I will say it until people understand. Lawfare is a specially constructed approach to weaponize the judiciary to create narratives for public consumption; it is the abnormal and twisted application of granular legal language, and as a result it requires oddball motions to support it.
The DOJ previously filed a motion for “Special Conditions of Release” to restrict President Trump’s defense from knowing or discussing the super-secret evidence and witnesses the special prosecutor plans to use against him. The motion was essentially that if President Trump refused the super special terms and conditions of the motion, then Judge Cannon should put him in leg irons in federal prison until he can be tried and convicted.
The special counsel wants everything kept under seal, quiet and invisible to the public so the omnipotent arbiters of justice can appropriately shape the narrative they prefer.
The Jack Smith team cannot have President Trump being all uncontrolled, willy-nilly and making fun of their case, while talking about his targeting in such a manner as their super-secret witnesses would be exposed to such duplicitous snark and horrible influence.
To maintain the evolving narrative du-jour, a special motion to make President Trump double-secret probationary swear to the special rules is required.
Trying to trick President Trump into signing an agreement never to expose the witnesses to his horrible, terrible, defensive statements, essentially forbidding him from doing anything that would lead to the witnesses being exposed to his words, ie. block him from public or television appearances lest the witnesses are exposed to his statements, the special prosecutors wanted a signed statement they could use against him if he spoke about stuff at a rally or event.
Thankfully, Judge Cannon saw through the stupidity of the Lawfare effort. Her paperless retort is essentially, ‘just use the ordinary legal motions please‘.
“PAPERLESS ORDER denying without prejudice Government’s Motion to Implement Special Condition of Release. The Government seeks an order implementing a special condition of bond related to Defendants’ (Trump and Nauta) communication with eighty-four listed witnesses about the facts of the case, except through counsel.
The Government conditions its request on the filing of the non-exhaustive list under seal. Defendants take no position on the Government’s seal request but reserve the right to object to the special condition and the manner by which the Government intends to implement it.
In the meantime, numerous news organizations have moved to intervene to oppose the Government’s Motion to File Witness List Under Seal, citing the First Amendment and related legal principles.
Upon review of the foregoing materials, the Government’s Motion is denied without prejudice, and the Motion to Intervene and accompanying Motions to Appear Pro Hac Vice are denied as moot.
The Government’s Motion does not explain why filing the list with the Court is necessary; it does not offer a particularized basis to justify sealing the list from public view; it does not explain why partial sealing, redaction, or means other than sealing are unavailable or unsatisfactory; and it does not specify the duration of any proposed seal. The Clerk is directed to return the Pro Hac Vice fees to the filing attorneys. Signed by Judge Aileen M. Cannon on 6/26/2023.
But it appears that Lawfare leaked the supposed recording of DJT waving around “super secret” documents and bragging about it…CNN is having kittens running with the story. What’s the “rest of the story” Sundance?
This? AI is amazing.
“Hell No! We Won’t Go”
Youngsters, that was a thing back in the 60’s.
Yep. A Catholic priest and 8 Catholic anti-Vietnam war activists burned my and others draft records in the parking lot of the small wooden framed building that was in my hometown village back in the late ‘60s. It made national news.
I wasn’t born until well after the Vietnam War was over. They didn’t really go over it in public school, either. My parents were both die-hard conservatives, and even they disagreed with the war. AFAIK, everybody disagreed with that war, no matter how left- or right-wing their views were regarding domestic governance. It was an ugly, genocidal grab for money and control. And it hasn’t changed one iota in all the time our species has existed.
The globalists would love nothing more than to draft all the native sons and daughters and send them off to die someplace. Then the globalists could import ever more africans and arabs to replace us. Anything to destroy the native whites, all the while calling us racists while they send our kids off to die. Is it any wonder that no rational person supports globalism? Those people are agents of destruction. They’re the ones who should be rounded up and sent to die in some foreign field.
Young men die in old men’s wars. Never forget that.
Been there, lost some friends, got out by the Grace of God, to have a second chance. Read the names on the wall.
Yeah, I know it’s a little off topic, but it needs to be said….over and over.
I think it is very much on topic! Thank you!
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Agreed!! U.S. Army 1967 thru 1969. Lost many friends as well. What a waste of human flesh. Never forget.
Thank you for your service! I dated a guy who did two tours in Vietnam from 1968-1970. I met him in 1973 and our relationship ended in 1976. He came home with a lot of ghosts. He just passed away in April 2022 at the age of 72 and had a lot of health issues one of them being Agent Orange. We had just started communicating again shortly before he passed.
I have a friend who did 7 tours in Nam, now he is in special care facility, bc alzheimers , and yep, he had many ghosts he carried around.
A high lottery number allowed me to miss the draft. War was winding down. I went to Vocational School to be a machinist. It was a school built by the county to get GI Bill funding and train veterans. A person could also pay his own way and I was one of the few. Almost everyone there was a vet and I became friends with many. The factories in my area took affirmative action to hire veterans, so when I when to work I met more. Almost every one had internal demons, most controlled and some not. I was surrounded by invisible casualties of war. If you were to look close, you could see their pain.
Not off topic at all! CIA, FBI, DOJ, DOD, Unions, Cubans, lawyers and many others had parts to play before, during and after the JFK killing. That’s why the records will NEVER be released from the Feds. JFK was getting weak knees going all in for Vietnam, but these groups, neocons and the Military Industrial Complex DEMANDED the war profits they could smell. So we went thru the meat grinder for 10 years, coming back f-ked up or f-ked over, until the politicians got weary of explaining when and how it would end. They declared we “won” as we fled from the embassy roof in choppers. Just like we “won” in Benghazi! Just like we “won” in Korea! Just like we “won” in Iraq! Just like we “won” in Panama! Just like we “won” in Afghanistan! Just like we will “win” in Ukraine”!
For God’s sake; WAKE UP PEOPLE! Your government has turned BAD! The greatest outrage is how they handled the J6 situation and now, how they are trying to keep Trump from even running for POTUS! Laws mean nothing, lies and fraud are spread by their MSM Propaganda machine daily, the Justice system SHOULD BE EMBARRASSED by this, but aren’t!
Eisenhower was right years ago when he cautioned about the MIC! The cabal of greed is about to take it ALL!
