‘Resistance’ Lawfare Abusers Must Be Held Accountable
Trump “can unify the nation, he can unify communities, but these nasty, malicious people who abused our prosecutorial system, who abused their public office, who engaged in what amounted to extortion against Republicans and Trump supporters, they need to be held to account.”
On the full podcast today I discussed the damage done by the private and public lawfare against Trump supporters, Republicans more generally, and anyone who got in the way of Democrats.
The spark for that discussion was a tweet by Will Chamberlain of the Article 3 Project:
There’s going to be a lot of talk about Trump needing to “extend the olive branch.” NO.
If he had lost, he would have been jailed. And for his support of Trump, Elon likely would have been bankrupted and jailed.
Those who launched the lawfare must be held accountable.
He doesn’t need to persecute random Democrats. He does need to ensure that his DOJ investigates Fani Willis, Nathan Wade, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Merrick Garland.
I discussed the need for accountability in the podcast excerpt below:
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There were a lot of people hurt by this outgoing administration, of which Harris was an integral part. Lives were destroyed, lives were ruined. Reputations were damaged, people were prosecuted, people were bankrupted. And I’m not even talking about people arrested in connection with January 6, but all over the place.
There’s an effort by Democrats to go after the Bar licenses of lawyers who fought on the Republican side. They even announced and launched an initiative — I think it’s called Project 65, though I might be wrong on the name. Their goal is to make Republican lawyers toxic in their communities. They want to go after their licenses; they want to scare Republican lawyers away from doing what lawyers do. I mean, these are bad people, and they need to be held to account.
Prosecutors who went out of control, prosecutors who announced as part of their political campaign that their goal was to use their public office, if elected, to go after Donald Trump and his family — those people need to be investigated and held to account.
One of the things I noticed very clearly in Trump’s speech last night was how conciliatory it was, how positive it was. He said, you know, we will unify the country through success, essentially sort of a “rising tide raises all boats” argument. And that is Trump. The media portrays him as the most vindictive, nasty person, but that is actually Trump. That’s what he tried to do his first term.
But there are also people on the internet, on Twitter, who are saying, “No, you’ve got to go after these people now.”
I was even thinking of doing a reader poll, Should Trump unify the nation or get even?
And as I wrote it out and was about to do it, I realized it’s not a binary choice. It’s not one or the other. He can unify the nation, he can unify communities, but these nasty, malicious people who abused our prosecutorial system, who abused their public office, who engaged in what amounted to extortion against Republicans and Trump supporters, they need to be held to account.
So, I would say do both. President Trump: unify the nation, but also create task forces and create special counsel to go after the corrupt people who tried to destroy our society, not just destroy you, but destroy your supporters and people who disagreed with them. Those people need to be held accountable. Don’t let your laudable goal of unifying the nation get in the way of holding those people accountable.
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Comments
What is best in life? Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Trump doesn’t necessarily need to get even. What he needs to do is ensure that this doesn’t happen to anyone else on either side ever again. The abuse of power has to go.
Thank you, professor. As many here know. I’ve been saying this for years: abolish qualified immunity.
Winning a popularity contest to govern is not a license to vomit anti-constitutional tyranny against ones political enemies, or weaponize govt. to persecute political enemies with impunity.
Prosecute those who indulge in this vicious society killing cancer, or it’s all merely *clown world* where the national pasttime is perpetual wack-a-mole to keep lawyers employed.
The best way to ensure this doesn’t happen to anyone on either side ever again is to put everyone who abused their power to go after Trump, Trump’s lawyers, and Trump supporters in prison for a very, very long time. Starting with Merrick Garland.
People who have done bad things, illegal things, used the power of their office to damage the innocent MUST be brought to account.
There should be no conciliation with those who have done evil for political purposes, and its not revenge to bring them to justice.
Those who have persecuted others because they didn’t like their politics or their allegiances are unfit to hold office, not because of their beliefs but because of their behavior.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking anti-American POS deserve to be brought into the fold for the sake of unity; there can be no absolution without repentance and penance.
Sorry about the downvote. Spastic Finger Syndrome. I actually agree 100%.
Give no quarter to these traitors! Period!
Make Bannon the AG.
Even before going after the lawfarers, Day 1 he absolutely needs to clean HOUSE, every person possible in the FBI and the DoJ needs to be fired, and none of this, “oh they’re ‘non-partisan'” nonsense.
Gen. Flynn for FBI director. Payback will be a beast for all agents who visited homes; took part in 1-20 fraud. No mercy; they had none for us now it’s their turn.
Cut off by accident.
Trump’s single biggest mistake was letting Comey stay in the FBI for as long as he did, and then letting Wray get foisted off on him by Biitch McConnell as a ‘non-partisan’.
He needs firebrands to go in and absolutely burn the FBI and DoJ to the ground.
If DJT goes soft on the FBI, DOJ it is a mistake of historic proportions and will enable them to do it again.
No mercy.
No quarter.
Hire Ashleigh Merchant to investigate their swamp asses. With Federal subpoena power they will be crying uncle in no time.
Add the Project 65 group to the list that needs investigation.
The 51 “spies” who lied about hunter biden’s laptop need to go too.
And don’t forget nancy pelosi and other organizers of the Jan 6th hoax.
Then add insider trading. It should not be too hard to prove it beyond reasonable doubt,
Really?! How would you go about proving it at all, let alone beyond reasonable doubt? You can’t even clear the hurdle of a “reasonable suspicion”. All you have is a suspicion based exclusively on our collective dislike for her, and that is not enough.
Investigate her by all means; see whether any evidence comes up. But don’t expect it to do so, or be surprised if it doesn’t.
I agree with the general sentiment here; those who abused their positions should be pursued without mercy.
The FBI needs to be dissolved altogether, and replaced with a new agency that is not tainted by the old one. Nobody who worked for the old one should be hired without a serious vetting first.
Everyone in a senior position in DOJ should be put under extreme and skeptical scrutiny, and be made to convince those doing their review that they are truly committed to blind justice. Hires under the 0bama and Biden administrations should be looked at with special care, and a presumption of unsuitability.
Everyone involved in the Jan-6-2021 prosecutions should be looked at with a critical eye. That includes the judges; I used to be a fan of Royce Lamberth, but he came out of that saga with a large blot on his escutcheon. Look for grounds to bring them all to heel. In many cases no such grounds will be found, but you never know what you might turn up. The same for those involved in the state prosecutions. Turn over a few rocks and see what comes out. Sauce, goose, gander.
You are spot on, Professor! Thank you!
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