Trump, the former president announced in a Thursday message that he will be bringing the heat back to Fake News news purveyors within the legacy media. After pointing to the clear evidence that proves the whole Russia Collusion as false, Trump’s weariness over the term “The Big Lie” being lodged against him, and the January 6 Committee accusations (without compelling evidence) that Trump tried to overturn a fair 2020 election and incited an insurrection, Trump has chosen to go on the legal offensive against the media outlets that have run 24/7 coverage and commentary.
The Desk of Donald J. Trump
Donald J. Trump is the 45th President of America. pic.twitter.com/TBmc0tJB81
— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) July 27, 2022
CNN has been notified of my intention to sue them for repeated false statements they made against me. In light of the overwhelming evidence that fraud occurred during the 2020 Election, I plan to take legal actions against any other media outlets. I will not stop fighting for justice and our country’s future.
Alex Parker (my colleague) covered details about the suit and the letter here.
CNN’s response to this news has been interesting, to say the least. This news has been ignored tacitly by the low-rated news media, much like what happened with Nicholas Sandmann (and Covington Kids).
CNN published an article on Trump. It wasn’t a response to Trump’s shot across the bow, but it was written intentionally to deflect, and gaslight. The article posited that Trump’s woes and the J6 “evidence” are sure signs that Trump is in growing legal jeopardy.
Mmmkay:
This came a day after it emerged that two senior former aides to then-Vice President Mike Pence, Marc Short and Greg Jacob, had gone before the grand jury. It was clear that Trump and his close allies were being investigated by the Justice Department.
“I am not one to say every time there is breaking news or a development that it is hugely significant,” said Preet Bharara, former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who is now a CNN legal analyst.
“This is. This is very significant,” Bharara told CNN’s Jake Tapper, predicting that there would be a flurry of disclosures in the coming days about other witnesses to the grand jury.
The same Preet Bhara, who was fired by Jeff Sessions, former Trump Attorney-General in 2017, was also hired by CNN as a CNN reporter for his opposition to Trump’s government.
I refused to resign. It was only a matter of seconds before I was fired. It will always be my greatest honour to serve as the US Attorney for SDNY.
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) March 11, 2017
This is not an example of bias.
The department has also obtained a second warrant to search the cell phone of conservative lawyer John Eastman, a key figure in the plan to thwart the certification of Biden’s victory on January 6, 2021. We don’t know the length of the Justice Department probe into the period after the election. But there is at least a strong impression now that it is feeding off the progress made by the House select committee — a factor that would lend that probe increased legal and historical significance.
Drip. Drip. Drip. Did they find any compelling evidence on the first dump of Eastman’s phone? Will they embarrass Eastman again? Or was it enough to publicly humiliate him?
It’s a drumbeat of public showings of FBI serving warrants meant to disgrace the recipient, probes and testimony of third-degree staffers, and breathless pandering about “potential” criminal activity. But this is barely gunshot residue—where is the smoking gun?
Johnathan Turley is a legal analyst.
Although the Committee has the ability to continue scheduling new hearings the 8th hearing highlighted the fact that there is no compelling criminal case against Donald Trump. Despite the prior promises of the members, the hearings have largely amplified what was previously known rather than introduce new “smoking gun” evidence. In the absence even of one dissenting member the Committee is unable to present the long-promised criminal case.
Several political prognosticators believe that Trump’s Tuesday speech in front of the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) was the unofficial launch of his 2024 campaign. Much of Trump’s own legal maneuvers appear to be seeding the ground as well as clearing the baggage toward this presidential run. CNN, MSNBC, the “Joke-6” hearings, they are all hoping and—Turley even alluded to religious fervor—praying for a criminal investigation so they can blunt, no, DisableAny future Trump presidency run.
The question is still open as to whether legacy media outlets that collude with the FBI, DOJ and Democrats can blunt anything. Trump sueing media people for defamation is also uncertain.
We can’t predict the outcome of Trump’s intentions until he announces them.
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