Excellent post.
You are exactly right in everything you said.
The Government has always been bad?
That’s why the Founders placed limits on their power?
Unfortunately, they have usurped their power!
The original “Woke” war with Generalissimo Lyndon Johnson sending teenagers into battle with one hand tied behind their backs while he was busy picking “targets” that had zero strategic military value but coddled the anti war seditionists back here at home.
They’ve (along with the fake republicans) been duping us for decades.
Navy Corpsman ‘73-‘77 but was never in country. Gulf of Tonkin and Russia Gate are the seed bed of our despotic and socialist government.
Yes. All those young fresh innocent lives wasted over there. Only to see us run with our tails between the legs helicoptering off the roof of the embassy in Saigon at the end. And now our companies are doing big business over there having them make tennis shoes and appliances, and Lord knows what else using Vietnamese labor, instead of American labor here at home. The bastard globalists kill our young men in their wars, and then ignore those who survive by sending all the work overseas, and they wonder why we are against the establishment that promotes that.
Exactly!
The US traded South Vietnam for control of oil fields somewhere else (Kazakastan, Kurdistan, cant remember). Spoke directly with a man whose mother was living in Saigon when it fell. Thailand was already under the control of the United States during WWII which is why Thailand has “never been invaded”.
Thats even worse. “Traded” SVN for oil fields??? After 58,000 American men and boys died there supposedly fighting communism???
According to Douglas Valentine, we used Project Phoenix to help create the DHS
Ok. How’d that work out for the American people?
IMHO the DHS is simply another armed agency that was created and is being used against the American people by the totalitarians who seized power in 2008 (probably even before then) and after a temporary delay via President Trumps legitimate election, stole it back in 2020 .
The only people being “secured” by DHS are the corrupt Establishment Deep State and their corporate fascist supporters.
No disagreement from me. Just pointing out DHS was born in darkness and is what it always has been.
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I was a child during that war and didn’t quite grasp the geopolitical aspects, but I always loved the soldiers who served there, and despised the Leftists who called them baby killers and abused them.
Thinking about it still makes me angry.
God bless you and all those you served with.
Ditto to Val. Especially after I found out what the Hanoi Hilton prisoners went through.
I saw that memorial last time I was in DC. It is huge, it is long and there are so many names. Our generation lost a lot of young men. My husband barely missed going, a young boomer. My BIL did two tours in Viet Nam. Everyone was against the war that I knew. It scarred us all.
Two of my brothers went to Nam.. one lead a life of self-destruction; the other an over-achiever..
Come Lord Jesus. Save us.
Brother-in-law was in special forces in Nam. He had been studying for the priesthood before his time in the service. He came back normal for a while, then left his family and his corporate job and disappeared from his family’s life. We have no idea where he is, but all the killing he had to do there did something to him. May God help him wherever he is.
Close friend was a “special projects” advisor in ‘Nam and those other places in SE Asia we never were 🙄 He had nightmares to the day he died, and would never talk about any of it.
No one should be forced to do things like that, especially since the welfare of the US did not depend on any of it.
These people are evil.
Hopefully, those evil people responsible are doing just what your name implies…..”circling the drain”.
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AMEN!
Another ugly, damned useless war that maimed and killed young adults for profit.
Father -in-law, husband, and many friends served in that war — loved them — I was vehemently anti war.
He, Christ the Lord, has already come to save those who are his from eternity. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved! He will come again at the consummation when the earth has been conquered and all His enemies are made as a footstool for His feet – and then the end.
Let’s not sit waiting on the second coming when there’s work to do. Jesus is King Jesus NOW! And He sits NOW at the right hand of the Father ruling all things. Go out Christian Soldier and do your job as commanded taking the gospel to all the earth and conquering in the name of Christ!
Or in a lake of fire.
Plenty of blacks and hispanicd killed in these stupid wars, plenty of AMERICANS.
The politically assasinated B. Goldwater, and literally JFK, because neither would have gone along with the stupid war.
“Tonkin gulf incident”,…yeah RIGHT.
“The globalists would love nothing more than to draft all the native sons and daughters and send them off to die someplace. Then the globalists could import ever more africans and arabs to replace us. Anything to destroy the native whites, all the while calling us racists while they send our kids off to die.”
Well said…
Yep … Deep Fake, as real as Barack hussein Obama’s Birth Certificate .. and dreams of his (fake) father.
And, his beautiful “wife.”
Who might that be?
Who might that be?
Why, it’s “Michelle”, the fabulous, glamorous, big, ugly transvestite man, registered to vote as a man for 19 years until his halfrican moslem homosexual husband Barry was inserted into the US Senate the first time, then that ‘fruit’ of islam was inserted into the White House along with his vice, notorious corrupt degenerate perverse homosexual pedo Joey “Shitferbrainz” Robbin’it Biden, Jr. (among other things, as a dummy to exercise on to be in shape for that day Bill “Porky” [Indian Spirit Name: Squeals like a Pig”] Barr comes along, and the blushing “First Lady” even was awarded TIME magazine 2008 “Woman” of the Year, which got him invited onto the Ellen deGenerates show so he could show his dance moves as an opportunity to shake his genitals in our faces yet again.
That’s who…
LOL well said
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Bapak Subud? Barack looks just like him.
Yes, he does. Spittin’ image.
Obongo’s Father: Frank Marshall Davis. Read that he abused Barack.
That would explain the Chicago “Hot Dog” Operation if true.
It does not let O-Blo-Zo off the hook, though would provide some context.
Nightmares from his real father (and mother who trafficked the poor toddler to Indonesia to be indoctrinated into Bacha Bazi, have a ‘ladyboy’ nanny for further grooming, which obviously was the only kind of “woman” he would ever marry – he was so gay that the best he could do was “Michelle”).
See here and come to your own conclusions:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210012/Film-claiming-Obamas-mother-posed-pornographic-pictures-sent-million-swing-voters.html
I read that obama used to rent a limo to transport traveling executives from O’Hare to their hotel rooms, providing sex and drugs for money.
The notorious “clean and articulate” – [FJB quote] moslem homosexual Bathhouse Barry Frank Marshall Davis III Soetero elBuraq alHussein elMulattO’bama is well known to have regularly fellated powerful, rich, elderly Caucasian men for drugs, cash and political gain.
