On Monday, Jonathan Turley, one of our go-to legal experts, wrote a column sparked by a comment this weekend by President Trump on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the whole J6 Committee --- the sham House committee chaired by Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson and now-ex Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney --- “should go to jail.” Turley said that with this statement, Trump has undermined his previous statement that he did not plan to be a vengeful President, that success would be his revenge.

First, let it be said that to remark, as Trump did, that someone SHOULD go to jail is not the same thing as actually SENDING them to jail as political prisoners, as Democrats themselves did with a large number of J6 defendants. Do Democrat members of that committee deserve to spend a considerable amount of time as guests of the Graybar Hotel, considering what they did to corruptly shape the narrative of January 6, even to the point of destroying evidence that was supposed to be turned over to the Republicans who now head the oversight committees? Yes, they do deserve it, and Trump is right to say so.

Turley is right, however, to say that Democrats are going to use Trump’s statement, just as they twist everything else he has ever said, to try to justify Biden’s wholesale pardoning of his son and probably a lot of other people who deserve prison time.

Still, we wonder if Turley should say that “there’s no viable criminal case to be made against the J6 Committee members for their investigation or report.” We’re not attorneys but are dismayed that even looking into this strikes Turley as unseemly when he says, “We need to move beyond the rage rhetoric if this country is going to come together to face the tough challenges ahead.” The point needs to be made (so we’ll make it) that this country will not come together if Biden can just pardon all his friends and allies and there are no consequences for anything any of them ever did.

Trump was absolutely right to criticize the committee’s deletion of evidence from their investigation. “Cheney did something that’s inexcusable,” he said, “along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps.” Love it.

And he went on: “Cheney was behind it. And so was Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee. For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail.”

Turley did say that he considers “the J6 Committee to be not just a colossal failure but a missed opportunity for a bipartisan look at that tragic day.” And that is true. He also made it clear he supports the continued efforts of House committees to finish their own investigation of security failures that day as well as the records of the J6 Committee. We assume he’s referring to what is left of those records, if there’s anything left after all the deleting.

But Turley’s main point was that “these are ethical and political failings, not criminal violations,” as “politicians routinely distort facts on both sides of scandals, including Presidents Biden, Trump, and Obama.” It’s elections, he said, that remove such people from office, as the election in Wyoming got rid of Liz Cheney.

Sorry, that’s not good enough. As Turley acknowledged, “Cheney’s work on the committee was rife with false claims and the manipulation of evidence.” Yes, politicians make false claims all the time, but it’s that pesky “manipulation of evidence” that should not be let go.

Turley cited Article 1, Section 6, Clause 1 of the Constitution, which states that members of Congress “shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their attendance at the Session of their Respective Houses, and in going to and from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.”

What on earth does that have to do with prosecuting someone like Liz Cheney, who is not even in the House any longer, for what she did to hide evidence? Nobody is proposing arresting legislators on the floor of Congress or going and coming from sessions. And this isn’t just “speech or debate” we’re talking about, but active suppression of exculpatory evidence in violation of someone’s rights.

Turley said that “the omissions and unfairness of the process do not constitute crimes.” And when he acknowledges that over a hundred files were allegedly destroyed, and that this does appear to violate the House’s archiving rules, he says “this is not ordinarily a case for criminal prosecution.” Really?? Well, if it’s not, it should be.

He says that “these rules have sufficient room for interpretation to make any such claim difficult to prosecute.” If the committee can just destroy evidence willy-nilly, then there’s something wrong with the rules. Do they not have to follow the LAW about destroying evidence, or do laws not apply to them? We guess we’ll find out.

“Clearly, a false statement to federal investigators or an effort to obstruct an investigation can be separate criminal violations,” Turley wrote, “but there is no indication of such allegations.” There isn’t?? This seems, on its face, to be obstruction of justice.

Turley thinks Trump needs to stop “fueling divisions.” (This is like punching someone 20 times, then the second he finally punches back, saying, “You need to stop this violence.”) He’s right about the damage caused by “rage rhetoric,” but he might be mistaken in arguing that Trump’s statement about J6 Committee members needing to go to jail is giving his critics a political windfall. It might be just the opposite, so why not see how this plays out? If anyone deserves to speak with a little rage after all that has been done to him, it’s President Trump.

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/12/09/no-the-j6-committee-should-not-go-to-jail/

Perhaps Turley’s column was written before Liz Cheney issued a threat to the DOJ on Monday that any move to investigate the now-defunct J6 Committee would be “sanctionable conduct.” Really?? Sanctionable...by whom? Not by her, as she’s not even in Congress any longer, haha. She seems to have mistaken being a former Congress member for being the current Queen of the Universe.

Cheney was triggered by Trump’s statements to rant that he had committed the “worst breach of our Constitution by any President in our nation’s history.” She said he had “attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seize power.” (Really??) “He mobilized an angry mob and sent them to the United States Capitol…” (Again, really??)

Cheney said, “Donald Trump’s suggestion that members of Congress who later investigated his illegal and unconstitutional actions should be jailed is a continuation of his assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic.”

As Bonchie at REDSTATE comments, “There has STILL never been any evidence presented that Donald Trump intended for anyone to physically attack the Capitol building...Trump did not try to ‘seize power,’ and it has been proven that he requested National Guard troops to be present but was rebuffed.”

It was Cheney herself, along with fellow committee members, who buried the evidence of that.

But when faced with evidence of this, Cheney pulled the same aggressive tactics as the Biden family attorneys are doing. (Notice how they all respond like cornered badgers.) “There is no conceivably appropriate factual or constitutional basis,” she said, “for what Donald Trump is suggesting --- a Justice Department investigation of the work of a congressional committee --- and any lawyer who attempts to pursue that course would quickly find themselves engaged in sanctionable conduct.”

SANCTIONABLE CONDUCT? Again, sanctionable by whom?

