DEMOCRAT PARTY LAWFARE - GAMER LYING LAWYERS - Jack Smith has admitted to violating the same law used against J6 defendants
An Honest Judge Exposes The Dishonesty Around The Mar-A-Lago Case
Independent investigative reporter Julie Kelly is unraveling the nuances of US vs. Donald J. Trump (FLSD 9:23-cr-80101-AMC), Special Counsel Jack Smith’s espionage and unlawful possession of classified documents indictment against Donald Trump (here) (aka, the case about the DOJ and FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago). New revelations about the raid on Mar-a-Lago are exposing the Deep State’s corruption.
It appears that the Deep State is embroiled in an ongoing RICO criminal conspiracy that began with interference in the 2016 election to block Trump. It then became sabotage to unseat Trump and then to prevent his reelection (i.e., the false Russian Collusion narrative and the lies about Hunter’s laptop). Now, in 2024, it’s lawfare, whether in Florida, Georgia, or New York.
The raid on Mar-a-Lago is only the tip of the iceberg of Deep State criminality. A cadre of domestic and foreign enemies engaged in, aided, and abetted this coup. The Biden and Clinton crime families have for decades conspired with both foreign and domestic enemies to gain wealth and power at the expense of America’s national security interests and the American people’s well-being and democratic rights.
Now, to hide this criminality, the Biden administration, via the DOJ and FBI, is using lawfare, malicious and selective prosecution, and vexatious civil litigation to target Trump (see, e.g., here). Trump’s criminal cases, in chief, lack merit, use convoluted stretches of the law, and are not based on legally wrongful acts.
Image: Aileen Cannon. Public domain.
US District Court Judge Aileen Cannon is standing in the breach against the Deep State. Cannon, whose mother escaped from Cuba, understands more than most the dangers of an unrestrained totalitarian government. That may explain why she is single-handedly holding the DOJ and FBI accountable to the people and the US Constitution after their reign of Stasi-style “justice.” The DOJ and FBI have run amok and gone full Stasi in support of the fascist Biden Administration.
Daily, new revelations emerge about the improprieties of Special Counsel Jack Smith and his associates in the Mar-a-Lago case (e.g., most recently, manipulated evidence). This Mar-a-Lago case has all the hallmarks of a trial searching for a crime. This case and the other indictments were closely coordinated with the White House and have more to do with keeping Trump tied up in court until the 2024 election than any legitimate prosecution. IMO, also to conceal the nefarious actions of the coup.
Julie Kelly reports that the Mar-a-Lago investigation was run out of the FBI’s field office in DC and the J6 case against Trump. (I suspect that was where the brainstorming went on to entrap Trump and the J6 defendants, a treatment not meted out to Antifa and BLM rioters.) Steven DiAntuono, former head of the Detroit FBI Office that ran then Governor Whitmer’s kidnapping entrapment hoax, headed the D.C. field office. The FBI Agent who wrote the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit is from the DC field office.
Jay Bratt, who was originally in charge of Trump’s classified documents investigation and now Jack Smith’s lead counsel, was also the DOJ’s Department’s chief for Counterintelligence and Export Control. Bratt was one of the original Crossfire Hurricane investigators (The Russian Collusion narrative). Special Counsel Jack Smith is no angel and has previously engaged in unethical conduct.
Judge Cannon who has now taken the Mar-a-Lago trial entirely off the calendar, is pushing Smith out over his skis to expose all the nefarious things he and others did. I give her great credit for having the spine to buck the power of the inner circle of the Deep State. After all, the US Court of Appeals had already reversed her for ordering a special master to examine the materials the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago.
During my law enforcement career as a police detective in a large metropolitan Southern California city, I reviewed and filed hundreds of criminal cases. I also wrote hundreds of search warrant affidavits that were signed by superior court judges that I served and later assisted in prosecuting. If I were Smith and wanted to appear ethical, I would have sought an order for a special master to accompany the raid.
