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If you’ve been reading the newsletter, you’re up to speed on the “Biden Inc.” investigation even before the news appears in most conservative media. Most of yesterday was a re-hashing of what you already know. But John Solomon broke significant news.
First, the backstory: As you know, Hunter made a call to “DC” when he was at the Four Seasons Hotel in Dubai with his Burisma associates. That was December 5, 2015. Only five days later, Papa Joe Biden flew to Ukraine and spoke before their parliament. That’s the same day he threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees unless the lead prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was fired. In March 2016, the prosecutor “resigned under pressure” from the Ukrainian president, who, in turn, had been pressured by then-Vice President Biden.
Joe Biden has always maintained that, yes, he did push for Shokin’s firing, but it had nothing to do with Hunter’s connection to Burisma --- it was consistent with existing U.S. foreign policy recommendation, put together by an inter-agency task force. But now Solomon has the State Department’s internal documents from that task force, courtesy of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and they tell a very different story. The task force advised Biden in October 2015 that the $1 billion SHOULD be given to Ukraine, because the prosecutor’s office was doing a swell job with its anti-corruption efforts!
That was the last recommendation made by this task force. They even put it in the form of handy talking points, which, according to State Department documents, Joe Biden related to the president of Ukraine in a phone call on November 4, 2015. At that time, Joe told the Ukrainian president they would get the $1 billion guarantee.
But it was soon after this phone call that “life got tough inside the Biden family,” Solomon told Sean Hannity Monday night. Reporters for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and THE NEW YORK TIMES had begun asking questions about the investigation into Burisma Holdings and Hunter’s presence on the board, and Burisma “began to panic.” So around Thanksgiving of 2015, Joe and his office worked on a “new talking point,” according to Solomon, “one they didn’t even share with the ambassador, who was in Kiev representing the United States…” The White House decided they would call for the prosecutor to be fired if they wanted the money.
“Joe Biden wasn’t carrying out U.S. policy,” Solomon said. “He CHANGED U.S. policy.” In other words, the story being drilled into us by the media that Joe was only fulfilling existing foreign policy is a gigantic LIE. Hey, what’s one more?
Solomon believes the whistleblowers in the Biden case “changed history. There’s no doubt that them coming forward changed the dynamics inside the Justice Department and between [them and] Hunter Biden’s lawyers.”
He pointed to one document in particular that contradicts what we’ve been told about Hunter having no impact on foreign policy. There’s a classified email to leaders in Washington from George Kent at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine (remember him from Trump’s first impeachment?), saying, “Somebody should tell Joe Biden his son Hunter undercut ALL of our anti-corruption activities in Ukraine.”
“The documents contradict everything we were told in the original narrative about Ukraine.”
Hannity also spoke with two House committee chairmen Monday night: Jason Smith of Missouri, who chairs the Ways & Means Committee (the committee that deals with tax information), and Jim Jordan of Ohio, who chairs the Judiciary Committee. They say more House subpoenas have been issued to IRS and FBI investigators involved in the Hunter case.
Recall from yesterday that Biden’s attorneys actually threatened the DOJ with putting President Biden on the stand and creating a “constitutional crisis” if Hunter had to face charges. (As if they cared about causing a constitutional crisis.) “The idea that Joe Biden’s gonna testify is ridiculous,” Jordan said Monday night. “Can you imagine putting Joe Biden on the stand right now and him facing cross-examination --- I mean, there is NO WAY that’s gonna happen. But this is the pressure campaign they were putting on the DOJ.”
Recall also that without the announcement of the whistleblowers getting ready to testify, Hunter’s “sweetheart” deal would have been twice as sweet, with all charges dropped. Incredibly, Hunter would have received “future immunity” without having to plead guilty to ANYTHING. The fact that the DOJ had agreed to this should tell you all you need to know about the politics of ‘justice’ in 2023.
The reason the IRS whistleblowers came forward was a “red line” that was crossed during a meeting on October 7, 2022, with Delaware U.S. Attorney (now Special Counsel) David Weiss and four other people, when Weiss allegedly told them he didn’t have independent authority to bring charges. The two whistleblowers followed protocol by going first to the Ways & Means Committee because of the personal financial information involved in the case.
But did you know that Hunter’s attorneys demanded that the DOJ prosecute the whistleblowers? Yes, it’s true. Even though IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel had confirmed the rights of agency whistleblowers to make protected disclosures to Congress, Hunter’s attorneys called for them to be prosecuted because they’d divulged details about the probe to Congress, and what they said had “played a role in influencing the outcome.” They said that for this reason, the whistleblowers broke the law and should be PROSECUTED.
What really happened was that, in revealing to Congress what they felt was wrong about the investigation, they helped prevent Hunter from getting an unacceptable sweetheart deal. (NOTE: Judge Maryellen Noreika helped, too.) In other words, by allowing whistleblowers to “interfere,” the whistleblower law worked exactly as it was supposed to.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky called this what it is: witness intimidation on the part of Hunter’s attorneys.
Jason Smith told Hannity that the two whistleblowers gave consistent testimony and characterized what they said as shocking. “But you know who was not shocked about their information was the Department of Justice,” he said, “because, in fact, the [DOJ], just as the whistleblowers highlighted...used numerous tactics that delayed the investigation to such a degree that the statute of limitations expired for some of the most egregious crimes of 2014 and 2015 tax years.”
Of course, you know about their other transgressions, such as going straight to Hunter’s lawyers with tip-offs that interfered with the IRS investigation. The DOJ and Hunter’s legal team really were working on the same side: both sidin’ with Biden.
But then Jim Jordan brought up something mind-boggling that might get lost in all the other Biden corruption news. We’ll let him tell it:
“...In 2019, Biden’s legal team wanted to meet with him to talk about things, and he said, ‘I can’t meet with you that day because I’M TALKING WITH THE IMPEACHMENT LAWYERS [emphasis ours].’ So, is he talking with Daniel Goldman, the lawyer for Adam Schiff? ...Who’s he talking to? Because it was all about Burisma…”
So...it was in 2019 that the FBI got Hunter’s laptop, and KNEW it was Hunter’s laptop, and knew all about Burisma, yet held onto it during Trump’s first impeachment when it would have been exculpatory for him. Now we learn that Hunter himself was actually in contact with the Trump impeachment lawyers at this time! What in blazes was going on here? This has the potential to be the most shocking revelation yet.
Is Another TRUMP INDICTMENT Coming? | Monologue | Huckabee
August 22, 2023
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You have to wonder if leftwing “news” outlets that have been nothing more up until now than a Joe Biden protection service have gotten the word from their DNC masters that Joe needs to start making retirement plans. I can’t imagine any other reason that the Washington Post would suddenly start practicing journalism and report on the previously-unreported connection between President Biden’s late son Beau and Hunter Biden’s completely objective “special counsel,” David Weiss.
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More of this, please
Remember when people used to think of school board elections as the most non-controversial elections of all? In recent years, we’ve learned that while voters weren’t paying close attention, leftist activists have taken over a number of school boards and started running them like mini-dictatorships dedicated to indoctrinating children into radical left, gender and racial politics. And some of them seem to be willing to do anything to keep parents from speaking up to oppose or expose them.
I’m glad to see that voters are waking up and throwing these people out of office, and that some judges aren’t willing to put up with their shredding of parents’ constitutional rights. Like this story from Round Rock, Texas, where a local pastor and dad who was jailed to silence him just won a court victory, so his lawsuit against the school board and police will proceed. More of this, please.
UPDATE:
Here’s a follow-up to the story of the police raid on a Kansas newspaper. The police gave their reason for the raid. See if you consider this reason enough.
Again…
For the second time in two days, I have to say: What do these people know that we don’t? And from their lips to God’s ears.
Guilty as charged
According to the media, we Republicans are a cruel and wily lot, guilty of all sorts of dirty tricks to hoodwink the public. Our latest sin: We gave terms like “woke,” “Critical Race Theory” and “diversity” negative connotations by telling people the truth about what they actually mean. I feel so guilty!
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I’ll bet you probably didn’t even know that there was an Amazon Prime TV series based on the movie “A League of Their Own,” about World War II-era female baseball teams. Well, “loosely” based. It used that movie's premise to push an anachronistic racial and gay political agenda, complete with lesbian sex scenes and an underground lesbian bar run by Rosie O’Donnell. It was so in-your-face with the LGBTQ messaging that it won awards from a number of radical gay and leftist groups, including GLAAD.
Breitbart.com notes that if you’re thinking that sounds nothing like the movie, you must’ve watched the movie wrong. The show’s co-creator Abbi Jacobson claimed that the original movie is an “iconic gay film,” even though none of the characters is gay. Okay...
One problem: Nobody watched the TV series, and it’s just become the latest piece of woke propaganda to get canceled after only one season. If it makes them feel better, they can think of it as a late-term abortion.
https://www.westernjournal.com/amazon-pulls-plug-lgbt-league-show-right-final-season/
In related “Get Woke, Go Broke” news, major theatrical companies around the nation that went all-in on producing plays and other live performances that push leftist, racial and LGBTQ political agendas are facing financial catastrophe as donations and ticket sales have plunged.
In the spirit of supporting the arts, I want to offer them this advice:
People love “The Music Man.”
This is distressing news:
A reporter for Life Site News is covering the trial in DC of nine pro-life activists whom the government is trying to send to prison for exercising their First Amendment right to protest.
As the writer notes, guilty verdicts appear to be a foregone conclusion in this court. Not only did they seat a jury that’s predominately pro-abortion, but the judge also ordered the defense attorneys not to make any arguments related to the morality or legality of abortion. Prosecutors continually objected to defense statements that tried to explain why these people acted as they did, and the judge upheld them all.
The defense isn’t even allowed to say the words “infanticide,” “abortion” and “innocent lives,” because they’ve been declared “inflammatory language.”
It appears that abortion clinics are not the only place where First Amendment rights no longer apply. They’re also banned in DC courtrooms. I assume the attorneys are getting all this on the record for when they file their appeal to overturn this kangaroo court.
Hurricane Hilary comes ashore
Hurricane Hilary was downgraded from a Category 4 hurricane to Tropical Storm Hilary as it entered Southern California, but it's still bringing damaging winds, rain and flooding to a widespread area. Here’s the latest at our deadline time, but you can find constant updates on the news.
To make matters worse, the storm was preceded by a 5.1 earthquake. Some suggested that God is trying to send a message to Californians, but I prefer not to make such presumptions and just ask you to pray for those in the storm’s path.
(Note: When we first mentioned this storm, we misspelled its name as “Hillary.” Turns out it’s with one “L.” I’m not sure why they chose that spelling, but I suspect it’s because they knew that anyone who heard the name “Hurricane Hillary” and the prediction that it would barrel in and destroy everything it touches would immediately make the same mental connection that we did.)
As always, the green left is trying to depict Hilary as a highly unusual apocalyptic event that can only be explained by climate change. At this link is a chart showing the many, many, many times similar storms have happened in the same general area since 1949.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/08/20/george-takei-hurricane-climate-change-n2386439
They just don’t often make it that far north, but Hurricane Kay caused flash flooding in San Diego in 2022.
Related: I recently gave you a round-up of stories that proved that while liberals were quick to blame the devastating fires on Maui on “climate change,” the truth was that far more blame could be laid on officials who were too concerned with trendy leftist agenda items like “climate change” to do their real job of preventing wildfires.
In fact, the evidence of this as a deluded liberal-caused disaster has become so overwhelming that Leslie Eastman at Legal Insurrection believes this may go down in history as the “first woke-caused disaster” (that means a specific disaster, not a general one like Chicago, Portland, California or the Disney Corporation.)
And here’s another tragic “woke” blunder to add to the pile. Meet the Hawaii water resources official who delayed more than five hours before releasing water to firefighters. He refused to let them divert streams to reservoirs in the hard-hit Lahaina area until the fires were out of control. He reportedly told them to consult with a local farmer about the impact of water diversion before approving their request. The West Maui Land Company said they had to anxiously wait for more water as “we watched the devastation around us without the ability to help.”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/19/hawaii-official-worried-about-equity-over-water/
Why would someone do something so deadly and stupid? Maybe because he was more concerned with jawboning about “equity” than putting out fires. In a live-streamed debate last year, he described water as an important tool for social justice, saying, “We can share it, but it requires true conversations about equity…How do we coexist with the resources we have?”
Well, congratulations: you’ve achieved “equity.” Everyone on Maui has lost their homes, businesses and loved ones, who are no longer existing at all.
Local media report that that official has been “transferred to another position” in the water department. Even if it’s a bent-over position scrubbing toilets, it’s still far too good for him.
The Babylon Bee also weighed in on this toxic woke stupidity.
Joe Biden “front-and-center” in family influence peddling; big shake-ups in the Hunter case
First, I want to once again thank Kentucky Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, for appearing this weekend on my TBN show. He has been doing the heavy lifting --- the job the ‘Justice’ Department should be doing but isn’t --- in the investigation into Biden family finances, and it was wonderful to be able to take some time with him on the show. If you missed it, here’s that link. This is a MUST-SEE…
Rep. Comer offered some news that would shock anyone who hasn’t been paying attention (like mainstream media reporters.) For instance, he said that so far, they’ve identified about $21 million in suspicious deposits, and they only have about a third of the bank records. And apparently, no income taxes were paid on any of that by these “The rich must pay their fair share” Democrats.
Rep. Comer also appeared Sunday morning on SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES with host Maria Bartiromo, providing more details surrounding Joe Biden’s use of aliases in White House correspondence that was copied to his son. (Recall our report from last week about his use of aliases such as “Robert L. Peters,” “Robin Ware” and “JRB Ware.”) All the emails copied to Hunter, he said, were specifically about Ukraine.
It’s very difficult to understand how Hunter Biden, described now by the White House as “a private citizen” merited being copied on these documents. Sometimes he was the ONLY person copied. Doesn’t look like much of a “firewall,” does it?
Comer said “the evidence is mounting every day,” including an obvious timeline, showing that then-Vice President Biden flew to Ukraine for the purpose of getting prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired. Shokin, as you know, had been looking into Burisma Holdings, the corrupt Ukrainian energy company whose founder, Mykola Zlochevsky, had hired both Hunter and his business partner Devon Archer to be on its executive board, despite his alleged observation that Hunter was dumber than his dog. According to a very reliable FBI confidential source, Zlochevsky had said he paid “$5 million to one Biden and $5 million to another Biden” to get Shokin fired. Joe Biden later opened his big mouth and publicly bragged about threatening to withhold $1 billion in aid unless Shokin was immediately fired.
“That’s called a quid pro quo, Maria,” Comer said. “And it’s pretty illegal, and it’s more evidence that Joe Biden was front-and-center in this influence peddling scheme.”
“What we’ve now learned is, Joe Biden was using a fake email bank to receive correspondence from his staff that he was copying Hunter Biden on. I believe...Hunter had to prove value to the Burisma owners, that they were working on this, so he was forwarding those [emails] to the owners of Burisma.” The emails would have confirmed to Zlochevsky that the Vice President was en route to Ukraine, fulfilling his end of the deal.
“Look, this is obvious,” he said, that Joe Biden abused his powers as Vice President for the sole purpose to protect his son, who was receiving millions and millions of dollars from this corrupt Ukrainian energy company, and this email ties Joe Biden and Hunter Biden into this corruption scheme, “without a shadow of a doubt.”
His current tally of the Bidens’ foreign-money loot is about $21 million (investigative journalist Peter Schweizer says it’s over $30 million. For more, here’s my interview from this weekend with Seamus Bruner, research director for Schweizer’s Government Accountability Institute, whose job is to “follow the money.”)
https://www.huckabee.tv/
So, WHY were the Bidens getting all those cool millions?
As for potential interference in his committee’s investigation due to the appointment of Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel (and we’ll get to more about that), Comer said, “We’re about to find out.” That’s because they’re headed to court, trying to get more bank records that they think will “tell a whole lot bigger story” about Joe’s level of involvement and also how he personally benefited. Banks have told the committee that “they’re under considerable pressure not to cooperate.” The Bidens have “lawyered-up,” he said, and those attorneys know exactly where this is going. “I mean, they are building Fort Knox around these bank accounts…”
He says he’s seeing obstruction as there has never been “in the history of congressional investigations.” This obstruction comes from all sides: the Biden legal team, the DOJ, the FBI, the Secret Service, the IRS, by the Democrats (of course) on their own committee, and now potentially by the special counsel.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
REDSTATE is wondering why we’re just now hearing that newly-appointed Special Counsel David Weiss used to work alongside Hunter’s late brother and former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden. Did you know anything about that? Us, neither! A must-read…
The DAILY CALLER reports several significant updates on the Hunter Biden case. Following in the tracks of attorney Chris Clark, three more Hunter attorneys have left the case after charges against Hunter were dismissed in Delaware, to be refiled in DC and/or California.
All three attorneys are from the Democrat powerhouse law firm of Latham & Watkins: Brian C. McManus, Timothy H. McCarten and Matthew S. Salerno. They gave no reason, which legal expert Margot Cleveland finds “interesting.” Recall that a Latham & Watkins staffer allegedly posed in a phone call as an assistant to Theodore Kittila, attorney for the House Ways & Means Committee, to try to prevent a filing with IRS whistleblower testimony to be presented to the judge. Selerno attributed this to a “miscommunication.” Right.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/
“Mr. Biden has been advised of, and consents to, our withdrawal,” the motion reads. “He also agrees this withdrawal will cause no material adverse effect or prejudice to him and remains completely satisfied with Mssrs. [Abbe] Lowell’s and [Richard] Jones’ continued representation of him.”
Unless there’s been more turnover among Hunter’s legal team than we know, this is the same bunch who threatened to put President Biden on the stand if Hunter were indicted on the firearms charge. In October 2022, Chris Clark said in a 32-page letter (!) to prosecutors, leaked to POLITICO just last week, that the President testifying against his own DOJ would create a “constitutional crisis.” It’s not clear if Clark’s withdrawal from the case last week had anything to do with the leak of that document.
https://www.foxnews.com/
Here’s the DAILY CALLER on the same story. They quote from Clark’s letter to U.S. Attorney David Weiss: “President Biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial. This of all cases justifies neither the spectacle of a sitting President testifying at a criminal trial nor the potential for a resulting Constitutional crisis.”
Judging from the left’s persecution of President Trump and their trashing of practically every right in the Constitution when it comes to putting him on trial, I would say that “Constitutional crisis” has little meaning for them except as a threat to be used. They’ll blow up the Constitution if it means getting what they want.
By the way, we just found some interesting commentary from a few weeks ago about Judge Maryellen Norieka’s refusal of Hunter’s plea deal. Julianne Murray, an attorney representing the Heritage Foundation, was in the courtroom that day and says the judge “did a really good job of sniffing out that there was stuff that was not being said out loud.”
Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project, said that “we now know there was an even sweeter secret deal: today was supposed to be the end of all criminal charges involving the Biden family. They were going to protect President Biden by sweeping under the rug today in Delaware all the Biden family crimes.” They couldn’t write that into the plea agreement because of the political backlash, but that would have been the practical effect.
And did you know that before whistleblowers started coming forward about the case, Hunter’s plea deal not only gave him “future immunity” but also didn’t require him to plead guilty to ANYTHING? I am not kidding. And the DOJ had apparently accepted it. Talk about a “sweetheart” deal --- this would have been a big wet smackeroo right on the lips.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/
A serious look at what used to be our justice system
For a deeper look at what’s happening to our ‘justice’ system relative to the persecution of Donald Trump, there’s no better source than Mark Levin and his show Sunday night.
The whole show comes highly recommended, but here’s Mark’s powerful opening monologue.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
He quoted at length from a book by French economist and writer Frederic Bastiat, THE LAW --- noting that it was a favorite of President Reagan’s --- and it’s just so apt that we’d like to pass it along:
“The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose!”
“The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!”
“...Unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: it has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain, limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty and property of others.”
“It was converted plunder into a right, to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense.”
That was written in France almost 200 years ago. Doesn’t it sound like the DOJ of 2023, under the control of the Democrat Party?
https://www.econlib.org/
https://www.amazon.com/Law-
A subdued Victor Davis Hanson appeared later in the show, warning about the consequences down the road if DAs and state attorneys general start taking it upon themselves to indict Presidents at the state level. The precedent this sets is disastrous. The time has passed, he said, when Republicans can allow the left to “win ugly” while we “lose nobly.” He pointed out that these people are not democrats (small “d”) --- they’re revolutionaries and must be stopped.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
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August 19, 2023
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DAILY BIBLE VERSE
The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Nahum 1:7
Trial date talk
Former President Trump’s prosecutors are, not surprisingly, pushing for trial dates that fall right in the middle of the 2024 election season. For example, special counsel Jack Smith wants the trial on his latest charges relating to January 6th and the 2020 election to begin on January 2nd. But Trump’s attorneys have a counter-proposal. They requested a trial date of April, 2026 – over two years from now.
They say the government turned over to them “a massive, 8.5-terabyte initial production, totaling over 11.5 million pages, together with native files, recordings, and other electronic data not amenable to pagination.” Going through all that and preparing a defense, plus the massive amount of discovery this case will require, is going to take years. That is, if the DOJ wants it to be a fair, legitimate trial. But then, whoever said that was what this DOJ wanted?
Important reminder
Here’s a reminder that all the ludicrous RICO conspiracy indictments against Trump and his associates in Georgia are based on fake news stories that misquoted what Trump said. One was actually retracted by the Washington Post. You can imagine how egregious it had to be to force WaPo to admit it was wrong about Trump. FYI: Trump’s second impeachment trial was also based on the incorrect quote.
Trying to hold Fani Willis accountable
At least one Republican office holder in Georgia is trying to hold Fulton County DA Fani Willis accountable for her incompetence and rank political partisanship. State Sen. Colton Moore has written to Gov. Brian Kemp, requesting an emergency special session to investigate Willis and her office, defund it and possibly impeach her for ignoring soaring violent crime to concentrate on targeting a political opponent.
https://www.westernjournal.com/fulton-county-prosecutor-face-trial-lawmaker-fires-shot-da/
Unfortunately, it’s not likely to go far, since impeachment requires a two-thirds vote, and Moore would face opposition from Democrats and Trump-hostile Republicans. It’s too bad because even if you took the Trump indictments out of the equation entirely, she and her grand jury have just given America one of the best examples I’ve ever seen of an office holder who’s riper than a Georgia peach for impeachment.
Related: I keep posing the question, “When will voters in blue states and cities ever connect the dots between the way they vote and their cities and quality of life being destroyed?” Recently, I saw a discussion on Fox News of that very question, with one legal expert pointing out that on average, it takes less than a year between a Soros-backed leftist DA getting elected and the first petitions to recall that DA due to rampant crime created by their releasing of criminals. It’s right there in front of them, yet as soon as they kick one leftist out, they replace him/her with another one, sometimes one even worse (look at the recent Chicago mayor’s race.)
There will be no hope for America’s cities until the voters finally make the connection and stop voting for more societal rot. It’s frustrating because to the rest of us looking on, it’s like watching someone who can’t make the connection between the fact that he’s banging on his head with a hammer and the fact that he has a headache.
Trump press conference is canceled
Former President Trump promised to hold a press conference next week at which he would present a “Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable REPORT on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia,” one that would result in his “complete EXONERATION” (all-caps his.) But the next day, he canceled the press conference at the request of his attorneys.
Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Rather than releasing the Report on the Rigged & Stolen Georgia 2020 Presidential Election on Monday, my lawyers would prefer putting this, I believe, Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence of Election Fraud & Irregularities in formal Legal Filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful Indictment.”
Too bad, that was one press conference I was actually looking forward to…
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Help for Maui
Victims of the deadly wildfires on Maui say they still aren’t seeing any federal support, and many expressed open hostility to the news that President Joe “No Comment” Biden plans to visit next week. They fear that even if Maui recovers from the fire, it will never be the same. Historic and cultural sites are gone, and they expect corporations to snap up the land and build resorts on it.
https://www.westernjournal.com/maui-residents-message-joe-biden-ahead-visit-dont-want/
Again, for those who want to help the victims and get aid immediately and directly to those who need it most, please consider a donation to http://www.samaritanspurse.org.
As is the case with almost all deadly disasters, some people cynically rushed to use it for political advantage, blaming the fires on “climate change” before they even knew the facts. But we pointed out here that a local university environmental scientist had been warning for years that the decline of agriculture had led to large areas of Hawaii turning into grasslands that could become deadly fire fuel during a dry spell if something wasn’t done. Nothing was.
We’re also now getting indications that the fires might have been prevented if various government and private authorities hadn’t been more wrapped up in politics and liberal political agendas than in doing their real jobs.
For instance, the head of Maui’s emergency operations, who beat out 40 other applicants, has no formal background in emergency management and is the former chief of staff of a local politician. He just resigned, citing “health reasons.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/08/17/maui-disaster-chief-resigns-n2627204
Lincoln Brown at PJ Media has an excellent round-up of the many political distractions that helped contribute to the disaster. For instance, it’s suspected the fires might have been started by downed power lines. Hawaiian Electric reportedly knew of that problem but prioritized meeting a government mandate to make all the state’s power come from renewable sources by 2045. They had submitted a request to the Public Utilities Commission last year for funds that included preventing wildfires, but it’s “still being processed.”
As Brown says, no wonder these people were so quick to point the finger at “climate change.” They hoped we wouldn’t notice the other three fingers pointing back at them.
This is distressing news:
A reporter for Life Site News is covering the trial in DC of nine pro-life activists whom the government is trying to send to prison for exercising their First Amendment right to protest.
As the writer notes, guilty verdicts appear to be a foregone conclusion in this court. Not only did they seat a jury that’s predominately pro-abortion, but the judge also ordered the defense attorneys not to make any arguments related to the morality or legality of abortion. Prosecutors continually objected to defense statements that tried to explain why these people acted as they did, and the judge upheld them all.
The defense isn’t even allowed to say the words “infanticide,” “abortion” and “innocent lives,” because they’ve been declared “inflammatory language.”
It appears that abortion clinics are not the only place where First Amendment rights no longer apply. They’re also banned in DC courtrooms. I assume the attorneys are getting all this on the record for when they file their appeal to overturn this kangaroo court.
Vice-President Newsom?
We know a lot of Democrats don’t want Joe Biden to run – or shuffle – for reelection, but then there’s the problem of Kamala Harris. As Veep, she would normally be considered his natural successor, and having checked off the “black” and “woman” identity boxes, Dem power brokers fear angering those voting blocs if she’s not the candidate. Problem is, she’s even less popular than Joe and widely seen as incompetent to the point of incoherence. Somebody on the left has to risk being the first to swing the ax at Kamala. Looks like the short straw went to Los Angeles Times columnist George Skelton.
He proposed getting 90-year-old Sen. Diane Feinstein to retire, then having California Gov. Gavin Newsom appoint Harris to replace her. Then Biden would pick Newsom as his new veep, and Newsom would be tanned, rested and hair-gelled, and waiting to step in when Joe “decides” not to run.
The pitfalls to this include: Biden still thinks he’s running for reelection. Feinstein has made it clear she intends to serve out her full term (Skelton writes, “Biden would need to invite her into the Oval Office for a heart-to-heart” – Better have two defibrillators handy.) Harris might see returning to the Senate as a demotion and resist. And voters might actually have enough sense not to want the leftist who’s destroying California to be in charge of the entire United States. After all, if Gavin Newsom were in charge of all fifty states, where would the residents flee to?
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Hurricane Hillary
I know what we all think when we hear the phrase “Hurricane Hillary,” but this time, I mean it literally. A hurricane named Hillary is approaching the west coast of Mexico and is expected to move northward across most of Southern California as a tropical storm, bringing potentially deadly flooding. I hope you will join me in praying for those in the path of the storm.
Since hurricanes are so rare there and California is unprepared for dealing with them, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is offering support to Californians “in any way we can.”
This follows California Gov. Gavin Newsom sending a five-person team of mass care experts to help Florida in the wake of Hurricane Ian last year. It’s good to know that people can put aside their political differences and help each other, and all it takes is a catastrophic natural disaster.
It's official:
Former President Trump will skip the first GOP primary debate next Wednesday. Instead, he’ll give an interview to Tucker Carlson, which many expect to distract attention from the debate without Trump having to deal with attacks from his opponents.
It’s not yet clear how this is going to go over with voters. It won’t cost Trump his hard-core supporters, but others might resent the idea that he’s owed the nomination and doesn’t have to fight for it like everyone else. The suggestion that he’s not there because he refused to take the required pledge to support whoever is the nominee might also rub some Republican voters the wrong way (I’m a Trump supporter, but no matter who wins the nomination, it’s absolutely imperative for the survival of America that the Democrats be removed from power. This is no time for “I’ll take my ball and go home” nonsense.)
I already linked to Kurt Schichter’s latest column on why he thinks skipping the debate is Trump’s best strategy (and he’s a DeSantis supporter, although he agrees that whoever is the GOP nominee has his vote.) In the interest of fair play, here’s Derek Hunter on why Trump needs to “man up and debate.”
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2023/08/15/trump-needs-to-man-up-and-debate-n2626999
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August 18, 2023
Breaking news shows how Dr. Fauci has benefited from the plague of unknown origins, the January 6th committee obstructs justice in the case against Trump... again, and we look at how Merrick Garland's ploy to save Biden may legally backfire. Mike Huckabee has your August 15th edition of the Breakdown.
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UPDATE: Congressman James Comer is my guest this weekend on Huckabee on TBN so you shouldn’t miss it. If you missed my interview with John Solomon on Just the News it’s available online.
By now, you’ve probably seen some of the stories in the news about aliases used by Joe Biden in some of his correspondence as Vice President. The DC scribes in the media hope to “save” the President by saying that the presidential use of aliases wasn’t all that unusual.
