I did not think it would be possible for those who deploy Lawfare to ever exceed the scale of fakery around Witness #8, Rachel Jeantel. However, there is an irony in this latest Lawfare deployment being pushed by Jonathan Karl and ABC news; because it was also ABC News, via Matt Gutman, who originally pushed the completely fabricated Trayvon Martin ‘ear witness’.
Before getting to the details of the construct, I must point out two issues. First, this specific narrative, as pushed by a supposed leak from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution unit, just highlights the insane weakness of the Mar-a-Lago document case and how much they will rely on legal fraud and pretense to maintain it. This is where Judge Cannon will hopefully play a major role.
Second, I must emphasize that Lawfare in its most obvious construct is not a legal approach per se’, it is the intentional manipulation of the legal system to create the optics around information that is intended to be used by media to influence public opinion.
Just like Rachel Jeantel was never any form of witness to the events around Travon Martin and George Zimmerman, so too is this latest deployment entirely fabricated – ABC News pushing both.
As the story is pushed by ABC News, again based on leaks from Special Counsel Jack Smith, supposedly former President Trump’s Chief of Staff has told prosecutors that he does not remember any effort by President Trump about a standing objective to declassify documents.
[…] “former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has told special counsel Jack Smith’s investigators that he could not recall Trump ever ordering, or even discussing, declassifying broad sets of classified materials before leaving the White House.” (see more)
The transparent fabrication of the story is crystal clear. Whether ABC is playing a role of willful blind idiocy in their effort to support Jack Smith, or whether this is entirely fabricated by the news organization itself is unknown. What is stunningly clear is that ABC is pushing a storyline that is entirely false, fake and fabricated.
Everyone -including every media outlet, pundit and journalist- knows that for four solid years President Trump intended to, tried to, and demanded the declassification of, tens of thousands of documents. There are thousands of pundit hours and hundreds of articles written about the fight between President Trump and various agencies of government to declassify and release documents. This is not a debatable issue.
Just type “declassify” or “declassification” into the search bar of CTH, and you will find hundreds of citations and examples of our discussion as this information and classification battle was waged. In fact, the transparency of the ABC fraud is so clear, even Axios -while pushing another angle- would not stand with ABC in the specific framework of their lies. As noted, “Axios has not yet verified ABC News’ reporting on Meadows.”
Much like Bill Barr, Mark Meadows is a self-interested shallow shell of a DC man, steeped in swamp life and preservation therein. We all accept this. Yet, even with that at the forefront, there’s no way Meadows is going to be stupid enough to say he has no idea about the broad scope of President Trump’s declassification intentions. Therefore, if this leak to ABC is legitimately based on information from Jack Smith’s team, then the Florida assembled prosecutors are big time desperate.
Additionally, and very importantly, if this is the Jack Smith prosecution approach, then we were 100% correct in our analysis and research of what the documents were in Mar-a-Lago that Main Justice was so desperate to retrieve {Go Deep}.👀
In broad terms, there are two sets of documents that intermingle and are directly related. First, documents that highlight the activity of Hillary Clinton’s team in creating the false Trump-Russia conspiracy theory (2015/2016). Second, documents that highlight the activity of government officials targeting Donald Trump within the same timeframe (Crossfire Hurricane), that continued into 2017, 2018 and 2019 (Robert Mueller).
Think of the two sets of documents as evidence against two teams working in synergy. Team one (Clinton) was outside government. Team two (DOJ/FBI) was inside government. The documents pertain to both groups but are also divided. That helps to explain the wording of the memo above. (more)
Also, keep in mind former DNI John Ratcliffe was at the center of the latter part of the effort to get those documents released to the public. Deep State institutional preservation manager Bill Barr was obstructing the release and used Deep State institutional preservation manager John Durham as the investigative block. To further protect the institutions, the FBI went on a mission to retrieve the documents. Consequently, as soon as the Durham block was going to be removed, the Jack Smith block was put into place.
James Comey, then Robert Mueller, then John Durham, now Jack Smith… these are all institutional silos -that’s one long continuum- created by the DC need to throw a bag over any document releases that would reveal the scale and scope of government corruption.
Keep in mind, as the DNI during 2020, Ratcliffe saw the documents that eventually became the material President Trump declassified and left with the DOJ to release after the Durham investigation was complete. If Ratcliffe’s suspicions are correct, and there is more valid reason to support his suspicions than oppose them, then the entire construct of the DOJ-NSD operation was to retrieve those documents from Mar-a-Lago and maintain one big cover-up operation.
Ratcliffe suspects the documents are essentially the DOJ and FBI work products, including interviews with ‘sources’ like Igor Danchenko, from their fabricated case against President Trump. If accurate, the objective of the DOJ/FBI would be to avoid sunlight on their political targeting operation. This viewpoint makes sense when you consider the DOJ/FBI position was/is that no one should ever be allowed to look at those documents, including the previously appointed Special Master in the original document case, Judge Raymond Dearie.
For ABC to claim that Mark Meadows is unaware of the declassification effort, and for Axios to claim that Mike Pence says he was unaware of any effort by Trump to declassify the documents, is just abject absurdity.
If the special counsel is going to go to court and use this framework as their counter-position to President Trump claiming he declassified all the documents, then the special counsel is stunningly desperate.
Thankfully people notice the weakness of this case, even in Europe!
I posted the Viva & Barnes Sunday LIVE program info last night on the Presidential thread. It was superb! Barnes was on fire about the Georgia NON-case.
https://rumble.com/v39nqtq-ep.-174-trump-indictment-attorneys-targeted-vivek-rises-maui-fires-and-more.html
I remember one of my teachers in high school assuring us the communists were almost in control in America. I also remember people thought he was crazy. They were asleep at the wheel.
And your teacher was a GDC too, correct?
The evil genius’ just can’t stop themselves from gloating.
My HS Freshman History teacher called it “creeping communism” in 1971. Well the creeps have crept into positions of total control.
And it’s been a long time coming. That’s why the, “press” got rid of Joe McCarthy. He was spot on!!!
When was that?
1997
Oh, it’s been a LONG time coming!
I had one like that, Civics, and the next year he committed suicide, or did he?!
Maybe Jim jordon will re open some of Senator Joe Mccarthy’s investigations and and hold people accountable, or write some sternly worded letters.
Gosh, I can hardly wait!!!!
Retired Magistrate here: Jack Smith’s efforts to influence public opinion against President Trump is not working; hence President Trump’s ratings have increased again.
In my opinion, Judge Canon is not going to put up with a lot of the “stunts” that Jack Smith will attempt. The case in Florida is President Trump’s best chance to win at the trial level.