Larry SInclair wrote all about it, and is still alive, somehow…
I did not know about the Bacha Bazi indoctrination, I flew by the ladyboy nanny reference. It all fits together.
I thought his father is Satan, or possibly Dick Cheney?
It’s Satan, for sure.
AI failed on this. Biden can’t speak this fluidly no matter how long he might practice. AI constructed this as if the installed Commander and Chief could actually enunciate words and sentences.
right before a full nuclear launch a la Wargames or Terminator …
Jack Posobeic created this piece of AI – a deep fake – for his Human Events Daily show – I think it was a couple of months ago.
He purposely posted it making sure it was labeled as AI, and one of the other obvious tells was exactly what you say – the fake Xiden voice spoke in complete words and sentences.
Jack’s reason for showing what a deep fake would sound and look like was to get out in front of the enemy before they started doing them to us. A bold move. I liked it myself. He’s done a couple others I think, just to prove the point that no one should trust anything unless they know and trust the source.
Interesting.
They have the technology to do this with anyone’s voice and anyone’s body, if they have enough voice and picture samples. That pretty much covers everyone in the public sphere. It isn’t even all that expensive anymore.
As soon as the indictments dropped, I said any recording or video would be AI generated BS.
A bunch of DeFraud sycophants jumped all over me…listing every supposed Trump “sin” and dutifully informing me how St Ron is so brilliant, savvy & untouchable.
I let them in on a simple truth. MAGA thoroughly rejects DeFraud, therefore NEVER DeFraud.
I think Jack created the first one before the indictments started – but I can’t be sure…
“You’re not sending your sons and daughters to war. You’re sending them to Freedom.”
That sounds EXACTLY like something the OBribe’em Regime & their MSM Ministry of Propaganda would say.
check out the last refuge twitter page. Sundance is hilarious.
Can you please link to it? I can read it but can’t search since I was banned. Thanks so much!
Here ya go…
Tweets by TheLastRefuge2
Thank you SW!
Keep scrolling. Lots of crazy cat expressions!!!
ROFL! Great tip WSB! Some Epic Sundance responses to Weissman too!
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Um, Andrew… scuse’. Where’s the document that permits the audio to be introduced into evidence? lol
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The Govt has audio experts that will testify as to the sound of classified documents, lol.
Made me laugh.
Thanks, Twitter won’t let me see stuff without logging in and I don’t want a twitter account. No thanks, Elon.
good kitty!
YES! and the EAGLE VIDEO. All are awesome.
Thanks SW .beat me to it.
Be sure to scroll down into the replies and find the video Sundance posted on twitter of the eagle flying between two girls with their foreheads touching. IT IS AWESOME! I watched it a dozen times because there still are some small pleasures in life.
Oh, my. That needs its own post!
When Donald Trump was President and Mar-A-Lago was his “Winter White House” we’re volumes of super-secret CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS kept/stored/used there all the time without a problem? What’s the difference now? Same location. Same locks on the doors? Same security!
Will happily stand corrected, but when Trump was President, both Mar-A-Lago and Trump Tower had SCIF’s built into them. When he was cheated out of the presidency, they were removed.
Are you sure about that?
How do you remove a SCIF, BruceC?
Maybe decommission or deactivate a SCIF because there’s no more written or audio materials inside, but remove a SCIF?
I’m confused.
Reaching out to legal experts , can leaked evidence (Trump Tape) by prosecutors be removed from case?
Can the presiding Judge call the DOJ on the carpet, sanction them, for leaking their ‘evidence’ to the press, especially since that same agency wanted to put PDJT and the other defendant in jail to await trial for fear of leaking or disparaging witnesses.
Isn’t disparaging defendants who are presumed innocent until proven guilty the same thing but being done by the accusing side?
Amazing how, to this day, leaks always seem to go in one direction, framed against PDJT.
Would hit like a 1,000 times on this!
the defense has a good solid basis for motion to have ANY materials leaks to the press, whether they will be entered or not, as inadmissible. and this is a very powerful move. and this motion does not have to demonstrate the leak source…simply that it injures due process rights to the defendant….injures the future jury. And the defense can use a successful motion and build on this too….
let me give my own strategy: if the premise is that president Trump risks national defense/security…how could that be a serious issue if the prosecutor is openly leaking the material discussed to the press? even IF the prosecutor was never going to admit this audio in court as evidence!! The issue then becomes, how reliable is the prosecutors to continue this case and spin lies in the press? Sanctions could definitely shape this case and severely limits a wide breadth of evidence the prosecutors might be expecting to enter into court. If Judge Cannon can be persuaded that the prosecutor that these leaks are to prop up an otherwise weak case, then there can be a pre trial judgement that influences this judges that there are no credible claims?
simple questions to be drafted into the motion to sanction: why would the prosecutor feel the need to leak audio to the press if the case is air tight and a crime provable?
yes, there is an opening here.
God Bless America
a reasonable assumption…………..
I think President Trump needs Robert Barnes. Just my 2 cents.
Not sure I trust Barnes.
However, no question that his analysis on all this ridiculous lawfare has been the simplest and easiest for me (no lawyer!) to understand.
excellent point!
Mark Meadows, his ghost writer and publisher may have a copy, although I do agree that it likely was the DOJ.
Who do you think gave the FBI the tape recording of President Trump discussing the classified documents? LOL
yes, they can if the defense can make the argument it injures the jury. And it also spotlights the central claims that the national defense security threat is so steep that we are all going to perish at sundown if these materials were ever to fall into enemy hands…wazzup with leaking the audio to the media by the prosecutor? seems like the national defense security claim doesn’t hold water….we are still her after sundown?
regardless, sundance has already addressed the core issue: the prosecutors have no intention of entering the materials into evidence, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT EXIST. Read carefully sundances’ article…he has been hinting about this and not directly for some time….but it’s clear the claim over what was classified, marked or not, closely held or not, national security or national defense sensitivity..or not. All of those constructs are unlikely to hold water. for several reasons: President Trump has ultimate authority over classification…regardless if these are sensitive materials, they are copies, not originals (his personal notes and memos are originals), and finally, even IF he discussed some of the information….there is zero evidence that discussion injured or even risked injury to national security/defense.
back to leaking “evidence”….the defense at this point has solid ground to motion that all of the evidence that the prosecutor expects to enter into court, be held BY THE COURT…thus eliminating the risk that prosecutors continues to leak them to press….see how this can work? the prosecutor can be held to the same standards they are alleging are required, precisely because there is no doubts these leaks is an attempt to gain an unfair advantage and influence jury members…remember, the jury has not been selected yet. that happens in december. Between now and then, they will be reading and seeing everything about this case. And we have to recognize that President Trump and his attorneys HAVE NOT leaked anything to the press.
