The alternative media and even President Trump himself are promoting a story from notoriously sketchy John Solomon again. This time it is important to point out how dangerous he has become – perhaps President Trump (or someone close) will take note.
The core of this latest story centers around a reported email chain from a Biden-era DOJ/FBI official who had serious reservations about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. [Story Here] However, in typical Solomon fashion there is no source citation for the email itself, nor any explanation of where it came from. Instead, it’s another story written from a ‘trust me bro – because, reasons‘ interpretation of a claim that cannot be reviewed, because the actual email itself is not disclosed:
….”a newly-unearthed email obtained by Just the News shows.”
That’s it. ….”a newly-unearthed email obtained by Just the News shows“…
That’s the sum total of the citation for source, content and origination. The reader doesn’t get to look at the email. The reader doesn’t get any explanation of who, what, where, when or why it was given to Solomon. Heck, “newly unearthed” could be a retread of an email that was likely discussed several years ago, perhaps part of a congressional review.
However, this specific email is sold as new information from inside the DOJ/FBI that is under review by South Florida USAO Jason Reding Quiñones.
♦ Why can’t Solomon share the email?
When mainstream media report on media reports that come from media reports, we call this circular nonsense garbage. It’s no different when alternative media do the same without specific citation or source information that can be reviewed. No doubt, dozens of alternative media have already started running with this story without pause.
The danger is not just about hopium promotion. In this example, it’s worse. Let’s take this claim at face value, assume Solomon isn’t lying, and consider that he cannot provide a direct link to the email(s) because the physical documents represent a risk. Under these assumptions, the email is evidence from the DOJ/FBI provided to the USAO in Florida for grand jury review. Solomon has received leaked grand jury material.
If accurate, that material is now irrelevant evidence to the cause of justice because the grand jury has been compromised.
The reporting on the email would/will be used by defense attorneys in a criminal case to get the evidence dropped, and the leaking of it would also highlight the political weaponization of the entire investigative process.
In essence, it’s a self-defeating process to leak it – which, alternatively, could entirely be the point.
In a twisted Machiavellian way, perhaps the entire reason for John Solomon to write about it is to destroy the value in the cause for justice. I don’t know; you decide.
But if a person cannot show the source information they are writing about, and/or it is a risk to show the information they are writing about, then the very least they should do is point specifically to where they got the information from. If they cannot do any of that, then they should shut up.
Lawfare loves to see their opposition shoot themselves in the foot with the evidence of Lawfare corruption, and clickbait loves company. However, in an example like this, it’s the frustrated honest people who just want accountability that pay the price.
SUMMARY: To be clear, I am saying John Solomon’s reporting process is dangerous, specifically dangerous. Dangerous to MAGA, and perhaps more consequentially, dangerous to President Trump and/or any righteous movement toward justice.
Because, yet again, in this instance, if he is not lying (a significant assumption at this moment in history) then -once again- he is alluding to having FBI/DOJ emails that are being used in South FL USAO investigations, likely provided by Kash Patel or others, that would be grand jury material – if the GJ stories of an investigation into a ‘conspiracy against rights’ are to be believed.
If that is accurate origination and that explains why he refused to provide the citation, the release of GJ material to Solomon is exceptionally damaging to any case(s) that might use it. Steve Bannon and Sean Hannity will promote John Solomon, while James Comey, Mary McCord and Jack Smith laugh about it.
FUBAR.
There is a reason why Tulsi Gabbard’s approach was effective, and the deep state feared her. She silently reviewed, then spoke with receipts.
The truth has no agenda and is the ultimate defense to everything. This nonsense ‘secret information’ has proven to be one of the most damaging root problems within our current political condition. Those who perpetuate this process retain the core mechanism that permits corruption.
Big things are happening in two more weeks.
Just hold your powder, will happen soon, be patient, donate your money here and there, support this candidate anyway because the alternative will be much worse.
Meanwhile sixty years go by and nothing happens… but soon something good will happen, just be patient and STFU.
I wish I could spend more time on this stuff, but unlike leftists I have a life going on outside this.
My one question is, I thought the DS uses leaks and media reports so the IC can use them to open cases. If the information is inadmissible, why is it used to open investigations against the good guys, or anyone for that matter.
This is all beyond frustrating. Way beyond frustrating.
We’ve been two weeks away for many years.
It’s a chronological oddity!
The Conservative Treehouse is influential, at least on the right. Have you queried Solomon about this unsourced story? If you’ve got a valid complaint about his journalistic practices, as it would appear you do, good practice also requires you to give the offender a chance to answer the complaint. What does Solomon say?
Solomon is the one who made the claim without citations. Burden is on him. And his track record is trash.
Why don’t u investigate?
Best I could do is send Solomon a copy of Sundance’s post. Seems to me it would be more effective coming from SD himself.
What to take from Sundance’s’ heads-up has nothing to do influence or with Solomon’s “journalistic practices”. At best Soloman’s unwittingly being used to undermine a crucial case against DeepState traitors. At worst he knows and is part of undermining the case..