I hope Judge Canon nails Smith to the wall.
Even if she does, main stream media will never cover it.
I’m concerned the 4th branch will find a way to go after her first.
I’m *SICK* of the lies from a bunch of people. I ain’t alone….
The Founding Fathers would never put up with this garbage from our government.
I hope that nailing him to the wall means finding him in criminal contempt and locking him up for the maximum along with several of his accomplices.
Yet here we are. Some serious updating to the basic system is way beyond due.
Compliance to the basic system works for me, no need to update. I won’t get distracted by the “two tiered justice system” nonsense they spew. Either we have a justice system that works or it’s broken. Two tiered is a distraction.
Like our “democracy” and how pdjt is a threat to it. It’s a non starter..we have a Constitutional Republic. Democracies lead to what we have now, the minority controlling the majority.
Simple stuff…
You sure aren’t alone, millions of us are sick to death of the lies our government tells us daily. See American Thinker today, ‘The ruling class sits atop a boiling pot’ by J.B. Shirk. The lid is ready to blow.
I read stuff but I don’t believe any of it anymore. Ukraine, TikTok, China, Russia, moon landings, especially anything from the government or MSM. I just don’t think any one is telling the truth. COMMUNIST!!
I honestly believe that the msm has less and less influence. More and more people know they’re being lied to and go elsewhere in search of the truth. There are exceptions, but fewer and fewer.
The Founding Fathers would be stacking bodies by now.
As I understand it, Jack Smith is in continuous TREASON mode.
ALL government “employees” are required to swear or affirm to the US Constitution. It used to be there were only the elected officials, but then corruption spreads and they usurp powers and create unconstitutional alphabet agencies or infiltrate agencies like the Department of Education and take full control of them, making them ALL liable under the governmental offices.
The USA Constitution was written in plain language for the common man.
US Constitution; Article VI Section 3
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
Trial? Don’t you think she will move as a matter of law – the charges can’t stand SJ?
Funny, over the last month or so, I am starting to get popups and other spam when reading your articles. Sundance as usual your right on target!! If you weren’t I am sure the junk popups wouldn’t be so frequent.
Yeah, I’m getting that as well.
Including the annoying “Spectrum you’ve won something” thing I refuse to click on and close out the window on, before coming right back to the Treehouse.
Sundance is a treasure.
And he’s almost never wrong.
I literally interrupted this reply to close out a pop up ad!
Trump 2024.
I’m getting pop ups as well, only when I access CTH.
I tried to investigate why briefly. One cause was an outdated router due to operating system upgrades.
Not sure if this is why, I’m not tech savvy.
I was going to say the same thing. Mine is Norton virus alert…and I don’t have Norton…is annoying but SD is over the target as usual…gotta make it hard to see the truth…
I’m getting lots of pop up too. Sometimes it like pac-man gobbling up the page. Frustrating but I just exit and go back again to The tree house. Not going to stop me..
If you are on a computer try Firefox browser with Brave search from address bar and uBlock origin. Using Windows I get ZERO popups on the Treehouse.
My uBlock works great, and it always shows you how many ads are blocked.
I never see any pop ups.
Firefox is connected to Soros Open Society, I believe
Well, I believe it is a free tool that works well. I am aware of the Soros connection related to content blocking. I am also aware that it is likely in the form of voluntary add-ons and extensions and settings.
I tried searching for any news describing Firefox blocking content or fakenews of whatever and couldn’t find anything saying it is built-in and happening.
Are my results being blocked? Are the blockers blocking their own blocking? Anyone got an article about this?
Download the Brave browser. Microsoft and google browsers allow these disruptive popups that lock your computer until you actively close the popup. Using the Brave browser does not allow the popups.
I get the fake you have won garbage as well.
Yes. I get that annoying spectrum pop up, too. Try refreshing the page.
Yes I’ve gotten the spectrum thing too and also some notice about viruses or something.
We’re going to be seeing lots of weird events as we get close to 2024.
Switch to brave, I never see pop ups .
Agree John PA, I use Brave and never have the issues I read about others having.
But use a different search engine.
Brave search is DuckDuckGo which is abhorrent and closer to a propaganda machine and censor than a search engine.
I suggest YANDEX which is Russian Search Engine. It actually works and you may find what you were searching for rather than finding nothing in what Brave/DuckSuckGo allow after searching the less than one page of results or the so many pages of not asked for replies to the query.
My Brave defaults to StartPage for search because I changed it in the settings.
Brave even stopped this popup storm on my android phone.
Same here. I use brave. Never any pop-ups.
Use Brave or TOR browsers. You will only see ads you want.
I use Ublock Origin for my ad blocker. Just Google it for the free download. ….or here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
Sundance is better than Rush. Rush was 99.6%, Sundance is 99.99999%.
I followed advice of someone on here suggesting using Brave browser.
I did that about a week ago and no issues so far on Treehouse
Yes. Did the same thing. It’s a tiny miracle.
I use the Opera browser and have no pop ups. I use Brave search engine. Google never get used on my laptop!
Opera Mobile here. No ads either
I find Brave’s DuckDuckGo is garbage that either overloads the query with garbage that is completely unrelated or less than one page that is also not what I was “searching” for.
Try YANDEX
It is Russian and works best for me so far compared to EVERY other search engine.
Used to use dogpile, but “they” got to them too.
TLDR
Brave, browser OK, one of the best of the available, BUT the search engine is an EPIC FAILURE!!!!
You will need a better search engine.
Try YANDEX
It’s Russian and works better than the USA censored propaganda engines.
Are there downside risks to YANDEX?
Roger on the popups I can barely delete fast enough
I keep getting McAfee has expired page opening
“McAfee has expired”
Yes, and he was supposed to have a dead man’s switch, but nothing ever came of it.
Yes, me too, Never had McAfee on my computer pop ups lately are terrible
Same here
I learned to copy/paste the “popup” .com page and go to settings in the browser. Add it to the no pop-ups category.
Shame it has to be done in the first place though.
I’m not getting any popups, but then again I’m not using a phone to access CTH. There’s a lesson in there.
Nether am I. I am using an old none updated PC, and keep getting thrown off CTH for a page that states McAfee is expiring
To all those getting these pop-ups…. IT IS MALWARE on your device.
Go to your SETTINGS and activate BLOCK POPUPS.
Install an ad-blocker.
Use an app to scan for malware/virus activity such as CCleaner or MalwareBytes.
Try installing and using BRAVE browser.
Brave browser plus Malwarebytes: My internet gateway since 2018.
Yes, it is strange. I’ve been getting these popups about every day. I guess someone is worried about all the information being put out
by Sundance. Keep up the good work, Sundance.
