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FACT CHECK: Jill Stein’s Spoiler Campaign Is Propped Up By Republicans Jill Stein Hired Republicans to Prop Up Her Candidacy: GOP lawyers and operatives have helped Stein’s campaign with ballot access litigation — including Trump’s former personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, and an attorney involved in a lawsuit trying to overturn the 2020 election, Michael Dean. Wall Street Journal: “Former Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow, who worked on the defense team in one of the former president’s impeachments, was among those representing the Green Party in efforts to get Stein back on the Nevada ballot…” Forbes: “[Sekulow] has long aligned himself with former President Donald Trump and worked as his personal lawyer when he was in the White House, including representing the then-president during his 2020 impeachment trial and in the Mueller investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign.”” (Democrats 10/1/24) READ MORE>>>>> How a bucolic Tennessee suburb became a hotbed of ‘Christian Nashville-ism’ Williamson is also home to influential Christian activists such as attorney and radio host Jay Sekulow, founder of the ACLJ, who may be best known in recent years for defending Donald Trump during his 2020 impeachment. Long known for defending religious liberty, the ACLJ has turned more partisan in recent years, especially in its fundraising, warning Christians that their way of life is under attack. “There’s a massive storm brewing, and our deadline is looming,” read a recent fundraising appeal signed by Sekulow. “I’m gravely concerned that Christians aren’t ready. President Biden is emboldening anti-Christian forces to strip away your religious liberty.” (Bob Smietana/Religion News 11/8/23) READ MORE>>>>> June 14, 2023: CBN: Jay Sekulow Honors Pat Robertson's Religious Liberty Vision: 'So Big It Can Only Happen with God'
"Think of something so big, it can only happen with God." Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice believes that was one of the keys to Pat Robertson's life and legacy. Jan 5, 2021: The Hill: Trump attorney Jay Sekulow refutes claims of Pence authority over electors
Trump attorney Jay Sekulow on Tuesday refuted claims that Vice President Pence has the authority to overturn the election results. Feb 6, 2020: Politico: The Trump Lawyer Who Survived
During the impeachment trial, Sekulow didn’t speak the longest — that was Patrick Philbin, a top White House deputy. He wasn’t the biggest celebrity — that was Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz. He didn’t even make the primary opening or closing arguments — that was White House counsel Pat Cipollone. But Sekulow was the defense team’s master of ceremonies and its Trump translator. July 21, 2017: Business Insider: The new face of Trump's legal team has never done anything like this — and allies think he's the perfect fit
When Jay Sekulow found himself backed into a corner during a heated interview with Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday, he pulled out his inner Trump. Apr 2, 2015: Jay Sekulow: Fox News: The IRS Scandal: No justice from the Justice Department
Oct 15, 2014: Fox News Radio: JAY SEKULOW: Obama’s Pinprick Approach is Not Working Author of “Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can’t Ignore” JAY SEKULOW dropped by to talk about his book and how he heard about ISIS a year ago. Jay explained to Brian that you can draw a direct line from Hamas to ISIS. The biggest difference is that Hamas blends into the community while ISIS, as for now, is like a regular army with fatigues and out in the open. They have changed their name to just the Islamic State because they want a state for the whole Muslim world ruled under them. Unfortunately, the pinprick approach of President Obama is not working. Obama’s Middle East strategy is falling apart right before his eyes because every move he has made and side he has picked lost. |
August 28, 2024: Jay Sekulow commented about Special Counsel Jack Smith: Let me tell you what this new superseding indictment isn’t. It isn’t any new allegation on anything – zero, nothing. It’s the same allegations as before, recast in a way to try to get around a Supreme Court decision that was a complete defeat for Jack Smith. You brought up the point about the Department of Justice’s own policy. That policy through the Office of Legal Counsel, which is the legal adviser to the Attorney General, has had a policy for decades saying there can be no legal action taken within 60 days of an election because it could be deemed interference of putting your thumb on the scale. What they’ve done here is redefine interference. Jan 5, 2021: In response to a Tweet by Donald Trump, during his podcast “Jay Sekulow Live” Sekulo stated that he didn’t think “that was what the Constitution has in mind....Some have speculated that the vice president could simply say, ‘I’m not going to accept these electors,’ that he has the authority to do that under the Constitution. I actually don’t think that’s what the Constitution has in mind.”
