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I have done a good bit of political litigation in my home state. What the Democrats are unleashing is stunning. It’s not just Trump and “his associates” that are being railroaded. It includes lawyers who did nothing more than provide legal advice on complex constitutional and election law issues. That’s all they did and they are being criminally prosecuted in GA and several disbarment proceedings are pending against them. Simply for providing legal advice to the wrong political party and politician.

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The democrat party has crossed the rubicon. They fear that if they don't stop Trump using any means necessary he will do what they have been doing since the "Russia collusion" hoax began, including lawfare. They know what they've done is tactics used by fascist and communist dictators the world over and are projecting their own impulses on to Trump. Be ready for outright fraud and desperation in 2024 from the extremists: they want power and fear Trump will turn the tables on them using their own tactics against them.

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I truly hope he does...never thought I would say that, but that will be, perhaps, the only way to put an end to it all.

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Even if he does win... who is willing to risk their livelihood and possible family members and their livelihoods... to be connected to him after everything we've witnessed? Is that why people publicly turned against him - to save their families - not because they wanted to turn against him?

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They will do whatever it takes to make sure he never takes office again. They are not going to let go of power. I fear for his safety. “They” have done it before.

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If the democrats didn't do anything wrong, what do they have to worry about?

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As he should.

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This tactic is also being used on medical professionals who dared to disagree with the FDA/CDC. More than a few have lost, or are facing the loss of their medical licenses. Smarter people than me have argued that the FDA and CDC don't have the authority to discipline doctors who act against their directives, but that isn't stopping them. The government's control freaks and power mongers are running amok.

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It is even worse as they keep trying to pierce attorney-client privilege with the most specious and absurd reasoning.

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And the Jan. 6 demonstrators. Don't forget them--it seems many people have.

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Your going to be able to spend the rest of your life exposing the two tiered justice system that is destroying the country. What Carroll did to Trump can be replicated against any man at any time. Zero evidence is needed. Just hatred for the accused in the court and local community.

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Trump should file a billion dollar defamation lawsuit against Carroll in Florida. Turn around is fair play. As I recall even the tainted jury and judge did not find him guilty of rape as she alleged.

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This may be my last comment ever.

What will it take you to vote for Trump, Alex?

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Yes the people would like to know?

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This people doesn't. It's none of my business.

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He's not asking him to vote for Trump. He's asking what it will take for him to vote for Trump. As in: how bad would it have to get, what would have to happen? What would America have to look like for Alex to vote (not FOR Trump) against the Regime that is using lawfare to destroy the republic.

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We have too many Democrats that are Democrats because their family has always been Democrats and have no idea what the Democrat Party is doing or now stands for.

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One could vote against the Regime and not vote for Trump. At least three other candidates are out there - RFK Jr., Jill Stein,Cornell West plus whomever the Libertarians run.

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If you really want to fear the future of our country, listen to Matt Taibbi's podcast, This Week In America, from Friday Feb 2nd. What the Dems are doing to try and keep 3rd party candidates off the ballot is distressing.

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Can't listen to podcasts, so I wait till Matt releases the transcript. Their ballot access lawfare is more than distressing - these are the tactics used in places like Venezuela.

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What was fascinating was how the Democrats conspired to keep Ralph Nader off the ballot. Many of the same tactics being used now.

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It’s way more than distressing. It is the opposite of what most of us thought America is. It’s horrifying

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Yes, but c'mon, our system is binary. Either the Dem or the Repub wins the presidency. Voting for anyone other than the Dem or the Repub helps the *worse*, from the voter's perspective, of the two.

If someone hates Trump, but thinks Biden is worse than Trump, then voting third party is taking a vote away from the hated Trump, which makes it easier for the MORE-hated Biden to win.

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That's not the way I read LI's question. I read it as "What will it take to get you to vote for Trump? But your reframing of the question is interesting.

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Actually, he (Andrew the Great) understood the nuance of my point completely.

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Exactly.

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Or, more logically, RFK, Jr.?

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I’m an RFK fan. But that’s a Perot vote. In reality Trump is the only hope.

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Not necessarily. Biden is so obviously demented and corrupt that many who can’t see him as viable and find Kamala to be untenable, are increasingly moving to RFK jr.

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I think RFK Jr might have more supporters than are letting on. This happened with Trump....when asked, people didn't always admit they were going to vote for him. It may be worse now...both with Trump and with RFK. Most people are keeping their voting plans to themselves. And they lie to pollsters.

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RFK, Jr. is unlikely to make it onto the ballot in all 50 states, thereby greatly reducing his probability of being anything other than a spoiler for either Biden or Trump (he'll likely take a lot of votes from both). This is why there has been a suggestion that he run on the Libertarian Party ticket - but he's really still a Democrat, not a libertarian. I'm not as enthusiastic about Trump as I was before he listened to the little troll from the NIH but I still see him as the best countbalabce to the last three years of leftist insanity.