But it’s not just the presidential use of aliases from time to time that’s concerning. It’s the context of those aliases. Under what circumstances was Joe Biden choosing to write under another name, and for what reasons?
As Kevin Downey, Jr.., writes for PJ MEDIA, when James Comer of Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, demanded from the National Archives every email involving Joe Biden’s family and Ukraine, several unfamiliar names started popping up that turned out to be aliases for Joseph Robinette Biden, then Vice President of the United States.
“Robert L. Peters.” “Robin Ware.” “JRB Ware.” (Of course, “JRB” stands for “Joseph Robinette Biden” --- I didn’t say they were GOOD aliases.) These were all then-Vice President Biden. This comes across like a possible attempt to subvert FOIA requests, as was Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server to conduct official State Department business. We shall see.
The common denominator for these communications seems to have been Ukraine. Example: a schedule for the day was sent to “[email protected]” on May 26, 2016, to advise him that he had an 8:45 prep session for a 9AM phone call with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Recall that Poroshenko was the Ukrainian president whom Joe, Obama’s “point man” in Ukraine, pressured into firing lead prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who happened by pure coincidence to have been investigating Burisma Holdings. Joe is on video bragging that he tied $1 billion in aid to the immediate firing of Shokin.
Hunter Biden, who happened by pure coincidence to be on the board of Burisma Holdings, was cc’d on that email. This was one of ten emails sent to Joe Biden (well, “Robert L. Peters”) by assistant John Flynn that Hunter was copied on. At the time, both Hunter and his business partner Devon Archer were on Burisma’s board, to the tune of $83,333. Each.
Downey notes that $83,333 is exactly one-third of a monthly nut of $250,000. He’s looking into who might be receiving that other third, so stay tuned.
The website “pci.gov” no longer exists; it was shut down in 2020 after being flagged as “problematic” by DNS (Domain Name Security) in 2020. Now, Comer wants all emails involving Joe (under his various aliases), Hunter, Devon Archer, and additional Hunter business partner Eric Schwerin, who was responsible for financial disbursements. UNREDACTED. He wants all National Archives documents in which:
--- then-VP Joe Biden used a pseudonym
--- Huner Biden, Eric Schwerin or Devon Archer is copied
-- All drafts of then-VP Biden’s speech delivered to the Ukrainian Rada (their parliament) in December 2015.
--- Unrestricted special access under the PRA to Case Number 2023- to 2022-F, entitled “Email Message To and/or From Vice President Biden and Hunter Biden related to Burisma and Ukraine, (This includes some of the daily schedule emails, currently redacted.)
“If there was any overlap between Joe Biden’s official VP duties and his son’s activities in Ukraine,” Comer said, “Americans deserve to know.”
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According to the NEW YORK POST, Comer is also anticipating other content that took place under pseudonyms, including possible communications regarding China. The deadline for the National Archives to comply is coming up: August 31.
Downey also notes a WhatsApp text sent from one Hunter business partner, James Gilliar, to (yes) another Hunter business partner, Tony Bobulinski, on May 20, 2017, that said, “Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u are face to face. I know u know that but they are paranoid.”
The French site Le Crisis has been working on what will be an eight-part documentary (four parts are complete) called “UkraineGate,” about the various allegations concerning the Bidens in Ukraine. (This entire series looks to be a must-see; perhaps you saw the recent video we posted of Viktor Shokin talking about what happened there.)
https://ukrainegate.info/
Don’t look for it on Facebook, though; they have declined to allow it to be posted.
https://twitter.com/Ukraine_
Here’s REDSTATE’s take, very straightforward…
Comer released a statement on Thursday saying, “Joe Biden has stated there was ‘an absolute wall’ between his family’s foreign business schemes and his duties as Vice President, but evidence reveals that access was wide open for his family’s influence peddling. We already have evidence of then-Vice President Biden speaking, dining and having coffee with his son’s foreign business associates.”
“We also know that Hunter Biden and his associates were informed of then-Vice President Biden’s official government duties in countries where they had a financial interest. The National Archives must provide these unredacted records to further our investigation into the Biden family’s corruption.”
This story is just now picking up steam. For more information, specifically tying in that speech of Biden’s in Ukraine, be sure and see Sean Hannity’s opening segment from Thursday night...
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
...and his must-see segment with James Comer…
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
No one surpasses John Solomon for his ability to hone in on the most important information, and he has a couple of new reports on Comer’s search for these communications. Solomon explains that Comer’s demand for all these messages came after the committee unearthed that daily schedule sent from John Flynn, Biden’s personal assistant, to “Robert L. Peters” and copied to Hunter --- ONLY to Hunter --- at his email address for Rosemont Seneca Partners.
Solomon has been looking for the past two years (!) at how Joe Biden’s personal email accounts were used while he was Vice President “to forward government information or discuss foreign business with his son.” Some of the letters were personal but others were about business and politics, with Hunter even wanting to talk to his dad about a potential Treasury appointee. This is a deeper dive but highly recommended reading…
And here’s more from Solomon about the evolving story from the White House about Joe’s involvement in Hunter’s business. He lists five claims Biden and his defenders have made that “conflict with current evidence”…
REALCLEAR POLITICS points out that using pseudonyms was “a practice not uncommon among cabinet secretaries at the time.” But the use of pseudonyms, in itself, is not at issue. What is of concern is the context of that practice as used by Joe Biden with his Burisma-board son. Where is that “absolute wall” Joe has talked about?
When questions were raised about pseudonyms during the Obama administration, then-White House Press Secretary Jay Carney made light of it, saying those emails were still archived and could still be obtained through congressional inquiries and FOIA requests. (One would think, though, that this practice might at the very least put a kink in the works by adding in extra steps to retrieve those documents.) He said it was “about having a public email address, as well as one for internal, you know, workings.” I would stress that in the current situation, it really is important to find out what those, you know, ‘workings’ were.
RCP does at least acknowledge that the messages “raise questions about why the President’s son, whom the White House describes as a ‘private citizen,’ was looped into an hour-by-hour White House schedule.”
Here’s the full press release from the House Oversight Committee, which includes the text of their letter to Archivist Dr. Colleen Shogan…
RELATED READING: On Tuesday, attorneys for IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley released a full fact-check debunking claims made on CNN and CBS NEWS by Hunter attorney Abbe Lowell about the Hunter case. We learn from this that Democrat powerhouse lawyer Abbe Lowell will just say anything. Shapley’s attorneys call it “Abbe Lowell Claims vs. Reality.” Well worth your time...
And here’s something fascinating: Hunter and business partner Eric Schwerin used PR firms to quietly edit the Wikipedia entries for both Hunter and Burisma. Fake accounts were reportedly used to gradually edit unflattering details and add positive spin, such as Hunter’s association with the World Food Programme. They even added “minor mistakes” to make the edits look more realistic. I think Wikipedia is going to need a PR firm of its own after this story, because there’s just no way to trust its information.
If you can stand any more Hunter news, the case against him in Delaware has been dropped, as expected after the plea deal fell through…
...so it could be re-filed elsewhere. Judge Maryellen Noreika approved the DOJ’s motion to re-file the case somewhere other than Delaware, such as California or DC, where he’s bound to get the kid-glove treatment. Nice break for Hunter, huh?
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Bizarre
Well, this is bizarre. I thought that mishandling government documents was a five-alarm federal offense calling for guns-drawn dawn raids and multiple felony indictments. Or is that only for Trump and people who support him?
Attention, Republican DA’s and attorneys general looking for evidence to file indictments:
Here’s 10 minutes’ worth of video of 150 instances of prominent Democrats denying election results and attempting to interfere with elections, spread disinformation and hijack “our democracy.”
Tragic anniversary
This month marks two years since the tragic and disastrous pullout of Afghanistan which the media would like to bury and the White House would like to pretend was a marvelous achievement. (Biden asked an audience to name one objective at which he’s failed, and he was right: it’s impossible to name just one.)
Unfortunately for them, Americans haven’t forgotten the unforgivable and needless deaths of our heroic Marines and Afghan allies. On Wednesday, a new book was released called “Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End,” by Jerry Dunleavy and James Hasson. Some horrifying revelations have already come out, like the clueless and callous way Biden dealt with the grieving parents of the Marines slain in a terrorist bombing that could have been prevented if anyone had been in charge on our side. For instance, lying to them that he knew how they felt because his son Beau was killed in Iraq and came home in a flag-draped coffin (he actually died of cancer in the US, surrounded by his family.)
But believe it or not, there’s more, and it makes it even worse.
I’m glad this book is out because the deaths of these Marines must never be allowed to be memory-holed, nor should we allow those responsible to bury the facts for their own political advantage.
We’ll definitely have more later on this story, which won’t even come as news to our readers. House Republicans are up in arms following the release of a 2018 text thread in which Hunter Biden complained about Wells Fargo shutting down one of his credit lines because of “too many profile changes and such.” He also mentions that “My dad has been using most lines on this account which I’ve through the gracious offerings of Eric have paid for past 11 years.” Republicans are calling this more evidence that Hunter was using his series of shell accounts and pay-offs to cover “The Big Guy’s” bills.
I’m sure the DOJ will react swiftly to this latest Biden corruption evidence by indicting Trump for sabotaging the Hindenburg.
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Democrat Governor vetoes Fairness in Women’s Sports Act
Attention, women who vote reflexively for Democrats because you think Democrats protect “women’s rights.” North Carolina’s Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. It would ban “transgender” males who identify as female from competing against girls in middle school, high school and college; taking their records, trophies and scholarships; invading their showers and bathrooms; and in some cases, seriously injuring girls with their superior size and strength. Fortunately, the heavily GOP legislature overrode his veto, along with others, like his veto of the new Parents’ Bill of Rights.
But if you think “women’s rights” means nothing but being able to kill babies in the womb up until the moment of birth, yeah, Democrats will protect that.
Research? What is that?
Another day, another Rolling Stone “reporter” proves that the magazine’s journalistic credo is “Research? What’s that?!”
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Court filing claims: Senator Feinstein is a victim of elder abuse
Katherine Feinstein, daughter of Sen. Diane Feinstein, made a court filing claiming her mother is the victim of elder abuse. She claims that co-trustees of a trust left by Feinstein’s late husband have not been making the required distributions of money from it to his 90-year-old widow.
https://www.westernjournal.com/dianne-feinsteins-daughter-says-mom-victim-elder-abuse-report/
I’m genuinely sorry to see this because elder abuse should never be tolerated, no matter what form it takes. But I hope you won't think it in bad taste if I mention that it doesn’t seem like a really great idea to have powerful US Senators who are so old and infirm that they can actually be victims of elder abuse.
"Rich Men North of Richmond" Singer Speaks Out
I expected that out-of-nowhere viral sensation Oliver Anthony would get attacked by liberal elites for writing and singing the hard-hitting protest song “Rich Men North of Richmond,” about what the wealthy elite class is doing to working Americans. And sure enough, he did, with Rolling Stone leading the way, of course (the days when they championed protest singers who stood up to “The Man” on behalf of the little guy are long gone; they sold the tattered remnants of their soul to big government years ago.) But I didn’t expect to see Christianity Today pile on as well.
https://thelibertydaily.com/christian-publication-goes-after-oliver-anthonys-working-mans-anthem-because-its-too-mean/
They’re bent out of shape because a reference in the song to obese welfare recipients eating fudge rounds at the expense of hard-working taxpayers is too mean and disrespects the SNAP program. I think they’ve missed the subtle difference between helping those who really need help and being understandably ticked off at those who abuse the system that others have to pay for.
But all the attacks on Anthony are like Trump indictments: they’re just making him more popular. In news that must strike terror at the DNC, the song is so powerful that a black military veteran has created a remix that adds his own rap lyrics to it, showing that its message is resonating across cultures and musical genres. Even if you don’t care for rap, this is well worth a listen.
Finally, here’s a MUST-READ: Anthony talks about who he is (his real name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford; he uses the name “Oliver Anthony” in tribute to his grandfather) and that he’s turned down $8 million in record industry offers because he doesn’t want that kind of life and would rather go on living in his camper. He says there’s “nothing special about me.”
But I think you might disagree after you read what he goes on to say about the Internet (“a parasite”), the state of society today, the importance of freedom of speech, how “people are SO damn tired of being neglected, divided and manipulated," and how “we have lost our way from God and have let false idols distract us and divide us.”
I hope Christianity Today doesn’t take issue with that.
Latest Creepy AI News:
There are plans for a new movie called “Return to Eden” that will star an AI-generated replica of James Dean, the 50’s movie icon who died in a car crash in 1955.
An AI adviser told Fox Digital, "For stars who have had their life cut short, AI is definitely an opportunity to bring them back from the dead and they can be [re]created as a new performance, which really could just build on their legacy."
News flash: This is not part of “their legacy.” They’re dead. Their legacy is complete. This is a bunch of high-tech graverobbers trying to reanimate their corpses, and the stars themselves have zero control over it. It’s disrespectful, unconscionable, and did I already mention “creepy”?
Rachel Levine needs to go
This is an era in which someone can rise to a top government position in health by spouting the correct leftist political points even if they contradict basic biology. And so we have the latest pronouncement from Biden’s “transgender” assistant secretary for Health at HHS, Admiral Rachel Levine. Fresh off of declaring that some kids go through “the wrong puberty,” Levine has now endorsed a government-backed advocacy center for sexual diversity in Alaska.
In addition to lobbying for schools to fill kids’ heads with the usual nonsense about there being multiple genders and doctors “assigning” a baby’s sex at birth, this group also wants to rewrite the language, including replacing the word “mother” with “egg producer.”
If you think that mothers should be referred to by a name that’s more appropriate for chickens, then you have no business overseeing public health, and people shouldn’t be too chicken to say so.
More evidence that we’re now living in a banana republic:
Recently-unsealed documents in Jack Smith’s prosecution of former President Trump showed that he demanded Twitter provide him with tons of Trump’s private information without notifying Trump, including access to his direct messages, devices used to access Twitter, GPS location data and more.
To their credit, Twitter fought the subpoena in court, arguing that some of the data might be protected by executive or attorney-client privilege. Showing no bias whatsoever, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell questioned whether Twitter was fighting it so hard because “the new CEO (Elon Musk) wants to cozy up with the former President?” Twitter’s attorney responded that they had no interest other than litigating their Constitutional rights.
They were obviously under the delusion that Constitutional rights still apply. Even though they eventually knuckled under and secretly gave Smith Trump’s private data, it was three days after the deadline Smith demanded. So the judge fined Twitter $350,000! Yet another example of, “We will make you pay dearly for objecting to our partisan witch hunts.”
Howell scolded Twitter’s attorneys that they had no knowledge of the evidence Smith had, and that “You don’t even know the half about the very warrant you are coming in here to delay the execution of.”
Okay: now we’ve seen the evidence and heard the bogus charges. Sorry, I still don’t think that pile of manure was worth shredding the Constitution over.
A Welcome Victory for First Amendment Rights
In a welcome victory for First Amendment rights, a federal appeals court ruled that Washington, DC, officials selectively enforced an anti-graffiti statute against pro-life protesters.
During the George Floyd riots in 2020, the leftist leaders of DC didn’t merely turn a blind eye to BLM rioters, they made it clear that they were in sympathy with them. The leftist protesters were allowed to burn, loot, attack police and citizens and paint “Black Lives Matter” and “Defund the police” on any surface they wanted. They not only weren’t stopped, arrested or prosecuted but the mayor even joined in the vandalism by having a giant “Black Lives Matter” painted on a street across from the White House as a big thumb in the eye to Trump.
Meanwhile, two pro-life protesters who wrote “Pre-born Black Lives Matter” on a sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood clinic – in CHALK! – were arrested under the city’s anti-defacement law. Obviously, DC authorities know who the real threat to their version of public order is.
The pro-life protesters challenged the arrests on grounds of blatantly selective enforcement and, astoundingly, lost. But in a 3-0 unanimous ruling, the DC Circuit Appeals Court has reversed the lower court. Judge Neomi Rao wrote:
“The government may not enforce the laws in a manner that picks winners and losers in public debates. It would undermine the First Amendment’s protections for free speech if the government could enact a content-neutral law and then discriminate against disfavored viewpoints under the cover of prosecutorial discretion. The First Amendment prohibits discrimination on the basis of viewpoint irrespective of the government’s motive.”
We should CC that to every Democrat prosecutor who’s trying to jail Trump for half a millennium for contesting an election exactly the way Democrats have done since the year 2000.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean the pro-life activists won the case, no matter how obvious it is that DC authorities discriminated against them. But it does revive their case and send it back to the lower court, which has to reconsider it in light of the appeals court forcing them to accept reality. There’s more on the case here:
Message to Hunter Biden re: Ukraine, from..."Robert L. Peters”??
UPDATE: Congressman James Comer is my guest this weekend on Huckabee on TBN so you shouldn’t miss it. If you missed my interview with John Solomon on Just the News it’s available online.
By now, you’ve probably seen some of the stories in the news about aliases used by Joe Biden in some of his correspondence as Vice President. The DC scribes in the media hope to “save” the President by saying that the presidential use of aliases wasn’t all that unusual.
But it’s not just the presidential use of aliases from time to time that’s concerning. It’s the context of those aliases. Under what circumstances was Joe Biden choosing to write under another name, and for what reasons?
As Kevin Downey, Jr.., writes for PJ MEDIA, when James Comer of Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, demanded from the National Archives every email involving Joe Biden’s family and Ukraine, several unfamiliar names started popping up that turned out to be aliases for Joseph Robinette Biden, then Vice President of the United States.
“Robert L. Peters.” “Robin Ware.” “JRB Ware.” (Of course, “JRB” stands for “Joseph Robinette Biden” --- I didn’t say they were GOOD aliases.) These were all then-Vice President Biden. This comes across like a possible attempt to subvert FOIA requests, as was Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server to conduct official State Department business. We shall see.
The common denominator for these communications seems to have been Ukraine. Example: a schedule for the day was sent to “[email protected]” on May 26, 2016, to advise him that he had an 8:45 prep session for a 9AM phone call with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Recall that Poroshenko was the Ukrainian president whom Joe, Obama’s “point man” in Ukraine, pressured into firing lead prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who happened by pure coincidence to have been investigating Burisma Holdings. Joe is on video bragging that he tied $1 billion in aid to the immediate firing of Shokin.
Hunter Biden, who happened by pure coincidence to be on the board of Burisma Holdings, was cc’d on that email. This was one of ten emails sent to Joe Biden (well, “Robert L. Peters”) by assistant John Flynn that Hunter was copied on. At the time, both Hunter and his business partner Devon Archer were on Burisma’s board, to the tune of $83,333. Each.
Downey notes that $83,333 is exactly one-third of a monthly nut of $250,000. He’s looking into who might be receiving that other third, so stay tuned.
The website “pci.gov” no longer exists; it was shut down in 2020 after being flagged as “problematic” by DNS (Domain Name Security) in 2020. Now, Comer wants all emails involving Joe (under his various aliases), Hunter, Devon Archer, and additional Hunter business partner Eric Schwerin, who was responsible for financial disbursements. UNREDACTED. He wants all National Archives documents in which:
--- then-VP Joe Biden used a pseudonym
--- Huner Biden, Eric Schwerin or Devon Archer is copied
-- All drafts of then-VP Biden’s speech delivered to the Ukrainian Rada (their parliament) in December 2015.
--- Unrestricted special access under the PRA to Case Number 2023- to 2022-F, entitled “Email Message To and/or From Vice President Biden and Hunter Biden related to Burisma and Ukraine, (This includes some of the daily schedule emails, currently redacted.)
“If there was any overlap between Joe Biden’s official VP duties and his son’s activities in Ukraine,” Comer said, “Americans deserve to know.”
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According to the NEW YORK POST, Comer is also anticipating other content that took place under pseudonyms, including possible communications regarding China. The deadline for the National Archives to comply is coming up: August 31.
Downey also notes a WhatsApp text sent from one Hunter business partner, James Gilliar, to (yes) another Hunter business partner, Tony Bobulinski, on May 20, 2017, that said, “Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u are face to face. I know u know that but they are paranoid.”
The French site Le Crisis has been working on what will be an eight-part documentary (four parts are complete) called “UkraineGate,” about the various allegations concerning the Bidens in Ukraine. (This entire series looks to be a must-see; perhaps you saw the recent video we posted of Viktor Shokin talking about what happened there.)
https://ukrainegate.info/
Don’t look for it on Facebook, though; they have declined to allow it to be posted.
https://twitter.com/Ukraine_
Here’s REDSTATE’s take, very straightforward…
Comer released a statement on Thursday saying, “Joe Biden has stated there was ‘an absolute wall’ between his family’s foreign business schemes and his duties as Vice President, but evidence reveals that access was wide open for his family’s influence peddling. We already have evidence of then-Vice President Biden speaking, dining and having coffee with his son’s foreign business associates.”
“We also know that Hunter Biden and his associates were informed of then-Vice President Biden’s official government duties in countries where they had a financial interest. The National Archives must provide these unredacted records to further our investigation into the Biden family’s corruption.”
This story is just now picking up steam. For more information, specifically tying in that speech of Biden’s in Ukraine, be sure and see Sean Hannity’s opening segment from Thursday night...
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
...and his must-see segment with James Comer…
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
No one surpasses John Solomon for his ability to hone in on the most important information, and he has a couple of new reports on Comer’s search for these communications. Solomon explains that Comer’s demand for all these messages came after the committee unearthed that daily schedule sent from John Flynn, Biden’s personal assistant, to “Robert L. Peters” and copied to Hunter --- ONLY to Hunter --- at his email address for Rosemont Seneca Partners.
Solomon has been looking for the past two years (!) at how Joe Biden’s personal email accounts were used while he was Vice President “to forward government information or discuss foreign business with his son.” Some of the letters were personal but others were about business and politics, with Hunter even wanting to talk to his dad about a potential Treasury appointee. This is a deeper dive but highly recommended reading…
And here’s more from Solomon about the evolving story from the White House about Joe’s involvement in Hunter’s business. He lists five claims Biden and his defenders have made that “conflict with current evidence”…
REALCLEAR POLITICS points out that using pseudonyms was “a practice not uncommon among cabinet secretaries at the time.” But the use of pseudonyms, in itself, is not at issue. What is of concern is the context of that practice as used by Joe Biden with his Burisma-board son. Where is that “absolute wall” Joe has talked about?
When questions were raised about pseudonyms during the Obama administration, then-White House Press Secretary Jay Carney made light of it, saying those emails were still archived and could still be obtained through congressional inquiries and FOIA requests. (One would think, though, that this practice might at the very least put a kink in the works by adding in extra steps to retrieve those documents.) He said it was “about having a public email address, as well as one for internal, you know, workings.” I would stress that in the current situation, it really is important to find out what those, you know, ‘workings’ were.
RCP does at least acknowledge that the messages “raise questions about why the President’s son, whom the White House describes as a ‘private citizen,’ was looped into an hour-by-hour White House schedule.”
Here’s the full press release from the House Oversight Committee, which includes the text of their letter to Archivist Dr. Colleen Shogan…
RELATED READING: On Tuesday, attorneys for IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley released a full fact-check debunking claims made on CNN and CBS NEWS by Hunter attorney Abbe Lowell about the Hunter case. We learn from this that Democrat powerhouse lawyer Abbe Lowell will just say anything. Shapley’s attorneys call it “Abbe Lowell Claims vs. Reality.” Well worth your time...
And here’s something fascinating: Hunter and business partner Eric Schwerin used PR firms to quietly edit the Wikipedia entries for both Hunter and Burisma. Fake accounts were reportedly used to gradually edit unflattering details and add positive spin, such as Hunter’s association with the World Food Programme. They even added “minor mistakes” to make the edits look more realistic. I think Wikipedia is going to need a PR firm of its own after this story, because there’s just no way to trust its information.
If you can stand any more Hunter news, the case against him in Delaware has been dropped, as expected after the plea deal fell through…
...so it could be re-filed elsewhere. Judge Maryellen Noreika approved the DOJ’s motion to re-file the case somewhere other than Delaware, such as California or DC, where he’s bound to get the kid-glove treatment. Nice break for Hunter, huh?
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Robert Kennedy’s campaign cleans up his abortion answer
I’m sorry to see Robert F. Kennedy Jr. caving to the Democrats’ radical “abortion to the moment of birth” wing. Sunday in Iowa, he told an NBC reporter, “The decision to abort a child should be up to the women during the first three months of life.” Asked if he would cap abortion after three months, he said, “Yes, three months. Once a child is viable outside the womb, I think then the state has an interest in protecting the child. I’m for medical freedom. Individuals ought to be able to make their own choices. I think the states have a right to protect a child once the child becomes viable, and that right, it increases. And I think there’s very, very few abortions that are performed after that period of time anyway.”
But following the predictable howls of outrage, his campaign rushed out this statement:
“Mr. Kennedy misunderstood a question posed to him by a NBC reporter in a crowded, noisy exhibit hall at the Iowa State Fair. Mr. Kennedy’s position on abortion is that it is always the woman’s right to choose. He does not support legislation banning abortion.”
So he didn’t hear the question? Look at his answer above and tell me what you think he thought the question was if it wasn’t that. I think he heard the question fine, he just heard the shrieking from the left even louder.
Not going to happen, but…
Unfortunately, this will never get past the Senate, but some House Republicans sponsored a bill to eliminate special council Jack Smith’s salary due to his history of failed, politically partisan prosecutions. It deserves recognition if for no other reason than the bill’s title: It’s the “Yanking Outlays for an Unethical, Ruthless Enterprise that Fraudulently Impedes Robust Electoral Debate Act” or the “YOURE FIRED Act.”
Ukraine vs Hawaii
Apparently, brushing off questions about Maui wildfire victims with a terse “No comment” and returning to his beach vacation didn’t do enough to cement President Biden’s reputation as “Mr. Compassion.” So on Monday, Biden announced that the government will offer a “one-time” relief payment of a whopping $700 to Americans on Maui. On the same day, he announced plans to send another $200 million to Ukraine,
Couldn’t he at least ask Hunter to make a phone call to China and pick up a few million for Maui?
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Catch-22
A Catch-22 is always frustrating, but when it interferes with parents protecting their children, it goes far beyond that. Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled 2 to 1 to dismiss a case brought by three parents against the Montgomery County, Maryland, public school district over its policy of keeping students’ “gender transitions” secret from their parents. The courts claimed that since these parents didn’t allege that their children are transgender or struggling with their gender identity, they didn’t have “standing” to challenge the policy.
Hold on: if the policy is to keep the gender confusion of children secret from their parents, how could the parents even know that their children are or aren’t experiencing it? Seems like the sort of thing that it would be important for parents to know, but SOMEBODY is keeping them in the dark about it. Too bad nobody is doing anything about that. Oh wait: these parents ARE! Or at least they're trying to.
I wish them good luck with an appeal, and it’s also long past time that we start seriously discussing reform of the “standing” issue, which has become an easy out for judges who want to dodge their responsibility of having to make controversial decisions.
Baffled
John Hinderaker is a Harvard-educated legal expert with 41 years’ experience as a litigator in 100 jury trials in 19 states. He’s also the president of the Center for the American Experiment, an author, legal commentator and founder of the Power Line blog. He’s now had a chance to read the wildly creative Georgia indictment of Trump and his associates, and he’s written his reaction in an article with the familiar title of “I Read the Georgia Indictment So You Don’t Have To.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/08/i-read-the-georgia-indictment-so-you-dont-have-to.php
It’s well worth reading in its entirety, but in a nutshell: He’s baffled by what the accused did that’s supposed to be illegal. He says there are only two small sections of the indictment that allege actual crimes, neither of which involves Trump, while everything else alleged is perfectly legal. He notes, “You can’t aggregate a series of legal acts and make them a crime by calling them a conspiracy.”
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Most Ethical Administration Ever:
The leaders of 14 government watchdog groups sent a letter to President Biden calling for the immediate resignation of his Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, citing “numerous instances of unethical conduct throughout her tenure.” Really, only one letter?
The Babylon Bee perfectly predicted what the Administration’s response would likely be:
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-indicted-for-hawaii-wildfire
Radicals at Rutgers
You might have heard of Brittney Cooper, who is a radical professor at Rutgers University. She’s infamous for declaring that all white people are racist villains and “mother(bleep)s” who need to be “taken out.” This and other comments sparked a Change.org petition for the university to fire her for her “racist, hateful, dehumanizing, and inadmissible behavior and rhetoric” (which really shouldn’t require a petition.)
https://www.change.org/p/fire-rutgers-prof-brittney-cooper
Cooper has now raised eyebrows by claiming that only white people have ever been slavers: “…White human beings thought there’s a world here and we own it. Prior to them, black and brown people have been sailing across oceans, interacting with each other for centuries without total subjugation, domination and colonialism, right?”
Well…no. Wrong. Incredibly wrong. At the link below, Islamic history expert and author Raymond Ibrahim provides us with something that Professor Cooper has apparently never had before: a history lesson. One that reminds us of the ancient, cross-cultural history of slavery and violent subjugation, from Native American tribes of America to the Muslim invasion of Spain to contemporary Africa, where slavery continues even today.
FYI: Sending your kid to the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, where Cooper is employed, will cost you $31,954 a year. Why in the world would you pay that to have them radicalized and miseducated?
Related: From our “Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations” Desk comes this story about a Princeton University “anti-capitalism” class that teaches students that black people are so oppressed by systemic racism that they should be considered disabled.
Here’s just one sentence of wacko leftist gobbledygook from the course description:
"Re-orienting healing as a decolonizing process enables students to re-politicize personal trauma as it intersects with global legacies of violence, war, racism, slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, orientalism, homophobia, ableism, capitalism, and extractivism."
Tuition, room and board for a year at Princeton will cost you $83,140. That seems like a lot to teach your kid to be a condescending, America-hating racist and anti-capitalist. If the administrators at Princeton really were anti-capitalists, they wouldn’t be overcharging so much for their worthless degrees.
