“Lawfare.”
It is the weaponization of the legal system against a political target with the goal of destroying that target, just like the military does to foreign adversaries during warfare.
Lawfare used to be an intellectual concept. But President Trump’s ‘conviction’ of 34 ‘felonies’ in Manhattan has made it clear that the Left can use this tactic against ANYONE!
Consider just a few facts about this case:
First, there is Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney who led this attack.
Bragg’s campaign was funded by George Soros. Soros even bragged about it in a Wall Street Journal op-ed!
Then, there is Michael Cohen, the ‘star’ witness.
Cohen is a proven liar. In fact, Cohen admitted to lying before Congress while under oath and spent three years in prison for lying to other instigators.
And, of course, we can’t forget about the venue.
Manhattan voted against Trump 90%-10%. Despite this, Judge Gonzalez denied Trump’s request for a change of venue.
This case was a political lynching, pure and simple. The outcome was never in doubt. This was the highest form of lawfare ever carried out. The message it sent is clear: if we can get to Trump, we can get to anyone who dares to speak out!
Feeling punch drunk with power after seeing President Trump convicted, the Radical Left is ramping up their attacks, using the power of government to silence organizations like ours.
But it’s not just governmental agencies doing this.
Individual Commie Karens — from all over the country — are actively trying to get the FBI to investigate the ILFA, trying to shut us down before the November elections.
No, this isn’t a joke.
The Left is tagging the FBI on Twitter, urging them to come after the Illinois Firearms Association, claiming that our members are violent racists who are about to murder politicians!
This is absurd. For years, the ILFA has done the same thing: use grassroots pressure to fight against gun control in Springfield and the courts.
We’re only ‘dangerous’ to politicians who vote against the 2nd Amendment and lose their careers because we expose them at election time!
But as Trump’s ‘conviction’ proved, the truth doesn’t matter anymore. Facts can be invented. Testimony can be fake.
So even though I know that we’ve done NOTHING WRONG, I am concerned that the Illinois Firearms Association is going to get a knock on the door by federal agents any day now.
The goal for the Left is simple: force us to spend all our time and money dealing with a bogus investigation…
…ensuring that we can’t expose gun-grabbers during the November elections.
And the truth is that they might be successful.
As things stand right now, ILFA does not have the funds to deal with a full scale ‘lawfare’ attack and run a statewide program exposing gun grabbers during the fall elections.
And if we are forced to sit out the General Election cycle, there will be no one to combat the gun control agenda being concealed by so many Leftist candidates!
Just a few of the races where ILFA needs to expose gun grabbers using digital and radio ads, targeted social media, mass emails, radio and internet ads include:
>>> House District 52; Rep. Martin McLaughlin won this race with 52% of the vote two years ago. Maria Peterson is challenging McLaughlin and her ONLY issue is passing even more radical gun control here in Illinois. This could even include mental health exams for gun owners! Peterson is endorsed by Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety. Bad!
>>> House District 114; LaToya Greenwood lost this seat to Rep. Kevin Schmidt in 2022. Now Greenwood is coming back for her old seat, desperate to aid Pritzker in his war to stamp out law abiding gun owners in Illinois with legislation like HB-3239. We defeated this bill last session, but it’s coming back. It would create another permit to buy guns (ontop of the FOID card) and your police chief could deny it!
>>> House District 63; Rep. Steven Reick is one of the top names on Pritzker’s list. Now the Pritzker Machine is trying to install Mary Mahady into this seat, because they know that she will back the gun control agenda every single time she is told to.
Of course, these are just a few of the fights that we need to be engaged in this fall. We have a real chance here to expose Pritzker’s allies and let educated gun owners throw them out of office in vulnerable races all over the state!
Until dozens of Leftist groups started tagging the FBI and the DOJ urging them to come after us, I was hoping to go ‘all in’ on this election cycle with digital ads, radio ads, text messages and more.
But everything is different now.
And with our ongoing legal battles against Pritzker’s AR-15 ban, the truth is that we can’t afford to run a big general election program AND fight against a bogus lawfare attack, too!
The good news is that this isn’t ‘my’ organization.
And that’s why I am coming to you. I need to know what you think we should do, given the situation that I’ve outlined for you above. As I see it, we have three options right now:
OPTION #1: Ignore the lawfare attack that is coming from one or more state agencies, pray these attacks don’t force us to close our doors, and run a full-scale program this fall exposing gun-grabbing Leftists?
OPTION #2: Give in to the pressure, cancel our election program, play it safe, and focus exclusively on gearing up to defend ILFA from these bogus attacks?
OPTION #3: DO IT ALL! FIGHT ON ALL FRONTS! EXPOSE THE DEMOCRATS WHO WANT TO DISARM US AND GET READY TO DEFEND THE ILFA FROM A LAWFARE ATTACK!!!
I know what I want to do. But we don’t have millions of dollars sitting around in the bank like our enemies do.
ILFA runs on a conservative budget, and that’s especially true with so many Illinoisans dealing with Biden’s failed economy and the ballooning recession he denies.
OPTION #3 isn’t an “option” without an IMMEDIATE influx of funds from ILFA members and supporters. If you choose this option, I hope you’ll make a generous donation of $100!
It’s a lot. I know.
This is our state! I don’t know about you, but I refuse to sit back and be silenced by fear, and I refuse to let the Radical Left disarm law abiding our entire state!
If you agree, please fill out your ILFA Member Ballot and make the most generous donation you can afford TODAY!
For Illinois,
Aaron Dorr
Executive Director
Illinois Firearms Association
The Left ‘convicted’ Trump after a bogus ‘trial.’ Now their activists are trying to unleash the FBI on us, trying to force us to divert our attention away from our fall election programs!
This is no joke, it’s as real as it gets.
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