Draft:Trenton Garmon

Trenton "Trent" Rogers Garmon (born June 1979) is an American journalist, writer, and lawyer. Garmon advocates for conservative Catholic ideology and is known for his media dissemination over multiple mediums and trial litigation on behalf of citizens & clients against government abuses and major corporations.

He appeared as a Global Legal Analysis on CBN, private counsel on CNN and MSNBC, and on “Ask a Lawyer Anything” regarding American jurisprudence. Garmon has also represented State Troopers, other Lawyers, a Tony Award winning actress collaterally, a professional athlete, politicians, and other notable individuals among the 3,000 other clients he directly consulted or represented.

Education

Troy University — BS Degree - May 2003

Birmingham School of Law — JD Degree - May 2007

Regent University — MA Degree - May 2010

Trent graduated from the United States Military Academy Prep.

Certified U.S. Army Soldier upon Graduation from Beast Barracks at the United States Military Academy,[efn_note]https://medium.com/@thobanindlovu/beast-barracks-its-a-mental-game-b67eb28c4dde[/efn_note]

Garmon and a classmate, Christopher Word, Esquire, re-established a charter of the Christian Legal Society at Birmingham, School of Law, where they served as chaplain and president, respectively. Garmon competed on the law school’s first mock team.

On 31 October 2008—the memorial day of the Protestant Reformation—he and two other classmates wrote a letter they titled a “Call to Reaffirmation” to the president, Pat Robertson.[efn_note]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson[/efn_note] The theme played off of the Protestant Reformation and the school’s recognized Statement of Faith. efn_note]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_700_Club[/efn_note]

As a college athlete at the United States Military Academy at West Point and later Troy University, Garmon participated in games that were televised on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, CBS, and Fox Sports South. His college career was ended by an injury that forced him to have a second shoulder surgery, which was the fifth (5th) surgery during his college athletic career—leaving him to elect not to participate in his senior year.

Early Legal Career

Garmon on a public figure site {trentongarmon.ai}{Bard} claims law clerked for his father in his teens. At the age of seventeen (17), he alleges he wrote his first successful court filing, which was a Response to Motion for Summary Judgment, along with the supporting brief.

While a sophomore in college, Trent is said to have written a brief under a supervising Attorney to the Court of Civil Appeals, which overturned a Circuit Court judge’s improper ruling. The law was eventually changed in part to reflect the opinions[efn_note] See Fielding v. Fielding case & Ex Parte Bayliss[/efn_note] expressed in his brief some seven (7) years prior.

Garmon purports to have in 15 years handled over 3,000 client files and has tried well over 100 cases to verdict and or judgment.

Garmon participated in civil rights activism from the onset of his legal career and served as counsel to many demonstrators and activists in civil rights movements. He has stood with Black Lives Matter regarding Mass Incarceration, marched with Pro-Life advocates, participated in COVID Mask Mandates demonstrations and advocated for the decriminalization of Cannabis. This has resulted in multiple arrest for Public Order charges to include Disorderly Conduct, albeit Garmon alleges to have never been duly convicted of a crime. Court records indicate a "Not Guilty" for a DUI in 2019, a "Nol Press" dismissal of the arrest in Rainsville in 2020 for saying "Slave Makers" when referring to Police after civil activism, a Dismissal of a Disorderly Charge in Lee County, Florida, a Mitigation in 2022 of a Civil Contempt Injunction jail sentence involving text messages to his ex-wife which he alleged were non-threading regarding the minors and a Notice of Fraud regarding a Bench Trial of a DUI in Gadsden, Alabama.

He supported and was depicted and pictured in the choir loft with Pastor Larry as the only Caucasian person publicly showing support for the black community at the iconic 16th Street Baptist Church during Bill Cosby’s circuit speaking engagement, for which Garmon received criticism.