Recently my desk to crashed and I had to use my Ipad – holy crap pop ups- adds, it was terrible and very annoying! Thankfully, got a new Dell and back to sanity!
Popups are a badge of success. Satan does not kick a dead horse … scammers do not target blogs with small readership.
Use “Startpage” and they will go away.
What browser are you using? I have MAC OS and use Brave browser-not seeing any popups…..Brave blocks tracker and ads…
My internet connection is under attack since posting a recent comment here. For the last 4 days it has been down almost 90% of the time. Must be those Commies in Biden’s regime! Same thing happened under Hussein Obama’s regime….. ohhh they are the same people LOL.
A copy of that declassification memo has probably been posted 10’s of thousands of times on X-Twat in the past. With this Meadows crap it will start circulating again.
So, tell me again who the media and the federal Bolsheviks are trying to gaslight. If you said the non-social media people who only watch #fakenews you might be right. The ratings will tell you the potential breadth of that narrative (collapse).
We will all know “the week” that the great pretending is over — too bad it appears to be a future date.
Here on CTH, evidence that this day/week draws nearer is present.
Remember the “crown Jewel:
Who is Barry Sotero really and “exactly how” did we get him (CIA, Vote rigging).
And the primary method of resolution of the whole mess:
What is the nature of “law enforcement” & if not the militia, then who?
Special counsel jack smith, lawfare’s bulldog, is as much a fake as the case he’s presenting against the real President Trump. The bulldog, is little more than an illusion. He’s a fraud, a rat wearing a bull dog costume.
They’re ALL frauds. But we all know that!
Why does the left care whether documents prove they are crooks? Everyone knows they are crooks as are the Republicans and the deep state. Foreign nations know the US government is as crooked as human beings can get and will hurt anyone in their way. Since we all know about them and also know they can get away with anything and everything, why continue to cover up? It’s all out there.
Because there are more of us than there are of them and, in Bush Sr’s words ‘If the public finds out what we’ve done to them, we’ll all be swinging from nooses’
Imho, it’s the “chase us down the street part” that keeps them awake nights.
“If the American People ever find out what we have done, they will chase us down the street and lynch us.”
– H.W. Bush June 1992 to Sarah McClendon (White House Press Corps)”
He said that ?
Didn’t Hilary say the same thing?
I’m still waiting for Hilary’s prophecy to come true.
Hilldog “eliminated” Lauer from msm, didn’t she ?
Oh, I don’t know if there are more of us. Maybe the number of bad guys equal the number of good guys and the vast number of sheeple can be swayed to the left or right and swing to the left because CNN is on in the bars. I see the voice of goodness is small and that of evil overpowering. Good people know what THEY do to us and no one is swinging from nooses nor prosecuted for bribery, high crimes or treason. So, why go to the trouble of hiding their evil? The vast majority would love to go see anybody swing and cut off their privates however they don’t care if the guy in the noose is good or bad as they will just go back to their cheetoes and tv programs.
“If that f*****g bastard wins, we’ll all be swinging from nooses!” — Felonia von Pantsuit in her rant after her interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show, September 2016.
I say the same thing over & over & over.
You’re crooks.
We know.
You know.
You know we know you…….
Circles upon circles.
Around and around!
Because we are riding a dead horse in the R Party who will not enforce the law. There is only talk with them. For the love of GOD people start a new organization.
Trump is running as a Republican and WINNING.
The Democrat party is morally corrupt, sick, and perverted .
Why would you want a third party that is weak, imaginary and an ineffective bad idea.
Republicans must be unafraid, unashamed and united.
WE shouldn’t have to guess if you’re republican.
Because the GOPe is just as bad. MAGA is either going to take over or destroy the GOPe.
Get over it.
The republican brand is dead on arrival. I understand why Trump is using it but he is the only one that can do so without it tainting him.
“Why continue to cover up? “
TRUMP Signs and hats.
That’s what terrifies Democrats.
We’ve had TRUMP signs and hats for eight years now and the evil does not seem terrified. Histories may be written that show the evil. But those histories depend on who wins this war.
The problem with Lawfare is that they have to stretch for a legal basis or in Fani W.’s case in GA, she flat out makes up legal theory:
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fthemessenger.com%2Fopinion%2Fthe-flaw-in-trumps-georgia-indictment
Sundance’s point is that Lawfare is a PR campaign in the court of public opinion. Anything else they can obatin in a real court is gravy.
I know I should be focused on the substance of this post but all I can think about is creepy ass cracker. Lord forgive me!
It also wouldn’t surprise me if Mark Meadows said that he never heard Trump say he was going to declassify the documents. Meadows is a swamp creature to do anything to help the Deep State and his a$$.
I wouldn’t go that far in castigating Meadows. My guess is Smith has threatened Meadows with personal, professional and financial destruction.
If that’s what Meadows really said– “I don’t remember Trump saying he was going to declassify docs” — then Meadows didn’t actually say anything at all. And, what he did say is… irrelevant… because…
Sundance just produced a string of evidence showing Trump DID say it multiple times and publicly.
I don’t remember is not exactly some kind of evidence of anything. It’s meaningless.
“My guess is Smith has threatened Meadows with personal, professional and financial destruction.”
Yes.
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know if you support Trump the Department of Justice will go after you and your family.
He can still support Trump but Meadows has to be careful
Meadows might remember or not, Suspicious Cat might remember or not, but as you say “Sundance just produced a string of evidence showing Trump DID say it multiple times and publicly.”.
Or, he doesn’t recall.
So what if he didn’t hear him say that. Mark could easily be pretending. He can’t prove he didn’t hear Trump say anything.
It’s a weak case as you have outlined it, SD. Yet one sticky factor remains. What judge will be allowed to go against all that power trying to cover up all that key information exposing the swamp? I have zero expectations that this weak case will not be given the judicial green light to stop the expose and to get PTrump no matter how wrong or absurd the case is or how he had every legal right to do what he wanted about the documents.
If it goes PTrump’s way then God will surely have his hand in it. I don’t think any one man, one judge, will be able to stand up to the swamp gatekeepers with all the power they have. I pray I’m wrong and may God’s blessing be on Judge Cannon.
So the judge has the same issue as all the rest of the players of this fraud.
Either commit treason or throw it out and call all the other actors traitors for their acts of treason and demand they get charged and tried.
All it ever takes is ONE MAN to stop them.
“Nil desperandum, — Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.” – Samuel Adams
“To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.” – Thomas Jefferson
Or to remove the corruption and RESTORE the Constitution which is the framework of the federal government.
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Thomas Jefferson
“[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.” – Alexander Hamilton
It’s just a bizarre case designed just to claim they have a case. As I wrote here back in June:
“Here’s your records. We boxed them for you. Where do you want them?
