The Conservative Cave

Aviation Pro (15,295 posts)

Mike Fanone is a national embarrassment

And should be elevated as an example of a loudmouth fighting hack.

President Donald Trump just delivered a long-overdue message to the global gun confiscation cartel: America is not taking orders from the United Nations.

In a major move for national sovereignty and Second Amendment freedom, the Trump administration has formally withdrawn the United States from the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, a UN-run reporting system that gun rights advocates have warned for years is part of the international bureaucracy’s long game to pressure nations into “standardized” gun restrictions.

What Is the UN Register of Conventional Arms?
UNROCA is a so-called “voluntary” United Nations registry where participating countries report information about weapons transfers, including categories of conventional arms and, in many cases, small arms and light weapons.

Supporters claim it promotes “transparency.”

But gun owners know how this game works.

Transparency is always the excuse and control is always the goal. Because once international bureaucrats start collecting data, they don’t stop at tracking tanks and fighter jets.

Former special counsel Jack Smith made major admissions during his public testimony Thursday, including about former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s credibility as a witness.
...
1. Cassidy Hutchinson wasn’t ruled out as a witness.

Smith admitted both on Thursday and in prior closed-door deposition that elements of Hutchinson’s testimony were based on “hearsay.” Hutchinson, a key witness for the Jan. 6 committee, claimed Trump lunged to grab the steering wheel of his presidential vehicle on Jan. 6 to redirect it the Capitol.

Yet Smith didn’t rule out calling her as a witness.

“Were you going to put her on the witness stand if you ever got to trial?” Jordan asked.

“We had not made final determinations as to who we were going to call as a witness,” Smith replied.

“That’s the point,” Jordan said. “You didn’t rule out using her, or putting her on the witness stand, when everybody knows she wasn’t telling the truth. That says it all.”
...
3. Smith doesn’t know how much money went to confidential human sources.

Jordan asked Smith how much of the $35 million he used to prosecute Trump went towards paying confidential human sources.

Smith said he didn’t know the identity of a confidential human source who was paid $20,000, payment documents the FBI turned over to Congress in early January revealed. FBI Director Kash Patel called the payment “weaponization” on Jan. 10.

“How many other payments went to this source or other sources?” Jordan said.

“As I sit here, I do not know the answer to that question,” Smith said.

Quote

3. Can no one intercept Trump's calls with Putin and expose what's going on?

Nope. Trump must just be too smart for you to catch him in the act.

It was a shambolic day of testimony for former Special Counsel Jack Smith, who appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to discuss his two investigations into Donald Trump. It was a cross between Republicans rightly throwing their punches over a witch hunt that got exposed once it became clear Trump was going to win the 2024 election, and Democrats who tried in vain to defend this circus, coupled with apologies and other nauseating acts often exhibited by members of this party.

The “veneer” of Smith was ripped apart by CNN’s top legal analyst, Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, who highlighted the part that he found striking. It also gave away the game: Smith wanted a trial set up quickly to impact the election. Of course, he said this wasn’t the case, but his silence on this matter spoke volumes, and Honig added that there is no constitutional way this would have been permissible—there were 13 million documents to analyze. And Smith wanted a trial date within five or so months.
...

Quote

To your question, Brianna, the last Congressman we saw brought up the fact that Jack Smith demanded a trial date four months out, five months out in a case involving 13 million pages of documents. There is no defense lawyer in the country who can constitutionally prepare for trial and defend his client on that short of time frame.

The implication was you were rushing to get this in before the 2024 election. Jack Smith did not defend himself, by the way. He didn’t say a word about that, which I found, I found striking. And Jack Smith has always maintained this veneer that he never thought about the election…of course he did.  Why would would you demand such a quick trial date.