The writing of this piece began some time ago and kept getting interrupted by events in the news, one of them being the release of two of the Coutts 4, in Alberta after two years in remand without bail. It followed a plea deal that removed the most incendiary charge completely, leaving a lot of questions. Conspiracy to murder a police officer was dropped. What does this mean for the validity of the charge in the first place? Were bogus allegations used to support the invocation of the Emergencies Act? We are looking at more reporting on this soon. It is a story that will shake this country to its foundations. And there are lawsuits now against the government based on its invocation of the EA. These lawsuits will lead to discovery from the government and that means finally, some truth. Our show this week proves the validity of this approach.
Meanwhile: A new massive fine of 335 m. was leveled yesterday against Trump. They are trying to stop him one way or another.
On this edition I write that as a woman, the use of dodgy sexual assault claims is particularly offensive.
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A panel of cackling Donald Trump haters on The Rachel Maddow Show just set women back about a million years. Mary Tyler Moore can undo her beret toss in front of the fictional WJR newsroom building in Minneapolis and let’s all just go back to the days when raping women in the context of marriage was not a crime (true until the 1980s). We are watching the destruction of a democracy on the alter of a silly, you-go-girl reaction following the absurd awarding of 83 million dollars to geriatric gal-about-town, E. Jean Carroll. It is a defamation award because Trump said mean things about her while defending himself from her historic claim that he raped her, decades ago in a dressing room at Bergdorf’s. Here’s the video:
I have never seen an actual rape victim celebrating on television. Where is the somber, sober discussion about what it means? Keep in mind that Maddow kept the phoney Trump/Russia gambit going throughout his presidency — even when the facts proved it was all garbage. But she got very rich by lying about Donald Trump. In fact shilling under the guise of journalism is perhaps the easiest way to generational money outside of working in the financial sector. Carroll is not very credible but in our new world, this was a victory for all women against a president who is highly politically unpopular with this very demographic.
He foolishly embraced abortion ban zealots during his candidacy in 2016 and in doing so — alienated many women. I have extremely nuanced views myself which is to say I hate abortion — but recognize that in some circumstances it might be necessary and even moral. Legal but rare, please. I do have some sympathy for those who want a ban and the moral purity of the argument but the reality is that women die in backrooms when abortion is forbidden completely.
Did the attack on Carroll happen? Who knows? The jury made a finding that no rape occurred — despite her testifying that it had and came back with a verdict of sexual abuse (remember this was not a criminal court). But she testified to rape and the penetrative nature of what she alleged happened — so if that wasn’t credible why is there belief in the rest of what she said? She testified to one thing and the jury found another. Odd. When legal commentators pointed this out, the judge who’d been overtly hostile to Trump rushed to Carroll’s rescue. Here are the jury’s findings.
She claims to remember many details but not the date or even the year just like Christine Blasey Ford whose historic “memories” were weaponized by the Democrats against Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. That story played out in hearings that gripped the nation and made me sick to my stomach. Her contemporaneous witnesses didn’t corroborate her story. Pre-hearing, she scrubbed her social media, some say to hide her extreme lefty politics and then was pushed into the limelight by that bastion of neutrality and light — Nancy Pelosi.
I suppose the hoax against Brett Kavanaugh wasn’t technically lawfare as it wasn’t in aid of a judicial finding but it did require the taking of oaths and legal representation. And it was designed to bury him under propaganda and evidence-free innuendo. This scenario can be a no win because if you fight too hard and look like you are attacking the victim — you will lose anyway. The public humiliation of a person with Kavanaugh’s squeaky clean record was a shot across the bow. A warning to the people whose sexual history is, shall we say, slightly more exotic, like Trump’s. Kavanaugh’s remarks were heartbreaking and tough to watch.
Blasey Ford, like Carroll was repped by a Democratic Party muscle law firm and she did received a huge Go Fund Me payout of dubious origin. This ploy reeks of the Hunter Biden Art deals at 500 t per painting, with secret purchasers and benefactors involved.
I guess only a cynic like me might conclude it was a payoff for a performance that I thought rang hollow and false. Even her glasses suggested this was a cosplay — a costume addition lent last minute by someone with a much bigger face to make her appear more professorial. If you study the photographs carefully — it is obvious the frames didn’t fit her at all and that her eyelines were so off centre, any correction in the lense would have been moot. I wonder if optometrists watching noticed this.
When you return to the online GoFundMe to view the donors — all you get from the general list is one name.
The Top Donors list is somewhat longer but the figures don’t add up. Here is a shot of part of it.
Don’t ever forget all the grifters who came forward with stories about Kavanaugh that were florid and not credible on their face. Recall the one witness who told the media she had attended high school parties with rape rooms where teenage boys would line up — one after the other — to attack their female friends. Remember the fraudster lawyer behind this claim who became the darling of legacy media chat shows/news programs. Michael Avenatti is now doing serious time for multiple crimes but during the Kavanaugh hearings he was treated like a hero and many legacy media-types were demanding he run for president.
