I have written previously about the often frivolous lawsuits brought by Democratic leaders that not only threaten to create bad precedent but undermine legitimate claims against President Donald Trump. One such meritless action was filed by the Democratic National Committee, an action that came perilously close to crossing the line of Rule 11 on meritless or vexatious actions. Judge John Koeltl, a Clinton appointee, was scathing in dismissing the action against key members of the Trump Administration and Wikileaks as “entirely divorced” from the facts.
Koeltl dismissed a lawsuit after finding no evidence that the defendants conspired with the Russians and called the allegation “threadbare.” His 81-page opinion at times borders on the incredulous: “In short, the DNC raises a number of connections and communications between the defendants and with people loosely connected to the Russian Federation, but at no point does the DNC allege any facts … to show that any of the defendants — other than the Russian Federation — participated in the theft of the DNC’s information. Nor does the DNC allege that the defendants ever agreed to help the Russian Federation steal the DNC’s documents.”
What was most interesting was a passage that reinforces arguments (raised by some of us) that Wikileaks was acting much like any press organization in publishing the stolen emails: “If Wikileaks could be held liable for publishing documents concerning the DNC’s political financial and voter-engagement strategies simply because the DNC labels them ‘secret’ and trade secrets, then so could any newspaper or other media outlet.”
This is just the latest of wins for the Trump team recently. This case however should never have been filed. As I said at the time, it lacked any cognizable legal theory and factual basis. It is an example of how partisans are using court filings for political headlines and donor appeasement. However, as some members push for impeachment, the DNC just gave the Trump team a strong victory on the very issues of Russian collusion.
I’m disappointed that RNC and the President’s personal counsel haven’t explored the option of prosecuting the DNC, when it files cases like this, under “anti-SLAPP” laws. Although barratry might be an option, finding a venue where it’s still a crime would be a challenge (Virginia’s barratry law was overturned by SCOTUS in 1983).
Why were the Plaintiff’s not charged with costs and att’ys fees for a frivolous action?
Might still be. Maybe Avenutti can represent them like he did Stormy.
Another total and colossal defeat fro the Dims. Are they tired of Trump winning yet?
I shudder to think of what path we’d be on had Clinton won instead.
The path to perdition, Olly.
I agree.
The psychiatrists here in NYC aren’t tired of Trump winning- their business is booming, bigly.
Yeah, gee, I was really counting on a law suit by the DNC.
Say what, by who?
The last two contests that counted – 2016 and 2018 – were clear Democratic victories. I like our chances in 2020.
Anon1:
You liked Hillary’s chances, too. Forgive me if I don’t consult you for lottery ticket advice.
The last two contests that counted – 2016 and 2018 – were clear Democratic victories. I like our chances in 2020.
Bwahahahahaha!
With victories like that, I like your chances in 2020 as well.
Hey Joe, President Putin called and said your hypocrisy slip is showing. Does this qualify as foreign interference?
Biden argued that he had the best record of addressing the root causes of the migration crisis, recalling how he imposed a solution on Central America’s migration crisis. “You do the following things to make your country better so people don’t leave, and we will help you do that, just like we did in Colombia,” he said.
“What did we do in Colombia? We went down and said, okay, and I was one of the architects of Plan Colombia,” Biden continued. “I said, here’s the deal. If you have all these crooked cops, all these federal police, we’re sending our FBI down, you let us put them through a lie detector test, let us tell you who you should fire and tell you the kind of people you should hire. They did and began to change. We can do so much if we’re committed.”
With the arrogance of a pith-helmeted high colonial official meting out instructions on who to hire and fire to his docile subjects, Biden presided over a plan that failed miserably in its stated goals, while transforming Colombia into a hyper-militarized bastion of U.S. regional influence.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/31/how-joe-biden-fueled-the-latin-american-migration-crisis/
Olly, maybe you were thinking of Norway.
“The Weekly Standard hailed Colombia as “the most successful nation-building exercise by the United States in this century”, noting:
Colombia used to be the world capital of kidnappings, but the number of victims is down from 2,882 in 2002 to 376 in 2008. Terrorist acts in the same period have fallen from 1,645 to 303. Homicides are also down dramatically: from 28,837 in 2002 to 13,632 in 2008, a 52 percent reduction. Three hundred fifty-nine Colombian soldiers and police lost their lives in battle in 2008, down from 684 in 2002. Between 2002 and 2008, the total hectares of cocaine eradicated rose from 133,127 to 229,227; tons of cocaine seized rose from 105.1 to 245.5; and the number of drug labs seized rose from 1,448 to 3,667. All statistics on narcotics production are hard to gather and therefore suspect, but the latest indications are that last year cocaine production in Colombia fell by 40 percent. Although Colombia’s GDP grew by only 2.4 percent in 2008 as a result of the worldwide slowdown, it grew almost 8 percent in 2007, up from less than 2 percent in 2002. Unemployment is still high at 11.1 percent, but considerably lower than in 2002 when it was 15.7 percent.[74]”
All statistics on narcotics production are hard to gather and therefore suspect, but the latest indications are that last year cocaine production in Colombia fell by 40 percent.