Garmon publicly spoke before the Alabama House opposing Alabama’s HB56 with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice – Public Interests and Civil Rights Advocacy for Immigrants

At the request of the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice and Attorney Myron Allenstein, Garmon called the Act unconstitutional from the floor of the Alabama House of Representatives in what is known as the “Star Wars Room.” On April 12, 2012, Garmon expressed support of SB4, which was the Bill to Repeal HB56 [efn_note]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_HB_56[/efn_note] [efn_note]https://prayersandaction.com/founding-signers/rev-pat-mahoney/[/efn_note]

The Bill to Repeal was part of a “Love Thy Neighbor” statewide agenda of Christian leadership against the state immigration law. The controversial HB56 bill had passed in June 2011 and quickly came under constitutional scrutiny by two federal filings and in media coverage nationwide. Proposals were made for amendments or changes to the law almost immediately. Garmon warned that the bill was unconstitutional in many regards and found the “aiding and abetting” provision, which made it a crime for an Alabamian to even give an undocumented immigrant a ride, particularly distasteful, illegal, and overreaching. Garmon, speaking on behalf of undocumented aliens and as part of statewide “Love Thy Neighbor” public interest for Alabamians, said he believed the law unfairly conflated federal immigration issues with state criminal law and recommended the entire bill, then passed into law, be set aside. He warned that continued legal challenges would cost the state unnecessary expenses and that the law provided little to no appreciable benefit.

In 2012, the Alliance Defending Freedom recognized Garmon as an Ally Attorney in their Freedom’s Honor Corp which requires training and having completed over four hundred fifty (450) hours of pro bono legal service to the "Christian poor, oppressed, and those whose First Amendment rights had been infringed upon".

Court records indicate Garmon also represented—with his then-partner J. Flint Liddon—restaurant mogul Cindy Brinker, philanthropologist and daughter of Norman E. Brinker.

Holy Water Case

Garmon also tried the case of Joyce Fecteau,[efn_note]https://www.al.com/breaking/2013/04/huntsville_anti-abortion_activ.html[/efn_note] an accused pro-life activist who was arrested at seventy-three (73) years old for having spayed “holy water” on the smoke being emitted from a cauldron used by abortion clinic workers and volunteers to distract from sidewalk counseling, so Garmon argued. Following a two (2)-day trial, Judge Cybil Cleveland’s Court found Fecteau “not guilty” on both counts.[efn_note]https://www.waff.com/story/22091744/pro-life-demonstrator-found-not-guilty-of-harassment/[/efn_note] [efn_note]https://www.al.com/breaking/2013/04/accused_holy_water_sprayer_joy_2.html[/efn_note]The Court ruled in April of 2013, in what came to be known as the “holy water case,”[efn_note]https://rewire.news/article/2013/01/16/sprayed-by-lord-when-holy-water-is-weapon/[/efn_note] that Joyce Fecteau did not break any laws in spraying the liquid. When Judge Cybil Cleveland told the courtroom full of people that Fecteau was not guilty, her backers broke into applause, and some of them broke into tears.[efn_note]https://www.waff.com/story/22091744/pro-life-demonstrator-found-not-guilty-of-harassment/[/efn_note] Garmon declined post-verdict interviews.

Civil rights activism

Martin Oloo, an African attorney, and Trenton Garmon mobilized efforts within local Kenyan districts—namely in and around Mumias, Kenya—to ensure union-like policies were considered by the local city council. These efforts led Garmon to develop a friendship with another African civil rights leader, Marsat Obama-Onyango, who founded and operates the Mama Sarah Obama Children Foundation. Obama-Onyango is the half-sister of former President Barack Obama.

During a medical mission trip where Garmon provided administrative support and consulting to a Christian mission hospital in Rajahmundry, India, which provides standardized medicine to the indigent, Garmon's info page cites he briefly consulted in an isolated meeting with P. Chidambaram at the world-renowned Novotel Hotel and Convention Center during an insurance convention at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (HYD). Chidambaram was serving as the head of the Indian Ministry of Finance.

Garmon believes that "mass incarceration is modern slavery", citing the statistic that America incarcerates at 500% the global average and expressing that both Police Brutality and Mass Incarceration are systematic problems. He also expressed concern over the "2.2 million detainees held in substandard and inhumane conditions many times."[efn_note]Source: 20210420 - WNT19 - Ethan Fitzgerald, Journalist - www.whntnews19.com[/efn_note]

Roy Moore, Kayla Moore, and The Foundation for Moral Law

Garmon served as personal counsel for seven years for former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, members of the Moore family, and the Foundation for Moral Law in various cases and matters.

