Posted on 02/18/2022 8:42:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Former President Donald Trump lost a bid Friday to toss lawsuits holding him responsible for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
Federal Judge Amit Mehta rejected Trump’s attempt to dismiss the civil cases with a claim that he has absolute immunity because he was in office at the time.
“To deny a President immunity from civil damages is no small step,” Mehta wrote in a 112-page ruling. “The court well understands the gravity of its decision. But the alleged facts of this case are without precedent, and the court believes that its decision is consistent with the purposes behind such immunity.”
Mehta, a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, DC, and appointed by former President Barack Obama, ruled that Trump could be sued for helping to incite the Capitol riot because his “Stop the Steal” speech ahead of the attack in the city was not an official presidential act.
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Congress won’t do shit.
Trump will need to get non Mitch approved Cabinet picks and start there.
Inciting through his sheer existence. Liberals have a long hit list, but not enough concentration camps.
Can I sue the puppet for his energy policies nearly putting me out of business?
FakeNewsMSM hasn’t scratched the surface of Durham/Joffe etc, yet there are daily anti-Trump headlines which feature prominently on FR. how about digging into the Durham stuff, as the great Paul Sperry has done. much more at the link:
17 Feb: Real Clear Investigations: Checkered Past of FBI Cyber Contractor Who ‘Spied’ on Trump
by Paul Sperry
Long before FBI computer contractor and Clinton operative Rodney L. Joffe allegedly trolled Internet traffic for dirt on President Trump, he mined direct-marketing contact lists for the names and addresses of unwitting Americans to target in a promotional scam involving a grandfather clock.
Not just any clock, mind you, but a “world famous Bentley IX” model, according to postcards his companies mailed out to millions of people in the late 1980s claiming they’d won the clock in a contest they never entered. There was just one hitch: the lucky winners had to send $69.19 in shipping fees to redeem their supposedly five-foot mahogany prize.
Tens of thousands of folks forked over the fees, only to discover the grandfather clock that arrived was nothing as advertised. It was really just a table-top version made of particle board and plastic and worth less than $10. Some assembly was required.
The scheme generated thousands of complaints, sparking federal and state investigations. Joffe and his then-California partner, Linda M. Carella, were eyed by federal postal authorities and several state attorneys general for allegedly operating a multi-state mail-order scheme. Joffe settled several state lawsuits by agreeing to refund hundreds of thousand of dollars mainly to elderly victims, according to several published reports at the time.
Joffe and his attorney did not respond to requests for comment. But in a phone interview, Carella told RealClearInvestigations that Joffe ran the operation. “I was just the secretary, the receptionist,” Carella, 76, said from her home in Florida, where she is now retired (though she picked up the returned postcards and checks from mailboxes)...
Former prosecutor and assistant FBI director Chris Swecker said the credibility issues that cropped up from Joffe’s early career raise questions about how he managed to pass an FBI personal background check and obtain the government’s highest security clearances and win several bids for sensitive federal contracts despite his checkered past, although he noted that such background checks were often ridiculed in the bureau as “a joke.”...
In previous statements, lawyers for Joffe and the researchers he recruited have said they had no political ax to grind but were monitoring Trump to track a credible national security threat related to Russia. But Joffe’s lead researcher – Manos Antonakakis of the Georgia Institute of Technology – revealed in one email obtained by Durham that “the only thing that drives us is that we just don’t like [Trump].”...
“In my opinion, Joffe is someone who should be indicted and probably will be,” former FBI official Swecker said in an RCI interview.
“As I see it,” he explained, “Joffe, who worked for Neustar at the time, had a contract with either the Executive Office of the President or the [presidential] transition team, and he used information gleaned from his contractual relationship to provide that private information to the Clinton campaign. Depending on the actual facts on the ground, it could constitute mail or wire fraud, and if it were an actual government contract, perhaps fraud against the government – that is, the Executive Office of the President.”...
On Twitter, Joffe has removed all his tweets dating back to 2014...
Durham’s office is looking closely at Washington-based Neustar, and firms Joffe founded while working there. Joffe has created more than two dozen startups across several states, some of which have no employees, revenue or even offices.
Sources told RCI that Durham’s office is looking closely at Washington-based Neustar – which Joffe left in September following Sussmann’s indictment – and two Internet firms Joffe operated while still working there: Packet Forensics and Vostrom Ventures, both of which are controlled by Vostrom Holdings Inc. and also have offices in the greater Washington area...