Interesting. Your using a Wikipedia article updated to 2008. Are you suggesting it was working great under the Bush regime and then according to the article I posted, blew up during the Obama/Biden regime?
Meanwhile, a UN Office of Drugs and Crime report found that coca cultivation reached record levels in Colombia in 2018. In other words, billions of dollars have been squandered, and a society already in turmoil has been laid to waste.
For the military and right-wing paramilitary forces that have shored up the rule of leaders such as Uribe and the current ultra-conservative Colombian president, Ivan Duque, Plan Colombia offered a sense of near-total impunity.
The depravity of the country’s military was put on bold display when the so-called “false positives” scandal was exposed in 2008. The incident began when army officers lured 22 rural laborers to a far-away location, massacred them, and then dressed them in uniforms of the leftist FARC guerrillas.
Olly, Biden was a senate leader on the Columbia Plan from it’s inception, so his involvement predates the Bush administration.
It is alarming that coca production started increasing about 4 years ago, but lost ground in a country transformed by the plan does not define failure, but a setback to be addressed. Importantly for us, there is no longer a Medellin Cartel running the country and running cocaine in massive quantities to the US, nor are there thousands of Columbian families showing up at our borders.
PS It’s amusing that right winger like you went slumming to a conspiratorial left wing source to find supposed dirt on Biden.
I think what a number of partisans, on both sides of the isle, are missing here is that a number of Democrats were not only blasé to Hillary Clinton, but didn’t like her at all. It’s all well and good to say Democrats are idiots and Republicans are enlightened. But it’s a little more nuanced than that.
That’s a big reason she lost. People in the Democratic party didn’t like her. And that means that a number of people at the DNC didn’t like her either — despite how she tried to clean house over there. I think one thing blocking an objective analysis that this could have been a thumbnail download is because of the erroneous idea that nobody at the DNC would do such a sacrilegious thing. And that isn’t true. There were plenty of people there that had a motive.
I’m not saying the Russians didn’t do it. But I don’t think the analysis was all that objective.
Steve, you overlook the fact that Hillary’s margin in the vote count by points – 2% – was better than 11 presidents and your boy is a disgusting pig who most Americans say they would never vote for.
Anon1 proves once again why the framers avoided mob rule. They knew large gatherings of authoritarians like Anon1 could ban together and force their will onto others with just 51% of the vote.
The disgusting fascism of the Left, from Jim Crow to the KKK, should be enough to keep any sensible person from voting for Democrats. Unfortunately these people continue to have the same authoritarian mindset, the only difference now is, they don’t care what color they exploit. It’s disguised as diversity.
It is an example of how partisans are using court filings for political headlines…
When you lack substance you go for emotions. Every once in a while we see a display of substance in today’s political circus. Jamestown VA just hosted such an occasion but of course a Left Wing Democrat turned it into about themselves and seeking attention because they lack substance, which is par for the course. Its a wonder Antifa didn’t show to bomb the place
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Celebrating American Democracy: The President pays tribute to the triumph of Jamestown
If any place embodies American exceptionalism, it is Jamestown, Virginia. There in 1619 the first representative legislative assembly in the New World was convened. On Tuesday President Trump traveled to Jamestown to pay tribute to the place he says forged “the timeless traits of the American character.”
In the midst of the President’s ugly spat with Rep. Elijah Cummings, it can be easy to overlook commemorations such as this one. The President’s dispute followed him to Jamestown, where African-Americans in the Virginia state Legislature boycotted his speech and one interrupted him as he gave it, holding signs that said “Deport Hate,” “Reunite My Family” and “Go Back to Your Corrupted Home.”
This was unfortunate, not least because Mr. Trump was at his most eloquent when he referred to a less admirable anniversary associated with Jamestown. This was the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the English settlements and what he called the “beginning of a barbaric trade in human lives.” The President noted it took another 150 years before the Declaration of Independence would recognize that all men are created equal, a Civil War to abolish slavery—and another hundred years to start realizing Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that all Americans could enjoy the blessings of freedom.
“In the face of grave oppression and grave injustice,” Mr. Trump said, “African Americans have built, strengthened, inspired, uplifted, protected, defended and sustained our nation from its very earliest days.”
This is the way to talk about race in America. To acknowledge challenges and injustices, but without forgetting the potency of America’s founding promise. As Mr. Trump put it, America is “the story of citizens who take ownership of their future and their control of their destiny.”
