Stefan Passantino
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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And that is clearly an effort to intimidate lawyers against defending anyone's rights, clearly President Trump's rights. It's running in the swing states. They're proudly doing it right now. It's not speculation why they're doing it. They're proudly doing it. And it's having the desired effect.
It's very difficult now to get a lawyer who's willing to do election integrity work for Republicans because you know you're putting yourself in the crosshair of this institutional machine. Now... When, you know, clearly CNN breathlessly reported how I was subject to all of these bar complaints.
They never reported that I was cleared of those claims or that my bar was never in jeopardy and that I never received... They never wanted to report any of those things. It's only the story and then move on. But for me, the damage was incalculable. For me... it was impossible to have faith and trust in clients. But it's a concerted effort, and it was one that continued.
Oh, very real. I mean, as you can imagine, I had criminal complaints against me. I've had bar complaints against me. I also filed my own lawsuit against the federal government for all of these things. And it's unusual. I filed that lawsuit 18 months ago against the federal government. It takes a long time to do this.
I made a lot of factual allegations in that complaint because I knew them to be true in my head. I had lived that experience, but I had no expectations I was going to be able to prove it. It was basically one person's word against an entire industry's word as to what had happened. I was shocked at, and I filed that complaint anyway. I made all of these allegations that I'm describing here.
I made those allegations in writing 18 months ago. Well, Chairman Loudermilk, I have no idea how doggedly conducted investigation, and he actually produced all of the text messages between Liz Cheney and Cassidy describing everything that I had put in my complaint. I never thought it would happen.
Why would I assume that Cassidy Hutchinson, while she's doing this, is screenshotting signaled encrypted communications from Liz Cheney and turning them over to Congress? I had no expectation that she would do that, but she did.
Well, so what I firmly believe happened, and I've filed a bar complaint against Liz Cheney on this, and this is all spelled out. This prohibition, if you're a member of Congress and you write the laws of the country, you have the privilege of shielding yourself from a lot of the consequences of your own actions. It's built right into the Constitution, a speech and debate clause.
You cannot go after a sitting member of Congress for anything they do in furtherance of a legitimate legislative purpose. I don't think this was that, but put that as it may. But it's also very, very difficult to go after a member of Congress for things that they have done. And that's probably appropriate that that's the case. But she is a member of the bar.
And I have black and white evidence that, in fact, she acted in a way that's contrary to her professional obligations. We have filed the America First Legal. It's done a fantastic job. It's all up on their website. You can read all of it. articulating all of the various ways that the various lawyers who were involved were clearly violating their fiduciary obligations to the bar.
But to me, it's not even so much... that what I am most concerned with is it was clear to me that it became politically expedient. It became necessary in order for the political narrative to be presented to the United States that this witness is presenting this bombshell testimony and is unimpeachable in the face of all of the other evidence that might make it impeachable.
It became politically expedient to destroy me.
And the United States Congress and all of the mechanisms of this legislative, not law enforcement body, was working with CNN and bar groups to bring all, and all of the media attention that they had the ability to bring, and I didn't even know there were allegations, all of the might of the federal government was brought to bear to deny me life, liberty, and property with no due process of law whatsoever.
Even putting aside this constitutional separation of powers that you had talked about before, which was the legislative branch is supposed to legislate, the Department of Justice, if they had simply just done a referral, and of course, Both Cassidy Hutchinson testifies that she did a criminal referral. Liz Cheney told ABC News that she had done a criminal referral on me.
Fair enough, that's the job because the Department of Justice has 250 years of regulations that are designed to protect the due process rights of the accused. The DOJ will never comment on or confirm that there's an ongoing investigation And that's designed to protect the rights of the innocent. Of course. And those rules are there because the Department of Justice's job is to enforce the law.
Well, Congress circumvented all of that with regard to me. They went right from, we need to present a narrative. We need to destroy this person. We are going to use, and literally, they highlighted the day before that this was going to come out. they had been rolling out transcripts of all of the various testimony.
On that Tuesday, whatever that was, the 22nd or whatever of December, it was right before Christmas. It was horrifying, the hate mail that one receives on Christmas. I received so many, beyond like just death threats, but so many lawyers emailing me saying, you're a disgrace to the legal profession. And I'm thinking to myself,
you're a lawyer, you just tried, convicted, executed me without ever hearing from me, without affording me any due process or a right to confront my accuser, and you're accusing me of being the disgrace to the bar? You're the one who is circumventing all of these things that you were trained in law school. And that's effectively what Congress did as well.
It was a concerted effort to create a political narrative, and I was a very inconvenient truth to that. And the fact that the United States Congress, a legislative body, was able to marshal all of those resources in an unconstitutional way to destroy me, there's... I've been in practice a long time. I have a lot of very influential clients. I'm a relatively connected person.
If Congress can destroy me at a whim, they could do that to anyone. And nobody would want to live in a world where either a single member of Congress or a single committee of Congress could select
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