By Mike Huckabee
October 28, 2024
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The sophisticated power play used by the “Justice” Department in Trump’s first term to safeguard their positions and their ginned-up “Russia” ploy was simply to open an investigation into him.
Really, it was that easy. That’s all they had to do. As with the current investigation of the Secret Service, it’s the little magic wand they wave when they don’t want to talk about something. Once they had their Trump “Russia” case on file --- for which the pretense, ridiculously, was Christopher Steele’s “dossier” funded by Hillary’s 2016 campaign, plus the fake “Alfa Bank” scandal, also exploited by her campaign --- they could clam up in front of congressional committees, limiting Congress’s oversight power with their non-answers. They could go into public hearings confident that their stonewalling would go unchallenged, with nothing revealed except their lack of transparency.
It’s the President’s job to hire and fire these top bureaucrats, who constitutionally “serve at the pleasure of the President,” but Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey was painted as an outrageously Nixonian attempt to obstruct justice because, why? Comey was officially investigating him. Check-MATE. These people had Trump boxed in, and that’s why he needs another term to handle them, now that he understands the game.
Trump is already working on “Special Counsel” Jack Smith (the quotation marks here mean he’s not a real one, having been appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland without ever being confirmed by the Senate), to get the January 6 case against him dismissed.
As reported by JUST THE NEWS, Trump’s attorneys asked on Thursday for a dismissal of the case against him. Their argument? Just what we said above and have always said, that Smith was unconstitutionally appointed. Florida U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, who’s been presiding over Smith’s OTHER case, the so-called “classified documents” case, dismissed it (Smith is appealing), ruling that “no legal statute gave Garland the authority to give Smith the amount of power he has as Special Counsel, and that the appointment violated the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.”
Given Jack Smith’s stained history as a prosecutor, he was just the right person to do whatever was necessary to get Trump. He would charge ahead and never second-guess himself. But as Trump’s lawyers claim, Smith was a “private citizen” when he was appointed by Garland, and so, “Everything that Smith did since Attorney General Garland’s appointment, as President Trump continued his leading campaign against President Biden and then-Vice President Harris, was unlawful and unconstitutional.” Acknowledging that is the only sufficient remedy for Trump.
If the court agrees, it will end Smith’s J6 case against President Trump. Smith has just a few days, until October 31, to file his response.
Normally we don’t like to see a case thrown out on technicalities, but Trump’s accusers have gone around the Constitution so many times, we’ll take it. Otherwise, they’ll determine who will and who won’t occupy the chair in the Oval Office, and they also want to curtail Congress’s official oversight duties.
Trump himself, even after what he went through following Comey’s firing, has no qualms now about firing Smith, saying he’ll do it “within two seconds” of taking the Oval Office. He said this on a wide- ranging interview on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show last Thursday.
When asked which he would do, pardon himself or fire Smith, Trump said, “Oh, it’s so easy. It’s so easy. He’s a crooked person. I would fire him within two seconds.” (We’re thinking the best way to handle this would be to fire Merrick Garland, appoint a new AG and let THAT person fire Smith.)
As you know, Smith recently submitted a revised court filing to try to keep his J6 case against Trump going even after the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. As NEWSMAX reports, “Smith’s latest tactic is to argue Trump ‘resorted to crimes’ and ‘used private actors and his campaign infrastructure to attempt to overturn the election results and operated in a private capacity as a candidate for office.”
He means Trump wasn’t acting in his official capacity while doing the things he’s accused of doing. Ending the case because he WAS carrying out presidential duties seems, again, like getting off on a technicality, but this might be the only way to get Smith to stop his sick, Captain Ahab-style pursuit (once he’s exhausted the appeals process, of course).
https://www.newsmax.com/us/special-counsel-jack-smith-prosecutor/2024/10/24
One other part of their interview, especially interesting in light of what Kamala says about Trump abusing power Hitler-style: When he was asked about pardoning Hunter Biden, he commented that political prosecutions “are bad for the country.” He also noted that when his rally fans in 2016 chanted “Lock her up, lock her up” about Hillary --- who really should’ve been tried for destroying evidence, obstruction of justice and mishandling classified material --- he told them to “take it easy, just relax. I could have put her in jail. But I didn’t want to do that. I thought it would look terrible [for the country].”