I personally do not find any of this funny. I am optimistic about this case failing apart, but there is no humor what is taking place here.
this is the secret police spy state attacking YOU AND ME> That is what this is about. They want to humiliate the one person we all believe in and will elect in 2024. it’s not just dirty tricks…it criminal. I find none of it funny or amusing. But then mawmaw never raised her kid to take things lying down either!
God Bless America
Leastwise Mawmaw wasn’t in the business of raising fools, ret!
YOU AND ME is exactly what this is about downstream.
“attacking YOU AND ME”
and the courts ruling “NO STANDING”in the voter fraud cases is very similar in nature!
If they are going after President Trump this hard, imagine what they will do to us en masse. They are the Secret Police Spy State endemic in all Communist Regimes.
No imagination needed. They would do exactly what they’re doing to the J6 political prisoners
The audio is President Trump refuting the claim by Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley that President Trump wanted to invade Iran. President Trump is saying he has papers that prove he didn’t want to invade Iran.
The documents that are referenced in the audio are nowhere to be found. The DOJ and FBI never found any classified documents. Without the documents, the audio recording is inadmissible in court.
Probably the rest is the usual bull—p usually thrown around. Who could possibly believe that garbage?
CNN is so bereft of legitimacy that they have kittens when they publish the cafeteria menu.
Judge Cannon…. great to see that there is a Federal judge who still exhibits intelligence, education and integrity.
A battle in the war won.😀
If the walls come tumbling down on Garland, Lisa Monaco and Christopher Wray, and the odds on that are now north of 50% with what has happened since the Ways and Means Committee went scorched Earth on the FJB Regime, that could leave old Jack in a very naked and vulnerable position, possibly even leading to his whole Schtick here being toppled and crashing to the ground!!! 🤔
Jack Smith, if that’s his real name, is just the front man puppet for the Communist cabal traitors. The real lawfare, Maoist degenerate, scum is Andrew Weissmann.
Weissmann is pure evil and a rabid Trump hater. He has worked for the Bush clan and Obama cabal as a dirty FBLie upper echelon hit man, known as “the pitbull”. Weissmann served as a “Special Council”, Deputy Director of the FBLie and worked with that other crony Robert Mueller trying to take out Trump on the phony Russia collusion 🐮💩. (and most likely Bagpipes Barr)
How many innocent peoples life has this Maoist/Stalinist “pitbull” ruined? Enron scandal, Arthur Anderson LLP case, Paul Mantifort, etc. This prick needs to be thrown into a dungeon and fed gruel made out of cricket powder for the rest of his miserable life.
Long prison terms for both Weissman and Smith would be a good minimum for their wholesale (proxy) attacks on the American people and Constitution. Everyone that works for Traitor Joe, the overpaid CCP agent, should be sacked and tried for various crimes.
Life in prison.
Mixed fecal matter of various farm species…
Word is that while employed by the US Government Andrews McCabe and Weissmann never solved a single crime. Their forte was framing enemies.
Dungeon and cricket gruel? That’s a slap on the wrist for that monster.
I hope so!
Define Lawfare: The use of the law to attack a rival when there is no evidence of a crime and no legal argument to attack. Lawfare weaponizes the judicial branch of the government.
DOJ Lawfare: The sole purpose of the lawsuit is to sway the public’s opinion through employed media promoters.
Article Synopsis: The DOJ filed a motion for “Special Conditions for Release” which restricts President Trump’s defense from knowing the super-secret evidence or even discussing the super-secret evidence.
If President Trump won’t accept the terms and conditions of this special motion, then the DOJ is asking Judge Cannon to put President Trump into Federal Prison Leg Irons until Trump can be tried and convicted.
Judge Cannon’s response to this request is to “use the ordinary legal motions please”
DOJ wants to keep everything under seal and invisible to the public so the DOJ can control the narrative. DOJ does not want President Trump speaking truth about this case. DOJ hired Jack Smith to attack President Trump legally in order to sway public opinion of President Trump before the 2024 Presidential election.
As President of the United States, Donald Trump had unilateral authority to define anything he wanted. As Commander in Chief he declassified these documents and moved them to Mar A Lago.
DOJ has told the Judicial Court that the DOJ can’t say which national security concerns are in the Mar A Lago documents. DOJ says they will never say what the documents are. The DOJ won’t even let the court appoint a Special Master to review the documents. No one knows what the documents are.
Jack Smith is claiming that any document the government designates as a “national security document” is therefore a national *defense* document and is covered under US 18 Code 793.
Even though the case against President Trump looks bad on paper, eventually the “definitions” are going to be an issue for the prosecutor Jack Smith. Trump is innocent of wrongdoing, and the DOJ is weaponizing the justice process against President Trump. The American People will understand what is going on with this fake legal case against President Trump designed to sway public opinion using fake news.
Now throw the whole case out after the DOJ leaked the supposed “gotcha” tape.
up next 🙂
Mark Meadows and his ghost writer may have a copy.
Soviet style show trial. smitty should be thrown off the case.
Smith should be keel hauled….
He’s just the messenger, so maybe just dragged behind a horse.
Or four
Better yet as said by the car club guys in the movie American Graffiti – tie him to the car and drag him.
Regitiger is obviously a lawyer, as is Marcia.
And R mentioned “sanctioning” Smith, as there are many non-lawyers reading here, I thought it might be goof to review; when the LE/Prosecution do sometbhing like blatantely violating the defendants right to council, and as a result “fruit of the forbidden tree” they found the murder weopon as a result, all of their evidence was obtainrd illegally, ertc. the Judge can dismiss the case entirely.