In September 2016, Sussmann billed Neustar for “communications regarding confidential project,” a reference to Joffe’s mission to find a “secret hotline” between Trump and the Kremlin via Alfa Bank’s servers. That Sussmann billed Neustar for this work suggests a level of involvement by the company that has not been explained.
A month earlier, Joffe had tasked employees at his two small Internet startups to search for any Internet data (including private DNS holdings) reflecting potential connections or communications between Trump or his associates and Russia. Joffe emailed them a five-page dossier – the “Trump Associates List” – to guide their queries. As RCI first reported, the list included highly personal information on Trump campaign advisers Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos and Carter Page. Steve Bannon appears to have been added to the list later as another target, the emails released by Judicial Watch reveal.
Packet Forensics reportedly landed a recent Pentagon contract to manage a large chunk of Internet domains owned by the military. The bid was awarded the day Joe Biden was inaugurated president. The massive cyberspace will allow Joffe’s firm to set up dedicated digital infrastructure, including servers and software, to comb through private Internet traffic for the purported purpose of monitoring suspicious activity.
Joffe’s company also sells wiretapping equipment that allows federal authorities to spy on private web-browsing through fake Internet security certificates, instead of real ones that websites employ to verify secure connections. Once installed, Packet’s device lets agents see an individual’s online transactions without obtaining a warrant...
Joffe’s second-act success in government seems rooted in a simple fact: “He has friends in high places,” proferred a career Justice Department official. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, pointed out that Joffe personally advised President Obama on cybersecurity and other issues, and was also close to former FBI Director James Comey...
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/2022/02/17/checkered_past_of_fbi_cyber_contractor_who_spied_on_trump_817234.html
These corruptocrats probably don’t think anyone is making note of their “contributions” to society.
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I wonder which function of Gov’t Biden was performing when he forced a Foreign Country to fire a Prosecutor.
Never been done before in history
No other Administration in history has done this, so what new function of Government suddenly sprouted up?
They entirely concern his efforts to enrich the Biden family and keep his illegal operation flowing freely.
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Judge is from INDIA
appointee of Obama
In a FISA court
Ok then. Deep State. A judge criminal no doubt.
18 Feb: Daily Mail: ‘I have it in my bedroom’: Rudy Giuliani claims he has evidence PROVING that Hillary spied on Trump and promises that Durham’s blockbuster filing ‘is just the start’
By Adriana Diaz
Rudy Giuliani claims he has evidence proving Hillary Clinton spied on Donald Trump after the 2016 election
‘I happen to have it in my bedroom, or my den, actually. I’ve had it there for years,’ Giuliani said on NewsmaxTV
‘There’s a lot more to come out,’ he said on Tuesday referring to the recent filing from Special Counsel John Durham
On Friday, Durham alleged that Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid a tech firm to ‘mine data’ to make Trump-Russia link
Trump said Durham’s Trump-Russia probe will expose ‘the crime of the century’
Clinton has refused to comment on the recent allegations
‘Durham’s indictment made no specific claims of servers being ‘infiltrated’
But rather that DNS data from Trump Tower and Whitehouse servers was exploited in an attempt to document a link between Trump and Russian banks.’
In Durham’s filing on Friday, he revealed how Sussman ‘had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients, including a technology executive (Tech Executive 1), named as Rodney Joffe, at a U.S.-based internet company (Internet Company 1) and the Clinton campaign.’
The name of the internet firm has not been disclosed in any reports or court documents so far.
But Joffe is the founder of UltraDNS, the first cloud-based company to market ‘domain name services,’ which connects a website’s numerical address to a more user-friendly letter-based domain name.
DNS has been referred to as the ‘phone book of the internet,’ and DNS servers such as Joffe’s UltraDNS and the more modern Cloudflare are generally able to access and view their millions of users’ internet histories.
UltraDNS was bought by tech company Neustar for nearly $62 million in 2006. Joffe’s LinkedIn shows he served as an executive at Neustar from then until retiring in September 2021.
Neustar is a Virginia-based internet analytics and data firm that recently aided an unnamed U.S. state in its COVID-19 contact tracing program, according to the tech firm’s website...
It also states how Sussman and the Tech Executive (Joffe) met to speak with another lawyer working as General Counsel to the Clinton campaign, who Fox identify as Marc Elias from Perkins Coie law firm.