How about over there?
Ok.
Thanks.
Give them back!
Why?
We said so.
No.
We’re charging you with “willful retention of national defense information.”
You mean classified?
No. This is a new thing.
I don’t remember being told about this.
That’s because we just made it up.
I want to see the evidence.
You can’t.
Why?
It’s classified.
But you just said…
Never mind that. Btw, you’re going to prison for 400 years.”
They want to try and trap Trump into arguing whether he “declassified” or not. That’s IRRELEVANT. Those records are his under the Presidential Records Act. Period. Full stop.
The US Government GAVE him the records because they are his records.
It’s a classic attempt to try and get somebody to argue a point because the argument then supports the narrative.
Instead of getting baiting into saying “I did declassify,” respond with “Whether the DOJ thinks I declassified or not is irrelevant. Those are my documents, and I declassified them. They were illegally seized, and I demand their return. I also demand they be made public do the public can decide for itself whether that information needs protecting. The DOJ and FBI have lied about this sort of thing before.”
Just keep hammering away at that one point: those are Trump’s documents and they were illegally seized.
They’ve got their hand in their jacket pocket claiming they have a gun. Make them prove it’s a gun.
Yes, the fallacy of the false premise or question. “When did you stop beating your wife?” Look in the mirror, bub.
The PRA and the Clinton socks case make it pretty glaringly obvious that at the very least, an ex-president has a certain indeterminate time to sift through his documents, separating presidential from personal. As the prosecution (stupidly) brought out, there are emails proving that PDJT was going through boxes of material, as per the PRA.
Instead jack smith brings an indictment which charges PDJT for espionage act violations AS OF 12;01 PM JANUARY 20, 2021.
Considering that the entire incoming admin, NARA, the entire legal apparatus, the entire intel establishment knew this and allowed it to happen, everyone of these yutz’s is complicit–they were at the very least duty-bound to report PDJT. From 12:01 Inauguration Day.
I would send out photos of the boxes of documents laying the the White House driveway and say “They’re so concerned about this when 2.5 years ago they left the boxes piled in the driveway at the White House. You can’t prosecute me for keeping documents that are mine and which the government delivered to my house. Those are MY PERSONAL RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS UNTIL I TELL THE GOVERNMENT OTHERWISE. Return my documents immediately or I start filing civil suits regarding wrongful seizure under the PRA and 4th Amendment – good luck keeping that illegal search warrant a secret – and we take this to the Supreme Court.”.
Thought I had lost my mind when I saw that, it seemed like I remembered us discussing the declassification of, ahem, materials embarrassing to the Deep State for at least the last two and a half years of President Trump’s term. And Sundance never let up.
Sundance, you continue to be the light in the darkness, and I thank God everyday for you!
Donald Trump Had a ‘Standing Order’: Mar-A-Lago Documents Were to Be Considered ‘Declassified’
https://thekylebecker.substack.com/p/donald-trump-had-a-standing-order
“”He issued a strong statement in October of 2020 to classify all Russiagate and all Hillary Clinton documents. And that’s up on, you know, publicly available,” he added. “And then at the end of his administration, in December and January, he felt so much more information needed to be classified. He declassified whole sets of documents that should have come out. Now, the GSA has since come out, the Government Services Administration, said they mistakenly packed some boxes and moved them to Mar Lago.”
“Kash Patel here states unequivocally that Donald Trump has ultimate declassification authority. It appears that this statement is on firm legal footing, as the Article 3 Project’s Mike Davis points out.
““Again, the classification statutes/regulations *do not apply* to the President of the United States,” Davis wrote. “He has the inherent constitutional power, as commander-in-chief, to classify and declassify anything he wants, in any manner he wants. The Supreme Court reaffirmed this in 1987.””
“The relevant case is Department of Navy vs. Egan. It states as follows:
“The President, after all, is the “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.” U.S.Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant. See Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, 367 U. S. 886, 367 U. S. 890 (1961).
“This Court has recognized the Government’s “compelling interest” in withholding national security information from unauthorized persons in the course of executive business. Snepp v. United States, 444 U. S. 507, 444 U. S. 509, n. 3 (1980). See also United States v. Robel, 389 U. S. 258, 389 U. S. 267 (1967); United States v. Reynolds, 345 U. S. 1, 345 U. S. 10 (1953); Totten v. United States, 92 U. S. 105, 92 U. S. 106 (1876). The authority to protect such information falls on the President as head of the Executive Branch and as Commander in Chief.”
The irony in all this is that Trump’s tweets—which the GOPe always falls back on as Exhibit 1 not to re-elect him—will prove to be his legal savior. Donald J. Trump, the most transparent president in history!
The great double standard.
Jack Smith seems to forget that when the boxes was boxed up, They put them out on the side walk of the White House and told President Trump to take them and He asked for a special place for them and the Gov said, NO you are unjustified to asked for that. Now We have heard him say over and over that he wanted such and such papers declassified and they would not do many of them for him and If Meadows is such a scum bag that he woudl go along with this Lawfare, then pray that this idiot goes to jail for not doing his job, but i heard his phone call to the georgia people and he did not do anything but try to work something out so they could get to the truth of the election.
Thanks Sundance now for some more good news when D.j.T returns to the White House this time no more Mr nice guy he will be our RECKING BALL CIA FBI DOJ state department one big clean sweep of all agencies that have been corrupted by obozo and gang. I have never prayed so hard so long and so intently as I do these days .thank you all for sharing this tree with me
R.D.
Yeah, the MAL raid was flawed, just a show. Not surprised the prosecution is fumbling. They knew it was a loser, probably the reason they filed it in Florida, to keep the loss quiet somehow.
Now I’m starting to think these Lawfare dolts are not competent enough to get these cases to trial even, let alone get the conviction they thirst for. You’ll know it’s true when states start popping up trying to exclude Trump from state ballots. That will mean the Uniparty has given up on a Lawfare solution, and that’s when MAGA needs to start assembling at the buildings where these criminals are rigging up state ballots. We’d need to get there in our tens of thousands, and name names publicly.
But that’s months down the road, I think.
Lawfare’s goal is simple:
While they’d love to imprison or murder PDJT, they will be happy to force him and his associates into penury and into doing things in defense that can be construed as obstruction etc…
And they would ultimately be happy for ‘the legal troubles’ to provide ‘cover’ for the fake polls that will show the democrat candidate ahead of PDJT at election day, so that ultimately when they cheat on election day/week/month they can point to the fake polls and say hey we were always ahead…no cheating required! People just didnt want to vote for a candidate who’d been arrested!!!
