Representative John Ratcliffe appeared on Fox News to discuss the latest developments within the one-side, partisan, effort to remove President Donald Trump from office.
Having sat through all of the closed-door basement testimony so far, Ratcliffe outlines how Adam Schiff created the appearance of impropriety through an orchestrated effort with embedded political officials. “At the end of the day, the truth will defend itself.”
I want to thank everyone for the birthday greetings and wishes. The fact that the Supreme Court has accepted my petition and ordered the government to respond on the eve of my birthday, was the greatest gift I could ever ask for. This should help a lot of people who are being robbed of all constitutional rights by the SEC and CFTC. They really have to eliminate immunity for government lawyers. Until that takes place, they will continue to abuse the law and use it as a political weapon against anyone who resists their tyranny.
Julian Assange will NEVER receive a fair trial. This is the problem when the law can be used as a political weapon just as Congress is doing to Trump right now – except they are making law as they go, which will no doubt also end up in the Supreme Court.
At the World Economic Conference, I announced that I had petitioned the Supreme Court after discovering in 2017 that despite the fact that the old company Princeton Economics International Ltd (PEI) had been closed back in 2009, the receivership was covertly continuing without my knowledge taking fees no less. How can a judge approve fees for 20 years when the bank pled guilty and repaid everyone back in 2002?
The Receiver, Alan Cohen, had been running PEI from inside Goldman Sachs. My objections that this was a conflict of interest were always ignored. Only because Cohen left Goldman Sachs and became one of the top people in the SEC to ensure various legislation, he could no longer pretend to be the “impartial receiver”.
The SEC had even filed a letter when the Receiver sought to stop the domestic company from publishing research and to fire all the staff. They pointed out that receivers were not allowed to liquidate companies but they pointed out that the company was not bankrupt and there was plenty of money. They have bled those assets dry for 20 years.
This merely illustrates the problem with New York. When I asked a New York Lawyer why no banks are ever charged in New York even when they blow up the entire world economy, he merely smiled and laughed. His response: “You don’t shit where you eat!” The problem with that is the image of the United States has been tarnished greatly. How can you deal with any bank in New York City if there is no rule of law because the courts protect the bankers?
Suddenly, I received a notice that the receivership was to be shut down in 2017. To my complete shock, all my original research and library, which was supposed to have been returned to me, was still in storage. The government REFUSED to return my material despite a prior court order that stated even the SEC was supposed to assist me to get all my personal material back. They just REFUSED to comply.
The Supreme Court has made several rulings bluntly ruling that what was done to me was illegal when carried out by a single court. In my case, they actually used a parallel court to invade the other and strip my lawyers to prevent any sort of a trial. They have been milking the excess funds in the receivership for 20 years. To hide the profits on currency, instead of compelling the bank to return the money they illegally had taken, the receiver sold the notes to HSBC who then redeemed them having to pay only $606 million due to the change in the Japanese yen pocketing nearly $400 million in profits as part of HSBC’s Criminal Restitution. Only when HSBC had to pay the criminal restitution did the government correctly inform the court the transactions were in yen and not dollars as they had told the press in my case. They always count on the press just repeating whatever they say and the press NEVER investigates or ever questions what the government prosecutors ever do. That is why they abuse the law for political gain because the press looks the other way and does not do its job.
As the petition outlines, virtually every other circuit outside of New York has honored the Supreme Court’s prior rulings and outlawed what was done to me plain and simple. New York has refused to recognize any rights that are honored in every other court in the country.
Cert Petition: 2019-09-20 Armstrong cert petition (as-filed)
The Supreme Court has ORDERED the government to respond by December 2nd. This is the first step to be granted Cert. The Government has been ordered to respond to which they will no doubt request an extension. The last time I was in the Supreme Court, after ordering the government to respond, they suddenly released me from contempt and told the Supreme Court the case was then moot. This is EXTREMELY RARE to get into the Supreme Court even once, no less twice. I know of only one other time where the same case got to the Supreme Court twice and that was back in the 1950s.
If the Supreme Court grants cert this time, we are looking at a major case that will most likely vacate the rulings and hold that since it is illegal for a single court to strip you of your lawyers, then it will be illegal to use a parallel court to invade another court and do what it itself cannot do.
With respect to being held in contempt for $1.3 million for English and Scottish coins, I could not find, even that has come up with a new twist. The Judge held me in contempt saying he did not believe me claiming he thought I knew where they were. I had clients willing to put up the $1.3 million in cash for bail and he denied bail. To be held for $1.3 million on a billion-dollar case was .0013%. That was absurd, but they had to prevent a trial. There was no way they would allow a trial after the bank had taken the money. I had no restitution and the bank simply repaid the money. The contempt statute for civil contempt is 18 months. Judge Richard Owen kept rolling the contempt every 18 months and kept me there for nearly 7 years without any trial. Despite all of these facts, nobody in the mainstream press would ever report the truth and always supported the government no matter how outrageous they acted.
