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The Truth Is Seeping Out

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On Monday, Just the News posted an article about the lawfare used against President Trump. I need to mention that Just the News is one of the few news sites right now that is doing unbiased investigative reporting.

The article reports:

What did he know and when did he know it? That’s a question former Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland may soon face as the size and scope of Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s dragnet to criminally prosecute Donald Trump comes into fuller focus.

Evidence released in the past week by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley shows Smith’s team prepared a briefing memo in January 2023 – as the presidential race between then-President Joe Biden and Trump was heating up – which alerted Garland that prosecutors were obtaining the communications of as many as a dozen Trump private lawyers and allies and Congress. 

The memo made clear that those gatherings were being done despite legitimate claims the lawyers and members of Congress may have for attorney-client and Debate and Speech Clause privileges. 

The “AG BRIEFING” document by Smith’s office – dated Jan. 13, 2023 – provided Garland and his office with deep insights into the anti-Trump special counsel’s ongoing inquiry, and its future plans.

The documents were released this month by Grassley, an Iowa Republican, in coordination with Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts.

Garland’s intimate knowledge of Smith’s inquiry comes as little surprise. 

Recent evidence also shows that Garland, then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray signed off on the launch of the so-called “Arctic Frost” inquiry into Trump related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. 

Garland also said he “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant” for the FBI’s unprecedented raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022. The Biden White House was also directly linked to the classified documents investigation into Trump, despite its denials, records show.

Jack Smith does not have a great track record–his case against the former Republican governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell was overturned by the Supreme Court 8-0. How often does the Supreme Court agree on anything?

Please follow the link to read the entire article. It is becoming clear that the government was weaponized against President Trump. The people responsible need to go to jail.

Simply Following Precedent

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On Tuesday, Victor Davis Hanson posted an article at The Daily Signal about the attacks on President Trump for being an autocratic dictator. Not only are the attacks without merit, they illustrate the double standard the media uses in evaluating presidential actions.

The article reports:

He’s getting attacked by the Left for autocratic use of presidential powers, he’s dictatorial. You’d almost forget that the Left and the Biden administration, in particular, through five criminal and civil courtrooms, fined him over $400 million, coordinated those legal harassments, and indicted him for 93 felonies. They tried to destroy, not just his candidacy, but his person, to bankrupt him and to jail him.

You would’ve forgotten that 25 states tried to take Donald Trump off the ballot. Nobody had ever done that before. Nobody had ever impeached a president twice. Nobody had ever tried a president, probably unconstitutionally, as a private citizen in the Senate, when he had already left office. No presidential candidate had been the subject of two ex-presidential assassination attempts. No ex-president ever had his home raided by the FBI.

So, we’ve forgotten all this and we’re supposed to think that Donald Trump is acting extra-constitutionally. But Donald Trump, I think, could remind people that he’s just following the precedents that he inherited. I’ll give you a few examples.

So, they’re saying he is deporting, deporting, deporting people. Well, former President Barack Obama deported more people in his tenure than any other prior president—2.5 million. And he focused on criminal aliens. He said so. Just like Donald Trump did. And as far as cages and detention centers, Obama created them. So, Trump just said, “I’m just following the precedent of Obama.”

They’re talking about extra powers of the president to harass people. Donald Trump had two members of his administration—Steve Bannon, in the first term, and Peter Navarro, his trade adviser—who were subpoenaed by Congress and they felt for no other reason but harassment in connection with Jan. 6. And they didn’t show up. And they tried to negotiate with Congress. And Congress jailed them.

Former Attorney General Merrick Garland was also subpoenaed by Congress, remember? And he just refused and there were no consequences. Former Attorney General Eric Holder was subpoenaed by Congress. There was no—and he refused.

And so, all Donald Trump should say, if anybody wants to be subpoenaed from the Biden administration, “We’re just following his example. We don’t really know what the rules are.”

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. It is brilliant.