A hundred years from now, Americans will benefit from a lesson learned in this election: When a political party prosecutes the leading figure of the opposing party in an attempt to influence an upcoming election, voters revolt against the politicization of criminal justice.
I usually agree with Chris, but I can't here unfortunately. They missed with Trump but they've successfully targeted a whole slew of conservatives.
For example, how many J6 defendents did NOT go into the capital and were not violent, but they were prosecuted fully? At a minimum, this puts the victim in deep debt to hire a lawyer to defend them. Here's an article gleefully talking about lawyers being punished including fines for the crime of pursuing election fraud charges via the courts.
Then there's the pro-lifers going to jail for being at an abortion clinic. Remember the armed federal raid on a pro-lifer's home where his small children were present?
How about going after James O'Keefe over a DIARY? They had an early morning raid and had him out there in his underwear because he was sleeping when they came. The process is the punishment.
It's not going to stop unless legislation is put in place.
I don't disagree with this at all, but the defeat of the big piece of lawfare puts a new team of people in place who should attack and dismantle this sick behavior. I expect a pardon for Paulette Harlow as a first-day priority.
The key words are “attack and dismantle.” One side winning doesn’t change it. Prosecution and penalties for the people who did it, so the next group are afraid to try, changes it.
True for corporate frauds, lawfare, and most other forms of aggressive malfeasance.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. These people will keep at it the next time they are in power again. They need to be prosecuted and thrown in prison. Just not getting away with their evil plan isn't whats going to not tempt them to do it again.
Yep. We need some metaphorical heads on pikes in front of the White House. The names need to be high profiles ones, known to everybody. The metaphorical blood needs to run deep down Pennsylvania Ave. Songs celebrating all the metaphorical blood, heads, and pikes must be metaphorically sung for generations and generations.
Don’t forget the insidious, but effective, pressure aimed at preventing lawyers from accepting certain MAGA clients, because of left wing reprisals.
Let’s not forget another aspect of the problem: politically biased judges and juries, especially in DC and NYC. What’s the chance of a republican getting a fair trial in NYC, or a democrat getting convicted in DC? Does it make sense for a special prosecutor to bring a case against a democrat in DC?
Justice needs to be seen done to perpetrators because it maintains hope in the human administration of justice, therefore hope in justice itself, in truth itself. That truth exists, objectively, and not just in current rankings of friends and enemies.
We'd already seen the effective criminalization of everyday adult life with the covid vaccine mandates, speech codes, and other types of repression. Who knows where Harris would have gone as president if she believed she had a mandate to extend and expand those sorts of policies.
"But it won’t matter anymore, because the outcome that followed their shameful examples have discredited the tool. No one will be dumb enough to pick it up again, for a long time."
Really? I don't think they have learned a dammed thing. As long as they have the bureaucrats to issue the orders (though most such will be issued with a wink and a nudge), the foot soldiers in the alphabet agencies to do the hard and dirty work, and a like minded judge to oversee the adjudication of their charges, however ridiculous, they will continue. And, should the demd take the house in 2026, impeachment will be back on the table quicker than you can say "lawfare".
Why? Because they know they are right and the voters are wrong. There will be no introspection about the cause of their loss because they know in their heart of hearts that they are blameless. Lawfare may be in temporary retreat but it is far from defeated.
My favorite part of the hush money payment conviction is that Cohen initiated the payment to Stormy on his own accord and then presented an invoice to Trump company for double the amount…to cover the taxes🙄
Chris, I don't agree with you on the D's not using lawfare against [political opponents in the future. They've been using it for generations, federal, state, and local, it's usually worked, and they've gotten away with it. I pointed out to a friend some years ago, in response to his query about how the D's kept the South and parts of the Midwest "solid" for over 100 years, it wasn't so much the Klan's violence, being the military arm of the Democrat Party directed at R's, black and white, but they controlled all the judges, prosecutors, and juries and no R was going to get a fair trial: no matter the evidence, they were guilty. No D got a fair trial, either, but exactly the reverse: no matter how guilty, they were going free, or with a Hunter Biden conviction. As you point out, the left is not going to admit error of their ways, as they are a stiff-necked group of people, plus are ideologically committed to a socialist revolution here, and all through the world, and to do otherwise can't be contemplated. That would point to error on their part, and these people, all through the universities, media, business and elsewhere, believe themselves to be smarter and better than anyone else. There's an old saying that conservatives think liberals are good people with very bad ideas: liberals think conservatives are just bad people and that animates almost all of them. Add to that they are largely criminals and sexual deviants of one sort of the other and have great motivation to fight any conservative or populist political movement. Just look at their virulent assaults on the tiny group of D's who've come over to our side, like Kennedy and Gabbart, just to name a few.