But suppose the judge “catches” the prodecutors doing something”against the rules” but not AS impactful; it HAS tilted the case, UNFAIRLY inn the prosecutors direction, but not enough to merit outright dismissal?
In order to attempt to tilt things BACK, the Judge can SANCTION one side, the “cheaters” not just or primarily to “punish” them; the idea is to insure Justice by “leveling the playing field.
The Judge may rule one whole line of inquiry, or evidence is off the table for them to pursue, or may make individual rulings such as objections to ‘favor’ the other side, in an attempt to “make things fair”.
Often, such measures are donr AFTER a jury has been seated, and the trial is in progress.
The thing is, the Judge can see what Smith is trying to keep everyone else from seeing. Its just as Sundance has called it: he has no case, and is using “Classified” and trying to use “under seal” to keep the jury (us) in the Court of Public opinion from seeing, so Joe/Mika and the rest can publically call for PDJT to br hung for treason.
The Judge certainly COULD dismiss the case. Or she could simply force Smith to go to trial, brook no delays or “sealling” and force him to present a csse with no merit,…fight your csse in the court of public opinion, lose your case in the court of public opinion.
As every article about this case prefaces Judge Cannon with “Trump appointed” it may be more “political” for her to follow the latter coarse.
SHE sees all of the “evidence” or lack thereof, she KNOWS Smith has nothing, let him encounter the reality thst you can’t CONVICT a ham sandwich, and force him to stand naked with his talleywhacker in hand, in the very “Court of Public Opinion” in which he hoped to execute PDJT.
“serves him right!” sorta thing.
Yep, let’s run up those legal fees! Case should be dismissed. The justice system continuing to tolerate Lawfare only makes it stronger while weakening our faith in the judiciary.
Good analysis, but down load spell chick already:-)))
Dutchman thinks faster than his fingers move. And he cannot spell and knows it. But we can still read it whether he spells the word right or not. Let’s give him a break.
I don’t know who the Spell Chick is, but I’m pretty sure she doesn’t have dutchman’s brains.
Besides, she always mixes up “too” and “to” when I use voice to text – not to mention “it’s” and “its.”
Spell what? 😂
That is a well worded comment – not reeking of emotion!
I think Judge Cannon has her screwed on tight – hopefully.
Force DOJ to go to trial with no evidence.
I resent the implication that I am a lawyer…(a bit of humor about “resent”). But no, I am not a lawyer…never wanted to be one, never will be one. I know just enough about the law to realize it is rarely about truth and more about what you can win in a courtroom. That has always bothered me. That truth isn’t the objective goal…that justice is not the objective goal. On paper it is…but in practice…how does one explain citizens united? legalized abortion. I want no part of that. What the justice system has become is a mockery of every single moral foundation that was lifted from a biblical origin.
I guess that makes me something like an anarchist to the modern judicial “system”. A heretic to the cultish, provably awful practice of law making and law breaking in the world. I follow God’s laws. In spirit, in practice. Everything else is awful…and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.
God Bless America
Her [Judge Cannon’s] paperless retort………..
So…to keep things consistent, does this mean the DOJ’s motion for “Special Conditions of Release” wouldn’t even be worth the paper it would have been written on?
Wondering same resolute.
Pretty much. Technically, “your motion is so rediculous, I won’t even waste paper responding.”
Every bit of this stinks like a divorce case. The motions for restraining orders, brought in secret and issued on the basis that “if the [totally unproven] allegations are true the seriousness of the alleged conduct is so extreme that the [usually man] must be restrained just in case”. Of course the TRO is then trotted out to every school employee from the groundskeeper to the board chair, to employers, co-workers, neighbors, etc. and later it’s used as the basis to deny further rights. The secret order is never subject to review or a proper hearing.
Every time I see these lawfare moves I recognize the stench. This is a process of slander, impoverishment, and evil that has been developed and honed in leftist “family” courts for decades. (oh, and the classic “denial is the first sign of……..” is always waiting in the wings)
This is very true. I couldn’t believe it!
Used to have a divorce lawyer as a client, and with out revealing names of a rich clients , the stories were very entertaining to say the least!
Part of the list is a bluff.
Part of the list has been coerced to knock Trump or get indicted.
If defendants feel they can’t win, they try to delay using motions.
Smitty may have a weak case, shaky witnesses and fear they will not be helpful under oath.
MAY HAVE? Jack Smith’s britches are so full of dukey they are falling off from the weight of it. CNN likes dukey!!
They’re using the same Weismann tactics used in Russia, Russia, Russia. File court cases you never intend to prosecute (remember the “Troll Farm” lawsuits?), leak your narrative to the press, amplify media with friendly “experts” on your law fair team, stall until maximum political damage is done and slither back under your rock to coordinate your next plot.
Interesting time we live in. “Sunlight is the best disinfectant” paraphrasing Justice Brandees as I recall.
I think the Trump team needs to talk about this case incessantly. The whole star chamber approach by DOJ and special counsels is un-American.
DOJ’s star chamber “secrecy” tactics litterly make them forces of darkness.
How long until they appeal to 11th Circuit which gave them superiority to the President to define what is or is not classified?
They will try to remove Cannon at some point.
The 11th Circuit opinion was just on the special master issue. Trump can still raise the classification issue again.
But, yes I expect a motion to remove Cannon. However, her rulings are on solid ground, and “She rules against us” is no basis.
At least now we know why Trump’s lawyers didn’t waste their energy on the motion. It was patently stupid, and it showcased the DOJ’s media-based narrative strategy.
Yes, and Donald Trumps strategy, which his lawyers are pursueing, is to get this case either dismissed or to trial, asap in order to expose how weak it is.
As a general strategy in this instance, any delay benefits the prosecution and thereby hurts PDJT.
The facts of the case, and theclaw are not in dispute.
Even the evidence and witness trstimony is lagely irrelevent.
There is NOTHING sny witness is goibg to testify to, no piece of evidence that makes the Presidential records sct, and the ruling in the Clinton sock drawer case irrelevant.
“President Trump kept copies of our top secret plan to invade Iran!”
“So?”
“But, but he kept his copy of the nuclear codes!”
“So?”
“But we have testimony he SAID he was keeping classified documents!”
