Too many people continue falling for this Lawfare nonsense. CTH has been outlining what Lawfare operations are all about since we deconstructed the Trayvon Martin narrative. Perhaps a reminder is useful.
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. {link}
That’s what Lawfare is all about, manipulating public opinion through leaks to the media. The leaks do not need to be truthful, accurate or directly in line with the prosecution of the case; they are intended exclusively to manipulate public opinion.
Remember, on August 21st, in another ridiculous Lawfare operation, Special Counsel Jack Smith told ABC that Mark Meadows testified that President Trump never attempted to declassify any information {Go Deep}. That report was transparently false, yet the media ran with it and multiple alternative media promoted it. Pure nonsense.
In this latest Lawfare effort, again from Special Counsel Jack Smith, again to ABC news, again about former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, the claim is the Special Counsel granted Meadows immunity (that’s the hook), and that Meadows told President Trump the 2020 election was not rigged or stolen.
Now remember, Mark Meadows wrote about the rigged and stolen 2020 election in his book, so why would he undermine his own story by saying something completely the opposite to Jack Smith that is only coming out now? The Occam’s razor answer is, he didn’t. This lawfare story is all made up, fictitious, anonymous sources, manufactured to create a public impression.
Bolstering the likelihood that Meadows gave no such testimony, Meadows lawyers, when contacted by media, said the story is fake news. Yet again, everyone falls for it. This is how Lawfare succeeds, and this is how Trayvon Martin’s fake and fabricated ear-witness girlfriend becomes the key witness and embarrasses the prosecution on the stand.
(Via ABC) – Former President Donald Trump’s final chief of staff in the White House, Mark Meadows, has spoken with special counsel Jack Smith’s team at least three times this year, including once before a federal grand jury, which came only after Smith granted Meadows immunity to testify under oath, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The sources said Meadows informed Smith’s team that he repeatedly told Trump in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election that the allegations of significant voting fraud coming to them were baseless, a striking break from Trump’s prolific rhetoric regarding the election.
According to the sources, Meadows also told the federal investigators Trump was being “dishonest” with the public when he first claimed to have won the election only hours after polls closed on Nov. 3, 2020, before final results were in.
“Obviously we didn’t win,” a source quoted Meadows as telling Smith’s team in hindsight. (read more)
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See how the Lawfare operation works?
Jack Smith is not prosecuting a case; he’s trying to manipulate public opinion.
Here’s a prior example:
Soooo … President Trump is gagged, but Jack Smith can continue to leak?
Nice. It’s good to be the king.
Nah, he can refute all the lies he wants, however he wants, he just cannot say Jack’s name.
And this is all temporary anyway. The gag order will eventually be slapped down.
Besides, EVERYONE knows they cheated and stole the elections. The printed their manifesto. Just like everyone knows they illegally spied on Candidate/Nominee/President Elect/President Trump and still are.
Everyone knows this is about shutting us up and taking President Trump down.
And it is backfiring magnificently!
It might be funny for President Trump to act out the gag order at a rally by beginning to speak about something, then having some G-men run onstage cover the mike so he can’t be heard. A little street theater.
Hire a hand-talker to stand next to Trump in rallies and rip Smith to shreds in sign language.
Trump may have the gag order but we don’t. He should have some supporters spread the truth.
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That’s what we’ve been doing spreading the truth
Great idea, although one has to be able to interpret sign language….
I like the ventriloquist dummy idea, or that Trump impersonator on stage to deliver certain comments.
Play a game of charades.
I agree with you and needed to read what you read. It’s this everyday bombardment of attacks that wears one down. I’m just so sick of the liberals ALWAYS getting away with all things while republicans go to jail for nothing.
Really. This is gagging the president, trmaping on the 1st amendment, and destroying the 4th and 5thamendments.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
T Shirt time.
Hit the road Jack!
The Ugly History of the DOJ Hatchet-Man Tasked to Target Trump
Former US Ambassador to Germany Explains How Jack Smith Nearly Rekindled Conflict in the Balkans to Get Trump @5:00 (2min)
https://rumble.com/v30rlro-ric-grenell-joins-the-war-room-to-break-down-the-biden-administrations-fore.html
The gag order and “leaks” are used to wear Trump down so he will drop out. but Trump is a fighter and has MAGA standing with him. This scares the hell out of Jack Smith and the rest of the scumbags. The gags and leaks will get worse as these scumbags are further exposed.
Dear Dana White,
Never pet a burning dog.
Dana’s 30 pieces of silver.