I hope you're right, but I don't see these people reforming themselves voluntarily.
“No one will be dumb enough to pick it up again, for a long time.“
You sound pretty sure in that statement. I’m not so sure, especially if all this past lawfare goes unpunished, if the Liz’s, Adam’s (aka crybaby), Jack’s, Fanny’s, Nancy’s, Struck’s, Lisa’s, Comey’s, Brennan’s , Clapper’s (etc) of the deep state don’t feel consequences for their illegal actions it will certainly happen again.
But prosecuting real crimes like treason, human trafficking, election fraud, etc., isn't lawfare. Lawfare is picking a target, then finding a crime, no matter what crime, no matter how unrelated to your dislike of the target, even a made-up crime (like a rape reported many years later by a writer "victim" who says rape is sexy and that she was raped by a celebrity, now president, at an upscale clothing store at an unknown date, or Trump's further "crime" of saying he didn't do it, reminding us of the courtroom scene in "Idiocracy").
Important. The people I hear from in my ultra-blue neck of the woods misunderstand completely what's coming with the prosecutions against the covidians. Of course, heavily jabbed up now, they still spout the O Holy Vaccines = Safe & Effective credo. What's actually coming, as I perceive it, isn't petty and destabilizing poltical revenge, it's about holding people who should be accountable before the law for major crimes committed. Big difference. But there's no point in telling the True Believers that if they refuse to consider see anything seriously wrong with all that happened with the jabs.
I do not think Trump would have won so clearly without the support he got from the RFK supporters and those who, even if not RFK supporters, are awake to the covid con. The MSM may be blind deaf and dumb about the covid con, but there is throughout the nation, albeit in some places only in small pockets, strong support for the DOJ to go after those who pulled this murderous con on the citizenry.
Still, DJT has not taken office yet, so we shall see what actually happens. I am optimistic right now, that many people who should be will finally be held accountable before the law for killing, injuring, defrauding, and violating the rights of so many people.
I would add that, actually I think Trump's greatest gift to the republic, if he does what he says he will do, will be to restore free speech. This really is an astounding 2022 video stating his free speech policy— he had been kicked off Twitter and this was heavily suppressed:
I agree. In the post-election autopsy, Covid is only mentioned in relation to the vast number of mail-in ballots that gave Biden his bloated popular vote. When an estimated one fourth (or more) of the populace refused the shot, there is an appetite for justice. Not all these people are conservatives, and a significant number of democrats became Trump voters because it was the only hope for transparency and possible prosecution of the perpetrators. If we don't follow through with indictments, the next "pandemic" will be back on steroids. Please RFK, go get 'em.
I agree with you, Nancy Benedict. I would add that there are also many people who took the shots but under duress; they would not have taken them without the mandate to do so and the need to put food on the table and a roof over their heads— they were never happy about that. Some shrugged their shoulders about it, but some resent it extremely. There are also many people who, whatever their initial attitude towards the jabs, eager or reluctant, ended up injured, some very severely, and now, knowing they were misled about the safety, and then gaslit by doctors, they are pissed as heck. (A good number of the injured testimonies I have transcribed fall into this category.) Add to this, there are a lot of people who eagerly took the shots, then got covid multiple times, then put two and two together, and now they're pissed as heck, too. So that isn't everybody, in fact most of the people I know haven't woken up, they're not putting two and two together, as far as I can tell. However, that accounts for a very substantial number of the people who voted for Trump not because they're great fans but because they saw him as their best hope for putting an end to medical tyranny.
Like you, I reluctantly live in a deep blue area (so deep blue that our Soros prosecutor just got reelected in a landslide!). I think the reason libs don’t want to do a post mortem on Covid is that they are 100% unaware of the level of authoritarianism that happened.
As a friend’s wife put it, “Governments were just trying to do the best they could with a new disease. Do you think they were doing these things to be MEAN?!”