The GOP-led Congress would be unlikely to do that, even if they had the authority. Perhaps she means the legal establishment, the state bar associations, as they’ve already acted quite inappropriately to intimidate attorneys who dare to represent President Trump. Recall “Project 65,” which was organized to do exactly the same thing. If that’s what she’s talking about, we predict such tactics will backfire big-time.

https://the65project.com

Bonchie sounds like us when he calls her threats “toothless.” As he says, “the Trump DOJ SHOULD investigate what happened with the January 6th Committee. It should find out how much evidence was altered and destroyed in what was a clear abuse of power and a waste of taxpayer money. That’s what people voted for in November. They didn’t vote for the status quo. They voted for change and accountability.”

And that’s why we non-lawyers have to disagree with Turley on how the J6 Committee misdeeds should be handled. To just let this go is not going to bring the country together, as it will only reinforce the perception (and reality) that Democrat wrongdoers get to skate. Maybe the worst committee members will go to jail and maybe they won’t, but if some do, it will be because they really, really deserve it.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/12/09/liz-cheney-threatens-donald-trumps-doj-with-sanctions-if-they-investigate-her-n2182995

Here’s more on the same subject from BREITBART. Wendell Husebo points out that when Trump was asked on “Meet the Press” if he’d actually direct his FBI director and attorney general to send them (Cheney and friends) to jail, he said, “Not at all. I think that they’ll have to look at that...they can do whatever they want.” (Perhaps Jonathan Turley didn’t hear that part.)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/09/liz-cheney-accused-destroying-117-january-6-files-says-she-should-not-go-jail/

RELATED READING: Never mind Trump’s promised pardons of J6 political prisoners; Biden’s DOJ continues throwing people into jail after almost four years. If anything, they’ve accelerated the process. Biden-appointed and soon-to-be-fired (yay!) DC U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves has announced the arrest of at least ten J6 protesters since Election Day (!) and says there is “public interest in the prompt and efficient administration of justice.” He plans to make the most of his last few weeks in his job.

DC judges seem to be using Trump’s upcoming inaugural as a reason to push hard these next several weeks. They’re denying defendants’ requests to postpone sentencing in anticipation of a Trump pardon, and three J6 jury trials are set to begin this week. As Julie Kelly reports, “Judge Amy Berman Jackson recently entered an order allowing prosecutors in her extremely biased courtroom to describe January 6 to jurors as an ‘attack on the Capitol,’ ‘attack on Congress,’ and a ‘riot.’” How are these defendants supposed to get a fair trial?

If you want to know what’s currently going on in DC courts concerning these cases, Kelly’s piece is a must-read.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/12/09/nearly_4_years_later_no_letup_in_jan_6_prosecutions_possible_pardons_or_not

Law professor and Instapundit blogmaster Glenn Reynolds commented on this article, “Something needs to be done about D.C.’s impossibly partisan legal system. Personally, I’m in favor of abolishing ‘home rule’ for DC. Our nation’s capital should be ruled by the nation, not by the apparatchiks who live there.”

https://instapundit.com/689240/

MORE RELATED READING: Don’t miss this piece by Richard Truesdell and Keith Lehmann at AMERICAN GREATNESS, which spares no words about who the real criminal is in the Hunter scandal. Um, that would be his father.

https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/09/the-real-criminal-here-is-not-hunter-biden

ALSO RELATED: Former Democrat (but still liberal) Ana Kasparian gets that there’s something fishy about Hunter Biden’s “blanket” pardon covering 11 years. She even did the math and figured out that it had to go back that far to cover Hunter’s so-called work on the Burisma board. Gosh, now she’s actually getting suspicious that Hunter might have done something wrong! You know, even puppies open their eyes after no more than two weeks.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/12/09/ana-kasparian-remain-in-mexico-was-a-good-policy-n2648200

Now that the Biden Family Protector-in-Chief has pardoned his son Hunter for any and all crimes he may have committed over a period of 11 years, the Biden family and their friends and allies (and their attorneys, of course) are reportedly assuming a highly aggressive stance against any criticism.

The WASHINGTON POST ran a story on their “very public plan,” as described by Jonathan Turley, to target potential witnesses --- and even media, such as FOX NEWS --- concerning allegations of Biden family influence-peddling. To oh-so-subtly warn witnesses that they might face retribution, the Biden team, predictably, leaked news of a recent strategy meeting in California to their helpful scribes at WAPO. The paper even named specific witnesses they’d be targeting. This means you, John Paul Mac Isaac and Tony Bobulinski!

And guess who the host for this meeting was. Why, it was Hunter’s “sugar brother” Kevin Morris, whose name, thanks to Hunter’s pardon, is now back in the news (for this story and also another, which we’ll get to). Recall that Morris seemingly came out of nowhere when Joe was running for President, turning up at a Democrat fundraiser to befriend Hunter, pay his reported $20,000/month rent and other lavish expenses, retire his estimated $2.8 million IRS debt, pay out the wazoo for his trash art, and even produce a movie based on his sorry exploits as the son of a powerful politician. (Note: this documentary is reportedly complete; Biden is said to have previewed it as part of his post-pardon celebration.)

As a result of Morris’ amazing generosity and Joe’s all-inclusive pardon, Hunter will face no consequences, financial or criminal, for his actions during those 11 key years.

In Turley’s words, “Morris’ plan could easily be taken as a declaration of all-out war on potential witnesses against Hunter Biden,” particularly Bobulinski and Mac Isaac. “What’s most interesting about the [WAPO] piece is why the WASHINGTON POST was given such access and such a detailed account. But someone wanted this campaign to be public before the House can call any witnesses.”

Recall that Bobulinski was the business partner who managed foreign business deals and directly contradicted Joe Biden’s claim, which we now know was untrue, that he knew nothing about them. (If memory serves, he’s the one who first identified Joe Biden as “the Big Guy.”) He went public soon after Miranda Devine’s laptop story broke in the NEW YORK POST --- as in, before Election Day 2020 --- with an interview about this, but most media simply ignored him. Now, however, Bobulinksi’s testimony could provide a serious threat to Joe Biden in the coming House investigation in confirming the President’s knowledge and even his possible receipt of funds from the family’s deals.

