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Originally posted by ranger312:
Jeff DeWitt resigned today. Claims he was "set up" by Kari Lake. I dunno, the recording seems pretty clear (and disgusting)
Link

And a separate thread was started on it.
https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...0601935/m/7720082605

The task of being re-elected will of course be a daunting one, and that is putting it mildly. You can read Trump's statement here and see that he is threatening to dismantle virtually all of the Deep State mechanism, and that means he has thousands of influential people and political operatives at all levels of federal government who want to stop him by whatever means is required.

Trump’s plan to dismantle the ‘Deep State':

1. Immediately reissue 2020 executive order restoring the president’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats and wield that power “very aggressively."

2. Clean out all the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.

3. Totally reform FISA courts.

4. Establish a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” to declassify and publish all documents on the deep state’s spying, censorship, and corruption.

5. Launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with “fake news to deliberately weave false narratives and subvert our government and democracy.”

6. Make every inspector general’s office independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee.

7. Ask Congress to establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies.

8. Continue the effort launched by the Trump administration to move parts of the federal bureaucracy to new locations outside the “Washington Swamp.”

9. Work to ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and regulate.

10. Push a constitutional amendment to appose term limits on members of Congress.


https://twitter.com/LeadingRep.../1750332674701463838

If someone leaked Grandpa Joe or the Krimson Kenyan's tax records, they would also get a sweetheart deal/slap on the wrist...right? Right?

Former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn, who stole and helped publicize the confidential tax records of Donald Trump and an estimated 7,500 other wealthy Americans, could face little or no jail time when he's sentenced later this month, because the DOJ allowed him to plead guilty to a single felony count.

I think someone screwed up on point 10. They probably meant propose instead of appose.

JP

^^^I believe that's an appropriate use of the word. Constitutional Amendments don't propose anything. You can propose one, but the statement specifically calls to 'push' a Constitutional Amendment.

Appose transitive verb: to put before: apply (one thing) to another

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
^^^I believe that's an appropriate use of the word. Constitutional Amendments don't propose anything. You can propose one, but the statement specifically calls to 'push' a Constitutional Amendment.

Appose transitive verb: to put before: apply (one thing) to another

I was reading that as "oppose" not "appose".

JP

Yeah, baby.

https://twitter.com/TimRunsHis.../1750742255680262614

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Originally posted by jprebb:
I think someone screwed up on point 10. They probably meant propose instead of appose.

JP

it did seem out of place...

ap·pose /əˈpōz/ verb TECHNICAL

To place (something) in proximity to or juxtaposition with something else.

"the specimen was apposed to X-ray film"

Examples of appose

Throughout the length of the bar the two plasma membranes are closely apposed, separated by a translucent space. At their synaptic sites, photoreceptor terminals contain ribbons apposed to apparently normal postsynaptic triads.

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Originally posted by HRK:

Examples of appose

Throughout the length of the bar the two plasma membranes are closely apposed, separated by a translucent space. At their synaptic sites, photoreceptor terminals contain ribbons apposed to apparently normal postsynaptic triads.

Yeah, that's what I thought it was.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...be-into-fani-willis/

Georgia State Senate Approves Subpoena-Powered Probe into Fani Willis

The Georgia State Senate on Friday approved launching a subpoena-powered investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis by a 30-19 vote.

The investigation will be run by a Senate committee, exclusively reported about by Breitbart News on Monday. This follows Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R) refusal to launch a criminal investigation into Willis, citing the need for a currently non-operational oversight committee to open the probe.

The Senate committee will hold subpoena power to “secure the attendance of witnesses or the production of documents and materials” related to Willis, the resolution put forth by Georgia State Sen. Greg Dolezal (R-Forsyth) read.

The committee, the only type of its kind in the state of Georgia, will comprise nine senators, only three of whom will be Democrats. The Committee on Assignments will appoint members to the committee.

“The Georgia legislature has a responsibility to hold public officials accountable,” Georgia Lieutenant Gov. Burt Jones exclusively told Breitbart News on Monday. “Recent reports have been deeply troubling, and I appreciate Sen. Dolezal’s leadership on this issue.”

The Senate probe is the latest effort to hold the Fulton County prosecutor accountable. In January, a Georgia judge ordered Willis to “respond” to the corruption accusations in writing by February 2, the Washington Post reported. The order will force the prosecutor to speak on television about the allegations on February 15.

In addition, Willis and Wade are expected to be subpoenaed about the allegations of their affair during Wade’s ongoing and unsealed divorce case. The potential information could illuminate Willis and Wade’s alleged “improper” relationship during their case against Trump.

Highly recommended story by Matt Taibbi

https://www.racket.news/p/is-t...toral-fix-already-in


He reports that plotters are preparing to continue attacking Donald Trump in 2024 (and beyond) exactly like they attacked him from 2016 to today

"The fix is in. To “protect democracy,” democracy is already being canceled. We just haven’t admitted the implications of this to ourselves yet.

On Sunday, January 14th, NBC News ran an eye-catching story: “Fears grow that Trump will use the military in ‘dictatorial ways’ if he returns to the White House.” It described “a loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers” that is “quietly” making plans to “foil any efforts to expand presidential power” on the part of Donald Trump.

The piece quoted an array of former high-ranking officials, all insisting Trump will misuse the Department of Defense to execute civilian political aims. Since Joe Biden’s team “leaked” a strategy memo in late December listing “Trump is an existential threat to democracy” as Campaign 2024’s central talking point, surrogates have worked overtime to insert existential or democracy in quotes"


long article

Taibbi reminds that it was Marc Elias (former Perkins Coie) who tweeted:

^^^^^^^^^^^ The dirty leftists are doing all the lawfare they can.