Hearing that, I realized that there was no point in continuing the conversation, because the average person, wholly informed by MSM, cannot possibly understand the “totalitarianism lite” that happened during that time. They truly think that it was just people doing their best.
Exactly-excellent analysis. Just hope that Trump, his advisors and his AG (hopefully not showboat Matt Gaetz ) understand this . Not prosecuting Hilary no matter how much his supporters wanted it was an incredibly smart move by Trump. Forgiveness is not for the sake of someone that you forgive or at least do not prosecute/persecute. It is so that you can move on and not be consumed and distracted by vindictiveness. Stuck to your agenda and be the better person. Their TDS caused a lathe part of the Dems completely misplaced focus during this past election. Misspent their time and their money,
My only "however" would be that if investigators can find a clear record of explicitly political charging decisions -- emails, voice mails, text messages that say some version of "let's charge him so he doesn't win the election" -- then I would stand outside the courthouse and wave to Jack Smith or Alvin Bragg while he was taken away to prison. But they need clear proof of clear wrongdoing.
100%. As satisfying as it would be to pin 34 counts of jaywalking on Bragg and then boost the counts up to felonies (because they are in furtherance of the crime of stealing an election - because Bragg, as chief law enforcement officer in NYC can't follow his city's own rules. That's how this works, right?), it would be counterproductive to getting real, pre-2020 style justice.
There's a lot to look at in all the cases, especially NYC. You mentioned the public boasting of investigatory impropriety; improper collusion with DOJ/White House (the Number 3 at DOJ suddenly takes a pay/prestige cut to go work in a metropolitan DA's office?); problems with admitted/excluded evidence and testimony. The list goes on. The lawfare was fundamentally unfair, but it was also deeply corrupt. The unfairness of it made Trump a martyr. The corruption should prosecuted fully.
I say they do a full-on deep investigation and reveal the hypocrisy (comparative analysis) line-item by line-item, then reveal it to the populace.
Then as you said pass a law to see the degree of resistance from the Democrats. And then see if they try to repeal or dilute the very same law(s) that were passed when the D's eventually take power again.
Some sort of document shared with the public needs to be submitted to the record so that it's memorialized for posterity as a reference.
They need to be openly shamed, the public needs to be informed, and we must put mechanisms in place to prevent these abuses from ever happening again.
If that doesn't happen it will repeat. At this point in history part of the platform of the D's is literally lawfare.
I think we must remember that and not assume the D's will not resort to this again. After all, they clearly do not respect the constitution, and it's not isolated to just these types of machinations.
In the end I think we must keep in mind that there are only two laws of history:
1. The enigmatic and most important history lesson; people forget history and it's lessons.
Therefore we must document it as a reference
2. The 2nd law of history: the law of unintended consequences.
It used to be, but Democrats literally killed shame. Just look at their adoration of criminals, terrorists, “Minor Attracted People”, men in women’s sports, etc. They are PROUD of this; the only things they recognize as shameful are voting Republican or being White or Christian.
Chris, no doubt lawfare didn’t work on Trump. It works on the little guy, however. Just ask the poor souls swept up in the J6 nonsense. More importantly, democrats will try it again. They don’t give up. Think about how many times states voted down gay marriage. The dems just tried it again.
Lawfare goes well beyond prosecuting Trump, Trump allies like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro and ordinary Trump supporters like the J6 participants, who were props in a the Democrats made-up made for TV movie “Insurrection.” It encompasses the civil lawsuits like the preposterous claims against Trump by E. Jean Carroll and Letitia James, and tobacco litigation and climate litigation. It also encompasses legal actions, civil, administrative and criminal. against Christian bakeries and pro-life activists. It also covers not prosecuting clear crimes, like participating in the burning down of a historic Church, framing a political opponent as a Russian asset and triggering an investigation into a phony story.
If the Trump AG does not prosecute treasonous and seditionist activity during the prior administration, they leave the door open for it to happen again. And it will happen again. Right now the Democrats are getting out in front of any Trump prosecution of them claiming it is retribution against political enemies. Dems don’t care that they started it, they just want the people to believe Trump is an authoritarian and crazy. And one thing we do know is 46% of Americans are not too bright will undoubtedly believe it.
