The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, welcome, Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report.
Hey, it’s time for lawfare. A lawfare update here on the Pro America Report. Hanging in the balance, the crown Jewels of America, our Constitution, the rule of Law, our founding values hanging in the balance, being stolen every day, diminished, tarnished, devastated by the far left. And we’re here to point it out to you so we can hopefully fight back. Pro America Report is about giving you all the news from a pro America perspective, which is to say this perspective, to build our nation.
And so let me drop a quick. Quick footnote here. I won’t talk to. About the story, until another day, maybe I’ll have him on. Jeff Clark, the very prominent, very successful Harvard graduate, Georgetown School of Law graduate, he, considered one of the smartest minds in the George W Bush Department of Justice as well as in the Trump Justice Department. He just got a letter. You know, he’s been engaged in this bar fight. The DC bar has tried to damage him and uh, and they filed the bar complaint or they they actually processed the bar complaint filed by Senator Dick Durbin. If you can believe it, a US senator from Illinois is filing bar complaints against senior officials in the government. And it’s being taken up by the DC bar. It’s insane. It’s insane. It’s like it would be like the Plumbers Association taking up a complaint from a a senator. Not because he has any knowledge on anything, but just because he wants to curry favor with somebody. It’s crazy.
But he got a letter from the Trump administration, the Trump camp, from the Trump lawyers saying, hey, wait, this guy’s got privilege. He’s he’s he’s. He’s under a an oath to us. He he cannot break his his duty to his client, which is President Trump. It’s a big deal to get this letter. It was a clarifying letter, so it’s good.
And my point here is he got that letter because he assessed that it would help him in his battle. He believed that he was under an obligation. He had a duty to his client. And therefore, Trump’s lawyers said, yeah, we’ll give that to you and you gotta fight back every way you can. And it was it. Maybe it’s a little thing if you if, but if you know lawyers they don’t like to do things like this, they they are tentative, good ones. They’re conservative. Good ones are and. So that’s a good instance of lawfare, good for the Trump lawyers. Glad they did it, and good for Jeff Clark, who’s become a friend of mine. I’ve I’ve immense respect for him so,
But what I wanted to report on today was an the, one of the great attacks, lawfare attacks in the last couple of maybe last decade was the one against General Mike Flynn, General Flynn was set up by FBI agents and asked particularly about a FARA filing, among other things. Right? And so the idea is Foreign Agents Registration Act. This is an act passed by Congress, signed by the president, that says if you’re going to be an agent for a foreign nation, you have to register. So we have a, so we know.
Now, 4 decades since this law passed, which I think it’s at least two decades ago, it has been largely maneuvered around by the people with power and money. Because you don’t have to register as a foreign agent if you don’t do very specific things. But if you just kind of network and guide people and all that you can get around it and everybody from the Podesta brothers to all of Bill Clinton’s associates to, you know, Republican lobbyists, they all just find a way around the Foreign Agents Registration Act, FARA.
Well, one of the pressure points that they put on General Flynn was they said that as a consultant he and it was his son at the time and a few others were consultants. He obviously had international expertise and expertise from his, his career as a general and he was hired by all different kinds of people and they said you didn’t register and they said your son, didn’t register. And they said. Blah blah blah and they used FARA. And enforced it against Mike Flynn, in a way that it really had never been done. At most you you get someone says, what are you doing and then you register.
So comes now the law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore. There are law firms in this country. There’s probably about a dozen, maybe two dozen, that are the largest in the country. They have massive operations. They make massive amounts of money. They always have Big time lawyers in Washington, DC, because that’s where the money is in this case. One of the partners at at Cravath is a guy named John Buretta, and he worked on behalf of Burisma. Burisma is the oil and gas company that is Ukrainian, that Hunter Biden worked for on the board, and all of this happened, and Cravath and Swain never registered under the Foreign Registration Act, you say well. Do they need to? Well, a few days ago they did. In other words, they filed a few days ago, and why?
Well, because they have the Biden administration in power and they’re friendly Democrat on Democrat, and so they know. If they say, well, maybe we should have filed, we’ll we’ll file this and they they’ll be left alone.
And again, the crown jewel of this country is the Rule of law. The crown jewel of this country is the Constitution and the crown jewel is our founding values and one of the aspects of this is that justice, insofar as it’s possible, must be evenly enforced, must be evenly sought.