Judge Cannon also recently ordered the DOJ to release the minimally redacted search warrant affidavit for the Mar-a-Lago raid, along with other documents, and she ordered defendants’ motions for dismissal by the defendants to be unsealed over Jack Smith’s objections (docs here). Classification or sealing of documents can’t be used to conceal or cover for illegal or embarrassing governmental acts.
Based on newly released information, here’s how I assess the Mar-a-Lago raid: (Here and here):
- The Mar-a-Lago search warrant is overly broad regarding the items to be searched for, i.e., Presidential Records during his term of office.
- The raid on Mar-a-Lago wasn’t an ordinary search warrant but was, instead, a pretextual and dual-purpose one. The purpose was to intimidate anyone who would dare oppose the Deep State, to disqualify Trump in the 2024 election, and to recover incriminating evidence Trump possessed against the RICO conspiracy coup, i.e., the FBI and CIA binder on the Russian Collusion narrative, related material and perhaps information related to the murder of Seth Rich. A safecracker was brought to open Trump’s office safe but was not mentioned in the affidavit. See the post by @Amuse.
- The big glaring hole in the affidavit glosses over and disparages a president’s legal right to declassify the material at will, like waving a wand over the boxes, as Kash Patel said (here). Instead, it focuses on moving boxes, which goes to the obstruction charge but is superfluous to establish probable cause for the main crimes.
- There’s no indication that Trump, as the constitutionally elected president, doesn't have to abide by prior president's orders or, on national security matters, acts of Congress.
- Did the DOJ and FBI judge shop to get a sympathetic judge? The FBI waited for US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart to be the duty judge. Reinhart should have recused himself because of his prior recusal in a Trump matter.
- Did the FBI roll Magistrate Reinhart by playing to his ego to play with the “big boys” from DC? Did Reinhart read the affidavit thoroughly or seek the guidance of an Art III judge?
- Did the DOJ and FBI mislead the magistrate by summarily listing the alleged crimes committed without saying that a sitting president is categorically exempt from classification laws? Defense counsel sent a comprehensive letter [Exhibit 1 to Affidavit] outlining the law and requested that it be incorporated in any filings.
- Was the magistrate misled as to the dual purpose nature of this warrant?
- The photos leaked from MAL looked staged.
- The FBI and DOJ admitted items were seized outside the warrant’s scope—the passports and privileged records—and that the taint team hoovered them up without due care. The FBI uses taint teams, but I lack confidence in their ability to serve as impartial arbitrators for the court.
- As reported by Julie Kelly, in a recent filing, Jack Smith admitted mishandling of evidence. Also, Six pallets of boxes removed by the GAO from the White House were held for a number of months before being sent to MAL. Could they have been salted with classified documents?
Ron Wright is a retired detective, having served thirty-five years with Riverside PD, Calif. Ron earned a BA in political science from Cal State University, Fullerton, and a Master of Administration from the University of California, Riverside. Facebook at Ron T. Cop.
Jack Smith has admitted to violating the same law used against J6 defendants
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has just admitted that he and other DOJ and FBI minions manipulated documentary evidence underlying the Mar-a-Lago case against Donald Trump. Everybody from Judge Aileen Cannon on down realizes this is bad. Still, I wonder how many people have noticed that Smith has admitted to doing what the J6 defendants are accused and have been convicted of doing: Violating 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2). The statutory charges against the J6 defendants are a specious abuse of the law but they perfectly fit Smith’s admitted conduct.
One of the main tools in the DOJ arsenal against anyone near the Capitol on January 6, 2021, is § 1512(c)(2), which the DOJ claims means imprisonment for a person who “corruptly...obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding...” That is what the DOJ claims happened when ordinary Americans (a) exercised their rights of free speech and (b) usually inadvertently, entered onto Capitol land after masked agitators had removed “no trespassing” signage and fencing and after the Capitol police had opened the building’s doors. The penalty is fines and/or imprisonment, with the latter potentially as long as 20 years.