Turley describes this move against Bobulinski as being “about as subtle as a two-by-four to the head.” To leak details of this meeting, Biden’s team chose a paper that is one of THE most pro-Biden newspapers in the country (even now, apparently). They only recently gave up on the “Russian disinformation” hoax and admitted that Hunter’s laptop was the real deal.

Of course, to create a wall of separation between this meeting and the White House (which is still, sadly and unbelievably, occupied by Joe Biden, even if he’s just sleeping there), WAPO’s article stresses that the effort behind it is “operating separately from the White House.” Sure, right, nudge-nudge, wink-wink. David Brock, the Media Matters founder described by Turley as “one of the most controversial and reviled Democratic operatives in Washington” and “the lowest common denominator” even of that crowd, said his organization is “following its own strategy,” not coordinating with the Hunter Biden team.

Brock has a new group, ironically called “Facts First USA,” which he himself has described as a “SWAT team” designed to “ensure that the media and public do not accept the false narrative that flows from congressional investigations.” I think we have a pretty good idea of where the false narrative will be originating.

Other groups joining forces to protect the Bidens from those evil (truth-seeking) Republicans include the “Congressional Integrity Project” (hahahahaha!!) which according to Turley plans to attack President Trump’s family. The CIP recently hired Jeff Peck, who goes way back with Joe Biden, having served as his chief of staff when Biden was a U.S. Senator pilfering classified documents from secure viewing locations.

As hard as this article tries to establish a wall of separation between these neutralizing efforts and the White House/DNC, the involvement of Biden’s own staff and allies certainly blurs the line. As Turley points out, “Targeting witnesses like Bobulinski could invite congressional investigators to look more closely at these groups and their funding.” (Let it be.) They also need to watch out in case benefactor Morris is called as a witness. But they’re being so publicly aggressive about this, they don’t seem to care.

Unless there’s something we don’t know about the ring of protection around Morris, he’s taking a real risk here. It occurs to us that Morris might be one of those who’d like a blanket pardon from Biden before he leaves office, but if Biden gives him one, Morris won’t be able to plead the Fifth before congressional committees and will be required to answer all questions truthfully or face charges of perjury. (Note: Hunter will, too.)

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/12/13/the-legion-of-democratic-doom-biden-operatives-plan-swat-force-on-hunter-biden-scandal/

The Democrats are taking a similarly aggressive stance against Trump’s Cabinet nominees, particularly Kash Patel as FBI director. This is a quick must-read from Victor Davis Hanson…

https://instapundit.com/689032/

RELATED: Chris Swecker, former FBI assistant director, appeared with Maria Bartiromo last Tuesday, saying this: “I know a broad criminal conspiracy when I see one, and the Bidens operated like a crime family --- lots of money moving through the international system, shell corporations, non-services, and family members were involved...So, yes, there’s a lot to protect here, and I expect to see more pardons.”

Be sure to see Maria’s interview with Miranda Devine on Sunday about “pre-emptive pardons” for the likes of Adam Schiff (who, thanks to Gavin Newsom, is joining the Senate today, two months earlier than we expected him to be inflicted on the Senate), Liz Cheney, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Lt. Gen. Mark Milley (who made secret phone calls to China during Trump’s first term in office). Devine expects Joe’s brother Jim to be on the priority list for a pardon, as he “was involved in a lot of the China grift with Hunter Biden.” Jim’s wife apparently signed checks to Joe Biden totaling $200,000 --- which happened to work out as 10 percent for “the Big Guy” --- adding the notation “loan repayment.”

Side note: Interesting comments here from Devine about Liz Cheney and her “untoward behavior” as co-chair of the House J6 Committee, concerning alleged collusion with witness Cassidy Hutchinson.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6365723982112

ALSO RELATED: We might not take this seriously if it came from anyone less esteemed than Victor Davis Hanson, but he suggested on Friday that First Son Hunter Biden was blackmailing his father as leverage for a presidential pardon. Hanson thinks Hunter resents having to do the “dirty work” for the family and probably threatened to testify against them.

https://www.wnd.com/2024/12/bad-seed-victor-davis-hanson-claims-hunter-biden-was-blackmailing-joe-into-pardoning-him/

AND THIS: Victoria Taft at PJ MEDIA wonders if Hunter Biden was being used by the CIA, which perhaps served as “the root of the poisonous tree of free-flowing money by a connected Hollywood attorney who had just barely befriended the out-of-control addict at a Joe Biden for President event in LA when he started cutting checks.” She makes a good case in this must-read piece.

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/12/04/cia-and-hunter-n4934793

ALSO, THIS: Mark Levin’s Sunday night monologue makes it very clear that the Bidens and their protectors in the so-called justice system have much to fear after all they’ve done. Imagine if it were Trump handing out blanket “pre-emptive pardons.”

https://www.foxnews.com/shows/life-liberty-levin

Levin also interviews Jonathan Turley about his piece for THE HILL, “Pardon envy: Democrats vie to make the Biden pardon list.” Read it here…

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5027455-pardon-envy-democrats-vie-to-make-the-biden-pardon-list/

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And now to what we’ll call Hunter Biden Story #2, which you’ll see as it unfolds has a double meaning. Major sarcasm alert here...

In a story that surely no one, even the most cunning and worldly art investors, could have foreseen, the market for Hunter Biden’s stunningly beautiful and emotionally moving artwork has apparently collapsed. Gee, we’re not sure why, because the work of this artistic genius and son of an esteemed President has been universally acclaimed by experts and wildly praised by the public, but we do have a suspicion it might have something to do with the end of President Biden’s political career and the loss of his influence in DC. Surely that’s not it, though, because then we’d have to become cynical about the world of art investing, which of course is as honest and upright as any other network of financial transaction --- especially any such network involving the Biden family, which we’ve repeatedly been told by Democrats is above board in every way, and that’s good enough for us.

