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Former DNI John Ratcliffe Accuses Special Counsel Team of Improper Actions in Effort to Get Trump​

Ratcliffe reminded everyone of the past abuses that have gone on in the effort to get Trump and have been detailed in things like the Inspectors General reports and the Durham report. He noted how the FBI lawyer made a false claim to the FISA court to get a warrant to surveil a Trump team member. Ratcliffe said the same kind of thing was happening in this indictment. He highlighted something that many reports are missing — that they were allegedly “committing crimes to prosecute crimes.” Ratcliffe alleged that a member of Jack Smith’s special counsel team had threatened “a lawyer representing President Trump’s personal valet,” Walt Nauta, and that the lawyer had to “flip” Nauta. Otherwise, the lawyer might not get the position as a judge he was aiming for.

 

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Lindsey Graham 2.0 Shows up to Clean Stephanopoulos' Clock on Double Standards of Clinton Emails​

Stephanopoulos poses the question:

Donald Trump has said repeatedly that he did nothing wrong. Do you believe that?

Graham responds by pointing to Hillary Clinton’s infamous server and deleted emails. Graham said:

Well, here’s what I believe. We live in an America where, if you’re the Democratic candidate for president, Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, you can set up a private server in your basement to conduct government business. And when an investigation…

Stephanopoulos interrupts Graham:

Senator…

Graham continues, rebuffing the interruption at mention of Clinton’s scandal, saying:

… is had about your activity — no, let me finish.

Stephanopoulos responds:

But you didn’t answer the question.

Graham unleashes on Stephanopoulos, insinuating that GOP ideas are not permissible on the show, saying:

This panel you had was ridiculous — well, yeah, I’m trying to answer the question from a Republican point of view. That may not be acceptable on this show.

 

[BOP]

Damn, I didn't think the number was that high ..

One source I saw said between 70 and 80 percent.

The stupid people have us out-numbered and surrounded. And they're concentrated in the big cities and the college towns - which are often big cities.

 

[Clem72]

Ratcliffe reminded everyone of the past abuses that have gone on in the effort to get Trump and have been detailed in things like the Inspectors General reports and the Durham report. He noted how the FBI lawyer made a false claim to the FISA court to get a warrant to surveil a Trump team member. Ratcliffe said the same kind of thing was happening in this indictment.

So he reminded them of the times they successfully pulled off a similar maneuver without any consequences? Good job Ratcliffe, you wan't a cookie?

 

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The Big Lie About Trump​

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular” - Edward R. Murrow

Any honest person knows that the Federal indictment of Trump is “shockingly weak.” Worse than that, it’s yet another lie pushed on Americans about Trump.

Trust me, I know. I used to be one of them. We started lying around 2012, once we realized how powerful Twitter was when it came to manufacturing the narrative we wanted. We rescued Obama’s second term by turning Mitt Romney into something he wasn’t.

That was a newfound superpower. We could manufacture the reality we wanted, but the price we would pay over time was to slowly but surely become disconnected from the truth.

Lying became like heroin. We needed higher and stronger doses for it to be effective. It couldn’t just be “Dick Cheney is a war criminal” or “W. Bush was the President Select.” It must be Trump is not just an “existential crisis” but an invasion of OUR country. And that meant they would have to go to war. And in the fog of war, anything goes.

Whose country did Trump invade exactly? Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and nearly all American cultural and political elites, not to mention generations who came of age online and only knew Obama as their leader.

But Obama, as you can see, is more than just an elected leader. He’s more like a King by now. Or a God. His influence is felt everywhere, every day. It’s his America, the Utopians or woketopians, believe they are fighting for.

There’s just one problem. They have decided it’s perfectly fine to disenfranchise millions of Americans who also get to decide whose America this is. Would it be an America built on moral superiority and virtue signaling? Or would it be an America built on people being able to say what they wanted, to live he way they wanted?

