Posted on 01/23/2026 9:20:00 AM PST by MtnClimber
Whether you’re a normal, conservative American who happens to like Trump, or Trump himself, Democrats will work tirelessly to throw their enemies in prison.
emocrats have every intention of restarting lawfare against President Donald Trump and his allies the very moment he leaves office, and Republicans need to start taking that threat seriously.
At a Thursday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, where the sole witness was get-Trump lawfare specialist Jack Smith, the former special counsel who brought bogus charges against Trump twice, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said the quiet part out loud in an exchange with Smith.
“Those indictments have been dismissed. Can they be re-brought or resurrected after this, after Trump leaves office?” Johnson asked.
“They were dismissed without prejudice,” Smith replied.
Johnson then pushed harder, stating, “So they can be re-filed, and he can be prosecuted after he leaves office. Is that correct?”
Smith declined to answer that question, but inherent in dismissing a case without prejudice is the ability to refile. Doing so merely put prosecution of Trump on hold while he has higher legal protections as president.
Other Democrats at the hearing danced around the issue.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., had an exchange with Smith suggesting the effort to get Trump is not over because Trump has yet to be “held accountable,” and that the future of the country will depend on going after him in order to maintain legitimacy:
JAYAPAL: “How would you describe the toll on our democracy if we do not hold a president accountable for attempting to steal an election?”
SMITH: “My belief is that if we do not hold the most powerful people in our society to the same standards of the rule of law, it can be catastrophic, because if they don’t have to follow the law, it’s very easy to understand why people would think they don’t have to follow the law as well.”
JAYAPAL: “What do you think the toll is for future elections and future presidents who try to steal an election?”
SMITH: “I think if we don’t hold people to account when they commit crimes, it sends a message that those crimes are okay, that our society accepts that. I believe that if we don’t call people to account when they commit crimes in this context, it can endanger our election process. It can endanger election workers, and ultimately, our democracy. The attack on this Capitol on January 6 was — and the Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, said this — it was an attack on the structure of our democracy.”
JAYAPAL: “And we could experience much worse results down the road if this happens again.”
It did not just stop at going after Trump himself, as Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., directed his ire to many of the people pardoned by Trump after being held in prison for years.
Trump is a “twice-impeached, convicted felon president who not only unleashed a mob against Congress and his own vice president, but has now pardoned and released into our communities hundreds of extremists, insurrectionists, and cop-beating felons who have proceeded to commit dozens more crimes against the American people since they were pardoned,” Raskin said.
Democrats at the hearing Thursday are far from the only ones who are calling to prosecute Trump, those who work in his administration, and his supporters after they regain power.
Left-wing “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings probably summed up best what Democrats expect of their elected officials: “The ‘prosecute the former regime at every level’ candidate has my vote in 2028.”
Jennifer Welch, the Democrat podcast host who seems to be a prominent voice on the left these days, said the same, stating, similarly to Jayapal, that it is the only way for national reconciliation.
“The blue tsunami means that Congress is going to haul Elon Musk, ‘Big Balls,’ and a bunch of other people’s *ss in front and say, ‘What crimes did you commit?’ and it’s gonna get really serious,” she said. “And the same with Trump, because I believe, and this is just my opinion, that Trump and all of the bottom-feeding morons surrounding him, and Elon Musk, and all the bottom-feeding clinger-onners that surround him — I think they commit crimes every day. And I think to reconcile all of this, it’s going to take hardcore — not integrity Democrats — ‘f*ck you’ Democrats, ‘f*ck you for f*cking over our country, we are serious about this, we are prosecuting, we are gonna uncover every document, every phone call, everything you did, we will be relentless about it.’ And that’s they mindset they’ve got to have. Because I think the electorate is going from, ‘We’ve got to get him out, but also we want accountability.'”
Jim Acosta, who interviewed Welch, nodded along and suggested that Democrats immediately pack the Supreme Court so that the immunity decision regarding Trump can be “overturned” in order to prosecute him.