Some critics, who obviously knew nothing about fine art, said from the start that the sale of Hunter’s paintings was really just a cover for President Biden’s political allies to funnel money to him and his family. But it only looked that way because the main investors happened to be Hunter’s benefactor Kevin Morris and Democrat donor Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali. Can Hunter help it if wealthy Democrat donors have more sophisticated taste in art than other people?

And recall that there was a stringent arrangement in place to prevent Hunter from ever learning the identities of his art buyers. There was simply no way he could possibly have known who bought his paintings. Never mind that the gallery owner who was selling Hunter’s art did say Hunter knew who purchased the paintings that accounted for roughly 70 percent of his earnings, which according to congressional testimony totaled about $1.5 million.

Before Hunter attained such huge financial success as an artiste, he was already deep into this study. Apparently, he was practicing his painting before he could even afford PAINT. According to one story from a former landlord, when Hunter couldn’t afford to pay off his year of back rent, he scrounged up a spiral notebook and used his own, well, bodily excrement (sorry, but that’s why we had to call this “Story #2”) to create fine works of art with which to fulfill his financial obligation.

This was in 2019. Instead of remaining eternally grateful --- surely any work from Hunter would someday be worth millions --- this landlord, Shaun Maguire, has now gone public with the story. When Hunter’s attorneys denied it, he published photos of the “art” on social media. Yes, we looked; you REALLY, REALLY might not want to. But in case you really want to see a particularly grotesque (alleged) example of Hunter’s brilliance, here’s the link.

https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1865080086657142859

For a while, the Hunter team was threatening to sue those who discussed the Biden/Morris scandal. Jonathan Turley was among those targeted, but he continued to write about it and was never sued. We can’t verify Maguire’s story, but, as Turley points out, he “must have known about the litigious reputation of the Biden team when he decided to go public with this claim.”

We would point out that the veracity of this story could always be confirmed through DNA testing, if it came to that. Perhaps this is why there has been no inclination so far for the Biden legal team to make good on their threat.

Just a few days ago, NATIONAL REVIEW ran an unfortunate column by legal analyst Andrew C. McCarthy advising the new Trump 47 administration against using “retributive” lawfare against those who spent years abusing the legal system and violating his rights to damage him politically.  (We linked to his piece, and then to the Julie Kelly commentary that magnificently dismantled it).  But yesterday, NR redeemed itself by posting a related story from James Lynch that shows just how far the FBI went to interfere with the 2020 election by suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story.  We’re not attorneys, but if McCarthy believes these people should be given the kid-glove treatment now, he is just wrong.  They all need the book thrown at them.

As Lynch tells it, we know now that the FBI spent “the better part of a year” working with social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to censor the Hunter laptop story as “Russian disinformation,” withholding information from them that would have told them the laptop was authentic.  As you know, the FBI had been aware of its authenticity ever since they took possession of it in November 2019.  According to FBI whistleblower Gary Shapley, they authenticated its content soon after, obtaining a warrant and retrieving the data from the laptop’s archive.

But they worked harder on misleading social media than we’d even known.  This is the stunning new part, from NR’s story on a bombshell House Judiciary Committee report:

“After authenticating the device, the FBI team on the Hunter Biden (case) briefed the bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) multiple times because of the case’s connection to Ukraine. Months before the laptop story broke, the FITF was aware that the FBI possessed Biden’s laptop, multiple FITF officials testified to the Judiciary Committee, according to the report.”

Many months ago, we reported on the media workshop held before the 2020 election by our intel community for media and social media platforms at the Alpine Institute.  But as Lynch says, the Judiciary investigation found this was just part of the government’s influence, as the FITF met with them over 30 times (!), beginning in early 2020, to “pre-bunk” allegations that the Biden family had peddled influence to profit from the Biden name.    

The FBI declined to comment for NATIONAL REVIEW.  Wouldn’t you know.

According to the report, the FITF gave social media a heads-up about potential “hack-and-leak” operations, in the context of election security and potential foreign influence operations.  In effect, they primed them to accept that the Hunter laptop story, when it came out, would be fake.

“In response,” the report reads, “some platforms even adopted new content moderation policies designed to address hacked materials.”  FBI officials were popping champagne corks. 

According to the Judiciary report, the warnings got quite specific, with the FBI warning “multiple times that a ‘hack-and-leak’ story involving Burisma and Hunter Biden was set to drop in October 2020,” Lynch writes. 

To cite just one example of how social media staffers interpreted this, one from Facebook “predicted” in September 2020 that “We are likely to have in the next few weeks a leak or series of leaks about Biden’s supposed link to Burisma, where we won’t be able to prove they were ‘hacked,’ but where we will have responsible USG [U.S. government] players publicly saying this is part of a foreign influence operation.”

So when Miranda Devine came out with her NEW YORK POST story about the laptop, what were FB and Twitter employees supposed to think of it?  They thought just what the administration wanted them to think, as they’d already been vaccinated against the truth.  Just in case, the FITF had even scheduled meetings with both Facebook and Twitter on October 14, the day Devine’s story broke.

(We would add that the FBI surely had been spying on both Devine and her source Rudy Giuliani.  How else would they have known the exclusive story was going to break?)

Most of the rest of this, you already know.  As the report reads, “The FBI refused to acknowledge that it possessed and had authenticated the laptop.”  It was a big con, which later allowed then-candidate Joe Biden to further con American voters when he denied the laptop was real.  (Of course, the fake “classic earmarks” letter signed by 51 former intel officials also helped him carry off his lie.)

Interestingly, while FB and Twitter reflexively cracked down on the laptop story, Google left it alone, as their own in-house threat analysis found no evidence the laptop was the product of a hack.  Can’t believe we’re saying this, but Google actually deserves a little credit here.