“So, what?”
I say speed up the case as it costs American Taxpayers money to delay it.
The lass they say, the less canon fodder they provide!
“The 11th Court of Appeals has ruled that the DOJ can label what it wants, in any form it wants. The 11th circuit has deferred all definitions to the DOJ and has granted the DOJ “legal benefit of the doubt”. The 11th Circuit says as long as the DOJ claim a document is a national security interest, then it becomes a national security interest…
In other words if the DOJ says a Box of Cheerios is a national security threat then the Judiciary Branch accepts that all Cheerio Boxes are national security concerns. When the DOJ claims the Mar A Lago documents are vital to national security interests then it does not matter what the Trump documents contain. This is the situation of US citizens in the post 9/11 surveillance state…”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/07/jack-smith-andrew-weissmann-and-lisa-monacos-novel-theory-us-code-793-to-prosecute-trump-it-wont-work/
There is the possibility that the system, such as it stands now, will finally start doing more of what it is supposed to. Nobody wants to be the last one holding the bags when things fall apart.
Maybe one of them will write “an appropriately strong letter”…
I fear that too many of them – like Sullivan and Boasberg and Roberts – are Democrat loyalists with no interest in the rule of law.
Great point!
I don’t subscribe to any social media. Sure wish I could read Sundance’s posts about this on Twitter tonight because well, I listened to about an hour of this interview that Sidney Powell posted today. It is very long and I thought I’d better quit before it wrapped me too far around the bend with someone speaking the truth.
Joe Roagan and RFK, JR. Oh well, I lost the link.
But holy crap. It was almost like listening to a Trump speech about the deep state. And how they keep making shit up about him over, and over, and over. There are always those pesky facts. That make it all untrue.
I don’t know or care where Jack Smith went to law school. A more innocuous name could not be made up. Jack Smith. Saying to a Judge that the aggrieved should not be allowed to speak in his own defense. Well, isn’t that special.
Clutching at stuff that even straw anymore they are. The God I pray to is having a hoot fest over this with me tonight. Kinda. Telling me to get used to “enjoying” the show.
I also don’t know a lot of things. But “Jack Smith” whoever he really is, is STOOPID.
His special song is “Hit the Road jack!”
His special name might be Jack the Ripper
ripper upper of the Constitution and long legal traditions
His special book is Road To Perdition.
You don’t have to subscribe to read tweets; I simply save a link to them on my computers “favorites” area and click on and read the various saved twitter sites; the only reason to sign up is to be able to post comments.
You don’t have to “subscribe” to Twitter to see videos or posts like this one. Just click on it and read!
It’s OK Retired IG. None of us knew Jack Sh!t until the DoJ introduced him to the world.
Rick Grenell has accused him of creating big issues in Kosovo when he had the President arrested when Grenell was working to stabilize the situation there. (Jack Smith)
Here is a link about Jack Smith and Kosovo.
Sure do seem to be a lot of people who hate peace and prosperity, and who do all they can to prevent
https://leesmith.locals.com/post/4077763/the-ugly-history-of-the-doj-hatchet-man-tasked-to-target-trump
What is his real name?
In your browser type: [email protected]
another favorite of mine is: [email protected]. (He retweets lots of good info.
California Joe posted a tweet below. Just click on blue “follow” after The Last Refuge and it will take you to his twitter page. (Sorry if you already know this but it sounded like you didn’t so I responded just in case)
I do not believe that will happen if they try it. Judge Cannon appears to be holding her own at this point.
“The Government’s Motion does not explain why filing the list with the Court is necessary; it does not offer a particularized basis to justify sealing the list from public view; it does not explain why partial sealing, redaction, or means other than sealing are unavailable or unsatisfactory; and it does not specify the duration of any proposed seal.”
Translation: You might want to support your requests with some facts, perhaps some legal authority, too?
Now there’s a slap down. Heh.
Clearly accustomed to rubber stamp treatment from the corrupt criminals of DC courts.
It could be read as a slap down. But it could also be read: “If you were to file another motion to do any of these things I’m listing, I’d probably grant it”.
Lawfare doesn’t have a case against the real President Trump, so they resort to what they do best. They pull something nonsensical out of their ass.
Just muzzle the defendant so you have a one sided debate in public until the charade is exposed. This is raw politics.
Someday they will be caught in that position with no room for escape.
Astute, yes. Covert, not this time..
I beg to differ with judge Cannon.
Motion denied with extreme prejudice.
Sundance, you need to publish a list of all the dirty participants in their “lawfare” attack on we the people. I have kept track of a sizable number but I’m sure your list is much more inclusive. Maybe if we start putting pressure on that group we can see just how well they perform under pressure. We know the entire group in Mueller’s witch hunt are on the list and likely every major law firm in DC. Maybe even some around the clock protests outside their homes and offices, kind of like their protests of the conservative Justices.
Norm Eisen and Andrew Weissmann are a couple of the ring leaders.
Plus Lisa Monaco. President Trump recently turned his laser pointer on her by sharing a pic of her on Truth Social with a snarky caption.
Isn’t Marc Elias lawfare?
Yes, but he’s more the specialist for changing state level voting law.
Marc Elias
Lilliputians
When last we left this Cat and Mouse Saga, The Specious Counsel (Lilliputians) were asking for four months more rope (Time) to tie the MAGA King down and dangle yummies for the press—the purpose of the indictment.
Here’s a list that is some of the main people behind the assault on DJT and the attempted overthrow of the gov’t.
Charles Schumer, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, George Soros, Norm Eisen, Amy Totenberg, Diane Feinstein, Adam Schiff, Michael Bloomberg, Merrick Garland, Tom Steyer, Lloyd Blankfein, Sussman, Andrew Weissmann, Zelensky, Mark Levin, Pritzkers, Maggie Haberman, Jeremy Rosenberg, Rod Rosenstein, Gerald Nadler, David Zaslav, Jeff Zucker, Amy Berman Jackson, Zuckerberg, Bruce Reinhart, Kevin Clinesmith, Barry Berke.
I’m sure I could think of more if I sat down with a pen and paper.
Bill Barr
Lisa Monaco should be tops on this list. She’s the one really running the doj.