Trump Ordered To Pay Over $80 Million In (Second) Carroll Defamation Case

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...roll-defamation-case

E Jean Carroll was just awarded $83 million...
Alina Habba was NOT allowed to present any evidence.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...oll-defamation-trial

As with the rest of it, gentlemen, this will serve only to bolster Donald Trump's support. Please keep this in mind.

Trump was mocked by the MSM for suggesting election fraud "without evidence", but assertions of rape without evidence are to be taken as undeniable (at the cost of $83 million) truth? What absurdity.

When I read the news I got so friggin' mad my neighbors were probably wondering what's going on at Carl's house?

But para's point is a good one. The citizens of this country can see though this witch hunt...most of them anyway. This will bring President Trump more support against this true tyrannical government!

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Originally posted by stoic-one:
E Jean Carroll was just awarded $83 million...
Alina Habba was NOT allowed to present any evidence.

I am sure this will be appealed.


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Originally posted by parabellum:
As with the rest of it, gentlemen, this will serve only to bolster Donald Trump's support. Please keep this in mind.

Exactly! The more they persecute him, more people will see how frivolous they are and Trump as the victim of their witch hunt.

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Victor Davis Hanson
@VDHanson
83 million?

Donald Trump in furor stormed out of a New York courtroom for a while, in the defamation suit brought by author and dating/boyfriend/sex-advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

It was just settled against Trump for $83.3 million! The Carroll suit was largely subsidized by Reid Hoffman the billionaire capitalist, and mega-donor to the Democratic Party and leftwing causes.

The subtext of Trump’s rage, aside from the outrageous monetary size of the defamation ruling, is that he was facing—and angered—a leftwing claimant, a quite hostile leftwing judge, and a leftwing New York jury.

The civil suit serves as a mere preview of four additional leftwing criminal prosecutions, leftwing judges, and leftwing juries to come—all on charges that would never had been filed if Trump either had not run for president or been a liberal progressive.

Yet here we are.

The E. Jean Carroll case is the most baffling of all five. She, the alleged victim, did not remember even the year in which the purported sexual assault took place, nearly three decades ago. Observers have pointed out dozens of inconsistencies in her story.

It was never clear what were the preliminaries that supposedly (Trump denies meeting her) led both, allegedly, willingly to retreat together to a department store dressing room, where during normal business hours the alleged violence took place.

Moreover, the sexual assault complaint came forward decades post facto—and only after Trump was running for and then president.

Carroll eventually sued him for battery, but well after the statute of limitations had expired and thus the case seemed defunct.

Her claims of defamation injuries arise from being fired from her advice column job at ELLE magazine.

She claimed that Trump’s sharp denials and ad hominem retorts led to her career ruin. But the loss for anyone of a column at 76 does not seem such a rare occurrence, and the absence of a salaried job in one’s late seventies for four years does not seem to equate to a $83 million hit.

And note the allegation that her dispute with Trump led to her firing was strongly denied by the very magazine that cut her loose.

But then another strange thing happened. In 2022, a new law (“The Adult Survivors Act”) was passed in the New York legislature. It also post facto established a twelve-month window (beginning six months from the signing of bill) that permitted survivors of long ago alleged sexual assaults suddenly to sue the accused long-ago perpetrator—regardless of the previous statute of limitations.

That unexpected opening suddenly gave Carroll’s prior unsuccessful efforts a rebirth. And she quickly refiled with the help of arch-Trump hating billionaire Hoffman.

Yet the bill may have been introduced with Trump particularly in mind—given the legislator who introduced it, Brad Hoylman-Siga, was known as another Trump antagonist.

More interestingly, he had earlier introduced and had passed another Trump-targeted bill. That “TRUST” act had empowered particular federal Congressional committees to have access to the New York State once sealed tax returns of high-ranking government officials—such as Trump.

That bill’s generally agreed subtext was a green light for anti-Trump members of Congress to obtain legal access to Donald J. Trump's tax returns.

So there is an eerie feeling that the New York legislature may have abruptly passed legislation that was aimed at the past conduct of Donald Trump but only after he entered the political arena.

While these are not quite bills of attainder, there is something unsettling if they are post facto laws aimed at targeting the most famous and controversial man in America and the leading candidate for the presidency.

In essence they were targeted statutes designed to make Trump’s prior legally unactionable behavior suddenly quite legally actionable.

Trump will be subject to such special treatment all summer and fall.

Prosecutors Bragg, James, Smith, and Willis will synchronize their court business for maximum effect.

Trump again will face leftwing prosecutors, judges, and juries on charges that are politically driven, involving alleged behavior that is either usually not criminalized or not to the same degree as Trump’s case. (Do we remember the nearly $375,000 federal fine belatedly leveled at an exempt Obama but only five years after his 2008 illegal garnering of, and not reporting, foreign campaign contributions?)

The stakes are higher each day as Trump closes in on the nomination and thus becomes the hope of half the country to end the Biden madness.

Somehow Trump will have to stay calm, give no opening to his legion of hostile prosecutors, while conducting a nonstop campaign against Biden (and for a while Hayley), and while fighting to keep his name on various state ballots.

So what we are witnessing is not even the extralegal efforts of Steele/Fusion GPS, Perkins Coie/DNC/Hillary Clinton in 2016, or the 2020 “Russian disinformation” ruse/change the voting laws/infuse half a billion dollars to absorb the work of the registrar machinations against Trump.

We are way beyond all that. The legal system itself, hand-in-glove with leftwing politicos (compare campaign boasts of James and Willis, or prosecutorial visits to the January 6 committee and the White House) is turning the process of balloting and elections into an embarrassing farce.

Still, Trump will have to soldier on. He must stay controlled amid the tsunamis, not play into the hands of his accusers, and remember that he may soon be the only eleventh-hour hope to stop this mockery of American law, customs and traditions.