But it is not just internet influencers who are saying this. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., put members of the Trump administration “on notice,” regarding immunity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, stating, “REMINDER: To all members of the Trump administration. The incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime. Donald Trump will leave office long before the five-year statute of limitations expires. You are hereby put on notice.”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., said the same thing, stating Trump is “not going to be president forever,” and prosecutions can come in the future.
Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., flanked by Reps. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Al Green, D-Texas, called for the prosecution of federal immigration law enforcement and the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and “every single ‘fascist’ leader.”
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., said something similar, and actually called for left-wing agitators to film ICE operations so that the footage could be used as evidence in prosecution of the agents.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said that Democrats will not even have to wait until Trump is out of office, so long as they get a House majority back, and that they intend to go after Trump’s family as well.
An impeachment is almost certain if Democrats get the House back, but as Crockett described, they will throw anything and everything at the wall to see what sticks in order to get Trump and administration officials.
They are guaranteed to just invent nonsense out of whole cloth and interpret statutes to mean things that they clearly do not, in exactly the same way that Smith did in his lawfare exercise.
“Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley, for example, has said, ‘Jack Smith has a reputation for stretching criminal statutes beyond the breaking point,'” Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., pointed out at Thursday’s hearing. It was a sentiment “echoed by the United States Supreme Court … criticizing [Smith’s] boundless interpretation of the federal criminal statute at issue” in a separate case.
But that flippant regard for the rule of law will be representative of the entire Democrat Party if and when they get power back.
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The only defense against the left is to make their actions have significant criminal consequences. Otherwise they will not stop their lawfare.
They want a war. There will be a tipping point. We are indeed living in ‘interesting times’.
Lawfare is a vicious tool wielded by Democrats.
Just look throughout history how they have used it both here and in other countries.
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Democrats have no fear of republicans for a good reason.
"We're better than this"
and the even more disgusting,
"This is not who we are."
Democrats don’t believe in law and order, or due process, or Democratic values. We’ve seen many examples of them using mob tactics to get what they want. They only believe in destroying anything and anyone that’s not part of their radical movement.
That seems to be the case.
I wonder who they expect to fight their war? An army of welfare cases? Worst case, drone drops of pot and meth would take care of that.
Maybe they think a moose slime China alliance will do the dirty work for them. Who knows. Can't figure out crazy.
The Left engages in lawfare by ... engaging in lawfare. We’ve seen them do this. It’s straightforward and they can keep people in jail for long stretches while they work some legal process at a glacial pace. But people are locked up.
Conservatives engage in lawfare by ... investigating stuff. Building that airtight case. Having hearings. Thinking about subpoenas. We start off at that glacial pace and nothing ever happens to anyone.
The Left’s tactics are more effective than our tactics.
You can rest assured if a liberal Democrat becomes POTUS in 2028, Trump and everyone that worked for him will be charged with some type of made-up crime, even if they are found not guilty or the charges get thrown out, the Democrats will attempt to bankrupt everyone they can.
Democrats ARE the totalitarians of our culture.
They will ‘round us up’ if they think they can get away with it.
The left marched through the institutions because they were fanatical about it.
The good news is—we can do the exact same thing...
If we are fanatical about it.
Democrats fully represent the DC deep-state, with about 2/3 of Republicans signed-on as associate members as well
They never stop pushing, tweaking, social-engineering and grifting for their interests and in neo-marxist globalism. One side side has been at war for decades, while the other side barely realizes it.
Now, with some exposure, and pushback against them, has the Left revealed it will go much farther in their attempts to maintain control.
They’re not a political party
“They will ‘round us up’ if they think they can get away with it.”
Never, ever surrender your firearms for then this will become a reality. The communists won’t stop until this happens. The Marxist playbook in play.
Lizzard Cheney and Kinzinger proved that there are no shortages of quislings in the demoncrap's rolodex ready to serve the revolution.
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