MARY MCCORD
Hmmm, a lot of feins, steins, and bergs…
Thank you, Sundance!
Again!
Jack Smith – “Respectfully Submitted” – bosh!
Maybe if I go back to earlier chapters on Lawfare, there is an explanation as to how they arrived at that moniker –
I am inclined to think that the name “Lawrenty Beria” gave them the idea and the first part is not really after “the law” or “the rule of law” but from a special fondness and nostalgia for the likes of the man, Lawrenty Beria.
Prove it
Since the DOJ has shown a tendency to selectively leak information to the public that is damaging to the defendant, the judge should require everything be made public and also have all proceedings televised.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. That’s why people like Garland look like they only come out at night. They LOVE the darkness. I never want to imagine where these morons find their refuge.
Judge should require everything be made public and also have all proceedings televised as Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Biden tells a room full of foreign leaders:
“I have sold a lot of state secrets!”
Isn’t that something in Jack Smith’s department to prosecute?
Did you see the look on Modi’s face? Priceless.
That was the best. He was totally unsure if that was a joke or not. He was looking at everyone else trying to see if he should laugh.
Hitler and Stalin both claim Jack Smith is their grandson. Both of them have a very good case.
Judge needs to impose any government leak be held in contempt and those materials can not be used period.
This is troublesome: In DC courts (where Jack Smith & his team operates), judges gave the government what it wants, regardless was the case law says.
The magistrate made a wrong decision and Cannon fixed it! Case law says witnesses are witnesses, not a possession of either side. Case law doesn’t offer the possibility that a defendant have to agree to such restrictions.
The whole thing is a pre-trial encounter that will most likely have no practical effect. Keep calm and wait for calendar call on 8/8/23.
Nice. But why was her ruling “without prejudice”? Seems to be saying that if the prosecution wants to make some changes and try again she’s willing to have another look. Right?
Maybe Judge Cannon is also a counter-puncher?
Maybe she’s OK with the DoJ showing more of their hand, which right now is a collection of low cards and jokers.
“Without prejudice” is standard
If she put “with prejudice” they would say she’s kneecapping them and would probably appeal to next level. She’s left the door ajar on purpose
Go ahead, Mr smith, commit prosecutorial misconduct over and over again.
She laid out all of the things he left out, a “laundry list” that any 1st year law student would have known to include.
So, go home and try again, Jack.
If he submits it again, lets sed what valid arguments he makes, for the oitrageous “get” he is asking for.
He probably won’t, which was the point the Judge eas making.
To ALL you guys who answered my question… Thanks, and I think you’re right. I guess it’s just that I wanted to hear “with prejudice!” so badly it clouded my thinking. 😄
lawfare is a means meant to take the willful and woefully ignorante. Those without a fight and those without representation. You will blindly fight for a fair trial… you will blindly fight for your constitution.. but you will never see the light.. you are beneath them. You don’t deserve the show they grant to others.. the only thing you can do is set an example.. A example for those that would be wiling to try and take you as the slave they expect you to be.. Do not be that slave… make them the example… an example of those that try…
” the special prosecutors wanted a signed statement they could use against him if he spoke about stuff at a rally or event.”
In other words, put a nose around his own neck.
I am surprised that sundance did not mention the audio that was leaked by Jack Smith to CNN
Exclusive: CNN obtains the tape of Trump’s 2021 conversation about classified documents
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/politics/trump-classified-documents-audio
OK I see it that SD made a separate post
Johnny Wishbone
@JWishbon3
He was talking about the news clipping of the leaked attack plans. Lmao.
11:02 PM · Jun 26, 2023
Sundance totally lampooned it on twitter.
Something like; the Prosecution has audio experts that will explain how they can prove the parers heard being rustled on the tape, have classified markings on them!”lol
I don’t want to be the guy who says it.
But we aren’t going to vote our way out of this.
Not for likely 10 years or more.
I’m not surrendering, I don’t want anyone else to do so either.
I very honestly can see a scenario where it self destructs.
Vote our way out of this in 10 years? Son, at the rate things are going in 10 years or less the act of voting will be a distant memory.
Like an avalanch, landslide, bankruptcy or tsunami, there are many things in life that occurred very, very slooooowwwelllyyy,…….
and then,…all-at-once!
This has all of the hallmarks of being one of those things,..
You’re right Bob Hope, we are going to pray our way out.
To God be all the Glory!
“You’re right Bob Hope, we are going to pray our way out.”
hmm,
Voting is a kind of prayer about the world.
“I don’t want to be the guy who says it.
But we aren’t going to vote our way out of this.”
There’s a 100 million MEGA that thinks you’re wrong.
There’s always somebody who repeats this “We aren’t voting our way out of this” mantra at least once in every article comment section here – except maybe some articles by Menagerie ☺️.
And they all appear to imagine they are the first to say it, too.
Of course, I’ll usually be the first to get similarly repetitious and tell them “vote anyway, it’s free.”
Vote!
While its a little more complicated than that, the short answer is;
SURE we are, just WATCH US!
We have the numbers so stop worrying and pleaes live your life while continuing to read the Treehouse so you can educate others. We need to disseminate this truth to others.
Just so you know as a consumer and writer of intel reports, a POTUS keeps his TS/SCI and higher Q clearances for the remainder of their lives. One of the perks of being a POTUS. The question is HOW often do they read the intelligence reporting? I would think most former POTUS are enjoying their post presidency and not reading daily briefings…except Obama as we all know he is the current behind-the-scenes POTUS.
I remember reading several years back that Poppy Bush read his daily intel brief for many years after leaving Office. Probably to see how his nefarious plans were taking root.
So, according the Cannon’s ruling, the prosecution can file again (as her ruling is without prejudice) but apparently must include the conditions as per the last paragraph above. Which, of course, the prosecution won’t do.
The main point is
The DOJ filed a motion for “Special Conditions for Release” which restricts President Trump’s defense from both knowing the super-secret evidence or even discussing the super-secret evidence.
The DOJ wants to keep everything under seal and invisible to the public so the DOJ can control the narrative. The DOJ does not want President Trump speaking truth about this case.
Part of the motion is that if President Trump won’t accept the terms and conditions of this special motion, then the DOJ is asking Judge Cannon to put President Trump into Federal Prison leg irons until Trump can be tried and convicted.