Im not sure the sheep meme is representative of the media after what the NYT just did about the Hamas hospital getting bombed … by Israel … with 500 dead. No, not sheep … more like jackals or hyenas tearing their prey limb from limb in a pack-attack
How do you know it was a hamas hospital? The secondary explosions?
Gaza = Palestinians = Hamas
any distinction is subterfuge
How soon till the Gaza International Airport opens? Servicing the entire M.E..
Why would anyone care? Terrorist organizations have hospitals? No, they are targets.
“Oh dear, they’ve bombed Arafat Memorial Hamaspital” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sheep are the public that still listens to the media.
A lot of them think Fox News is on our side.
Yep, I see Twitts from progs ranting about Fox News being in the pocket of PDTrump. 🤨
If only!
“See how the Lawfare operation works?”
Yes yes, we see how it works. I must ask then, why do you keep asking…a rhetorical tic maybe?
We must acknowledge also how Lawfare’s media manipulation WORKS RESOUNDINGLY WELL.
Did you read Trump atty Jenna Ellis’ abject contrition in her Georgia statement? That must be acknowledged as an incalculable Lawfare success. She avoided real-life felonies by admitting guilt to real-life misdemeanors.
We’re out of the construct biz. The Republic is DONE and no amount of construct construction is gonna change that
To say it’s ‘just’ a media construct is to question the primacy of media.
Constructing facts and narratives solely for media consumption changes the landscape and outcomes in REAL ways.
The Right in America has been reduced to endlessly reactive, post facto ‘judicious study’. This post facto vantage becomes even more fraught when the ‘factos’ fed into the media maw change to buttress the desired outcome:
I’ve cited this Karl Rove quote more than once up here:
‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’.
It’s as though folks who continually write about the Republic have a writerly vested interest in pretending it’s still alive as, why offer prescriptive remedies for a corpse?
The pretending is flooding in from all sides. Trouble is, Lawfare’s brand of pretending works better.
The Republic is dead and gone. Having the wake and burying corpse would be the Final Blog Entry. But who wants that? So we judiciously study until they flip the Kill Switch.
The Treehouse is basically an autopsy on the once-USA. I don’t read it for hopium. The constitution as written could never have guessed the coming evil in every pore of our nation complexion.
We read to network with realists and to absorb occasional optimism from hopeful commenters. I’ve seen enough in the last two elections to know there IS NO REPUBLICAN FIREWALL. And yet we wring our hands over who will be Speaker.
Continued obsessions over these pathetic political professionals just brings us down to the level they love. We must stop musing over DC celebrities and seek the Lord alone.
Wisely said, Mr. McKinney. The spirit of Lawlessness defies all earthly prescripts.
Amen and may Gd help us.
Extremely well said Mr. McKinney. Who would have guessed that the spirit of lawlessness would be able almost to walk on water? Truly a dark principality is in our midst.
Yet how many times must you take the pulse of a corpse before declaring it dead? It’s as though people are afraid to leave the funeral because to do so would force acknowledgement that life must forge a way forward. Denial is a river in conservative America.
Gd bless.
Apologies Greg, typed a response, then for some reason couldn’t see it, so a dupe post of sorts.
cheers
FSD
You are wrong. Go ahead, wring your hands and write it off whilst the rest of us get to work. Clearly you intend to be useless.
Doomers in our midsts
“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.”
Jenna Ellis was always going to fold. Let’s not forget she did the same thing to avoid disbarment and let’s not forget that, prior to Trump winning the nomination and the election in 2016, she was Never Trump. Jenna Ellis was never a true believer, she was always a grifter. She was on the Trump train for money, attention and clout. Standing up for principles and facing the prospect of prison was never in that job description.
Jenna Ellis is a dim bulb.
She jumped right on the Ron DeFraud wagon bc she’s a weak, petty & histrionic woman.
These types of women have contributed to the downfall of our once great nation.
Until people start realizing that we’re not gonna vote our way out of this mess nothing will change.
Ok then, McKinnie and Full Spectrum. I think I hear you saying, “The Republic is dead. It is useless to state the obvious that the republic is dead. The WEF/Uniparty is in charge, the constitution is unable to contain them. The false media and Lawfare work and have derailed our country.” I think you are saying that “analyzing that is like doing a post mortem to see if the Republic/Corps is still dead”
I think you are mocking Sundanc’s question “See how that works” to say that “just because we catch them in their lying, manipulative fabrication”, it doesn’t make any difference, they are still succeeding, the public is fooled, and the Republic is still functionally Dead”
So what do you suggest we do, full spectrum and Greg? Sit here in our boxcars and ride the train hopelessly to the gas chambers?” Or do you think it is time construct our colonial Militia?