Those who know President Trump only by his tweets might find his Jamestown remarks worth reading. They point all of us, including Mr. Trump, to a more hopeful path than the one we’re on.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/celebrating-american-democracy-11564529484
The one error this judge made is in overstating what he claims to be “some” facts. The F.B.I. never investigated the crime scene. There was no real police investigation of this matter whatsoever.
After reading Turley’s take, I expected this judicial opinion to be a complete excoriation of the DNC. It was not. In fact, the facts alleged should be alarming, and really make Trump look bad since he not only refuses to sanction Russia for committing crimes in the US, which this opinion said was the only available remedy, he is actually deferential to Putin. Any American patriot should be alarmed that a hostile foreign country was allowed to extensively hack into one political party’s computers and then feed the information to WikiLeaks, which strategically timed the release to do the most damage to HRC. Trump, Jr. met in Trump Tower with Russians and then lied about the reason for the meeting. This case should gut the stupid “deep state conspiracy” claims of the Trumpsters, because if there was such a thing, when the DNC learned of the hacks, they would have sent someone to assassinate the hackers, or have strong-armed Wikileaks from leaking the information. However, it’s only a “deep state” conspiracy if someone says something against Trump. The case also spells out the involvement of Trump’s campaign officials with Russians, and their lying under oath. The court essentially held that unless it can be proven that Trump, his campaign and Wikileaks actually participated in the theft of the documents, they can’t be held liable. Without Trump or Russians sitting for depositions, how could anyone get to the bottom of these things? Those who did testify, lied under oath, and were convicted. None of these things are acceptable. None of these things is a win for American values or the integrity of national elections. Now we see why Mitch McConnell won’t allow bills funding greater security for future elections. As Mueller testified, they’re going to do it again, and are doing so right now.
The grounds for dismissal of the Russian Federation were that the Russian Federation can’t be sued in U.S. Courts for government actions unless they fall under limited exceptions, which were: 1. statutory basis, not present here; 2. a tort that occurred totally within the U.S.; the torts here–theft, invasion of privacy, etc, all occurred in Russia; 3. a commercial activity exception did not apply because a private party could not have engaged in the wrongful conduct. Trump, Jr. was let off on the grounds that the DNC couldn’t prove that he “help steal” the DNC and HRC e-mails. The court held that the First Amendment protected these crooks against liability under Virginia state law that makes their conduct illegal. The court also said that the DNC couldn’t prove that Mifsud was a Russian agent, so Papadapoulous’s meetings with him were not actionable. How could this be proven without Mifsud under oath, and when Papadapoulous is a convicted liar? Also, they couldn’t prove WikiLeaks was directly involved in the theft. Without deposing Assange, how could this be proven? Stonewall, lie, and Turley will praise you for standing up for the First Amendment and condemn the Democratic party for trying to do something to stand up for the rule of law and sanctity of our elections. After all, wasn’t their sole motivation political?
So, the take away is: hack e-mails, so long as you do so offshore, meet with the Russians and accept their help and then lie about it, receive the stolen e-mails, feed them insider polling information for their use in making false attacks against your opponent, and then lie your ass off. Never report any of this to the FBI. Push off all liability onto the Russian government because it is immune under US law against lawsuits in US courts, with the only remedy being sanctions which Trump will never impose. So, cheating is OK, provided it helps you. No one associated with Trump has ever condemned the hacking and dissemination of information that was obtained illegally, and they never will because it’s all about power–power to make lifetime judicial appointments of pro-corporation conservative judges, power to lower taxes and roll back regulations. This is anything but “a strong victory on the very issues of Russian collusion.”. As with the Mueller case, so long as everyone lies, you can get away with it. Mueller never got Trump or any Russian to sit for a deposition. Mueller didn’t have all available evidence. The DNC couldn’t get all available evidence. Lying works. Cheating works. Anyone who says otherwise is part of the “deep state”. Welcome to Trump Universe.
Still waiting for the DNC to allow the F.B.I. to examine their servers.
How about Trump releasing all of his tax returns and his and his campaign servers first? After all, he’s the one who cheated. He’s the one who was working a deal with Russians. His campaign was the one who met with Russians repeatedly and lied about it. He’s the one who welcomed their help in spreading false social media attacks against HRC.
Well that’s all lovely. But I’m still waiting for the DNC to allow the F.B.I. to examine their servers.
Gee, Steve, of course why would anyone want to know who owns our president when important questions like the DNC servers are out there.
Stay vigilant for BS.
Natacha keeps saying Trump cheated. That’s just emotion, not fact.