The filing also reveals how Josse worked with Sussman at the instruction of the Clinton campaign to ‘assemble the purported data and white papers’ - essentially to gather information that would tie Trump to Russia.
Durham tells how Tech Executive-1 said he was trying to please certain ‘VIPs,’ which is said to have been a reference to the Clinton campaign...
Durham explains that at Sussman’s trial, the government will prove how Joffe was able to able to see what websites were being viewed on computers at Trump Tower, Trump’s Central Park West apartment and at the White House.
Durham notes that Joffe’s position as a ‘Tech Executive’ saw him entrusted to maintain dedicated servers for the White House and president’s office...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10517949/amp/Rudy-Giuliani-claims-evidence-PROVING-Hillary-spied-Trump.html
19 Sept 2018: Neustar: Neustar expands its cyber-defense mitigation network to Sydney
Neustar, Inc., a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services and leading cloud-based digital performance and defense solutions today announced the launch of its new internet traffic scrubbing centre in Sydney...
Rodney Joffe, Neustar Senior Vice President, Fellow and National Security Executive commented, “DDoS attacks are increasing in size and sophistication, and this means we need to continually increase capacity to ensure our customers’ critical data and services are safeguarded. Australian organisations need to be secure in the knowledge that their business will not be disrupted by malicious attacks, similar to the massive Memcached amplification attack which impacted thousands of businesses across the world in February this year.”...
Neustar Headquarters
1906 Reston Metro Plaza
Suite 500
Reston, VA 20190...
https://www.home.neustar/about-us/news-room/press-releases/2018/SydneyNode
6 Dec 2021: Quardrant Magazine, Australia: The Commissioner and the Choirboy
by Keith Windschuttle, Editor-in-chief
This edition of Quadrant has a renewed focus on the persecution of Cardinal George Pell, with an extract from Gerard Henderson’s new book on the subject and an article by Pell himself on Edward Gibbon’s monumental work The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. So, even though the High Court found twenty months ago that Pell was innocent, and although he would probably now like to put the experience behind him, this is an appropriate time to raise two other issues about Pell’s ordeal that have emerged since...
Now, there is no dispute that four international money transfers, totalling more than $2 million, were transferred from the Vatican to Australia at the time claimed in 2016 and 2017. Two of the transfers were authorised by Becciu. However, the money was sent to the Melbourne offices of Neustar, an American company providing global communications and internet directory and security services. Becciu insists that these payments were legitimate business expenses and Vatican prosecutors have so far not listed them as potential issues for the trial.
After Australian Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells asked AUSTRAC, the Australian financial intelligence service, to investigate the Vatican payments, the agency calculated that, as well as the Neustar payments, between 2014 and 2020 amounts of between $6.5 and $7 million had been transferred. However, the Australian Federal Police, who had been investigating the same money transfers identified by AUSTRAC, announced in February 2021 they had found no evidence of criminal activity in the identified money transfers...ETC
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2021/12/the-commissioner-and-the-choirboy/
One way or the other, A/K/A, by any means necessary, they are going to keep Trump out of the White House in 2024.
This judge is wrong. The lawsuit is a leftist fishing expedition for depositions or court testimony to find one little error in speech.
DC courts are notorious for being hate Trump, conservatives, and patriots neo-MARXIST legal cesspool.
Born in India. Surreal BS.
Appointed by a Foreigner Maggot, O.
Just another corrupt Judge in a Corrupt court doing what he was installed to do.
Ah, but there you see! Biden could simply argue that he was performing an official Presidential Act; that he was acting ex officio.
Regards,
Telling his supporters to “march peacefully and patriotically
in front of the Capitol
Sorry. I posted too soon.
President Trump telling his supporters to “March peacefully and patriotically” in front of the Capitol building is not a crime.
Citizens petitioning their government for redress regarding a stolen election should not be a crime either. In present day Amerika apparently, it is just that.
After being knocked in the head by the Me-too movement, the Left is targeting another boomerang at Trump. So politicians can be sued for inspiring violence...ok...
The democrat taliban party’s favorite weapon in the ongoing civil war is lawfare.
If Trump gets back in the White House he needs to get congress to impeach every judge, fire all the bureaucrats, disband the SES, close the FBI, CIA and NSA! That’s day one......
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