LATE NIGHT COMEDY DEAD, LONG LIVE JAY LENO
By “Huckabee” pop culture guru Pat Reeder (http://www.hollywoodhifi.com)
With the writers’ and actors’ strike now well into month four, those few who still watched the late night “comedy” shows from lingering force of habit have mostly lost the habit. Ratings for everyone but “Gutfeld” (who is not affected and not in reruns) have tanked, and they were already a shadow of what they used to be. The networks made a decision to drop the Johnny Carson style of appealing to all Americans with good-natured, nonpartisan humor and chase the young leftist market. That was the beginning of the end (as Danny DeVito said in “Other People’s Money,” the surest way to go bankrupt is to keep getting a bigger share of an ever-shrinking market.) Now, many TV critics suspect the strikes have finished off the format for good and even post-strike, it will never recover.
How much have these shows shriveled away? Snopes.com actually felt the need to do a fact-check on the claim that they were in reruns due to the strike. You’d think viewers would know that (or maybe not, since they’ve been doing the same Trump jokes for six years), but apparently, nobody could be bothered even to tune in and check.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/late-night-comedy-writers-strike/
Warning: That link includes a YouTube clip of Stephen Colbert talking about the strike. It’s exactly what you would expect: a pro-union speech followed by a strike-related “comedy” bit (“News of the Future”) that’s nothing but witless partisan pandering designed to make the studio audience clap rather than laugh. The writers stole an old “Laugh-In” bit, made it divisive and unfunny, and think they deserve a raise. And they wonder why nobody misses them.
Viewing Tip: Did you know that YouTube has a number of compilations of Jay Leno’s “Headlines” bits from when “The Tonight Show” was funny? Laura and I have been watching some of those, and it’s a revelation. Not mean-spirited, partisan, political or divisive, just laugh-out-loud funny. This is what late night comedy used to be like before it was infected with Comedy Central’s “smug leftist lecture” disease.
If you’d like to be reminded, here’s a link to just one of the “Headlines” compilations from the year 2000 alone. I should caution you that it’s nearly four hours long and might prove addictive.
And after you work through all the years of Headlines, here’s a playlist of the “99 Cent Store” bits. You’re welcome.
More stunning conflicts of interest in Trump and Biden cases
The conflicts of interest in both the Trump and Hunter Biden cases grow more stunning every day.
Believe it or not, it was THE NEW YORK TIMES that reported this: that the young judge just assigned to the Georgia Trump case once worked for Fani Willis, the Fulton County DA who is bringing the charges.
Law professor Jonathan Turley said Wednesday evening that he was prepared to give this young, relatively inexperienced judge the benefit of the doubt. The key to these cases, he told Laura Ingraham, is the “essence” of the judge, “as opposed to the extent of their experience.” In other words, you want someone who’s going to listen to both sides and be fair, “to understand this is a historical moment” that calls for an assurance to both sides that this is going to be a fair trial.
This is always a concern, he said, with state judges who are elected. “Being viewed as in any way helpful to Donald Trump in Atlanta is not a way to get re-elected,” he said. (Before continuing, let’s pause to consider the implications of that last observation --- what it tells us about the state of ‘justice’ in the United States…………..)
Turley says it’s going to take “a great deal of integrity and courage” from this judge to do this the right way “even if it’s taken the wrong way by many people who will be voting in the judicial election.” He might have to stand up to “his people” and say that getting re-elected isn’t worth doing the wrong thing. (This is a bit reminiscent of Mark Twain’s Huck Finn, threatened with hell if he doesn’t turn in a slave and deciding, “All right then, I’ll go to hell.”)
As for Willis’ goal of starting the trial on March 4 --- which just happens to be the day before the Super Tuesday primaries --- “it’s clearly going to run into problems,” according to Turley. “This schedule is really grossly unfair to Donald Trump.” This is, he says, a “massive production” with 19 people on trial,” and he outlines the complications and constitutional questions that would have to be raised. “The question is, why this mad rush? Why is everyone not just piling on indictments, but jamming together these trials, daisy-chaining them, from Super Tuesday to virtually the inauguration, if you count the civil cases as well?”
The answer to these questions should be obvious.
“At some point judges are going to have to step in,” he says, “and be a mature voice, and say, ‘Look, okay, STOP IT. I mean, this guy has got to prepare a defense in multiple cases; you’re not the first prosecutor to file, and, get in line.” But of course, that would interfere with Trump’s opponents’ relentless carpet-bombing of him before the election.
Ingraham asked Turley about something we mentioned yesterday: “co-conspirator” Mark Meadows’ call for the case to be moved from state to federal court, given that special counsel Jack Smith has already filed similar charges in federal court. Turley believes it is possible “because we’re living in uncertain and interesting times” and “there are issues here that President Trump will raise.” Many actions and conversations occurred while Trump was still President and different considerations applied. “In some ways,” he says, “Willis may have really tripped the wire here. You know, I call this sort of the Jackson Pollack school of prosecution --- she threw EVERYTHING against the canvas and looked to see if a picture emerged.”
By making everything part of the conspiracy, he explains, “she also tripped wires with regards to his time as President, and that has created this question of whether it can be removed.”
In his latest column, Turley explains why “the Willis indictment is a serious threat to Trump but also to our system of democratic process.” To those obsessed with getting Trump, that doesn’t even seem to matter.
We love the suggestion by J. D. Rucker that Trump and the other 18 “co-conspirators” in the Georgia case should sue DA Fani Willis for malicious criminal prosecution. It’s right there in the Georgia Code…
https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2022/title-51/chapter-7/article-3/section-51-7-40/
If this isn’t “abusive litigation,” as phrased in the code, I don’t know what is. What makes the indictment of Trump “malicious” is the timing of it, which under legitimate circumstances would have come a couple of years ago. The only reason to wait till now would be to inflict the most massive amount of damage possible on Trump’s presidential campaign.
Rucker advises the Trump defense team to jump on this soon and make the case that Willis and the state “targeted Trump at this specific time to upend his presidential campaign just ahead of primary season.” He thinks Trump might win that case, and “deliver real consequences to the corrupt District Attorney.” Now THAT would be some justice...
https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2022/title-51/chapter-7/article-3/section-51-7-40/
RELATED: With so much in the news about the defiling of the “justice” system in Georgia by a DA determined to take Trump down at any cost, it would’ve been easy to overlook something outrageous Hunter’s attorneys did in the courtroom of Judge Maryellen Noreika.
Hunter’s team actually said that federal prosecutors had “reneged” on an agreed-upon plea deal that we now know even included a clause about “future immunity.” They said they signed the agreement in court last month and intend to abide by it. It doesn’t seem to matter that the judge later brought up areas of apparent disagreement that resulted in those very attorneys saying the deal was dead.
Attorneys Chris Clark and Abbe Lowell responded to the government’s motion to scrap the entire deal by accusing Special Counsel Weiss of reneging on “the previously agreed-upon plea agreement.” The part of the deal that included the gun diversion agreement --- which was also the part that included the broad grant of immunity for any possible crimes that have been investigated (!) --- had been signed by prosecutors, they said, and was therefore “binding” and “still in effect.” By “possible crimes,” they’re talking about such charges as FARA violations; that is to say, failure to register as an agent of a foreign entity. Anyone who thinks this is not a big deal should ask Paul Manafort. (Important side note: we know that if Hunter violated FARA, the case can be made that his father did, too.)
It’s really quite hilarious to see the DOJ and Hunter’s attorneys arguing about this now. It seems like only yesterday they were like peas in a pod.
Guy Benson at TOWNHALL has more details and also makes some great points about the appointment of David Weiss (of all people!) as special counsel, “the same guy who’s fashioned the most favorable legal and political outcomes imaginable for the Bidens, given the facts with which he’s been presented.”
Interesting Read:
Kurt Schlichter on why it might be Trump’s best strategy to skip the upcoming GOP primary debate.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/08/17/of-course-trump-should-not-debate-n2627089
Maui update
The official death toll from the devastating fires in Maui has reached 110, but it’s feared it may go much higher. Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says that the government response on all levels has been insufficient and aid to victims is almost all on the community level.
If you’d like to help with that private response, Samaritan’s Purse is coordinating with churches to bring immediate aid to victims who’ve lost everything. You can make a donation at http://www.samaritanspurse.org.
And for a dramatic firsthand account of what it was like as the enormity of the danger slowly dawned on everyone, check out this report by a Breitbart reporter who happened to be on vacation in Maui when the fires started spreading.
Trump’s Georgia trial date
If you’re going to try to claim that your transparently ridiculous racketeering case against your party’s leading political opponent isn’t motivated by election interference, maybe don’t ask for a trial date that’s literally the day before Super Tuesday. I guess the Democrats figure they’ve gone so full-on banana republic that they don’t even have to pretend to hide their real motivations anymore.
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More stunning conflicts of interest in Trump and Biden cases
August 17, 2023
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The conflicts of interest in both the Trump and Hunter Biden cases grow more stunning every day.
Believe it or not, it was THE NEW YORK TIMES that reported this: that the young judge just assigned to the Georgia Trump case once worked for Fani Willis, the Fulton County DA who is bringing the charges.
Law professor Jonathan Turley said Wednesday evening that he was prepared to give this young, relatively inexperienced judge the benefit of the doubt. The key to these cases, he told Laura Ingraham, is the “essence” of the judge, “as opposed to the extent of their experience.” In other words, you want someone who’s going to listen to both sides and be fair, “to understand this is a historical moment” that calls for an assurance to both sides that this is going to be a fair trial.
This is always a concern, he said, with state judges who are elected. “Being viewed as in any way helpful to Donald Trump in Atlanta is not a way to get re-elected,” he said. (Before continuing, let’s pause to consider the implications of that last observation --- what it tells us about the state of ‘justice’ in the United States…………..)
Turley says it’s going to take “a great deal of integrity and courage” from this judge to do this the right way “even if it’s taken the wrong way by many people who will be voting in the judicial election.” He might have to stand up to “his people” and say that getting re-elected isn’t worth doing the wrong thing. (This is a bit reminiscent of Mark Twain’s Huck Finn, threatened with hell if he doesn’t turn in a slave and deciding, “All right then, I’ll go to hell.”)
As for Willis’ goal of starting the trial on March 4 --- which just happens to be the day before the Super Tuesday primaries --- “it’s clearly going to run into problems,” according to Turley. “This schedule is really grossly unfair to Donald Trump.” This is, he says, a “massive production” with 19 people on trial,” and he outlines the complications and constitutional questions that would have to be raised. “The question is, why this mad rush? Why is everyone not just piling on indictments, but jamming together these trials, daisy-chaining them, from Super Tuesday to virtually the inauguration, if you count the civil cases as well?”
The answer to these questions should be obvious.
“At some point judges are going to have to step in,” he says, “and be a mature voice, and say, ‘Look, okay, STOP IT. I mean, this guy has got to prepare a defense in multiple cases; you’re not the first prosecutor to file, and, get in line.” But of course, that would interfere with Trump’s opponents’ relentless carpet-bombing of him before the election.
Ingraham asked Turley about something we mentioned yesterday: “co-conspirator” Mark Meadows’ call for the case to be moved from state to federal court, given that special counsel Jack Smith has already filed similar charges in federal court. Turley believes it is possible “because we’re living in uncertain and interesting times” and “there are issues here that President Trump will raise.” Many actions and conversations occurred while Trump was still President and different considerations applied. “In some ways,” he says, “Willis may have really tripped the wire here. You know, I call this sort of the Jackson Pollack school of prosecution --- she threw EVERYTHING against the canvas and looked to see if a picture emerged.”
By making everything part of the conspiracy, he explains, “she also tripped wires with regards to his time as President, and that has created this question of whether it can be removed.”
In his latest column, Turley explains why “the Willis indictment is a serious threat to Trump but also to our system of democratic process.” To those obsessed with getting Trump, that doesn’t even seem to matter.
We love the suggestion by J. D. Rucker that Trump and the other 18 “co-conspirators” in the Georgia case should sue DA Fani Willis for malicious criminal prosecution. It’s right there in the Georgia Code…
https://law.justia.com/codes/
If this isn’t “abusive litigation,” as phrased in the code, I don’t know what is. What makes the indictment of Trump “malicious” is the timing of it, which under legitimate circumstances would have come a couple of years ago. The only reason to wait till now would be to inflict the most massive amount of damage possible on Trump’s presidential campaign.
Rucker advises the Trump defense team to jump on this soon and make the case that Willis and the state “targeted Trump at this specific time to upend his presidential campaign just ahead of primary season.” He thinks Trump might win that case, and “deliver real consequences to the corrupt District Attorney.” Now THAT would be some justice...
https://law.justia.com/codes/
RELATED: With so much in the news about the defiling of the “justice” system in Georgia by a DA determined to take Trump down at any cost, it would’ve been easy to overlook something outrageous Hunter’s attorneys did in the courtroom of Judge Maryellen Noreika.
Hunter’s team actually said that federal prosecutors had “reneged” on an agreed-upon plea deal that we now know even included a clause about “future immunity.” They said they signed the agreement in court last month and intend to abide by it. It doesn’t seem to matter that the judge later brought up areas of apparent disagreement that resulted in those very attorneys saying the deal was dead.
Attorneys Chris Clark and Abbe Lowell responded to the government’s motion to scrap the entire deal by accusing Special Counsel Weiss of reneging on “the previously agreed-upon plea agreement.” The part of the deal that included the gun diversion agreement --- which was also the part that included the broad grant of immunity for any possible crimes that have been investigated (!) --- had been signed by prosecutors, they said, and was therefore “binding” and “still in effect.” By “possible crimes,” they’re talking about such charges as FARA violations; that is to say, failure to register as an agent of a foreign entity. Anyone who thinks this is not a big deal should ask Paul Manafort. (Important side note: we know that if Hunter violated FARA, the case can be made that his father did, too.)
It’s really quite hilarious to see the DOJ and Hunter’s attorneys arguing about this now. It seems like only yesterday they were like peas in a pod.
Guy Benson at TOWNHALL has more details and also makes some great points about the appointment of David Weiss (of all people!) as special counsel, “the same guy who’s fashioned the most favorable legal and political outcomes imaginable for the Bidens, given the facts with which he’s been presented.”
Huckabee Post: Get on it, Congress: impeachment inquiries for Biden, Garland and Wray
August 16, 2023
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That was quick! Meadows and Eastman respond in Georgia case.
Tristan Justice at THE FEDERALIST offers a run-down of the “conspiratorial” acts offered by the Fulton County DA in this beyond-crazy indictment. Fulton County DA Fani Willis is using her interpretation of “conspiracy” laws to charge as felonies acts that would normally be...well, normal. In charging both Trump and his associates, she has criminalized such typical activities as…
requesting phone numbers
encouraging voters to watch TV election coverage
encouraging voters to call their members of Congress
reserving a room at the Georgia Capitol for alternate presidential electors
calling on state leaders to ensure signature verification
encouraging an “indicted co-conspirator” to attend a House committee meeting on election fraud
encourage a special legislative session of a state assembly
place two phone calls to the president tempore of the Georgia State Senate
These actions typically would not be seen as anything but innocent, but all DA Willis has to do is allege a “criminal conspiracy” --- which rests on assumptions she can’t possibly know, such as Trump’s state of mind --- and everything Trump and his associates did is automatically seen as being done in furtherance of that conspiracy. EVERYTHING.
That’s not gonna fly. Mark Meadows has already filed a motion that could work in favor of all the “co-conspirators” accused of furthering the “conspiracy.” His motion calls for moving the charges out of Georgia and into a federal court.
“The conduct giving rise to the charges in the indictment all occurred during his tenure and as part of his service as Chief of Staff,” the motion reads, going on to say that federal law calls for prompt removal of a criminal prosecution commenced in a state court when the defendant was acting “under color of [his] office.” It’s set up that way because federalism doesn’t work if the states can use state laws against federal officials for things they do as feds. Apparently, this is an important point of constitutional law for first-year law students. Either this state prosecutor doesn’t care about that or we should be wondering how she graduated law school.
Former law school dean and professor John Eastman, who presumably is familiar with the above legal point, has responded as well. Eastman says his activities were constitutionally protected, and that the charges against him were an assault on the practice of law: “Lawyers everywhere should be sleepless over this latest stunt to criminalize their advocacy. This is a legal cluster-bomb that leaves unexploded ordinance for lawyers to navigate in perpetuity.”
It was Rudy Giuliani who was indicted for encouraging voters to call their members of Congress. Ironically, his “incriminating” tweet said, “We must have free and fair elections in GA & this is our only path to ensuring every legal vote is counted @realDonald Trump.” How DARE he call for every legal vote to be counted!
Former federal prosecutor Brett Tolman described this case as “a Frankenstein that Mary Shelley would’ve been repulsed by.”
“It needs to be torn apart and the creator needs to be run out of office,” he said. These indictments are using a RICO statute that is aimed at criminal organizations, making this “the bastardization of a statute that we put into place to try to root out very complex corrupt organizations.” Willis is using it “for political reasons,” Tolman said. “It’s a shame that somebody with a legal degree is trying to analyze a lawful election challenge under the lens of criminal law.” Highly recommended...
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
Be sure and read Jonathan Turley’s take on this case. “The scope of the alleged conspiracy is massive,” he said. “Indeed, every call, speech and tweet appears a criminal step in the conspiracy. District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone and let God sort them out.” The chilling effect of this is dangerous, he believes. “It is important for campaigns to seek judicial review without fear of prosecution.”
But Trump has not been chilled. He says to stay tuned, because this coming Monday, he’ll be presenting incontrovertible evidence of voter fraud in 2020 that will result in his “complete exoneration.” We shall see.
Problems from 2020 that easily could have affected the outcome have already been brought up but went nowhere. In fact, Athena Thorne for PJ MEDIA recently wrote a piece called “Here’s Why Legal Challenges to the 2020 Election Didn’t Go Anywhere,” citing the corrupt collapse of America’s legal system and “state DAs who literally campaigned on promises to ‘get Trump.’” It’s a subscriber-only story, but the main points are things you certainly remember: that every attempt to investigate or introduce alleged evidence of vote fraud was greeted with hostility from the media, legal roadblocks by Democrat officials, attempts to disbar any attorneys who took up the cases, terrified judges refusing to look at it due to “lack of standing,” and the looming threat of violence by leftist rioters against everyone from judges and courts to entire cities if the election didn’t go their way.
If you are a subscriber, keep in mind as you read this --- especially the part of about conservative attorneys being targeted --- that it was written BEFORE the Georgia indictments of Trump and his associates were handed down.
The mystery of the “fictitious” indictment posted too early
When Fulton County DA Fani Willis was asked Monday night about the indictment that was briefly posted to their website, she blew off the question and essentially blamed the clerk. On Tuesday, the clerk issued a long statement claiming she was “practicing” with a “sample” document. But that doesn’t tell us how a so-called “sample” document was identical to the one the grand jury signed off on much later in the evening. Are you buying this?
You don’t have to be Columbo to realize that their cover story raises more questions than it answers.
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Are more indictments coming?
Having completely trashed historic precedent, twisted the law and the Constitution and destroyed our precious “norms” in a rabid frenzy to “get Trump,” you didn’t think the Democrats would stop at only FOUR sets of outrageous indictments, did you? Now, there’s talk of a FIFTH threat of indictments, and you’ll never guess where it’s coming from. Brace yourself because the sheer gall of this one might make your brain reel:
Arizona Gov, Katie Hobbs is pressing for indictments in Arizona against Trump for daring to question the 2020 election. Yes, I said “Katie Hobbs.” The Governor probably most suspected by her constituents of having been installed in office thanks to vote fraud. The one whose election is still being challenged. The one who refused to step aside from her job of running the election that she was competing in. She wants to file charges against Trump for “potential election interference in the 2020 election,”
Say, here’s a thought: how about having a real investigation, free of government roadblocks and biased court rulings, of the 2022 election of Katie Hobbs?
And speaking of endless investigations, I tried to warn Democrats that they were opening a Pandora’s box and didn’t realize what was going to come screaming out of it and devour them. Of course, they were ravaged by Trump Derangement Syndrome and didn’t listen. They’ve now established a “new norm” that Republicans can use against them, and it’s already causing ghosts of their carefully-buried past to rise from the graveyard.
With the political indictments of Trump, calls are rising from the right to indict Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden for their parts in creating the expensive, divisive, and some might even say treasonous Russian Collusion hoax.
And that’s just the beginning. Why should Hillary still be allowed to skate on destroying all that evidence of mishandling of classified documents if Trump is going to be indicted for far less? And that’s just the start: when it comes to Democrats who’ve been allowed to skate on their malfeasance, it’s an embarrassment of riches, If national Republican office holders are too reticent to engage in this political warfare, there are plenty of state and local GOP attorneys general and county prosecutors in deep red areas who can start filing indictment after indictment after indictment. Considering that the Democratic Party has been described as “America’s most successful criminal enterprise,” they shouldn’t lack for material.
Do I want to see this kind of politicized legal warfare? Of course not. Nobody in his right mind does. Thinking people knew how dangerous it would be and warned against it, but that didn’t stop the Democrats from starting it. It’s sad to think that giving the Dems a taste of their own quack medicine might be the only way to close the Pandora’s box they broke open.
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NYT says no
The New York Times is taking steps to prohibit its content from being used to train Artificial Intelligence models. Good. It would be bad enough having robot overlords without having them think like the New York Times editorial board! I also question whether you can create anything with intelligence by feeding it the New York Times.
Once again, the Babylon Bee predicted this very thing:
https://babylonbee.com/news/
A slip-up
The White House made a slip-up Tuesday that seemingly confirms President Biden doesn’t write his own Twitter posts, as if anyone actually thought he could figure out how to do that. It happened when a post that was obviously meant to come from the President was sent out over press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s account. Well, what the heck, she does his talking for him anyway.
https://www.westernjournal.
Being overlooked is what the message said, in part: “Investing in America means investing in all of America.” I take exception to that. I’ve been around Democrats long enough to know that “Investing in America” means “Taking money away from people who earned it and giving it to people who’ll vote for me.”
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"Investing in America"
President Biden was in Milwaukee Tuesday to tout his “Investing in America” plan (i.e., running up a huge tab on our grandkids’ credit card), and the audience was lucky enough to be treated both to one of his favorite classic anecdotes-that-never-actually-
https://www.westernjournal.
The old “greatest hit” was the story about the Amtrak conductor telling him how many miles he’d traveled by train (that conductor had died before the conversation ever could have occurred.) The new one was that he was in Pittsburgh last year and watched the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse. He said, “I watched that bridge collapse. I got there and saw it collapse, with over 200 feet off the ground over a valley. It collapsed. Thank God school was out.”
Thank God, the only part of that that’s true is that school was out. He was on the way to Pittsburgh, and it collapsed before he got there. He did view the wreckage, as we all are now.
This got buried
With all the Trump news, this story that happened Friday got buried, but it deserves more notice. You would think the media would give it more coverage, considering it’s about shocking infringement on freedom of the press by the government, but a surprising number of media outlets seem to be okay with that these days. The story is remarkably similar to the story of Ashley Biden’s diary, which was given to Project Veritas. They returned it without revealing anything in it, yet the FBI raided the homes of James O’Keefe and other PV reporters and seized dozens of their private devices.
In this case, the Marion County, Kansas, Record newspaper got a tip that a local restaurant owner had convictions for DUI and driving without a license that could have prevented her from getting a liquor license. They didn’t know the source of the tip so they wrote nothing and turned it over to the police. But the restaurant owner made it public by complaining in front of the city council, so the paper wrote an article telling their side of the story.
Next thing the paper knew, the police department raided the office and home of owner/publisher Eric Meyer, photographing and seizing a number of digital devices. They had a warrant to seize devices used to “participate in the identity theft” of the restaurant owner. Meyer says his 98-year-old mother, who co-owned the paper, died the next day, and he blames the stress of the police raid.
Many people were already calling it an outrageous assault by government on the rights of the press. But then the story took another twist when Meyer revealed that paper had been investigating allegations of sexual misconduct and other accusations against the police chief, but had yet to publish anything. He said, “I may be paranoid that this has anything to do with it, but when people come and seize your computer, you tend to be a little paranoid.”
The paper’s attorney calls it an “illegal search” and is demanding that authorities not review any information on any devices or material they confiscated. This is a developing story, and I’m very interested to see how it develops.
Get on it, Congress: impeachment inquiries for Biden, Garland and Wray
The House needs to launch impeachment inquiries immediately for Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray.
That’s according to legal analyst Margot Cleveland, who says it’s about time the Legislative Branch “flexes its impeachment muscle” to uncover the truth. In her new column, she makes the case that Garland appointing David Weiss special counsel for the Hunter Biden case “not only contradicts any earlier claims that there was no need for such an appointment, but it also contradicts nearly everything we’ve been told about the investigation and the DOJ’s role.”
If Weiss really had been the ultimate decision-maker, he wouldn’t have needed the appointment. Cleveland explains that even without this new change in status, Weiss could have gotten approval from Garland to bring cases in DC and/or California, and he had even said he “was assured that [he] would be granted this authority if it proved necessary.” So that can’t be the reason.
No, Garland’s sudden appointment of Weiss as special counsel confirms that there was a conflict of interest all along. So, why didn’t he do it in the first place? “It is clear Garland failed to fulfill his duties as attorney general by refusing to grant Weiss that status years ago,” Cleveland says.
It’s simple: either Weiss was in charge of the investigation, or he was not. “Naming Weiss special counsel confirms everything we’ve been told before now was a farce.” Weiss “gave Garland cover, allowed the DOJ to apparently interfere in the investigation, entered a sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden, and removed the IRS whistleblowers from the investigation,” and this “renders him incapable of serving as an independent special counsel.”
The irony is that “while Garland touted the appointment of a special counsel as providing Americans confidence in the integrity of the investigation into Hunter Biden, putting Weiss in that role contradicted every assurance of independence he gave.”
Recall that according to the whistleblowers, there were others in the office who impeded their work in numerous ways. The culmination of that was Weiss’s FIRING of the whistleblowers and Gary Shapley’s entire team of experts who had been working on the case for five years. These were experts who specialized in international money laundering and tax evasion cases.
It’s shocking to think that the very person who did that --- if that was even his decision and not from higher up --- is the one who is in charge of the “independent” investigation now. And his team is now lacking those experts. “...Even if Weiss plans to move forward with a real investigation,” Cleveland writes, “the complexity of the Biden family corruption investigation is likely far beyond his and his local team’s skill set.”
She also notes that even with Weiss’s upgrade, “the bottom line is that Weiss still reports to Garland, and Garland’s boss is Joe Biden.” And at this point, as we enter serious campaign season, department regulations prohibit Weiss from investigating a presidential candidate “without permission.” On the chance Weiss even asks for that, do you think in your wildest dreams that Garland will grant it? So Weiss is “independent” to follow the facts where they lead...until they lead to the Big Guy. Then he’ll have to back off.
Complaining, Cleveland says, “won’t move the needle” on this situation, and neither will the “current investigative trajectory.” Because of the clear conflict of interest, the Executive Branch --- even under the title of special counsel --- cannot properly investigate Joe Biden. For that reason, and since the scandal goes beyond the Biden family to encompass the DOJ and FBI’s obstruction of the investigation, impeachment inquiries are the way to go.
New suggestions of financial ties between Hunter and his father were reported by FOX NEWS on Tuesday, and more members of Congress, such as Greg Steube of Florida and Tim Burchett of Tennessee, called for action.
https://headlineusa.com/
Here’s a curious segment of newly-revealed timeline: Did you know that Hunter’s attorneys began negotiating their “sweetheart” plea deal with the DOJ right after the first IRS whistleblower announced he was coming forward? That was in May of this year. It appears Hunter’s attorneys were scrambling to put their case to bed --- with immunity for Hunter in perpetuity --- before that testimony came along and blew everything up. Thanks to Judge Maryanne Noreika for not being a “rubber stamp.”
https://dailycaller.com/2023/
RELATED: Concerning another judge...we’ve learned that Tanya S. Chutkan, the judge presiding over Trump’s J6 case being prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith, previously worked at Boies Schiller Flexner, a big Democrat powerhouse firm that employed Hunter and even represented Burisma Holdings while Hunter was on their board. They were both there between 2010 and 2014. Even Snopes.com had to rate this claim “True.”
Judge Chutkan was reportedly chosen at random from a pool of about 20 judges, but if that’s the case, Jack Smith certainly hit the jackpot. As reported by THE NATIONAL PULSE, Boies Schiller Flexner even worked for Fusion GPS. You cannot get more steeped in politics than this firm was and is. When Fusion GPS tried to block revealing the source of payments for the Steele “dossier” (the DNC and Hillary’s campaign, haha), Chutkan recused herself from that case over concerns about impartiality. If impartiality was a concern then, why isn’t it now? In her words and her sentencing, she’s shown she is clearly not impartial. She should be removed from this case.
https://thenationalpulse.com/
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Are more indictments coming?
August 16, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Having completely trashed historic precedent, twisted the law and the Constitution and destroyed our precious “norms” in a rabid frenzy to “get Trump,” you didn’t think the Democrats would stop at only FOUR sets of outrageous indictments, did you? Now, there’s talk of a FIFTH threat of indictments, and you’ll never guess where it’s coming from. Brace yourself because the sheer gall of this one might make your brain reel:
Arizona Gov, Katie Hobbs is pressing for indictments in Arizona against Trump for daring to question the 2020 election. Yes, I said “Katie Hobbs.” The Governor probably most suspected by her constituents of having been installed in office thanks to vote fraud. The one whose election is still being challenged. The one who refused to step aside from her job of running the election that she was competing in. She wants to file charges against Trump for “potential election interference in the 2020 election,”
Say, here’s a thought: how about having a real investigation, free of government roadblocks and biased court rulings, of the 2022 election of Katie Hobbs?