From the opinion:
at no point does the DNC allege any facts … to show that any of the defendants — other than the Russian Federation — participated in the theft of the DNC’s information. Nor does the DNC allege that the defendants ever agreed to help the Russian Federation steal the DNC’s documents
As Ben Shapiro likes to say, facts don’t care about your feelings. It is irresponsible of you to keep claiming that Trump cheated. You know what was “cheating”? Hillary Clinton paying a foreign anti-Trump national for false information obtained from Russian spies in order to discredit her opponent in an October surprise, too late to disprove. Luckily, the efforts to get it released prior to the election were stymied, although there were leaks. She did succeed in getting the FBI to spy upon her opponent, undermined his authority as POTUS, and weakened our country on the world stage. Dirty tricks.
I also notice how scrupulously the DNC avoids discussing how the leaked emails confirmed truthful behaviors of Clinton et al. I recall all the denials at the time. It turned out to be true. Rather than blaming Clinton and the DNC for their off putting behavior, that turned off voters, they instead are only focusing on how the truth came out. Granted, we need to shore up cyber security, but what are you going to do when Podesta’s password is “password?” In business, he probably would have been fired for gross negligence. In addition, information is limited as has been pointed out above. The DNC refused to let the FBI have access to their servers. They are going off of claims that this was a hack and not a leak. With a password like “password”, it’s like leaving a briefcase with your secrets at a bus stop.
Remember when Hillary Clinton was the most qualified presidential candidate in history? Remember all the screaming, crying and gnashing of teeth? She certainly was off putting to some Democrats, but her popularity has noticeably waned as the reality of her flaws has soaked in. I recall the accusations that we did not vote for the best candidate of all time. They were obviously wrong then. Don’t trust political rhetoric.
Karen S – come on!!!! You know there is no way Trump got into the WH without cheating.
BTW, I think Hillary is behind the suiciding of Epstein.
Let’s just say I wouldn’t want to cross her publicly.
Karen S – there are stories about the SS trying to decide who they would protect between Hillary and Bill when they were throwing stuff at each other.
Still the small minded Mensa boy, I see; reprogramming is not a cure for the soulless.
tony – that screed does not make any sense, other than you are jealous.
The DNC couldn’t prove that Trump or his campaign actually sat at a computer terminal and did the hacking. Trump’s campaign DID, however, welcome the assistance of Russians and fed sensitive internal polling data to Russians, which they used in a targeted social media disinformation campaign in key districts Trump had to get in order to “win the victory”. Trump, Jr., Manafort, Flynn and Papadoupolous lied under oath about all of this. THAT IS CHEATING. Trump does not belong in the White House. Most Americans voted against him and have consistently disapproved of him.
You keep pivoting to HRC. The Steele Dossier investigation was started by a Republican who then turned it over to her campaign after the fact. What information in that report has been PROVEN wrong? In any event, the Dossier did not trigger the Special Counsel’s investigation. You are merely repeating things you hear on Faux News.
Trump has always had the reputation of being a serial cheater and liar, a bankrupter of businesses, defaulter on loans, cheater on his various wives (3 to date), a womanizer and braggadocious assaulter of women. These are facts, He knows little to nothing about American government and has the most chaotic administration in recent history. He instituted American concentration camps to punish people seeking asylum, which is not illegal. He has few to no achievements, other than tax cuts to the very wealthy and has kept few to no campaign promises. He does not belong in the White House.
Natacha – “Trump’s campaign DID, however, welcome the assistance of Russians and fed sensitive internal polling data to Russians, which they used in a targeted social media disinformation campaign in key districts Trump had to get in order to “win the victory”. Trump, Jr., Manafort, Flynn and Papadoupolous lied under oath about all of this.”
PROVE IT!!!!
Mueller proved it Paul. Read the report.
Please stop saying “Read the report.” Do you NOT know by now that those who have read the report KNOW that the report undermines your claims??? Why do you keep saying “read the report”??? Just stop already. You are embarrassing yourself.
Did you hear ONE question on the debate stage about Mueller/Russia??? Why not???
Anon1 – I have the report. Cite the pages.
Around pages 125 on Trump Tower meeting and page 137 on Manafort and polling data.
Paul, your incredulity on well established facts in the report – as well as revealed in those newspapers you refuse to read – is alarming. One wonders how and why you venture opinions on something on which you are so uninformed
well established facts in the report….
Alas you don’t have the Mueller report but are reading caca talking points report given that there are 2 volumes for the Mueller Report. Anyone with a casual familiarity with these facts knows this. Incidentally, pages 120 and following in Volume 1 discussed the RNC platform, while Volume 2 discussed the Crown Prince Mohammed villa in Seychelles
Get back to us when you reload, aim and not shoot blanks. You need to stop making up stuff
Anon1 – thanks for the citations. I will check on them later. Still, I appreciate your effort.
Anon1 – you know what? Maybe it is just my copy, but I cannot find what you are trying to claim is there.
Is that you, Hillary?
OLLY – my understanding is that Hillary cannot type on a computer.
