Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Truth Social, Gettr, X, Youtube, Instagram
Doral, Florida - Donald Trump had to endure Democrat lawfare from the time he first announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in June 2015 through today. Today that lawfare is conducted through Federal District Judges who are picked by Democrat forum-shopping to issue injunctions against President Trump’s policies.
The height of the Democrat lawfare against President Trump came during his campaign for re-election in 2024. Harassing lawfare then included:
1. The allegation of rape in the Bergdorf-Goodman dressing room, brough by E. Jean Carroll and funded by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn.
2. The charge of undervaluing the market value of real property offered as collateral for bank loans, brought by Leticia James, Attorney General of the State of New York.
3. The charge of mischaracterization of legal expenses with respect to Stormy Daniels, brought by Alvin Bragg, District Attorney for the Borough of Manhattan.
Democrats are dealing from the same playbook in wielding their lawfare weapon today against Fabian Basabe, Republican State Representative for Florida House District 106 in the northern precincts of Miami Beach and stretching into the adjoining mainland.
Fabian is an independent, and in many respects a libertarian, Republican who flipped a Democrat seat in the State House during 2022, and defended it successfully against a fierce counterattack in 2024. This year he is running again for re-election in November. His opponent is, Lucia Baez-Geller, a woke progressive activist who started public office as a member of the Miami-Dade School Board, and then lost a race for Congress in 2024.
Fabian is a legislator who is not afraid to challenge the establishment in order to represent the interests of his constituents. He won his district twice by building coalitions, challenging both political establishments, and delivering record state funding to his constituents.
The Process is Punishment
The lawfare started in 2023 when two of Fabian’s male staffers accused him of sexual harassment and retained lawyers to file a civil lawsuit. Fabian also hired a lawyer for his defense, but dismissed him in 2025 due to the large expense involved.
The case went to trial this year, and Fabian tried the case alone all by himself, with some assistance from the sidelines by his former lawyer. Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, served as a prominent member of the bar of the State of Illinois before he entered politics on a full-time basis. During his last 10 years or so in private practice, he argued around 300 cases in front of the Illinois Supreme Court. Based on this experience, he observed that a man who handles his own legal case has a fool for a client.
On the other hand, hiring lawyers to handle your case can be expensive and reduce your campaign coffers. The civil judgment eventually rendered against Fabian added up to $450,000, but this amounts to around as much as Fabian had already spent on his defense lawyer. In lawfare, the process is the punishment, or at least a large part of the punishment.
The case was tried before Circuit Judge Lee Marsh in Tallahassee, and the plaintiffs were represented by local lawyers Marie Mattox, Cindy Myers and Katherine Viker. Later it was disclosed that plaintiffs’ lawyers were also contributors to the campaign to re-elect Judge Marsh in November. Shortly after the jury’s verdict was rendered against Fabian, plaintiffs lawyers hosted a fundraiser in their offices for Judge Marsh.
Appearance of Impropriety
The codes of professional conduct for lawyers, including judges, in state bars provide that lawyers should avoid not only acts of impropriety, but also the appearance of impropriety. See: https://miamiindependent.com/politics/2026/08/08/monroe-county-commission-contest/. After the disclosure that the two lawyers trying the case for the plaintiffs were also fundraising for the re-election of the trial judge, Fabian retained a new lawyer to pursue post-trial relief and, if necessary, appellate review.
This lawyer is Peter Ticktin, a prominent lawyer from South Florida active in defending conservative causes. They moved for the disqualification of the trial judge on the basis that a litigant is entitled to know about relationships that could reasonably deprive him of a fair and impartial trial. This expectation was destroyed by the relationship between the trial judge and the plaintiffs’ lawyers. Plaintiffs claim that this relationship was disclosed at the start of the trial, but Fabian denies such disclosure. Even if disclosed, however, their relationship was improper.
Florida law asks whether the circumstances of a case would cause a reasonably prudent person to fear that he could not receive a fair and impartial hearing. In order for the legal process to be fair, it must also be transparent.
There is also the issue that the case was not originally assigned to Judge Marsh, but was then reassigned to him, perhaps at the urging of the plaintiffs’ lawyers who were supporting the judge’s re-election campaign. The appearance of impartiality is an important component in challenging the justice of a verdict.
Fabian is running for re-election in November, and we should not let this Democrat lawfare distract us from his positive attributes. He is an independent-minded legislator with a conservative track record. On the other side, the Democrat party has been captured by globalists, communists and jihadists. Fabian’s opponent will not vote independent of the Democrat party line, and therefore constitutes a threat to our liberty and prosperity.
Fabian has earned our support. See: https://fabianbasabe.com/.