The Supreme Court, though, is hearing Fischer v. United States, which sees one of the DOJ’s victims contesting the DOJ’s assertion about § 1512(c)(2)’s applicability to the J6. The argument is that § 1512(c)(2) manifestly applies to a very narrow fact set; namely, corruptly interfering with evidence in an official investigation. Heck, it’s in the statute’s title: “Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant.” Every section of the statute manifestly deals solely with efforts to destroy or otherwise manipulate evidence in a matter intended to lead to a criminal indictment.
Nevertheless, to imprison ordinary Americans, the DOJ came down hard on subsection (c)(2) of the statute because it contains the phrase “official proceeding.”
(c) Whoever corruptly—
[snip]
(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
But while the DOJ is focusing everyone’s attention on subsection (2), they’re ignoring subsection (1):
(c) Whoever corruptly—
(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding...
Does that remind you of anything? It certainly does me.
It reminds me of Smith’s admission to Judge Aileen Cannon about his and his minions’ handling of the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, documents that then served as the basis for his decision to indict Donald Trump. (gnore, for now, the fact that Trump, as president of the United States, had plenary power to do as he would with national security information, unhindered either by prior Executive Orders, administrative regulations, or legislation. But back to Smith’s admission:
Prosecutors admitted in a court filing on Friday that “there are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans.” The prosecutors had previously told the court that the documents were “in their original, intact form as seized.”
As any litigator knows, maintaining documents in the order in which they’re seized or produced is enormously important. That’s because order itself provides important information about the chronology of events or a person’s intent or innocence. It’s also of particular concern in this case because these documents were apparently packed by the Government Service’s Administration, which then told Trump to pick them up.
In addition, it’s now beyond question that the DOJ doctored the crime scene photos it publicized to the world to “prove” that Donald Trump had allegedly violated national security laws. (See my disclaimer above about Trump’s immunity from such a claim.)
Thus, we have two known instances in which the DOJ altered records, documents, and objects. Moreover, the staged Mar-a-Lago photo indicates that this was done to harm President Trump. That strongly implies both corruption and intention, two elements of a criminal cause of action.
When/if Trump returns to the White House, he needs to have his DOJ investigate the lead-up to how Smith and his minions altered and manipulated those documents. And if there’s reasonable evidence that they did so corruptly and intentionally, they must be prosecuted to the full extent of the actual laws, as written (as opposed to the Democrats’ “make it up as we go along” version of “law”). Our nation cannot survive with a partisan DOJ that is willing to violate the nation’s laws to destroy its perceived political opponents.
Image by Andrea Widburg using AI.
ONE MORE P.O.S. LAWYER!
Ric Grenell exposes Jack Smith as the king of sleaze
Ric Grenell, President Trump's former ambassador to Germany, and Director of National Intelligence, knows a thing or two about Jack Smith, having lived in Europe when Smith was active in prosecuting war crimes in The Hague.
Now that Smith has been caught tampering with evidence in his case against President Trump, Grenell's put out a devastating series of tweets about Smith's history of dishonest behavior.
This is not his first rodeo for this kind of sleaze, it's actually how he rolls:
The latter two tweets involving Swartz are a little hard to follow if you don't read Balkan news, but this Balkan press item in English, written by an American international judge, gives some of the background of that Smith prosecution of the elected and sitting Kosovo president from four years ago:
In November 2018, I had the pleasure of attending a speech given by [Smith-indicted Kosovo President] Thaci to US governmental officials, foreign ambassadors, policy analysts, dignitaries, members of the public and media outlets at the Atlantic Council, a well-reputed Washington think-tank.
“His key point, which he delivered emphatically, was that despite the horrors of the war with Serbia, which Kosovo will never forget, Kosovo was prepared to negotiate a final and permanent settlement agreement with Serbia, and that the time to do so is now. He was roundly applauded,” I wrote at the time.
Two weeks later, President Trump took an unusually proactive position by writing directly to Thaci and his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic, imploring them to sign an agreement and suggesting that they would be invited to the White House to commemorate it.
