Checking in on the DeSantis Grand Jury
It's been almost a year since Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he was impaneling a grand jury to investigate the drug companies that gave us the Covid-19 vaccines. Let's see what's happening!
Last spring, I predicted here on Substack that the grand jury impaneled by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, to investigate the drug companies for possible criminal conduct related to the testing and sale of their Covid-19 vaccines, was a head fake.1 I suggested that this cynical ploy by DeSantis likely was designed to hoodwink Republican voters into believing that the governor was aware of the many problems with the vaccines and determined to launch a serious inquiry.
DeSantis, I explained, knew that conservatives were enraged over the marketing and mandating of the clot shots. Some conservatives also have been deeply disappointed in President Trump for not just refusing to acknowledge the millions of vaccine injuries — many of them fatal — but actually continuing to brag about his role in creating them.
The Republican governor and soon-to-be presidential candidate rightly saw an opportunity to pick off some Trump supporters by exploiting Trump’s glaring weakness on this issue.
In December 2022 he announced the formation of a statewide grand jury to investigate matters related to the following:
(a) Individuals, persons, and entities, including, but not limited to, pharmaceutical manufacturers (and their executive officers) and other medical associations or organizations involved in the design, development, clinical testing or investigation, manufacture, marketing, representation, advertising, promotion, labeling, distribution, formulation, packing, sale, purchase, donation, dispensing, prescribing, administration, or use of vaccines purported to prevent COVID-19 infection, symptoms, and transmission;
(b) other criminal activity or wrongdoing that the statewide grand jury uncovers during the course of the investigation if it determines that pursuing the criminal activity or wrongdoing is in the best interests of the investigation;2
It all sounded great! Advocates for the vaccine-injured as well as those who have faced retaliation for refusing the experimental shots rejoiced.
However, I suspected from the outset that this announcement was just for show, in part because all grand juries are for show. The government doesn’t need a bunch of random Americans, many with no education beyond high school, to help them determine whether often-complex crimes have been committed.
The original intent of grand juries was to prevent corrupt government officials from using their considerable resources to go after innocent people. Before prosecutors could put a defendant on trial publicly for a major crime, they would first be required to present their case in private to a jury of citizens, who would weigh the evidence and consider charges.
The grand jury system also was intended to allow members of the community an opportunity to investigate for themselves possible crimes that the government wanted to ignore, including those occurring within the government’s own ranks.
Predictably, the U.S. government long ago co-opted this system and now exploits it whenever possible to promote its own agenda.
Today, only government officials decide which matters are brought before a grand jury. If the government wants to convict people in the court of public opinion while giving them no opportunity to defend themselves, it uses a grand jury to do so, just as Joe Biden’s DOJ recently has done to President Trump. If politicians want to pretend to be investigating criminal behavior within the government’s own ranks or among their legions of wealthy donors, they can impanel a grand jury for that purpose as well.
Government officials also can take advantage of the purported “independence” of the grand jury to throw a bag over the investigation and avoid answering any questions on the subject, just as Attorney General Bill Barr did with his appointment of Special Counsel John Durham to investigate the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax. For years Barr faced harsh criticism for covering up the criminal conduct of the DOJ and FBI in conjuring and carrying out that hoax. Barr assured Trump supporters that justice was coming — that the entire sordid affair was in the capable hands of Durham and his grand jury.
But it was all for show. In his final report, Durham revealed that key FBI players in the hoax, including James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Peter Strzok, refused even to be interviewed by Durham’s team and were never compelled to do so, even though Durham had that authority.3
In the end, most hoaxers from the FBI and DOJ walked away from that investigation scot-free. I strongly suspect that some of those same hoaxers, facing no repercussions for their prior criminal conduct, subsequently played an outsized role in guiding the DC grand juries toward their “44 federal criminal indictments” of Trump for equally absurd, made-up crimes. To this day Attorney General Merrick Garland refuses to tell Congress which of his staff are working on the Trump cases. That is no doubt the reason why.
Meanwhile, this DeSantis grand jury appears to fall into the category of pretending to investigate the criminal behavior of wealthy donors. DeSantis is an establishment Republican. Like all good establishment Republicans, he has no intention of actually going after Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson. Big Pharma is just too important, and not simply for the millions it contributes directly to the political campaigns of Republicans and Democrats alike. The drug companies are even more untouchable because of their place on Wall Street, which has been the governor’s primary source of financial support from Day One of his presidential campaign.
Phantom Jury
But perhaps I am being too pessimistic?
To answer that question, this week I decided to check in on Statewide Grand Jury #22. I knew that if my assessment was on target, we would see no genuine activity from this grand jury to date.
Here is the link, so you can decide for yourself:
Case View - Statewide Grand Jury #22 - Florida Appellate Case Information System (flcourts.gov)
As you can see from the docket entries, in the past 11 months it appears that some lawyers and other staff have been assigned to the case. A new judge was installed in month number seven. To date not a single “presentment,” otherwise known as an “interim” or progress report from this jury has been entered onto the docket. These reports provide periodic summaries — by the members of the jury themselves (purportedly) — of the information they have gleaned from witnesses so far.
