The Democrats keep reenforcing the lessons of “Ham Sandwich Nation,” especially when a Republican is involved. The last time was a civil suite by A woman who alleged he raped her 40 years ago in a department store dressing room. Of course she had no evidence and it will be reversed on appeal but it was enough for a New York jury to harass Trump.
Given the plethora of criminal laws and regulations in today’s society, this due process gap allows prosecutors to charge almost anyone they take a deep interest in.
The election of leftist district attorneys has added to the problem. Certain locations, heavily Democrat in politics, are ideal locales for these political cases. Race, as in the Chauvin case in Minneapolis, is an added feature.
Now we have another case involving Donald Trump and the Biden regime. The designated hitman is one Jack Smith who, with Andrew
Weissmann, has the distinction of having a verdict reversed by the US Supreme Court 9-0.
Smith previously served under Attorney General Eric Holder, leading the DOJ’s Public Integrity Unit from 2010 to 2015. Smith led a team of 30 prosecutors in conducting public corruption cases throughout the U.S., including a mixed track record of going after high-profile politicians.
While chief of the public integrity section, Smith helped with the prosecution against then-Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Virginia Republican who was indicted and convicted on federal corruption charges related to bribery in 2014. The Supreme Court unanimously overturned McDonnell’s conviction in 2016.
Of course, the conviction was successful in ending the defendant’s political career, which seems to be the same here.
Here is an example of the double standard.
Here is some background about the use of Lawfare.
The DOJ is no longer legally arguing that Donald Trump held any classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The DOJ is arguing that President Trump held documents vital to U.S. defense security. It’s a farce but that’s their position. The classification status of documents is moot, nonexistent, except to create the predicate for the proverbial FBI nose under the tent.
The DOJ-NSD (that’s Lisa Monaco) got a warrant to look for classified documents, but never intended to use classified documents as a case cornerstone because President Trump had full declassification authority.
The entire case has shifted to another charge based on “The Espionage Act” beloved of Woodrow Wilson.
You will notice Jack Smith never discussed “classified documents” in his remarks, and the issue of classified documents appears nowhere except in the indictment as a purposeful lawfare description of documents. The DOJ is not legally charging anything relating to the classification status of the documents.
You might have heard that two of Trump’s lawyers, Jim Trusty and John Rowley, quit today. The media wants to use their exit as a point to indicate Trump is in legal jeopardy; however, that’s not the case.
As soon as Trusty and Rowley saw their forced testimony was used in the indictment, they had no option except to exit the case. Despite the lawyers providing no damaging information against Trump, the DOJ used language in the indictment to turn Trump’s lawyers into material witnesses. Weissmann’s Lawfare tactic create a conflict, forcing the two Trump lawyers to depart.
This is more atmospherics to deprive Trump of their advice. They were named a “Material Witnesses” so had to resign.
Weissmann is still involved. Shade of Russia collusion.
Weissmann, Eisen and Smith are using lawfare in the indictment to put the interests of Trump and his aide Walt Nauta against each other. Obviously, Nauta would not turn on Trump, so the prosecution made Nauta a target for a federal 1001 charge of lying to investigators and will pressure him throughout the case to take a plea in exchange for testimony against Trump. Nauta is the baseline of the “Conspiracy Elements” which require two or more people. Again, pure Lawfare.
This resembles the threats made against Michael Flynn’s son to encourage him to plead guilty. Well, we’ll see how this works. If it’s a DC jury, it will have to go to the Supreme Court and Weissmann hopes the Trump appointees will have to recuse themselves. We are officially a third world country like Brazil now.