Here’s more of what Trump said about pardoning his rivals and trying to do what is best for the country. It seems to me that if he wants to be Hitler, he’s going about it all wrong.
https://thelibertydaily.com/trump-floats-possibility-pardoning-hunter-biden-if-elected/
What’s been obvious for some time is that the little dictator wannabes locking up their political opponents are actually the Democrats. Friends of Kamala. Or, if not true friends, at least political cronies trying to get her elected.
Trump is the one they paint as the relentless authoritarian. The Hitler, even. Miranda Devine at the NEW YORK POST has a great piece that looks at the accusations Kamala is making against Trump in the final days of the campaign, and she makes this stellar point: “There is no way to sugarcoat the fact that Harris, in her desperation as her campaign heads down the toilet, has just invited more assassination attempts on her political rival.
“She has green-lighted future efforts to murder him, with her carefully scripted, deliberately delivered official message from the official vice presidential residence in Washington DC. Using an American flag as a backdrop, just to add an obscene flourish.”
[Note: We saw her press conference, which was set up with the American flag to Kamala’s right and another flag to her left. This appeared to bear the insignia of the U.S. Vice President, and she gave her shockingly political speech from the Vice President’s residence. Some have accused her of violating the Hatch Act, which prevents federal officials from “using their official authority or influence to interfere with the outcome of an election.” To show how even-handed we are, we’re going to link to a NEWSWEEK fact-check on this; they say it’s a gray area at the level of VP but rule it “false” since the President and Vice President hold certain exemptions. Even if that’s true (we’re still checking legal experts ourselves), it was horrifically inappropriate for her to use the trappings of her office this way.]
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-kamala-harris-violate-hatch-act-1973960
On the other hand, it seems glaringly obvious that “Transportation Secretary” Pete Buttigieg is blatantly violating the Hatch Act and posting the evidence of it on his personal X account:
Is anything being done about this? Don’t count on it. This would seem to fall into the “D-Next-To-Your-Name” exemption from federal laws. As Derek Hunter writes at Townhall.com, “It’s not that the left has double standards – one for them, another for everyone else. They have standards for everyone else and absolutely none for them.”
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/10/24/the-media-are-the-scum-of-the-earth-n2646673
PROGRAMMING ALERT: Dust off your easy chair or set your DVR because Miranda Divine will be my guest this weekend on “Huckabee” on TBN, the only show on TV that will give her a forum to discuss her new book about Biden family corruption and also judge a chili cook-off.
Yesterday, we talked about the left’s historical obsession with linking their enemies to Hitler. Here’s a piece with lots of examples of how George W. Bush was portrayed as LITERALLY HITLER. It does seem much worse now, with Trump, but it’s been bad for a long time, and it actually started when Hitler was still alive.
John Daniel Davidson at THE FEDERALIST has a warning about the left: “The purpose of constantly invoking the specter of a dictatorship under Trump is to condition Democrats to react violently if Harris loses.”
We know the Dems tend to do to us what they claim we’re doing to them. Case in point: Kamala’s always been “consistent and forceful,” Davidson says, “about one thing throughout her campaign: that Trump will destroy America if he’s re-elected. He’ll even use the military to round up people and put them into camps.
“What they’re doing is pushing a narrative that Trump is going to be a fascist dictator if he wins office and use the power of the presidency to go after ordinary Americans. That’s an extreme and frankly unhinged position with no basis in reality. You don’t say things like that unless you’re hoping to provoke a strong reaction, and the reaction Democrats are hoping to provoke is violent resistance to a Trump second term.”
If you thought some incarnation of Hitler had been elected to high office, and that he was going to round up your family and take them off to work camps, wouldn’t you want him taken out? Of course you would. You’d want him dead. And if he got elected and immediately fired the man who’d been prosecuting him, wouldn’t you think that was just evil? And might there be huge civil unrest because of it? The more it looks like a Trump win, the more enamored the Democrats will become of a scenario like that. It will be all they have left.
RELATED: Political analyst Mark Halperin is just one of a number of experts warning that because of all this red hot, ginned-up Trump Derangement Syndrome, if Trump wins, “I think it will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country.” He predicts it will result in alcoholism, broken marriages and fights at kids’ birthday parties (I’d say that’s the best-case scenario.) But he thinks we’ll be fine by Inauguration Day.
Let’s all hope and pray that the leftists reach the “acceptance” stage of grief sooner than that, although we know that for some of them, any excuse for a riot is a good excuse.
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