via Revolver:
Last week, seven officers from the US Capitol Police force quietly filed one of the goofiest civil lawsuits in American history. The regime media reported on the Capitol Police’s 71-page filing in stoic, dignified tones. As is customary, every “journalist” got the same memo, declined to apply any critical examination, and simply took everything at face value.
The New York Times went farther, affirmatively puffing up the Capitol Police’s lawsuit to give the impression Capitol Police officers were simply pursuing “a broad view of the [January 6] riot’s origins.” According to the Times, this is all just a perfectly normal “effort to hold former President Donald J. Trump accountable for the Capitol attack.”
Here was the NYT whitewash:A group of seven Capitol Police officers filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing former President Donald J. Trump and nearly 20 members of far-right extremist groups and political organizations of a plot to disrupt the peaceful transition of power during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.
The suit, which implicated members of the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers militia and Trump associates like Roger J. Stone Jr., was arguably the most expansive civil effort to date seeking to hold Mr. Trump and his allies legally accountable for the storming of the Capitol.
While three other similar lawsuits were filed in recent months, the suit on Thursday was the first to allege that Mr. Trump worked in concert with both far-right extremists and political organizers promoting his baseless lies that the presidential election was marred by fraud.
“This is probably the most comprehensive account of Jan. 6 in terms of civil cases,” said Edward Caspar, a lawyer who is leading the suit for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “It spans from the former president to militants around him to his campaign supporters.”
…While the new lawsuit appears to largely rely on news reports and details gleaned from criminal cases filed by the Justice Department, it takes a broad view of the origins of the attack. It argues that the conspiracy to disrupt the election started as early as May 2020, when Mr. Trump began complaining on social media that mail-in voting could “lead to massive fraud.” [NYT]This case, Smith vs. Trump, bears little resemblance to the Regime media’s presentation. Nonetheless, it is still a rather important case to track because of its high stakes impact on the public narrative about January 6’s key players and ultimate origins.
This lawsuit is also worth tracking as the most perfectly grotesque Dorian-Gray-portrait of the decaying, fraying Globalist American Empire (GAE). Here we see the Globalist American Empire’s few decent public leaders torn down by ravenous lawyers, its citizen groups incited and indicted by undercover secret police, and its critical race legal theories devouring the U.S. Constitution — yes, the Portrait of Dorian GAE has never been on more honest display than in the funhouse mirror of Smith vs. Trump.
It’s difficult to convey the sheer scale of the madness here without going line-by-line through the 71-page legal complaint. Fortunately, we already combed it, so you don’t have to.
So, without further ado, we have broken down the four most outrageous features of the Capitol Police lawsuit
1. Cops As Completely Shameless Critical Race Theory Hacks.
Smith vs. Trump may be the very first critical race theory lawsuit filed by law enforcement officers, instead of against them.
There are 206 numbered paragraphs in the cops’ complaint. But the reader need only wait until paragraphs 4 before being bombarded by long word-walls of SJW fantasy about white supremacy:
With this paragraph, the lawsuit already starts spinning sideways right out the gate.
First, note that the Capitol Cops base their case on the “disparate impact” legal theory, which Revolver has repeatedly identified as the doctrine that destroyed America:Why can’t Oregon make reading or math a condition of graduating high school?
Why can’t San Francisco arrest people for shoplifting?
Why can’t high schools discipline disruptive students anymore?
Why can’t major universities use standardized testing anymore?
Why can’t people show an ID to prove who they are before they vote?
Every single time, the answer is the same: disparate impact, the doctrine that destroyed America.Here, the Capitol Cops argue that because Trump alleged election fraud in places like Detroit, and Detroit has a larger than average black population, Trump’s claims had a “disparate impact” on black people.
Just like that, Detroit gets a Get Out Of Fraud Free card. The underlying question of whether there was election fraud in Detroit becomes irrelevant, because simply calling for an investigation could disproportionately affect black people due to Detroit’s population. This theory would allow plaintiffs to crack open the civil rights extortion toolkit, and potentially even bankrupt election investigators with punitive legal damages.