To be held in contempt, you are supposed to be given an order which specifically states what it is you are to produce to regain your liberty. I stood up in court and asked where is this order. The receiver Alan Cohen admitted he never produced one and said he would take photos of what he found and I could make the list of what was missing from prison. Naturally, he never even provided any photos either.
The coins I could never produce turned out up when a dealer in Philadelphia had bought the missing coins for $6,000 in cash. They tried to sell them through an auction house in Texas. Perhaps they had no idea that the receivership was still going for 20 years. This is the same firm that had been involved in trying to sell the stolen 1933 $20 gold coins from the US Mint in Philadelphia, which the Court of Appeals ruled that they were the property of the US government all along.
Phase II will be the Supreme Court should grant Cert after the government responds and they will probably hear the case in the Spring of 2020.
Representative Doug Collins appears on Fox News with pumpkin-head for a Halloween interview about today’s impeachment inquiry vote.
I’m going to attempt to remove the legal linguistics and explain what appears to be a highly predictable process most are ignoring.
BASELINE – After the 2018 mid-terms, and in preparation for the “impeachment” strategy, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler hired Lawfare group members to become House committee staff…. Chairman Schiff hired former SDNY U.S. Attorney Daniel Goldman(link), and Chairman Nadler hired Obama Administration lawyer Norm Eisen and criminal defense attorney Barry Berke (link). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi then hiredDouglas Letter as House General Counsel – all are within the Lawfare network.
♦On October 25th DC Judge Beryl Howell granted the House Judiciary Committee (HJC) request for legal authority to receive 6e grand jury material underlying the Mueller report.
Additionally, within the Howell decision she officially recognized the HJC effort was predicated on a constitutional impeachment process.
In essence Howell’s opinion granted the HJC with “judicial enforcement authority.”
♦The DOJ moved to appeal the decision and requested a “stay” pending appeal. Judge Howell rejected the “stay” motion.
The DOJ appealed to the DC Court of Appeals. A panel of three judges issued an “administrative stay”, blocking enforcement of the Howell ruling while the appeal was reviewed.
The temporary administrative stay was granted to freeze the status quo while the court considers whether to grant a longer stay that would remain in effect until the DOJ appeal is argued or decided (deadline tomorrow). The outcome is pending. Judge Merrick Garland is the Chief Judge of the DC Appeals court.
After the full House voted to authorize the ongoing “impeachment inquiry” today, Nadler’s team immediately opened a second legal front.
♦Using the baseline predicate of Howell’s recognition of HJC impeachment authority; and now using the full House vote as further affirmation therein; the HJC is now moving to another Judge, Ketanji Brown Jackson, an Obama appointee to the federal district court in D.C., requesting judicial enforcement authority to compel testimony from former White House legal counsel Don McGahn:
WASHINGTON DC – Lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee urged a federal judge on Thursday to force former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before Congress about President Trump’s possible obstruction of justice, arguing that his refusal to comply is harming House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
Democrats’ counsel said that even though McGahn’s role in the obstruction investigation carried out by former special counsel Robert Mueller was described at length in Mueller’s report, lawmakers still need to independently evaluate his testimony. (more)
The HJC objective is simple: gain judicial enforcement authority for their subpoenas so their targets cannot legally refuse to give testimony.
The premise for both fronts [(1) document subpoena 6e material, and (2) testimony from McGahn] is predicated on penetrating a constitutional firewall that exists within the separation of powers.
Under existing SCOTUS precedent, the White House can be compelled to deliver Executive Branch documents and testimony so long as an official legislative branch impeachment process is underway.
Judge Beryl Howell was the first person in the judicial branch to recognize and accept the HJC position that such an official impeachment process was ongoing. Judge Brown Jackson will likely be the second. The House vote today is fuel for that twisted-legal approach.
Some have asked for my opinion on where this is going…. My opinion is not outlining success or failure, merely the likely approach they are taking with this scheme:
It would appear that Nadler and his Lawfare group are collecting evidence for their Impeachment Managers. The decision to impeach was reached long ago; these moves by the HJC are moves to gather evidence for the Senate trial.
The Pelosi-Schiff optics of open House impeachment hearings is a pantomime, intended to give the illusion of customary and traditional impeachment proceedings taking place. The impeachment report Schiff’s Lawfare group will deliver to the HJC Lawfare group is meant only to bolster the pre-existing conclusions from Barry Berke and Norm Eisen.