 

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Teflon Trump! Ex-president's polling numbers hit 61% - while flagging DeSantis sits at just 23%, in first survey taken since classified documents indictment, as Team Trump say they believe charges will seal his 2024 nomination​

• Trump remains focused on the primary and currently dominates his closest rival, Ron DeSantis, according to the CBS poll
• Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc, has sent talking points to surrogates emphasizing attacks should now be on Biden rather than Governor DeSantis
• Although the indictment poses a significant challenge, Trump's team believes that the fundamentals of the political race have not changed

 

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Magistrate to Preside Over Trump’s Arraignment in Florida – Not Aileen Cannon​

A magistrate judge will preside over President Trump’s arraignment at a federal court in Miami on Tuesday – Not Aileen Cannon.

The left went apocalyptic after it was reported US District Judge for the Southern District of Florida Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, was assigned to Trump’s case in Miami.

President Trump Thursday evening announced he was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami in special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case.

Trump was hit with a 37-count indictment – 31 counts for willful retention of national defense information and 6 other counts including conspiracy, false statements, etc.

 

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Federal prosecutor in Trump probe reprimanded in earlier case for secretly recording defense lawyer​

The prosecutor, Karen Gilbert, is now serving as a deputy to Special Counsel Jack Smith, who on Thursday issued the 37-count indictment of Trump.

In the 2009 case, Gilbert was head of the U.S. Attorney's Office's narcotics division in Miami and was attempting to prosecute Dr. Ali Shaygan for allegedly prescribing medications illegally, court records show.

Gilbert and colleague in the case Sean Cronin launched a witness tampering investigation and got two witnesses to record conversations between Shaygan's defense lawyer and the investigator, the records show.

However, according to a stinging ruling by U.S. District Judge Alan Gold, the pair failed to get authorization to tape the conversations and did not inform the defense team that the witnesses were "cooperating with the government," thereby violating discovery obligations.

In addition, Gilbert didn't inform her bosses that the duo had launched the investigation in violation of policy. When asked later about the matter in the sanctions hearing, she testified under oath that “she thought she had.”

The judge determined Gilbert was "grossly negligent in her treatment" of the "significant and unique witness tampering investigation against defense counsel" and said there was no basis to have even started the probe.

Gilbert was found to have failed to seek "necessary information" about the witness tampering investigation and to have failed to have gotten proper approval for it. She failed to "independently verify the basis for Cronin's belief" that the witness probe was ever needed, according to records.

 

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Has Anyone Seen This Man? Biden Special Counsel Robert Hur Appears to Have Vanished​

 

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‘Back Up Plan For Jack Smith’ – Corrupt Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann Floats More Serious Federal Charges Against Trump in New Jersey​

According to the indictment reviewed by this reporter, In July 2021, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ, during an audio-recorded meeting with a reporter and two staffers, Trump “showed and described a “plan of attack” that Trump said was prepared for him by the DoD and a senior military official.”

Trump allegedly said he could have declassified the document while he was president, “Now I can’t, you know, but this is “still a secret.”

Also according to the indictment, in August or September 2021, at the NJ golf club, Trump showed a rep from his PAC a “classified map related to a military operation and told the representative that he should not be showing to the representative…”

Trump never disseminated national defense information but Andrew Weissmann said Jack Smith could bring more serious charges against Trump in New Jersey.

“The legal uncertainties that surround bringing charges in Florida for dissemination of national-security secrets in Bedminster leaves open the possibility that charges might yet be brought in New Jersey—a backup plan of sorts for Smith. If Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge assigned to the case, were to seek to pocket-veto the charges before her by, say, scheduling the trial for after the 2024 presidential election, the special counsel would be able to sidestep her tactic by proceeding with charges in New Jersey.” Andrew Weissmann co-wrote in an op-ed for The Atlantic.

Andrew Weissmann was involved in some of the most egregious corruption scandals in US history.

Weissmann was involved in FBI activities with the mob in New York in the 1990s.