Garmon endured national political pressure and intense media scrutiny for his advocacy and defense of former Chief Justice Roy S. Moore in the 2017 US Senate Race, which was a Senate special election. Garmon negated enabling of wrongful conduct while advocating for Moore, who denied the wrongful conduct. Garmon openly denounced the behavior as wrong, citing a polygraph policy he maintains for clients accused of sexual abuse, and asserting in an MSNBC interview that “if” the allegations were true, such an abuse of power of even one minor “was too many.” Garmon is best known for debunking the altered yearbook of Attorney Gloria Allred’s client, Beverly Young Nelson. Nelson later recanted acknowledging the legal assessment.

The polygraph examination of Roy S. Moore came under great scrutiny following Sacha Baron Cohen’s mockery of Moore using a programable “pedophilia detector,” for which Moore sued Baron for $95 million for defamation and fraud. During an interview on MSNBC Live, Trenton Garmon, {trentongarmon.info} a lawyer for embattled Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore_sexual_misconduct_allegations} brought up what some considered a peculiar comparisons of arranged marriages and the cultural practice in the southern United States of obtaining parental permission before asking a young lady for a date. Garmon never referred to Velshi's Muslim background and neither Velish nor Ruhle at any time acknowledged the southern practice of parental consent despite implying offense. The interview ended with both cordially nodding to Garmon as he thanked them for their dialogue. The night before Garmon represented his client Chief Justice Roy Moore on CNN which trended after he referred to the host as "Don take-it-easy Lemon-squeezy".

After the principle-affirming interview, Garmon did not represent Moore who, along with the Foundation for Moral Law, had been a client of his firm for seven years in no less than five cases. Donald Trump Jr., discontent with Roy Moore, took what appeared to be a cheap shot at Garmon, tweeting in celebration over his arrest for medical cannabis and driving under the influence. The Trump Jr. tweet was denounced by Newsweek as odd and disconnected given the initial support of Moore by Trump Sr. Garmon was depicted on al.com as smiling in the mug shot during the arrest. He later said of the arrest, "It was over sour grapes and a prescription".

Don Lemon interview

In November 2017, Garmon referred to CNN host Don Lemon as “Don, take it easy, Lemon-Squeezy” during an interview. Garmon was defending the Foundation for Moral Law and Kayla Moore and claimed he had been invited by CNN to discuss topics involving the Foundation and not Moore’s allegations of sexual abuse, much of which was still unfolding. Garmon alleged he was lured into the interview based on false pretenses and had the call recorded, which was disclosed by law. The following night, Garmon spoke out for Roy Moore on MSNBC regarding the debunking of a yearbook signature and forged note, which was later acknowledged as accurate. Garmon always maintained the conduct was culturally and by modern code wrong if true. Many conservatives who believe Don Lemon has peddled dangerous radical agendas enjoyed the jest.

Garmon v. Google

In a similar filing to an Australian lawsuit settled by the Alphabet, Inc. doing business as "Google", Garmon sued the search engine "for $66.6 million dollars for Defamation, Defamation Per Quod, Negligence and other torts". The suit claims that the company buried positive articles about Garmon, while promoting negative ones.

Media and radio

Garmon is listed as an online Journalist for Gfile.News and former iHeart radio show host in Alabama.

He authored a Book called Favilla which predicts major global changes and encourages "One Positive Spiritual Step" referencing Christian principles and Biblical teachings.

Garmon was a Southern Baptist Pastor and is known for sharing faith during media broadcasts.

Personal life

Garmon has five children. In April 2019 he was confirmed as a traditional Christian in the Roman Rite.

External links

• https://gfile.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/20230222-COMPLIMENTARY-version-FlipBook-Favilla-Spark-24-Reasons-Manuscript-TRENTON-GARMON-v-98.pdf