In essence, the usurpers began with the end in mind, and they are now back-filling the pre-scripted articles of impeachment with supportive evidence. The HJC subpoenas are intended to do that back-filling along with the Schiff committee product.
Unfortunately, I do not foresee the DOJ succeeding in their appeals. The DOJ has put their weakest lawyers (half-hearted attempts) into the fight. As an outcome it looks like the Judiciary is aligned in favor of the constitutional predicate claimed by the HJC.
Shimon Prokupecz✔@ShimonPro
NEW: Federal judge in DC expresses disbelief that WH could control what former officials might talk about, when subpoenaed:
“We don’t live in a world where your status as a former executive branch official somehow shields you or prevents you from giving information.”
Shimon Prokupecz✔@ShimonPro
The judiciary (so far) doesn’t seem to be on the Trump administration’s side over the subpoena battles.
Today it’s Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson talking to a Justice Department attorney who is defending the White House.
Ultimately it will take a much stronger republican house effort to stop Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler and their host of Lawfare contracted agents. Simultaneously it would take a much stronger team in the DOJ fighting to retain the executive branch position. Neither is currently present.
Show me an action by U.S. AG Bill Barr to change the impression the DOJ is intentionally tanking the external fight and I will change my opinion. However, so far the push-back from the DOJ has been very weak considering the stakes. [Too weak to be accidental]
Thus my opinion: despite the strength of their constitutional position, the DOJ will fail to protect the office of the presidency. It’s a gut-sense impression; but we should be able to get a better feel of DOJ motive from their approach toward the appeals court.
♦ That brings up the Senate trial. From a review of their signaling and positioning, it appears to me the objective of the Lawfare group, via the impeachment managers, will center around modifications to Senate Impeachment Rules and the use of a Senatorial Trial Panel.
The senate rules on impeachment processes can be changed and modified [Example here from 1986]. Additionally there is nothing in the constitution that requires an established number of senators to sit or convict during the trial [Constitution, Article 1, Sec 3]:
This is my interpretation of what the Lawfare group will attempt.
“Concurrence of two-thirds of the members present“
The Democrats will argue their 2020 candidates cannot spend all this time on a Senate trial…. the media will be sympathetic….. Because the constitution is ambiguous to the construct…. and intentionally differential to the size of the Senate…. the democrat approach will be to empanel a bipartisan jury of an unknown number of Senators to sit for the trial “under oath and affirmation.”
There is nothing in the constitution that would stop the Senate from assembling a jury of 10 republican senators and 10 democrat senators. It would then require “two-thirds” or thirteen for a conviction. Or the jury could be 40 or (fill_in_blank).
This type of a senate construct is what the left has been hinting about in their discussions. This is what Lawfare has been discussing since they successfully gained the Nixon Impeachment Roadmap during their lawsuit a few months ago.
Senator Lindsey Graham, who has increasingly come under pressure for doing nothing as the powerful Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announces today that he will be abdicating his chairmanship immediately after the 2020 presidential election:
(Via Politico) Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) plans to hand the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee back to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa.) in the next Congress. Graham took over the panel this year from Grassley, who left to chair the Senate Finance Committee.
In an interview Thursday, Graham said Grassley asked to come back after his tenure on the Senate Finance Committee. Graham responded “absolutely.”
“Love Chuck Grassley. That’s the way the Senate works,” Graham said. “He took the Finance Committee so I could be chairman, and he’ll come back and fill out his time, and I’ll come back, and somebody else will come along.” (read more)
Obviously this announcement begs the question:
Did Graham -who has done nothing promised- assume the Chair for 2019 and 2020 as a designed effort to protect the backroom interests of the upper-chamber?
Despite some initial side-eye to the cynicism, the premise would actually not be that far fetched. Such a plan was laid out by GOPe political consultant Alex Castellanos [SEE HERE]. […] “The best way to do it is how Brutus killed Caesar. Get real close, snuggle up, and shiv him in the ribs.” (link)
The Senate Judiciary Committee could be questioning a myriad of people from the DOJ, FBI and national security apparatus that have been identified as participating in a lengthy scheme to usurp the office of the presidency; however, Senator Graham has done nothing.
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko presented US Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham with the Order of Freedom and the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise respectively, ahead of a US delegation meeting in Kiev, 2016. WATCH:
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The Senate Judiciary Committee will have structural organizational responsibilities for an upcoming senate impeachment trial after the House impeachment managers deliver their articles of impeachment.
House republican and democrat leadership both held press conferences today immediately after the successful passage of the House Impeachment Inquiry Resolution.