Still, this report from the Judiciary Committee offers even more on the extent to which the FBI tried to interfere in the 2020 election by suppressing real news.  Later on, after Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into “X,” he fired the two executives responsible for censoring the Hunter laptop story.  As reported by NATIONAL REVIEW, Yoel Roth and Vijaya Gadde expressed remorse during testimony last year about their decision to suppress the NY POST’s reporting.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-spent-a-year-preparing-platforms-to-censor-biden-story-withheld-info-on-laptops-authenticity/

For when you have time, here’s the full report from the House Judiciary Committee on how the CIA was involved in discrediting the Hunter laptop story.  As you know, former deputy CIA Director Mike Morell (who was still under contract to the CIA at the time) coordinated the “classic earmarks” letter.

The committee’s pithy conclusion: “The infamous Hunter Biden statement had all the hallmarks of an intelligence community influence operation.”  How sad that an agency that is supposed to work against our adversaries on foreign soil was turned against American voters.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-spent-a-year-preparing-platforms-to-censor-biden-story-withheld-info-on-laptops-authenticity/

If the Hunter Biden laptop had been totally buried, we would’ve been none the wiser about the Biden family “business,” casting our ballots in blissful ignorance, just as the left wanted us to.  Yes, Hunter’s dirty mess came out, but President Biden has made sure his son won’t have to pay, at the same time trying to minimize the damage to the rest of the family, including himself.

(Side note: To those urging Trump not to take any action against the Deep State spooks responsible for this, recall that polls showed that if voters had known the laptop was real, Biden would have lost the 2020 election by a wide margin. Therefore, they are directly responsible not only for election interference and all the damage caused by Biden-Harris, but for handing Biden the power to cover up the biggest influence peddling scandal in American history, plus any other crimes his son might have committed over an 11-year period. Still want to let all these accomplices off scot-free?)

On Day 1 of Biden’s presidency, spokesperson Jen Psaki promised his administration would “bring transparency and truth back to the administration.”  Honestly, this makes us think Karine Jean-Pierre gets a bad rap, because that statement from Psaki is just as ludicrous as anything ever uttered by KJP.  The DAILY CALLER’s Katelynn Richardson has a good report on what Protect the Public Trust has to say about this administration’s lack of transparency and disregard of its own ethical promises.

She gives example after example…

https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/03/hunter-biden-pardon-is-just-another-example-of-biden-admins-failure-to-bring-promised-transparency-to-government/

In more backlash from President Biden’s all-inclusive pardon of his son, California Judge Mark Scarsi joins Special Counsel David Weiss and Delaware U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika in less-than-heartfelt acceptance of this move.  Like them, he simply “terminated” the case under his review without actually dismissing it.

This piece at REDSTATE is a must-read, as it includes Judge Scarsi’s scathing comments.  Reading between the lines, he seems disgusted by the President’s complaints about Hunter being treated differently.  The President might be granted the authority to issue a pardon, he says, but, “Nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history.”  That, and more, here…

https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/12/03/a-press-release-is-not-a-pardon-ca-judge-terminates-hunters-tax-case-eviscerates-joes-rationale-n2182776

The Hunter pardon has generated an avalanche of stories and opinions, so let’s run through a few...

John Nolte at BREITBART tells how the swampy media are trying to spin the real story.  For example, the laughable NEW YORK TIMES tries to make you believe that Biden wasn’t lying; he just changed his mind.  Nolte’s piece on this should be used in journalism classes, but it won’t be.

(Note:  we see that more commentators are picking up on the fact that Hunter, now that he’s been pardoned, can no longer hide behind the Fifth Amendment.)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/03/nolte-biden-white-house-conspired-for-months-to-mislead-public-about-hunter-pardon/

Joe Manchin has an idea about who Biden should pardon next, and it’s Donald Trump.  Manchin says it would “balance the scales of justice.”  That’s precisely why it won’t happen.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/12/03/joe-manchin-has-a-wild-idea-about-who-biden-should-pardon-next-n2182758

HOT AIR has more examples of leftists twisting their tiny brains into mini-pretzels trying to praise Biden for pardoning his son after praising him for NOT pardoning his son.

https://hotair.com/generalissimo/2024/12/02/joe-biden-just-razed-the-democrats-moral-high-ground-n3797515

Okay, now let’s contrast the leniency shown to Hunter with the atrocious treatment of the January 6 protesters, most of whom did nothing more than walk peacefully (“parade”) through the Capitol building (or not even that).

Victims of the weaponized justice system are speaking out, as reported by Catherine Salgado at PJ MEDIA, who quotes our friend Brandon Straka of #WalkAway: “I’m still serving a sentence for standing outside the Capitol for eight minutes.  Meanwhile, Hunter Biden could have murdered someone over the past decade, and nothing’s gonna happen.”

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/12/03/victims-of-weaponized-lawfare-condemn-hunter-pardon-n4934802

Here’s a compelling, must-read rationale for Trump pardoning ALL January 6 defendants, especially in light of the Hunter pardon.  (Scott Adams, in his Tuesday podcast, happened to say this very thing.  Perhaps he had read this.)  We’re talking a blanket pardon for everyone, no matter what they allegedly did, because of the inherent political bias of the prosecutions.  Defendants simply could not get a fair trial when they were labeled “domestic terrorists,” “Insurrectionists” and “enemies of the state.”  Much more, some of it hilarious, at REDSTATE…

https://redstate.com/brutalbrittany/2024/12/02/opinion-why-all-the-january-6-defendants-deserve-a-pardon-n2182592

RELATED:  Speaking of the weaponized “justice” system, let’s get in our Way-Back Machine and take a quick look at Trump’s first sham impeachment.  It’s just been found that a ‘journalistic entity” called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP, formed in 2008), which helped shape the impeachment narrative against President Trump, is primarily funded by...drum roll, please!...U.S. government agencies.

Though we had never heard of it, this is apparently an extremely influential group, operating in over 60 countries and employing over 200 reporters.  They partner with the WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE GUARDIAN.  The head of the OCCRP says the government never exerted editorial control, but they did “veto top personnel hires, including editorial hires.”  (Why, that would NEVER affect editorial content!)  This report is an eye-opener.

https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/just-in-outlet-linked-to-trump-impeachment-is-majority-funded-by-u-s-bombshell-reveals-mace/

ALSO RELATED:  If you know anyone who thinks Kash Patel is somehow wrong for the job of FBI director, please tell them to listen to John Solomon’s interview with retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jeff Danik, in which Danik enthusiastically endorses Patel and explains why.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/influential-retired-fbi-leader-says-agents-back-kash-patel-next?_nlid=MzqRCunfD6&_nhids=55d4h3q3

“My word as a Biden.”