Lawfare as a weapon of the left will always be a thing as long as the left has their accomplice, the corporate media, to cheerlead and push the preferred and proscribed narrative.
The days of the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate expose are long gone and quaint.
In October 2020, a group of 50 former intelligence officials, including John Brennan, signed a letter expressing concern that the Hunter Biden laptop story had the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.
All of these liars need to be investigated and prosecuted. All those who spread lies and disinformation over the past five years need to be prosecuted - especially Adam Schiff.
I wish I was as optimistic as you are about this specific topic. We have the highest population of lawyers per capita in the world, and all they have are legal hammers, so every problem they see looks like a legal nail.
Maybe they won't try to win the next election by prosecuting the opponent, but weaponized law is an american tradition.
*insert dead lawyers joke here*
The thing is we have laws against malicious prosecution, and they too are weaponized when they're enforced at all. Hopefully the Trump administration puts them to good use. Yes, against the people who attacked him. Make them hurt a little, at least.
I usually agree with Chris, but I can't here unfortunately. They missed with Trump but they've successfully targeted a whole slew of conservatives.
For example, how many J6 defendents did NOT go into the capital and were not violent, but they were prosecuted fully? At a minimum, this puts the victim in deep debt to hire a lawyer to defend them. Here's an article gleefully talking about lawyers being punished including fines for the crime of pursuing election fraud charges via the courts.
https://kansasreflector.com/2024/06/08/trumps-lawyers-in-suits-claiming-he-won-in-2020-are-getting-punished-for-abusing-courts/
Then there's the pro-lifers going to jail for being at an abortion clinic. Remember the armed federal raid on a pro-lifer's home where his small children were present?
How about going after James O'Keefe over a DIARY? They had an early morning raid and had him out there in his underwear because he was sleeping when they came. The process is the punishment.
It's not going to stop unless legislation is put in place.
I don't disagree with this at all, but the defeat of the big piece of lawfare puts a new team of people in place who should attack and dismantle this sick behavior. I expect a pardon for Paulette Harlow as a first-day priority.
The key words are “attack and dismantle.” One side winning doesn’t change it. Prosecution and penalties for the people who did it, so the next group are afraid to try, changes it.
True for corporate frauds, lawfare, and most other forms of aggressive malfeasance.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. These people will keep at it the next time they are in power again. They need to be prosecuted and thrown in prison. Just not getting away with their evil plan isn't whats going to not tempt them to do it again.
These demons love the process … let’s hope they get so scorched putting their hands on the open flame , that they stop their bullshit .
Until some are serving time, this won’t stop.
Yep. We need some metaphorical heads on pikes in front of the White House. The names need to be high profiles ones, known to everybody. The metaphorical blood needs to run deep down Pennsylvania Ave. Songs celebrating all the metaphorical blood, heads, and pikes must be metaphorically sung for generations and generations.
Yes x 1000! NONE of these cheatin’ scum have faced any consequences!
i think they're more interested in torture. the more pain inflicted, the more they feed off it. whether the charges stick is secondary
Don’t forget the insidious, but effective, pressure aimed at preventing lawyers from accepting certain MAGA clients, because of left wing reprisals.
Let’s not forget another aspect of the problem: politically biased judges and juries, especially in DC and NYC. What’s the chance of a republican getting a fair trial in NYC, or a democrat getting convicted in DC? Does it make sense for a special prosecutor to bring a case against a democrat in DC?
Justice needs to be seen done to perpetrators because it maintains hope in the human administration of justice, therefore hope in justice itself, in truth itself. That truth exists, objectively, and not just in current rankings of friends and enemies.
Also law-fared Jeff Fortenberry out of his house seat in NE-1. FBI set him up.
We'd already seen the effective criminalization of everyday adult life with the covid vaccine mandates, speech codes, and other types of repression. Who knows where Harris would have gone as president if she believed she had a mandate to extend and expand those sorts of policies.
they're already trying it again with "bird flu." Karen Kingston on Emerald Robinson 11/15/24
https://karenkingston.substack.com/p/hhs-is-using-h5n1-to-create-a-pandemic
Yes, and reports of monkeypox coming to California
"But it won’t matter anymore, because the outcome that followed their shameful examples have discredited the tool. No one will be dumb enough to pick it up again, for a long time."