The rape rooms claim was made by a woman named Julie Swetnick but faded away under scrutiny while leaving an ugly stain.
In these cases, women were abusing our most sacred undertaking — that we not fudge or lie about sexual assault. Were Blasey Ford and Carroll both lying? Could this be fallout from a hatred of Trump so irrational and deep — that people get carried away?
Do I think Trump is a buccaneer of sorts? I do. He is likely a terrible husband except as they say, when he is writing checks. But that doesn’t make him a rapist. And as for Kavanaugh, it was dangerous being a successful, privileged, white Republican nominated by a hated president and on track to overrule Roe V Wade.
Watch the media fawn all over Michael Avenatti, peddler of false sex abuse stories — just weeks before he started down the road to the 14 year prison sentence he is now serving. Nauseating.
As a woman, I am doubly mortified by the use of dodgy allegations and lawfare to influence and control outcomes in a democracy. Tough to fight because it is infused with the fake righteousness of the accusing victim.
In Canada, during Covid, we saw the rise of passive lawfare. Not so much the direct persecution of people by the courts initially but rather the abandonment of litigating dissidents through findings that always seemed to favour the elites. Our courts aligned themselves with authoritarian public health and the politicians who abdicated our votes by deferring everything to their science tables. Gaggles of group-thinky experts now proven wrong on just about every pandemic issue, were running the country. Their authoritarian edicts were actually killing people through lockdowns, school closures and vaccine supremacy and yet no matter how learned the experts for the plaintiff the cases against them always failed. Our judges sided with bureaucrats who were afraid of their own shadows. These out of control and unelected rulemakers seemed infused with the ancient blood of every hall monitor and nerdy snitch, desperate to impose their will on the cool kids. Even Conservative rebels like Ontario Premier Doug Ford collapsed like a house of cards into the arms of Trudeau and his bureaucrats — calling vaccine protestors yahoos.
The final straw for me was just before the truckers hit the road. It was a moment, sitting home alone, working on the podcast and realizing I was well and truly trapped. With the courts and media captured — there was no way out. People were dying because of public health policy — the media was all in and the courts were useless.
I made it through only by the grace of a farm rental that got me out of Covidian Toronto, into nature and a barn full of wonderful animals. Buddy the horse was a favourite. Long days spent with my grown boys and husband helped, too. We invited a close friend who had relapsed and then overdosed, like thousands of others during Covid. He was touch and go, spent a month on life support in hospital( his mother was refused visits) and then joined us for a few therapeutic days before heading off to rehab. Not long after that, my own sober son had a life threatening relapse that nearly killed us all.
All of this personal destruction in a democratic country and there was no institutional remedy. Not one democratic pillar was available to us. Except protest. The courts confirmed they were not on the side of actual fact-finding and truth but were vulnerable to the same ruinous winds as every other institution that failed in the face of fear porn and cowardice.
The prosecution of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber and more plus the on-going jailing without bail of the remaining Coutts accused indicates judicial failures roll on. In Germany, my friend CJ Hopkins was just aquitted of committing thought crimes that had him on track for a prison sentence. The outcome was a relief but he has spent nearly a year raising funds and fighting threats in a country embracing authoritarianism in atonement for its ugly, authoritarian Nazi past. And it is doing so, in part through its courts. If you missed it, my exclusive interview with CJ is here.
Update — since I began writing this the prosecutor has decided to appeal. Ugh.
O of the few bright judicial moments was Justice Mosley’s lambasting of the Trudeau government for its absurd use of the Emergencies Act to end the Freedom Convoy. This week’s show celebrates the tenacity of Shaun Rickard and Karl Harrison whose case against the vaccine mandates exposed the government’s dirty secret. — they the mandates were not underpinned by science — only politics. And Freedom Convoy participants are now suing over the EA - a gate opened by Justice Mosley.
On the road again shooting the Tamara documentary. Just about to roll on yet another interview. Always pensive. Do support our work on this project. So far crowd funded and being run off my credit cards. :) This is the story of our country and how it treats its heroes.
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This is very brave writing Trish. How to push back against the lies? Tell the truth. Thank you!
Well stated, Trish. I love how the political left, which currently has essentially all of the cultural and legal power in the West, will use almost any means to undermine anyone who disagrees with them: lawfare, defamation, harassment, cancellation, etc., which they then justify by saying they are trying to save "democracy." By saving "democracy" they mean undermining actual democracy (which they call "populism") and keeping themselves in power under the assumption that they, the elites, know what is best for us plebs better than we do. The relentless lawfare war against Trump is the most egregious example of this: "Let's keep the candidate the people have chosen off the ballot to save democracy" might be the stupidest -- and most Orwellian--phrase I've ever heard.