‘Mystery solved: DOJ secretly thwarted release of Russia documents declassified by Trump‘
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/mystery-solved-doj-secretly-thwarted-release-russia
“The previously untold story of how highly anticipated declassified material never became public is contained in a memo obtained by Just the News from the National Archives that was written by then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows just hours before Trump left office on noon of Jan. 20, 2021.
“Meadows’ memo confirmed prior reporting by Just the News that Trump on Jan. 19, 2021 declassified a binder of hundreds of pages of sensitive FBI documents that show how the bureau used informants and FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign and misled both a federal court and Congress about flaws in the evidence they offered to get approval for the investigation.
“The declassified documents included transcripts of intercepts made by the FBI of Trump aides, a declassified copy of the final FISA warrant approved by an intelligence court, and the tasking orders and debriefings of the two main confidential human sources, Christopher Steele and Stefan Halper, the bureau used to investigate whether Trump had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.
“In the end, multiple investigations found there was no such collusion and that the FBI violated rules and misled the FISA court in an effort to keep the probe going.
“The documents that Trump declassified never saw the light of day, even though they were lawfully declassified by Trump and the DOJ was instructed by the president though Meadows to expeditiously release them after redacting private information as necessary.”
“”I am returning the bulk of the binder of declassified documents to the Department of Justice (including all that appear to have a potential to raise privacy concerns) with the instruction that the Department must expeditiously conduct a Privacy Act review under the standards that the Department of Justice would normally apply, redact material appropriately, and release the remaining material with redactions applied,” Meadows wrote in the memo.
“Just the News obtained the memo after going to the Trump collection at the National Archives and asking it to look for the binder of documents Trump had declassified. The Archives said it did not possess the documents, the Justice Department did and provided a copy of Meadows’ memo.
“In an interview Tuesday night on the “Just the News, Not Noise” television show, Meadows said he was dismayed that DOJ ignored a lawful instruction from a sitting president and said it was part of a larger dynamic in which the permanent federal bureaucracy repeatedly tied to undercut Trump to protect itself.
“”Well, you know, the swamp is pretty deep,” Meadows said. “But when we look at this, this particular president was all about draining the swamp, you know, and when he was running, that was more of a campaign slogan. When he got there, he realized that not only was the swamp very deep, but they they would fight back. And oftentimes he said, ‘You know, I want to do this and get this out to the American people, not just the classification in terms of issues that affected him or his campaign personally, but issues that affect the American people.
“”What would happen is he would have a directive, and then we would see, as people were leaving the Oval Office, you know, they were nodding compliance in the Oval Office, and the minute they go out, they said, ‘Well, we’re not going to do that’ or ‘We’re going to find all the reasons not to do it.’ So I found that very often while I served as chief of staff, but also found that as a member of Congress, that many times we would go in and the president was all in on a transparency issue, only to find that many, whether they be at a particular agency or the Pentagon, they started pushing back.””
“Meadows wrote in his 2021 memo that White House lawyers told him that the DOJ’s last-minute concerns were not legitimate because the executive office of the president was exempt from the Privacy Act. In the interview Tuesday night, he said he agreed in the final minutes of the presidency to let DOJ make redactions “out of an abundance of caution” and expected the DOJ would comply with Trump’s order.
“”We wanted to make sure that that we didn’t harm anyone,” he explained. “And so we gave them those declassified documents. I want to stress they were declassified documents, and they were to do a final redaction for some of that personal information with the instruction that they were to go ahead and disseminate those. We expected fully that they would do that.”
“You can read the full memo here:
“ Meadows Memo to AG re Declassification of FBI Binder.01.20.2021.pdf ”
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Thank you JDV for doing all the heavy lifting in summarizing and getting us the link.
I believe it is naive to think any amount of disclosure, to include bombastic revelations, regarding the lawfare agenda against PDJT will materially impede the solidly entrenched, carefully manufactured, and very powerful, cross-party conspiracy aligned against him. Moreover, possible convictions in the kangaroo courts prosecuting him, with Florida a possible exception, are harsh realities.
The SCOTUS will be the ultimate arbiter of truth and justice, but getting multiple cases decided there prior to the election is hopeless, IMO. In the meantime, the swamp and msm will continue with impunity to accelerate the depth and breadth of their lies against President Trump, and the prosecutors/judges may succeed in keeping him off the campaign trail at the most critical times.
Regardless of the eventual outcome, half of the country will be election deniers, outraged and hostile toward the next administration. This will not end well for America. I pray that I am completely wrong.
And from last year this time:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/14/sunday-talks-adam-schiff-claims-he-has-seen-no-evidence-that-president-trump-declassified-documents-a-ridiculous-lie/
‘Sunday Talks, Adam Schiff Claims He Has Seen No Evidence That President Trump Declassified Documents, a Ridiculous Lie‘
Also:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/28/general-mark-milley-admits-trump-was-being-managed-by-administrative-state-group-who-run-government-mike-pompeo-and-mark-meadows-assisted/#comments
‘General Mark Milley Admits Trump Was Being Managed By Administrative State Group Who Run Government, Mike Pompeo and Mark Meadows Assisted’
“The first call, driven by U.S. Intelligence Community alarms, was made in October, before the election. Then another call was requested by the Chinese on December 30, 2020, for scheduling on January 8, 2021, after the U.S. election. Note this important statement surrounding the January 8th call: “Shortly after my call ended with General Lee, I personally informed Secretary of State Pompeo and White House Chief of Staff Meadows, about the call – among other topics.”
“Notice who General Milley did not inform. General Milley did not inform President Trump, nor his national security advisor Robert O’Brien. This framework appears intentional; however, when you overlay what we previously suspected and outlined about Mark Meadows and Secretary Pompeo, it all makes sense.
“Just like many other people who preceded them in the administration, Meadows and Pompeo were in place to manage President Trump. Unfortunately, accepting that reality brings with it a bunch of very concerning issues.
“We’ve long suspected Mark Meadows was introduced into the Trump orbit specifically because the Fourth Branch was exerting influence and needed to mitigate any independent action by President Trump. This is the same scenario around introducing former CIA Director Mike Pompeo for the same purposes.
“Mike Pompeo and Mark Milley worked unilaterally without President Trump’s authority on at least one situation during the winter of 2019 when U.S. strikes took place.
“President Trump made Esper, Milley and Pompeo hold a press conference without Trump supporting them; then President Trump remained silent on the issue for days. There were other issues with Pompeo which looked sketchy, but that one specifically was a big red flag (or cherry on the proverbial cake).