And speaking of endless investigations, I tried to warn Democrats that they were opening a Pandora’s box and didn’t realize what was going to come screaming out of it and devour them. Of course, they were ravaged by Trump Derangement Syndrome and didn’t listen. They’ve now established a “new norm” that Republicans can use against them, and it’s already causing ghosts of their carefully-buried past to rise from the graveyard.
With the political indictments of Trump, calls are rising from the right to indict Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden for their parts in creating the expensive, divisive, and some might even say treasonous Russian Collusion hoax.
And that’s just the beginning. Why should Hillary still be allowed to skate on destroying all that evidence of mishandling of classified documents if Trump is going to be indicted for far less? And that’s just the start: when it comes to Democrats who’ve been allowed to skate on their malfeasance, it’s an embarrassment of riches, If national Republican office holders are too reticent to engage in this political warfare, there are plenty of state and local GOP attorneys general and county prosecutors in deep red areas who can start filing indictment after indictment after indictment. Considering that the Democratic Party has been described as “America’s most successful criminal enterprise,” they shouldn’t lack for material.
Do I want to see this kind of politicized legal warfare? Of course not. Nobody in his right mind does. Thinking people knew how dangerous it would be and warned against it, but that didn’t stop the Democrats from starting it. It’s sad to think that giving the Dems a taste of their own quack medicine might be the only way to close the Pandora’s box they broke open.
Mike Huckabee: Stacey Abrams should be indicted, too
August 16, 2023
Mike Huckabee
That was quick! Meadows and Eastman respond in Georgia case.
August 16, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Tristan Justice at THE FEDERALIST offers a run-down of the “conspiratorial” acts offered by the Fulton County DA in this beyond-crazy indictment. Fulton County DA Fani Willis is using her interpretation of “conspiracy” laws to charge as felonies acts that would normally be...well, normal. In charging both Trump and his associates, she has criminalized such typical activities as…
requesting phone numbers
encouraging voters to watch TV election coverage
encouraging voters to call their members of Congress
reserving a room at the Georgia Capitol for alternate presidential electors
calling on state leaders to ensure signature verification
encouraging an “indicted co-conspirator” to attend a House committee meeting on election fraud
encourage a special legislative session of a state assembly
place two phone calls to the president tempore of the Georgia State Senate
These actions typically would not be seen as anything but innocent, but all DA Willis has to do is allege a “criminal conspiracy” --- which rests on assumptions she can’t possibly know, such as Trump’s state of mind --- and everything Trump and his associates did is automatically seen as being done in furtherance of that conspiracy. EVERYTHING.
That’s not gonna fly. Mark Meadows has already filed a motion that could work in favor of all the “co-conspirators” accused of furthering the “conspiracy.” His motion calls for moving the charges out of Georgia and into a federal court.
“The conduct giving rise to the charges in the indictment all occurred during his tenure and as part of his service as Chief of Staff,” the motion reads, going on to say that federal law calls for prompt removal of a criminal prosecution commenced in a state court when the defendant was acting “under color of [his] office.” It’s set up that way because federalism doesn’t work if the states can use state laws against federal officials for things they do as feds. Apparently, this is an important point of constitutional law for first-year law students. Either this state prosecutor doesn’t care about that or we should be wondering how she graduated law school.
Former law school dean and professor John Eastman, who presumably is familiar with the above legal point, has responded as well. Eastman says his activities were constitutionally protected, and that the charges against him were an assault on the practice of law: “Lawyers everywhere should be sleepless over this latest stunt to criminalize their advocacy. This is a legal cluster-bomb that leaves unexploded ordinance for lawyers to navigate in perpetuity.”
It was Rudy Giuliani who was indicted for encouraging voters to call their members of Congress. Ironically, his “incriminating” tweet said, “We must have free and fair elections in GA & this is our only path to ensuring every legal vote is counted @realDonald Trump.” How DARE he call for every legal vote to be counted!
Former federal prosecutor Brett Tolman described this case as “a Frankenstein that Mary Shelley would’ve been repulsed by.”
“It needs to be torn apart and the creator needs to be run out of office,” he said. These indictments are using a RICO statute that is aimed at criminal organizations, making this “the bastardization of a statute that we put into place to try to root out very complex corrupt organizations.” Willis is using it “for political reasons,” Tolman said. “It’s a shame that somebody with a legal degree is trying to analyze a lawful election challenge under the lens of criminal law.” Highly recommended...
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
Be sure and read Jonathan Turley’s take on this case. “The scope of the alleged conspiracy is massive,” he said. “Indeed, every call, speech and tweet appears a criminal step in the conspiracy. District Attorney Fani Willis appears to have elected to charge everything and everyone and let God sort them out.” The chilling effect of this is dangerous, he believes. “It is important for campaigns to seek judicial review without fear of prosecution.”
But Trump has not been chilled. He says to stay tuned, because this coming Monday, he’ll be presenting incontrovertible evidence of voter fraud in 2020 that will result in his “complete exoneration.” We shall see.
Problems from 2020 that easily could have affected the outcome have already been brought up but went nowhere. In fact, Athena Thorne for PJ MEDIA recently wrote a piece called “Here’s Why Legal Challenges to the 2020 Election Didn’t Go Anywhere,” citing the corrupt collapse of America’s legal system and “state DAs who literally campaigned on promises to ‘get Trump.’” It’s a subscriber-only story, but the main points are things you certainly remember: that every attempt to investigate or introduce alleged evidence of vote fraud was greeted with hostility from the media, legal roadblocks by Democrat officials, attempts to disbar any attorneys who took up the cases, terrified judges refusing to look at it due to “lack of standing,” and the looming threat of violence by leftist rioters against everyone from judges and courts to entire cities if the election didn’t go their way.
If you are a subscriber, keep in mind as you read this --- especially the part of about conservative attorneys being targeted --- that it was written BEFORE the Georgia indictments of Trump and his associates were handed down.
Mike Huckabee
The House needs to launch impeachment inquiries immediately for Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray.
That’s according to legal analyst Margot Cleveland, who says it’s about time the Legislative Branch “flexes its impeachment muscle” to uncover the truth. In her new column, she makes the case that Garland appointing David Weiss special counsel for the Hunter Biden case “not only contradicts any earlier claims that there was no need for such an appointment, but it also contradicts nearly everything we’ve been told about the investigation and the DOJ’s role.”
If Weiss really had been the ultimate decision-maker, he wouldn’t have needed the appointment. Cleveland explains that even without this new change in status, Weiss could have gotten approval from Garland to bring cases in DC and/or California, and he had even said he “was assured that [he] would be granted this authority if it proved necessary.” So that can’t be the reason.
No, Garland’s sudden appointment of Weiss as special counsel confirms that there was a conflict of interest all along. So, why didn’t he do it in the first place? “It is clear Garland failed to fulfill his duties as attorney general by refusing to grant Weiss that status years ago,” Cleveland says.
It’s simple: either Weiss was in charge of the investigation, or he was not. “Naming Weiss special counsel confirms everything we’ve been told before now was a farce.” Weiss “gave Garland cover, allowed the DOJ to apparently interfere in the investigation, entered a sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden, and removed the IRS whistleblowers from the investigation,” and this “renders him incapable of serving as an independent special counsel.”
The irony is that “while Garland touted the appointment of a special counsel as providing Americans confidence in the integrity of the investigation into Hunter Biden, putting Weiss in that role contradicted every assurance of independence he gave.”
Recall that according to the whistleblowers, there were others in the office who impeded their work in numerous ways. The culmination of that was Weiss’s FIRING of the whistleblowers and Gary Shapley’s entire team of experts who had been working on the case for five years. These were experts who specialized in international money laundering and tax evasion cases.
It’s shocking to think that the very person who did that --- if that was even his decision and not from higher up --- is the one who is in charge of the “independent” investigation now. And his team is now lacking those experts. “...Even if Weiss plans to move forward with a real investigation,” Cleveland writes, “the complexity of the Biden family corruption investigation is likely far beyond his and his local team’s skill set.”
She also notes that even with Weiss’s upgrade, “the bottom line is that Weiss still reports to Garland, and Garland’s boss is Joe Biden.” And at this point, as we enter serious campaign season, department regulations prohibit Weiss from investigating a presidential candidate “without permission.” On the chance Weiss even asks for that, do you think in your wildest dreams that Garland will grant it? So Weiss is “independent” to follow the facts where they lead...until they lead to the Big Guy. Then he’ll have to back off.
Complaining, Cleveland says, “won’t move the needle” on this situation, and neither will the “current investigative trajectory.” Because of the clear conflict of interest, the Executive Branch --- even under the title of special counsel --- cannot properly investigate Joe Biden. For that reason, and since the scandal goes beyond the Biden family to encompass the DOJ and FBI’s obstruction of the investigation, impeachment inquiries are the way to go.
New suggestions of financial ties between Hunter and his father were reported by FOX NEWS on Tuesday, and more members of Congress, such as Greg Steube of Florida and Tim Burchett of Tennessee, called for action.
https://headlineusa.com/
Here’s a curious segment of newly-revealed timeline: Did you know that Hunter’s attorneys began negotiating their “sweetheart” plea deal with the DOJ right after the first IRS whistleblower announced he was coming forward? That was in May of this year. It appears Hunter’s attorneys were scrambling to put their case to bed --- with immunity for Hunter in perpetuity --- before that testimony came along and blew everything up. Thanks to Judge Maryanne Noreika for not being a “rubber stamp.”
https://dailycaller.com/2023/
RELATED: Concerning another judge...we’ve learned that Tanya S. Chutkan, the judge presiding over Trump’s J6 case being prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith, previously worked at Boies Schiller Flexner, a big Democrat powerhouse firm that employed Hunter and even represented Burisma Holdings while Hunter was on their board. They were both there between 2010 and 2014. Even Snopes.com had to rate this claim “True.”
Judge Chutkan was reportedly chosen at random from a pool of about 20 judges, but if that’s the case, Jack Smith certainly hit the jackpot. As reported by THE NATIONAL PULSE, Boies Schiller Flexner even worked for Fusion GPS. You cannot get more steeped in politics than this firm was and is. When Fusion GPS tried to block revealing the source of payments for the Steele “dossier” (the DNC and Hillary’s campaign, haha), Chutkan recused herself from that case over concerns about impartiality. If impartiality was a concern then, why isn’t it now? In her words and her sentencing, she’s shown she is clearly not impartial. She should be removed from this case.
https://thenationalpulse.com/
Big Tech goal: No Newsletter
August 16, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Government and Big Tech working together to censor conservative views, is a big reason why we changed things up and moved my newsletter to Substack.
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A Substack subscription-based newsletter allows my team and I to focus on what matters: the writing and the research we do to back up the writing, instead of worrying about censorship, or what Google is saying about me, how they are handling advertising on our website or whether or not my work shows up when you search for it.
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This story got buried
August 16, 2023
Mike Huckabee
With all the Trump news, this story that happened Friday got buried, but it deserves more notice. You would think the media would give it more coverage, considering it’s about shocking infringement on freedom of the press by the government, but a surprising number of media outlets seem to be okay with that these days. The story is remarkably similar to the story of Ashley Biden’s diary, which was given to Project Veritas. They returned it without revealing anything in it, yet the FBI raided the homes of James O’Keefe and other PV reporters and seized dozens of their private devices.
In this case, the Marion County, Kansas, Record newspaper got a tip that a local restaurant owner had convictions for DUI and driving without a license that could have prevented her from getting a liquor license. They didn’t know the source of the tip so they wrote nothing and turned it over to the police. But the restaurant owner made it public by complaining in front of the city council, so the paper wrote an article telling their side of the story.
Next thing the paper knew, the police department raided the office and home of owner/publisher Eric Meyer, photographing and seizing a number of digital devices. They had a warrant to seize devices used to “participate in the identity theft” of the restaurant owner. Meyer says his 98-year-old mother, who co-owned the paper, died the next day, and he blames the stress of the police raid.
Many people were already calling it an outrageous assault by government on the rights of the press. But then the story took another twist when Meyer revealed that paper had been investigating allegations of sexual misconduct and other accusations against the police chief, but had yet to publish anything. He said, “I may be paranoid that this has anything to do with it, but when people come and seize your computer, you tend to be a little paranoid.”
The paper’s attorney calls it an “illegal search” and is demanding that authorities not review any information on any devices or material they confiscated. This is a developing story, and I’m very interested to see how it develops.
Mike Huckabee: Voters see what’s going on
August 16, 2023
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Atlanta: Midnight Takedown
August 15, 2023
Kenneth Allard
Last weekend, Governor Mike Huckabee opened his weekly TV variety show with an unusual topic that now seems oddly prescient. Newly returned from Israel, the governor displayed the fresh carbon from an archeological “dig” in the city of David, hard by the ancient walls of Jerusalem. It was eloquent testimony to the ferocity of the Roman assault under Titus in AD 70, an early holocaust that destroyed the Temple, sacked the city and may have killed a million Jews.
Most people assumed such ugliness had been consigned to the ashcans of history – until the Russian assault on Ukraine in 2022 showed that history is still very much alive. But haven’t we also outgrown our own Civil War, virtue-claiming politicians relocating its monuments to safer places where our few remaining sensibilities won’t be offended? Few of them appear to have read George Santayana, another dead white male no longer studied in our colleges and universities, “Those who cannot remember history are doomed to repeat it.” But, hey man, what did he know?
I thought of those ancient generals and their modern counterparts around midnight last evening when the breathless and clearly thrilled-with-herself Attorney General of Fulton County, Georgia announced the latest indictments of Donald Trump and his growing list of co-defendants. After proudly reading their names and specifications, she made the obligatory point that all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty – barely suppressing a wink to the worshipful crowd of reporters taking down her every word. Over at MSNBC –where I worked for ten years until overtaken by shame and loathing – Rachel Maddow made a rare return to preside over the usual giggles and guffaws. Wasn’t it just terrific, they snickered, that Donald Trump had finally gotten his come-uppance? That he was finally paying the long overdue price for his many lies and distortions? The consuming irony was their special guest, Hillary Clinton!
That midnight take-down of Donald Trump inevitably recalled the other half of the equation, the one involving Joe and Hunter Biden, the Sweetheart Deal and its author, David Weiss, US Attorney for Delaware, lately appointed Special Counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Now Mr. Biden might not be the quickest one off the mark when it comes to keeping track of the Maui Wildfire Disaster (“Huh?”) but he has an exquisite sense of whatever it takes to protect him and his oldest son.
For example, my colleague Charles Lipson succinctly summarized the principal questions concerning Mr. Weiss, whose office…
“Slow-walked the criminal investigation for years, allowed the statute of limitations to expire on key charges, let Hunter Biden escape from taxes he owed on foreign income…avoided prosecuting Hunter for failing to register as foreign agent despite clear evidence, and told IRS investigators they would not pursue any leads, however credible, that might lead to “the Big Guy” Joe Biden.” With magnificent irony, Professor Lipson concludes, “they have not pursued those leads. Those are fundamental failures, and we need to know why they happened.”
https://thespectator.com/
Although voting for him twice, I hold no brief for Donald Trump, who clearly has a lot of explaining to do. But every day seems to provide more evidence backing up his frequent assertions about interference with the election of 2024. Although each defendant must shield himself against the charges brought against him, the government has an equally grave responsibility to prove that it comes into court “with clean hands.” Thus far, the array of charges assembled against Mr. Trump suggests precisely the opposite: a strategically-orchestrated effort to establish double, triple and now quadruple sets of charges, either to bankrupt him or to effectively remove him from the presidential race. And that is saying nothing about the lifetime penalties facing Mr. Trump should he be convicted of any or all of those felonies.
For me, this amounts to what is now referred to as ‘the two-tiered system of justice’; many other Americans may feel the same way, especially when accompanied by the systematic stonewalling of the Biden DOJ. But it is important to recall that we also have a ‘two-tiered system of media,’ routinely distorting every issue. Congressman Joaquin Castro, for example, is lauded by San Antonio’s leftist media munchkins each time he attacks Governor Greg Abbott’s heroic efforts to stem illegal immigration. https://www.breitbart.com/
But the growing likelihood of civil conflict arising from the 2024 election may well be the most embarrassing omission of the once “objective media” – and quite possibly a fatal one.
Colonel (Ret.) Kenneth Allard is a former draftee, member of the West Point faculty, Dean of the National War College and NBC News military analyst.
Huckabee Post: GA indictments “a direct threat to the American system of the rule of law”
August 15, 2023
Mike Huckabee
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Why “Bidenomics” Is A Curse Word
The White House is trying desperately to convince Americans that “Bidenomics” is a big success and has brought down inflation. It’s true that inflation is down from near-record highs, but it’s still 50% higher than the Fed’s target, and last month, it ticked up again. And that’s largely because of nearly a dozen Fed interest rate hikes that have made mortgages and credit card bills higher. And each month’s new rate of inflation is on top of the previous inflation.
Let’s set aside all the statistical data and lay the cards on the table: How much money is Biden-era inflation costing Americans? According to a study by Moody Analytics, the average American household is paying $709 more per month for the same goods and services than they were paying when Biden took office. That’s over $8500 a year more. And how many families have gotten raises in pay since 2021 that total more than $8500 a year?
I don’t know which is more shocking: that number or the fact that they actually reported this story on CNN.
A lie about lying
For years, all we heard from the left was that “Trump’s a lying liar who lies!” Until it started turning out that most of what he was saying was true (for instance, there really was a Deep State conspiracy to manufacture fake evidence to frame him and his staffers for colluding with Russia.) But to listen to them now, their side is the soul of honesty. That, of course, is a lie.
Scott McKay at The American Spectator writes that “We’re covered in the filthiest liars we’ve ever endured in positions of power.” He’s had it up his eyeballs with blatant, transparent lies from the Biden Administration and its media enablers. So he decided to list some of them. As they say at Instapundit, he’s going to need a bigger list.
https://spectator.org/five-quick-things-the-liars-who-lie-lie-lie/
The impact of a transgender athlete
Any time a male is physically harming women, he should be stopped – unless he’s a male who “identifies” as a female and demands to be on a girls’ sports team and is so much more physically powerful than the girls that “she’s” spiking balls at them that are leaving bruises and welts. Then, according to the “progressives” who champion this insanity, the “trans” bully is “stunning and brave” and the girls who complain about being battered are “transphobic.”
If you think that’s a hypothetical exaggeration, it’s not. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, parents are pulling their daughters out of sports to protect them from serious injury at the hands of a "trans" teammate. The delusional rule pushed by progressives is that if males undergo one year of testosterone suppression, that officially makes them female. That does nothing to offset the major physical advantages attained by going through puberty as a male.
It’s not just records, trophies and scholarships being taken away from girls. How many serious injuries do female athletes have to endure before society rises up and says no more of this catering to the delusional demands of a tiny minority at the expense of the entire female population?
“If you have nothing to hide, you have no reason to be afraid.”
Watch World Economic Forum founder and Chairman Klaus Schwab channel the old East German Stasi leaders by saying about his plans to monitor your every movement, statement and financial transaction, “If you have nothing to hide, you have no reason to be afraid.”
If they ever make another 007 movie, I think we’ve found the next Bond villain.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I was representing the voters of Palm Beach County. And we were saying, ‘Please! Check this county, that county. Find this vote, find those votes. We think there are more votes!’ We did the same thing...[We laid] out a strategy very similar to the strategy for which these folks are being indicted today.”
--- Alan Dershowitz, on his work for Gore in 2000
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6333547009112
GA indictments “a direct threat to the American system of the rule of law”
“They’re adding up indictments that would lead to almost 1,000 years in jail. I mean, North Korea wouldn’t even dream of something like this. My question tonight is, at what point are elected Republicans going to realize the gravity and the severity of this threat? The radical left just keeps pushing and pushing and pushing, and all they find is soft jelly. If elected Republicans have not realized the magnitude of what is happening, then the liberty that we have known in this country for almost three centuries will be gone…”
That was Stephen Miller speaking Monday night on Sean Hannity’s TV show, awaiting the indictment that was expected to be unsealed against President Trump --- and, as it turned out, numerous associates --- in Fulton County, Georgia. (Note: 90 percent of Fulton County is in the overwhelmingly Democrat city of Atlanta.) This is Trump’s fourth indictment in a cascade of relentless lawfare. Keep in mind, the Georgia indictments are for state crimes, and neither the sitting President nor the Governor of Georgia has the power to pardon someone for these.
The indictment was anticipated because earlier in the day, what appeared to be an indictment of President Trump and others appeared on the Fulton County website. It listed --- count ‘em --- 39 indictments, including numerous “conspiracies” and even a violation of the Georgia RICO (organized crime) Act (Note: The Georgia state version of the RICO Act is wider-ranging than the federal version.) It was quickly taken down, but not before observers noted that this was even before the grand jury had officially returned the indictments. Oh, well, that was a foregone conclusion, right? Just a formality. Might as well go ahead and post them and take the rest of the day off! As Clay Travis tweeted, “Just shows you what a banana republic we are living in right now.”
A spokesperson for the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office said, “The Reuters report that those charges were filed is inaccurate. Beyond that we cannot comment.” The so-called ‘fictitious’ document apparently looked authentic, however, and even had a case number and judge assigned. DA Fani Willis’ office said it would be later that night when the document might be unsealed, as the clerk would have to manually enter each charge. (With all those counts, that’s a lot of typing!)
Trump attorney Alina Habba pointed out that this timeline makes no sense. “If the clerk needs to manually put in each count, then how did the clerk have that ‘fictitious’ mistake earlier? I’m lost on that, because the ‘fictitious’ mistake laid out counts individually, and that must have taken time.”
Habba thinks what happened was that “they had a lot of press, as we saw, sitting in the courtroom, laughing, thinking this was a joke, just a great press moment, having cameras in the background, and they made a ‘hiccup.’ They by accident uploaded, the clerk hit a button, that’s what I think happened.” And because of that error, they rushed to go ahead and get this done tonight.
Former Trump Administration official Kash Patel said that Willis and her office are responsible for the handling of grand jury documents and in trying to claim ignorance and blame some unknown clerk for posting them, “She just lied to the universe.”
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz called for a motion to dismiss because of this.
https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1691146364821057536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp
Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy advised Trump to call for one.
https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1691149756272095248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%
While we were waiting for the news to break, we found this old interview by the lead juror from the grand jury that is indicting Trump. Remember this scary person, back when she was first feeling her power? She must’ve been popping the champagne corks last night.
https://twitter.com/debostic/status/1628257874811002880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp
Newt Gingrich anticipated this “kitchen sink indictment,” something that could’ve been done “with a handful of first-year law students.” They were trying to come up with “the wildest range of things that will help us smear Donald Trump.” There are no defense attorneys, no rules of evidence, no cross-examination, he said, so “this is a rigged deal, everybody knows that.”
He likened this to the appointment of David Weiss as special counsel on the Hunter case, saying it was “just incompetent, made no sense.” The law used to be treated with solemnity, he said, but “this is a circus act.” And with a rigged jury and a rigged DA, they could get some convictions, he said. It is “an extraordinary effort to try to destroy a political leader who at least half the country thinks ought to be the next President. I think for a district attorney to take on this kind of authority is dangerous.”
When the 98-page criminal indictment was finally unsealed late Monday night, 18 Trump associates, including Mark Meadows and attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman and Jenna Ellis, were also seen to have been indicted on dozens of felony counts. “Imagine if this had been applied to Al Gore supporters when he contested Florida in 2000,” Gingrich said. “Imagine the amount of money these people will have to spend to hire lawyers to prove their innocence against a viciously corrupt Democratic district attorney. This is a direct threat to the American system of the rule of law.”
“…More and more Americans realize that whether you like Trump or you dislike Trump, these people are undermining the very base of the American system and the Constitution and the rule of law. That is gradually becoming a conviction, way beyond the Trump base.”
As it turned out, the unsealed document did look just like the ‘fictitious’ one that had been posted before the grand jury voted and called ‘inaccurate’ by the DA’s office. RICO Act violations were generously applied to Trump and his associates.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/14/breaking-georgia-grand-jury-indicts-10/
Kash Patel, who’s been both a federal prosecutor and a public defender, called this “a hatchet job by the Fulton County DA.” He noted the exhaustive repetition of the word “corrupt” in this lengthy speaking indictment. “They have stigmatized and made it illegal in state court to declare a federal election outcome result --- that is a FEDERAL law violation that they have taken to state court. So anyone out there saying that this doesn’t have any federal implications does not understand the process.”
Also, “...a RICO case, which usually has dozens of defendants as is now being shown here, is a case that takes two to four years at minimum in state court to adjudicate.” They obviously wanted the indictment out there right away. But the case will be slowed down by interlocutory appeals from Trump’s attorneys. This sounds like the show business expression, “Hurry up and wait.”
Their first appeal, Patel said, should be on the basis of the illegal disclosure of grand jury information by the DA’s office, which is a felony. They apparently posted it earlier on Monday and also leaked it to media outlets. Patel pointed out that federal funding goes to these county prosecutors, and that gives congressional committees jurisdiction to look into this.
Also, “are we to believe that the United States justice system and the state court system in Georgia is going to indict counselors --- lawyers and legal scholars for advising the President of the United States?” President Trump, targeted as he is when he sincerely believes the election was stolen, can be seen as standing up for everyone’s constitutionally protected beliefs.
Mike Davis, president of the Article III Project, called this “a mess of a case” that will not hold up under the law. “If it’s not reversed by the Georgia courts, it will be reversed by the Supreme Court…” The only question is when, he said --- before the presidential election or after? It’s “a shotgun approach by a Democrat prosecutor who is campaigning on taking out President Trump through the legal process, through lawfare.”
DA Willis “has set up a website; she’s raising money off of this,” he said. “This is a joke of a complaint.” We would add that it’s also election interference. And if her office leaked grand jury information, she herself should be indicted on felony charges. Throw the kitchen sink at her and see what sticks.
During her press conference Willis dodged questions about this. She also refused to say whether she’d discussed her investigation with special counsel Jack Smith.
It’s also rich that Georgia is the state where Stacey Abrams ran for governor in 2018 and refused to concede that race when she lost. What, was there a problem with the election?
And thanks to Kaylee McGhee White, editor of Restoring America, for reminding us that in 2018, Democrat then-state Sen. Nikema Williams was arrested for leading a protest to disrupt the Senate certification of the first election in which Brian Kemp beat Stacey Abrams. The Fulton County DA declined to prosecute her, and she challenged the law under which she was arrested, claiming she had a First Amendment right to challenge the election even if it interfered with that citadel of “our democracy.” She was later rewarded by being elected chair of the state Democratic Party and to the state House. So please spare me the pious balloon juice from Democrat prosecutors about “equal application of justice” and “nobody being above the law.”
RELATED READING:
Check out J. D. Rucker’s analysis, including the list of charges against Trump over things that would be legal if anyone else did them, the statement from the Trump ‘24 campaign, and Rucker’s fanciful picture of this prosecutor’s courtroom. Rucker suggests that Trump can actually use this as an opportunity to bring evidence of actual vote fraud into court. A must-read.
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Congressional interview with FBI agent backs IRS agent Shapley’s account
Almost lost amidst the breaking news of Trump’s indictment Monday --- and this might have been by design --- was another story, about the release of a 65-page transcript of an interview with a former FBI supervisory agent that corroborates what IRS lead agent-turned-whistleblower Gary Shapley said about being hamstrung in his investigation of Hunter Biden’s finances.
For example, both agents told similar stories about Hunter’s team being tipped off about a planned interview. They were told to stand down and wait for Hunter to call THEM (!) before going to interview him. He never called; they never interviewed.
The FBI agent, whose name is redacted in the transcript, testified before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee behind closed doors on July 31. His testimony is just one more reason (as if they needed any more) why Committee Chairman James Comer says they have no confidence in U.S. Attorney-and-now-Special-Counsel David Weiss.
Fred Lucas at THE DAILY SIGNAL offers four take-aways from the interview.
Here are some responses to the latest politicized indictments of President Trump and his supporters:
Trump himself told Fox Digital, “The whole world is laughing at the United States as they see how corrupt and horrible a place it has turned out to be under the leadership of Crooked Joe Biden." He said this latest legal action "is a continuation of the greatest and longest-running Witch Hunt in American history…tailored for placement right smack in the middle of my political campaign." But he vowed to win back the presidency, fix it and “Make America great again.”
Trump said DA Fani Willis "should focus on the people that rigged the 2020 presidential election, not those who demand an answer as to what happened." He called her “racist and corrupt” and accused her of ignoring Atlanta’s high murder and violent crime rates to target political enemies, adding that she “just opened a fundraising site in order to benefit off the thing she most campaigned on, ‘I will get Donald Trump.’" There’s more here:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-georgia-indictment-comes-during-dark-period-vows-fix-winning
The Trump Campaign also blasted out some background on Willis and her history of politicized “justice” and grand jury malpractice.
https://djt.nucleusemail.com/amplify/v/a2eg4B9Ygw?hids=QbPTM6M&_nlid=B2PgsJn5PP&_nhids=QbPTM6M
Constitutional attorney and former Trump transition team member Mark Smith called the indictments "bewildering" and said, "The First Amendment of the United States Constitution specifically says that we have the right to petition the government in all its forms if we have a grievance. Now, there's no dispute that Donald Trump and his legal team disputed who won the Georgia electoral votes in 2020. That was a legitimate fight. They took it to the courts. They took it to the Congress. They took it to the state legislature, i.e. the government, which they were allowed to do under the First Amendment.”
Legal scholar Mark Levin called it “horrendous” and said the judicial system had been “bastardized” in Democrat-majority precincts: "We are going through the motions of justice here, like autocratic regimes," and Stalin and Putin “would be proud,” while “our enemies are celebrating and our allies are appalled at what’s going on here.” He warned that this is not just an attack on the rule of law and the American judicial system but on the GOP itself, the message being that elections and actions of officials in Democrat-majority precincts cannot be challenged under penalty of law.