However, at the same time, Thaci was dogged by allegations that he had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity as initially claimed by Council of Europe human rights rapporteur Dick Marty in his infamous report of 2010 titled ‘Inhuman Treatment of People and Illicit Trafficking in Human Organs’.Marty’s report, which was adopted by the Council of Europe in January 2011, and a subsequent investigation ultimately led to the creation of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague, which opened for business in 2017. The court is designed specifically to prosecute former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, while having no jurisdiction over Serbian war criminals, and is generally loathed in Kosovo.
One of the key reasons for creating the court in a far-away location was the fear of witness intimidation if any of the high-level cases, like Thaci’s, were prosecuted in Kosovo.
American prosecutor Jack Smith, who had been a top-tier prosecutor at the US Justice Department, took office as the chief prosecutor at the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague in September 2018, and spent the next two years continuing the investigation of Thaci and others.
On June 24, 2020, while the investigation was still underway, Thaci was in route to Washington at the invitation of President Trump to meet with him and Serbian President Vucic at the White House on June 27 in an effort to bring the two sides closer together, a historic opportunity.
However, at the very same time, Smith’s office issued a press release stating that an indictment had been filed against Thaci (and three other KLA veterans), causing Thaci to return home immediately, and the White House meeting to be cancelled, surely a lost opportunity for normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Wow. Trump was out sealing the deal for peace in that war-ravaged land and Smith, despite hearing that peace was at hand, went ahead with the prosecutions just ahead of the Trump signing, just to Get Trump, and too bad if no peace happened. Anything but allow Trump to take credit for yet another peace deal. Smith seems to be a fan of more war, more swamp consultant contracts, and who cares about legal ethics, let alone peace.
Grenell is also speaking out, because he had been watching Smith and his sleazy lawfare tactics in Europe well before he appeared on the news radar here in the states:
Grenell outlines a charge by a Spain-based Kosovar businessman with ties to Russia who alleges that Smith took a $16 million bribe from two Russians to have sanctions dropped, which if true, is a doozy. Grenell says it's been all over the Balkan press since last December, individual parts of the story have been confirmed as true, and "there's definitely smoke," so at a minimum, the allegation should be investigated or at least looked into by the press here, which he urges.
Grenell said that Smith also coaxed the businessman to find individuals to pin something on Kosovo's president for his Hague case, while at the same time the cash was being allegedly offered.
He also said he heard recordings from Smith and his prosecutors where the prosecutors objected to Smith mischaracterizing what they were saying, saying they were putting words in his mouth. He's not a guy who seems to care about the facts.
Since then, John Ratcliffe, an intelligence-community colleague of Grenell's from the Trump administration, summed up the Smith sleaze against Trump here:
With that kind of record on Europe, it should come as no surprise to anyone that this is what he is doing now.
Grenell also added this:
Not sure what Grenell means by J6 case, as I think that is one of Smith's two cases. I think it will be thrown out by the Supreme Court, actually, or Obama gets prosecuted for droning Americans. Grenell didn't bring it up, but there is also the matter of Smith not being a government employee which is a legal requirement for being appointed a special counsel, which ought to get all of his cases tossed, too.
But it's unmistakeable that Smith moves crooked and he's been caught way too often. It's helpful that Grenell is speaking out since no one else has the kind of information he has and the press is ignoring the story. There seems to be quite a dirty backstory to Smith and his sleazy doings against President Trump. Keep an eye on anything else Grenell may be posting because there could be more bombshells. Based on the behavior thus far seen, Smith needs to be yanked from the Trump case immediately.
Image: Screen shot from Associated Press video short, (cropped), via YouTube.
You may have noticed that what you’re seeing is an order, meaning it comes from the judges. However, the D.C. judges haven’t impressed anyone as a particularly intelligent bunch. They are ideologues. That’s all. That’s why I keep throwing in the DOJ when I discuss this issue. I’d bet good money that the bright minds in the Democrat party, both in the DOJ and among the Democrat cadre of lawyers who lurk behind the scene, are the ones who came up with this idea.
I practiced law in the San Francisco Bay Area. What became obvious very early was that Democrat party judges held themselves to a very special standard. They saw themselves as above the justice-based principles of due process, the facts of the case, and the applicable law.