“Mark Meadows was the source of frequent leaks against President Trump including his health status during his COVID hospital stay. Mark Meadows was also the primary source for John Solomon when Meadows was in congress. [Solomon made this admission during a podcast.] During the peak of the 2018 “spygate” headlines, prior to the mid-term election, it became obvious that Solomon was being managed and steered in his reporting. It always appeared that Meadows was attempting to tamp-down outrage within the Trump base in order to manage it. John Solomon and the tick-tock club were a big factor in the success of that approach.”
Hmmm… interesting. Looks like Meadows is a traitor.
IMO, Pence cut a deal with DOJ so he would not be charged with illegal possession of classified documents. The first question to Pence at the debate, “Why were you not charged with possession of classified documents?”
Mikey “the Rat” is a freak.
People on other platforms have been talking about “moles” in PDJT’s camp, with broad hints about who has been left out of the fake accusations. Think maybe this will flush them out?
I’ve never trusted Meadows; always thought he should have done more….just sayin’
I think that’s true bc I heard Napolitano SAY, in a radio interview, that people on the Trump campaign told him disparaging things about Trump.
That was a few weeks ago… and Napolitano is not a supporter of Trump in 2024 or so he said on this radio interview that I heard while driving.
Napolitano was always a never Trumper. 💯 He is also not to be trusted…
he wasn’t when he thought he would get a Supreme Courtset.
Yes, he pretended but I saw the strings. SD gave me super 👀 seeing powers.🙃
FTA, ‘The National Constitutional Law Union, or NCLU, has published a legal theory that questions whether many of charges against President Trump, particularly those related to his claims about the 2000 election, are now moot – because he was not impeached and convicted by the U.S. Senate.”
This is how all of the phony indictments should end with one fell swoop from SCOTUS. Our founders foresaw the potential for such a travesty in the 18th century.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/is-this-legal-theory-trumps-best-chance-beat/
This is still going to come down to which materials did President Trump actually declassify.
Hate rain on the fun but …. NOT A SINGLE REFERENCE above demonstrates that President Trump actually DECLASSIFIED a SINGLE WORD or ITEM.
The phrase “I AUTHORIZED DECLASSIFICATION … ” does not equal “I DECLASSIFIED … ”
Technically it means the President delegated AUTHORITY to somebody to do the Declassification. It does not mean he declassified anything.
In every public statement and social media release, President Trump clearly states he “AUTHORIZED (fill the name or government officer) to Review and Declassify”.
Yes its semantics but very important bit of technical semantics.
The President has to clearly demonstrate that he is the one who actually did the declassifying of any item presented as evidence. So, far that HAS NOT HAPPENED, based on every thing seen in public so far. Until that happen in public or as part of the legal process, Special Counsel Jack Smith still has a technical case.
Don’t bore me with Executive Authority in the Constitution and outlined in the Federal Codes, because so far for all purposes the evidence seen to date indicates the President DID NOT EXERCISE his authority. The Government is claiming that the people to whom AUTHORITY WAS DELEGATED did not declassify any of the evidence presented.
Judge Cannon is bound by the technicality of AUTHORIZED vs Exercising the actual action of Declassification.
This is still going to come down to which materials did President Trump actually declassify.
Hate rain on the fun but …. NOT A SINGLE REFERENCE above demonstrates that President Trump actually DECLASSIFIED a SINGLE WORD or ITEM.
The phrase “I AUTHORIZED DECLASSIFICATION … ” does not equal “I DECLASSIFIED … ”
Technically it means the President delegated AUTHORITY to somebody to do the Declassification. It does not mean he declassified anything.
In every public statement and social media release, President Trump clearly states he “AUTHORIZED (fill the name or government officer) to Review and Declassify”.
Yes its semantics but very important bit of technical semantics.
The President has to clearly demonstrate that he is the one who actually did the declassifying of any item presented as evidence. So, far that HAS NOT HAPPENED, based on every thing seen in public so far. Until that happen in public or as part of the legal process, Special Counsel Jack Smith still has a technical case.
Don’t bore me with Executive Authority in the Constitution and outlined in the Federal Codes, because so far for all purposes the evidence seen to date indicates the President DID NOT EXERCISE his authority. The Government is claiming that the people to whom AUTHORITY WAS DELEGATED did not declassify any of the evidence presented.
Judge Cannon and a jury9if it comes to it are bound by the technicality of AUTHORIZED vs Exercising the actual action of Declassification. From all that has been made public President Trump was either: ineptly advised, ignored advice or was purposely mislead.
‘Authorization’ is irrelevant because the system of delegating authority to declassify documents only applies when the President is authorizing other people to declassify documents. The President himself can simply declassify a document simply by saying ‘it’s declassified’ and if he moves classified documents from the White House to another location, they are automatically assumed to be declassified.
Trump could have, if he so chose, just tweeted out the documents in question and would have been in perfect legal standing to do so
Perzactly!
Can you read … the President himself is using the term “authroized” and not a single time says he “declassified” but then again you delusional types just refuse to see reality of the situation. Dream on …
You’re the delusional one. The simple fact is that the President himself cannot be in breach of the laws governing the classification of materials, because he is the President and the system of classification is designed to protect his government. He is the ultimate authority on what is and isn’t classified
Whether or not he actually went through the formal process of declassifying the documents in question is irrelevant, because that only applies when he’s delegating to subordinates the task of releasing documents to the public
This memo seems to say he declassified.
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-declassification-certain-materials-related-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/
Nice try. Clinton didn’t declassify the shit in his sock drawer.
BS. Nice try.
The actual documents above say “directed” which is an order, which demonstrates intent.
Very convenient that you left that out.
Still NO PROOF anything was declassified and the term Authroized is used in the full text … these “orders” can be argued to be ambiguous at best.
Intend does not equal anything.
But the term “directed” does. Do you have trouble with English reading comprehension?
There is no ambiguity in an order from the most senior executive. “Directed” means “do it” in American English.
Case closed.
Your deflections are obvious and weak.
Thanks for playing.
Btw, how are Doug, Susan & Sparky doing?
Just one big HAPPY family😂🤣
😂😂😂
Did you even bother to read some of the documents posted by Sundance? It appears you didn’t.
They say that he either “declassified documents” or “directed others to declassify documents”.
A direct order to others by the President to declassify has the full force of law.
Interesting that the Mark Meadows letter of January 20, 2021 actually states that “the President declassified”.
The Mark Meadows defense:
“I don’t recall.”
“I don’t remember”, is saving him from a perjury charge.
It’s good advice for everybody when talking to the Obama’s Department of Justice.
Document classification is a construct of the executive branch, not the Congress, not the Courts. The purpose of classification is for the benefit of the president in exercising his power as commander in chief or chief executive.
