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The lawfare against President Donald J. Trump and his associates continues and the news is that the bureaucratic state or ‘the DC swamp’ is growing into other states now. And ‘the swamp’ is very good at using the courts against their political opponents with a practice that is meant to bankrupt or frustrate their political opponents.
“Georgia grand jury subpoenas Sen. Graham, Giuliani, and Trump legal team. The subpoenas, which arise from an investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, relate to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election,” The Washington Post reported. That is lawfare.
Wikipedia describes it as “a tactic used by repressive regimes to label and discourages civil society or individuals from claiming their legal rights.”
The enemies of the American people have perfected the practice of lawfare because it is performed by ‘civil servants who are given great power- and yet- who have no integrity, no morals, and no ethics. For them, the courts of justice are mere tools for their personal justice. And the only people who can hope to win against it are people with a lot of time and money.
Here is another story about the dangers that our Republic faces- we are again at the crossroads of political integrity and corruption.
Atlanta is becoming Washington DC. Check this out from the New York Times:
“Seven advisers and allies of Donald J. Trump, including Rudolph W. Giuliani and Senator Lindsey Graham, were subpoenaed on Tuesday in the ongoing criminal investigation in Georgia of election interference by Mr. Trump and his associates. The move was the latest sign that the inquiry has entangled a number of prominent members of Mr. Trump’s orbit, and may cloud the future for the former president.
The subpoenas underscore the breadth of the investigation by Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, which encompasses most of Atlanta. She is weighing a range of charges, according to legal filings, including racketeering and conspiracy, and her inquiry has encompassed witnesses from beyond the state. The latest round of subpoenas was reported earlier by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Fulton County investigation is one of several inquiries into efforts by Mr. Trump and his team to overturn the election, but it is the one that appears to put them in the greatest immediate legal jeopardy. A House committee continues to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. And there is an intensifying investigation by the Justice Department into a scheme to create slates of fake presidential electors in 2020,” The New York Times reported about the speculative nature of the legal claims.
“Trump’s legal team is facing another round of grand jury subpoenas over-exercising their constitutional right to contest a presidential election. Also subpoenaed was Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC),” Becker News reported.
CNN reported the news on Tuesday.
“[The investigation] is moving forward and it’s moving forward at a pretty good clip,” CNN Legal Analyst Jennifer Rodgers said.
“Fulton County has been the center of controversy in Georgia’s razor-thin election that was handed to now-President Joe Biden. That doesn’t look to end any time soon with the county issuing a subpoena to Trump attorneys, including Rudy Giuliani, alleging ‘criminal interference’ in the 2020 election,” Becker reported.
“The Fulton County special grand jury investigating potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections has subpoenaed key members of former President Donald Trump’s legal team, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Tuesday.
“In addition to Giuliani, those being summoned include John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis, all of whom advised the Trump campaign on strategies for overturning Democrat Joe Biden’s wins in Georgia and other swing states,” the AJC report continued. “The grand jury also subpoenaed U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of Trump’s top allies, along with attorney and podcast host Jacki Pick Deason,”
“The subpoenas were filed July 5 and signed by Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who is overseeing the special grand jury,” the report added. “They noted that all seven people were ‘a necessary and material witness’ to the investigation.”
According to the subpoena for Rudy Giuliani:
“Giuliani testified before Georgia legislators in late 2020, showing edited surveillance video of ballots being tabulated at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena,” AJC remarked. The former New York City mayor said the tape was a ‘powerful smoking gun’ of election workers pulling out ‘suitcases’ of ballots to count after sending Republican poll watchers home.”
Becker caught a great point, and reported, “AJC dishonestly asserts that Giuliani’s claims were quickly debunked by the Secretary of State’s office. As Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist notes, such claims are unfounded.”
“A Big Tech-backed ‘fact’ ‘checking’ outfit claimed to debunk explosive evidence in support of Republicans’ claims of significant election problems at a Thursday Georgia Senate hearing,” Hemingway writes. “It didn’t. Not even close.”
“Newly discovered security footage from Georgia’s State Farm Arena showed dozens of ballot counters, media, and Republican observers leaving en masse at the same time from the ballot-counting area for Fulton County,” she adds. “After they left, a small remnant of about four workers began pulling trunks containing thousands of ballots from underneath a table with a long tablecloth and running them through machines.”
“There is nothing legal or proper about what the Fulton County elections did. If they were workers who were suspected of handing votes to Trump, it would not only be equally wrong, the media would never stop pushing for credible answers,” Becker accurately asserts.
Source: The Republic Brief