November 26, 2024
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On Monday, just as our newsletter staff was preparing to take the occasional pause that refreshes, we had one of the best news days we could’ve hoped for since Election 2024. Talk about ending this short work week on a high note! There’s a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.
First and perhaps most important, as reported by the POST MILLENNIAL, President-elect Trump is “set to nominate Kash Patel to a top role in the FBI or the Department of Justice.” AXIOS, citing “top transition sources,” broke the news more tentatively, saying that “the President-elect is considering him to be deputy FBI director or a high-up investigative role in the DOJ.”
In case you’re not familiar with Patel’s extensive background, the PM report summarizes it well. Another top contender for the job of FBI director has reportedly been Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, another fabulous choice. As we recently reported in another piece of delightful news, Mike Rogers, whose name had been floated (by whom, we have to wonder?) as a prospective FBI director, is not and has never been up for consideration by Trump. One would imagine that once Trump heard Rogers had been given the thumbs-up by none other than disgraced former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now a contributor at MSNBC, that would have cemented his decision.
Regarding any appointment of Rogers to the FBI, Trump was quoted by senior Trump campaign adviser Dan Scavino as saying he had “never even given it a thought.”
So, why might Trump be thinking about Patel for deputy director and not the top spot? Perhaps it’s to keep him out of reach of senators who fear him and plan to refuse his confirmation. Patel is someone of whom it’s often said that he “knows where all the bodies are buried.”
But Mike Davis, who might have similar knowledge of the location of those (figurative?) bodies, says Patel would have no problem with Senate confirmation. After reading what some leftist hack wrote about him in his Wikipedia entry, we’re wondering if Andrew Bailey might actually have more trouble, with Dems and RINOs:
“During his tenure as attorney general,” it says, “Bailey has refused to release prisoners after overturned convictions, attempted unsuccessfully to restrict gender-affirming care, battled initiatives to restore access to abortion in Missouri, and staunchly defended former President Donald Trump over his legal problems.”
That was just the second paragraph, and the author was only getting started. Most of these seem like good reasons FOR Bailey’s appointment. We don’t know the details of those cases in which he allegedly resisted releasing prisoners but unfortunately cannot rely on the Wikipedia entry, which really is just a hit piece. (And, sorry, Wikipedia, after showing us this slanted piece of garbage presented as an “encyclopedia” entry, you do NOT get the small donation your fundraising pop-up screen solicited.)
As for Patel, either as director, deputy director or special investigator, he is a spectacular choice. Until Trump is sworn in and does what he will with current FBI Director Chris Wray (which should involve a man-size Hefty bag in anticipation of trash day), Wray is still there and behaving true to form. As we reported yesterday, agents just last week raided the home of another nonviolent J6 attendee, a cancer patient, and arrested him. January 20 can’t come too soon.
https://thepostmillennial.com/
Speaking of confirmation, it might surprise you to know that there’s nothing in the Constitution that requires FBI background checks for any White House appointees or even the President himself. J. D. Rucker makes the case that this FBI should NOT be doing background checks on Trump’s team.
The actual RULE is this: After someone is hired for the position, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Administration, which is not involved with the FBI at all, does a security check before that person receives top-secret clearance. These professionals are looking for “threats,” Rucker says, while the FBI is looking for “dirt.” The goal of the FBI, as they have shown many times, is to subvert the Trump administration.
This would explain why so often a nominee is derailed --- or almost derailed --- when the opposition resorts to “trotting out the women,” as we like to call it. These alleged personal failings have nothing to do with national security. (Exception: when, as in the case of Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, the woman is a Chinese spy.)
Rucker notes that Tulsi Gabbard is really being “slammed hard” by political enemies with made-up stuff about her being a Russian agent. RFK Jr. and Pete Hegseth are in the crosshairs as well. Trump should stand firm, he says: “The moment he allows the Deep State to start weaving their tentacles into his appointees, that’s the moment when we’re going to start seeing the situations such as what we saw with Gen. Michael Flynn, who should have been in the last Trump administration.” It was VP Pence and the FBI who stopped that. Recall that thanks to the machinations of then-FBI Director James Comey, Flynn got to serve as Trump’s national security advisor for 11 whole days.
The Senate really can’t use FBI warnings about “national security” as pretext for rejecting nominees. Again, that’s because after confirmation, there’s another agency that verifies they’re good-to-go.