Judge Cannon’s response to this request is “just use the ordinary legal motions please.”
DOJ failed to win its motion against President Trump
I hope Judge Cannon will dust off this old, neglected phrase, sharpen it, and let it fly with her ruling when the time comes, which will hopefully include many strong references to prosecutorial misconduct: “With prejudice.”
So far so good. Judges who are result oriented will ignore the law and/or the facts to manufacture the desired result, be it a plaintiff victory or a sweet plaintiff settlement if the plaintiff is a plaintiff viewed as deserving or if the settlement means that no trial occurs. This is so because trials take time and judges actually have to preside over them instead of having their clerks review and approve magistrate recommendations on dispositive issues so they have time to do whatever they want to do. Judges who believe in the rule of law apply the law to the facts regardless of any personal belief in the “right” result. The former type of judges come in both types of appointments to the federal bench: Dem or Rep. Generally the Dem’s are worse but not always. The Dems count on Rep appointments to be the latter type because they also will bend over backwards to prove that they are not like the former type. And so expect these people to attempt to intimidate Judge Cannon into proving she’s not a “corrupt Trump appointee with bias” when in fact she is simply applying the law as it is written and even handedly instead of giving the corrupt DOJ a leg up. It is predictable.
“Take that, you dastardly evil-doers!”
A statement, an opinion from Trump about the law does not change the law or his constitutional authority to declassify executive branch documents. The audio just shows Trump is not a lawyer and would be easily entrapped with process “crimes” if left to the wolves in the agencies.
When lawyers turn, it’s a special kind of encouraged, enabled no boundaries evil
Hilary was the poster child
For whatever reason, glad the judge checked them
Question:
Would it be out of bounds or any violation if Sundance actually talked with the Defense attorneys or at least tagged a couple of the attorneys to ensure they are seeing his thoughts and comments?
Sundance has so much background and understanding on all the evil doers and their methods & motives that is so valuable for those who are just coming to this game.
Your tax dollars freely dispensed to those who sell the lies of your federal government.
Lawfare is racing toward the Rubicon, and Trump’s lawyers are patiently giving them rope.
They are persecuting a person who still has the very highest level of security clearance for possessing documents they themselves are not authorized to view. They want to “get” this person and put him in prison for a hundred years, while protecting a Mafia Don who filled his garage with documents he was never allowed to possess.
They impeached their hated enemy for “quid pro quo” that never existed, while protecting the Don who bragged about it on public TV to an appreciative audience of lesser blue-suited thugs.
The Rubicon is fading into the distance behind them. Their derangement drives them forward towards the bottomless edge.
84 witnesses my arse, just like the 51 signatures of the Russian collusion psyop crap against Trump. Enough of this federal criminality. Congress needs to defund the special counsel and defund all associated departments and agencies.
Chop chop now!!
I have full faith in our judicial system to railroad President Trump despite the Judge, somehow.
Keep giving him more rope!
Yeah, if you’re deciding on behalf of “The People” to indict the former President of the United States, current presidential candidate, and political opponent …. You better be prepared to shit or get off the pot …. You can’t put a gag order on a presidential candidate.
Go Judge!
Understood if you must edit this, but going forward, can we refer to Jack Smith as “Jack Shit?”
A troll twitter reply was that the order says for the applicants to resubmit in a more detailed way, etc.
My thoughts on that, maybe it’s saying ok, resubmit and use everyday language of what you exactly want so everyone can see what you want or shut up.
Lawfare is getting their way
Jack Smith’s face is the face you make when your the most frustrated INCEL ever. He’s acting like Dean Wormer asking for double secret probation…..
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Oh, man that feels so good to read. It’s like eating a rich chocolate bar. So good. I expect Trump to be calling him(Smith) Jack the Ripper very soon. I mean, his disheveled presentation makes it too easy.
This leak is more like taking a leak.
With intent to contribute to this conversation, I was one who was fortunate enough to enlist, as my draft # was called, but as I do not believe in coincidence, ran into a recruiter, interviewed and was tested and accepted. this in 1965 – The Founding Documents, and the Christian experience contained within them, was and is, a call to a Global Civil society, that the Dictatorial fear, and have assaulted ever since. As an example:
– 1840 – The socialist path begins. Saint – Simon a true Socialist, is the founder of Sociology as a tool for guilt association as well as socializing of society for political purposes.
– 1892 – Departments in Univ. of Chicago, Columbia Univ., Univ. of Wisconsin, with E.A. Ross who has career full of Socio-communist relations. Ross’s book “Social Control” (1901) is the textbook teaching how a few can gain control over Society. Albin W. Small, first Chair, taught Sociology as History, Economics, and Political Science.
in seeing this in my work, I have tried to educate on the process. There are other ( many ) examples, while one two are seminal and I desire everyone recognize the implications of:
– 1913 – Roscoe Pound, Saint-Simon. Socialized Law substitutes appointed Administrators for judicial Law. This to adjust social interests over the individual rights. Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter spoke about “ throughgoing overturning” of society. It must be done from the outside and translated by those in office.
– 1913 – Or, as the old Red dictum goes, “Communism must be built with non- Communist hands.” To engage the non-Communist dupes in these endeavors, though, requires rhetorical camouflage and deception. A prime example of this rhetorical treachery can be found in the judicial revolution launched in 1913 with the Conference on Legal and Social Philosophy organized by Fabian Socialists Harold Laski, John Dewey, Morris Cohen, and Roscoe Pound. Cohen’s son, Felix, later boasted that it is from this conference that “much of the social and philosophical consciousness of modern American jurisprudence derives.” Felix Cohen openly proclaimed; It is impossible to attempt overthrow of Capitalism as an economic system without at the same time attacking the substance of capitalist law. As well, Federal Reserve pushed through Congress. Wilson hired, to effect this. Taft had to be defeated to elect this. Rockefeller & Morgan bought up 159 News Corporations, while J.P. Morgan financed the Roosevelt “Bull Moose” vote splitting campaign.
AS this is long, am making another post with the second part, as soon as possible, for it folds together the why, of current menatl confusions by the left. More accurately taught perversions, through long term strategy.
Raven6 1965 – 1993, continuing as so many others. See part 3: