Posted originally on Apr 24, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
We now have another Democrat screwing with the 2024 election to ensure they win. Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes manipulated a grand jury in Arizona on Wednesday, indicting 18 Republicans with conspiracy, fraud, and forgery for submitting a document to Congress “falsely” declaring that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona during the 2020 presidential election. She has listed a “prior U.S. president,” presumably referring to President Trump, as an unindicted co-conspirator. Mayes blacked out the names of seven individuals she indicted, saying they would be released once they were served.
What is wrong with our legal system is that they can indict anybody for anything. I recommend you read America on Trial. All the famous cases that were wrongful prosecutions. You will be shocked at how the government abuses the law all the time.
They are NOT required to tell even the truth to a Grand Jury, and they are NOT required to present ANY contrary evidence. The Supreme Court has WRONGLY held that you have no right to be present at a Grand Jury. You have the right to defend yourself before the jury in court. What is wrong with it is they can accuse you of murdering your spouse with absolutely no evidence whatsoever, throw you in pretrial detention, keep you there for years, or pay an inmate to kill you all with NO EVIDENCE OF GUILT! You are then indicted, and it is your burden to prove your innocence. Our legal system is so bad that it is frustrating. They have killed people, claiming they murdered someone, and have no body or any evidence.
An Indictment is an ABUSE OF POWER as it is being used today. In Florida, you have Trump fighting just to get a list of who will testify against him. They provide no notice and consistently seek to present guilt by surprise. The way indictments are obtained is really a violation of the spirit of DUE PROCESS OF LAW, where a citizen MUST be provided with clear evidence of such a charge – fair notice.
Lawyers for decades have said a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich because the system is outright corrupt beyond compare. That phrase was first coined by a New York State Judge named Sol Wachtler (born 1930). Wachtler was the former chief judge of New York State who coined that term in a January 1985 interview with the New York Daily News‘ Marcia Kramer and Frank Lombardi. The relevant portion:
“In a bid to make prosecutors more accountable for their actions, Chief Judge Sol Wachtler has proposed that the state scrap the grand jury system of bringing criminal indictments.
Wachtler, who became the state’s top judge earlier this month, said district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that “by and large” they could get them to “indict a ham sandwich.”
A month later, the New York Times noted that Wachtler believed grand juries “operate more often as the prosecutor’s pawn than the citizen’s shield.”This belief—that prosecutors can get grand juries to do whatever they want them to do is universal and if this is not seriously changed, we will see massive civil unrest tear the system apart limb for limb.
In my own case, they indicted me, claiming $1 billion was missing. The bank provided NOTHING to show that I ever wired the money out or wrote a check. They just claimed they didn’t know where the money that they stole was. When I told the prosecutor the bank stole the money, he replied – “We believe the bank.” I did an interview with the Japanese press and told them the bank stole the money and that they had better come to New York and file suit against the Bank. The government then files a GAG ORDER on me to stop me from helping my own clients against the bank.
All the lawsuits filed against Republic National Bank/HSBC forced them to plead guilty and repay all my clients. The prosecutor made a deal so that nobody from the bank went to prison. When I asked a New York lawyer why no banker ever goes to prison in NYC, he said – “You don’t shit where you eat!”
At a reverse proffer session, the prosecutor, Richard D. Owen, admitted to my face, “We know you didn’t steal any money, but we are not going to drop the charges.”
I filed a motion before Judge Lawrence M. McKenna asking what I was charged with since the bank pled guilty, and they knew there was never any evidence I had withdrawn a dime. The judge ordered the government to respond. They went to the Chief Judge, took my case away from Judge McKenna, and handed it to a hanging judge, Jogn F. Keenan, who just said that the motion was denied, and that was that. They sealed the docket sheet, so I could never find out to this day how they pulled that one off.
Indictments mean NOTHING. They can lie and say anything to get them, and they are sealed, so you cannot see how they ever got it. As long as the government can indict people, there will never be any justice whatsoever. What this District Attorney is not doing in Arizona for politics is really the final nail in the coffin of the experiment that began in 1776. The Wheel of Fortune has completed its revolution. The tyranny and corruption we revolted against have returned. That is what cycle analysis is all about. The Roman goddess of fortune was always pictured with a cornucopia in one arm and her other hand on the rubber of a ship, symbolizing she could give you great fortune or turn the rubber in a moment and destroy your future. It looks like she is turning the rudder of America.
Posted originally on the CTH on April 24, 2024 | Sundance
If you have followed law and politics for any length of time, you have probably heard of “speaking indictments.” That’s where the prosecution will write an indictment or court motion with very granular -yet perhaps not pertinent- details of a case against a suspect that highlights a much bigger picture than a singular perspective against the individual defendant. The intent is to make the public aware of the details within a case by making them part of the court record.
In the Special Counsel Jack Smith constructed Lawfare case against Donald Trump, what is generally called “the documents case”, involving the raid on Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s attorney, Christopher Kise, did something similar to a speaking indictment with an extensive court motion on January 16, 2024. The 68-page motion is a comprehensive “speaking motion” which outlines a great deal of the fraud and Lawfare manipulation by the special counsel. [SEE DOCUMENT HERE]
In response to the filing, using the pre-established legal narrative about needing to control “national security” information [SEE HERE], the Jack Smith team (essentially Lawfare operatives like Weissman, Eisen and McCord) redacted large portions of the Trump motion specifically to stop the public record from showing the outline. However, two days ago, April 22nd, Judge Aileen Cannon unsealed and more importantly ‘unredacted’ the motion.
Keep in mind, back in the beginning of the pre-trial discovery phase -in response to the filing by Trump- Jack Smith gave the judge the opinion of the DOJ [SEE HERE] toward discovery and documents. As noted, and summarized well by Julie Kelly:
To clear up any confusion as to what Special Counsel Jack Smith sought to conceal in classified documents case, this is what Smith told Judge Cannon in Feb 2024 in response to Trump’s motion to compel discovery from numerous govt agencies:
1) Defendants are not entitled to discovery of internal government correspondence and memoranda, or to documents that are otherwise privileged.
2) The Court Should Deny Defendants’ Requests for Evidence of ‘Improper Coordination with NARA’ and of ‘Bias and Investigative Misconduct.’
3) The Court Should Deny Defendants’ Requests for Evidence Related to Trump’s Security Clearance With The Department of Energy.
4) The Court Should Deny Defendants’ Requests for Evidence Related to Secure Facilities at President Trump’s Residences.
5) The Court Should Deny Defendants’ Requests for Production of Materials Concerning the Search of Mar-a-Lago.
AND FINALLY:
6) Defendants’ Request for Unredacted Discovery of Materials Should Be Denied.
As we noted at the time, the DOJ position was constructed by McCord, Weissmann and Eisen to make the documents case all about national security. This was done intentionally in order to lean on prior Supreme Court precedent that the judicial branch should not interfere with the decisions of the executive branch when it comes to matters of national security.
In essence, Jack Smith (McCord, Eisen, Weissmann) was/is weaponizing national security as a Lawfare attack angle against President Trump.
One of the ways this Lawfare approach was identifiable, was in the specific parseltongue way the wording of the legal filings were pushed. Example: they didn’t say Trump held classified documents; they said Trump held documents containing “classified markings.” Declassified documents still hold classified markings. CTH has thousands of documents containing classified markings in our research library.
There’s a big difference between “classified documents” and “documents containing classified markings.” The intent of using the linguistics of the latter is to give the impression of something nefarious where nothing nefarious exists.
The special counsel then used the auspices of national security, to control -through redactions and secrecy- the types of information within their court filings that would be visible to the public. Remember, this is LAWFARE and the primary interest of Lawfare is to influence public opinion.
We also noted, at the time, that Judge Aileen Cannon very obviously knew what the Special Counsel was attempting to do. The judge could see how the DOJ was weaponizing the national security angle as a way to target the defendant, Trump, in a way that he would not be able to defend himself. Cannon saw this and began structuring her rulings to combat the secrecy with sunlight.
In this latest decision by Judge Cannon, she has exposed the motives and intentions of the special counsel by un-redacting the 68-page defense motion that Jack Smith previously redacted.
This redacted -vs- unredacted approach allows a comparison between the information provided by the Trump defense team, and the information the Jack Smith team does not want the public to know. [example]
The release of the un-redacted version of the court filing comes after an early April order from Judge Cannon. As noted by PM: “Under the order, the special counsel was required to file an index identifying potential government witnesses identified in the materials included in the motion to compel, and the parties in the case were ordered to work together regarding the redaction of materials that could identify a potential witness.”
There’s another very key aspect to this which should be noted and emphasized. Within the Trump legal presentation, you can clearly see the outline of how and why the special counsel is working with the Biden White House to target President Trump. However, if you know the background you can also see something else, the motive for the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
Remember, every single activity that took place after the November 2016 election was intended to coverup the DOJ/FBI conduct against Donald Trump during the 2016 election. This is very a very critical baseline to understand.
Robert Mueller (the team that included Weissmann etc) was a coverup operation intended to throw a bag over all of the weaponization of government that took place from within the DOJ and FBI toward candidate Donald Trump – Crossfire Hurricane to Robert Mueller, to John Durham, to Jack Smith.
Everything that followed the 2016 election is one long continuum of covering up what took place, and the Jack Smith special counsel is part of that ongoing operation.
When you understand this, then you begin to understand what Julie Kelly is referencing here:
Despite extensive cooperation btw DOJ and NARA, the govt in May 2023 subpoenaed NARA for other documents. (Trying to figure this one out)
19 of the responsive docs–meaning complied with specific request in subpoena–related to Crossfire Hurricane and John Durham investigation: pic.twitter.com/GUE1pxS1TF
Julie Kelly is “trying to figure this one out“… Let me help:
Last year, CTH outlined a four-part series of articles going deep into the background of the DOJ-FBI raid of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, along with the outline into why it was important to them. It doesn’t matter how many different legal angles and Deep State justifications the DOJ attempts to deploy in order to divert away from what took place; the background of who, what, when and why they raided Mar-a-Lago will not change.
In Part One, we outlined the background of the modern Deep State {Go Deep}. In Part Two, we outlined the specifics of how President Trump was targeted by political operatives using tools created by the DC system {Go Deep}. In Part Three, we outlined how and why President Trump was blocked from releasing documents {Go Deep}. And then finally, in Part four {GO DEEP} , we assembled the specifics of what documents likely existed in Mar-a-Lago.
It is important to remember, the Presidential Records Act –the presented pretext for the document conflict– is not a criminal statute. An FBI raid cannot be predicated on a document conflict between the National Archives and a former president.
The raid on Mar-a-Lago was a retrieval effort where the DOJ/FBI were looking for evidence of their misconduct that Donald Trump may have taken with him after his time in office.
That’s it, that was the core purpose.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) documents issue was the auspices or justification for the raid, but that wasn’t the intent of the raid.
The DOJ/FBI was on a search mission to retain full control of the evidence that showed corrupt and illegal conduct by people in the Obama administration. The DOJ, FBI, DOJ-NSD, FBI Counterintelligence Division, ODNI, CIA, SSCI and Legislative Gang of Eight, all participated or were willfully blind to the 2016/2017 activity of a weaponized government targeting a Republican political candidate. This action was grossly illegal and unlawful. Every action taken post-election was taken to mitigate the legal risk of the participants.
Jack Smith (remember, it’s really McCord, Eisen and Weissmann) was hunting for evidence of the DOJ/FBI misconduct. That’s the background context here: [Page 35, pdf unredacted]
The special counsel was looking for documents held by Donald Trump that touched on declassification and/or pertained to John Durham and Crossfire Hurricane. They were looking for documentary evidence against them that Trump may have held (he did and likely still does).
Again, (1) Crossfire Hurricane, (2) Robert Mueller and (3) John Durham was all one long continuum with a shift in operational intent. CH was the original targeting, RM was the continuation of the targeting and coverup, JD was the coverup and run out the clock operation that never looked at anything RM did.
The number (4) in the continuum was/is Jack Smith.
Judge Aileen Cannon can clearly see the construct of the fraudulent case against Donald Trump; however, she needs to tread carefully. Mary McCord, Andrew Weissmann and Norm Eisen are using “national security” as a tool to subvert and control the judicial branch while railroading President Trump.
Judge Aileen Cannon stands in the way of this specifically constructed Lawfare case.
Posted originally on the CTH on April 24, 2024 | Sundance
This is not going to be a surprise for regular CTH readers; however, Politico is outlining how a group of Lawfare ideologues meet every Friday to discuss their constructed legal filings and the next week of attack angles against President Donald Trump.
In essence, the core group inside the meeting are what Christine Blasey-Ford called the “beach friends” when discussing who constructed the legal avenues for the ridiculous attack against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
As we have noted for the past several years, it’s this same group of Lawfare ideologues, mostly former DOJ administrators and lawyers, who are behind every anti-Trump effort. The primary trio is Mary McCord, Norm Eisen (left in red tie), and Andrew Weissmann.
These are the three members who write the briefs and court motions that Jack Smith then files.
Mary McCord worked in the DOJ-NSD to secure the first Title-1 warrant against the Trump campaign; then she created the Logan Act violation to use against Michael Flynn; then she went to work with Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler on both impeachment efforts; then McCord went to work for Bennie Thompson on the J6 committee; then she worked as the liaison between the J6 Committee and Fulton County DA Fani Willis, and now Mary McCord currently works for Jack Smith on the special counsel effort.
Politico outlines how Lawfare operative Norm Eisen organizes the weekly Lawfare meeting and lists the participants who also join in. Remember, Mary McCord, Norm Eisen and Andrew Weissmann are the primary Lawfare agents.
Via POLITICO – […] Every Friday, they meet on Zoom to hash out the latest twists and turns in the Trump legal saga — and intellectually stress-test the arguments facing Trump on his journey through the American legal system.
The meetings are off the record — a chance for the group’s members, many of whom are formally or loosely affiliated with different media outlets, to grapple with a seemingly endless array of novel legal issues before they hit the airwaves or take to print or digital outlets to weigh in with their thoughts.
The group’s host is Norman Eisen, a senior Obama administration official, longtime Trump critic and CNN legal analyst, who has been convening the group since 2022 as Trump’s legal woes ramped up. Eisen was also a key member of the team of lawyers assembled by House Democrats to handle Trump’s first impeachment.
[…] The regular attendees on Eisen’s call include Bill Kristol, the longtime conservative commentator, and Laurence Tribe, the famed liberal constitutional law professor. John Dean, who was White House counsel under Richard Nixon before pleading guilty to obstruction of justice in connection with Watergate, joins the calls, as does George Conway, a conservative lawyer and co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project. Andrew Weissmann, a longtime federal prosecutor who served as one of the senior prosecutors on Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation and is now a legal analyst for MSNBC, is another regular on the calls. Jeffrey Toobin, a pioneer in the field of cable news legal analysis, is also a member of the crew. The rest of the group includes recognizable names from the worlds of politics, law and media.
[…] You probably know some of the other regular participants on the call, which draws in some of the most recognizable names in the Anti-Trump Cinematic Universe.
They currently include Obama-era U.S. Attorneys Harry Litman, Barbara McQuade and Joyce White Vance. Litman is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, a cable news regular and a podcast host. McQuade and Vance co-host a podcast and are under contract with MSNBC, as are two other regular attendees — Jennifer Rubin, an opinion writer for the Washington Post who often covers Trump’s legal affairs, and Mary McCord, a former federal prosecutor and high-ranking official in the Justice Department who co-hosts a podcast for MSNBC with Weissmann. Karen Agnifilo, a former senior prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and CNN commentator, is an occasional attendee, as is Elliot Williams, also a former federal prosecutor who provides commentary on CNN. (read more)
There are many people in media pretending to be surprised to see this article outlining all the participants in the anti-Trump effort as it gives the appearance of an organized and collaborative effort between media and the Lawfare group. However, all of the surprise is just that, pretense.
The entire DC world knows exactly what is going on and who is participating. You do not have some super incredible insight, knowledge or discernment that is not also known and available to every politician, pundit and entity in DC circles. They all know this game and they know the players within it.
Some may pretend to be surprised to see these names in print, but they know exactly who and what these people do. It’s the same “pretending not to know” game they deployed about Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann.
The entire town of Washington DC knew Robert Mueller was a figurehead appointment with a team behind him to coverup the 2016 DC operation against Donald Trump. That’s all the Mueller special counsel operation was, a giant coverup operation or what might be called a Lawfare “catch and kill” operation.
Posted originally on Apr 23, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
I do not get here how this New York judge has not dismissed this case, and Bragg has no jurisdiction to prosecute a federal crime, even if it was. Why not charge Trump under Saudi Law and cut off his hands? No state can prosecute another’s laws. That is plain and simple. I would be filing in federal court for an injunction against New York, and since Trump is a Florida resident, he has the right to prosecute. I would also use the Civil Rights Act and name the Judge and Prosecutor for acting in violation of the Constitution lacking subject matter jurisdiction.