He was a key member of the Enron Task Force in the early 2000s which targeted accounting giant Arthur Andersen and also was involved in the sale of Uranium One under Obama.

After all of his corrupt acts, Weissmann then led the corrupt Mueller Special Counsel and he is likely behind the scenes still working to jail Trump.

 

[HemiHauler]

‘Back Up Plan For Jack Smith’ – Corrupt Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann Floats More Serious Federal Charges Against Trump in New Jersey​

According to the indictment reviewed by this reporter, In July 2021, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ, during an audio-recorded meeting with a reporter and two staffers, Trump “showed and described a “plan of attack” that Trump said was prepared for him by the DoD and a senior military official.”

Trump allegedly said he could have declassified the document while he was president, “Now I can’t, you know, but this is “still a secret.”

Also according to the indictment, in August or September 2021, at the NJ golf club, Trump showed a rep from his PAC a “classified map related to a military operation and told the representative that he should not be showing to the representative…”

Trump never disseminated national defense information but Andrew Weissmann said Jack Smith could bring more serious charges against Trump in New Jersey.

“The legal uncertainties that surround bringing charges in Florida for dissemination of national-security secrets in Bedminster leaves open the possibility that charges might yet be brought in New Jersey—a backup plan of sorts for Smith. If Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge assigned to the case, were to seek to pocket-veto the charges before her by, say, scheduling the trial for after the 2024 presidential election, the special counsel would be able to sidestep her tactic by proceeding with charges in New Jersey.” Andrew Weissmann co-wrote in an op-ed for The Atlantic.

Andrew Weissmann was involved in some of the most egregious corruption scandals in US history.

Weissmann was involved in FBI activities with the mob in New York in the 1990s.

He was a key member of the Enron Task Force in the early 2000s which targeted accounting giant Arthur Andersen and also was involved in the sale of Uranium One under Obama.

After all of his corrupt acts, Weissmann then led the corrupt Mueller Special Counsel and he is likely behind the scenes still working to jail Trump.

No need to do all that. Judge Cannon has dorked up everything she’s ever done. Her educational accomplishments?

In college, she studied for a semester in Spain and wrote for Miami's Spanish language newspaper El Nuevo Herald; her writings included topics such as flamenco dancing, festivals, and yoga.

 

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No need to do all that. Judge Cannon has dorked up everything she’s ever done. Her educational accomplishments?

Another insightful fact filled post from mommies spank monkey. Hey hh, try posting something other than grade school playground banter! Nanny nanny poo poo on you!

 

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Why Donald Trump can't get a top-tier lawyer​

Former President Donald Trump has now been arraigned and pleaded not guilty. He was represented by two lawyers, neither of whom he apparently wants to lead his defense at trial. He has been interviewing Florida lawyers, and several top ones have declined. I know, because I have spoken to them. There are disturbing suggestions that among the reasons lawyers are declining the case is because they fear legal and career reprisals.

There is a nefarious group that calls itself The 65 Project that has as its goal to intimidate lawyers into not representing Trump or anyone associated with him. They have threatened to file bar charges against any such lawyers. When these threats first emerged, I wrote an op-ed offering to defend pro bono any lawyers that The 65 Project goes after. So The 65 Project immediately went after me, and contrived a charge based on a case in which I was a constitutional consultant, but designed to send a message to potential Trump lawyers: if you defend Trump or anyone associated with him, we will target you and find something to charge you with. The lawyers to whom I spoke are fully aware of this threat -- and they are taking it seriously.

There may be other reasons as well for why lawyers are reluctant to defend Trump. He is not the easiest client, and he has turned against some of his previous lawyers, as some of his previous lawyers have turned against him. This will be a difficult case to defend and an unpopular one with many in the legal profession and in general population.