Either way, he’s a tool.
Could be, but accusations are cheap. He should be given a chance to defend himself.
I never liked John Solomon. He is just a fatter version of Sean Hannity.
At least Sean has an attractive SO
But Sundance, You have in your banner “I want you to be Andrew Breitbart” and his technique was to let some information out knowing he would get hammered by the leftist media, then release more that proved the media liars, and a third release that totally proves the first release.
He does name Patty Stemler and Sophia Brill and numerous quotes from the DOJ email. “I didn’t know about this search in advance, but I have been worrying about it ever since and worrying more now,” Stemler wrote to Brill on Aug. 10, 2022. “Doesn’t Trump maintain that he had the authority to declassify documents while he was still President?
He says “The memo was recently discovered by the Justice Department as part of its investigation into the weaponization of federal law enforcement.” So he sites where it originated from but not how he got it. The quotes and names provided appear to confirm he is not lying, so is this walking the tightrope really that dangerous? It would be very dangerous to him if the names and quotes were just wrong. He does say “her email states” if I’m reading the same article.
Sundance didn’t include some of these facts(names and quotes) so what are we to think?
What I said in this article is factual.
Solomon needs to produce the email for his audience; not his verbal interpretations of what he claims it says – along with ZERO information about how he obtained it.
If you need to purchase hopium, that’s on you.
For me, I prefer to separate facts from opinion, and that requires citations for readers to make up their own mind.
Personally, I believe Solomon is ideologically working for the other side – just like Bill Barr was.
Some other site claimed it was a named female lawyer high in the chain of command -, she is now working in the private sector. She reviewed similar cases defining the extent of a POTUS to classify or declassify anything he or she wants. With no interference from any underling government bureaucrat.
Apparently there is case history about this unfettered power, and no “procedures” can control it .That is what she was questioning – did they confirm they had grounds to raid Trump on an established POTUS privilege that he claimed he could exercise – including a blanket declassification any time or anywhere he wanted while in office .
The email I saw on another site was questioning the power of a PTOUS to declassify anything he wanted, before they raided Trump who asserted the claim he had declassified it. What was the legal foundation for the raid in that case. But the concern was ignored and the raid took place along, with the endless TDS attacks this questionable raid provided.
Seriously, not giving up sources is not that uncommon … It’s called protecting your sources
Here’s a few ….
The most famous American journalist to go to jail for protecting a confidential source is Judith Miller of The New York Times.In 2005, she was held in contempt of court and spent 85 days in a federal detention center.
She was jailed for refusing to testify to a grand jury regarding the identity of the confidential source who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
She was ultimately released when her source (former vice presidential aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby) provided a personal waiver allowing her to testify.
Other journalists and writers have also faced jail time for protecting sources or refusing to hand over reporting materials:
Vanessa Leggett: A freelance true-crime writer who spent 168 days in federal prison in 2001 for refusing to hand over her research notes and interview records regarding a murder investigation.
Joshua Wolf: A freelance video journalist who served 226 days in federal prison in 2006 for refusing to turn over unedited video footage of a protest, making his the longest sentence served by a U.S. journalist in a source-protection.
Quit whinnin’ an do your own investigation …. geee not tryin’ to instigate “click bait” with that headline, now are ya ?
You are arguing the wrong point.
Sources are not the issue, when the evidence of the central claim is non-existent.
Tik Tok won’t work anymore John, you cried wolf too many times.
Every story should have who, what, when, where and maybe why.
If there is no credible source, there is no credible story.
I learned that in 1979 in a Journalism Elective from a woman who used to write for VOA Europe.
She also said, ALL journalism is propaganda!!!
The article says.
“a newly-unearthed email obtained by Just the News”
and
“The memo was recently discovered by the Justice Department as part of its investigation into the weaponization of federal law enforcement.”
Looks to me like the source is the DOJ and he does NOT say leaked. “obtained” in my mind says maybe they FOIA’d it.
On this, Sundance, you lack necessary background.
Here is some help.
I know you don’t like these particular rabbit holes.
POTUS loves them.
For good reason.
POTUS is in no way confused, or misled.
He got it from NSA, most likely. Probably a long time ago, and probably embargoed until now.
How did POTUS know not to be at M A L that day?
Because this is a war. He was tracking in real time.
Military intelligence.
The stuff the Grand Jury is getting is old and after the fact.
Parallel construction, but they’ll never be able to prove it.
Now, for anyone still confused about Snowden, give that a good listen
Brennan protégé CIA, all the way.
Quit selling “Q” nonsense. Take it off this site or get blocked, your choice.
I have nothing to add to Sundance’s analysis except this:
Always believe the scuttlebutt! /s
That depends on which drinking fountain you are at.
To quote Joe Pesci: “It’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma!”
And it’s in one of Solomon’s secret emails that you can’t see…