Whether the republic is a dead corpse or a dying corpse, the reality is we are headed to the gas chambers in the boxcar together unless we do something that overpowers those who have killed the republic.
The reality is there are 81+ million of us riding on the boxcars of the train and at exaggerated best 250,000 enemies that herded us on the train and are operating the train. The reality is we in the boxcars are like the Todd Beamers in flight 93. We can overpower not only those driving the train or the plane, we can overpower the damn train or plane.
The missing piece and question to both Sundance and full spectrum/Mckinnie is: What do we do now?
We have to:
continue to learn reality, know right from wrong, friend from enemycome up with plans, either as individuals, or collectively. The more collectively the greater that we can doexecute little plans plans (throw sand ) that move toward correcting the wrongRealize that We the People still have more power than those herding us into boxcars or that are in the planeplan and execute big plans that regain control of our lives, our government, our country to that truth and right may prevail
Here at CTH we are in a boxcar, and the reality we understand is being spread to many other boxcars. But we have be careful what we say here, because we are afraid of those who can shut down our ability communicate to others. There are still many others for which the question to that individual, “See how the Lawfare Operation works?” is useful.
So we have the power. We know that. We have to act decisively at some point.
It would have been good if Todd Beamer and friends had been able to land the plane and survive. But they saved lives by forcing the plane to crash.
It would have been good if the Jews had revolted effectively sooner and 6 million Jewish people had not died, and the perpetrators of Hitlers Germany had been caught before the War II caused 15 million military deaths and 38 million civilian deaths.
Just because our boxcar here at CTH is more enlightened doesn’t mean we are any safer on the train to the gas chambers.(and I know many of the Treepers ARE doing many things not spoken in other boxcars and even more effective places).
But the questions remain:
What can we do?What will we do?When will we do it?
Sorry, I had that formatted in easier to read bullet points. When I edited it, they went away.
Great Post Doc. I for one am trying to change the system for the better by voting, poll watching, and analyzing our county voting methods. We formed a breakaway group of Conservative Republicans. Trump 2024 or I am here waiting for the spark.
The reality is that thousands entered the boxcars. The reality is that totalitarians have murdered millions.
Why would the Former Republic be exempt from the same fate under the current near totalitarian government ?
The real legacy of J6 is the prevention of any organization that would save us from our fate.
They have all forgotten God is in control and He is the one and only God. The gods of this world will most likely be spending eternity in Hell wondering WTF!!
This is a TEST of the Erroneous Broadcasting System. The strength of Trump and his MAGA Agenda shook us to the core today as we watched him influence who would be our next speaker with just one text. It is urgent we test the populous to see how many still believe our fake news, because WE ARE WORRIED the number is declining rapidly 😮
This is a Test, and ONLY a Test.
LOL. It got Nasty Nancy’s attention.
Two things are infinite, as far as we know – the universe and
human stupidity the Deep State’s lies .Question: How do you know if the MSM reporters are lying?
Answer: You see their lips moving.
Their fingers are typing?
Or checking a phone like Maria Bartiromo, to get marching orders from The Powers That (Should Not) Be.
Got to think the main reason this came out when it did was because Obiden was sleeping on the beach when our service men were hurt with drones, and he has done nothing about it.
They need the distraction.
Obiden loves a distraction. Look at how they used those people in the submarine, who they knew were dead right from the beginning
As sleazy as they come. Meadows, spoken to special counsel Jack Smith’s team at least three times this year, and once before a federal grand jury. Under the immunity order, “Meadows’ testimony can’t be used against him in a federal court”.
Aha!
Meadow’s testimony about phone call to McCarthy “I guess these people are more upset than you are”, (what is that supposed to imply? Where’s the proof?)
“Trump was “visibly shaken” upon learning that one of his supporters, Ashli Babbitt, was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer near the House chamber” (wouldn’t anyone?)
He (Meadows) “has never seen any evidence that fraud was a factor in Trump’s 2020 defeat” That’s what the left says. If so, why haven’t come out with proof that the election was not stolen? Where are the receipts? If anything they would have been immediately all over the place without the need of false charges in indictments,including conjured ones to silence President Trump and out of the way.
Meadows himself faces charges under the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute, along with Trump and 17 other co-defendants, over alleged efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
“Meadows also faces a charge for soliciting an official to violate their oath of office”.
Is he getting away with all these charges?
https://nypost.com/2023/10/24/news/mark-meadows-granted-immunity-in-federal-2020-election-case-against-trump-report/
Yeah, that’s the biggest tell for me. If the election so obviously wasn’t stolen, let us see the ballots. Instead they stall, they obstruct, they dismiss, they propagandize, they do everything in their power to resist even the slightest bit of transparency. Why? If what they say is the absolute truth and Trump is a liar, then why pass up a prime opportunity to humiliate him?