Really? I don't think they have learned a dammed thing. As long as they have the bureaucrats to issue the orders (though most such will be issued with a wink and a nudge), the foot soldiers in the alphabet agencies to do the hard and dirty work, and a like minded judge to oversee the adjudication of their charges, however ridiculous, they will continue. And, should the demd take the house in 2026, impeachment will be back on the table quicker than you can say "lawfare".
Why? Because they know they are right and the voters are wrong. There will be no introspection about the cause of their loss because they know in their heart of hearts that they are blameless. Lawfare may be in temporary retreat but it is far from defeated.
And until the vintage media report the truth, it all remains in an echo chamber. Thank you for your efforts, Chris.
You are right on every point
My favorite part of the hush money payment conviction is that Cohen initiated the payment to Stormy on his own accord and then presented an invoice to Trump company for double the amount…to cover the taxes🙄
^^This!^^
Chris, I don't agree with you on the D's not using lawfare against [political opponents in the future. They've been using it for generations, federal, state, and local, it's usually worked, and they've gotten away with it. I pointed out to a friend some years ago, in response to his query about how the D's kept the South and parts of the Midwest "solid" for over 100 years, it wasn't so much the Klan's violence, being the military arm of the Democrat Party directed at R's, black and white, but they controlled all the judges, prosecutors, and juries and no R was going to get a fair trial: no matter the evidence, they were guilty. No D got a fair trial, either, but exactly the reverse: no matter how guilty, they were going free, or with a Hunter Biden conviction. As you point out, the left is not going to admit error of their ways, as they are a stiff-necked group of people, plus are ideologically committed to a socialist revolution here, and all through the world, and to do otherwise can't be contemplated. That would point to error on their part, and these people, all through the universities, media, business and elsewhere, believe themselves to be smarter and better than anyone else. There's an old saying that conservatives think liberals are good people with very bad ideas: liberals think conservatives are just bad people and that animates almost all of them. Add to that they are largely criminals and sexual deviants of one sort of the other and have great motivation to fight any conservative or populist political movement. Just look at their virulent assaults on the tiny group of D's who've come over to our side, like Kennedy and Gabbart, just to name a few.
I hope you're right, but I don't see these people reforming themselves voluntarily.
Danny Huckabee
“No one will be dumb enough to pick it up again, for a long time.“
You sound pretty sure in that statement. I’m not so sure, especially if all this past lawfare goes unpunished, if the Liz’s, Adam’s (aka crybaby), Jack’s, Fanny’s, Nancy’s, Struck’s, Lisa’s, Comey’s, Brennan’s , Clapper’s (etc) of the deep state don’t feel consequences for their illegal actions it will certainly happen again.
But prosecuting real crimes like treason, human trafficking, election fraud, etc., isn't lawfare. Lawfare is picking a target, then finding a crime, no matter what crime, no matter how unrelated to your dislike of the target, even a made-up crime (like a rape reported many years later by a writer "victim" who says rape is sexy and that she was raped by a celebrity, now president, at an upscale clothing store at an unknown date, or Trump's further "crime" of saying he didn't do it, reminding us of the courtroom scene in "Idiocracy").
Important. The people I hear from in my ultra-blue neck of the woods misunderstand completely what's coming with the prosecutions against the covidians. Of course, heavily jabbed up now, they still spout the O Holy Vaccines = Safe & Effective credo. What's actually coming, as I perceive it, isn't petty and destabilizing poltical revenge, it's about holding people who should be accountable before the law for major crimes committed. Big difference. But there's no point in telling the True Believers that if they refuse to consider see anything seriously wrong with all that happened with the jabs.
I do not think Trump would have won so clearly without the support he got from the RFK supporters and those who, even if not RFK supporters, are awake to the covid con. The MSM may be blind deaf and dumb about the covid con, but there is throughout the nation, albeit in some places only in small pockets, strong support for the DOJ to go after those who pulled this murderous con on the citizenry.
Still, DJT has not taken office yet, so we shall see what actually happens. I am optimistic right now, that many people who should be will finally be held accountable before the law for killing, injuring, defrauding, and violating the rights of so many people.
