The trials and tribulations of the Trump crime spree on America continue to expose how corrupt our entire legal system has become. The week of November 13, 2023 has been occupied in part by a new parlor game resulting from the appearance of carefully edited snippets of video statements provided by Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis prior to their final guilty plea settlements with prosecutors. Release of this video didn't necessarily unearth anything new but did provide confirmation to remaining defense counsel of details clearly available to use against remaining defendants.
But who would have released such content? The only people in possession of it were the prosecutors and defense counsel for defendants involved with the same charges referenced in the statements.
Now the leaker has been identified. SURPRISE! It's one of the defense lawyers.
On November 15, 2023, Judge Scott McAfee was conducting a video call with at least twenty other parties regarding the merits of imposing an order to restrict exposure of information to the public at the request of the prosecutors to avoid these leaks and resulting controversy. As the judge took feedback from the various defense lawyers present, Jonathan Miller, counsel for defendant Missy Hampton, announced he was the person that leaked the video of statements issued by Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis to the press.
Judge, if I may. Miss Hampton does not believe that an order is necessary. This is one of the biggest cases the country has had and that transparency is very, very important. Since I have been working with her for the last two years, she has always said that she wanted to be 100 percent transparent. And that is why we are opposed to having any kind of regulations on our... what we can expose and what we cannot. With that in mind, we will adhere to any orders that the court does and will do so with diligence. But judge, in being transparent with the court, and to make sure that nobody else gets blamed for what happened, and so I can go to sleep well tonight, judge, I did release those videos to one outlet and in all candor, I need the court to know that.
The hypocrisy and unprofessionalism of this lawyer's actions and statement are beyond previous imagination. But they are par for the course that we seem to be traversing for anything related to Trump. In large part it is because the nature of the crimes performed by people willing to do Trump's bidding are so extremely dumb and indefensible, there are very few competent / ethical lawyers willing to take the case.
The pool of lawyers willing to service the MAGA cult are so substandard in ethics and professionalism, they turn every interaction with the legal system into a clown show. This is, subliminally or explicitly, a key goal of the entire team. Just like the news media has been tainted by tagging everything "fake news" until people tire of hearing the term and ignore it, the public is tiring of the blatant disrespect show to the courts by anyone in the Trump sphere and, more importantly, the public is tiring of watching a legal system doing NOTHING to stop the behavior in its tracks, as would be done for ANY OTHER DEFENDANTS.
In a very real sense, the conduct of these wanna-be gonzo lawyers involved with these cases is CONTRIBUTING to the core goals of the Trump cult. The goals of delegitimizing normal functions of law making, law enforcement and judicial processes directly support the aims of a cult laser-focused on attempting to impose authoritarianism on everyone they dislike, which currently includes anyone who would keep them from re-obtaining power. In effect, these gonzo lawyers are co-conspirators in an ongoing larger crime against democracy and legitimate government.
This lawyer should be removed from this case and IMMEDIATELY disbarred for attempting to taint public perception of the court's integrity and for materially interfering with other potential witnesses in the case. There are likely criminal charges involved here as well but there is no way this lawyer should ever enter a court as a lawyer ever again.
WTH