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Feb 7·edited Feb 7

Me too, esp as the ballot access issue is critical -- how are we in a democracy when it takes millions upon millions of dollars to get on the necessary state ballots (not even all 50)?

Given that, my preferred outcome leans toward Trump & Somebody not odious or RINO with RFK Jr as the attack dog Attorney General (and closest Trump advisor). I would like to think that Bobby is enough of a patriot to agree to this if offered.

In the meantime, I hope that enough traditional liberals -- looking at you Alex -- accept the reality that a second "Biden" Administration is actually the most perilous possible outcome. One wonders if it would be almost better if Biden died or something before November leaving "VPres Word Salad" at the top of the ballot (to ease the pain of switching sides.)

Speaking of switching sides, our "troubles" down at the border have "inconveniently" -- for the Dems -- impacted the fidelity of traditional Black Chicago Democratic Party members. Trump already attracts Black men, if the women defect in large enough numbers, the Dems are toast.

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I would only disagree with the part about lawfare not being heard of much before Trump. The Republican Governor Scott Walker beat a recall effort in Wisconsin, then had the homes of his most prominent supporters raided by Democratic DAs in the "John Doe" investigations, until the courts intervened. And Rick Perry was a popular four-term Republican governor in Texas when he was charged with two absurd felonies by a Democratic DA's office. They've been trending in this direction for quite a while, and California filed a criminal complaint against Ron DeSantis -- for "human trafficking" -- in case he won the Republican nomination. See also the ten Republican legislators in Oregon barred by the courts from running for reelection.

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Also the Senator from Alaska that was charged before the election so he would lose. Governor of VA - McDonald - convicted and then conviction reversed by Supreme court.

Alex is late to see that Lawfare has been going on against conservatives for a long time.

The GOP are too big a bunch of pussies to fight back in the same way and the Democrat's know it.

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The Dems are way more organized and unified by their communist like nature. They always vote in lockstep even when they disagree more privately. The libertarians and conservatives are by nature and definition free thinkers . They can’t get their act together to fight the commie takeover.. They prefer the chaos they create to compromising even while seeing how dangerous the Dems have become.

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Not doing what you know is wrong does not make you a pussy.

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Great piece to recognize the political nature of these suits and charges. However, I am curious about your comment "In those, at least, he has the protections that criminal law gives defendants, and the financial resources to use them." I don't believe he has been given the protections criminal laws are supposed to provide. The biggest one is the fraud case against him. Valid information was not allowed in testimony. The defense team was basically handed the only questions the judge was allowing in his courtroom. All legal and financial experts, who are considered the best in their field, were treated like liars themselves. You have to scratch your head and wonder how a judge, who is supposed to be impartial, was discussing seizing Trump's businesses prior to day 1 of the trial. This is all an attempt to break Trump so he doesn't run against Joe, leaving the only person left on the Republican ticket is a known RINO.

Signed, A Staunch Libertarian Who Believes That Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark.

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The fraud case is a civil case. But something is rotten. The law used to bring this case is rotten. And this so-called judge is rotten. And clearly, the state of New York is rotten.

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The state of NY is rotten and the stench is getting stronger by the day.

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Charging Trump or anyone with fraud based solely on inflated values when none of his creditors lost money or complained is crazy. That's why the law that's been on the books for decades has never been used before.

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Agreed, but civil cases, including fraud, allows the same protections which include the right to defend yourself. In this fraud trial, that did not happen. Evidence can be excluded, but censoring the questions the defense can pose is not a practice the judge should be able to get away with, they can object, but not know what the defenses trial plans are. That removes the right of the defendant to actually defend themselves. Still, the NY judicial system is definitely stinking up the courts. The absolute ridiculous nature of these trials lies in the fact that once these kangaroo courts do whatever they want, no one on the Democratic side of the aisle appears to realize they are setting precedence in red states. Once this is established, Republican states can use this precedence to sue a democrat who may trigger someone.

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I hate the idea of tit for tat, but maybe that's our only recourse.

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Our society cannot function if prosecutors and judges abuse their power to harass, bankrupt and jail political opponents. Furthermore, in the case of Trump, it is election interference. It is criminal whether committed by hackers or prosecutors and judges cloaking their actions in legal proceedings. In fact, election interference masquerading as legal proceedings is far worse. The prosecutors and judges need to be held accountable for these crimes, just like rogue cops who arrest someone knowing that arrestee committed no crime and that they planted the evidence on which the arrest was based.

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Our society isn't functioning.