Well, we know what that’s worth now.  Of course, those of us who were paying attention have known for years that the word of Joe Biden was worth nothing.  But now, with the inventive, all-encompassing presidential pardon of son Hunter, everyone can see the emptiness of his trademark phrase.

As with Hunter’s “sweetheart” plea deal that was negotiated with prosecutors before being questioned by the presiding judge, no one has ever seen a pardon like this.  It covers any and all charges against Hunter that might arise from his activities during an 11-year time frame.  This, after Biden had repeatedly claimed that he would not pardon Hunter, period.

But few are surprised Hunter was pardoned, and even they might be pretending to be surprised.  President Trump said to FOX NEWS in October, “I’ll bet you the father probably pardons him.  Let’s see what happens, but he’s a bad boy, there is no question about it.”

Still, Biden has lied countless times about this and about his family’s history of influence peddling.   Karine Jean-Pierre has the thankless job of covering for him, but in lying to defend the indefensible, she just looks pathetic.  This exchange took place Monday with the press on board Air Force One on its way to Angola (notice he’s far from the U.S. right now):

Reporter: “You and Biden said for months that he wouldn’t pardon Hunter...could those statements now be seen as lies [by] the American people?”

Karine Jean-Pierre: “One of the things that the President always believes is to be truthful to the American people.  That is something he always truly believes.”

KJP’s biggest challenge these days must be getting through press briefings with a straight face.

Here’s the full story from the NEW YORK POST.  Obviously, the focus-group-tested term of the day was “war politics,” which KJP repeated three times.  It’s supposed to mean the politicization of the Justice Department, which she insists led to their persecution of...Hunter Biden.  (Huh?  We thought it was somebody else.)  At the same time, President Biden is trying to maintain that, when it comes to Trump prosecutions, the DOJ is NOT politicized.  It’s nonsensical.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/02/us-news/karine-jean-pierre-claims-war-politics-reason-for-hunter-biden-pardon-insists-doj-not-weaponized-as-trump-claims/

She said that Biden had simply changed his mind over Thanksgiving.  To their credit, some of the reporters actually pressed her on this.  But, really, why do they even bother with these ridiculous press briefings at this point?  Surely, they aren’t doing it for the free trip to...Angola.  These briefings are nothing more than an exercise in hiding the truth, a waste of everybody’s time.

U.S. District Judge Maryellen Norieka, who first raised an eyebrow at that never-before-seen “sweetheart deal” put together by Hunter’s attorneys and U.S. Attorney David Weiss, said in a court filing on Monday that she’ll accept the President’s pardon related to the firearms charges and “intends to terminate the proceedings against Defendant.”

But David Weiss denied that Hunter had been “treated differently” and also that the verdict against him was a “miscarriage of justice,” words Karine Jean-Pierre had used.  In a court filing, he said that “there was none and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case.  To the extent that Defendant’s claim that he is being selectively prosecuted rests solely on him being the son of the sitting President, that claim is belied by the facts.”  After all, they said, it’s the President’s own appointees who run the Justice Department.

Weiss can’t overturn a presidential pardon, of course, but in “terminating” the case, he’s expressing resistance to actually dismissing the indictment against Hunter.  It’s an interesting distinction, and both he and Judge Norieka deserve credit for making it...

https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/12/02/plot-twist-special-counsel-opposes-hunter-bidens-bid-to-dismiss-tax-charges-in-face-of-pardon-n2182728

Recall that according to IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, it was just the opposite of a political prosecution, in that Hunter, as a member of the First Family, definitely got preferential treatment.  As BREITBART reports, Shapley and Ziegler made at least 13 allegations against Hunter and his family in congressional testimony last year, saying that supervisor Lesley Wolf restricted their investigation, particularly when it threatened to include “the Big Guy.”

https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2024/12/02/hunter-biden-irs-whistleblowers-slam-joe-bidens-pardon-sad-day-for-law-abiding-taxpayers/

CNN reports that First Lady Jill Biden was strongly lobbying/pressuring for the pardon.  But, really, they’re such fake news, who knows how it really went down?  Here’s the story anyway; make of it what you will...

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/12/02/report-jill-bidens-role-in-hunter-biden-pardon-situation-is-revealed-n2182714

House Speaker Mike Johnson posted this on X: “President Biden has insisted many times he would not pardon his own son for his serious crimes.  But last night, he suddenly granted a ‘Full and Unconditional Pardon’ for any and all offenses that Hunter committed for more than a decade!  Trust in our justice system has been almost irreparably damaged by the Bidens and their use and abuse of it.  Real reform cannot begin soon enough!”

https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1863576083376885918

Indeed, this looks so bad that Democrats are joining the chorus of criticism. According to the NY POST, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis was the first Democrat to denounce the pardon. “This is a bad precedent that could be abused by later Presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation,” Polis said of Biden, ignoring the fact that Biden’s reputation was already badly in need of some Tarn-X.

Arizona Rep. Greg Stanton said, “I respect President Biden [editorial aside: Why??], but I think he got this one wrong.  This wasn’t a politically motivated prosecution.  Hunter committed felonies, and was convicted by a jury of his peers.”

Mark Penn, a former adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, called the pardon “disgraceful.”  He actually summed it up in a way we might write about it for the newsletter: “This was not a pardon of just Hunter Biden but of Joe Biden himself as his son ran a scheme with Joe’s brother to shake down adversaries of over $20 million and then didn’t even pay taxes on it.  And the loot was distributed even to grandchildren.  And this is yet another of the many issues the American public was shamefully gaslighted over.” (Editor’s Note: Well, not ONE grandchild…)

That pretty much tells the story in a few sentences.  Penn left out just a couple of things:  1) Joe Biden himself apparently was in the pipeline to receive “loot” from this scheme, and 2) Barack Obama, in naming Biden to be “point man” to Ukraine, surely had to know about the Biden family’s foreign “business” dealings.