I have been asking this very question this entire time. If “Trump” is lying and 202 was mostest fairest, honestest, securest, election…EVER. Then why not reveal the receipts and expose “Trump” for the lair you say he is?
For me it has always been that simple.
American conservatism and its merry band of grifters. They’re all bailing on the MAGA train. Make My Grift Great Again.
Trump has told confidantes he’s going all the way. Let’s see. He may be the only one worthy of the MAGA appellation.
Mark Meadows is an establishment tool and is not the final word. Obviously. The election was clearly hacked.
But all the talking heads on talk radio and Fox told me he is a big conservative and patriot.
if you recall, Fox told you they were “fair and balanced”
can’t stop laughing
Apparently, Jack Smith has been ordered to help either Ron DeSantis or Nimrata win the Republican Party nomination for President.
Good luck to him
All it takes for this lawfare tactic to fall apart is a reporter to ask “why is a special counsel leaking this anyway?”.
God himself couldn’t get Meatball or that Hillbilly Hindu elected, not ever.
Careful not to insult us Patriot Hillbillies there!
or God
This is the same playbook they have used over and over. Bengazi, Russian Hoax, Hunter Laptop. Gee, it makes me wonder if the media is in on it. LOL That’s the joke for the day.
Lawfare equals Legal Warfare.
Warfare is illegal against domestic opponents.
Ironically Lawfare is illegal.
L-Fare wouldn’t work without a complicit media…
And an ignorant populace, which the complicit media keeps ignorant. It’s a continuous loop.
Off topic, but pressing. Mike Johnson was just voted Speaker-designee. I know very little about him.
Anyone have any info? Sundance? Anyone?
Story may be fake news, but I do not trust Mark Meadows. Remember his behavior when PDJT was in the hospital with Covid? He was also the one (along with Cipplione & others) who were pushing for PDJT to accept the election results and leave the Whitehouse. I remember Don Jr. asking after they left (on Instagram) what you would tell his Dad if you could. My answer was to keep a keen watch on Meadows.
I don’t trust Meadows either. He’s a CONgress critter
Thank you, SD !
Your post is a relief to a worry.
I saw that fake-news-lawfare-propaganda on a supposedly “conservative” site and became worried.
I always come to CTH to get straight talk. Thank you again.
So again the lawfare thug jack smith, leaks bogus info to abc. It’s obvious that he misses the attention he gets from leaking, almost like a middle school girl.
As SD points out…it demonstrates how weak their case is…
Well if Meadows says the election was perfect than case closed. And FOX calls AZ so that’s confirmation! Trump was right in 2015….the MSM is the enemy of the people.
seems like Trump has been put in a box here and will have to endure all of the harassment and threats these prosecutors and their lapdog judges will dish-out.
The Supreme Court will be the next group to get “Trumped” when the democrats take full-control of government in 2024.
Thomas and Alito will be gone. The wheels have already started spinning along those lines. If they can do what they did and are doing to Trump and his associates, they can do it to anyone, anytime.
Like many others here have said, we aren’t voting our way out of this.
Robert Gouveia does an excellent job of analyzing Trump’s attorneys motion for dismissal of J-6 case .
His show is titled, Watching the watchers.
https://www.youtube.com/live/LnkRVdJiFAA?si=0LT8w4ORwKsjUNvR
The “Prior Example” really ticked me off back in the day! He was not the sweet little boy but they ran with it.
Idrsel bombed a hospital in GAZA, 500 children dead.
President Trump had above Top Secret NUCLEAR Documents at MAL, and who knows who he showed them to.
President Trump is an agent of Putin, who has kompromising video of a hooker peeing on a bed….or something?
Even beyond these “lawfare” cases, THEY have been creating and disseminating false narratives, aka lies, and spewing them out, one after another.
Latest is with all of PDJT’s co-defendants, in the rediculous RICO case, pleading guilty to misdemeanors AND agreeing to testify honestly (like they would agree to testify DIShonestly?) that that somehow means the prosecutor is building a case against PDJT, and that that case can/will be used, to keep him off ballots, under 14th.
Its BULLSHIT.
More and more of my peers here locally, don’t trust any media any longer. The more forms of media they see it on, the less they believe it. And if it is “all over the news”, someone is trying to manipulate us desperately, so dig in deeper. These are normal average people who are expressing this degree of skepticism.
The Lawfare is doing damage, but it is also promoting people to grow with independent thinking and less trust/dependence on government.