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August 21, 2021: Infamous Christian Nationalist Jay Sekulow is claiming Biden Admin is using the IRS to target Christians. It's part of a grift scheme on his website. (Sign the petition and donate for the cause) This is the exact same grift he used under Obama
People who say they dont trust the government are mostly liars. They trust and use fruit if it every day of their life. They dont trust parts and pieces of it and in the age of social media "dont trust the government" is meme material. They take the stuff they can from the government but if something happens that they can manufacture rage about among their peers thats what they do. The Internet was a good idea..and had potential. "Social media"..not so much Jan 21, 2020: CNN reported that Sekulow will serve as a prime-time-tested counterweight to Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel expected to lead Trump’s defense team, when the Senate trial begins in earnest on Tuesday. The team is rounded out with Ken Starr, the famed independent counsel who made the last impeachment case, against Bill Clinton, and Alan Dershowitz, who represented OJ Simpson and Jeffrey Epstein. |
February 27, 2019: Michael Cohen reported in testimony before Congress that Jay Sekulow and other members of Trump's legal team made “several” changes to his false statement to the House Intelligence Committee, including a change to the “length of time that the Trump Tower project stayed and remained alive.”
May 14, 2019: A Senate Intelligence Committee announced on that it would investigate whether Sekulow “reviewed, shaped and edited” Michael Cohen's false testimony to Congress.
May 20, 2019: The Washington Post reported that Cohen testified in closed session before the Intelligence Committee that Sekulow instructed him to falsely testify that the Trump Tower Moscow discussions ended in January 2016.
May 14, 2019: A Senate Intelligence Committee announced on that it would investigate whether Sekulow “reviewed, shaped and edited” Michael Cohen's false testimony to Congress.
May 20, 2019: The Washington Post reported that Cohen testified in closed session before the Intelligence Committee that Sekulow instructed him to falsely testify that the Trump Tower Moscow discussions ended in January 2016.
June 21, 2017: In an interview with Business Insider they reported that Michael McLachlan, a Colorado attorney who served as the state's solicitor general in 1999. McLachlan described Jay Sekulo: "He's kind of like what I would consider a legal Billy Sunday or Elmer Gantry....He's in the camp raiding the money.....These little old ladies mailing in their welfare checks to the 700 Club and to [Sekulow] ... Hey, I mean I think that somebody needs to get a little handle on what he's making millions and millions of dollars a year on television....And, he's a good lawyer, don't misunderstand me, I'm not faulting him as being a good lawyer.....As far as the merits of what he does, he's an extremely effective voice for the religious right. And at the same time, he's making millions and millions of dollars a year, really, fundraising through television. And it's very unique. I would love to see his tax returns.""
June 27 & 28, 2017: The Guardian reported that documents obtained by them confirmed later that "millions in donations" were steered to his family members, that Sekulow "approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses."
June 27 & 28, 2017: The Guardian reported that documents obtained by them confirmed later that "millions in donations" were steered to his family members, that Sekulow "approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses."
August 17, 2017: Jay Sekulow op/ed at Fox News: The Trump administration is prompting a lot of change in Washington. Now, there’s a new call to get to the bottom of the corruption inside the Internal Revenue Service's well- coordinated scheme to target conservative organizations.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady and Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam have sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking the Department of Justice to re-open a probe of the conduct of former top IRS official Lois Lerner, who was at the center of a targeting scandal that discriminated against conservative organizations which had applied for tax-exempt status.
In fact, in this new plea for the Justice Department to get involved, the lawmakers contend there is clear evidence Lerner willfully took part in criminal activity during her tenure as the Exempt Organizations Division director.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady and Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam have sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking the Department of Justice to re-open a probe of the conduct of former top IRS official Lois Lerner, who was at the center of a targeting scandal that discriminated against conservative organizations which had applied for tax-exempt status.
In fact, in this new plea for the Justice Department to get involved, the lawmakers contend there is clear evidence Lerner willfully took part in criminal activity during her tenure as the Exempt Organizations Division director.
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July 3, 2014: Jay Sekulow announced his endorsement of Jack Kingston in the July 22nd Republican Senate Primary Runoff Election.
Jun 19, 2014: Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel for The American Center for Law and Justice, annnounced that the Justice Department, in conjunction with the tax exempt office, went on a hunting expedition to find inaccuracies in victims’ statements that would allow the Justice Department to file criminal charges against them.
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Aug 23, 2013: Jay Sekulow posts article at Jews For Jesus: How a Jewish Lawyer from Brooklyn Came to Believe in Jesus
Sept 8, 2011: Publius Forum & right wing author Warner Todd Huston reported that USA Today published a story recently by Bob Smietana of the Nashville newspaper The Tennessean attacking the integrity and work of well-known Christian First Amendment defense attorney Jay Sekulow that is shocking for what is left out.
November 12, 2008: Sekulow argued before the Supreme Court in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, case No.07-665. Sekulow represented the city in this case concerning government control over monuments and memorials in government-owned public places.