Rep. Andy Harris Blasts Biden DOJ’s ‘Third-World’ Lawfare Tactics Against Trump, Warns All Conservatives ‘Targets’
The unprecedented “lawfare” being waged against former President Donald Trump by the Biden Department of Justice “goes well beyond” the former president and actually targets “anybody” who supports Trump or is conservative. That was the warning from Maryland Republican Rep. Andy Harris, who cautioned against the use of “third-world tactics” that have no place in the U.S., as well as how many on the left would likely “deny the outcome” of a democratically-elected Trump in 2024.
He also slammed the “antisemitic pro-Palestinian protests” that have appeared at U.S. college campuses, where antisemitism has been “simmering,” describing them as “not American,” while demanding Biden “come forward daily and publicly” until the radical demonstrations end.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Hungary 2024 on Friday, Rep. Harris (R-MD) addressed the unprecedented “lawfare” being waged against Trump, stating that it “goes well beyond” the former president.
“It’s anybody who supports the president, anybody who’s conservative,” he said. “They’re all targets of this Department of Justice under the Biden administration.”
Asked about how he sees the upcoming 2024 election playing out as a result of such underhanded tactics being deployed by the Biden administration in advance, Harris noted that “when you can’t beat someone on issues, then you attempt to defeat your opponent through the judicial system.”
“You see this in left-wing countries throughout the world,” he added.
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C-SPANCalling such schemes “third-world tactics that have no place in the United States,” Harris said he “suspects that all the left wing people in America who accused the Republicans of election denial will be the ones to deny the election if President Trump wins in November.”
“They will self-righteously declare that this is a totally different circumstance than if Biden loses,” he said, “and they can fill in the blank with [accusations of] Russian collusion, or cheating and red states.”
“It’ll be all the things to deny the outcome of a democratically-elected president,” he added.
Harris, Maryland’s lone Republican in Congress, turned to the recent unanimous vote of Senate Democrats to shut down the Senate trial of President Biden’s impeached homeland security chief Alejandro Mayorkas, highlighting that the Republican majority in the House, together with President Trump, “has succeeded in making immigration one of the number one issues in this election.”
“Although we impeached Mr. Mayorkas, the Senate did not convict, and we’ve once again raised that issue with the American people that this administration is responsible for what’s happening at the border,” he said. “And I think the American people believe that the president is not handling the border properly.”
Admitting there was likely no realistic chance the Senate, under Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, would convict Mayorkas, Harris insisted “we had to make the case to the American people that this administration is not following the law on the border.”
“And I think we’ve made the case successfully,” he said, adding that “polling shows that, just like in 2016 where immigration was a leading issue, it will once again be a leading issue in 2024.”
On the recent anti-Israel protests at universities throughout the U.S., Harris argued that antisemitism, “which has been simmering on our campuses for a long time and has now just come to the surface, should never be tolerated.”
“In America, we believe that everyone has a right to practice the religion of their choice and not be intimidated because of it,” he stated.
Calling on President Biden to “come forward daily and publicly until these protests are ended on college campuses,” the Republican congressman insisted that the “antisemitic pro-Palestinian protests need to be ended.”
“They’re not American,” he concluded. “To hate someone because of their religion is not an American idea.”
Maryland Republican Rep. Andy Harris cautioned against the use of “third-world tactics” that have no place in the U.S., as well as how many on the left would likely “deny the outcome” of a democratically-elected Trump in 2024. (Joshua Klein/Breitbart News)
Harris, who serves on the House Committee on Appropriations and the Freedom Caucus, told the CPAC Hungary audience the Biden administration is allowing illegal immigrants, including criminals, into the country without public input. He criticized the pervasive woke ideology in education and public policy that supports abortion and increases antisemitism, and denounced the concept of gender reassignment.
According to Harris, the Central European nation hosting the conference “has shown people around the world that nationalism is not a bad thing.”
“It’s not wrong to be proud of the nation you live in,” he asserted.
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.
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