That wonderful Law of Unintended Consequences works its magic once again.
“Bolstering the likelihood that Meadows gave no such testimony, Meadows lawyers, when contacted by media, said the story is fake news. Yet again, everyone falls for it.”
It never ceases to amaze me how people on the right STILL believe ANYTHING they see, hear or read in the very fake news hysterical drive by media.
Mark Meadows give President Trump HIS OPINION that the 2020 election results were accurate. President Trump had a different opinion.
Seems opinions are masquerading as fact these days.
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” — Barack Obama, October 30, 2008. The transformation continues under lunchbox Joe with a short respite between Obama and Joe. So how are we doing in the transformation and does Joe actually need another term. A partial list – open borders, lawfare and nuclear lawfare attacks to bankrupt and/or jail political enemies, two-tiered justice system, DIE replaces equality of opportunity, police state fully functional, corrupt DOJ/FBI now serving as a Dem firewall, FBI informants in churches, children indoctrinated in schools, parents at school board meetings targeted by FBI, weekly executive orders equivalent to fascist edicts from the White House, thousands of new IRS agents now to be armed, 1st Amendment trashed daily by Fed Gov, 4th Amend a fond memory, Bill of Rights and Constitution relegated to the toilet roll holder, IC targeting US citizens, parental rights under attack, and ballots now replace votes. The transition is pretty much complete. It has taken a few years, but the Constitution has been slowly erased, letter by letter, until all that is readable now is, “We the ???” Maybe this can be reversed through the ballot box, but better buckle up, we’re in for a bumpy ride. First, we need a team that will get off the bench, it’s the 4th quarter.
Falsus in uno; Falsus in omnibus. False in one thing, false in all things.
Unless one hears it directly from the persons mouth or written words
pay no attention
Even if true … it’s a red herring. Trump, as POTUS, a politician, or private indidvidual, has the right to question the results of the 2020 election and say whatever he wants to about them.
how is anything that Mark Meadows said incriminating to Trump?
Well we all know from the J6 trials that the jury pool in DC is tainted beyond belief and President Trump would be found guilty no matter what! So this Lawfare leak, like the others, is part of a concerted effort by the deep state to get general public opinion to fall in line with the DC hanging jurors! Won’t work on MAGA supporters or America Firsters! JMO Godspeed President Trump!
I would really enjoy beating the crap out of Smith, in fact, it would be worth a plane flight to the Netherlands to do just that, after that varmint returns to the rock he lives under.
The weather channel is the lawfare of climate change.
It’s never been this kind of weather ever before we introduced climate change.
I consider the special counsel to be jack the ripper of our nation’s Constitution.
MAGA 👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
If I were Trumps’ lawyer I would move to sanction the prosecutor. Yesterday, The bitch judge also owed Trump a decision on a permanent stay on the Gag order. Mandamus the bitch.
‘Stand for America’ means to force states into conducting clean, honest, fair, elections – American Thinker
FRAUD: New York elections appear to massively violate state and federal law. The problems are dismissed by officials who steadfastly resist the efforts of honest, well-intentioned citizens to get answers regarding their legitimate findings. Certification of the 2020 and 2022 elections in New York was provable misconduct: a civil rights violation, acting under color of law, of the entire U.S. citizenry.
What if he speaks in Pig Latin? That would be great!!!
“The safest and most secure election in the history of American politics.”
WATCH in GA:
https://x.com/dschlopesisback/status/1717030741878419483?s=46&t=G8osZoHuXTQhHbGFJD4WZg
Why hasn’t Cannon held Smith accountable for illegally attempting to prejudice the jury pool?
I need some help from this community. I have relied on Sundance for years – thanks to his amazing reporting I knew all about the Russiagate hoax long before any of my friends did, and also knew that Durham’s investigation would be buried by the media and sabotaged by the DOJ.
But, I have never really paid much attention to the 2020 election fraud stories, past the obvious manipulation of the Hunter Biden laptop and corruption story, which alone was enough to flip the election.
Can someone either write or provide a link to a succinct summary of the case for election fraud? Anywhere. Search results are so manipulated as to be useless. I try to engage with Republican friends who are Never-Trumpers because of the election contest and Jan 6 issues. Built I am not armed with the facts. Anyone who can help???
So what! Smith is a seditious lawyer who needs to be removed and disbarred! He deserves NO RESPECT!
If news corporations are allowed to spout lies, and hide behind the brick wall of ‘sources’, are we allowed to do the same? Can I tweet ‘Sources say Jack Smith is a transgender male?’ Or something else that may* be untrue???