Republicans:
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Democrats:
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Beware! All who enter will be cursed with the agony of socialism!
“O-Booo-ma” is ready to greet the Trick or Treaters at the front entrance, “Welcome to your Demon-rat fate!”
Be Careful! Horrible groans come from the room to the left where the 2020 Democrat candidates bring a half-baked creature to life, the Democrat socialism Monster!
We creep up the crumbling stairs and hear loud screams of “Orange Man Bad” coming from the Marxist Media Propaganda room.
Be sure to avoid Black Widow Pelosi’s parlor of impeachment where the little bug, Adam Schiff spins his web of lies against President Trump.
Watch out! Slick Willy slides down the stairs as the blood sucking Vampire Soros is ready to drain the country’s life blood!
Sorry, the temple is closed on Orgy Island as the “suicided” Jeffrey Epstein spends eternity flying around hell.
“I’m Koo Koo for Climate Change,” rings out as the clock hits midnight in the O-Crazio Green Room.
What’s that bumping in the last dark upstairs room of the house? It’s the withered remains of Psycho Hillary Clinton stumbling into the presidential race…did you find the “haunted” shoe?
Reeeee! HAPPY HALLOWEEN
From TINA AND BEN
Repost by Request – with intro: After the 2018 mid-terms, and in preparation for the “impeachment” strategy, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler hired Lawfare group members to become House committee staff.
Chairman Schiff hired former SDNY U.S. Attorney Daniel Goldman (link), and Chairman Nadler hired Obama Administration lawyer Norm Eisen and criminal defense attorney Barry Berke (link). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi then hired Douglas Letter as House General Counsel – all are within the Lawfare network.
[Barry Berke, left and Norm Eisen, right – pictured exiting the HSCI scif with Jerry Nadler on the same day Pelosi’s “Impeachment Inquiry” Resolution was released, 10/29/19]After Goldman, Eisen, Berke and Letter were hired in late 2018, Pelosi then went aboutchanging the Rules of the House in January ’19. Few were paying attention until recently.
In the last month many people have surmised that Pelosi and Schiff moved to utilize the Ukraine/NSC impeachment angle *after* the Mueller angle for impeachment ran into trouble. However, CTH research (widely criticized in 2018) doesn’t reflect the Whistle-blower impeachment plan as an ‘add-on’. Instead, what we see is the use of the HPSCI; and the use of embeds within National Security Council staff; by design. The Schiff events of today were always part of a prior planned design.
Only two committees hired Lawfare staff in 2018: Judiciary (Eisen & Berke) and HPSCI(Goldman). This evidences a 2018 plan to use the Judiciary and HPSCI for the impeachment process as designed by the Lawfare contractors. This design is also outlined in the year of public advice from the mother-ship, Lawfare.
They impeachment crew always planned to use the House Intelligence Committee; and they always planned to use activated sleeper cells within the National Security Staff. None of this is organic; none of this current action was contingent upon a Trump phone call. The whistle-blower approach was always going to be used; the only issue was: ‘how’?
That sets the context for the slick moves by Pelosi and Schiff’s Lawfare team. The contracted legal staff within House Intelligence Committee produced a House “Impeachment Inquiry” resolution to be voted on tomorrow.
By all appearances the impeachment crew is following a legal strategy. Leading with Nadler (Mueller) in the HJC was part of that forethought. Berke and Eisen would then go after the Mueller evidence (grand jury, 6e material). Whether Judge Beryl Howell was/is in-on-it; and whether the DOJ staff tanked the oral arguments on purpose; is up for debate… but the plan was always thus.
Once, Barry Berke and Norm Eisen gained Judicial impeachment validation from a federal judge, that’s where Chairman Schiff and Daniel Goldman come in. Goldman is the Lawfare contractor leading the questioning and framing the House impeachment inquiry approach through the use of the HPSCI rules that are useful in their secrecy.
The primary point is: none of this process-flow is accidental. There is a design evident in activity that is only visible in hindsight.
Why does this matter?
Because if we can see the visible House plan; and if we accept the deliberate process it has taken to carry it out; then why would we assume there isn’t a similar plan for the Senate?
♦ Constitutional professor Lawrence Tribe is to the left as Mark Levin is to the right.
To the Lawfare crew, Lawrence Tribe is their Svengali. Tribe has been hinting toward a process that could be possible within the Senate. [SEE HERE] Ignore him at our peril.
Barry Ritholtz✔@ritholtz
Harvard Constitutional expert Lawrence Tribe: Constitution doesn’t require 67 Senators to remove POTUS from office. It requires two-thirds of senators PRESENT.
