge willing to breach attorney client privilege, and issue subpoenas under a false predicate. They charged the President with crimes that ‘can not exist’ under the ‘Presidential Records Act’—an extension of Article II of the Constitution.
The correct venue to bring the indictment was only Florida’s Southern District, not the District of Columbia. Smith’s LawFare whisperer’s knew that. They are consequently now in enemy territory. They need time to search for novel tricks or just want to overload the Trump legal team before they invent a new indictment in DC.
Simply put, the “The Espionage Act” violation or any other charge cited in the Indictment could only prevail in the DC Swamp environment—at least until it would be overturned by a higher court as unconstitutional.
(Weissmann) Smith backed off—a four month delay—just to keep the indictment hanging over President Trump’s head, which will linger and likely lead to being dropped on similar grounds the Concord Case (Russian interference in the election) was dismissed.
Just prior to discovery in the Concord case, the Mueller/Weissmann Specious Counsel backed down and dropped the case on the contrived grounds that if the case moved forward it would reveal national security secrets. Smith could drop the case under the same scenario and shortly thereafter bring another bogus DC indictment pertaining to January 6th.
Nice freaking analysis and summation.
Your last paragraph – my understanding is that the same thing happened in the Weather Underground case back in the 1970s(?).
Saw Mark Levin’s recent report on Jack Smith’s record. It was a hoot.