“If they tell you otherwise,” Rucker says, “they’re lying.” In support of that statement, we would add that one of the most vocal proponents of using the FBI for vetting has been confirmed liar California Rep. (now Senator-elect – thanks, California) Adam Schiff.
As Mollie Hemingway told FOX NEWS’ Laura Ingraham on Monday night, “The idea that these [at the FBI] are people who could in any way vet whether a candidate is good or not, that they would be trusted to do that, is just laughable.”
Likewise Mary Katharine Ham: “The idea that by getting elected by the popular vote and the Electoral College and then naming people to his Cabinet, he’s ‘dismantling’ the government [as another confirmed liar, New York Rep. Dan Goldman, has said] seems insane to me…The idea that the FBI should be trusted by a Trump transition team --- I cannot express how wild that is without using cuss words...”
The other big, happy piece of news we received Monday is that “Special Counsel” Jack Smith finally dropped the four remaining charges against Trump related to January 6. He had already dropped the charges against him in the Mar-A-Lago “classified documents” case.
Sadly for Trump’s two J6 co-defendants, Smith did not dismiss charges against them, as they don’t enjoy Trump’s presidential immunity as established by the Supreme Court this summer. And in Smith’s characteristic weasel fashion, he dismissed the case against Trump “without prejudice,” meaning he could actually pick it up again at some point, presumably when Trump is out of office in 2029. “This outcome is not based on the merits or strength of the case against the defendant,” he lied.
On the contrary, re-filing this ridiculous case should be met with extreme prejudice.
Julie Kelly has an enjoyable piece on what a graceless loser and pathetic failure Jack Smith is, outlining his history and noting that just this year, this “dirty Democratic operative” was rebuked by the Supreme Court “on three separate occasions.” She also gets her digs in at presiding Judge Tanya Chutkan, a partisan monster in a black robe.
Kelly strongly recommends an investigation into these cases, with criminal charges “where appropriate.” She sees plenty of evidence to support charges of conspiracy, especially in the J6 case, which “revealed collaboration between the National Archives, the DOJ and the Biden White House to concoct a documents case against Trump as early as spring of 2021.”
Continuing: “Court proceedings in Florida also disclosed examples of evidence tampering, destruction of evidence, and witness intimidation not to mention the selective nature of bringing a documents case against a former president for the first time in history while at the same time other public officials including Joe Biden and Mike Pence were found to have unlawfully kept classified files after leaving office.”
And then there’s the shameful Mar-A-Lago raid, which should be investigated as a likely set-up.
“If the DOJ had a Hall Of Shame,” Kelly writes, “it would be named after Jack Smith.”
https://www.declassified.live/
FOX NEWS legal analyst Gregg Jarrett had some good comments Monday night with Sean Hannity, especially about the role played by the media in furthering all this.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
Here’s more from Jonathan Turley about what a loser Jack Smith is, one that history will not treat kindly. Not that Smith deserves kindness.
Here’s Turley’s full column on the January 6 case.
https://jonathanturley.org/
Aforementioned liar Adam Schiff “had a hissy,” as we say in the South, about Smith dropping the J6 charges against Trump. He blew up on X, and, yes, he actually used the line that “no one is above the law.” (So far, Schiff seems to be. For example, last we heard, claiming homes in two different states as one’s primary residence is called “fraud.”) Bonchie’s excellent piece on Schiff’s reaction doesn’t spare the January 6 “Select” Committee, either. How about “selecting” co-chairs Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, among others, for a nice, big investigation? Not for vengeance, but to know the truth.
Finally, Victoria Taft at PJ MEDIA offers suggestions for how Trump can get “payback” against Jack Smith and “the lawfare mob.” Again, this isn’t about revenge, but rather punishment to the full extent of the law so there’s no repeat of the lawfare against Trump and anyone representing or supporting him. In her words, “this cancer has to be rooted out to stop its corruptive spread.” She’s right; it needs major surgery and chemo.
Taft lays out in bullet points the myriad abuses by “Lawfare Incorporated.” Of particular note is the 65 Project, which targets attorneys who dare to represent Trump. Alan Dershowitz, who himself has been targeted by this group, wants a thorough investigation of that, as well as a probe of the case in New York brought by Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
But for now, it’s time for us to go and give thanks for all the great news. There is so much to be thankful for, this is bound to take us pretty much the rest of the week.
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