For any other entity to claim ownership of the classification process is an attempt to usurp Title II authority from the Constitution.
Article II.
GW Bush in his first term authorized disclosure parts of a classified National Intelligence Estimate to a reporter, effectively declassifying the material. The disclosure led to the 2007 conviction of Scooter Libby for obstruction of justice, lying under oath and making false statements. But Libby was not charged with disclosing classified information, leaving the legality of Bush’s declassification untested.
See the use of the word authorized above.
The Constitution, executive orders and case law clearly give the President broad authority to classify and declassify documents. See Department of Navy vs Egan, and Judicial Watch vs Clinton.
The President’s authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the president and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant said the Supreme Court in Navy vs Egan.
In the Judicial Watch case Judge Berman ruled that tapes containing classified information belong to Clinton and the National Archives and Records Administration had no power to “seize control of them” because Clinton had used his authority under the Presidential Records Act to declare the recordings as part of his personal records.
How did he do this? By taking them with him when he left office. See again the phrase “authority under the Presidential Records Act.”
I think the word authority and authorize are much broader than you try to indicate above.
Not only that but I believe Berman Jackson also ruled that only the President has the authority to decide what is and isn’t a personal record
It’s ironic she hates Trump so much because she’s more than likely given him a lifeline
Their games, ploys, constructs, lies just aren’t working any more. The only people they are potentially influencing, if that, are the stupid people. And I know a few. They are the people who refuse to question what they’re told. They have lost their critical thinking skills, if they ever had them. It’s just all such a waste of time, energy, and money. But, that’s our current government! Ship of Fools (Plato, then Tucker).
You know what they remind me of? Seriously… pedophiles and serial killers. People who pray on children and the vulnerable working 24×7 to cover their tracks, live parallel lives, and have perfected the art of lying to themselves and others.
Yes, we all know some stupid people and the useful idiot variant thereof. I agree that the ploys and constructs have become less effective which is attributable in part to the fact that the Biden government is so bad that the lies reuired to sustain it are beyond unbelievable. We suspended disbelief as to the stupidity of the the Joey Tribbiani character in the sitcom Friends and the intelligence of Sheldon in Big Bang Theory. We are less willing to do so when our lives and fortunes on being attacked.
Perhaps that’s the case and exactly what they’re hiding.
If they remind you of pedophiles and serial killers that’s because, funnily enough, that’s what most of them are, as well as con artists, thieves, frauds and serial grifters
Jack Smith’s DC case is also not about “justice” in the traditional sense–
In the DC case, Smith is asking for a January 2nd trial–after dumping 11.5 million pages (plus other unpaginated materials such as digital recordings) of supposedly relevant evidence on the defense, in hard copy, on August 16th.
Beginning August 16th, if the defense reviewed an average of one page per second, 60 minutes per hour, 24 hours per day, seven days per week, they would finish reviewing just the paginated portion of the discovery materials less than a week before Smith’s requested January 2nd trial date. (And somewhere in the pile is supposed to be the evidence the prosecutor will use at trial, as well as any exculpatory evidence in the prosecutor’s possession.)
The goal of a prosecution conducted in this manner cannot be “justice” in the old-fashioned, pre-post-modern sense.
Absent certain prosecutorial ethics (which are rumored to have existed once upon a time), when a prosecutor has infinite resources, the defendant is always at significant risk.
Judge Cannon, Mark Levin has documented over 50 leaks from Jack Smith’s DOJ with the latest regarding Mark Meadows testimony.
I would like your permission to have private investigation company investigate the matter. The DOJ and FBI have a history of criminal acts against me from 2015 until this day.
This latest Smith gambit clearly shows that he has been oblivious to all the words written on conservative media outlining all the times President Trump has either referred to declassifying documents or has actually declassified them.
Is the guy that out-of-touch or so consumed by the leftist media?
Both
OK Tucker and crew. We know you’re looking over Sundance’s shoulder. Time to run with it.
The leaks are part of the play, once you see it cannot be unseen. Very slick way of framing people, and the media keep public clueless
All the Leftist ran Public broadcasting shows constantly slander and spew lies about Trump. 60 minutes, etc….. Shows that used to be legitimate news are now nonstop propaganda machines for the Communist Regime…. aka Biden Crime Family.
Having navigated the sewers of Manhattan you would think Trump’s radar would have detected these swamp creatures for what they were. From a distance you could see milquetoast Meadows was not to be trusted. Then again these reptilians are a different breed altogether. They pass as human but lack souls.
Even the Mafia had a code of ethics.
Also, in defense of Trump, he was busy trying to save a country.
It was a new group. And, remember, he was being guided (poorly).
In addition to being a “new” administration, he was looking somewhat from a business man prospective. He was also, from day one being distracted by pulling knives from his back… How he accomplished as much as he did was a miracle…
Most of the American government, aka The Fourth Reich, is an organized crime operation.
How does a David slay such a gigantic and well armed Goliath?
Exposure of the truth.
Same as originally—with God’s direction and help.
When you look at them from a RICO standpoint, their goal is to keep the ongoing racket going with intent on stealing our money via hook and crook.
So my suspicions and deductions concerning the reason for the MAL raid were correct.
To prevent a RICO or RICO type civil case by Trump vs the Elites/DS/IC from proceeding.
These stunning efforts indicate what we all suspect – the entire government is trying to stop one man.
Thank God, literally, that there are millions of people, world-wide, praying for him.
Indeed. I know I try to remember every night regarding him.
“the entire government is trying to stop one man.”
The complete history of official Trump hatred summed up in a single phrase.
President Trump declared the wild, corrupt festivities of the federal crime syndicate finished.
“Turn out the lights, the party’s over.” That is the first line of the song written and recorded by Willie Nelson and released in 1967. The title, “The Party’s Over.”
Don Meredith would often sing that first line on Monday Night Football when the scoring became completely one-sided.
ABC=Disney=ESPN=disgusting corporation
It’s all so clear now, subversive un-American activity. They don’t answer to us, and it’s been going on for a very long time. They have amped it up because their window of opportunity is getting smaller with each indictment of a man who is risking it all.
Notice he says he doesn;t remember (apparantly Mike Pence is saying the same
he has no recollection of POTUS declassifying +) Notice what they are not saying
that POTUS DID NOt declassify.. just that they don;t remember any such thing.
By saying they have no recollection or don;t remember they can;t be accuse of lying..
What would John Radcliffe have to say about this…
Ok, so as I understand it, the feds raided Mar-A-Lago to access the documents Trump possessed that incriminated them in illegal–or at least highly conspiratorial and potentially treasonous–activity against then President Trump.
So far so good.