Well according to Natacha,
These are facts, He knows little to nothing about American government and has the most chaotic administration in recent history.
So one of two things must be true; Donald Trump and his entourage are innocent of every allegation of illegality (not including process crimes) or, everyone involved with trying to find the evidence he was guilty are the most incompetent in American history.
“We came, we saw, he died” Hillary is a psychopath.
Natacha —>> Melodramatic Russiagate True Believer.
Natatcha – you must have read the ruling upside down.
That’s about right Natasha. Trump and his stooges celebrate getting away with his collusion, which, by virtue of his carrying Putin water and protecting his attack on our elections, continues to this day.
Anon1 actually thinks that juvenile Russian social media posts that only 1,000 people saw in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin combined, and that were mostly completely unrelated to the election, suppressed a single vote. Enough said. Anon1 is a Russiagate True Believers Cult Member.
Wikileaks emails dominated national news and headlines for weeks and false memes like “Hillary is so sick she can’t stand up” spread from bots on Facebook to national news. Unfortunately a large number Americans get their news from questionable Facebook sources. Of course that helps explain how uninformed many of the posters here are.
False memes like “Hillary is so sick she can’t stand up” ??? Uh, sorry to prove you wrong yet again, but we have actual video where Hill was tossed into the back of her Scooby getaway van…
Anon, now that you see the video, don’t you feel like a fool?
Mr. Turley – I believe it is time for you to share with us your full understanding and opinion of the 10 allegations of obstruction of justice stated in the Mueller Report.
You’ll notice the scheming Weismann didn’t actually recommend an indictment because it would require a conception of ‘obstruction of justice’ that’s completely novel and contrary to Justice Department policy.
Mr. Turley – I have seen some comments from you concerning Trumps’ alleged obstruction of justice, but I think it’s time for you to fully examine and write in greater detail your thoughts on the 10 allegations of potential obstruction of justice stated in the Mueller Report.
Trump was potentially obstructing the obstruction investigation. (By pondering use of his Article II powers to shut down a ‘criminal investigation’ given the scope of a counter-intelligence investigation and apparently run by legal counsel to one of HRC’s shady staff (and hillarypartisan extraordinaire Andrew Weissman).
This is one of the few pieces of good news for freedom of speech. I’m really glad the judge scorched them!
russiagate continues to fall apart at the seams. There will be an interview with Kimdotcom on Consortium News about Seth Rich this Friday. More info about the DNC’s original formulation of Russigate with help from MI5 came out today.
Jill, Honey: read the opinion. The court did not “scorch” them at all. The case turned on technicalities plus the fact that evidence could not be obtained (which is far from the same as does not exist), and like Mueller’s report, did not exonerate Trump, Trump, Jr., Wikileaks or the campaign.
The phrase “did not exonerate” betrays a total lack of acquaintance with the maxim “you can’t prove a negative”. The judge also failed to show Trump and his staff are not reptilian sex fiends (along with David Icke’s other favorite culprits, the Bush and Windsor families). And the judge utterly failed to prove the President isn’t from Tau Ceti doesn’t live on whipped cream. He utterly failed to prove the non-existence of any number of scurrilous charges levied at the President – because his courtroom isn’t the Inquisition.
The DNC suit wasn’t thrown out on “technicalities”. It was correctly thrown out on lack of probable cause to proceed to trial. The judge did his job, which was to dispense justice and prevent his arm of the Federal courts from being abused to commit legal harassment.
🙂 Good post!
The DNC suit was dismissed because they couldn’t prove that anyone other than the Russian Federation was involved in the actual hacking of the DNC servers and theft of e-mails. US law does not allow a court remedy for crimes committed by a foreign government unless all of the illegal acts happened on US soil. That IS a technicality. Laws were broken. Unless the DNC could prove that Trump’s campaign and WikiLeaks actively engaged in the hacking and stealing, the only remedy is imposition of sanctions. Trump won’t do that. A wrong was committed against the citizens of the United States. Unless the actors can be brought to deposition or they confess, they can lie and get away with it. For those of you Trumpsters who like to claim to be conservatives, let me clue you in: true conservatives condemn this sort of thing.
Trump, Jr., Papadopoulous and Manafort lied about their contacts with Russia and Russian operatives. The e-mails were strategically released just before the 2016 election for the specific purpose of hurting HRC’s campaign to help Trump. Neither Trump nor his campaign have condemned these crimes, and Republicans are blocking efforts to stop it from happening again. Most reasonable people think that stealing and lying are wrong, and that benefitting from these things is immoral. Most reasonable people think it is wrong for a hostile foreign government to assist one presidential candidate to win an election by a false social media campaign geared to help sway the election in key districts. Trump is vulnerable to blackmail. It is far from harassment to seek justice for these crimes. Implying that there is nothing to see here is disingenuous.