I would add that, actually I think Trump's greatest gift to the republic, if he does what he says he will do, will be to restore free speech. This really is an astounding 2022 video stating his free speech policy— he had been kicked off Twitter and this was heavily suppressed:
"Donald J. Trump"
December 15, 2022
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109518990392565381
And for those who don't do video:
Annotated transcript: https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/186036.html
All I can say is WOW, he has a lot of work to do.
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I agree. In the post-election autopsy, Covid is only mentioned in relation to the vast number of mail-in ballots that gave Biden his bloated popular vote. When an estimated one fourth (or more) of the populace refused the shot, there is an appetite for justice. Not all these people are conservatives, and a significant number of democrats became Trump voters because it was the only hope for transparency and possible prosecution of the perpetrators. If we don't follow through with indictments, the next "pandemic" will be back on steroids. Please RFK, go get 'em.
I agree with you, Nancy Benedict. I would add that there are also many people who took the shots but under duress; they would not have taken them without the mandate to do so and the need to put food on the table and a roof over their heads— they were never happy about that. Some shrugged their shoulders about it, but some resent it extremely. There are also many people who, whatever their initial attitude towards the jabs, eager or reluctant, ended up injured, some very severely, and now, knowing they were misled about the safety, and then gaslit by doctors, they are pissed as heck. (A good number of the injured testimonies I have transcribed fall into this category.) Add to this, there are a lot of people who eagerly took the shots, then got covid multiple times, then put two and two together, and now they're pissed as heck, too. So that isn't everybody, in fact most of the people I know haven't woken up, they're not putting two and two together, as far as I can tell. However, that accounts for a very substantial number of the people who voted for Trump not because they're great fans but because they saw him as their best hope for putting an end to medical tyranny.
and most of those people know somebody who died from the shot. some will be in denial forever but that number is declining as people wake up
Thanks, this is very well-stated and true.
Thanks for reading it.
Like you, I reluctantly live in a deep blue area (so deep blue that our Soros prosecutor just got reelected in a landslide!). I think the reason libs don’t want to do a post mortem on Covid is that they are 100% unaware of the level of authoritarianism that happened.
As a friend’s wife put it, “Governments were just trying to do the best they could with a new disease. Do you think they were doing these things to be MEAN?!”
Hearing that, I realized that there was no point in continuing the conversation, because the average person, wholly informed by MSM, cannot possibly understand the “totalitarianism lite” that happened during that time. They truly think that it was just people doing their best.
"Do you think they were doing these things to be MEAN?!”
Ooh, ooh, I have an answer!
I know. Imagine how much fun it is to live in Libtown amongst all the sanctimonious “good people”.
Re: "Do you think they were doing these things to be MEAN?!”
In my neck of the woods I hear this sort of childish shale every day. It is wearing. But I'm getting really good at my Mona Lisa impersonation. LOL.
Have you considered creating a Tone-deafness And Missing the Point award? Something with a classy award ceremony and a little statue for their mantle?
Like the Razzies, but cooler.
The “Helen Keller” award?? Blind, deaf and dumb??
Hmmm... On the surface I like it. But it might infer some sort of heroism or bravery on the recipients, qualities these people don't possess.
TDAMP!
Exactly-excellent analysis. Just hope that Trump, his advisors and his AG (hopefully not showboat Matt Gaetz ) understand this . Not prosecuting Hilary no matter how much his supporters wanted it was an incredibly smart move by Trump. Forgiveness is not for the sake of someone that you forgive or at least do not prosecute/persecute. It is so that you can move on and not be consumed and distracted by vindictiveness. Stuck to your agenda and be the better person. Their TDS caused a lathe part of the Dems completely misplaced focus during this past election. Misspent their time and their money,
My only "however" would be that if investigators can find a clear record of explicitly political charging decisions -- emails, voice mails, text messages that say some version of "let's charge him so he doesn't win the election" -- then I would stand outside the courthouse and wave to Jack Smith or Alvin Bragg while he was taken away to prison. But they need clear proof of clear wrongdoing.
100%. As satisfying as it would be to pin 34 counts of jaywalking on Bragg and then boost the counts up to felonies (because they are in furtherance of the crime of stealing an election - because Bragg, as chief law enforcement officer in NYC can't follow his city's own rules. That's how this works, right?), it would be counterproductive to getting real, pre-2020 style justice.
