This time it's a memorandum to the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security called: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court. There was a Fact Sheet that preceded it yesterday called: President Donald J. Trump Prevents Abuses to the Legal System and the Federal Courts.
Both of them go after Marc Elias, a well known lawyer for the Democratic Party and also the founder of the Democracy Docket website, and his law firm Elias Law Group LLP.
Marc received the Steele Dossier from Fusion GPS after Fusion GPS was commissioned by the Perkins Coie law firm, which was retained by Hillary Clinton. It's a tangled web.
You can download the dossier as a PDF here.
You can also look at it online here.
Trump's memorandum spells out the crimes and abuses by the lawyers who have almost made his life miserable best, so I'll use it for dissection.
"Lawyers and law firms that engage in actions that violate the laws of the United States or rules governing attorney conduct must be efficiently and effectively held accountable."
Real hard to tell where he's going, isn't it?
"Accountability is especially important when misconduct by lawyers and law firms threatens our national security, homeland security, public safety, or election integrity."
National security. Anything done in its name can only be right. Too bad Trump didn't think that when he stole all the classified documents. Election Integrity tacked on at the end. Even a greater crime than threatening public safety or homeland security. What exactly is the difference between national security and homeland security?
"Recent examples of grossly unethical misconduct are far too common. For instance, in 2016 Marc Elias, founder and chair of the Elias Law Group LLP, was deeply involved in the creation of a false 'dossier'..."
Actually, nobody knows whether anything in it is true or not. The 35 pages of memos that Christopher Steele put together are uncorroborated information. Trump is especially angry about his entries in the memos, including the one where it says he was caught on camera with Russian prostitutes in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow.
"... designed to provide a fraudulent basis for Federal law enforcement to investigate a Presidential candidate in order to alter the outcome of the Presidential election."
As we all know, Trump is as bad a winner as he is as a loser. He won the damn election but he still is going after everyone who had anything to do with him not winning the popular vote. Really. That's what this is all about. Most people, who are intelligent, would have let it go. Nobody would remember it, but now you've brought it up. Everyone can find that dossier online and read about you. Not very smart.
"Elias also intentionally sought to conceal the role of his client --- failed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton --- in the dossier."
She didn't ask for it to be done. Fusion GPS was supposed to do opposing candidate research. They were the ones that commissioned it. The DNC and her campaign were fined by the Federal Elections Commission for labeling Christopher Steele's work as legal services. Nobody said boo about Mark Elias.
There were pieces of it verified by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and in the Mueller report. If some of it was valid, maybe all of it is. If Trump wants to go there, he's shooting himself in the foot.
Next, Trump goes after his current problems with court cases thwarting his deportation scheme.
"The immigration system --- where rampant fraud and meritless claims have supplanted the constitutional and lawful bases upon which president exercises core powers under Article II of The United States Constitution --- is likewise replete with examples of unscrupulous behavior by attorneys and law firms."
"Core powers." The Supreme Court gave him immunity for using them. Article II is being quoted so often by his legal teams, I've lost count. He is the embodiment of the Executive branch, and therefore can do no wrong. The important thing is that he's being treated so badly by those judges and those unscrupulous lawyers who are winning against him. So, obviously, they must be evil, wicked, bad and nasty.
"Big Law ... frequently coaches clients to conceal their past or lie about their circumstances when asserting their asylum claims, all in an attempt to circumvent immigration policies designed to protect our national security..."
National security. It justifies everything. But accusing lawyers of suborning perjury is a really nasty attack, even just generalizing it.
All of this is preventing getting rid of criminals that have committed the crimes against "Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, or Rachel Morin, or on the enormous drain on taxpayer resources intended for Americans."
I'm sorry for the deaths of those ladies, but it doesn't mean you can walk all over the Constitution. Trump is the one that's causing the drain on the taxpayer resources because of his stupidity and illegal deportation schemes.
"Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 prohibits attorneys from engaging in certain unethical conduct in federal courts. Attorneys must not present legal filings 'for improper purposes,' including to 'harass, cause unnecessary delay, or needlessly increase the cost of litigation.'"
Is it possible that he could whine any louder? It's so funny that Trump is criticizing those tactics used against him when he's used them in his 4,000 lawsuits over the years.
He then follows with threatening sanctions against the lawyers committing these crimes. And he directs the Attorney General to go after those complicit attorneys. When he says that, he means every single one of them whether they're justified or not. The point is to break down the opposition with threats.
Those include disciplinary actions, sanctions, revocation of security clearance, termination of contracts with the law firm the attorney represents. And then there's appropriate actions, which leaves the door open for nearly anything.
Then there is a lawyerly summation.
"Law firms and individual attorneys have a great power, and obligation, to serve the rule of law, justice and order. The Attorney General, alongside the Counsel to the President, shall report to the President periodically on improvements by firms to capture this hopeful vision."
The Trump administration is going to be snooping on all the law firms opposing his court cases. This alone, will sidetrack them with all the other evil that they want to do. Just keep piling it on, every single day. More court cases. 133 cases and counting today.
When the Attorney General tries to punish an attorney or a law firm, that's going to be one additional case they're going to have to deal with. They somehow think that courts are going to side with them with frivolous attacks an attorneys and law firms.
Trump thinks that he's won such a big victory with Paul,Weiss, that he's going to keep winning. He's forgotten that Perkins Coie has already won on the points they asked for. They'll win the rest in the next round in court.
Marc Elias is ready for Trump's attack. He's said as much for months. His latest article is called "The Sharks Circling the Boat," on Democracy Docket.
The problem for Trump is that when he takes a punch at Marc Elias, Marc will punch back twice as hard. That's when bullies crumble. They can give it, but they can't take it. Marc already has enough here for a defamation case.
Let's see if he files one.