And for those of you who make Edmund Burke’s corpse spin in its grave by calling yourselves “liberals”, none of what you said was found by a sitting Federal judge was probative enough for a legitimate prosecution. DNC failed to make its case, and that’s not a “Trumpster” statement. Any fan of civil liberties, regardless of political party, ought to be cheering, because an obscenely well-funded national political party was rebuked for trying to use the Federal courts for its own nefarious purposes.
“We’re told nonstop by CNN anchors, commentators, and journalists that the Trump/Russia issue has profound implications for the very foundations of American democracy, but CNN’s debate moderators didn’t think it warranted a single question?” -Michael Tracey
Any thoughts to add as to why not, Natacha?
true conservatives condemn this sort of thing.
I have yet to find anything you post not worth condemning. So yeah, I am a true conservative.
No. Not being able to prove your case means you lose. When neither the FBI, nor activists, can find proof, it is a baseless accusation.
None of the above are technicalities. You just said yourself they could find no proof to support your repeated allegations. If he were a private citizen such statements would be libel.
No case proves innocence. The onus is on the prosecutor to prove you did it, not for you to prove you didn’t. How could I prove I didn’t kill someone 10 years ago on any given day?
You keep promoting a grave injustice. The very reason why guilt, not innocence, must be proven is to prevent the abuse of authority.
It was a civil suit Karen, not a criminal case. Innocence and guilt are not relevant.
The difference between findings of fact in civil and criminal proceedings is still culpability – but criminal charges have to be proven in court beyond a reasonable doubt. In civil cases, all the plaintiff must prove is that the defendant is more likely than not to have committed the offense in question. Guilt is indeed relevant, only the degree of guilt is different in civil cases.
The DNC’s civil suit was thrown out with such vigor because their allegations had no chance of being supported by even a mere preponderance of the facts in question.
If the action had been a criminal prosecution and charges had been thrown out for lack of plausibility, it wouldn’t have been so damning for the DNC. They just missed being sanctioned for wasting the Federal courts’ valuable time with groundless allegations.
The DNC suit was dismissed because they couldn’t prove that anyone other than the Russian Federation was involved in the actual hacking of the DNC servers and theft of e-mails.
They couldn’t prove that either. Federal authorities were never permitted to examine the server.
So the FBI outsources this critical piece of the investigation and does no-knock raids for less significant parts. Must be some weird Jedi-mind trick going on.
1. Obama Appoints CrowdStrike Officer To Admin Post Two Months Before June 2016 Report On Russia Hacking DNC
2. The FBI Never Looked At The DNC’s Servers — Only CrowdStrike Did
3. Comey Contradicted The DNC’s Story On The FBI Asking To See The Server
4. CrowdStrike Co-Founder Is Fellow On Russia Hawk Group, Has Connections To George Soros, Ukrainian Billionaire
Co-Founder and CTO of CrowdStrike Dmitri Alperovitch is a nonresident senior fellow on the Atlantic Council.
5. CrowdStrike Is Funded By Clinton-Loving Google $$
https://dailycaller.com/2017/06/24/crowdstrike-five-things-everyone-is-ignoring-about-the-russia-dnc-story/
The case turned on technicalities plus the fact that evidence could not be obtained (which is far from the same as does not exist),
Careful now snowflake, your idea of criminal justice might be popular under some third-world totalitarian regime, but are you sure you want to redefine the U.S. justice system to mean guilt is proven by allegations and not evidence?
#MeToo takes another hit. Democrats have been running this scam for 3 years, that they are political assault victims and should just be believed. The reality is they keep getting assaulted by facts and the truth. This party would be on life support if it weren’t for the MSM.
Speaking of #MeToo, have you seen this story anywhere in the MSM?
Cosko was sentenced last month by Judge Thomas Hogan to four years in prison for breaking into Senate computers and releasing personal information of Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Wikipedia. Information shared included home addresses and phone numbers.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/31/democratic-aide-helped-doxx-senators-kavanaugh-pleads-guilty/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=b51a4d4060-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-b51a4d4060-79248369
Jackson Cosko is listed in the Wikipedia article “Threatening government officials of the United States” forr hacking those Senate computers from Sen. Maggie Hassan’t office, threatening to doxx Republican Senate leaders, and a host of other crimes. It doesn’t yet carry the news of his conviction on those charges.
I’m sure the MSM will be all over this very soon.
This was harassment. Was Trump’s team awarded legal fees?
These frivolous cases intended to harass drove Sarah Palin out of office in Alaska. I recall one of the suits was because she was photographed at the Iditarod where her husband raced wearing a parka with a logo. Whatever one thinks of Sarah Palin, it was up to the people of Alaska whether she got reelected or not. They can gather steam until it is a tsunami of meritless cases that nonetheless take time and money to fight. Most people do not have such resources.