This single word in the Constitution’s impeachment clauses shifts the impeachment math
https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/10/10/the-impeachment-loophole-no-ones-talking-about/ …The Impeachment Loophole No One’s Talking About | Washingtonian (DC)
Conviction in the Senate doesn’t require two-thirds of the Senate. It requires two-thirds of senators who are *present*.
washingtonian.com
Retreating to the Senate as the Alamo, where all hope falls upon the action of Mitch McConnell, isn’t exactly the most reassuring plan. That approach means the House will have then destroyed the structural intention of the constitutional intent surrounding the impeachment process.
This needs to be fought hard, to stop the House from codifying a process that will forever change the office of the president. The precedent being outlined here is alarming.
Laurence Tribe✔@tribelaw
This remedial “discretion” kicks in ONLY if POTUS “unlawfully refuse[s] to make witnesses available for testimony to, or to produce documents requested by, the investigative committees.” And @RepJerryNadler is bound to exercise that discretion in accord with due process of law. https://twitter.com/lindsemcpherson/status/1189376911601995777 …
Lindsey McPherson✔@lindsemcpherson
Big loophole in the Judiciary Committee impeachment procedures released tonight!
House Democrats give Trump and his counsel rights to participate in the proceedings but tuck in a provision allowing Nadler to take those rights away at his discretion. https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/democrats-impeachment-rights-for-trump-include-loophole-to-take-them-away …
The crafted resolution that will be voted upon tomorrow (full pdf below) contains the rules constructed by Nadler and Shiff’s Lawfare staff, for public HPSCI hearings.
The House impeachment resolution blocks President Trump’s lawyers from participating in the House process until the hand-off to the Judiciary Committee for article assembly.
Within the House resolution is a process to transfer the evidence from the three investigative committee chairs: Schiff, Engel and Maloney, to Jerry Nadler at Judiciary. [The process within Judicary will be assembling the ‘articles of impeachment’.]
What Pelosi/Schiff et al have assembled is a format for a highly controlled public spectacle prior to a predetermined transfer of evidence to Jerry Nadler (Judicary). With the intent to construct a pantomime for public absorption in mind, the rules are written for maximum narrative construction. [ex. Lawfare lawyers will question witnesses]
The rules within the resolution outline the guidance for at least one public hearing from the HPSCI prior to transfer to Judiciary. The Oversight Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee and Intelligence Committee are assembling publicly under the House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) for that/those public hearing(s).
Key points from rules:
[**Note: IMHO this report has already been written. That was the purpose for the basement hearings. All of this public testimony is for public consumption to support the premise of a constitutional impeachment proceedings. It’s a farce.]
The next part of the resolution is the House approving of the transfer process, and setting up rules for the Judiciary Committee phase. The Judiciary Committee (HJC) then shifts to official Impeachment Hearings, prior to articles of impeachment being assembled.
Within the rules, the existence of judicial enforcement authority -punishment for refusing to provide documents and witnesses by subpoena- is assumed. Based on the construction of this resolution, and with Judge Howell’s court decision still standing, this presumption by the House appears structurally solid.
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“The resolution provides rules for the format of open hearings in the House Intelligence Committee, including staff-led questioning of witnesses, and it authorizes the public release of deposition transcripts.
“The evidence we have already collected paints the picture of a President who abused his power by using multiple levers of government to press a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 election. Following in the footsteps of previous impeachment inquiries, the next phase will move from closed depositions to open hearings where the American people will learn firsthand about the President’s misconduct.” (LINK)
Paul Sperry from RealClearInvestigations has outlined the CIA “whistle-blower” who originated the hearsay complaint against President Trump as Eric Ciaramella.
According to the researched outline, Ciaramella worked closely with Democrat operative, Alexandra Chalupa in 2016 to advance the anti-Trump effort; and this year Ciaramella worked closely with HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff’s staff to continue his efforts.
(RCPI) […] Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia “collusion” investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
Further, Ciaramella (pronounced char-a-MEL-ah) left his National Security Council posting in the White House’s West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media. He has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
“He was accused of working against Trump and leaking against Trump,” said a former NSC official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
Also, Ciaramella huddled for “guidance” with the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, including former colleagues also held over from the Obama era whom Schiff’s office had recently recruited from the NSC. (Schiff is the lead prosecutor in the impeachment inquiry.)
And Ciaramella worked with a Democratic National Committee operative who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, inviting her into the White House for meetings, former White House colleagues said. The operative, Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American who supported Hillary Clinton, led an effort to link the Republican campaign to the Russian government. “He knows her. He had her in the White House,” said one former co-worker, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter. (read more)
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