Law professor Jonathan Turley, who used to be a Democrat, says that “President Biden has set a standard that is not merely a new low but positively subterraneous for future Presidents.”

“It is not just that the President used his constitutional powers to benefit his family,” Turley wrote in a column for FOX NEWS.  “It is because the action culminates years of lying to the public about his knowledge and intentions in the influence-peddling scandal surrounding his family.”

Turley looked at the history of the power to pardon, acknowledging that it was “not a pristine power.”  He noted that in 2023 he’d suggested that Biden might withdraw from the 2024 race and then, as a lame-duck President, use his power to pardon Hunter.  “The pardon-and-apology approach,” he wrote at that time, “might appeal to Biden not only as an effort to convert vice into virtue but also to justify his withdrawal from the election as a selfless act.”

But Biden is by no means a selfless person. He lingered in office, repeatedly lying --- there’s plenty of evidence of this --- about his family’s business dealings, and insisted on running for a second term when it was obvious to anyone with open eyes that he was cognitively unfit.

“The pardon power was written in absolute terms,” Turley wrote, “and a President can even, in my view, pardon himself.  [Editorial aside: that’s a preview of coming attractions.]  However, what is constitutional is not necessarily ethical or right.  This is one of the most disgraceful pardons even in the checkered history of presidential pardons.”

“The President has now pardoned Hunter for his convicted felonies and ANY CRIMES HE MAY HAVE COMMITTED [emphasis ours] from January 1, 2014, to December 1, 2024.

“It is all now being buried under a sweeping immunity deal and a pack of presidential lies.”

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/12/02/liar-in-chief-president-biden-cloaks-his-legacy-in-infamy-with-the-hunter-biden-pardon/#more-226012

(For the record, presidential pardons normally go to people who have been convicted and served at least part of their sentences, not given as “Get Out Of Jail” free cards for any and all crimes someone might later be found to have committed.)

CNN senior analyst Elie Honig called this pardon “a historic act of political nepotism.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/12/02/cnns-honig-hunter-pardon-will-tarnish-joe-bidens-legacy/

On the other hand, some Democrats are so shameless that they want pedal-to-the-metal pardons for everyone now.  One MSNBC commentator expressed the hope that President Biden would issue preemptive pardons for “Special Counsel” Jack Smith, all his staff, and DOJ attorneys.  Not kidding.

https://pjmedia.com/graysonbakich/2024/12/02/msnbc-analyst-wants-biden-to-preemptively-pardon-jack-smith-doj-lawyers-n4934777

Others in the media either ignored the story, as MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” did, or predictably played the sympathy card for the Biden family…

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/12/02/the-big-tell-in-the-medias-coverage-of-joe-bidens-pardoning-of-hunter-biden-n2182729

So, what ARE the alleged crimes, charged or not, that Hunter has been pardoned for (just the ones we know about)?  Victoria Taft at PJ MEDIA runs through them (brace yourselves)…

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/12/02/what-crimes-did-hunter-biden-get-aw-n4934767

Follow-the-money expert Peter Schweizer is expecting Joe’s brother James Biden to be pardoned next…

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/12/02/is-this-who-biden-will-pardon-next-n2648518

Scott Pinsker at PJ MEDIA makes a good point: that in offering this sweeping pardon to his son, President Biden might have inadvertently handed Trump the mandate he needs to reform the “justice” system.

https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/12/02/the-voters-gave-trump-his-first-mandate-biden-just-gave-him-a-second-reform-the-justice-department-n4934779

This pardon, and the timing of it, was probably orchestrated by President Biden’s legal advisors and Hunter’s legal team.  Such a broad pardon obviously had its purposes but at the same time might have been short-sighted.  That’s because with Hunter now pardoned for anything he might have done for the past 11 years, he no longer has Fifth Amendment protection, as he can’t be prosecuted for anything during that time.  If he’s called to testify under oath, as before a congressional committee next year, and he makes false statements, he can be prosecuted just like anyone else. And Pam Bondi’s DOJ, unlike Merrick Garland’s, might actually do it.

In all the back-and-forth about the pardon, we’ve hardly heard this mentioned.

Even this piece by FOX NEWS legal analyst Gregg Jarrett doesn’t get into it, but it still sums up the whole story very well.  Recommended reading...

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-jarrett-biden-lied-all-us-when-he-pardoned-hunter-he-put-himself-first

On Saturday, President-elect Trump confirmed it: his choice for the new FBI director is none other than the brilliant and eminently qualified Kash Patel, who has made it clear that he would work to dismantle the bureaucracy, saying, “I’d shut down the Hoover FBI Building on Day 1 and reopen it as a museum of the Deep State.”

https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1863007459788628379

Of course, this also confirms that current Director Christopher Wray is being given the boot. There’s no need at this point to expound on why that resounding kick out the door and down the steps is so richly deserved on his part.

(To those without a clue who’ve actually said, “But Wray is a Republican who was appointed by Trump,” we’d simply reply that he’s made it clear through his actions and his total lack of transparency that he’s a “Republican” only in the sense that Liz Cheney or his own predecessor James Comey is one. Keep in mind, Wray got that job because he was recommended to DC-neophyte President Trump by Chris Christie, who should forever hang his head in shame for such a lousy suggestion. As time passed and Biden took the White House, Wray just happened to fit right in with the Biden administration’s goals, fulfilling Attorney General Merrick Garland’s dictums as diligently and opaquely as any Democrat might have done.)

If you’d like a refresher on Wray, here’s a scathing reminder from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who’s in line to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee in the next Senate term, to our good fortune...

https://archive.ph/IQW8I

But enough about Wray. Does someone as perfect for the job as Patel have any hope of actually being confirmed by the new Senate? Texas Sen. Ted Cruz predicts he will be, along with Trump’s other nominees. He quickly runs through Patel’s outstanding qualifications.