There's a lot to look at in all the cases, especially NYC. You mentioned the public boasting of investigatory impropriety; improper collusion with DOJ/White House (the Number 3 at DOJ suddenly takes a pay/prestige cut to go work in a metropolitan DA's office?); problems with admitted/excluded evidence and testimony. The list goes on. The lawfare was fundamentally unfair, but it was also deeply corrupt. The unfairness of it made Trump a martyr. The corruption should prosecuted fully.
I say they do a full-on deep investigation and reveal the hypocrisy (comparative analysis) line-item by line-item, then reveal it to the populace.
Then as you said pass a law to see the degree of resistance from the Democrats. And then see if they try to repeal or dilute the very same law(s) that were passed when the D's eventually take power again.
Some sort of document shared with the public needs to be submitted to the record so that it's memorialized for posterity as a reference.
They need to be openly shamed, the public needs to be informed, and we must put mechanisms in place to prevent these abuses from ever happening again.
If that doesn't happen it will repeat. At this point in history part of the platform of the D's is literally lawfare.
I think we must remember that and not assume the D's will not resort to this again. After all, they clearly do not respect the constitution, and it's not isolated to just these types of machinations.
In the end I think we must keep in mind that there are only two laws of history:
1. The enigmatic and most important history lesson; people forget history and it's lessons.
Therefore we must document it as a reference
2. The 2nd law of history: the law of unintended consequences.
Public shaming may be the most powerful tool available on this subject...
It used to be, but Democrats literally killed shame. Just look at their adoration of criminals, terrorists, “Minor Attracted People”, men in women’s sports, etc. They are PROUD of this; the only things they recognize as shameful are voting Republican or being White or Christian.
Except that you cannot shame a Democrat. They don't even know the concept.
It matters not if they are ashamed.
It matters if they know the country is ashamed of them.
We're trying to reach independents to make sure they understand the depth and breadth of the assault on our constitution.
Good point
Yes!
Chris, no doubt lawfare didn’t work on Trump. It works on the little guy, however. Just ask the poor souls swept up in the J6 nonsense. More importantly, democrats will try it again. They don’t give up. Think about how many times states voted down gay marriage. The dems just tried it again.
Lawfare goes well beyond prosecuting Trump, Trump allies like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro and ordinary Trump supporters like the J6 participants, who were props in a the Democrats made-up made for TV movie “Insurrection.” It encompasses the civil lawsuits like the preposterous claims against Trump by E. Jean Carroll and Letitia James, and tobacco litigation and climate litigation. It also encompasses legal actions, civil, administrative and criminal. against Christian bakeries and pro-life activists. It also covers not prosecuting clear crimes, like participating in the burning down of a historic Church, framing a political opponent as a Russian asset and triggering an investigation into a phony story.
If the Trump AG does not prosecute treasonous and seditionist activity during the prior administration, they leave the door open for it to happen again. And it will happen again. Right now the Democrats are getting out in front of any Trump prosecution of them claiming it is retribution against political enemies. Dems don’t care that they started it, they just want the people to believe Trump is an authoritarian and crazy. And one thing we do know is 46% of Americans are not too bright will undoubtedly believe it.
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Lawfare as a weapon of the left will always be a thing as long as the left has their accomplice, the corporate media, to cheerlead and push the preferred and proscribed narrative.
The days of the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate expose are long gone and quaint.
…and Leftie judges %AGs.
And Watergate was a deliberate reveal to alter the chessboard, so, not a pursuit of justice as justice.
In October 2020, a group of 50 former intelligence officials, including John Brennan, signed a letter expressing concern that the Hunter Biden laptop story had the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.
All of these liars need to be investigated and prosecuted. All those who spread lies and disinformation over the past five years need to be prosecuted - especially Adam Schiff.
It would not be Lawfare: it would be justice.
I wish I was as optimistic as you are about this specific topic. We have the highest population of lawyers per capita in the world, and all they have are legal hammers, so every problem they see looks like a legal nail.
Maybe they won't try to win the next election by prosecuting the opponent, but weaponized law is an american tradition.
*insert dead lawyers joke here*
The thing is we have laws against malicious prosecution, and they too are weaponized when they're enforced at all. Hopefully the Trump administration puts them to good use. Yes, against the people who attacked him. Make them hurt a little, at least.
Yeah, you can now add thought crimes to the list in the UK.....😬