For comparison, Statewide Grand Jury #21, impaneled to investigate criminal activity related to the smuggling or endangerment of unaccompanied alien children and other illegal aliens, had issued its first report within roughly six months and three reports within ten months. Statewide Grand Jury #20, impaneled to investigate potential crimes in the lead up to the high school shooting by Nikolas Cruz in Parkland, Florida, had issued its first report within six months and two reports within ten months. While both those grand juries no doubt also were impaneled primarily for show, officials at least pretended to be giving them important work to do.
By contrast, there is no evidence that Statewide Grand Jury #22 has done anything of substance to date, nor that the jury has met even one time.
Clearly, officials in Florida are in no rush to get to the bottom of what increasingly looks like unprecedented criminal activity surrounding the development, testing, advertising, and marketing of the experimental Covid shots, which remain on the market to this day — in Florida and across the nation — and continue to cause irreversible harm.
Adding It All Up
DeSantis must have known he would face tough questions on the campaign trail from distraught voters in the aftermath of the Covid-19 vaccine atrocities. The bad news about the shots just keeps piling up. The most reliable data suggests that millions of people worldwide have been killed by the shots.4 Tens of millions more have suffered serious injuries, including heart damage,5 6 blood clots,7 8 neurological disorders,9 thyroid damage,10 cancer,11 psychosis,12 13 vision loss,14 hearing loss,15 infertility,16 newborn deaths,17 and miscarriages.18
No longer able to hide the vaccine damage, it seems the drug companies and their allies in government have decided to admit that the vaccines can cause serious health problems. However, they claim, without evidence, that those problems are “rare” and that the individuals injured or killed by the shots were likely to have faced even greater risk of injury or death from the Covid infection itself.
Yet, we now know that the vaccines are not capable of preventing infection or transmission of the virus.19 20 Officials therefore are attempting to argue that the infection itself is more dangerous than the vaccine that does not prevent it.
Furthermore, regardless of the relative risks of the virus vs. the vaccine, those who took the shots had a right to see whatever data the drug companies and government had in their possession. Informed consent means being informed of all risks — both known and unknown — about a medical product to date.
In addition, many Americans were fired from their jobs or expelled from school for refusing to take the experimental shots that officials had claimed would protect not just themselves but their neighbors.
It was all a lie. With each passing day, the evidence mounts that government officials colluded with the vaccine makers to hide these critical facts. 2122 23 24 25
Soon-to-be presidential candidate Ron DeSantis likely calculated that he could create a wedge between himself and Trump by appearing to acknowledge what Trump could not: That the vaccines were neither safe nor effective, and that their marketing as such was criminal.
With his grand jury impaneled, DeSantis could throw a bag over the entire issue. Whenever anyone asked what he was doing to hold Pfizer, Moderna, and J & J accountable, the governor could answer honestly and succinctly that he had impaneled a grand jury to investigate the matter.
Then, at some point, when it was no longer needed for political purposes, Statewide Grand Jury #22 could be quietly disbanded.
The New York Times recently caught up with DeSantis on the campaign trail in New Hampshire. The newspaper reported that DeSantis was still using the Covid vaccine issue to try to attract primary voters.
According to the Times:
“Mr. DeSantis claimed Wednesday, as he has previously, that federal authorities misled people into believing that the vaccines prevented infection…
“Mr. DeSantis also played up a state grand jury investigation he instigated nearly a year ago into what he claimed was possible criminal misconduct by Covid vaccine manufacturers. Critics labeled it a political stunt, and it has so far come to naught.
But at the town hall Mr. DeSantis suggested that the issue would continue to come up on the campaign trail, saying: “There may be a report or something like that pretty soon.”26
Dare we fall for it again? Will we see evidence this time of a true criminal investigation, or just another Durham report, where all the prime suspects walk away scot-free?
I contacted the governor’s office for comment on the activity and status of this grand jury investigation but received no reply.
Nor do I expect it to. Governor DeSantis is a phony, from the top of his head to the bottom of his platform shoes, but he is no dummy. He knows he dare not open this giant can of worms. The Covid-19 vaccines likely will turn out to be the single-most damaging pharmaceutical product ever hoisted upon humanity. The devastation they have wrought is unfathomable. If we actually were to hold those responsible for this dystopian nightmare to account, the cost to the drug companies — and by extension, Wall Street — would dwarf any class action, product liability, or medical fraud case in history.
This grand jury was impaneled for 12 months. Its term is set to expire on Dec. 13. We can expect it to be extended, because the governor cannot afford to reveal his head fake just yet. However, I predict that sometime in 2024-25 it will be quietly disbanded. Prosecutors likely never will bother to compel testimony from any key witnesses. We may not see even one substantive report from the work of Statewide Grand Jury #22.
If Ron DeSantis has his way, there will never be any accountability for the millions of deaths and injuries, nor loss of livelihood or education, from the unsafe, ineffective Covid-19 vaccines.
He is not the leader we had hoped.
Outstanding. As always. Thank you, Darby.
Been wondering all this time, what a shame. Thousands dropping dead, and no justice.