Finally, from our “Doesn’t Know When To Keep Quiet” Desk: When asked about her reaction to the indictments, Hillary Clinton first burst out laughing, then claimed she felt “great profound sadness” and that she does not take any satisfaction in the indictments, but “it is evidence of equal justice under the law.”
And then she was struck by a lightning bolt. Not really, but I’m very surprised that she wasn’t.
Hillary also claimed that the GOP needs to be “held accountable for supporting Trump’s lies and divisiveness.” Seriously, does she not own a single mirror?
I think everyone knows that if Hillary had faced the same “equal justice” treatment Trump has, she’d be in jail until the year 2525. She didn’t, partly because of James Comey’s corruption, but also because after his election, Trump told his supporters who chanted “Lock her up” that this is America and we don’t jail our political opponents.
Tell me again, Hillary, how Trump is the one who “shattered norms.”
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A Blue city competition to be the worst
August 14, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Sadly, there are a number of blue cities plagued by crime, homelessness, filth, poverty, drugs and other symptoms of generations of Democrat rule, and voters have yet to connect the dots between (1.) “Horrendous living conditions” and (2.) “How we vote.” But in the competition to illustrate just how bad letting the left run things can get, San Francisco is finding some creative new ways to pull ahead of Chicago and Portland.
Nick Arama at Redstate.com reminds us of San Francisco’s many problems that have caused residents and stores to flee, adds two new ones. First, it’s now more lucrative to be a drug dealer than a senior software engineer at Google. The base pay for the Google position is $211,000 a year, while successful drug pushers in the open-air drug trade in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods are making $350,000+.
In fact, President Biden could cite that as fulfilling a campaign promise. Many of the dealers are Honduran illegal migrants who send so much money back home that it’s fueling a housing boom in parts of Honduras. Biden said he wanted to combat illegal immigration by improving infrastructure in Central America, and his policies are doing just that. Of course, it’s at the expense of the lives of the Americans who are being killed by fentanyl and other deadly drugs, but hey, you’ve gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet.
As if that didn’t provide a big enough flashing neon sign to “STOP ELECTING THESE LEFTIST DISASTERS,” Arama offers this:
Due to all the open drug dealing and violent crime in downtown San Francisco, Health and Human Services is urging federal employees to work from home and not dare to venture into their offices in the…wait for it…Nancy Pelosi Federal Building.
Moral: If you value your life, stay away from Nancy Pelosi! Now if only voters could grasp the larger message behind that.
Related: Los Angeles made a move to challenge San Francisco for the title of Worst-Run Blue City with this story. Shoplifting is so out of control that on Saturday, a gang of between 30 and 50 thieves in hoods ransacked a Nordstrom’s in broad daylight and stripped it of up to $100,000 in merchandise. Alas for them, it’s become almost impossible to make crime in L.A. even worse. The Nordstrom’s flash mob couldn’t top the $300,000 worth of merchandise stolen just last week from the Yves St. Laurent store.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-nordstrom-ransacked-flash-mob-smash-grab-goods-taken
More competition for San Francisco: Seattle just became the new leader for the title of “Blue city the largest percentage of residents want to flee.”
Finally, here’s an article on the frightening wider implications of the spreading plague of crime and how the Democrats’ refusal to deal with it is creating a widespread social rot that’s destroying public safety and the ability to do business (retail theft losses will top $100 billion this year alone, a cost all the rest of us will pay), and is creating entire populations who refuse to be governed. This will inevitably result either in lawless anarchy or extreme counter-measures, neither of which will be peaceful or pretty.
If only someone had foreseen that doing away with the police, emptying the jails and legalizing crime wouldn’t have a positive outcome!
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Maui Fires
The known death toll from the devastating fires on Maui reached 93 over the weekend, and hundreds of people are still missing. It’s become the deadliest wildfire in the US in the past century. The burn is now about 85% controlled, but the damage is severe. I urge you to continue to pray for the victims, and if you can help, to please make a donation to Samaritan’s Purse, which is coordinating with local churches to get aid to victims ASAP.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org
President Biden is getting backlash for his seemingly uncaring “No comment” when asked about the fire while vacationing on the beach.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/08/14/john-hayward-bidens-comments-on-hawaii-death-toll-n2386264
The fires are still burning, but the finger-pointing and blame have already begun. A local couple is suing four power companies for leaving electric lines energized during a high fire risk warning, blaming them for sparking the fires.
And of course, the “let no crisis go to waste” crowd is blaming the fires on “climate change.” But Clay Trauernicht, a professor and environmental management expert at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is throwing cold water on that claim. He’s been warning for years that the decline of agriculture has led to over a million acres of land on the islands being covered with unmanaged, nonnative grasslands that turn into a big buildup of highly flammable fire fuel during dry spells.
In short, the destruction isn’t caused by human intervention via man-made “climate change,” but by the lack of human intervention via intelligent land management.
The next round of partisan indictments
I don’t like to comment on stories until they actually happen, because you never know if leaks and predictions are going to pan out. But just in case, and to help you brace for it, here’s a story about the next round of ridiculous partisan indictments against Donald Trump and his associates from Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutor and rabid Trump hater, Fani Willis.
Willis didn’t have jurisdiction to bring charges over actions taken in Coffee County, so she’s reportedly planning to twist and abuse the RICO Act, aimed at putting away mob bosses, to turn Trump's making a phone call and Republicans examining voting machines into federal racketeering charges. It’s a good thing Atlanta has no real crime to deal with, which has freed up over a year of her time to waste the taxpayers’ money on this snipe hunt.
Out of curiosity, when will we see all the RICO Act indictments against every Democrat who ever made a phone call telling someone to “find more votes” in a close election? I’d be willing to bet that would apply in literally every close election of the past 50 years.
Flashback: A reminder from last February, this is the foreperson of the Fulton County grand jury.
A clear-eyed view of Dr. Fauci
Just in case anyone still has a shrine to Dr. Fauci with one of his bobblehead dolls in it, maybe this will open their eyes:
The watchdog group OpenTheBooks just released about 1500 unredacted pandemic era records showing that the leaders of the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, including Dr. Fauci (already the highest-paid “public servant” in DC), made over $325 million in profits off of COVID-19. NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins and former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci “got 58 royalty payments for allowing companies to use their COVID-19 vaccines, which in return (were) developed with funding from U.S. taxpayers by private pharmaceutical firms.”
OpenTheBooks had to use the Freedom of Information Act to force the government to divulge this. Also, Dr. Fauci promised to donate his royalties to charity. According to this source, there is no evidence that he did.
Pro-LGBTQ propaganda
The Mars candy company is facing calls from conservatives for a Bud Light-style boycott over their new packaging that takes the Skittles’ slogan “Taste the Rainbow” way too far. The new bags for Skittles depict cartoon children playing on a skateboard ramp covered with graffiti that reads “Joy is Resistance” and “Black Trans Lives Matter.” This is part of their “limited edition 2023 Pride packs” designed by LGBTQ artists, with $1 of every sale going to GLAAD to “support and increase visibility for the LGBTQ+ community.” Really, is that the LGBTQ+ community’s big problem: they’re not visible enough?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/skittles-packaging-calling-boycott-budweiser-treatment
A lot of parents think that it’s even less healthy to let small kids swallow leftist political and gender propaganda than to let them eat Skittles. Some critics also pointed out that to access the company’s website, you can have verify that you’re over 13, due to the fact that young children are too immature and susceptible to advertising so they must be protected from undue influence. You can sell them pro-LGBTQ propaganda, but not candy.
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A Blue city competition to be the worst
Sadly, there are a number of blue cities plagued by crime, homelessness, filth, poverty, drugs and other symptoms of generations of Democrat rule, and voters have yet to connect the dots between (1.) “Horrendous living conditions” and (2.) “How we vote.” But in the competition to illustrate just how bad letting the left run things can get, San Francisco is finding some creative new ways to pull ahead of Chicago and Portland.
Nick Arama at Redstate.com reminds us of San Francisco’s many problems that have caused residents and stores to flee, adds two new ones. First, it’s now more lucrative to be a drug dealer than a senior software engineer at Google. The base pay for the Google position is $211,000 a year, while successful drug pushers in the open-air drug trade in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods are making $350,000+.
In fact, President Biden could cite that as fulfilling a campaign promise. Many of the dealers are Honduran illegal migrants who send so much money back home that it’s fueling a housing boom in parts of Honduras. Biden said he wanted to combat illegal immigration by improving infrastructure in Central America, and his policies are doing just that. Of course, it’s at the expense of the lives of the Americans who are being killed by fentanyl and other deadly drugs, but hey, you’ve gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet.
As if that didn’t provide a big enough flashing neon sign to “STOP ELECTING THESE LEFTIST DISASTERS,” Arama offers this:
Due to all the open drug dealing and violent crime in downtown San Francisco, Health and Human Services is urging federal employees to work from home and not dare to venture into their offices in the…wait for it…Nancy Pelosi Federal Building.
Moral: If you value your life, stay away from Nancy Pelosi! Now if only voters could grasp the larger message behind that.
Related: Los Angeles made a move to challenge San Francisco for the title of Worst-Run Blue City with this story. Shoplifting is so out of control that on Saturday, a gang of between 30 and 50 thieves in hoods ransacked a Nordstrom’s in broad daylight and stripped it of up to $100,000 in merchandise. Alas for them, it’s become almost impossible to make crime in L.A. even worse. The Nordstrom’s flash mob couldn’t top the $300,000 worth of merchandise stolen just last week from the Yves St. Laurent store.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-nordstrom-ransacked-flash-mob-smash-grab-goods-taken
More competition for San Francisco: Seattle just became the new leader for the title of “Blue city the largest percentage of residents want to flee.”
Finally, here’s an article on the frightening wider implications of the spreading plague of crime and how the Democrats’ refusal to deal with it is creating a widespread social rot that’s destroying public safety and the ability to do business (retail theft losses will top $100 billion this year alone, a cost all the rest of us will pay), and is creating entire populations who refuse to be governed. This will inevitably result either in lawless anarchy or extreme counter-measures, neither of which will be peaceful or pretty.
If only someone had foreseen that doing away with the police, emptying the jails and legalizing crime wouldn’t have a positive outcome!
LINE OF THE DAY:
“So, yes, I would love to see a special counsel, but not David Weiss. I mean, what are we gonna see next? Hunter Biden’s a lawyer, are they gonna appoint him special counsel to investigate himself?”
--- Texas Rep. Pat Fallon, House Oversight and Accountability Committee
California stupidity
California’s politicians have a plan for dealing with the huge power shortages their previous plans have caused:
1. Force everyone to buy electric cars.
2. When there’s the threat of a blackout (probably because of everyone having to charge their electric cars), drain the power out of everyone’s electric car batteries and back into the grid.
It’s like a perpetual motion machine of stupidity!
Garland’s appointment of Weiss is last straw for legal analysts
The ‘Justice’ Department, at least for now, is behaving with impunity, like the sham court system of a police state. Attorney General Merrick Garland and second-in-command Lisa Monaco must not care how obvious this is. We’re just supposed to accept it.
It doesn’t even matter to Garland that with the simultaneous cases involving Presidents Trump and Biden --- especially the “classified documents” cases --- we have an A/B comparison that shows the dramatic inconsistencies in how the two are treated. The two-tier ‘justice’ system could not be more clear.
We all know the mainstream media would be screaming bloody murder if the “Biden Inc.” stories being told now were about the Trump family. Yet Hunter’s attorneys have actually praised Joe Biden’s emerging involvement in Hunter’s business as “the acts of a loving father.” (This after Dad repeatedly lied about having any contact with his son about business at all.) And the media repeat this with a straight face. They must practice this every day in the mirror until they can do it.
Legal professor Jonathan Turley originally praised the selection of Merrick Garland as attorney general (I can’t imagine why --- what a bullet we dodged as a country when he didn’t make SCOTUS!), but he now says he has come to see Garland as a failure. Garland’s decision to appoint David Weiss as special counsel to investigate the Biden finances “captures,” he said, “why I have lost faith in his leadership --- and why his department is at one of the lowest levels of public trust.”
But Garland had to think he could get away with appointing Weiss, even though Weiss headed an investigation that has been repeatedly trashed by IRS whistleblowers as essentially “fixed.” Those agents say they were prevented from even asking about Joe Biden and that the Bidens were tipped off to planned searches. And as his so-called investigation stretched ever longer, Weiss could have extended the statute of limitations on various financial crimes during a couple of key years but made the decision not to.
If we knew for sure Garland was deliberately TRYING to help the Bidens, what would he be doing differently?
Garland also worked with Biden’s attorneys on the “sweetheart” deal that even would have given Hunter immunity for yet-indicted crimes, such as failure to register as a foreign agent under the FARA law. That would’ve sailed right on through if Judge Maryellen Norieka hadn’t read the tiny print.
“Garland’s failure of leadership has undermined key cases,” Turley says. A Harvard-Harris poll conducted this summer showed that 55 percent said they view the Trump indictment as “politically motivated” and 56 percent believe that it constitutes election interference. This is good news; it tells us that over half of Americans polled finally have a CLUE. It should be more like 90 percent at this point, but still.
Recall that when John Durham was appointed special counsel, he was serving as U.S. attorney from Connecticut. Since special counsels are supposed to come from outside government --- that’s what makes them “special” --- Durham resigned as U.S. attorney before taking that authority. Weiss isn’t doing that; he’s setting a new precedent, as Garland has allowed him to violate the rule by continuing to serve as U.S. attorney while being special counsel. (As we’ve discussed, the rule has no teeth.) Garland has gone even farther by appointing Weiss, someone who stands accused of conflicts of interest and false statements that involve this very case.
Another problem: Garland is apparently keeping the focus on Hunter Biden. The ‘Justice’ Department, Turley says, is still refusing to respond to questions on the possible inclusion of Joe Biden in the investigation.
Turley says Garland has “virtually ensured” that Congress will pursue an impeachment inquiry, because it’s really the only avenue open to them. Turley sees impeachment as a sort of “constitutional Kryptonite,” as “no court could seriously question the right and duty of Congress to get to the bottom of corruption allegations against the President without delay.” (At first, we assumed Turley’s talking about impeaching Garland, but he obviously means the President.) Weiss, as special counsel in an “ongoing investigation,” can refuse to answer questions before Congress, but they’ll have authority to demand answers from fact witnesses, including Biden family members.
We’d add one note of caution: California Rep. Darrell Issa, a former Director of National Intelligence, said over the weekend that a full investigation needs to be done and a powerful, unassailable case made before an impeachment is held in the House (I've been making the exact same point in media appearances for the past month.) Otherwise, the Senate will just acquit in about five minutes. The evidence has to be so massive and so incontrovertible that even the Senate HAS to agree. But in just the past few weeks, it seems we’re just about there. More will break this week.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/08/13/shoeless-joe-and-the-fixing-of-the-biden-scandal/#more-208434
Roger Kimball at AMERICAN GREATNESS has introduced a new concept that needs to catch on. You’ve heard of contempt of court and contempt of Congress --- what about “contempt of public”?
“I think it should be added to our vocabulary if not our code of laws,” he says. He’s making the same point we have in the last couple of days about more and more “norms” being trashed and institutions that were set up to provide checks and balances being stomped on with cleats.
“It names a grievous assault on the community,” he says. “By making a travesty of the rules and institutions that undergird our societal life, contempt of public threatens to undermine that essential if often hard-to-define societal lubricant: trust.”
In this must-read piece, Kimball calls the appointment of Weiss as special counsel “a multifaceted act of public contempt.” It’s entirely possible, he says, that with the boldness being used to pursue Trump, he might win the nomination, and then the election, from jail. At least then, when he pardoned himself, most Americans would know his convictions had been politically based.
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, a man capable of saying absolutely anything his party wants him to say no matter how obviously untrue, had some tough sledding this Sunday on CNN, when even Jake Tapper acknowledged that what Joe Biden had said about Hunter not making money in China was untrue. All Raskin could do was try to shift the conversation to Trump. Pretty hilarious.
(NOTE: We apologize for the use of the expression “the walls are closing in” that appears in the linked-to piece. How many times have we all heard that one? Even though the walls finally do appear to be...well, you know...we’d prefer it if news outlets didn’t copy each other’s verbiage quite so much.)
Speaking of people like Raskin who will say anything, Hunter attorney Abbe Lowell spoke with Kaitlin Collins on CNN and blamed the failure of the plea agreement on “every MAGA right-wing fanatic.” He blamed Trump, too, for “trying to use Hunter Biden to explain his own conduct.” I didn’t say it had to make sense.
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J6 Committee destroys evidence while real investigators seek it out
As you know, the January 6 Kangaroo Kommittee headed by Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompon has acknowledged it “failed to preserve” (translation: destroyed) massive amounts of evidence from their so-called investigation. Victoria Taft at PJ MEDIA says this evidence has “gone the way of certain Secret Service call records, the Capitol Hill pipe bomber’s identity, the ID of the White House cocaine addict, and Hillary Clinton’s bleach bit emails.”
If these documents are unattainable, that means they’re useless for Trump’s defense. (Can you say “obstruction of justice”?) This fact was not lost on Trump, who has called for his J6 indictment to be immediately withdrawn. Of course, it won’t be.
TWO TERABYTES of information are gone. Without getting too technical, that is one titanic boatload of information. And it has sunk like the Titanic.
It’s so unretrievable, it may as well be somewhere in President Biden’s cerebral cortex.
The committee says it wasn’t required to keep it, but that is one more lie. And why WOULDN’T they keep it, if it supported their claims? Judging by the way they’ve sicced the legal system on Trump over the documents issue, we think they should be held to a much higher standard themselves. Victoria Taft concludes, “Because so many of these types of incidents have taken place...the Democrats no longer get the benefit of the doubt. They have earned suspicion, antipathy, and hisses from the American people.”
Meanwhile, EPOCH TV has examined tens of thousands of hours of security video from the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and is gradually filling in gaps in our knowledge. To their everlasting credit, this is actual investigative reporting. Watching the thin line of Capitol police trying to control this crowd, which was already growing and gaining steam while Trump was speaking some distance away, should make anyone wonder, “WHY WEREN’T THE NATIONAL GUARD THERE??” That’s what former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund has been wondering for going-on three years.
We’ll have analysis later in the week, including new mysteries about people in the crowd behaving strangely. Who was the woman in the pink beret?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/the-capitol-hill-tapes-5452868
A don’t-miss episode of LIFE, LIBERTY & LEVIN
It’s not often we just refer you to an entire show for all the information you can glean, but Sunday’s LIFE, LIBERY & LEVIN is packed full and important to watch. At the time of this writing, the link to the entire episode hasn’t been posted, but you can get started with the monologue, in which Levin is on fire…
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6333413674112
Then there’s guest Alan Dershowitz, who says the current abuse of the legal system is “worse than McCarthyism.” (Imagine what it means for a liberal to say that!) He goes into detail about the problems with these various judges and courts and says, “You cannot expect the American public to accept this, the appearance of justice and the reality of justice, when you have such a distorted system.”
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6333326355112
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If these documents are unattainable, that means they’re useless for Trump’s defense. (Can you say “obstruction of justice”?) This fact was not lost on Trump, who has called for his J6 indictment to be immediately withdrawn. Of course, it won’t be.
TWO TERABYTES of information are gone. Without getting too technical, that is one titanic boatload of information. And it has sunk like the Titanic.
It’s so unretrievable, it may as well be somewhere in President Biden’s cerebral cortex.
The committee says it wasn’t required to keep it, but that is one more lie. And why WOULDN’T they keep it, if it supported their claims? Judging by the way they’ve sicced the legal system on Trump over the documents issue, we think they should be held to a much higher standard themselves. Victoria Taft concludes, “Because so many of these types of incidents have taken place...the Democrats no longer get the benefit of the doubt. They have earned suspicion, antipathy, and hisses from the American people.”
Meanwhile, EPOCH TV has examined tens of thousands of hours of security video from the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and is gradually filling in gaps in our knowledge. To their everlasting credit, this is actual investigative reporting. Watching the thin line of Capitol police trying to control this crowd, which was already growing and gaining steam while Trump was speaking some distance away, should make anyone wonder, “WHY WEREN’T THE NATIONAL GUARD THERE??” That’s what former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund has been wondering for going-on three years.
We’ll have analysis later in the week, including new mysteries about people in the crowd behaving strangely. Who was the woman in the pink beret?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/the-capitol-hill-tapes-5452868
Garland’s appointment of Weiss is last straw for legal analysts
August 14, 2023
Mike Huckabee
It doesn’t even matter to Garland that with the simultaneous cases involving Presidents Trump and Biden --- especially the “classified documents” cases --- we have an A/B comparison that shows the dramatic inconsistencies in how the two are treated. The two-tier ‘justice’ system could not be more clear.
We all know the mainstream media would be screaming bloody murder if the “Biden Inc.” stories being told now were about the Trump family. Yet Hunter’s attorneys have actually praised Joe Biden’s emerging involvement in Hunter’s business as “the acts of a loving father.” (This after Dad repeatedly lied about having any contact with his son about business at all.) And the media repeat this with a straight face. They must practice this every day in the mirror until they can do it.
Legal professor Jonathan Turley originally praised the selection of Merrick Garland as attorney general (I can’t imagine why --- what a bullet we dodged as a country when he didn’t make SCOTUS!), but he now says he has come to see Garland as a failure. Garland’s decision to appoint David Weiss as special counsel to investigate the Biden finances “captures,” he said, “why I have lost faith in his leadership --- and why his department is at one of the lowest levels of public trust.”
But Garland had to think he could get away with appointing Weiss, even though Weiss headed an investigation that has been repeatedly trashed by IRS whistleblowers as essentially “fixed.” Those agents say they were prevented from even asking about Joe Biden and that the Bidens were tipped off to planned searches. And as his so-called investigation stretched ever longer, Weiss could have extended the statute of limitations on various financial crimes during a couple of key years but made the decision not to.
If we knew for sure Garland was deliberately TRYING to help the Bidens, what would he be doing differently?
Garland also worked with Biden’s attorneys on the “sweetheart” deal that even would have given Hunter immunity for yet-indicted crimes, such as failure to register as a foreign agent under the FARA law. That would’ve sailed right on through if Judge Maryellen Norieka hadn’t read the tiny print.
“Garland’s failure of leadership has undermined key cases,” Turley says. A Harvard-Harris poll conducted this summer showed that 55 percent said they view the Trump indictment as “politically motivated” and 56 percent believe that it constitutes election interference. This is good news; it tells us that over half of Americans polled finally have a CLUE. It should be more like 90 percent at this point, but still.
Recall that when John Durham was appointed special counsel, he was serving as U.S. attorney from Connecticut. Since special counsels are supposed to come from outside government --- that’s what makes them “special” --- Durham resigned as U.S. attorney before taking that authority. Weiss isn’t doing that; he’s setting a new precedent, as Garland has allowed him to violate the rule by continuing to serve as U.S. attorney while being special counsel. (As we’ve discussed, the rule has no teeth.) Garland has gone even farther by appointing Weiss, someone who stands accused of conflicts of interest and false statements that involve this very case.
Another problem: Garland is apparently keeping the focus on Hunter Biden. The ‘Justice’ Department, Turley says, is still refusing to respond to questions on the possible inclusion of Joe Biden in the investigation.
Turley says Garland has “virtually ensured” that Congress will pursue an impeachment inquiry, because it’s really the only avenue open to them. Turley sees impeachment as a sort of “constitutional Kryptonite,” as “no court could seriously question the right and duty of Congress to get to the bottom of corruption allegations against the President without delay.” (At first, we assumed Turley’s talking about impeaching Garland, but he obviously means the President.) Weiss, as special counsel in an “ongoing investigation,” can refuse to answer questions before Congress, but they’ll have authority to demand answers from fact witnesses, including Biden family members.
We’d add one note of caution: California Rep. Darrell Issa, a former Director of National Intelligence, said over the weekend that a full investigation needs to be done and a powerful, unassailable case made before an impeachment is held in the House (I've been making the exact same point in media appearances for the past month.) Otherwise, the Senate will just acquit in about five minutes. The evidence has to be so massive and so incontrovertible that even the Senate HAS to agree. But in just the past few weeks, it seems we’re just about there. More will break this week.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/08/13/shoeless-joe-and-the-fixing-of-the-biden-scandal/#more-208434
Roger Kimball at AMERICAN GREATNESS has introduced a new concept that needs to catch on. You’ve heard of contempt of court and contempt of Congress --- what about “contempt of public”?
“I think it should be added to our vocabulary if not our code of laws,” he says. He’s making the same point we have in the last couple of days about more and more “norms” being trashed and institutions that were set up to provide checks and balances being stomped on with cleats.
“It names a grievous assault on the community,” he says. “By making a travesty of the rules and institutions that undergird our societal life, contempt of public threatens to undermine that essential if often hard-to-define societal lubricant: trust.”
In this must-read piece, Kimball calls the appointment of Weiss as special counsel “a multifaceted act of public contempt.” It’s entirely possible, he says, that with the boldness being used to pursue Trump, he might win the nomination, and then the election, from jail. At least then, when he pardoned himself, most Americans would know his convictions had been politically based.
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, a man capable of saying absolutely anything his party wants him to say no matter how obviously untrue, had some tough sledding this Sunday on CNN, when even Jake Tapper acknowledged that what Joe Biden had said about Hunter not making money in China was untrue. All Raskin could do was try to shift the conversation to Trump. Pretty hilarious.
(NOTE: We apologize for the use of the expression “the walls are closing in” that appears in the linked-to piece. How many times have we all heard that one? Even though the walls finally do appear to be...well, you know...we’d prefer it if news outlets didn’t copy each other’s verbiage quite so much.)
Speaking of people like Raskin who will say anything, Hunter attorney Abbe Lowell spoke with Kaitlin Collins on CNN and blamed the failure of the plea agreement on “every MAGA right-wing fanatic.” He blamed Trump, too, for “trying to use Hunter Biden to explain his own conduct.” I didn’t say it had to make sense.
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August 13, 2023
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Reader asks about rule "disqualifying" Weiss
From Nancy S. on Substack:
So if Weiss is not qualified or eligible to be special counsel, how can he be? Where are the checks and balances? It seems we hear too often that ‘this isn’t legal’ or ‘against the law’. And where do all these judges come from that can stop something from going forward? I’m so confused!!!
Staff writer Laura Ainsworth writes:
The closest I can find to precedent for this is John Durham's appointment. He was the U.S. attorney for Connecticut at the time he was named as special counsel on the origins of Crossfire Hurricane (the Russia Hoax), but he did resign that position so as not to violate the letter of this rule. In contrast, according to what Garland said Friday, Weiss will continue to serve as U.S. attorney WHILE being special counsel. (Aside from that, there's also the slight problem of him being appointed to investigate the younger Biden at the behest of someone who was appointed by the elder Biden.)
Unlike with laws that are passed by Congress, there don't seem to be any teeth to this regulation at all. One analyst said, "the AG is not subject to being disciplined for ignoring a regulation that he could set aside if he wanted to...and the regulations provide there is no right created in anyone to force compliance --- in a court or otherwise --- with this regulation in the event it is violated." So apparently Garland can violate the rule any time he wants to, and as far as we know, no one can do anything about it.
So, to answer your question, there appear to be NO "checks and balances" on this rule. My question now would be, what's the point in even having the rule, then? It's just another "norm" to be trashed. One more guiding principle out the window. The left seem to have no guiding principles except those that they can use to have their way.
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Continued Prayers
Please continue to pray for the people of Hawaii, where the death toll from the wildfires on Maui has reached at least 80 with many still unaccounted for. The fires are reportedly 85% contained as of Friday night, but the devastation is widespread. If you can help financially, a donation to Samaritan’s Purse will ensure that your gift will reach the victims quickly and most efficiently. They are already partnering with local churches and emergency management to help those in need. You can learn more and donate here: https://www.samaritanspurse.org/
First ruling
The first ruling by Judge Tanya Chutkin in Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump for running for President…oops, sorry: for whatever it is he allegedly did to challenge the 2020 election… wasn’t the partisan slamdunk for Smith that many expected.
Despite her reputation as a Democrat donor and harsh partisan, Chutkin said she wouldn’t be influenced by politics in handling the case and rejected Smith’s attempt to take away Trump’s First Amendment right to talk about the case. However, she did limit what Trump could say on social media, warning that he could not reveal “sensitive” evidence like witness testimony or discuss witnesses, which could amount to witness intimidation.
Whether this signals a sincere effort at impartial professionalism or just an attempt to create the appearance of it to cover for another kangaroo court proceeding against Trump remains to be seen.
Of course, a fully nonpartisan judge would probably throw all these bogus charges out entirely, considering Smith has tipped his hand about his real intentions (election interference) by asking for a trial date that coincides with the beginning of the primary campaign season.
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AOC thinks she knows more about the law than Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas…
Rep. Alexandria Oscasio-Cortez – who, of course, knows more about laws governing the Supreme Court than Justice Clarence Thomas does – sent a letter to the Biden DOJ demanding an ethics investigation of Thomas. She accuses him of taking improper gifts, like dresses, jewelry and free tickets to the Met Gala…no, wait: that was her. Here’s her ode to hypocrisy based on a slanted hit piece by a leftwing media outlet, and Thomas’ response.
AOC Sends DOJ a Letter Demanding Investigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas – PJ Media
What is with the Democrats’ fixation on trying to destroy a powerful, accomplished and successful black man? There are nine Justices on the Supreme Court, five of them conservatives, but all their attacks are aimed at the black guy. Don’t they have a word for that?
ZERO coverage
Here’s another Biden story that I bet will get zero coverage on CNN and MSNBC.
California stupidity
California’s politicians have a plan for dealing with the huge power shortages their previous plans have caused:
1. Force everyone to buy electric cars.
2. When there’s the threat of a blackout (probably because of everyone having to charge their electric cars), drain the power out of everyone’s electric car batteries and back into the grid.