When you have a system and it’s always been true that if you have influence, if you have money, if you have, if you’re good looking, if you’re charismatic, if you’re able to persuade people, you may get a better deal than another guy next to you who doesn’t know someone who isn’t good looking. Isn’t that capable. Who doesn’t have money. Whatever.
I’m not saying our system is perfect. I’m saying that the rule of law and the Constitution set up a system that makes it more likely that you can protect yourself and that there is an even, you know, even pursuit of justice. The the even enforcement of laws and this is an example. Of how blatantly The powers that be will look the other way on this question of foreign registered foreign agent registration.
There are many people, most of them making big money in Washington that think this registration is silly. They think it’s a game and they don’t like it. But that’s the law.
And the fact is the law is not enforced against Hunter Biden and against his law firm for working with Burisma. It’s not. And the fact is that you you now you have across the country, it’s a little bit like in in the Catholic Church there is a doctrine of called scandal. The doctrine of scandal Is causing scandal means that you cause confusion. Amongst the faithful, and so if you have a pastor of a church and he and the pastor of a church, Catholic Church, or even a Pope, and he confuses the faithful. And cause a scandal. He might know what he means and. He might not Be a going against the teaching of The church, but If he can cause a scandal, he is causing the faithful to be in danger of being malformed and be making bad judgments.
The best example I can give is let’s say you have a a rabidly pro abortion Democrat, and I repeat myself, you cannot be a Democrat anymore and be pro-life. You used to be able to. Governor Casey of of Pennsylvania, famous the late governor Casey Bob Casey. He was a pro-life Democrat his whole life. That’s why he was not allowed to speak at the Convention in 1996 when Bill Clinton didn’t want him to speak, cause you weren’t allowed to do it. He wouldn’t be allowed in the party now. The last, the last pro-life Democrat in the US House was a guy named Dan Lipinski. His father had been a pro-life Democrat. He’s from Chicago area, and he faced a primary in 2020 from AOC-endorsed candidate, and Pelosi-endorsed candidate and he lost. So you cannot be a. But now let’s say you’re the pastor of a church and you’re a Catholic priest and you stand up and you say. This person, this candidate right here. Judy Dinglepop, I’m endorsing her. She is 100% pro abortion. She believes government should pay for it. And it should be allowed. And it shouldn’t be illegal. And you should vote for her – that’s causing scandal. That’s causing scandal and among the faithful in a community. You would be right to say, hey, wait a second, we cannot have a pastor who is causing scandal because there will be people that will make decisions that could cause them much worse than an inconvenience on your IRS forms. If you believe it, you don’t have to believe it. But I do. If you choose against God and against his creation. There’s a good chance. Unless you can get right before you die that you’re going to hell. That’s the teaching and I believe it. And so.
When you watch the uneven enforcement, the uneven consideration of justice, and you see that Hunter Biden and Cravath Swaine are not going to find any scrutiny from, not from failing to file under FARA.
But if you’re Carter Page, if you’re Mike Flynn, if you’re Mike Flynn’s son, if you’re all everyone else, you’re going to find. We’re going to come for you and the selective enforcement of laws against – wait for it – political enemies. Is exactly what is completely foreign from America. Our history, our crown jewels.
And that the reality of this filing and this truth is that it is a betrayal of we the people. It is a betrayal of we the people, it is. It is something that is so damaging for our nation that we cannot allow it to stand and we should not allow it to be acceptable and we should not say it’s OK. We should not say. Ohh well the FARA laws are dumb, and it’s hard to enforce.
No, this is a clear example of one set of people getting a break and the other people getting punished and and the people that are punished for their political positions are people who are political prisoners then. And that gets me to what is simply true.
There’s political prisoners in America, and they’re January 6th prisoners. That’s the facts. You can say, well, so and so is in jail. He, you know, pushed a cop or. He has a. History of violence. But for the corruption of January 6, that guy wouldn’t be in jail. And why is he in jail? Because of Trump’s positions and hatred for Trump’s positions and his politics and that, those are political prisoners, and that’s the fruit Of things like not enforcing FARA against Biden and Hunter Biden and his law firm, and but doing it against Mike Flynn and others. That’s the fruit. It’s broken. They’re stealing the crown jewels, they’re stealing the crown jewels.
We got to take a break, Ed Martin. Pro America Report back in a minute.