This “disparate impact” approach to blocking any inquiry into election fraud does not stop at the Detroit city limits. The Capitol Cops assert that allegations of election fraud in Pittsburgh constitute a form of racialized incitement to violence. Of the Top 100 metro areas in the country, Pittsburgh actually has the lowest percentage of black people. But because its 23% black population is larger than the overall 13% national black share of the population, Pittsburgh gets a “disparate impact” Get Out Of Fraud Free card too.
That’s the power of disparate impact legal reasoning. Even if Republicans never argued the fraud in Pittsburgh had anything to do with its tiny 23% black population, Democrat lawyers can structure their lawfare to give the whole city a civil rights Iron Dome that intercepts election investigations.
But the Capitol Cops don’t stop there. They go on to argue that because Trump’s election fraud claims were a manifestation of racialized white supremacy via the “disparate impact” method above, any Trump supporters who participated in the Stop The Steal protests against election fraud were themselves members of a racially-motivated mob. As such, any ordinary-course scuffles that tend to happen at large protests are treated — when involving Trump supporters — as akin to hate crimes under the D.C. Bias Related Crimes Act of 1989. Indeed, even the formation of the Stop The Steal protest movement itself is framed as a violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1985.
Got that? So if you thought it was a problem that in Detroit they put pizza boxes over the windows where the votes were counted, here are the new rules if the Capitol Cops win their case:
No evidence of that
You have been sucking woke gregs penis
Yet, we learn the truth that it was Lefties who instigated all the actual violence during the Dec 6th affair.
A Utah BLM/Antifa leader was seen wearing a Trump hat and egging on violence even including the shooting of the only person to die from being shot that day……by a Capitol Hill cop, BTW.
https://www.gopusa.com/radical-blm-activist-arrested-by-feds-for-his-role-in-the-capitol-debacle/
The other a Dem who is insisting on a lighter sentence because he is actually not a Trump supporter.
Kevin McCarthy Really Doesn’t Want the January 6 Committee to See Those Phone Records – The House minority leader is raising suspicions about what GOP lawmakers might have said on the phone during the riot.
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“Over the last week or so, congressional Republicans, with increasing audacity, have vowed that there would be repercussions for tech companies that complied with a request by the congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
“The committee is seeking the phone call records of individuals, including some GOP House members, who are suspected of abetting the insurrection. Republicans, seemingly nervous about what the committee might unearth, are threatening retaliation against the companies if they take the majority in 2023.”
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(GOT THAT? They’re THREATENING private companies with retaliation, if they comply with the request of a congressional investigative committee and release information that could incriminate their sorry asses. Using their official powers in such a manner would, of course, be ILLEGAL. But HEY, their ringleader did the same damn thing and got away with it, didn’t he? They should know, because THEY’RE the ones who LET HIM get away with it.)
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“And at the vanguard of those threats has been House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who has cited conservative Commissioner Brendan Carr of the Federal Communications Commission to push back on the committee’s demand to preserve call records for about a dozen people in connection to the mob attack. The committee has specifically asked for McCarthy’s own records to be preserved as part of its investigation.
“McCarthy and Carr have formed a sort of circular echo chamber pushing back on the demand from Representative Bennie Thompson, chair of the January 6 committee.
“Carr was quoted in a Wall Street Journal editorial saying federal law requires telecommunications companies to “protect the privacy and confidentiality of Americans’ call records.” The article was tweeted by the Journal’s Kimberly Strassel and then retweeted by McCarthy. McCarthy’s office also circulated the editorial last week. It was a major rationale the top Republicans and others began using to try and convince the telecom companies not to follow the committee’s request.”
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Brendan Carr is a republican Trump appointee. Imagine that.
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“The argument is in response to the committee’s broad request for a number of telecom records that relate to the hours leading up to the mob attack on the Capitol. McCarthy is one of the members of Congress whose records the committee is seeking in that request. The list of lawmakers also includes some of Trump’s most avid supporters on Capitol Hill, such as Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene, Louie Gohmert, and Madison Cawthorn. McCarthy’s office has called the request an “unserious” political stunt, and the lawmakers have tried to preempt the companies by arguing it would be illegal to hand over the records.”
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(If it’s “a political stunt”, why is McCarthy freaking out and threatening private companies with retaliation?)
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“The committee has brushed off McCarthy’s argument. In a statement, an aide for the January 6 Committee called McCarthy’s claim “baseless.”