The entire world knows this is to interfere in this election, which in itself is a federal crime. Everyone in this country can file a federal court case to seek an injunction against this prosecution. What they are doing in New York is criminal under 18 USC 594 – “interfering with the right of such other person to vote… ”
Posted originally on the CTH on April 22, 2024 | Sundance
The “hush money” case in New York City is perhaps the stupidest of the Lawfare cases launched against President Trump. The premise is that President Trump tried to “influence the 2016 election” by paying people not to besmirch his reputation with negative stories about him. This is the basis of the “hush money” claim by state prosecutors.
The Federal Election Commission reviewed the details and found no merit to the claims of illegality, but the state of New York twisted the legal interpretation of “honest services” to make a claim that President Trump paid his attorney Michael Cohen and labeled the payments “legal services.” The state case is dependent on a logical fallacy that paying your attorney and designating the payment as ‘legal services’ is a fraudulent business practice. It really is nonsense Lawfare.
President Trump delivered remarks to the media after the first day of trial where his defense team said to the jury, “use your common sense. We’re New Yorkers, It’s why we’re all here.” WATCH:
Posted originally on the CTH on April 22, 2024 | Sundance
During an early Truth Social post today, President Trump drew attention to the Supreme Court noting the double standard of what constitutes obstruction of an official proceeding [SEE HERE].
President Trump then expanded that double standard theme to ask the question about two tiers of enforcement standards for protests and recommended that Americans protest without fear.
Truth Social – “Why are Palestinian protesters, and even rioters, allowed to roam the Cities, scream, shout, sit, block traffic, enter buildings, not get permits, and basically do whatever they want including threatening Supreme Court Justices right in front of their homes, and yet people who truly LOVE our Country, and want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, are not allowed to “Peacefully Protest,” and are rudely and systematically shut down and ushered off to far away “holding areas,” essentially denying them their Constitutional Rights.
America Loving Protesters should be allowed to protest at the front steps of Courthouses, all over the Country, just like it is allowed for those who are destroying our Country on the Radical Left, a two tiered system of justice. Free Speech and Assembly has been “CHILLED” for USA SUPPORTERS. GO OUT AND PEACEFULLY PROTEST. RALLY BEHIND MAGA. SAVE OUR COUNTRY! “THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF.”” (link)
Posted originally on Apr 22, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
I have stated many times that I had the mandate from Hong Kong to negotiate with the Australian government to buy land so they could migrate before Hong Kong was to be handed back to China. I met with former Prime Minister Paul Keating, and every proposal I made was rejected. Out of frustration, I asked him if this was a racist issue because they were Chinese. He said no. They were fleeing Communism and would vote CONSERVATIVE, and he was a Labour Government. They would not allow anyone from Hong Kong to migrate, fearing it would change the politics of Australia. Most ended up going to Canada. They did not prevent Trudeau from seizing control of Canada.
The flyers being handed out tell this illegal alien to vote for Biden: “Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open.” The Democrats have been usurped by the Gates-Rockefeller-Soros-Schwab (WEF) agenda intent on changing the world to function the way this group wants. This is a coup to import as many people as it takes to change the politics and culture of the United States.
Many Democrats are absolute fools, for their hatred of Trump so blinds them;
they cannot see that they are the very instrument of their own destruction.
Posted originally on the CTH on April 20, 2024 | Sundance
Pouring salt in an open wound, House Democrats gleefully waved Ukraine flags in the Capitol chamber celebrating the elevation of Ukraine as a sovereign proxy state for congressional largess over the needs of American citizens.
Most of the $61 billion sent into the Ukraine laundry operation today will be returned to congressional leadership pacs via campaign donations from the military contractors and NGO recipients.
Despite the prior concerns, the Democrat and Republican beneficiaries of this massive money laundering were thrilled the USIC organized Iran missile firing operation against Israel worked so perfectly. You can see Democrats wave the flags of Ukraine in celebration within this video. It’s sickening. WATCH:
WASHINGTON DC – […] The vote on Ukraine became so contentious that some Republicans, also taking umbrage with the Ukraine flags on the House floor, started to boo them. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) ran up to a microphone to tell her colleagues across the aisle: “Put those damn flags away.” (more)
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