Solari Requests that Lawyer Monthly Retract Inaccuracy-Laden Social Media Post about Carlson-Fitts Interview
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Solari Requests that Lawyer Monthly Retract Inaccuracy-Laden Social Media Post about Carlson-Fitts Interview
By Carolyn Betts, Esq.
May 8, 2025
To Lawyer Monthly:
I am General Counsel of Solari, Inc., publisher of the Solari Report, Catherine Austin Fitts’s subscription website (solari.com). I have worked with Catherine on and off for approximately 28 years, beginning with her company, Hamilton Securities Group, which served as the lead financial advisor to the Federal Housing Administration during the Clinton Administration in the nineties. Supported by a transcript of the recent Tucker Carlson interview with Fitts, which I have reviewed carefully, I take issue with both the headline of Lawyer Monthly’s story (referring to “legal elites” as a topic of the interview) and the following alleged statements made in the interview:
- That Catherine “offered a sharp critique of America’s … legal system, alleging that both [the ruling class and the legal system] played a central role in the nation’s economic and institutional decline.” Note that the term “legal system” does not appear in our transcript and the subject of the American legal system does not come up in the interview. Ms. Fitts’s only reference to a “lawyer” was made in reference to her now-deceased uncle’s statement to FBI agents when they appeared at his New Hampshire farm unannounced and demanded that he turn over documents: “Send me a letter so I can give it to my lawyer and I’m happy to send them to you.”
- With reference to your statement, “According to her, a devastating shift unfolded during the 1990s, one that saw America’s political, corporate, and legal elites abandon national interests in favor of their own financial gain.” Note that the term “legal elites” also does not appear in the transcript, and she made no reference to the role of attorneys in the political and economic system she described and did not say that lawyers, or the legal elite, “betrayed America for profit” or “abandon[ed] national interests in favor of their own financial gain.”
- The entire section entitled “How the Law Allegedly Enabled America’s Downfall” appears to be made up from whole cloth. Nothing described under this heading is discussed in this interview: trade agreements, privatization deals, deregulation, or strategic litigation. Judicial appointment was mentioned only in the context of the Kavanaugh hearings [to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the Senate] in the context of pinpointing the date when FASAB Statement 56 was adopted. Privatization is mentioned only with reference to the “Red Button Story,” according to which only 1 attendee out of 100 at the socially responsible investing conference said he or she would “push the red button” to end illegal drug trafficking, while the other 99 stated they would not do so because they might lose benefits, including “privatization.” The terms “trade agreements,” “deregulation,” and “strategic litigation” appear nowhere in the interview.
The following statements likewise are fabricated:
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- [Ms. Fitts] argues that unless the legal community confronts its role in this shift, the gap between the law’s ideals and its reality will only widen.
- “If lawyers are only working to help the powerful consolidate more power, then who’s left to defend the people who actually need the law?” Catherine Fitts said.
It is appalling that a legal publication like Lawyer Monthly, of all sources, would publicize false and defamatory quotes in a public forum. I respectfully ask on behalf of Ms. Fitts that you retract the statements made and implications drawn in this article about an attack on the legal profession that did not take place as described.
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Bravo Caroline!
Lawyer Monthly appears to be a sham publication!
(I’m not a lawyer so an unfamiliar but will now do a little investigation)
I think you just hit a home run Carolyn….out of the park… and Lawyer Monthly showed up without a mitt. Touche!!!
I am always amazed at how the truth can be fabricated in so many ways. This not only applies to the Lawyer Monthly but to the “lamestream media” in general. It is always necessary to read between the lines.
Me thinks the lawyers do protest too much. Guilty conscience?
You’re over the target…Hang Tight. You are always in my prayers.
🙂
Congratulations, you have gotten their attention, and they apparently need to fabricate a narrative to prop up their house of cards
This one was particularly strange because it did not even pretend to have any basis in the facts. Would love to know what the real goal was.
Afternoon Catherine
Watched your interview with Tucker and was a huge fan! I am organic/ regenerative farmer in MN and have been given a dream to decentralize farming in MN. Our farm is called Acres of Eden and our goal is to bring back the infrastructure and self sufficient circular farming methods that are given to us by our creator to produce healthy food for our communities as well as build community! I am wondering if you would be interested in discussing this with me and if you have any insight into this? Wasn’t sure how to reach out to you so I thought I would try this!
email is joel.acresofeden@gmail.com
Thank you for your courage and your faith in Jesus
Shameful. But as they say, when you start getting flak, it means you’re over the target.
On a similar note, a few days ago I breezed over an article referring to the same Tucker Carlson interview with a sensationalistic headline something to the effect of “CAF said the government spent $21T on a massive underground bunker.” The comments were hilarious in a depressing way.
They stiched together a series of different things to imply something I did not say. Not worth bothering with them – they are just trying to convert a serious discussion into entertainment, and of course bury the fact that there has been a financial coup.
The legal one was devious which could have been leading to something. Best to nip in the bud
Bravo, Carolyn, for standing up for Catherine and the truth! United we stand! Hope this letter gets wide publicity.
Looks like they may be using Catherine to make their own confession about what is being done wrong in their profession. Maybe they have listened to or read other CAF fine works and are superimposing from them on the Carlson interview to create controversy. More diabolical inversion. More rightful damage to them at their own hands as I read it.
Alas, yet another sting from the hornet’s nest, and a sign that Catherine has got that nasty hive buzzing. Congratulations on a well-swung swat at the swarm of lies issuing forth from Lawyer Monthly.
So true and you made me laugh in sometimes unlaughable times.