Good lawyers, however, generally welcome challenges, especially in high-profile cases. This case is different: the threats to the lawyers are greater than at any time since McCarthyism. Nor is the comparison to McCarthyism a stretch. I recall during the 1950s how civil liberties lawyers, many of whom despised communism, were cancelled, and attacked if they dared to represent people accused of being communists. Even civil liberties organizations stayed away from such cases, for fear that it would affect their fundraising and general standing in the community. It may even be worse today, as I can attest from my own personal experiences, having defended Trump against an unconstitutional impeachment in 2020. I was cancelled by my local library, community center and synagogue. Old friends refused to speak to me and threatened others who did. My wife, who disagreed with my decision to defend Trump, was also ostracized. There were physical threats to my safety.

Our system of justice is based on the John Adams standard: he too was attacked for defending the British soldiers accused of the Boston Massacre, but his representation of these accused killers now serves as a symbol of the 6th Amendment right to counsel. That symbol has now been endangered by The 65 Project and others who are participating in its McCarthyite chilling of lawyers who have been asked to represent Trump and those associated with him.

Trump's lawyers have now alleged that one of the prosecutors has suggested to Stanley Woodard, the lawyer for Waltine Nauta, Trump's co-defendant, that his application for judgeship may be negatively affected if he persists in defending Nauta vigorously rather than encouraging him to cooperate against Trump. If that is true – I have not seen the evidence to support it – then it represents a direct attack on the 6th Amendment.

Whatever one may think of Trump or the charges against him, all Americans must stand united against efforts to intimidate lawyers and chill them from defending unpopular clients pursuant to the 6th Amendment. Bar associations must look into the threats and actions of The 65 Project and of prosecutors who try, by subtle or other means, to influence the representation of clients by threats to their careers or other means.

 

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Donald Trump: Any Republican Voting Against Schiff’s Censure ‘Should Immediately Be Primaried’​

Trump posted on Truth Social:

Anna Paulina Luna is a STAR. She never gives up, especially in holding total lowlifes like Adam “Shifty” Schiff responsible for their lies, deceit, deception, and actually putting our Country at great risk, for which he should be imprisoned! He is a Leaker and a Scoundrel. Any Republican voting against his CENSURE, or worse, should immediately be primaried. There are plenty of great candidates out there!

 

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Anna Paulina Luna

 

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Trump Lawyers Targeted by Dark Money Group

Any attorney who represents the former president will be hit with spurious ethics complaints.


This is, of course, the point. Many lawyers will think twice before inviting an ethics complaint by representing disfavored clients. The resultant chilling effect has now spread to other GOP candidates in races unrelated to 2020. Kari Lake, for example, had difficulty retaining attorneys when she contested the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial results. Bloomberg quotes her thus: “We had attorneys who did walk away because the left is threatening them with their ability to make a living and practice law.” The 65 Project filed an ethics complaint against Kurt B. Olsen, who represented Lake in two lawsuits pursuant to her 2022 race. The following excerpt is typical of the inflammatory language used in these complaints:

Mr. Olsen attempted to overturn the 2020 election and now seeks to overturn the 2022 Arizona midterm. A full investigation by the Office of Bar Counsel will demonstrate the egregious nature of Mr. Olsen’s actions, especially when considered in light of his purposes, the direct and possible consequences of his behavior, and the serious risk that Mr. Olsen will repeat such conduct unless disciplined. This supplemental complaint demonstrates that Mr. Olsen is already a repeat offender of the Rules of Professional Conduct, and can only be stopped through disciplinary action.

Each of these complaint letters begins with this introduction: “The 65 Project is a bipartisan, nonprofit effort to protect democracy from abuse of the legal system by holding accountable lawyers who engage in fraudulent, unethical conduct seeking to overturn legitimate election results.” Despite this claim to bipartisanship, the group’s website contains zero complaints on lawyers who represent Democratic candidates. There is nothing, for example, involving scandal-plagued attorney Marc Elias or his attempt to overturn the 2020 election of Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Elias is no stranger to ethics sanctions, yet the 65 Project has never questioned his veracity.