So my last assumption or understanding of the TIMING of the raid would be that someone ratted out Trump who may have been about to release some of this damning information. Again, makes perfect sense.
Keep in mind Jack Smith likely never asked Meadows about Trump memo’s or written docs or tweets about declassifying.
I imagine the question would be like ” Mr Meadows, aside from written instructions or tweets, or email, or official memo’s and written instructions, do you recall President Trump standing up verbally claiming an objective to declassify all the documents headed to Mar A Lago?”
The wording of the questions can allow answers to be leaked without the question, leading some to believe Meadows answer was broad when it could have been very specific to a very specific question that Jack smith knew would give him testimony that is true but pretend.
I think it is the barrage effect strategy – Today ML leak , Then the Fulton County charade performance , then a J6 leak …and so on , then repeat — attempt to wear down , cause litigation fatigue for supporters – A definite designed strategy -might have worked another time , but MAGA voters, thanks to PDJT’s educational efforts , now can see the strings , the intent and the coordinated corruption involved ..
Yep, they ignore the facts like actual signed Presidential documents and imply 2nd hand hearsay is gospel.
I wonder if a Judge has ever dismissed a case against a defendant only to immediately censure a prosecutor for they behavior/tactics?
I remember back in 2020 Klaus Schwaub (sp) bragging that most of our Cabinet MPs were WEF members
He couldn’t resist . That started the awakening here in Canada and led to our Freedom convoy being one of the first fight back movements in the West against the Godless globalist orcs.
They can’t help themselves.
“In broad terms, there are two sets of documents that intermingle and are directly related. First, documents that highlight the activity of Hillary Clinton’s team in creating the false Trump-Russia conspiracy theory (2015/2016). Second, documents that highlight the activity of government officials targeting Donald Trump within the same timeframe (Crossfire Hurricane), that continued into 2017, 2018 and 2019 (Robert Mueller).”
I have always assumed the real reason for the FBI raid on Mara Lago was to get these documents and any other evidence that could incriminate anyone involved in these crimes of the century and would clear Trump. The question now is, was the FBI successful at retrieving this evidence for their crime bosses? Surely Trump’s lawyers would at least have copies at this point? The Arcancide Witness Program has probably been in full gear. Pray for these people.
Regardless of all the gyrations we are seeing on both sides, at this point I believe most Americans who are awake realize our country is being run by a crime syndicate. But what to do about it? It’s obvious the GOP lack the will or are too spineless to even try to impeach criminally corrupt AG Garland, or anyone else involved in the cabal who have torn up the US Constitution and are actively trying to complete the destruction of the DOJ/FBI/Judicial Branch and our Republic. They aren’t even willing to go after Biden, who is the low hanging fruit amongst this vast array of criminals. That explains Trump’s growing popularity. People see him as the only leader with the will and power to fight this powerful crime syndicate. The Democrats are 100% all in with the syndicate and committed to converting the country to global Communism at this point. If RFKJr gains steam and tries to fight them, he will probably be swiftly disposed of. He has already rolled over and stated he wouldn’t run on a third party ticket if he doesn’t become the nominee. (He won’t, even if Dems chuck Biden overboard before the election) The rest of the GOP candidates are Fakers who will support the status quo. Beware of anything these swamp toadies say to try to get elected.
If he had the goods on them, it’s too bad he didn’t just release the documents.
If the actual issue is possession of these documents so that it is no longer possible to put them out into the public sphere, and the FBI now has possession of them, isn’t the rest of this then just a smokescreen and meaningless??
“Also, keep in mind former DNI John Ratcliffe was at the center of the latter part of the effort to get those documents released to the public. Deep State institutional preservation manager Bill Barr was obstructing the release and used Deep State institutional preservation manager John Durham as the investigative block. To further protect the institutions, the FBI went on a mission to retrieve the documents. Consequently, as soon as the Durham block was going to be removed, the Jack Smith block was put into place.” – Sundance
Every time I read what that fat tub of lard loudmouth AG Barr did to President Trump and preventing him from releasing any classified data my anger goes to red hot!!!! I don’t know how Sundance writes these truths without exploding!!! JMO
Trump lost to the Swamp on this one. He was trusting Bill Barr to declassify the documents, and Bill Barr is deep state and had no intention of doing any such thing.
There is no question that Trump’s greatest weakness is that he is an extraordinarily bad judge of character. Epically bad. He accepted a lot of advice from people we now know are some of the worst people in the world: Chris Christie, Mike Pence, Bill Barr, Mike Pompeo, Lindsay Graham, Paul Ryan, Mark Meadows, John Bolton, Ty Cobb, etc. Trump is vulnerable to flattery, and those who flatter their way into others’ good graces are bad people to start with, exactly the type of people who turn on you later, because they lack all virtue and human decency.
Again, the process of formal declassification is irrelevant here because formal declassification is only relevant when the President is delegating the task of releasing declassified documents to the public or some other entity. Not for documents in the President’s personal possession. So what he did or didn’t ask Barr to do and whether Barr did or did not do it is completely irrelevant
Who knows what is or isn’t relevant to the criminal case? Trump’s attorneys should argue that by taking anything from the White House to his home at Mar-a-Lago, Trump thereby declassified it regardless of anything he had done up to that point. But who knows what Judge Cannon, the 11the Circuit, or the Supreme Court will ultimately rule?
My point is that these documents should have been made public in 2019 at the latest, and Bill Barr sabotaged the president’s repeatedly stated wishes that that should happen. The impression being left on the public is that classification controls the president, instead of the other way round. The constitutional intent is that classification is something done for the president, that he can respect or disregard as he sees fit. But I’m afraid the deep state has about convinced the public that classification is a fact of reality that is bigger than the president, that he cannot and should not be able to control or disregard. That version of reality shreds the constitution and puts the deep state in extremely firm control of the government, and the larger society.
Can you name someone other than Barr that would have been approved in the Senate by the Deep State Uniparty Gatekeepers The Turdle and Smucky Schemer ?
Work through acting attorneys general. Line ’em up and have them serve 210 days at at time. During that time, release EVERYTHING. BTW, isn’t there an unconfirmable cabinet secretary who is “acting” right now?
It doesn’t matter. If he gave the order and they did to it, who broke the law?
Not sure how much control Trump had in appointing Bill Barr as AG, nor do I believe this was a situation where Trump was seduced by flattery.
Barr was recommended by the RINO’s who had complete control over Trump because of the Russia collusion investigation.
McConnell wasn’t about to be okay here with anyone other than swamp. Would be nice to think differently but unfortunately they had Trump in a bind, one of their own doing in my opinion, but we may never know the full truth.
The word “Knowingly” is going to become a significant legal term in Mr Meadow’s future.