Unless there is some sort of consequence for brining such suits, they will continue to be used as a political tool.
Unjust.
rule 11 is the frivolous actions sanctions rule. turley said it was close, which means, no they didnt make a rule 11 finding. Dems almost got their wings clipped, escaped with only a loss.
I wonder why they did not make that finding.
Kurtz: READ the opinion. If Turley says “it was close”, he’s wrong because that’s not what the opinion says. They made a “no Rule 11” finding because the claims were not frivolous, unreasonable or groundless. No one “almost” got their wings clipped.
The loser in this entire scenario is the rule of law and sanctity of our elections. Read the facts. Do you find it acceptable that one political party benefits from crimes committed by a foreign government against their opponent because the foreign government can’t be sued in the U.S.? How about the fact that the campaign knowingly accepted help and didn’t report the illegal conduct to the FBI and lied about what they knew? Do you find all of the lying by Trump, Jr., Papadapoulous, et al, acceptable? I don’t find any of this acceptable at all. What’s worse is that they are in the process of doing it again and Mitch McConnell is blocking bipartisan efforts to beef up election security.
Natacha is energetically wishcasting today. (As well as pretending to be a lawyer).
An American Patriot Lawyer, no less.
American patriot lawyer warm bucket of spit
“This is absurd x XI says: July 31, 2019 at 2:19 PM
Natacha is energetically wishcasting today. (As well as pretending to be a lawyer).”
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Now how would you know if Natacha is a lawyer? How do you know that she is “pretending.”
You don’t.
Maybe she will prove that she is a lawyer by representing the DNC in an appeal of the judge’s decision.
Since the claims made were “entirely divorced from the facts”, Ms.Natacha would be especially well-suited to handle the case.
Natasha, you’re speaking to people still loyal to Trump. They have no standards left.
No, Ms. Natacha is speaking to people who understand that when a case is built on claims “entirely divorced from the facts” the case is a farce.
Oops, I meant the snow machine race the Iron Dog, not the actual dog race the Iditarod. Sorry. Always loved the story that inspired the Iditarod so “race in Alaska” always makes me think Iditarod.
Why am I not surprised that someone like you admires former half-governor Sarah Palin?
Natacha’s name henceforth is warm bucket of spit
A feminism that cannot admire the bravura under high pressure of the first woman governor of a frontier state isn’t worth a warm bucket of spit.
Now that’s the Sarah Palin brand of can-do, no-excuses, moose-hunting feminism — a world away from the whining, sniping, wearily ironic mode of the establishment feminism represented by Gloria Steinem, a Hillary Clinton supporter whose shameless Democratic partisanship over the past four decades has severely limited American feminism and not allowed it to become the big tent it can and should be.
– Camille Paglia
https://www.salon.com/2008/09/10/palin_10/
But….she can see Russia from her front porch. Doesn’t that qualify her to be a Vice President–one mere heartbeat away from running the most-powerful country on Earth? And, BTW, she bailed on her governorship after only 2 years, so she’s only a half-former governor. The RNC had to purchase appropriate professional clothes for her because, after all, she’s a moose-hunter, which, according to you, qualifies her for admiration and for being a feminist.
Oh, and don’t forget that she “hunted” moose by hanging out of a helicopter with a high-powered rifle. Nothing says “can-do” like a low-brow redneck female hanging out of a helicopter and shooting at animals. And, despite the Exxon Valdiz disaster, she’s in favor of more “drill baby drill”.
I’m sure you fancied this was coherent when you typed it.
Gov. Palin is accomplished in a several realms, vocational and avocational. She also has an abundant family life. She’s not responsible for making you a ruin. You did that to yourself.
“Gov. Palin is accomplished in a several realms, vocational and avocational. She also has an abundant family life.”
LOL.
Here’s a question for you Nuttychacha — if John McCain was so smart, so great, such a hero, etc, why did he choose Palin to be his running mate? Bad judgment? Bad at sizing up people’s character? Or did McCain let others choose for him? And then, when he was dying, he threw Palin under the bus saying it was the biggest mistake of his campaign or something like that, and then he made sure the world knew he did not invite her to his funeral. What a guy. Not.
I have a suspicion John McCain was non compos mentis as he lay dying and the cuts directed at Sarah Palin were coming from Cindy McCain. You ever notice Natacha’s madcap hostility to Kellyanne Conway? Some women are simply deeply unpleasant human beings and it manifests itself in loathing of other women who have things that they will never have.
Paul Schulte noticed something about McCain’s choice of a resting place that I hadn’t. It’s a naval cemetery, so Cindy cannot be buried next to him. It’s also a great deal closer to where Carol McCain’s home is than to where Cindy’s is.
