Stefan Passantino
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It is clear that in addition to working with CNN before breaking this story, the January 6th committee or somebody was also working with the various bar organizations that I'm a member of to set this story up. I literally received bar complaints every created on their own accord within hours of this story breaking. That does not happen unless they have been forewarned that all of this is coming.
And that is the real core concern, that it is fundamental to this democracy that everyone have effective assistance of counsel. Everyone has the right. It does not matter if you are a Guantanamo detainee or if you're a Republican. You are entitled to... even if you might be out of favor with the establishment elite.
And that is the real core concern, that it is fundamental to this democracy that everyone have effective assistance of counsel. Everyone has the right. It does not matter if you are a Guantanamo detainee or if you're a Republican. You are entitled to... even if you might be out of favor with the establishment elite.
And that is the real core concern, that it is fundamental to this democracy that everyone have effective assistance of counsel. Everyone has the right. It does not matter if you are a Guantanamo detainee or if you're a Republican. You are entitled to... even if you might be out of favor with the establishment elite.
And as Shakespeare said in Henry VI, if you want to destroy a society, the first thing you do is kill all the lawyers. Well, that's what's happening now. One, within... I would say within a few months, I started getting bar complaints filed against me by the various institutional organizations set up. There's a group called the 65 Project, which filed bar complaints.
And as Shakespeare said in Henry VI, if you want to destroy a society, the first thing you do is kill all the lawyers. Well, that's what's happening now. One, within... I would say within a few months, I started getting bar complaints filed against me by the various institutional organizations set up. There's a group called the 65 Project, which filed bar complaints.
And as Shakespeare said in Henry VI, if you want to destroy a society, the first thing you do is kill all the lawyers. Well, that's what's happening now. One, within... I would say within a few months, I started getting bar complaints filed against me by the various institutional organizations set up. There's a group called the 65 Project, which filed bar complaints.
And the 65 Project is named because these are the 65... lawyers that they originally filed bar complaints who had been working with President Trump out of 2020. They advertise.
And the 65 Project is named because these are the 65... lawyers that they originally filed bar complaints who had been working with President Trump out of 2020. They advertise.
And the 65 Project is named because these are the 65... lawyers that they originally filed bar complaints who had been working with President Trump out of 2020. They advertise.
To this day, if you go on the 65 Project website, you will see they proudly advertise a six-figure ad buy that's running right now in the six swing states destined for Republican lawyers saying, do not represent President Trump. You will be disbarred. Do not represent any of these conservatives. We are watching you. That is on their website right now.
To this day, if you go on the 65 Project website, you will see they proudly advertise a six-figure ad buy that's running right now in the six swing states destined for Republican lawyers saying, do not represent President Trump. You will be disbarred. Do not represent any of these conservatives. We are watching you. That is on their website right now.
To this day, if you go on the 65 Project website, you will see they proudly advertise a six-figure ad buy that's running right now in the six swing states destined for Republican lawyers saying, do not represent President Trump. You will be disbarred. Do not represent any of these conservatives. We are watching you. That is on their website right now.
Yeah, it's a group. There's a lawyer out of Utah. I'm actually... I filed a bar complaint against him just recently for this. But these are groups that are designed to intimidate Republicans against representing conservatives. And the whole idea is... It is extraordinarily difficult to get a big law lawyer to represent a Republican. It's just, we can't get those people.
Yeah, it's a group. There's a lawyer out of Utah. I'm actually... I filed a bar complaint against him just recently for this. But these are groups that are designed to intimidate Republicans against representing conservatives. And the whole idea is... It is extraordinarily difficult to get a big law lawyer to represent a Republican. It's just, we can't get those people.
Yeah, it's a group. There's a lawyer out of Utah. I'm actually... I filed a bar complaint against him just recently for this. But these are groups that are designed to intimidate Republicans against representing conservatives. And the whole idea is... It is extraordinarily difficult to get a big law lawyer to represent a Republican. It's just, we can't get those people.
You can't be a lawyer in a white shoe or a major law firm and represent a Republican. And this is explicitly advertised. Within maybe a month after I received this 65 Project bar complaint, I get a phone call at 7.30 in the morning from the New York Times saying,
You can't be a lawyer in a white shoe or a major law firm and represent a Republican. And this is explicitly advertised. Within maybe a month after I received this 65 Project bar complaint, I get a phone call at 7.30 in the morning from the New York Times saying,
You can't be a lawyer in a white shoe or a major law firm and represent a Republican. And this is explicitly advertised. Within maybe a month after I received this 65 Project bar complaint, I get a phone call at 7.30 in the morning from the New York Times saying,
we're going to run a story about a group called Lawyers Defending American Democracy that has filed this very, very in-depth bar complaint against you. Would you care to comment? That was at 7.30 in the morning. By 8.30 in the morning, the New York Times was running this