” ‘The Select Committee has asked companies not to destroy records that may provide answers to the American people about what happened on January 6th and in the runup to that day. Subsequent requests for production of this material will comply with applicable legal requirements,’ the aide said. ‘The Select Committee is mindful of the privacy interests of all of those involved in the investigation, which is reflected in our desire to maintain the confidentiality of the specific individuals identified in the preservation requests. Numerous outside legal experts have weighed in saying that Mr. McCarthy’s claim is baseless. His own explanation is that Congress can only obtain records if there’s a legislative purpose, which is in fact explicitly stated in the Select Committee’s mandate in House Resolution 503.’
“One such expert is Tom Wheeler, who chaired the FCC during Barack Obama’s second term. “Commissioner Carr’s statement would seem to be grounded more in political convenience than telecom policy,” Wheeler said in an email to The New Republic. Wheeler was skeptical about the core argument that Carr and McCarthy are making—that committee Chairman Bennie Thompson is picking and choosing which records he wants turned over to the committee.
” ‘There’s two issues here. Number one, I don’t think this is a single member of Congress, is it?’ Wheeler said. ‘And number two, the data that he chooses? No. This is about an insurrection.’
“Conspicuously, Carr, a former telecommunications attorney and aide to former FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, is married to Machalagh Carr, McCarthy’s general counsel, a position that would give her a major role in writing the statement McCarthy released Tuesday night, which is in line with Carr’s argument.”
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(Yeah, THAT’S pretty damn conspicuous.)
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“McCarthy’s office pushed back when asked about any kind of conflict of interest for Carr and McCarthy. “Machalagh is the sharpest legal mind on the Hill, and any indication her work is conflicted is absurd,” McCarthy communications head Matt Sparks wrote in an email, in response to an inquiry from TNR.”
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(Uh, no, it’s most definitely NOT absurd. Anyone NOT suspecting her relationship might influence her judgement is either naive or a damn idiot.)
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“Carr has never been press-shy, and in a 1,656-word email to me, he noted that his argument is one he’s been making since long before the January 6 records-preservation request. “I have repeatedly said that government requests for this data can (depending on the circumstances) run afoul of carriers’ section 222 obligation to safeguard this data,” Carr wrote in the email. Carr is arguing that federal law is clear that telecommunications companies are required to protect the data that the committee is seeking.”
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(Carr seems to be overlooking the inconvenient 47 U.S. Code § 222(C)(1) phrase, “Except as required by law.” Trump’s Treasury appointee had the same sort of comprehension problem when it came to the legal requirement that ANYONE’S tax documents be turned over to the House Oversight Committee UPON REQUEST.)
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“Carr finds himself on the Republican side of a larger political debate. During the Trump administration, Carr was a regular on conservative cable channels, warning about Big Tech’s partisanship and criticizing Communist leaders in Beijing for mishandling the coronavirus pandemic. On one occasion, Carr tweeted a long thread arguing that “Communist China” really “botched” the coronavirus outbreak.
“Public arguments like that got Trump’s attention and won Carr retweets from the White House. It also got Carr more ink. Politico published a profile of him titled “Trump’s unexpected ally in the fight against tech.” In October, The Verge published an article about Carr titled, “Meet the man who could lead the GOP’s war on platform moderation.”
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(Trump is no longer president. The Committee requested that communication companies PRESERVE the relevant data. They requested that it be turned over by tomorrow. If it isn’t, they’ll receive subpoenas for the documentation. THEN McCarthy would be threatening them with retaliation if they REFUSE TO BREAK THE LAW.)
https://newrepublic.com/article/163563/mccarthy-january-6-phone-records
A link to “47 U.S. Code § 222 – Privacy of customer information”, if anyone is interested:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/222
People will be wondering now what Kevin McCarthy is so concerned about keeping hidden. He has tried in various ways to sabotage the January 6th investigation from the start. It isn’t going to work.
No, he has tried to make it an investigation, not a Pelosi-serving mockery like their impeachment farces. Democrats don’t want the facts behind the riot revealed.
The entire purpose of the pelosi commission is to cover up the truth. They can not allow the real facts to emerge that show they orchestrated the entire fake insurrection.