It’s like a perpetual motion machine of stupidity!
A new standard
I always say that liberals need euphemisms because if they told us straight out what they believe, any decent or intelligent person would reject it. That’s how giving permanently disfiguring chemicals and surgery to confused minors became “gender-affirming care” and “killing babies in the womb up to the moment of birth” became “reproductive rights.”
(Think I’m exaggerating? Ohio voters having rejected making it harder to amend the state constitution, the state Supreme Court just okayed putting an amendment on the ballot to remove all limits on abortion, making abortion up to the moment of birth a constitutional right and forcing taxpayers to pay for it.)
But here’s a euphemism that may set a new standard for ridiculousness. Cromwell Hospital in London wants to be “inclusive” and not offend any delusional people by using a divisive term like “women.” So instead, their forms ask people if they are a “patient of childbearing potential.”
Of course, once a hospital prioritizes indulging delusions over medical science, there’s no end to it. So I’m sure the trans activists will complain that this term excludes men, whom we all know can now menstruate and “get pregnant, too!” More realistically, it also implies that post-menopausal women aren’t women.
Lincoln Brown at PJ Media had some fun taking this nonsense to the next level. Among his several suggested new euphemisms are referring to men as “people of jar-opening potential” and dogs as “animals of barking potential.” I’d call these hospital administrators “people of barking mad potential.”
Woody is sooooo scary
Hollywood liberals savagely turned on one of their own for daring to exhibit just enough independent thought to endorse a different liberal than the one the leftist orthodoxy demands they endorse. With the SAG strike dragging on, don't you miss seeing these people dispensing their political wisdom on talk shows?
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In a 4-3 ruling, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the deep blue state’s “assault weapons” ban. This is likely to be overturned by the US Supreme Court, but I’m linking to this story by Ward Clark at Redstate.com because it illustrates a point I've been making for over a decade: the people who want to ban so-called “assault weapons” can’t even identify what they are.
The story contains a list of features that, under the law, qualify a weapon as a banned “assault weapon.” But as Clark points out, they’re purely cosmetic: “none of these features have any effect on the power or lethality of a firearm.” He even cites a weapon that’s arguably more lethal but not banned because it doesn’t meet the cosmetic criteria.
But then, why expect that the Democrats who wrote this bill would know anything about guns, considering it’s called the “Protect Our Communities Act” but all it would do is take firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens in places like Chicago so they can’t protect themselves from the criminals who have illegal weapons?
John King is shocked!
When I wrote my book “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy” about the widening disconnect between media and political elites and working Americans, I hoped it might goad the former into actually talking to the latter. Well, it finally happened, but it didn’t work out as I’d hoped.
CNN sent “reporter” John King to talk to some Iowa Republicans, and he was shocked – shocked! – to discover that they think like Iowa Republicans. For instance, they have reverence for Ronald Reagan, support Trump and think he’s being targeted by a corrupt DOJ, don’t trust the government or CNN, and don’t approve of sending endless billions and all our ammunition to Ukraine. The horrified King thinks this is the result of them being in “thrall” to Trump and being “conspiracy theorists” who “consume conservative media who don’t tell them the whole truth.”
Not like CNN, which spent years flogging the phony Trump-Russian collusion hoax. And bought the lie that Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation. And that is still pretending not to notice the stench of corruption from the Biden influence peddling family business. Sorry, John, but nobody with a brain needs Trump to tell them what they’re seeing with their own eyes and smelling with their own noses.
King lamented, “They’re good people…They go to Church! But they believe things that would break our fact-check machine. And they don’t trust us! They think we’re part of the problem!”
News flash: You are. And breaking your “fact-check machine,” that thing that rates truth by how closely it hews to DNC talking points, would actually be a good first step to reclaiming the credibility you long ago flushed down the toilet.
Related: Instapundit reminds us of just a few reasons why Americans don’t trust CNN and are correct not to do so:
https://instapundit.com/600125/
Important Reminder
Important Reminder: While the Biden DOJ’s attempt to railroad a pro-life activist into prison for 11 years was thwarted by a jury, they’re not giving up. They have a whole slate of pro-life activists whom they’re still trying to imprison for years for exercising their First Amendment rights. Here are the details:
Meanwhile, actual terrorists who have threatened and firebombed pro-life pregnancy centers are still walking around free because identifying, arresting and prosecuting them would require real law enforcement work.
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Huckabee Post: BULLETIN: AG Garland appoints Hunter special counsel, BUT it's David Weiss
August 12, 2023
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BULLETIN: AG Garland appoints Hunter special counsel, BUT it's David Weiss
In breaking news Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced his appointment of a special counsel in the Hunter Biden case. And who might that be? Why, the most inappropriate choice possible: David Weiss, the same federal prosecutor in (yes) Delaware who has been leading the so-called investigation into Hunter's tax and financial improprieties.
We've said that any special counsel tasked with investigating the Bidens should not be appointed by Biden's own AG but by a panel of judges. Too late now.
Garland said that Weiss had come to him saying that the investigation had reached a stage at which he should continue his work as a special counsel, and that "he asked to be appointed." Talk about deja vu --- wasn't there a story that Weiss earlier had asked to be made special counsel and was turned down? For some reason, the timing is better now. Better for whom? I think we know.
Given what IRS whistleblowers have said about the investigation to this point, and the odd coordination between Weiss and Hunter's legal team on Hunter's outrageous "get out of jail free" plea deal, it would seem that both the selection of Weiss and the timing of his appointment are designed to keep the Biden investigation under wraps. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio said through a spokesman, "David Weiss can't be trusted and this is just a new way to whitewash the Biden family's corruption. Weiss has already signed off on a 'sweetheart' plea deal that was so awful and unfair that a federal judge rejected it. We will continue to pursue facts brought to light by brave whistleblowers as well as Weiss's inconsistent statements to Congress."
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky released a statement as well: "This move by AG Garland is part of the Justice Department's efforts to attempt a Biden family cover-up in light of [the Oversight Committee's] mounting evidence of President Biden's role in his family's schemes selling 'the brand' for millions of dollars to foreign nationals."
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith said, "I think that this should be concerning to all Americans --- this attempt to whitewash the Biden family corruption. I mean, Mr. Weiss is the single architect over that sweetheart plea agreement/deal that the judge in Delaware threw out just a few weeks ago." He fears this is just another attempt to stonewall Congress and block their oversight authority.
Weiss was supposed to be going before Congress himself in September or October; it had been cleared with the DOJ. But that testimony almost certainly will be put on hold now --- perhaps even until all his work is completed! One might imagine what Jim Jordan has to say about that, and it's probably not printable.
Legal analyst Andrew C. McCarthy said, "Under Weiss, the statute of limitations continues to run." That would encompass behavior relating to Hunter's lucrative "work" on the Burisma board during 2014-2015. "Every day Weiss doesn't go in to indict the case, the case is disappearing."
McCarthy also pointed out that what makes a special counsel "special" is that he or she is brought in from completely outside the government. That's specifically the way the law is written. "And that's because there's a conflict of interest that prevents the Biden Justice Department from investigating the President's son for conduct that implicates the President.
"So, this guy's just a vehicle for them to flush the case," McCarthy continued. "...Under the special counsel regulations, he's NOT QUALIFIED. He's not eligible to be a special counsel. This whole thing is a sham."
In another announcement, the DOJ has dropped Hunter's plea deal case in Delaware --- thank you, Judge Maryellen Noreika, for not rubber-stamping it --- meaning it appears they're planning to go on to trial, probably in California because that's where Hunter was living during the years in question. President Biden and his crew are headed out to Delaware this weekend for a little R&R and likely have deferred all questions to Hunter's legal team.
Iran deal
The Biden White House agreed to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian assets in exchange for five Americans being released from prison, where they were being held on bogus charges. The money will be transferred to the central bank of Qatar, where the Qatar government will make sure it’s used only for “humanitarian purchases” (can you hear my eyes rolling from where you are?) The move sparked outrage and accusations that the Administration is paying ransom to rogue states, which will only lead to more Americans being taken prisoner to extort us.
Worse, all the Biden people reportedly got for that $6 billion was that the Americans were moved from prison to house arrest, still in Iran. They now have to negotiate more – and will probably give away even more – if they ever want to bring them home.
I miss having a President whom the mullahs were scared of and who actually understood the Art of the Deal.
Not a surprise:
Sen. Joe Manchin says he’s seriously thinking of quitting the Democratic Party because the national “brand” of the Party, as it's reflected in Washington, DC, “has become so bad.”
But that doesn’t mean Manchin will become a Republican. He wants to see an Independent party rise up to represent “the middle.” Problem is, third parties usually just end up siphoning off votes from whatever party they most resemble (Libertarians from the GOP, Greens from the Democrats, etc.) and helping to elect the party that least reflects their views.
It’s also doubtful that Manchin will retain his seat in West Virginia next year whether he’s a Democrat, Republican, Independent or Mugwump. Republicans are angry at him for being hoodwinked into supporting Biden’s massive spending bill, the “Inflation Reduction Act,” and Democrats are angry with him for standing in the way of their radical plans to remake America into North Venezuela. A recent poll showed Republican Gov. Jim Justice, who’s challenging Manchin for his Senate seat, was leading him by 22 points.
Related: President Biden admitted he has a regret about the “Inflation Reduction Act.” Not that it irresponsibly spends money we don’t have on his pet projects like “climate change,” fueling the out-of-control national debt and actually making inflation worse. No, he said, “I wish I hadn’t called it that. It has less to do with inflation than it does providing alternatives to economic growth.”
For once, I agree with him. It should have been called “The Democrats’ Alternative to Economic Growth" Bill.
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She seems great…
Arizona certainly has a rare gem in Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs. Narrowly elected in a race that her office ran and that many people believe was at best flawed and at worst stolen, it’s now been revealed that in 2017, Hobbs not only used her Twitter account to smear Donald Trump and his supporters as “neo-Nazis,” but then pressured Twitter to censor people who criticized her for it.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/08/10/democrat-n2626887
It’s amazing how fascistic people who call other people “Nazis” can be these days.
An examination of Bidenomics
President Biden and his media posse can’t figure out why voters don’t like “Bidenomics” and can’t see how much it’s accomplished and how it’s improved their lives. So David Harsanyi at Townhall.com decided to examine Bidenomics to figure out what exactly it is and what the results have been.
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2023/08/11/bidenomics-has-been-a-disaster-n2626881
Spoiler alert: He found that there is no coherent economic philosophy to Bidenomics. It’s just a lot of “platitudinous gibberish” that “makes absolutely zero sense” but is used to justify doing “anything and everything that's convenient for Democrats.” After tracing all the failed predictions, negative results and squandered trillions of borrowed dollars, Harsanyi concludes that “if ‘Bidenomics’ had meant doing absolutely nothing, it would have been the President's greatest political accomplishment.” All he really had to do was just let the booming economy that was shut down by COVID reopen. Unfortunately, it meant doing a lot of stuff, much of it contradictory and all of it wrong, and created “the biggest four-year inflationary spike under any President in 40 years.”
If this doesn’t explain to the media talking heads why Americans hate Bidenomics, then I suggest they go fill up the gas tank of an SUV.
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EV nightmare
In case you haven’t yet gotten the message from all the warnings I keep running about electric cars, try this firsthand testimonial. Dalbir Bala of Winnipeg wanted a responsible, environmentally-friendly vehicle, so he bought a Ford F150 Lightning EV. By the time he finished installing chargers in his house and workplace, and upgrading his home’s electric panel, he’d spent $130,000. He got into a minor fender bender, and the truck was in the shop for six months, while Ford ignored his calls and emails for help.
Then he decided to take his family on a road trip to Chicago. It ended up making Chevy Chase’s road trip in “National Lampoon’s Vacation” look like smooth sailing. His family was left “stuck, hungry, and heartbroken.” They had the EV towed to a Ford dealer, where they rented a gas-powered vehicle to complete the trip. You can read the details of their EV nightmare at this link:
Bala said, "The actual thing they promised is not even close. Not even 50%. And once you buy it, you're stuck with it and you have to carry huge losses to get rid of that. And nobody is there to help you." He called the misleading sales job on electric vehicles the “biggest scam of modern times."
It’s also the biggest abuse of government power to bamboozle Americans into buying a lemon since the election of the guy who’s trying to make us all buy EVs.
More of This, Please:
After Southwest Airlines fired flight attendant Charlene Carter because of her religious beliefs and her protest of her union’s pro-abortion activism, a Texas jury awarded her $5 million in damages. The judge also ordered Southwest to inform its flight attendants that under Title VII, the airline cannot discriminate against them based on their religious beliefs.
Southwest reacted to that ruling the way Joe Biden would: by acting as if they still believed they were right and trying to get around doing what the court ordered them to do. So the judge decided that maybe they just don’t understand what religious freedom means. He’s now ordered the three Southwest lawyers that he believes are most responsible for their actions to attend a mandatory training seminar on religious freedom rights.
That’s a good start. Now, let’s force all lawyers to attend that seminar.
Related: Say, you know who else might get a court order to attend a seminar on the First Amendment? How about White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre?
Is this what you want in America?
This is a story out of not-so-Great-anymore Britain, about an autistic girl who was arrested on “suspicion of a homophobic public order offense” and taken away crying, kicking and screaming because she said one of the police officers looked like a lesbian.
This is what happens when you not only allow speech to be criminalized, but when you create entire “protected” classes of people for whom offending them is a criminal offense. And why would lesbians be protected, but not autistic children? I wish all the young people who think we need those kinds of speech laws here in America would watch this video and then answer this question: “Do you really think THIS kind of heartless tyranny is what we need in America?”
A Manufactured Crisis
I’ve been trying for years to battle the left’s false narrative that the “science is settled” (whether it’s about climate, COVID or whatever.) Anyone who says that, or who tries to shut down any voices challenging “scientific consensus” is unwittingly broadcasting that they know nothing about science. Science is never “settled” as long as there’s more that we can learn, and challenging consensus with alternative views and theories is the very definition of the scientific process.
Of course, today, climate science, like gender dysphoria, has been hopelessly corrupted by politics. Researchers know that if they want to get published or funded, there is only one climate finding they’d better come up with: apocalyptic doom. Now, someone from inside the climate science community is speaking up to say we skeptics were right. She told John Stossel that the “overwhelming consensus” that there’s a “climate crisis” is “manufactured.” It’s fueled by an establishment that wants that outcome and that gives scientists who support climate alarmism fame and fortune while destroying those who question it.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/climate-scientist-admits-the-overwhelming-consensus-is-manufactured/
How does she know? Because she published a paper claiming that climate change was causing more hurricanes, and thanks to that, she was adopted by climate activist groups, treated like a rock star and flown all over the place with politicians. That is, until some brave scientists pointed out mistakes in her research. Unlike many of her colleagues, she actually looked at their research and realized they were right and she was wrong. She thinks this as the real science process we should be following, but instead, we have “a massive government-funded climate alarmism complex.”
A viral sensation
I’ve heard music critics say they’re baffled by the recent lack of big hits in the hip-hop and pop genres and how some of the biggest songs recently have come from country artists or unknowns who’ve blown up on social media. Maybe audiences are just tired of the same slick, overproduced recycled garbage and are longing for authentic voices and songs that reflect what they are really feeling and experiencing.
That would definitely explain this latest viral sensation: Farmville, Virginia, factory worker Oliver Anthony, whose song “Rich Men North of Richmond” about the growing frustration and anger of working Americans toward the privileged elites has become a viral sensation.
Much Needed Weekend Laughs
The Babylon Bee is really on fire these days, but then, they have a lot of people working overtime to provide them with material…
https://babylonbee.com/news/galactic-empire-recruits-megan-rapinoe-to-train-stormtroopers-to-shoot
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-indicted-for-us-womens-soccer-defeat
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-indicted-for-hawaii-wildfire
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Huckabee Post: The evidence is there: Joe Biden should be indicted for B-R-I-B-E-R-Y
August 11, 2023
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DAILY BIBLE VERSE
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Matthew 28:19
Pray for the people of Hawaii
Please join me in praying for the people of Hawaii and the firefighters battling deadly wildfires that are ravaging the island of Maui in what could become the worst disaster there in history. Eighty percent of Historic Lahaina township is gone, 1700 buildings have been affected, and as of last night, 53 people were confirmed dead. It’s feared that number could rise significantly.
Who are you going to believe about the economy?
Karine Jean-Pierre’s response to polls showing that Americans don’t like “Bidenomics” and give Biden very low marks on his handling of the economy: People are still depressed about the pandemic, but everything’s getting better all the time! Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying bank account?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jean-pierre-confronted-polls-showing-bidenomics-isnt-popular-americans
Totally unrelated, I’m sure: In the second quarter of 2023 (April-June), Americans’ total credit card balances rose by over $45 billion (a little over 4%), topping $1 trillion for the first time ever. Meanwhile, the Fed’s measure of credit card debt that’s 30 or more days late rose to 7.2%, the highest since 2012. I guess people are buying a lot of things on credit, like groceries, to celebrate how much Bidenomics is improving their finances.
Also completely unrelated to Bidenomics: Moody’s downgraded the credit ratings of 10 small to mid-sized regional banks, and listed six other banks that are under review for possible downgrades, including some of America’s largest, like Cullen/Frost and US Bancorp.
MUST-WATCH: Tucker Carlson re-creates interview with former Capitol Police chief that FOX NEWS never aired
On the day he was fired from FOX NEWS, Tucker Carlson was set to air Part 1 of the hour-long interview he’d done with former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund. The interview “made the hair on my arm stand up,” Tucker had said, according to Sund. Nearly four months after departing the channel, Tucker hosted Sund again on Twitter (or “X”) to re-do the interview, and now it’s out.
In the interview, Sund, a 30-year DC law enforcement veteran, relates how he pleaded with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to let him to bring in National Guard troops --- which had been authorized by President Trump but still needed the Speaker’s okay --- and she denied him. (Sund includes Sen. Mitch McConnell in this as well, though Nancy was ultimately in charge.) And in the days before the rally, Sund was oddly out of the loop on intelligence. As he goes on with the story and the frustrations mount, it’s clear that this exclusion smells “off.” “I’ve done many national security events,” he told Tucker, “and this was handled differently.” The denials and delays came from “multiple agencies.”
He’s glad to see that people are investigating, he says, because there are still “puzzle pieces missing.”
“This didn’t have to happen. This was screwed up from the get-go. Numerous opportunities to prevent it from happening.”
“Someone’s gonna find out what’s really behind all this.”
Here’s the stand-alone interview on Rumble. Please watch this through to the end and let us know in the comments what you think; we’ll follow up for the weekend.
From Our “Blind Squirrel Finds Nut” Desk:
President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday declaring a “national emergency” to counter China’s rapid advancement in technologies critical for military, intelligence, surveillance or cyber-enabled capabilities. The order restricts US investment in Chinese tech companies involved in quantum computing, artificial intelligence and advanced semiconductors. I don’t often get the opportunity to say this, but good move, Joe.
However, to be clear, he did not declare the climate to be an emergency. At least not yet, although he appears to think he did.
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Or As The Democrats Call That, “A Coincidence”:
The Biden-related bank records released by House Republicans show that on April 22, 2014, Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev wired $142,300 to the bank account of Hunter Biden’s company, Rosemont Seneca. The next day, that account wired a sum to a New Jersey car dealer to pay for a Fisker sports car for Hunter. The amount: $142,300.
Smells like short order bribery.
Monumental overreach
Here’s some more of the outraged response to President Biden (or more likely, the radical staffers around him who load his Teleprompter) nationalizing a large expanse of Arizona by declaring it a “national monument,” which is literally a monumental overreach of federal power.
https://www.westernjournal.com/furious-republicans-lay-biden-dictator-style-land-grab-arizona/
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Well, shut my mouth! Whoever could have imagined this happening?
The House Judiciary Committee released a document Wednesday that appears to prove that FBI Director Christopher Wray was LYING to Congress when he claimed that only one FBI field office was investigating traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.
Wray claimed that outrageous assault on Americans’ religious faith was just an isolated incident and he was “aghast” when he found out and shut it down immediately.
But after being threatened with contempt charges, the FBI finally released a less-redacted version of the document, which shows that the FBI Richmond Field Office coordinated with multiple offices around the country to produce a memo justifying targeting traditional Catholics as terrorists. The Wall Street Journal reports that in creating it, “The agents relied on half-baked ‘open-source’ reporting from liberal outlets to justify more bureau investigation.” (This is by now a familiar story: the FBI plants fake stories, liberal media run the fake stories, the FBI cites those fake stories as justification for doing more of what it was already doing.)
The memo was titled, “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.” I don’t know what’s more disturbing about that title: that the FBI was trying to target traditional Catholics as potential terrorists, or that they seemed so thrilled at the idea of “new mitigation opportunities.” Haven’t they demonstrated that they already have enough methods for violating citizens’ rights and manufacturing evidence?
The Journal writes, “It’s hard not to conclude that the bureau was trying to hide the breadth of its Catholics-as-radicals investigation.” I’d say you don’t have to be a junior G-man to deduce that.
Here’s more on the story from Fox News, along with the full text of a letter to Wray from Judiciary Committee Republicans, demanding straight answers and all related documents. Good luck!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/several-fbi-offices-anti-catholic-memo-refuting-wrays-testimony-gop
Not likely
It’s still not clear whether Donald Trump will take part in the GOP primary debates. But he is refusing to sign a mandatory pledge to support whoever the party’s candidate is, so it’s not looking likely.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-willing-sign-gop-loyalty-pledge-ahead-debate
No thanks
Having a computer chip with all your ID information on it implanted in your body so you can be scanned everywhere you go, make all your financial transactions electronic and traceable, and allow all your movements to be tracked? How convenient! What possible downside could there ever be to this?
https://www.theblaze.com/news/chip-payment-whole-foods-rfid
What did you expect?
After defunding the police and releasing all the criminals repeatedly, the “progressive” Democrats who run Washington, DC, are shocked to be dealing with a huge violent crime wave. It sparked a viral rant from DC Councilman Trayon White, who called for bringing in the National Guard to protect citizens from criminals. A police union spokesman called that “ridiculous,” and said this city council had defunded and “demilitarized” the police, and now they want to deal with the resulting crime wave by filling the streets with military troops who have no training in police work or securing crime scenes.
This was the topic of an interesting discussion last night on “Gutfeld.” Points included a reminder that Trump suggested using the National Guard, so now they’re admitting Trump was right. But comic Joe Machi made the best point, saying that both were wrong. He said that DC already has everything it needs to deal with crime – laws, jails, police, prosecutors – and just refuses to use them. And bringing in the National Guard would just get Americans used to having a lot of armed military troops in the streets. He’s right, we’re close enough to a banana republic as it is.
Well, it’s official:
In Portland, violence by Antifa against journalists is legal. They can even disrupt the trial, threaten journalists in the courtroom, and suggest they’ll dox the jury members, and they still walk away with no consequences.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/08/09/andy-ngo-antifa-trial-hacker-testimony-n2626762
In an obviously related story, between 2020 and 2021, the county where Portland is located lost over $1 billion in revenue as a result of people fleeing the state.
A Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling worth paying attention to
In a ruling that could impact Hunter Biden’s gun possession case, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a federal law banning anyone "who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance," including marijuana, from owning a gun even when sober violates the Second Amendment.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fifth-circuit-deals-blow-federal-gun-statute-used-hunter-biden-case
The presiding judge wrote that there is a considerable difference between someone who is actively intoxicated and someone is an “unlawful user” of intoxicating substances, and ruled that “Just as there was no historical justification for disarming a citizen of sound mind, there is no tradition that supports disarming a sober citizen who is not currently under an impairing influence.”
So drug users can legally possess guns, as long as they're not actually on drugs at the time? I don’t see how that will help Hunter Biden’s case.
More on the “fact-checkers”
The major reason why we put the term “fact-checkers” in quotation marks is that so many of them aren’t really interested in checking facts. Their job is to defend leftist narratives and put a negative spin on anything that counters them. But there are some statements from Democrats that are so egregiously, jaw-droppingly, brain-bustingly false that not even the Democrat-friendly “fact-checkers” can let them pass without blowing their covers completely. And so it is that PolitiFact was forced to admit that, yes, it was FALSE when Kamala Harris claimed that some polls show she has “great approval ratings.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/kamala-harris-incorrect-fact-checkers-cant-even-cover-false/
Get to know Jack Smith and his practices; you won’t like whatyou see
“My rules for you, no rules for me” describes Jack Smith’s ruthless attempts to limit Trump’s defense. Given the double standard he’s pushing to see imposed, it’s ridiculous for the media to look at what he’s doing, says Tim Graham at TOWNHALL, and “pretend the Trump indictments aren’t shredding a democratic norm, or that they are somehow nonpartisan or nonpolitical.”
Smith’s team is like a fish rotting from the head down. Matt Vespa at TOWNHALL has an update on the very bad thing staffer Jay Bratt is alleged by defense attorney Stanley Woodward to have done --- mentioning Woodward’s pending judgeship in the same breath as pushing him to get his client to “flip” and testify against Trump. This isn’t the first allegation of prosecutorial misconduct to be lobbed against Smith and his team.
The evidence is there: Joe Biden should be indicted for B-R-I-B-E-R-Y
If the alleged $10 million bribe was paid for then-VP Biden to arrange for Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin to be fired, then “Joe Biden is guilty of bribery, Hunter is guilty of...selling official favors from his father. And if that is the case, Joe Biden should be impeached, he should be removed from office, he should be prosecuted, and he should go to prison. And he should share a cell with Hunter for corrupting the government of the United States.”
That was Sen. Ted Cruz speaking Thursday night with Sean Hannity on FOX NEWS. “There’s never been an allegation in the history of our country like this, that a President of the United States --- or a Vice President, in Joe Biden’s case, when these allegations occurred --- sold official favors for millions of dollars.” As you know, the House Oversight Committee has bank records showing that more than $20 million went to Joe Biden’s family, and that’s just what can be confirmed so far.
The money was paid through shell corporations, which exist on paper to launder the money that’s coming in. “I have to tell you,” Cruz said, “I don’t know any individual in government, Republican or Democrat, who has ever done anything remotely like what is alleged here...a business of selling official favors for tens of millions of dollars.”
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6333096645112
Gregg Jarrett appeared on the show as well, making it very clear that what the Bidens were doing is B-R-I-B-E-R-Y. In the Criminal Code, he said, that’s defined as “using your public office for profit, to confer a benefit in exchange for money.” Now that former Hunter business partner Devon Archer has testified, the media are trying to save the President by repeating the talking point that there was no direct payment to him personally --- as if they even knew that was true. But it doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not, because even if his family got rich while his own bank account remained unchanged, it’s still bribery. And we know they pocketed millions, distributed through those myriad shell corporations.
When the bribery involves a foreign entity, as this obviously does, it’s also a crime under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. And, as Jarrett pointed out, the Bidens didn’t even have to deliver on a promise they might have made to that foreign entity. It’s THE PROMISE ITSELF that makes it bribery. Joe Biden was “the closer” to make the deals happen, and that, Jarrett said, is “aiding and abetting,” which makes him an accessory to the crime.
It’s “a prima facia case, right now, of bribery,” according to former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker. “All the pieces and parts are here” that could lead a grand jury to indict. The money is being paid by Burisma to Hunter Biden and is followed by the official act, Biden getting Shokin fired.
“The American Dream is alive and well” (though under threat for the rest of us), Whitaker said, when you consider that Joe Biden was in the private sector for only four years (“two of those years running for President out of his basement”) but managed to accumulate a beachfront home in Delaware and another big house (“almost a mansion.”) “Insane” is the word he used, because “nobody can pile up that kind of money that fast.” The only way would be that “he had this whole scheme laid out over the years that he was Vice President.”
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6333095198112
J. Peder Zane at REALCLEAR INVESTIGATIONS has an eye-opening piece about how THE NEW YORK TIMES did damage control on Devon Archer’s testimony, in an effort “that hinges on the expectation that most people will not read news stories very closely.” Headlines and the first few paragraphs ignore facts about Joe Biden that the NYT wants kept quiet, and most people don’t read further. Yes, we knew that, but some other tricks of the trade are revealed here, too.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/10/from_scandal_to_nothingburger
President Biden needs all the help he can get with that damage control, because he sure can’t answer questions about Archer’s testimony. Look at how he wildly mishandled a question from FOX NEWS’ Peter Doocy on Wednesday.
Of course, the NYT probably wouldn’t want to interview former FBI Assistant Director of Intelligence Kevin Brock, because he says it’s time to get serious with bribery and money laundering investigations. “With the amount of money that they’re uncovering, with the structured money laundering that’s obviously been set up, we can conclude that Joe Biden and his family were for sale,” he told investigative reporter John Solomon. In fact, he’d be asking, “Does this conspiracy go broader than just the Biden family?” He’d “widen the scope a little bit, and start really digging and following the money wherever it leads.”
Oh, and if anyone tries to confront you with Democrat talking points aiming to refute the quid pro quo nature of Viktor Shokin’s firing, make sure they read Margot Cleveland’s thorough take-down…
Finally, what will it take to get Democrats to stop making excuses and pretending that there’s nothing to see here? The Babylon Bee gives us an idea…
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Polls show indictments against President Trump have been followed by a boost in his poll numbers
August 10, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Polls show that once again, indictments against President Trump have been followed by a boost in his poll numbers.
https://www.westernjournal.
One poll in New Hampshire found that 62% of the state’s Republicans would support him even if he’s convicted, and 57% would support him even if he were sent to prison.
There’s also a lot of chatter recently about voters feeling “indictment fatigue.” Democrats hope this means that they are turning away from Trump because they don’t want to have to deal with all these legal issues. There may be some of that, but I believe more and more Americans are starting to wake up to the obvious partisan motivations of the prosecutors and the flimsiness of their charges and are fatigued with partisan prosecutors abusing their power to "get Trump." Studies have shown that social media posts about the indictments have been dropping with each new charge as people realize what a joke it is and are shrugging it off (not to say it doesn’t represent genuine peril for Trump, especially with the legal systems and jury pools so stacked against him.)
