Amazingly, Wikipedia’s current “Lawfare” entry goes into great detail concerning the term’s origins and current application – defining Lawfare as “the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter an individual’s usage of their legal rights” without any mention whatsoever of its current use against Trump.
To many, if not most, Americans, these “Get Trump” efforts are the epitome of Lawfare – and the primary reason for the term’s sinister overtones. Like other currently popular terms, including “Deep State” and “Fake News,” Lawfare did not begin with Trump. Such efforts wee hiding in plain sight, as the third-rate burglary of Watergate was inflated into the biggest political scandal of the Twentieth Century.
