With all the talk about Jack Smith and how he is the lead on using the power of government to attempt to destroy a presidential rival in President Trump, with the phony case in Florida regarding classified information, it reminds me a lot of the way the IRS was weaponized against Tea Party groups from 2010 to 2012. My long-time readers here will remember when I was caught up in the IRS scandal and was one of the targets of their investigation due to my relationship with Justin Binik-Thomas and the Liberty Township Tea Party. Justin was at the center of the controversy and was called to Washington to testify on several occasions, so the harassment was something I witnessed up close and personal. And in dealing with all the various attorneys at the time and people involved in the case from the government side, what we are seeing now is much of what we saw then, a government-run by Obama that had weaponized the IRS against political rivals, in the growing Tea Party movement, and they were clearly trying to use the power of government to scare people into submission. Jack Smith was working under Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS case at the time. People might remember that after testimony where she had to Plead the 5th on many harassment allegations, she drifted into the background, protected by the government for her role in using government to intimidate people into submission over 5013C tax status submissions. That case is precisely like the case with Trump, where he was actually a president and, through the Presidential Records Act, had the right to classify or declassify documents in his possession during his time in office. The foundation of the Jack Smith indictment against Trump is simply to ignore that he was ever president and ever had such a right, then make assumptions that would attempt to shift the burden of proof onto Trump to show he’s innocent. It’s the guilty first strategy that the government has been using for years, hoping to scare people into compliance.
My impression of all the people I had to deal with in the IRS case was that they were all pretty stupid. They presented themselves as scary, but once I had them talking, it was obvious that they didn’t have a brain among them. They were extremely easy to beat, even their best lawyers with the high price tags. If you understood the Constitution well, it became apparent quickly that Lois Lerner and her minions, like Jack Smith, were building their entire 5013C case on the population’s ignorance. They assumed their political targets were as dumb as they were, which is why nobody went to jail for their tax status. All the gas in the case was in the media presentation of it. With the doors closed, the government was bluffing, they did not have enforcement powers, and had been caught harassing innocent people. Back then, I thought that Jack Smith was dumb as a box of rocks, and all the lawyers involved were no different. Their entire strategy was to assume that people don’t read, and once they realized that the people they were dealing with were quite smart, they fumbled all over themselves like fools, which is usually the case with these government types. Their only strategy, most of the time, is to use the power of infinite government resources to intimidate people into submission in the way that a ranch animal might be corralled into compliance with the sound of loud noises so that they could be directed into a slaughterhouse. But for that to happen, the animals must be pretty dumb.
And as soon as I read the indictment against President Trump by Jack Smith, that is precisely what my impression was, that here was a very dumb guy going up against very smart people that were working in the private sector. The only thing the government has working on its side in destroying political opponents is infinite resources. But an infinity of stupid doesn’t mean success; it just means that the government can apply infinite amounts of stupid at an objective because that is their nature. Remember when the government came after Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Mike Lindell for pointing out the incidents of government-sponsored election fraud? And how Dominion was going to sue them the way they did Fox News? They are still free people; those lawsuits went nowhere because there was no case. The people who end up working in government usually are pretty lazy and not very smart, which is why they are in government in the first place. They can’t make it in the real world and seek government security. And for them, it is always in attempting to show government strength instead of intelligence to win their objectives. The IRS case I was involved in was like beating melted butter. Not a single person I interacted with was very smart. They had fancy suits and drove nice cars, but they were dumb as rocks. Shallow people without much going on that could string together a conversation. And what we all learned back then was that the government wasn’t very scary after all. It was shocking to be singled out and harassed by the federal government. People were pretty upset. But I could see up close just how weak the government really was once they had to actually talk, and that observation is especially true now. I think people were smarter back then than they are now, making it even easier to beat the government at their crooked game.
That is exactly the merit behind the Jack Smith case against President Trump. The entire issue will fall apart under legal scrutiny, and just like that IRS 5013C case, the entire premise is built on intimidation, the power of the government to do whatever it wants and harass people with the infinite resources that it has, the ability to rob taxpayers for its sustenance in order to submit society to its oppressive rule. But the secret they hope nobody ever figures out is that they are all pretty dumb. Once they actually present a case to a court, they cannot uphold Constitutional scrutiny. The government does not like the Constitution in general because it was written to limit its powers. And to protect the rights of individuals, which the government, by its nature, always seeks to rule over. By ignoring the Presidential Records Act in his indictment, Jack Smith’s case is as flimsy as the IRS case was that he was involved in a decade ago, which left the government desperate and embarrassed. And that is what will happen in this case as well. The government does not have smart people working for it. The whole case resides on the premise that people will be easily harassed and unable to articulate Constitutional preservation. That’s when the cases the government tends to propose fall apart in the face of reality. I had to laugh when I first heard that Jack Smith was involved in a super scary political hit job from the Biden Department of Justice against the leading contender for the White House. Then reading what Jack Smith put together is that IRS case all over again. Jack Smith is as dumb as a box of rocks, and there isn’t anything they can do to win with their aggression once normal people figure that out. Which is happening rapidly, much to their terror.
Rich Hoffman