The Dems have been railing about what a monster and criminal Trump was from the moment he came down that escalator, and we’ve since learned what a crock most of their accusations were, with the “evidence” manufactured by his political opponents. Now, they seem to be indicting him for everything he does: Make a phone call? Indict him! Possess his own presidential papers? Indict him! Speak out about what he thinks was a rigged election? Indict him! Defend himself against being repeatedly indicted? Indict him! All while they completely ignore real criminals committing real crimes. No wonder people are fatigued with this charade.
Long before Trump came on the political scene, I was writing about how we have way too many laws, so many that every citizen breaks ten before breakfast without even knowing it. The Democrats are determined to prosecute Trump for every one of them. But the only thing that makes our society livable is that we don’t prosecute every piddling infraction of some arcane law, or worse yet, one of the millions upon millions of regulations with the force of law.
In the United States of America, there should never be such a thing as a “regulation with the force of law,” a de facto law made by a bureaucrat who was elected by nobody.
With their mindless fury against Trump and their ever-more-obvious partisan abuse of the legal system on full display, Democrats are showing Americans that we have too many laws and that the people in charge of prosecuting them have too much power and not enough impartiality or judgement. That’s something they shouldn’t be demonstrating if they want to stay in power because nobody who wants less of that kind of abuse of government power is going to vote for a Democrat.
A stark portrait of the immense damage that the Biden Administration has done to America via nonexistent border security
August 10, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Over the weekend, several separate stories came in that when you put them together, reveal a stark portrait of the immense damage that the Biden Administration has done to America via nonexistent border security. Now that the damage is hitting staunch Democrats in northern blue states, maybe they’ll finally take their blinders off and think a little harder before voting for more of it, but I wouldn't count on it.
The saga begins with this story, about Biden traveling to Arizona over the weekend, where he dispensed enough bull manure to fill the Grand Canyon. There’s plenty to criticize here, like the fact that he’s abusing federal power to usurp land rights from the state and local ranchers, and empower Russia and China by limiting our ability to mine for needed minerals there. Even more galling, he claimed to be doing this to fight the “climate crisis,” yet he announced it by flying there on Air Force One and taking a huge CO2-spewing motorcade to several events, including a number of vitally important campaign fundraisers.
But we’re talking about his border policy disaster, so let it be noted that he came to Arizona, a state that’s been devastated by the massive influx of illegal immigrants, drugs and cartel members under his “watch,” and didn’t even say a word about it.
Meanwhile, it’s not just border states anymore that are suffering due to Biden’s open border. The “Sanctuary City” (Liberals never imagined anyone would take them up on that!) of New York City is strained to the breaking point by streets filled with illegal migrants. Now, parents are furious at Mayor Eric Adams over plans to build a tent city for 57,000 of them, with migrant housing taking over space now used as parks and sports fields for kids.
And while Democrats have long painted Trump as a horrible racist for saying that other countries weren’t always sending their best people to the US, Americans got a frightening look at what he really meant this weekend. Fox News obtained surveillance video from the Texas border, showing three men moving through the brush wearing body armor and carrying rifles. They’re believed to be Mexican drug cartel members. Or as Democrats would call them, “Dreamers.”
You might recall that one of the very first things Biden did upon taking office was to order a halt to all border wall construction, even in areas where it was nearly completed. In their very first instance of being concerned about such a thing, Democrats claimed the wall was a waste of taxpayers’ money – even though stopping construction cost more than finishing it. But the wall started under Trump and “Trump BAD!” so the wall had to be bad, too, right? After all, walls only provide security when they’re around the homes and neighborhoods of rich liberals.
Well, the Washington Post estimates that just so far, Biden has given $66 billion of the taxpayers’ money to Ukraine for the endless war with Russia. Breitbart.com estimates that that’s nearly enough money to build a security wall along the entire US border with Mexico -- and then add a second one.
Finally, speaking of how border security barriers are baaaaad, but barriers around places where Democrats live are good, this might be the ultimate A-B comparison to illustrate the hypocrisy.
https://www.westernjournal.
Also worth pointing out: the two migrants that Democrats are trying to claim were killed by the floating barrier Texas Gov. Greg Abbott put in the Rio Grande actually drowned while trying to cross upriver and their bodies were carried by the currents until they were caught in the barrier. Never let the truth get in the way of a good propaganda narrative.
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By now you’ve no doubt heard about the “secret” controversial memo leaked to THE NEW YORK TIMES concerning a possible plan involving alternate slates of electors for the vote count in DC. The reporting on this from the left has been gleeful. This memo was written by Kennth Cheseboro, assumed to be one of the unnamed “co-conspirators” in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump on charges relating to January 6. In the TIMES story and subsequent coverage --- as well as the indictment --- the term “fake electors” is used to describe these alternate electors, which as the term is generally understood are not “fake,” or unconstitutional, or even anything new, as Hawaii chose a slate of alternate electors in one very close election in case the count flipped.
And if we understand, Cheseboro wasn’t talking about using them to “overturn” an election, either, but to buy time until the Supreme Court might look at the case. In light of the preceding story about alleged voter registration fraud involving hundreds of thousands of applications in a swing state, it seems reasonable to at least ask the Court to take a look at some of the worst allegations.
“I recognize that what I suggest is a bold, controversial strategy,” he wrote in the memo, “and that there are many reasons why it might not end up being executed on Jan. 6.”
Since this was presented simply as one possible strategy from an adviser and nothing came of it, it’s hard for this non-lawyer to understand what might have been criminal about it. And I have to wonder what we’d see if we could read the internal memos of, say, the Gore team when they were actively challenging the vote count in Florida. But, of course, we didn’t get to see THOSE…
We’ll be looking at what the most brilliant legal minds have to say about this and come back with more tomorrow. In the meantime, of course, the left will be spinning it like crazy.
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New memo details Biden family foreign business dealings
August 10, 2023
Mike Huckabee
This morning, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer released a third memo detailing the Biden family’s foreign business dealings. This one includes screenshots of redacted bank records that allegedly show Hunter Biden and his associates received millions of dollars from Russian and Kazakhstani oligarchs when Joe Biden was Vice President.
Detailing behavior that I'm sure Rep. Dan Goldman will describe as "being a loving dad," the memo says, "Then-Vice President Biden met—in person, for significant periods of time—with those individuals or their representatives. Then-Vice President Biden joined approximately 20 phone calls on speakerphone with Hunter Biden’s foreign business associates and attended dinners with foreign oligarchs who paid huge sums of money to Hunter Biden. Joe Biden, ‘the brand,’ was the only product the Bidens sold.” These memos bring the total of money allegedly paid to the Bidens to $20 million.
I’m sure we’ll have more on this story tomorrow. In the meantime, I predict that before noon today, Trump will be indicted for felony jaywalking and that’s all the media will talk about.
Here’s a new trend I really like
August 10, 2023
Mike Huckabee
First, Elon Musk said he would pay the legal bills of anyone who sues because they lost their job over something they posted on Twitter. Now, the people who organized the legal defense of Kyle Rittenhouse have formed Themis Alliance, a nonprofit to help regular people who’ve been victims of cancel culture fight back.
Board member Jillian Anderson said, “Witnessing the media’s immense power, I was personally driven to support Kyle and his shattered family, victims of relentless smears by mainstream media. This experience led me to help create Themis Alliance, providing a voice and platform for those silenced by the woke mob and cancel culture. Together, we’ll empower the voiceless to reclaim their narratives.”
Excellent! Keep hitting them in the pocketbook, it’s the most vulnerable part of their anatomy.
Why nobody believes the New York Times anymore
August 10, 2023
Mike Huckabee
And now it’s time for reason #53,512 why nobody believes the New York Times anymore. Today’s reason: the Times tried to aid radical leftists who are attempting to topple the conservative majority on the Supreme Court by throwing fuel on their baseless ethics charges against Clarence Thomas, in this case by claiming he accepted an expensive Super Bowl ring as a gift from billionaire Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Cue the howls of the outrage mob and calls for Thomas to resign or be impeached!
But hold the phone: sources close to Thomas say that’s not a real Super Bowl ring, it’s just a cheap replica. You can buy one on eBay for 12 bucks. Thomas reportedly used it as a paperweight. Mark Paoletta, author of a book about Thomas, said, "I expect the New York Times to issue a retraction on this falsehood, and an apology to Justice Thomas." And I expect the New York Jets to win the Super Bowl before that ever happens.
I guess it’s understandable that the Times wouldn’t know the difference between a real Super Bowl ring and a fourth-rate facsimile, since they no longer even know the difference between being a real newspaper and a fourth-rate facsimile.
Mike Huckabee
If you’ve been reading this newsletter, you already know that the now-disbanded Kangaroo Kommittee chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi failed to preserve the records of its investigation into January 6 as it was required to do. Conveniently, it even destroyed its records of communications with the White House. (Surprise!) But this report from FOX NEWS has more details...
Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who chairs the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration (tasked with addressing the security failures), says he was told the “Blue Team,” the part of the J6 committee specifically directed to investigate the security failures at the Capitol, was essentially shut down by the committee in order to focus like a laser beam on blaming President Trump. (Again, surprise!)
Loudermilk’s subcommittee did get a lot of material, presented in a completely haphazard fashion, but he has not seen “anything from the Blue Team as far as reports on the investigation they did looking into the actual breach itself.” That’s apparently gone. He also doesn’t have video of all the depositions.
Thompson is disputing the claim that they were required to keep those records. “He’s saying they didn’t have to,” Loudermilk said. “It was clear in law they had to, and...if there was any question, the fact that they used the videos in the hearings would dictate that it had to be preserved.
“The more we go in, the more we’re realizing that there’s things that we don’t have. We don’t have anything about security failures at the Capitol, we don’t have the videos of the depositions.”
One thing Loudermilk did come across that he said wasn’t turned over to his subcommittee: a letter from Thompson to White House counsel Richard Sauber and DHS discussing an “agreement” between the J6 committee and the Executive Branch to interview personnel whose names were later redacted. Loudermilk can’t help but wonder what this was about. “Did they not want us to know that there were documents that they had sent back to the Executive Branch?”
Of course they didn’t. And it’s obvious that if the J6 committee was dealing with security failures, it was to cover them up, not investigate them. As Loudermilk put it, “We’ve got enough to know there was a huge intelligence failure. I think Chairman Thompson’s response to me is indicting of him. It’s almost like saying, okay, yeah, we decided not to give you stuff. And I’m reading it as, Oh, you decided not to give us the things that you didn’t want us to see. I mean, that’s kind of the way you have to look at this.”
Not just “kind of” --- it’s the only way you can look at it. Perhaps they don’t realize that it’s backfiring when they continue to insult our intelligence.
BREITBART makes it clear: Last year, incoming Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy demanded that the J6 committee preserve all of its evidence, records and transcripts. The committee apparently did not preserve the raw evidence that its attorneys spent months --- and millions of taxpayer dollars --- collecting. You can bet that if this material had supported their goal of blaming Trump for everything that happened on January 6, they would have kept every last scrap of paper.
Mark Levin pointed out on Tuesday that this destruction “effectively denied former President Trump of access to evidence that might potentially help his defense in the criminal prosecutions that the committee itself had urged the Department of Justice to launch. And it also prevented other witnesses from clearing their names.” Can you cay “obstruction”?
Joel Pollak at BREITBART noted the irony of Trump being charged with mishandling documents when it’s the J6 Committee that actually DESTROYED documents. As far as we know, the DOJ is not investigating Thompson or anyone on the committee for destroying those documents. And we won’t be hearing any differently as long as the current crew is in charge, mark my words. For now, Democrats get to destroy documents and obstruct justice to their hearts’ content, and they act accordingly.
Just as the J6 committee has worked to control its J6 narrative, so the WASHINGTON POST has quietly, gradually tweaked its own reporting on the Hunter Biden scandal so as not to have to issue major, earth-shattering corrections. Their top fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, has been busy since Devon Archer’s testimony making updates to stories they reported in 2020 and 2021. This piece from THE NEW YORK POST --- who got their reporting on the Biden story correct from the start, despite it being branded “Russian disinformation” --- is really quite hilarious, and you know they must have enjoyed playing “gotcha.”
It was Paul Sperry at REALCLEAR INVESTIGATIONS who noticed what Kessler was doing with the Hunter story at WAPO, gradually adapting their narrative rather than admitting they were wrong. And Kessler continued to downplay Hunter’s business associations as much as possible.
The transcript of Archer’s recent testimony, however, shows that the NY POST, not WAPO, had it right in the first place. Miranda Devine’s reporting was confirmed.
“Most facts were always there,” Perry wrote. “It was only when the facts were amplified by government hearings, reports and depositions, as well as other news sites and Twitter, that Kessler revised his analysis --- while still resisting calling his revisions ‘corrections.’”
“Despite the rolling disclosures reaching a critical mass,” he continued, “the [WASHINGTON] POST has not published a separate news story examining its own errors, which misinformed voters ahead of the November 2020 presidential election and continued to mislead the public deep into the Biden presidency.”
Sperry notes that the clearly partisan Kessler, who portrays himself as “a neutral arbiter of truth in journalism,” wrote the book “Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President’s Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies.” As I said, this piece is hilarious. Highly recommended.
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For the past couple of days, GATEWAY PUNDIT has been breaking a story about massive 2020 voter fraud in Michigan, allegedly involving thousands of criminally falsified voter registration forms, and federal officials keeping it on the lowdown, as the saying goes. Here’s their Part 1...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.
“It should be noted,” they wrote, “that after documenting these crimes and investigating for weeks, the Michigan police turned over their investigation to the FBI, who promptly buried the findings. [Editorial aside: Well, of course they did.] Once again, the FBI apparently took no action --- more on that in an upcoming report.”
So, here’s that report, Part 2…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.
Their report claims that one company that appears to be implicated in the fake registration strategy is GBI Strategies, with offices near Muskegon. When police went there, they found “semiautomatic guns, silencers/suppressors, burner phones, a bag of pre-paid cash cards, and incomplete registrations, in an office space that was styled as an eyeglass store that had gone defunct.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.
One very educated estimate (from a former Michigan secretary of state) put the number of ballot applications mailed out to people unqualified to vote in Michigan at over 800,000. This would include non-citizens, underage people, and those who had moved or died.
Green Energy Proterra gives Solyndra a run for its money
August 10, 2023
Democrats have a completely unfounded belief that liberals in Washington who have law or poli-sci degrees and have spent their entire lives in politics and government should be in charge of deciding what new technologies are funded or suppressed. As a free market Republican, I think that the market is the best source of innovation and the government should get out of the way. But time and again, Democrats waste billions of our tax dollars, backing stupid ideas (electric cars, anyone?) and showering money on their cronies and backers, only to see these companies go belly-up when some superior technology pops ups and they can’t compete if they aren’t being propped up with heavy federal subsidies.
My favorite example has long been the solar panel company Solyndra, which got $500 million in taxpayer-backed loans under Obama and was going to revolutionize energy and create those famous “green jobs” Democrats are always going on about. After building a lavish headquarters building, Solyndra went bankrupt. But now, I might have a new contender. Remember this name: Proterra.
Proterra is a maker of electric buses that stood to make millions from the “green energy” tax credits and grants in Biden’s money cannon laughably known as the “Inflation Reduction Act.” Biden even took a virtual tour of their facility in April 2021. He declared that they were “getting us in the game” and predicted their EVs would “end up owning the future.” Because predicting future trends in automotive technology is one of his fields of expertise.
This was good news for Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who was on Proterra’s board and owned 240,000 shares of their stock. Amid ethics complaints, she sold it weeks after Biden’s tour for a cool $1.9 million. Biden continued to praise Proterra throughout the next year. But his predictive abilities proved no better than Al Gore’s. Proterra customers, like one Michigan school district, had trouble with their school buses’ batteries and drivetrains, and they spent more time off the road than on.
Granholm was lucky she cashed out when she did, since on Monday, Proterra’s shares dropped by 60% after it was announced that they are filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Proterra blamed "various market and macroeconomic headwinds," although I suspect that the real problem with headwinds is that they cut the driving range of EVs in half.
Hey, here’s a crazy idea: if the market wants more energy efficient buses, how about if politicians who know nothing about automotive technology shut up and let people who do compete to come up with the best product to fill that demand? And if there is no demand, then stop flushing our tax dollars down your low-flow toilets to try to create one.
Mike Huckabee
News you can trust.Not guilty on all counts
August 9, 2023
Mike Huckabee
https://www.westernjournal.com/pro-life-father-running-congress-biden-doj-tried-lock-11-years/
Naturally, his views are pro-life, but his campaign is based on more than that. He says on his website: “I have seen first-hand what an out-of-control government can do to its citizens. I will fight to protect all people and their rights under God & our Constitution. My platform is based on common sense.”
Someone who’s experienced Biden’s weaponized “justice” system first hand and who also believes in common sense? Sounds like the left’s worst enemy! Let’s hope and pray he gets elected.
Huckabee Post: Theme for today: Lies my government told me
August 9, 2023
Mike Huckabee
News you can trust.Mike Huckabee
Meanwhile, regarding the Trump persecution---er, prosecution: Special Counsel Jack Smith, bent on trying and convicting President Trump before the ‘24 election, might be confident of how his case plays in DC, but fortunately there are judges who can see through some of his tactics and are questioning them.
As FOX NEWS reported Monday, Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida, presiding over the so-called classified documents case brought forward by a Miami grand jury’s indictment of Trump in June, has denied the DOJ’s request for sealed filings, striking two from the record. She voiced concern about the prosecutor’s continued use of an out-of-state grand jury (the DC grand jury, STILL) to investigate the case.
Maybe Smith can do whatever he wants in DC, but his antics might play a little differently in south Florida. Judge Cannon’s brief addresses “the legal propriety of using an out-of-district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate and/or to seek post-indictment hearings on matters pertinent to the instant indicted matter in this district.”
The NEW YORK POST explains Judge Cannon’s ruling very clearly.
The special counsel’s filing had to do with their attempt to get an attorney off the case over potential conflict of interest. The attorney, Stanley Woodward, represents Waltine Nauta, a Trump aide listed as co-defendant, but also other individuals who might be called to testify.
We’ve talked about Woodward here. He has alleged he was spoken to by Jay Bratt, chief of counterintelligence for the DOJ, about his pending judgeship in the context of having his client “flip” and testify against Trump. Woodward has a sterling reputation. Conflict of interest or not, if his allegation about Bratt is true, no wonder Smith wants him far away from the case.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/stanley-woodward-lawyer-valet/2023/06/09/id/1122957/
Of course, the Mar-A-Lago “classified” documents case isn’t the only case Jack Smith is diligently working on to put Trump behind bars. As you know, law professor Jonathan Turley has had plenty to say about the charges Trump faces relating to January 6, mostly concerning the violation of his First Amendment rights.
“The most jarring thing about this indictment is it basically just accuses him of disinformation,” Turley observed. “It said [Trump] was spreading falsehoods, that [he] was undermining integrity of the election --- that is all part of the First Amendment.”
In other words, Turley is arguing that the First Amendment covers falsehoods. It does, but I would say the case can also be made that this argument shouldn’t even have to apply, that Trump was (once again) right, or at least partially right, and that many falsehoods came from the other side. I find the statement that “the 2020 election was the most secure in all of American history” laughable and arguably the result of determined propagandizing. It’s akin to the line from THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, “Raymond Show is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.” If an impartial investigation can ever be done, I’m betting that history will prove me right. Certainly, it won’t prove me wrong.
Remember this reporting from Atlanta at the time? We still aren’t aware of all these issues being resolved. (Look for Trump’s next indictment, out of Atlanta, to be handed down any time.)
Anyway, Turley did note that one charge absent from the J6 Trump indictment is that of “conspiracy for incitement” or “seditious conspiracy.” He said, “Those were the claims the Democrats used in the impeachment and said the evidence was absolutely clear. People like Adam Schiff and others were saying [Trump] is clearly guilty of those crimes. Well, they’re not in here.” He sees “serious legal problems with this indictment.”
And legal analyst Andrew C. McCarthy said Smith brought “a lousy case.” Details here.
If there were any doubt that this indictment sprang fully formed from a TDS-infected mind, Matt Taibbi of “Twitter Files” fame erases it. Jack Smith, he says, writes it “in the relentless, redundant style of an MSNBC broadcast or a WASHINGTON POST editorial.” Taibbi rips the indictment to shreds as a “deranged authoritarian fantasy.”
“Unless I’m missing something,” he says, “they’re aiming to prove intent without introducing evidence of Trump’s thoughts, which seems bananas.” Highly recommended reading.
But the judge in the case might eat up Smith’s anti-Trump hyperbole with a spoon. Read this about Judge U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, and see if you don’t think she has clearly shown extreme bias, even before getting the case. She should be removed.
https://www.westernjournal.com/judge-overseeing-trump-case-already-issued-ruling-matters-not-trump/
As for Smith’s effort to obtain a protective order against Trump seeing evidence against him (!), Alan Dershowitz said Sunday that Trump has a First Amendment right --- WE have a First Amendment right --- to see it.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/07/dershowitz-first-amendment/
So much anti-Trump lawfare is converging right now that REDSTATE put together a handy summary of what took place just on Monday. This’ll cross your eyes. It seems the preferred way to stop one’s political opponent is to sue the living daylights out of him.
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/08/07/new-conditions-of-trumps-release-in-dc-case-set-n788871
Whether or not President Biden personally gave Smith his marching orders to prosecute his political opponent, Smith happens to be doing exactly what Biden wants him to do. Goodness, how did he know? As THE NEW YORK TIMES reported in stories published over a year ago that are only now being brought into the spotlight, “Mr. Biden confirmed to his inner circle that he believed President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted.” They reported that Biden “has said privately that he wants Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of January 6.” Lo and behold.
On June 9, Jack Smith said the following, and get ready so you don’t spew your morning coffee across the room: “Adherence to the rule of law is a bedrock principle of the Department of Justice. And our nation’s commitment to the rule of law sets an example to the world. [Editorial aside: dear Lord, I hope not!] We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. Applying those laws, collecting those facts, that’s what determines the outcome of an investigation, nothing more, nothing less.”
Did you spew your coffee? Well, you were warned.
Huckabee Post: In J6 indictment, Jack Smith goes full-throttle Trump Derangement Syndrome
August 8, 2023
Mike Huckabee
News you can trust.
Mike Huckabee breaks down the more impactful motives behind the latest Trump indictment. What will the outcome mean for the future of American freedom? Watch now to learn more!
Two recommendations for President Trump
August 7, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Recommendation 1: More of this please
This is something I’d like to see a lot more of from former President Trump. It’s a lengthy interview with Breitbart.com that doesn’t focus obsessively on the legal assaults on him or relitigating the 2020 election, but on his accomplishments in office, how Biden is destroying the country, and how he would reverse America's downward plunge if he were back in the White House.
We need more of this because the Democrats know that they can’t run on the strength of their policies or their accomplishments because their policies are disasters wherever they’re tried. They would lose in any A-B comparison of liberal vs. conservatives policies. This was perfectly expressed in a recent Babylon Bee headline about a Gavin Newsom/Ron DeSantis debate: “Governor Of State People Are Fleeing From Agrees To Debate Governor Of State They Are Fleeing To.”
For that reason, they have to be like bad magicians and create endless distractions to keep the public from noticing their trickery. Their limited bag of trick includes accusing their opponents of being racists and wanting to bring back slavery (even though the GOP was founded on ending slavery), claiming Republicans want to take away women’s rights (when they're obliterating women’s rights and won't even say what a woman is), and of course, demonizing Trump and hitting him with an endless string of partisan indictments for speech or actions nobody else would ever be charged over.
Yes, that’s outrageous and needs to be stopped. But when Trump talks about nothing but that, or the 2020 election, he’s playing their game on their field. For all the horrible stuff from the past few years that needs to be corrected, voters will be more motivated by a positive agenda explaining how Trump will make their lives better. After three years of Biden, they desperately need someone to help them. If he can remind them of how he did it before and explain how he will do it again – as he does in this interview – that’s a much better message than just reacting to the attacks, which will keep coming anyway, no matter what he does.
Recommendation 2: Stop with the combative social media posts please!
Speaking of things that Trump should not focus on, I wish he would let his lawyers handle his legal problems and not make their job harder with the combative social media posts that hand his opponents ammunition to use against him on a silver platter. Like this attempt by Jack Smith to block discovery, citing Trump’s social media posts as justification.
Yes, I know it’s a ridiculous twisting of what Trump said, but he should know by now that of course they’re going to do that. Remember what we heard on every old rerun of “Dragnet”: "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.” I’ve never heard a better summation of the strategy the Democrats are using against Trump.
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“...This is the key: if you look at what’s happened with the Biden narrative, it’s completely collapsed. And, honestly, I don’t know how any self-respecting journalist is gonna pay attention to anything that the Bidens say, because of how many times they’ve been lied to.”
I think most of us who have a clue have reached that point, though we recognize the term “self-respecting journalist” as virtually an oxymoron. But this was investigative reporter and “follow-the-money” bestselling author Peter Schweizer --- also president of the Government Accountability Institute --- speaking with FOX NEWS’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.
The remark came after his mention of the personal phone carried by Joe Biden but paid for by Rosemont Seneca, Hunter’s company. Obviously, “this was a systematic business operation that the Bidens were running --- to sell access, to sell influence.” By Schweizer’s calculation, the Bidens got $30 million from the Chinese, plus millions from the Ukrainians, Russians and others.
“It’s an astronomical number when you look at it in the larger context.”
Bartiromo asked him about Burisma founder Zlochevsky’s alleged statement that he had 17 recordings with both Hunter and Joe Biden that he was holding as “insurance.” Schweizer thought that if there was a phone conversation between Zlochevsky and Joe Biden, it would be on that phone. “I think there were probably phone calls with other foreign nationals as well,” he said.
He sees no reason why this phone shouldn’t be available to the [House Oversight] committee and to the public, and it should be subpoenaed if it hasn’t been already. (It’s not an official government phone; we would guess that was the idea, as with Hillary’s private email server.) “That’s going to be a crucial part of this record,” he said.
As we’ve pointed out, this doesn’t just have to do with Burisma Holdings per se. “As Zlochevsky the head of Burisma is making those allegations to the confidential human source [as noted in the FBI’s “1023”], another person said to be present at those meetings was an individual that works for President Zelenskyy of Ukraine,” Schweizer said. “That means, certainly, that if that conversation took place, I would imagine President Zelenskyy knows of the claims that Burisma bribed Joe Biden.
“That’s the kind of leverage in the context of Ukraine or China that is extremely worrisome, and that’s what should be driving this investigation.”
Heading into the Devon Archer testimony, he’d been concerned because Archer’s attorney was Boies Schiller, the same big-Democrat firm where Hunter worked as a lawyer from 2009 to 2014. (Aside: our guess is that he was more of a “rainmaker,” not a practicing attorney.) But he was pleasantly surprised by the “measured and focused” testimony given by Archer, who struck him as “the adult in the room.” He confirmed the worst suspicions, Schweizer said, which had to do with Joe Biden being “the product that this firm was selling.”
He thinks the next shoe to drop will be that of another Biden business associate, Eric Schwerin. Archer was the “deal guy,” Schweizer said, but Schwerin was “the money guy.” He moved the money around, including money destined for Joe Biden’s accounts.
“When he testifies before the [Oversight] committee, it’s going to be interesting to see what he says and what pressure he might be under from this administration.”
The interview is a must-see. It has a lead-in from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, but that segues into the Schweizer conversation…
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
Former DOJ prosecutor Jim Trusty, in an interview Sunday with Mark Levin, noted that, given the gutting of attorney-client privilege in the effort to take down Trump in the J6 indictment, our DOJ is showing how different the standard is for investigating the Bidens. The IRS whistleblowers on the Hunter Biden case, he said, went to the U.S. attorney ready to do a search warrant for documents belonging to Hunter, but that attorney not only refused but, unbelievably, called Hunter’s lawyers to give them a heads-up. “In my book,” Trusty said, “that’s basically obstruction of justice.”
Contrast this with what happened in the Trump classified documents case. A high-level DOJ attorney, according to a sworn statement to a federal judge, told defense attorney Stanley Woodward essentially that it would be a shame if he endangered his pending judge-ship by not “flipping” his client against Trump.
“Again, it’s extortion,” Trusty said. “And so the people we’re entrusting in our federal justice system to fairly and impartially and transparently pursue justice are actually obstructionists, because they’re so hell-bent on going after one target.”
“...There’s evidence from both of those cases,” he said, “that suggests this Department of Justice, if those accusations are right, has no compunction about breaking the rules, about destroying the rule of law, because of their political interest in being ‘the ones’ who got President Trump.”
There’s much more that he says “smells rotten.” See his entire interview here...
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
Former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker was a guest on Levin’s show as well, noting that Hunter’s plea deal, in giving him immunity but saying the investigation was ongoing --- which, by the way, makes NO SENSE --- was shielding the DOJ from Congress ever looking into it. Fortunately, Judge Mary Ellen Noreika saw through that. The DOJ is, in effect, representing Joe Biden and his family, just as much as Hunter’s own lawyers are.
Whitaker agreed that by cooperating with his son’s requests, Joe Biden was a co-conspirator in his son’s violation of FARA. All it takes is “one overt act” and this involved 20 phone calls --- that we know of --- and participating in face-to-face meetings as well. There must be a special counsel, he said. (We would add that this individual would have to be chosen by a panel of judges --- certainly not by Merrick Garland.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
James Lynch at DAILY CALLER recalls the times during the 2020 campaign when President Trump made assertions about then-candidate Joe Biden’s connections to Hunter’s foreign business that were dismissed at the time but that turned out to be spot-on. By November of 2019, of course, the FBI was already well aware of the Biden family business and even had Hunter’s laptop safely under wraps. We can look back at this now and marvel at what a liar Biden was. Note also how moderator Chris Wallace changed the conversation just when it was getting good.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/
The above story mentions that a text allegedly sent by Hunter Biden in 2017 to a CEFC associate says the Bidens are “best” at assisting his boss. That quote in particular stood out to legal professor Jonathan Turley.
