Posted on 02/14/2025 7:31:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump loves to take a phrase and drain it of all meaning. In his first term, he transformed the term "fake news" from describing a specific problem with a type of misinformation into an attack on any journalist he didn't like or a piece of journalism that made him look bad.
Now he's doing the same to the word "lawfare," and the stakes are even higher — including, potentially, the guardrails of our democracy.
Coined in 2001, "lawfare" refers to the use of courts and other legal systems to damage or delegitimize a political opponent. After Trump left office four years ago, he began using lawfare incorrectly to describe the various criminal cases he was embroiled in due to paying hush money, allegedly trying to overturn an election and allegedly mishandling classified documents.
Let’s be clear: courts can only consider the cases brought before them. Democratic attorneys general and nonprofits are not filing these lawsuits to hurt Trump. Judges (including Republican appointees) are not ruling against Trump out of personal animus, but because they want to slow things down. It’s not lawfare, as Trump would have you believe. It’s the law, applied fairly.
But what happens if Trump's supporters believe his claims? After all, we watched with our own eyes as he convinced millions of our fellow Americans that the 2020 election was rigged without a shred of good evidence. If he can undermine the legitimacy of our elections, who's to say that he can't do the same with our courts?
And therein lies the crisis we'll soon be facing. The most powerful man in the world is attacking the system of laws he's sworn to uphold. The real lawfare right now is one that Trump is waging against the courts, and that should concern all of us.
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“MSNBC”. Oh, shut up.
MSNBC sure is stuck on leftist stupid.
Not unlike what the Christians/Crusaders did to the invading satanic muzzoids.
And when Biden did it he was “defending Democracy” - way to drain a phrase MSNBC
Dry comedy, but still funny. At least the media hacks have to earn the billions paid to their news outlets courtesy of the taxpayers. I bet they haven’t had to work this hard since 9/11. Their work has drifted from well produced and tightly scripted state propaganda, to freestyle bitching of gloom and doom. Trump has flooded the zone of their producers so badly, that there is a noticeable decay in the substance and central thesis to their work. It’s just comedy at this point.
Why post MSNBC junk?
The “Lawfare Attack” is by activist Leftist judges on the clear powers of the Executive, plain and simple.
Take a look at Symone...if you dare.
https://dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-political-future/wp-content/uploads/sites/135/2023/04/Symone-Sanders-Headshot-web-1280x1707.jpg
Bologna. That’s why the word “could”, “may” and “might” are used. May cause drowsiness. Could upset stomach. May produce oily discharge
Progressives are all of a sudden concerned about Constitution? That living breathing changing document based on the flavor of the day?
Ok Jan. I guess MSNBC has to figure out why Trump is targeted or prosecuted in novel or unique ways that have never applied to anyone else.
PMSNBC is ridiculous.
Even more ridiculous when its minions attempt to put their thoughts in writing.
It’s the courts waging war on Trump and the executive power of the chief executive that could backfire on the courts.
the author is an egregious oxygen thief
Definition of “woke” in one sentence.
Whine, whine, whine.
MSNBC should be ground into dust. They are a criminal enterprise, not an engine of free speech.
Total Bull S^^T! These morons have NO self-awareness at all.
Classic leftist tactic—scream in pain while they punch you out....
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