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Bending the law and loosening interpretations to try and bring Trump to “justice” is setting the stage for future tit-for-tat challenges that will prove far more damaging to the country than anything that Trump’s opponents think they’re preventing.

https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/this-is-clown-world-stuff

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I wish the Democrat party would just go-ahead and change their name to the Communist Party. This is Russian Star chamber/ show trial type stuff. The bought and paid for media should be the most ashamed of themselves.

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Feb 5·edited Feb 5

Has become so overtly OBVIOUS too, and the GOP just allows it all.

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When the legal standards and framework are ignored, everything else goes to: medicine, diplomacy, borders, drug approvals, vaccines. corruption infiltrates everything in this dystopia

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The left bastardizes everything until the fateful day arrives when they get sent to the reeducation camps, or to the gallows. They aren’t playing with fire, they are playing with neutron bombs. Blowing up civilization and leaving the Potemkin village intact. It’s insane. They simply don’t get it. They won’t be running things, their bodies will be fertilizer for next phase of the insanity.

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I try not to engage in the inevitable hyperbole that happens every time any event, disagreement, revelation or whatever takes place and is immediately dubbed "an existential crisis" as if these occur every couple of weeks. Even climate problems--whatever that turns out to be --is NOT an existential crisis. So these Dems shouting these oft repeated claims that he is a threat to democracy and it's "existential" ring so ridiculously false I always think only the most profoundly under-read and simple of voters could believe this. This will help us keep our perspective and not over-react. You know what will cause over-reaction, fear and evoke a much more dramatic response? --politicizing the courts, the DOJ, the FBI, every 2 -bit AG and every editorial board of most newspapers. These double standards will foment a rash response or a serious reaction to "judgments". People burn down police stations and nothing happens. People pray in front of an abortion site and the gov't goes for 11 year sentences. Car jackings go unprosecuted in DC but a Daniel Perry defends others from a lunatic and that's who the system has to go after. I find it very hard to believe how some judges--judges for God's sake--are going along with this crap. Juries are idiots too often. But even States AG's must recognize the dangers here. How blind are these people? Adults should always take a step back and seek their own failings and motives when such blatant discrepancies occur, and see the wider implications of their narrow jaundiced eyes, particularly if you stand around defending the current corrupt regime. Moral questions must call out from your depths, no? I have never seen anything like this.

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I've asked myself the same questions. And I've asked my friends what they see. For the most part (70%), they see nothing wrong. It's all justified. The remaining 30% agree "something isn't right", but there's only one who has seen past his Democrats-perfect prejudice to the fact that there is an rabid persecution of Trump taking place. And this is someone so low on the Democrat totem pole that no one else I know would take him seriously. That's how blind they are.

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Alex, you brought a smile to my lips when I read the following passage: "Left-wing politicians, prosecutors, and lawyers may be sincere when they say they believe Trump is an existential threat to democracy who must be stopped by any means necessary. But they would be wise not to become what they fear."

It is not a matter of Democrats becoming what they fear. To the contrary, they are and have been exactly what they claim they fear in a stunning instance of projection. The Democrats do not and have not supported the Constitution or the rule of law for many, many decades.

Rather, they have used stealth and duplicity to demolish law schools and bring activist judges to the bench, where the Democrats' destructive agenda can be realized. They are enjoying success not because of their clever deceptions, but rather because of a vacuum of true warrior patriots in the judicial system prepared to fight against the conversion of the law into a totalitarian tool.

Alex, can I introduce you to Mr. Kafka?

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I lived in a Banana Republic my whole life. I have never experienced such brazen political persecution and abuse of power as the one I am seeing now. It is astonishing and sad to see the Land of the Free in such a state.

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It hasn't been the Land of the Free for a very long time. And we're certainly not the Home of the Brave either.

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I doubt you'll find a non-partisan judge anywhere in the entire state of New York. That's the new world we're fining ourselves in. The same is true of many other "blue" states. Justice is no longer blind. I'm just wondering what it will take to reverse this.

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The only reason the Biden Administration is getting away with all of this is the corrupt main stream media. If this were reversed, a corrupt R going after a D, they would be all over this. It has taken an outsider like Trump to expose we are no different than any of the banana republics that are out there. Only by millions voting for Trump can we ‘maybe’ save our country. It must be overwhelming because the Democrats have a plan to rig the 2024 elections (as they did the 2020) . If it should get this far.

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The demoRats have revealed who they are. They have gone 100% evil. Never ever vote for a demoRat again. At this point, anyone still calling themselves a democrat or supporting them is a bad person too.

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They will not stop they have crossed the line and they will make the ultimate attempt before this is over.

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They have already crossed many lines . They are indeed “ getting away with it”.

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