The mission of the 65 Project extends beyond ruining the careers of individual lawyers who dare to represent Republicans in election disputes. The group also purports to be protecting future elections: “We are working closely with law professors and professional responsibility practitioners to develop model rules, and we will push state bar associations to adopt them.” This push will include a robust effort “to revitalize the state bar disciplinary process so that lawyers, including public officials, who lie about election results and who fuel insurrection will face professional consequences.” The irony-free use of “insurrection” makes it all too obvious which lawyers and public officials will face “professional consequences.”

The 65 Project has filed ethics complaints against 15 state attorneys general — all Republican. Many amount to little more than election interference. A particularly egregious example involved Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, whom the group went after during her 2022 campaign to become the state’s lieutenant governor. Less than two months before Election Day, the 65 Project filed a complaint alleging that Rutledge was involved in a dark plot to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. This claim was leaked to local media, of course, making it a campaign issue. Fortunately, the voters of Arkansas recognized the smear for what it was and Rutledge trounced her Democratic opponent by 32 points.

 

[HemiHauler]

Trump Lawyers Targeted by Dark Money Group

Any attorney who represents the former president will be hit with spurious ethics complaints.


This is, of course, the point. Many lawyers will think twice before inviting an ethics complaint by representing disfavored clients. The resultant chilling effect has now spread to other GOP candidates in races unrelated to 2020. Kari Lake, for example, had difficulty retaining attorneys when she contested the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial results. Bloomberg quotes her thus: “We had attorneys who did walk away because the left is threatening them with their ability to make a living and practice law.” The 65 Project filed an ethics complaint against Kurt B. Olsen, who represented Lake in two lawsuits pursuant to her 2022 race. The following excerpt is typical of the inflammatory language used in these complaints:



Each of these complaint letters begins with this introduction: “The 65 Project is a bipartisan, nonprofit effort to protect democracy from abuse of the legal system by holding accountable lawyers who engage in fraudulent, unethical conduct seeking to overturn legitimate election results.” Despite this claim to bipartisanship, the group’s website contains zero complaints on lawyers who represent Democratic candidates. There is nothing, for example, involving scandal-plagued attorney Marc Elias or his attempt to overturn the 2020 election of Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Elias is no stranger to ethics sanctions, yet the 65 Project has never questioned his veracity.

The mission of the 65 Project extends beyond ruining the careers of individual lawyers who dare to represent Republicans in election disputes. The group also purports to be protecting future elections: “We are working closely with law professors and professional responsibility practitioners to develop model rules, and we will push state bar associations to adopt them.” This push will include a robust effort “to revitalize the state bar disciplinary process so that lawyers, including public officials, who lie about election results and who fuel insurrection will face professional consequences.” The irony-free use of “insurrection” makes it all too obvious which lawyers and public officials will face “professional consequences.”

The 65 Project has filed ethics complaints against 15 state attorneys general — all Republican. Many amount to little more than election interference. A particularly egregious example involved Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, whom the group went after during her 2022 campaign to become the state’s lieutenant governor. Less than two months before Election Day, the 65 Project filed a complaint alleging that Rutledge was involved in a dark plot to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. This claim was leaked to local media, of course, making it a campaign issue. Fortunately, the voters of Arkansas recognized the smear for what it was and Rutledge trounced her Democratic opponent by 32 points.

LOL, does he have any lawyers left? They seem to be fleeing like rats when the figure out the fat f*ck doesn’t pay his bills.

Oh, and the fact that he won’t keep his maw closed.

 

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LOL, does he have any lawyers left? They seem to be fleeing like rats when the figure out the fat f*ck doesn’t pay his bills.

Oh, and the fact that he won’t keep his maw closed.

 

[SamSpade]

In politics - if you go against the grain long enough - you either end up in a ditch or ruined by courts and legal proceedings and bankruptcy.

It's dirty, but I've no doubt that many go along, because they don't think they have a choice.

It bothers me greatly that the country has come to this.