Yes, I believe as long as Cindy McCain doesn’t remarry, there is a plot for her next to her husband who is buried next to his buddy Chuck Larson at the Naval Academy cemetery. There is a plot for Larson’s wife as well, assuming she does not remarry.
https://www.usna.edu/Cemetery/eligibility.php#fndtn-panel1USNABurialQualifications
That is correct……it is true at West Point as well.
“Politics is the entertainment division of the Military Industrial Complex.” Frank Zappa
Notice the only truly anti-foreign military excursion candidate is Tulsi Gabbard. Note she was the highest trending Dem candidate after the first 2 debates, and note that Google literally barred Tulsi from buying ad time immediately after those debates.
20+ years ago the Dems were about working conditions, higher pay, and living conditions for the middle class. You’d have a very hard time now defending the position that the DNC is not wholly owned by elite multi billionaire class now, first and foremost being the MIC.
This is a good comment. Gabbard, an Iraq war Vet, stood out in the debates and well before then — not with the beltway crowd. But to the rest of the Country.
Of course you do realize that, just like Trump, Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian spy.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/russia-s-propaganda-machine-discovers-2020-democratic-candidate-tulsi-gabbard-n964261
So is Bernie Sanders.
https://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-sanders-is-a-russian-agent-and-other-things-i-learned-this-week/
Google blacked out her paid ads right after her good showing in the debate. Deliberate sabotage and unlawful meddling and collusion between Google and the entrenched Democrat establishment
They just downgraded Andrew Wang’s stuff too. They’re despicable!
Yang, sorry
He had the story on his twitter feed a couple days ago but i cant find it now
I doubt Google’s efforts will do any good. I’m sending Gabbard a couple hundred bucks — if nothing more than just out of spite for Google. But the reasons are actually more substantive than that.
It’s interesting that we see the same Russian smear on Gabbard and Sanders that they did on Trump — for different reasons — because Gabbard’s not all that liberal.
The Sanders Russian smear is out of visceral hatred for the fact that Clinton lost, and people want to blame the Russians and Sanders.
In the case of Gabbard, Washington loves war. And she doesn’t think we ought to be invading every other country on the planet all the time. So they don’t like her for that.
Sweet little crack at his father, who was a civilian technician employed by the military.
He was a child of the bourgeoisie whose post-secondary liberal education was close to nil. Which sucker actually believes he could provide a coherent definition of ‘military-industrial complex’?
you mean zappa
I would also note that NBC placed a fake digital pimple on Tulsi’s face in the first debate when she started talking about Iran. I find it remarkable that such a wild, crazy thing can happen and that the MSM completely ignored it. This tells you how crazy things really are.
Hey, it works for Nutacha! Those type of things are effective on the truly viscerally emotional among us. Those short on the impetus for rationality.
I noticed that Sen. Sanders nose kept growing when he went on about how great his Medication for All plan would be.
But I don’t think it was a fake optics by the network in his case.
The Dims completely divorced from reality.
Pres.Trump another great night last night.
The Dims now a full blown Socialist party.
The Dems and DNC are enabled by their media allies to pull stunts like this because they know their MSM runs cover for them and downplays stories like this to keep the muddled masses all mixed up in their minds. Proof that it works? Read one of Natacha’s rants. She’s a Russiagate true believer and precisely the kind of weak mind the Dems count on manipulating to stay in power.
Theirs is a “Do as I say, not as I do” creed, or perhaps more fittingly, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”. They give the US Catholic Bishops hope.
A-listers flock to Google summit in private jets, mega yachts to talk climate change
The world’s rich and famous have flocked to a posh Italian resort to talk about saving Mother Earth — but they sure are punishing her in the process.
Many of the guests, including Obama and DiCaprio — who has his own climate change foundation — have described global warming as the biggest threat to future generations.
But according to Italian press reports, the attendees were expected to show up in 114 private jets, and 40 had arrived by Sunday.
The Post crunched the numbers and found that 114 flights from Los Angeles to Palermo, Italy, where Camp guests landed, would spew an estimated 100,000 kilograms of CO2 into the air.
https://pagesix.com/2019/07/30/a-listers-flock-to-google-summit-in-private-jets-mega-yachts-to-talk-climate-change/
silicon valley social media giant google and wapo amazon are part of that BORG too
Democraps.
In addition to having no legal merit, it is politically foolish. For some reason Democrats think any issue related to Russians helps them politically. It was never going to do that.
That’s cute. Of course, Natacha and JanF will continue to tell brazen lies.
Take note how those that argue the side of hate and fear, the left, aren’t bothering to even read this post. They want to pretend the event never happened.
Entirely divorced from facts. This is an accurate description of the Democrats Party and their shills the Main Stream Media.
Clinton Appointee said that too. Amazingly candid appraisal. Shows that sometiems the power of article III lifetime tenure can be a good things. all depends i guess