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“The Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the Chairman wants from this [partnership],” Hunter told Gongwen Dong (a.k.a. Kevin). Turley calls this message “the perfect epitaph for the entire Biden corruption scandal.” He also notes that the lack of media interest in that dinner Joe attended with Hunter’s foreign associates mirrors their dismissal of Hunter’s laptop, a pattern which he calls “the hallmark of a state media, by consent rather than coercion.”
https://jonathanturley.org/
That column is a must-read, and so is his previous one, about the damage inflicted on our system by Jack Smith’s attempt to bag Trump at any cost. “I remain deeply concerned,” Turley says, “over the implications of free speech from this prosecution.”
“Indeed,” he says,” the general dismissal of these concerns by legal experts shows how our current rage politics blinds us to dangers even to our own fundamental rights.” It’s a must-read, showing why this abuse of the system absolutely must end in utter failure.
We like what actor and clever political commentator James Woods had to say in a Twitter post (now that Twitter allows such posts). Woods thinks Trump will increasingly be appreciated for fighting back, now that it’s obvious the Democrats have “a candidate who can’t say hello without lying.”
Jim Thompson at REDSTATE has a different prediction: that Jack Smith’s DC jury will convict Trump and the Supreme Court will vacate it. Sure, most of us would predict that, but Thompson also believes it’s all part of Smith’s plan to interfere with the 2020 election. Thompson says this would hand the Democrat base another “the Supreme Court is illegitimate” gift, firing them up as never before for the election that fall. I would add that this wild anti-Trump movement would be unleashed no matter who the Democrat candidate turns out to be.
Finally, Sundance at CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE has done some digging, and it’s worth a deep dive yourself into the law enforcement bureaucracy as it relates to former attorney general Bill Barr. Sundance tracked the Mueller investigation into a system that hides the larger picture --- “the unlawful targeting of a presidential candidate [the Russia Hoax], and then a subsequent coup against that candidate after the election,” culminating, of course, in Jack Smith’s plan now. Barr is part of that system, he says. We can’t see the complete picture of the weaponized government, he says, because it resides in separate compartments intended to block the sunlight. For when you have time…
Huckabee Post: More of this please
August 7, 2023
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On Huckabee, is the latest Trump indictment a grim representation of where freedom of speech in America is headed? Congressman French Hill talks the economic illiteracy that led to “Bidenomics” and examines the snowballing U.S. deficits. Aaron Withe examines radical teachers’ unions and breaks down how we get the educational curriculum back on track. Brent Dusing, of TruPlay, combines gaming and Christian foundations in a truly unique online platform. Don’t miss all this and more on Huckabee!
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Democrats keep trying to defend or brush off the government's attempts to censor Americans on social media by claiming that they were just trying to prevent “dangerous misinformation” (defined by them to mean “any opinion that we disagree with”) and that the social media sites were free to say no (maybe so, but when you have a powerful government entity leaning on you to do something, it’s easy to see it as “an offer you can’t refuse.”) Well, now we’re learning that these outrageous attempts to circumvent the First Amendment by outsourcing the censoring to Silicon Valley went even further than we knew.
For instance, it’s now been reported that the Biden White House pressured Facebook to tweak its algorithm to boost stories from liberal outlets like the New York Times and suppress stories from “polarizing” conservative journalists and news outlets. “Polarizing” being another word like “misinformation” that they’ve redefined to mean “anything that challenges our hooey.”
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/
And Robert Spencer at Front Page magazine writes about a Wall Street Journal report that’s behind a paywall that reveals that the Biden Administration even leaned on Facebook in early 2021 to censor jokes and humorous memes, if the subject was potential vaccine side effects or vaccine hesitancy. Internal emails show that Facebook staffers were concerned about this, and even feared it would backfire by fueling vaccine hesitancy by sparking a conspiracy theory that the government was attempting to silence any criticism or even jokes about the vaccines.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/
For the record: if there was an actual secret government effort to pressure Facebook to censor any criticism or jokes, then that’s NOT a “conspiracy theory!” It’s a conspiracy!
I can easily believe this, since we’ve had plenty of run-ins with social media platforms and search engines trying to silence or demonetize us over comments that were clearly jokes. Maybe it’s because they know that tyrants hate jokes because they tell the truth in an entertaining way. For some reason, all this about the tyrannical impulses of President Biden and his flying monkeys reminds me of what was reportedly JFK’s favorite joke. I’ve told it before, but it’s more timely than ever:
Did you hear about the Russian who was arrested for standing outside the Kremlin and yelling, “Khrushchev is an idiot?” He got 30 years in prison. Ten for insulting Khrushchev and 20 for revealing state secrets.”
That’s remarkably applicable to America today, except the idiocy at the top is not a secret.
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August 4, 2023
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News you can trust.REVEALED: The CLEAR Pattern of the Trump Indictments by Jack Smith | Breakdown | Huckabee
August 4, 2023
Trump is indicted for a third time by special council Jack Smith, and this time it's so bad, it almost seems like a joke. And the timing of these indictments are too coincidental to ignore. We'll get into all the details on this August 3rd edition of The Breakdown
Civil War 2.0
August 4, 2023
Colonel (Ret.) Kenneth Allard
Here in Texas – with August temperatures breaking records set by the Comanches - we seldom worry about much else. Once you get beyond the conversational basics - how hot, how humid and is any rain forecast - my neighbors have begun to wonder if the country is headed for another civil war. Some even short-title it as “CW 2.0.”
This week we enjoyed a momentary respite from the prevailing smugness, worn like a recognition signal on the faces of the TV elites: the breather arrived when Hunter Biden’s Sweetheart Deal suddenly collapsed. Thereafter the anchor-hunnies on CNN and MSNBC were unable to explain (1) why Hunter’s lawyers and our alleged Justice Department were on exactly the same page; and (2) why the presiding judge mysteriously declined to endorse their subtle machinations. Hadn’t she gotten the memo? Didn’t she understand that President Biden was secretly calling the shots, that her job was merely to acquiesce sweetly?
With whistle-blowers testifying and Hunter’s business buddy appearing in camera before congressional committees, it looked as though confusion might lead to candor. But then, as if orchestrated by divine intervention, Special Counsel Jack Smith appeared with his latest indictments of Donald Trump, 45 pages apparently lifted intact from the Final Report of The Nancy Pelosi Special Committee to Outlaw Insurrection and Inconvenient Thinking. Although he began with the ritual incantation, “No one is above The Law,” Smith quickly gave the TV audience what it had been longing for: a litany of prosecutorial over-statements so far beyond the pale that he seemed transformed into an especially unkempt Inspector Javert.
The Media Swamp promptly declared itself back in session, CNN even empaneling a group-grope of six or seven “experts” to discuss, analyze and dispense the glorious tidings. With nearly orgasmic delight, a similarly full-house was gaggled together over at MSNBC. A distinguished historian old enough to know better joined former solicitors general to assure the breathless audience that these latest indictments of Trump were so significant that they could only be compared to the greatest moments in American history. It was only when those TV munchkins reveled in the prospect of Trump being judged by a black Obama appointee – who may or may not know what a woman really is – that my mind turned back to CW 2.0.
None of the mirth-makers seem to have considered that possibility, intent as they were on punishing Trump by any means available. In their parallel universe of fanatically defending the Bidens, they seem oblivious to the fact that each new indictment simply increases the Trump delegate count. Even worse, they ignore the ominous signs that President Biden, his own ship daily approaching the shoals of misconduct, has placed the American justice system squarely at risk. What happens when both Trump and Biden are snake-bitten and quite possibly in jeopardy of being disqualified from holding elective office? Should we count on either one to opt for the statesmanlike alternative and gracefully withdraw? Do we assume that the Supreme Court will somehow ride to the rescue of one or the other – and would their verdict be enforced in the courts or the streets?
While slavery and states’ rights had been underlying tensions since the beginning, the proximate cause of the Civil War was the election of 1860 and Abraham Lincoln’s elevation to the presidency. As a student of that war, I have walked its battlefields and reviewed most of Ralph Peters’ books; possibly our foremost historical novelist, Ralph applies his genius by deciphering the riddles of the maps, embracing the protagonists and helping modern readers recall that terrible era. Key question: How could the most destructive war in our history have resulted from such well-known and foreseeable consequences?
Later on, I pondered those questions in Bosnia, observing the particular madness wrought by modern civil wars. I maneuvered on battlefields that violated every known principle of war, witnessed the stomach-churning realities of ethnic cleansing; had my heart broken after seeing too many ill-nourished children and bombed-out villages. For a country that had enjoyed a relatively peaceful 800-year history, how had Serbs, Croats and Moslems generated such bloody-minded bitterness? Most of all: Amidst Europe’s most beautiful playgrounds, how had crops of land-mines been planted in every field?
Over twenty years later, I still cannot answer those questions, much less predict the outcome of the foundational dilemmas awaiting us in 2024. But these days I worry less about national sovereignty and more about God’s sovereignty – and His lessons about how we should treat neighbors, brothers, sisters and countrymen.
Colonel (Ret.) Kenneth Allard is a former West Point professor, dean of the National War College and on-air military analyst for NBC News.
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Remember that when FOX NEWS abruptly canceled Tucker Carlson, he had recorded an interview with former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund that had yet to air?Ashley Biden's Diary
August 3, 2023
Mike Huckabee
As I mentioned yesterday, I have to cover the latest news on the diary of the President’s daughter, Ashley Biden. I wish I didn’t because it’s pretty sordid, but I also don’t want to be one of the many, many media outlets that are ignoring it because it reflects so very badly on Joe Biden. However, beyond the sickening personal aspects of the story, it’s also a story of how our politically partisan legal authorities abused their power to target journalists for not falling into line, and that makes it legitimate news.
This story began way back in the fall of 2020, before the election. Someone contacted James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas to give them what they claimed was the diary of Biden’s troubled daughter Ashley and some other items of hers, abandoned when she moved out of a house. PV did not publish the diary but contacted the Biden campaign to ask about it. Getting no response, they turned it over to legal authorities.
About a year later, there was (stop me if you’ve heard this before) an early-morning, guns-drawn raid on the homes of three Project Veritas journalists, including O’Keefe. They ransacked his home and seized 47 electronic devices, including laptops, cell phones and thumb drives. Suspiciously, he got a call about it from the New York Times immediately after the raids (how did they know?) A judge had to order the DOJ to stop extracting data from the journalists’ devices. The two people who originally found the diary pleaded guilty to federal charges, but the PV journalists were never charged with any crime.
When word of it got it, the Biden-covering media applied the usual spin (“rightwing propaganda,” “Russian disinformation,” etc.) But now, Project Veritas has just released a tape of what they say is Ashley Biden talking to them about arranging to get her stuff back, in the course of which she confirms the diary is hers and she left it behind in a rented beach house (And what is it with Biden offspring leaving incriminating evidence behind where anyone can find it? It’s almost as if they secretly want us to know what’s going on.)
And now, the part of this story I’d really rather not go into, and I warn you in advance. I wouldn’t mention this at all, but it’s going to come out one way or another, so there’s no point in pretending it doesn’t exist: If that really is Ashley Biden’s diary, then as previously rumored, she did write the passages about her dad showering with her, and how she was so disturbed by it that she would wait until late at night to shower to keep him from slipping into the shower with her.
I need a shower after typing that. But it will have to be discussed at some point because some commentators are saying that Democrats who have refused to abandon Biden despite his abysmal approval ratings…
https://www.westernjournal.com/dem-pollster-sounding-alarm-biden-message-just-not-working/
…might latch onto this story as something so personally repulsive that it gives them cover to drop Biden and back Gavin Newsom. Although if Democrats think it’s repulsive for men to intrude on young women’s showers, they certainly have an odd way of showing it.
Caught in the crossfire: Trump’s so-called “co-conspirators”
August 3, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, speaking with FOX NEWS’ Laura Ingraham, said that Trump’s latest indictment sets a dangerous precedent by criminalizing the behavior of four co-conspirators who were merely “giving good-faith legal advice to Trump.”
“...It’s more than a stretch to call something criminal if someone is seeking legal counsel from their own lawyers,” he said.
“The truth of the matter is they’re not going to stop going until they get him going or get him coming, and I say this as someone who is running against Trump,” he said. (Dan Bongino said on Tuesday that we’ve reached the emergency point, the “break glass” moment.) “...It would be easier for me,” VR said, “if Donald Trump were eliminated from the competition. That is not how any of us would want to win because that is bad for the country. That’s why I think it’s important for us competing against Trump to take a strong stand against these politicized statements.”
Which brings us to Mike Pence.
Mike Davis, president of the Article III Project, said Wednesday that “any Republican politician who thinks what Merrick Garland and Jack Smith are doing here is justified” has disqualified himself. And Pence, in failing to condemn their tactics --- a shameful abuse of the Constitution by the DOJ that’s making our country unrecognizable --- he is disqualifying himself for the office of President or any other office. I like and respect Mike Pence, but responses like that are a signal that he’s not going to safeguard our rights from an out-of-control federal bureaucracy.
It also seems like a huge conflict of interest for Pence to be a witness against Trump when he’s Trump’s political adversary, actually running for the same nomination. Can it get any crazier? With Smith in charge, yes, it can.
Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is believed to be “Co-conspirator #1” in Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump. If such a stalwart Trump supporter can be reduced to collateral damage in the fight against “Trump ‘24,” the left is fine with that. They hate him, too.
Attorney John Eastman is believed to be “Co-conspirator #2” and is now facing prosecution and possible disbarment. According to the indictment, this so-called co-conspirator called Ronna McDaniel, head of the Republican National Committee, and allegedly told her (“falsely,” Smith says) that a “fake electors” plan would be used only if ongoing litigation in the states was successful.
As Ingraham pointed out in the lead-in to her interview of Eastman, “It’s not a criminal act to have a novel legal theory about something, even if it’s about something like electors and the Constitution. Advice given from an attorney used to be sacrosanct. And it usually falls under the attorney-client privilege. But this is just another norm that the left will sacrifice on the altar of ‘getting Trump.’”
Eastman’s attorney Harvey Silverglate says his client will never flip or accept a plea deal because he is innocent, though the feds are applying pressure for him to do that. “We’re ruling it out now and forever,” Silverglate told the U.K. DAILY MAIL “because he committed no crime. If indicted, we’re going to trial. If convicted, we’re appealing.”
“There has been no crime committed by John Eastman,” Silverglate said. “I’m not speaking to any of the other targets, nor for Trump. But for Eastman, there will be no deal whatsoever, period.” Obviously, Eastman has completely ruled it out.
But watch the DOJ keep tightening the screws. You see, that’s how this ‘Justice’ Department works: when you want to get the big fish, catch some smaller fish in your net and try to get them to “flip.” Just ask Paul Manafort, who spent months in solitary without so much as a magazine.
Silverglate ripped as “thoroughly unprofessional” Smith’s leak of information on co-conspirators when they haven’t even been charged (yet), at least not publicly. He believes the prosecutor is hoping that one of them will come in and offer to make a deal, “plea to some lesser offense and help the government investigation, whether truthful or not.” He said that after 50 years of experience as a criminal defense lawyer, he knows “people will make up stories in order to be cooperators in order to get out of trouble.”
Of Eastman’s legal opinions, his attorney said, “Eastman gave cutting-edge advice. Now, that is lawful. Some of Eastman’s theories are derided by other lawyers, but they’re all “perfectly within the realm of good-faith legal advice.” He’s sure there are experts who can testify to this. “Remember, one of the things that lawyers try to do is figure out lawful ways for the client to do what the client wants to do.” Eastman’s advice was “within the realm of good faith,” he said, and they’re confident they can show it was “legal, lawful and ethical.”
It used to be that such confabs were covered by attorney-client privilege, but when it’s Trump, prosecutors ignore that. Ingraham rightly pointed out the irony that “obviously, their interpretation of these statutes, of the application of the statues THEMSELVES, are novel theories...So they’re guilty of the standard that they’re applying to Trump and Eastman, I guess, and the others.”
Silverglate pointed out what’s behind Eastman’s disbarment case in California. “The bar association, instead of waiting for the outcome of the court process, is looking to disbar him and take away his ability to fund his own defense in the criminal case.”
“This whole thing has become so politicized,” Silverglate said, “it’s not even funny. And it’s a blot on the Department of Justice, in my view...This is the most politicized indictment that I can remember in my 50-plus years of being a criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer.”
He thinks the [appellate] courts “are not gonna fall for it...When somebody who is dispassionate writes a history of this, a lot of reputations are gonna go down the sewer.”
https://www.foxnews.com/video/
We’ll have more on the other co-conspirators soon. As the DAILY MAIL reports, Co-conspirator #3 is apparently attorney Sydney Powell. She’s made herself scarce since Dominion Voting Systems sued her for spouting “conspiracy theories” relating to the hack-ability of the Dominion electronic system. If there had been a real investigation of this, we’d surely know by now if there was anything to such claims. But we know now that regardless of the degree of vulnerability of electronic systems, the incredible lack of transparency about it is so concerning that the only way to deal with it is to return to old-fashioned in-person paper balloting, not connected electronically to anything. Zero hack-ability. Picture I.D. required. Voter rolls purged of dead people and those who have moved away. Poll watchers everywhere they want to go. So sue me.
The DAILY MAIL believes Co-conspirator #4 is former Justice Department official Jeff Clark, whose home the FBI raided in 2022. Clark was wearing boxer shorts and asked them if he could put on pants. The story doesn’t say if they let him.
The indictment says Trump met with Clark on December 22, 2021, to explore the possibility of installing him as acting Attorney General. Trump is said in the indictment to have brought this up to then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Richard Donoghue. (My immediate thought was, so what? These are just discussions of what might legally be done, and nothing like this actually WAS done.)
Co-conspirator #5 is Kenneth Chesebro, accused of devising what was going to be the so-called “fake electors” scheme. Oddly, the Harvard-educated Chesebro studied with anti-Trump law professor Laurence Tribe and worked as a researcher for Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. But Nancy Pelosi’s Kangaroo Kommittee accused Chesebro of being “the architect of the fake elector plot” in seven states.
As we’ve said, there is nothing criminal about a state submitting an alternate slate of electors in case the vote count turns out to be different. It’s been done before, notably in Hawaii. In this case, though, it’s been twisted by prosecutors into a plan to subvert the popular will. Obviously, Trump didn’t trust the results of the 2020 election, and he had plenty of company at the time --- perhaps a lot more now.
Co-conspirator #6 is an unidentified consultant. Some are reporting (tentatively) that this might be Trump campaign senior advisor Boris Epshteyn, who, according to the WASHINGTON EXAMINER, “worked in coordination with Giuliani, Eastman and others on plots to establish alternate electors in various states.”
(Note to Jack Smith: this plan was only discussed, not carried out. Say, hypothetically, that this really was a scheme to substitute “fake electors” and put one over on America, but they changed their minds. If you discovered a group had plans to rob a bank, but then shelved the idea and didn’t rob it, would you still charge the leader of the group with bank robbery? I guess you would.)
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Paul Reubens (AKA Pee Wee Herman) Dies at 70
August 2, 2023
“Huckabee” pop culture guru Pat Reeder (http://www.hollywoodhifi.com)
My wife/co-writer Laura and I were both very sad to hear of the death of comic actor Paul Reubens at 70 after a secret six-year battle with cancer.Mike Huckabee: I feel sorry for Goldman | Wake Up America
August 2, 2023
True Story
August 2, 2023
Mike Huckabee
This morning, I saw an email in my box from “Banana Republic,” and my first thought was that it must be from the federal government.Mike Huckabee
Many liberals like to simply deny things that the rest of us can see with our own eyes, from the crisis on the border to Biden family corruption to government censorship of opposing views on the Internet. If it’s inconvenient for them, they simply claim it doesn’t really exist, or to use their popular term, it’s just a “rightwing conspiracy theory.” Well, explain this:
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan just released a trove of internal documents from Facebook and Instagram parent corporation Meta that show how the Biden Administration was aggressively leaning on Meta to censor posts during the pandemic. They used the rationale that those views were “misinformation” that had to be suppressed.
That article includes details about a senior Biden advisor being “outraged” that a humorous meme about the COVID vaccine hadn’t been removed yet, with more pressure brought to bear until it was. Other posts the White House demanded be censored included a video of Tucker Carlson. Not surprisingly, these officials showed zero concern for Facebook’s arguments that the posts violated no rules and that removing them would be an infringement of Constitutionally-protected free speech.
Jordan said the Committee had to threaten to hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in contempt to force him to hand over these documents, which ironically prove that government pressure was directly responsible for the censorship on Facebook. I wonder why Zuckerberg wouldn’t want that to be known? Either he has Stockholm Syndrome or they did a really good job of bullying him.
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There are two parallel stories dominating the news today...Huckabee Post: True story
August 2, 2023
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News you can trust.Huckabee Post: Biden is coming for your light bulbs
August 1, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Having already come for our cars, washing machines, dishwashers, air conditioners, gas stoves and water heaters, what is left in our homes for the “climate change” hysterics in the Biden Administration to take away?Huckabee Post: Case Closed
July 31, 2023
Mike Huckabee
News you can trust.Recent whistleblower testimony and the delay in Hunter Biden’s plea deal may be signs that all isn’t lost for America’s justice system. Is there still hope that the truth will be revealed? Mike Huckabee breaks down the facts!
On Huckabee, the delay in Hunter Biden’s plea deal is a sign that maybe all isn’t lost for America’s justice system. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann delves into the potential for another Trump indictment as well as a Biden impeachment. Rep. Mesha Mainor recently left the Democratic party. She shares the reasons for her decision and the policies she found most concerning. Yael Eckstein discusses Israel’s 75th anniversary and the work her organization is doing to bring about change. Don’t miss Huckabee!
This is Causing TRUMP'S Poll Numbers to RISE as Biden LIES About Gas Prices Going Down | Huckabee
July 31, 2023
Mike Huckabee breaks down Biden's creative approach to gas pricing and the unexpected factor increasing Trump's poll numbers. He also examines Biden's repeated claims that he had nothing to do with his son's business deals - all of which have now been disproven! Don't miss this clip from Live with Mike!
Oakland’s crime problem
July 31, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Well, this is inconvenient for the “If you disagree with leftist policies, you’re a racist” narrative.Mike Huckabee
“This is the first time I have ever heard of the Department of Justice doing anything on a Saturday.”Democrats redefine words to win arguments: Example 1,087
July 31, 2023
Mike Huckabee
I have explained many times over the years that if leftists had to run for office on the record of success of their policies, we would have a 100% Republican government.More charges against President Trump
July 31, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Smith also charged another person, Mar-A-Lago maintenance man Carlos de Oliveira, with obstruction for allegedly attempting to delete surveillance video footage. He allegedly told another worker that the “boss” wanted the server wiped, and the other worker said he didn’t know how and didn’t think that would be allowed. So in short, federal charges against a regular working person over a secondhand claim that Trump wanted something done which apparently wasn’t done. De Oliveira is also being charged with making “false statements and representations in a voluntary interview with the FBI.” Michael Flynn could’ve told him never to give a voluntary interview to the FBI.
Trump reacted as you might expect to this latest pile of bananas loaded onto the banana republic express that’s running over him. He called the charges “ridiculous” and accused Smith of prosecutorial misconduct and “election interference at the highest level.” He said they’re harassing his company, his family and him, and "If I weren’t leading Biden by a lot in numerous polls, and wasn’t going to be the Republican nominee, it wouldn’t be happening.”
This is on top of reportedly looming indictments of Trump for allegedly inciting the January 6th riot by telling people to peacefully protest.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/07/27/trump-j6-indictment-expected-n2626281
As usual, the Babylon Bee provides more truth than the real news does on this topic…
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-indicted-for-the-1996-murder-of-tupac-shakur
By the way, if the idea of all these indictments is to convince voters that Trump is a criminal (and not certain other Oval Office occupants we could name), it doesn’t seem to be working on too many people other than the cast of “The View.” A new Harvard-Harris poll of registered voters found that 56% believe the indictments of Trump by Biden’s DOJ are politically-motivated interference in the 2024 election, and 57% believe he’ll be acquitted. Only 44% believe it’s a “fair application of the law.” Allow me to introduce them to Hunter Biden’s plea deal.
Gerald Ford took a lot of heat for pardoning Richard Nixon, but he was wise enough to know that prosecuting former Presidents is the hallmark of tyrannies and it would do nothing but rip the country apart. Unfortunately, this Administration has ripped up over two centuries of tradition and is attempting to jail a former President because it has no wisdom nor any concern for the good of the nation as a whole. It just has a blind obsession with clinging to power at all costs.
Incidentally, I’m not a vindictive sort, but if I had Trump’s money, I would probably buy the houses on either side of Jack Smith’s home and turn one of them into a halfway house for recently-released drug addicts and the other into a free rehearsal space for local garage bands. If it’s a gated community with an HOA that bans that, I’d buy enough houses to take over the HOA and then assess Smith the maximum fines for every piddly infraction of the rules that I could possibly come up with. See how he likes it.
Mike Huckabee
Many liberals like to simply deny things that the rest of us can see with our own eyes, from the crisis on the border to Biden family corruption to government censorship of opposing views on the Internet.President Biden goes on vacation
July 31, 2023
Mike Huckabee
President Biden has left for Delaware and a 10-day vacation.A House Judiciary subcommittee looks into the huge push to give “gender-affirming” drugs and surgery to minors
July 31, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Wednesday, a House Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing into the huge push to give “gender-affirming” drugs and surgery to minors, even over parents’ objections and without their knowledge.“Bidenomics”
July 31, 2023
Mike Huckabee
President Biden claims that there’s something called “Bidenomics” that has saved the US economy and is improving all our lives.Eagles’ Randy Meisner Dies at 77
July 31, 2023
Mike Huckabee
We’re sad to report that Eagles founding member Randy Meisner died Thursday at 77 due to complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.You won’t hear much about this…
July 31, 2023
Mike Huckabee
Here’s one of those bills you won’t hear about much, but if you fly, you can thank House Republicans for saving your life by blocking the Democrats from prioritizing their agenda over safety and common sense.Huckabee Post: More Charges Against Trump
July 29, 2023
Mike Huckabee
News you can trust.'JUST IMPEACH': Mike Huckabee joins Eric Bolling to discuss how Republicans can properly go about a Biden impeachment inquiry amid a political climate telling them to 'impeach the SOB' already.
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On Thursday's "John Bachman Now," former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee sounds off on Trump lawyers being told to expect an indictment.
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Justice is doled out in a northern Idaho college town, and Hunter Biden's lawyers make a major slip up in his criminal case. Don't miss Mike Huckabee's July 27th edition of the Breakdown.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says Republicans need to let the Hunter Biden case play out before rushing to an impeachment on 'The Evening Edit.'
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Barbie
July 27, 2023
Mike Huckabee
The new “Barbie” movie had a huge opening weekend, pulling in $155 million.Mike Huckabee
When Hunter Biden’s “sweetheart” plea deal --- and it was that --- didn’t go through as planned on Wednesday, some in the mainstream media tried to say that this showed that we didn’t have a “two-tier” justice system after all!Mike Huckabee: There's just too much evidence
July 27, 2023
Mike Huckabee
News you can trust.How About Real Help for Veterans
July 27, 2023
Mike Huckabee
This week, Republicans on the House Rules Committee will decide which amendments to include to a spending bill for the VA and related agencies, to roll back the Biden Administration’s agenda promoting abortion access, transgender treatments and other far-left “woke” initiatives.Let’s hope this trickle becomes a stampede
July 27, 2023
Mike Huckabee
I recently told you about Georgia Democratic State Rep. Mesha Meinor who switched to the GOP after becoming fed up with the Dems’ radical leftward lurch and their siding with teachers’ unions over the interests of students and parents.“Popular Constitutionalism”
July 27, 2023
Mike Huckabee
I have lots of occasions in this newsletter to cite George Orwell’s famous quote that there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.What President Trump is facing…
July 27, 2023
Mike Huckabee
If you’d like to see what former President Trump is up against when he’s facing all these indictments by rogue prosecutors both in Biden’s DOJ and in deep blue pockets of America, then read this essay from the Karlstack Substack account. It examines in detail the federal prosecution of Douglass Mackey, the young man who was charged with “election interference” by Biden’s DOJ and convicted by a New York jury, and who could be facing years in prison for the heinous crime of…sharing humorous memes about Hillary Clinton on Twitter (sure, Hillary; THAT’S why you lost.)
The DOJ claims this is a crime because joke memes telling Democrats to vote by text or on Wednesday, etc., amount to attempts at election interference since some people might actually believe them. Well, I guess they know the intelligence levels of their voters better than I do.
https://www.karlstack.com/p/twitter-poster-railroaded-for-free
Read it and be shocked and infuriated at the looooong list of acts of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct that it took to convict and railroad Mackey into prison on circumstantial evidence of conspiring with people he never talked with to allegedly alter the results of a national election by posting some humorous memes on social media that he didn’t even create. It aptly describes his trial as a “totalitarian nightmare.” If for no other reason, read it to learn the jaw-dropping justification they cited for holding the trial in the deeply biased Eastern District of New York, even though that area had nothing to do with the alleged “crime.”
As the author makes clear, this is a (so-far successful) attempt to expand the government’s power to police speech on public forums and to prosecute and even imprison Americans for exercising their First Amendment rights. Let us all hope and pray that the appeals court sees this for the Orwellian power grab it is and slaps it down hard.