By Mike Huckabee
December 16, 2021
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THE MORNING EDITION By Mike Huckabee
Good morning! Here are some stories from me that I think you will want to read. Topics include:
- Schiff doctored "evidence" for 'Special Committee,' should be disbarred
- Lame Duck Biden
- JFK
- Prayer Tree
- And Much More
DAILY BIBLE VERSE
This verse was recommended by Lynne N.
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
John 14:6
THE LATEST NEWS
1.Schiff doctored "evidence" for 'Special Committee,' should be disbarred:
Yesterday, we reported new developments about Nancy Pelosi’s ‘Special Committee’ to make the case that Liz Cheney is “the new Adam Schiff.
I regret to inform you, however, that the old Adam Schiff is still practicing his usual dark magic in Congress to make lies seem true. Consider what he did Monday night during a meeting of the committee.
Remember when Schiff claimed to have proof of “collusion” between Trump and Russia to help Trump win in 2016? Remember when it turned out he had nothing? And how that's just one of his claims that have turned out to be lies? Well, he’s at it again. Monday night, he said he had proof that a member of Congress (whose name he didn't specify, but it was Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan) texted then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to tell him to instruct Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
As Sean Davis at The Federalist reported Wednesday, not only did Schiff twist “the substance of the message and its source,” but he also doctored original text messages. The Federalist provided for comparison the original, complete text messages and included the video of Schiff doing this.
In the video, Schiff puts up a text and reads it out loud: “On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all.”
“You can see why this is so critical to ask Mr. Meadows about,” Schiff says. But according to Davis, Schiff “erased significant portions of the text and added punctuation where there was none to give the impression that Jordan himself was tersely directing Meadows to give orders to Pence on how to handle the electoral vote certification.”
The original text, though, was not from Jordan, but from Washington attorney and former Department of Defense Inspector General Joseph Schmitz, who had also attached a four-page “discussion draft” of a document detailing Schmitz’s legal reasoning for suggesting Pence had the authority to object to certification in “a handful of states.” Not the same thing as what Schiff was claiming at all.
Schiff had sliced-and-diced a three-paragraph summary of the document that Schmitz had sent to Jordan and then wrongly attributed it to Jordan.
Specifically, the graphic quoted above was achieved by deleting the last part of the original first sentence, which would have read, “ --- in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence.” One can see how Schiff might not have wanted that part of the sentence in there, so “poof!” the inconvenient phrase was gone.
There was more that Schiff had left out: Schmitz quoted Hamilton citing case law (Hubbard v. Lowe) and used that to support the argument that “an unconstitutionally appointed elector, like an unconstitutionally elected statute, is no elector at all.”
Schiff had erased the final two paragraphs and the final clause of the first paragraph before substituting his own punctuation to make it look as if that was all there was to the quote. Russell Dye, spokesman for Rep. Jordan, asked, “Is anyone surprised that Adam Schiff is again rifling through private text messages and cherry-picking information to fit his partisan narrative and sow misinformation?”
According to Davis’ sources, Schiff never approached Jordan to discuss the text message before taking it upon himself to change it. If he had, Jordan could have made it clear to him that he had just been passing along an attorney’s summarized legal argument. In fact, Jordan is known for NOT texting much more than “yes” or “no,” certainly not detailed legal arguments, so a text like this from him wouldn’t have been believable to people who knew him. Schiff didn’t care.
Significantly, one source said this: “...You have to remember what was going on at the time. People were sending around these law review articles and debates left and right because we had an interest in learning the facts and getting them right. And if it’s somehow seditious in this country to debate or share a law review article on Alexander Hamilton’s view on things, that’s not really a country I want to be a part of anymore.”
Davis’ report goes into Schiff’s long history of doctoring “evidence” and misrepresenting facts, and I highly recommend it. Laura Ingraham’s Wednesday show does this as well, with guest Mollie Hemingway, who also reviews what we’ve said about why the committee is not legitimate. Recall that Schiff has been caught in lies multiple times; one major example: denying he knew the identity of the mysterious impeachment “whistleblower,” who turned out to be a scammer named Eric Ciaramella who had contacted Schiff’s office before even submitting his bogus complaint.
If you have a premium subscription to The Epoch Times, check out this story by Jack Phillips, who reports that the committee has had to admit the doctoring, with a spokesperson claiming a period was placed at the end “inadvertently.” Right. “The Select Committee is responsible for and regrets the error,” they said dryly, after they got caught.
Of course, they still voted to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress, as planned all along.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/hold-vote-mark-meadows-held-criminal-contempt-congress
Mark Levin, on Wednesday with Sean Hannity, suggested doing something about “this whining, unethical hack.” “Lawyers are not free to doctor evidence,” he said, noting that Schiff is trying with this to railroad (my word) Meadows into prison. It’s time to file a serious ethics complaint against Schiff, with the ethics arm of the Supreme Court of California, Levin said. A private citizen can do this, but he’s suggesting that Republicans in Congress do it. Agreed –- it’s time for Schiff to lose his law license.
Levin added, “If you want to see what the old Soviet Union was like,” look at this committee. Of course, we’ve been making that case, pointing out that they’ve violated virtually the entire Bill Of Rights, as well as the separation of powers. Also, Congress does not have the authority to conduct criminal investigations. No one should take seriously anything that comes out of this fake committee.
Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs tweeted, “Expect a lot more of this. Schiff and the contemptible Jan6 committee will twist and smear the narrative every chance they get.” And Rep. Dan Bishop sounded a lot like me when he tweeted, “Adam Schiff is the Jussie Smollett of Congress.”
By the way, about “the NEW Adam Schiff” (Liz Cheney; see yesterday’s commentary), she’s facing at least one impressive primary challenge in '22, by actual Republican Harriet Hageman. Calling all Republicans in Wyoming: One Adam Schiff is more than enough; we sure don’t need another one infesting Congress, especially on our side of the aisle. Here’s Harriet on the issues.
https://www.hagemanforwyoming.com/issues
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2. A Lame Duck:
President Biden got his “infrastructure” bill passed, but it’s beginning to look as if that might be as far as the Democrats get in their plans to spend all the money and cement themselves into power. Wednesday, after failing to reach an agreement with holdout Sen. Joe Manchin, Senate Democrats shelved Biden’s big-spending “Build Back Better” bill.
They had hoped to foist that off on us before Christmas, but now they’ll have to try again to pass it in 2022. But that might be impossible during an election year where voters are already fed up with Democrats expanding government power and driving inflation with their endless spending and borrowing.
With BBB dead for now, the Democrats pivoted back to their “Legalize Election Fraud” bill, but its prospects look even more bleak. As illegitimate as it was to claim that “Build Back Better” is just a budget bill that can be passed with only 51 votes via reconciliation, not even a feeble bogus argument can be made for federalizing elections that way. And Sen. Krysten Sinema just reiterated her opposition to killing the filibuster, so they’d need 60 votes in the Senate to pass that, which is about as likely as Kamala Harris winning the White House’s “Miss Congeniality” contest.
There are more details at the linked story, but this one line sums up what it all means (or at least we can hope so):
“Joe Biden is a lame duck President 11 months in.”
3. Sick Story:
Warning: This is a sick and disturbing story, so proceed with caution.
Yesterday’s quote of the day was from blogger Stacy McCain, who asked if CNN employed anyone who WASN’T a pervert. Maybe I should’ve saved that to be the quote of the week, in light of the latest undercover video release from Project Veritas of yet another CNN primetime producer fantasizing about sexually molesting his fiancée’s 14-year-old daughter and asking a co-worker for nude photos of her 15-year-old daughter.
The co-worker provided Project Veritas with graphic texts and video evidence, which she said she obtained for authorities but she was concerned that nothing was going to be done. She said she was “disgusted” that “these people with power seem to get away with it.”
Let’s hope that time is coming to a screeching halt. Again, I’ll warn you that there is more of this story in a video at the link, but you’ll want to brace yourself and have a strong stomach.
4. Surprise Move:
In a surprise move, yesterday the Biden Administration released 1500 pages of long-classified documents related to the John Kennedy assassination.
Despite the Internet frenzy over it, experts say it’s unlikely that any of them will contain a “smoking gun” that tells us anything new, and they immediately went back to calling for the rest of the 8500 or so pages of still-classified documents to be released. Meanwhile, people pouring over the new documents say they’re mostly just previously released documents with a few redacted words revealed. At this rate, we may actually see Pfizer's vaccine research data before we see the JFK documents.
Still, this does answer a mysterious question that I’ve been pondering for a while:
“How desperate is the Biden Administration to change the subject from inflation?”
5. Interesting Read:
Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist posted a Twitter thread that gutted the January 6th committee’s “insurrection collusion” narrative like a biology class frog.
6. Silliness:
Silly reporter! Doesn’t he know you’re not supposed to hold Democrats to the same standards they set for Republicans?
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-look-bidens-face-reporter-confronts-800000-covid-deaths/
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
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7. Make Inflation Hilarious:
Only Kurt Schlichter could make a column about inflation hilarious, terrifying and brutal all at the same time.
8. 230 Years:
Wednesday was the 230th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights at the first Constitutional Convention in 1791. In these times when those rights are under assault as perhaps never before, it’s important to look back at that event and study why the Founders felt it necessary to enumerate and protect those rights. So please check out this must-read article by Aaron Corpora at TheFire.org.
https://www.thefire.org/230-years-ago-the-bill-of-rights-was-born/
A very important point he makes that always bears repeating: the Founders did not grant us these rights. They considered them rights bestowed on every American by God. They were listed to prevent the government from trying to encroach on our natural rights. So whenever you hear someone today talk about doing away with the Second Amendment or limiting freedom of speech, remind them that they have no power to do that. Even if they could bamboozle enough stupid people into voting to remove a right from the Bill of Rights, that would not alter the fact that that right remains yours and mine by the grace of God, not by the generosity of the government.
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10. I Just Wanted To Say:
Thank you for reading today's newsletter.
THE HOLLY AND THE IVY
Today's Christmas carol is recommended by Chris M.
LISTEN: https://youtu.be/l7eHtDtZ7hs
Refrain:
The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown
Of all the trees that are in the wood
The holly bears the crown
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir
---
The holly bears a blossom
As white as lily flower
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To be our sweet Saviour
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir
---
The holly bears a berry
As red as any blood
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To do poor sinners good
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir
---
The holly bears a prickle
As sharp as any thorn;
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
On Christmas Day in the morn.
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir
----
The holly bears a bark
As bitter as any gall;
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
For to redeem us all.
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir
---
The holly and the ivy
Now both are full well grown,
Of all the trees that are in the wood,
The holly bears the crown.
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir
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