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David Brock Launches ‘Dark Money’ Effort to Disbar, Shame, Impoverish Trump Election Lawyers
breitbart ^ | 7 Mar 2022 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 03/07/2022 5:04:55 PM PST by MarvinStinson

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To: MarvinStinson

Gee, they used to call this extortion and intimidation. Legally chargeable.

Oddly I don’t see Merrick Garfinkel doing that.


21 posted on 03/07/2022 5:48:15 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: PghBaldy

“I am very disturbed by it. What good is our legal system if lawyers can’t take disfavored clients? “

I agree. Chief Justice Roberts, the President, and the leaders of both parties in Congress should speak out publicly against this threat to what the Democrats are always calling “our democracy”. The Bar Association should also immediately begin an ethics investigation of all attorneys involved in this effort leading to disbarment.

Unfortunately we are beyond the point where there are commonly held standards of decency, morality, ethics and professional behavior. We are also long beyond the point where good men and women should have made a stand against pure evil.


22 posted on 03/07/2022 5:50:18 PM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Sodomites gonna try some lawfare, huh?
If our courts were worth a sh!t it’d be a bloodbath for Brock, et al.


23 posted on 03/07/2022 6:08:03 PM PST by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR )
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To: MarvinStinson

Amazing how easily the Left can find stuff like this. Yet Republicans can’t seem to do anything similar.


24 posted on 03/07/2022 6:31:09 PM PST by qaz123
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To: PghBaldy

We can stop it. We choose not to. We continue to let the state GOP apparatus and RNC pick who we vote for. In addition to the fact that there are still many “Republicans” who’d rather have someone like Jeb, Kasich, or Romney running things as opposed to someone like Donald Trump.

Face it, there aren’t but 3 or 4 members of Congress that are aggressive like President Trump and they are marginalized and labeled the fringe.

The days of “playing by the rules, we’ll do it right” Republicans are over.

If the Left, especially as it is now, would crush every Republican and Conservative if they could. They would have zero problem putting us in camps and said so during all the covid nonsense


25 posted on 03/07/2022 6:38:34 PM PST by qaz123
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To: americas.best.days...

Yes.


26 posted on 03/07/2022 6:39:01 PM PST by qaz123
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To: qaz123
But our side like the Jews said about Hitler in 1939, “He [Hitler] is just kidding. He would not exterminate us. He may beat us up, but he won't kill us. That is just talk”. History tells whether he was joking. Or not.
27 posted on 03/07/2022 6:53:36 PM PST by sport
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To: MarvinStinson
Ought to be called the “666 Project”.
28 posted on 03/07/2022 6:55:32 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! A 70's)
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To: americas.best.days...

I’m very alarmed.


29 posted on 03/07/2022 6:55:52 PM PST by thecodont
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To: sport

No argument out of me, sport.

We play patty-cakes. They go for the jugular.

And they control what, well over 90% of the judiciary and state Bar Associations.


30 posted on 03/07/2022 6:57:51 PM PST by qaz123
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To: MarvinStinson

“A dark money group with ties to Democratic Party heavyweights will spend millions this year to expose and try to disbar more than 100 lawyers who worked on Donald Trump’s post-election lawsuits, people involved with the effort tell Axios.”

Are there any honorable men left in this country who can fight and win?


31 posted on 03/07/2022 6:58:34 PM PST by Chgogal (Whatever Biden decides to do, do the opposite.)
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To: qaz123

Soros operative David Brock

32 posted on 03/07/2022 8:12:12 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Brock was involved in a high-profile legal dispute with his former boyfriend William Grey in 2007.

In the civil lawsuit, Grey accused Brock of having taken $170,000 in possessions from their once-shared Washington townhouse. Grey threatened to go to the IRS with damaging information about Brock, Media Matters, and the organization’s donors. Brock paid Grey $850,000 to keep quiet.

Brock subsequently described the payment as blackmail. Brock had to sell a home in Delaware in order to make the payment to Grey. In 2011, Brock sued Grey for more than $4 million. He demanded Grey return the $850,000 and pay over $3 million in punitive damages. The dispute was settled later that year under private terms.

https://www.influencewatch.org/person/david-brock/


33 posted on 03/07/2022 8:18:00 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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Hillary “Attack Dog” David Brock Plotting With Soros, Steyer, Sussman To “Kick Trump’s Ass”

The last time we encountered David Brock, Hillary Clinton’s so called media “attack dog”, was two months ago when we exposed a money laundering scheme involving over a dozen of his Pro-Clinton SuperPACs. Now, it appears that unable to concede defeat, the man who aligned his career with Hillary Clinton, is going for blood, and is soliciting the help, but mostly money, of Clinton’s top donors.

According to Politico, Brock is launching his own Koch-brothers-like donor network to finance attacks on President-elect Donald Trump and to rebuild the political left after Trump’s stunning victory over Clinton last week. In an email sent out on Thursday night, Brock emailed more than 200 of the biggest donors on the left, including finance titans George Soros, Tom Steyer and Donald Sussman all of whom invested millions of dollars in Clinton’s campaign with nothing to show for it, inviting them to a private retreat in Palm Beach during inauguration weekend to assess what Democrats did wrong in 2016, figure out how to correct it and raise cash for those initiatives.