The fact that pelosi and bowser(of Sha Na Na) declined an offer of 10k national guard knowing there was credible intelligence of a potential for mass disturbance on 01/06/2021, demonstrates their culpability in planning a disruption in the events planned for that day at the capital.
This was a successful intelligence operation planned to cause disruption. The only monkey wrench in the plan was the cold blooded murder of Ashli Babbitt by a racist capital cop…
Only a fool believes you reveal the truth by blocking the investigation.
Only a fool believes you reveal the truth by concealing the evidence, as McCarthy is trying to do.
Kevin McCarthy sold his soul to Trump and doesn’t want the details of the contract to be revealed.
The details are that the FBI has instigated violence and leftists carried it out. Democrats have no souls. They sell the souls of others.
Why don’t you and yours just announce you’re starting a civil war and be done with it?
No one in history will not see this for what it is: a government-staged false flag with the intent to install a dictator and a one-party police state.
There’s nothing to sabotage, nothing to investigate.
We have a puppet leader and the entire world knows it.
comrade greggy poo: who is the real author of this post? you are neither bright or literate enough to compose a review of the nature. so like your good buddy, “Killer in Chief,” you PLAGIARIZED this review. crawl back home, mommy is calling.
Which post would that be? The one clearly linked to The New Republic? BTW, your sock puppetry is showing again.
Kevin McCarthy was THREATENED private companies with RETALIATION if they provide evidence.
If they violate rights.
The left is scared to death of Trump. He was so successful and they fail so miserably that their desperation is palpable.
Trump pulls together and exploits all of the negative impulses and forces that could tear America to pieces, then pitches Himself as the guy with the solution.
Just because you leftists see patriotism, hard work, law abiding and respect for others as “negative” doesn’t make them so. I think demonizing people for not getting vaccinated (the WRONG peoole) and accusing those who aren’t rabid leftists as being “white supremacists” is what is devisve.
America has way too many Lawyers and too many Lawfirms
The case in its face is laughable. There are no merits and it should never see the inside of a courtroom
A top US general said ‘I agree with you on everything’ when Nancy Pelosi called Trump ‘crazy’ after the Capitol riot
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-milley-said-i-agree-pelosi-called-trump-crazy-book-2021-9
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Woodward and Costa obtained a transcript of Pelosi’s January 8 phone call to US Gen. Mark Milley, in which she wanted to know “what precautions are available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or from accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.”
Milley told Pelosi that there were “a lot of checks in the system” to prevent Trump from going rogue, the book said.
Pelosi then told Milley, “He’s crazy. You know he’s crazy.”
“He’s crazy and what he did yesterday is further evidence of his craziness,” Pelosi said, referring to the deadly Capitol riot.
According to the book, Milley responded: “I agree with you on everything.”
Woodward and Costa reported that Milley’s conversation with Pelosi wasn’t the only time he expressed doubts about Trump’s actions and mental faculties. According to the book, Milley was so worried that Trump would spark a military confrontation with China near the end of his presidency that he called his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng, twice to assure him that the US would not strike.
Milley’s conversations with Li and Pelosi were evidence of his belief that Trump had suffered a mental decline after the November general election, the book said.
Indeed, Milley repeatedly slammed Trump’s lies about the election and once even compared him to Adolf Hitler, according to “I Alone Can Fix It,” by The Post’s Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
Milley accused Trump of spreading “the gospel of the Führer” by lying about the election results and compared his supporters to “Brownshirts in the streets,” the book said. A week after the Capitol riot, Milley said of the pro-Trump mob, “These guys are Nazis, they’re boogaloo boys, they’re Proud Boys. These are the same people we fought in World War II.”
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The usurper speaketh
Unless, of course, Donald Trump actually IS crazy, in which case General Milley is one of the heroes of Trump’s unsuccessful coup attempt.
Mike Pence might turn out to have been another, having refused to do Trump’s bidding by stopping the certification process.
Milley is a traitor, please keep up
It is also being reported that milley has told the CCP that were an attack about to happen, he would inform them in advance.
They were likely worried that a crazy man attempting a coup might have his finger on the nuclear button, too.
Wow
Earth shattering
pelosi is a drunk, like hillary