“This will be THE gathering for Democratic donors from across the country to hear from a broad and diverse group of leaders about the next steps for progressives under a Trump Administration,” Brock wrote to the donors in an email. “What better way to spend inaugural weekend than talking about how to kick Donald Trump’s ass?” Brock said.

The retreat, which is planned as the first in a series of regular gatherings, will feature appearances by an array of Democratic elected officials, operatives and liberal thinkers and group officials, Brock explained in an interview.

While it is unclear how many of the addressed billionaires confirmed their presence at this “secret” gathering, Brock predicted there would be significant interest, noting that the keynote address at his last major donor conference, back in 2013, was delivered by former President Bill Clinton. It is unclear how much Clinton received for one hours of his time.

Brock is a self-described “right-wing hitman-turned-Clinton enforcer” who has used his relationships with some of the left’s wealthiet supporters and billionaire donors to build an armada of aggressive political outfits that have become pillars of the institutional left and that raised a combined $65 million during the 2016 cycle. As profiled previously, Brock’s groups include the conservative media monitoring non-profit Media Matters, the opposition research super PAC American Bridge and the legal watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

That’s not all: other groups in his network include the liberal media-funding vehicle American Independent Institute, the media-training non-profit Franklin Forum and the for-profit social media operation ShareBlue, which The New York Times described as “Hillary Clinton’s Outrage Machine.” A seventh group, a super PAC called Correct the Record that was created to coordinate directly with Clinton’s campaign, is winding down, though Brock said that a number of its functions and personnel likely will be absorbed by his other groups.

And yet one wonders if Brock’s attempt to square things up with Trump isn’t too little, too late, especially for a many who like Huma Abedin, has been so closely associated with Hillary and her now defunct political career: Brock acknowledged in the interview: “There is no question that we poured our heart and soul into this election for Hillary, but these institutions were built before her campaign and were intended to outlast it.”

To separate himself from the Clintons whom he server so well over the years, Brock said in his email to donors that he created Media Matters more than a decade ago to help the left push back during George W. Bush’s presidency.

“In 2005, we were part of a successful progressive effort to regroup, retool and recover,” he wrote. “While today’s situation is more dire, media matters more than ever.”

But the biggest problem for Brock is that he is likely stepping on the very toes of those whose money he is after: as Politico notes, the Palm Beach retreat seems to be a challenge to the 12-year-old Democracy Alliance, a club of liberal financiers that was started by Soros and a handful of other major donors to fund the institutional left. In fact, the club, which held its annual winter meeting this week in Washington, helped launch Media Matters, and many of Brock’s donors belong to its ranks. Brock said he’s inviting the president of the DA, as the club is known, to his Palm Beach retreat.

There is one way Brock’s network hopes to differentiate itself: while the Democracy Alliance at its winter meeting discussed ways to push back on the Trump administration, many of the group’s members have tried to train its focus on pressuring Democrats from the left on issues like fighting climate change, money in politics and drug laws; Brock however is more overtly and aggressively political, and has been “largely agnostic on the philosophical divisions with which Democrats are grappling.”

“We don’t think of this as representing a faction of the Democratic Party, but a cross-section of it, so we’re not going to precook things ideologically,” he said. “It is very politically minded, and there is an urgency to it.”

At this point two questions emerge: one of the main reasons why Clinton lost is precisely due to behind the scenes scheming such as this, where political “attack dog” operatives would meet with billionaires and strategize how to shift public perception on any number of items. That has now been proven to be a losing strategy. Have the democrats truly not learned anything from their most shocking failure in history?

The next question is just how much more “overtly and aggressively political” will Brock, whose organizations have been alleged to be behind a number of the anti-Trump riots in recent months, be in his quest to take down, or rather “kick the ass” of Donald Trump. Because if there is one thing that is so far missing from the most scandalous political election in recent history, it is an attempt to physically eliminate the president. We can only hope that the “hitman-turned-Clinton enforcer” will not decide to go that far.

https://thearabianpost.com/hillary-attack-dog-david-brock-plotting-with-soros-steyer-sussman-to-kick-trumps-ass/


34 posted on 03/07/2022 8:21:23 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Cancel culture run amok.

A day of reckoning is coming.


35 posted on 03/07/2022 8:52:05 PM PST by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
As always, the Demagogic Party tries 24/7 to undermine the rule of law, the 1st amendment, equal protection, and democracy itself.

36 posted on 03/07/2022 10:48:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MarvinStinson; wardaddy

some of us can remember when David Brock was hailed as a rising star by Neocons. As was David Frum. William Kristol. Jonah Goldberg.


37 posted on 03/07/2022 11:49:42 PM PST by Pelham (Q is short for quack )
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To: MarvinStinson

This man needs to be opposed vigorously.

In court.


38 posted on 03/08/2022 3:53:28 AM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.)
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To: Pelham

Amazing.

FOUR of them.


39 posted on 03/08/2022 9:20:19 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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