“I gotta say,” Cruz continues, “all of the weeping and gnashing of teeth, all of the people pulling their hair out, are exactly the people who are dismayed about having a real reformer come into the FBI and clean out the corrupted partisans who sadly have burrowed into senior career positions at the FBI.”

The clip is just a little over a minute long. News analysts at CBS’s FACE THE NATION must have loved hearing this from Sen. Cruz...

https://rumble.com/v5uy55q-ted-cruz-believes-kash-patel-and-everyone-else-will-get-confirmed-by-the-se.html

Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty concurs that Patel “represents the type of change that we need to see in the FBI.” Here he is on NBC’s MEET THE PRESS, whose host was probably every bit as thrilled to hear this as the folks at CBS were, meaning not. (Read her solemn expression at the end to see how she likely felt.) Mainstream “journalists” must be profoundly dismayed at the prospect of losing their leaky FBI “anonymous sources.” Again, just a brief, must-see clip...

https://rumble.com/v5ux8xq-senator-bil-hagerty-schools-meet-the-press-on-why-kash-patel-is-perfect-to-.html

Kash Patel is SO highly qualified for the job of FBI director that anyone who criticizes him on this score is really saying, in the words of commentator J. D. Rucker, “Holy c**p! Kash Patel’s gonna catch us all!”

https://rumble.com/v5uv7c5-what-theyre-really-saying-when-they-attack-kash-patels-qualifications.html

Rucker also posted in more detail on X that this is why they’re going to come after him “with all they’ve got.” It’s a must-read. Surely both President Trump and Patel himself are aware of what’s ahead for the confirmation process. Those desperate enough, with enough to lose, will try anything and everything, just as they have with President Trump. (Oh, no, are we all going to be subjected again to the Democrats “trotting out the women”?)

https://x.com/JDRucker/status/1863247098969546850

Patel’s name had previously been floated as the possible nominee for DEPUTY director, which doesn’t require Senate confirmation. But Trump apparently is feeling confident that Patel will get through, as he should. Pam Bondi, as U.S. Attorney General, will be his boss.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/30/donald-trump-kash-patel-fbi-director/

We hope that together, Bondi and Patel can rid the “justice” system of politicized actions such as this…

https://nypost.com/2024/11/27/opinion/the-fbi-and-dojs-politically-motivated-persecution-of-a-former-informant-all-to-protect-the-bidens

At this point, you’ve seen plenty from Patel’s stellar resume. But some are noting that former Attorney General Bill Barr said this about Patel in his 2022 book:

“I categorically opposed making Patel deputy FBI director. I told Mark Meadows it would happen ‘over my dead body.’ In the first place, all the leadership positions in the bureau, except the director, have always been FBI agents. They've all gone through the same agent training and have had broad experience in the field and at headquarters. Someone with no background as an agent would never be able to command the respect necessary to run the day-to-day operations of the bureau. Furthermore, Patel had virtually no experience that would qualify him to serve at the highest level of the world’s preeminent law enforcement agency.”

Bonchie at REDSTATE wryly comments: “I can’t think of a better endorsement for Patel to serve as FBI director than that.”

He also notes David Frum’s post on X: “We are headed toward a US constitutional crisis vastly bigger than Watergate.” (What, by appointing people who are not career bureaucrats? Seems as though that would make the framers of the Constitution very happy!) As Bonchie points out, “No, we are not heading for a ‘constitutional crisis,’ because the FBI is not a constitutional agency. It is a bloated, corrupt bureaucracy under the direct leadership of the President and one in desperate need of a house cleaning.” Thomas Jefferson, in his day, would likely have been so fed up that he’d call for much more drastic action than what Trump is taking, which is simply to follow the authority given him under the Constitution to make his own appointments, subject to Senate approval.

But, anyway, get ready for a lot more hysterical nonsense like that.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/12/01/bill-barr-inadvertantly-makes-the-case-for-kash-patel-as-fbi-director-while-left-wingers-go-into-shock-n2182660

Here’s REDSTATE’s Nick Arama, commenting on the screams coming from former deputy FBI Director (and current MSNBC contributor) Andrew McCabe’s corner. Delightful to behold!

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/11/30/delicious-andrew-mccabe-loses-it-on-cnn-over-nomination-of-kash-patel-n2182656

Becca Lower at REDSTATE points out two more whose jaws are sore from all the teeth-gnashing: former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton and Biden National Security Advisor (and Russia hoaxer) Jake Sullivan. Be sure to read her piece for the quote from Sen. Hagerty about how Biden appointees such as Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who organized the now-infamous “classic earmarks” letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop, “qualified” for their jobs and security clearances

Susie Moore, also at REDSTATE, points out that while former top officials are having a fit, former FBI agents seem quite pleased and even ecstatic about Patel…

https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/12/01/fbi-statement-re-trumps-patel-pick-drowned-out-by-chorus-of-whoops-from-several-former-agents-n2182665

In more from REDSTATE, Streiff notes that Bolton actually compared Patel to Lavrenty Beria, a Stalin loyalist who became head of the secret police. According to Streiff at REDSTATE, Beria “carried out the purges of the 30s, ran the gulag system, and kept the Red Army in the field during the trying 1940-1942 period through the use of political commissars, blocking units and summary executions.” Streiff calls Bolton’s statement “mind-bogglingly stupid” and considers it to be quite a solid endorsement of Patel.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/12/01/john-boltons-slam-of-kash-patel-proves-that-president-trump-picked-the-right-man-to-lead-the-fbi-n2182666

FBI agent-turned-whistleblower Steve Friend has some recommendations for the new FBI director. “Director Patel should immediately dissolve the FBI case quota system and Intelligence Branch,” he told PJ MEDIA’S Catherine Salgado. “These protocols have contributed to the bureau’s devolution into a politicized secret police force.”

In the “case quota system,” as explained by Friend, offices and agents are supposed to log a specific number of cases in specific categories, and their promotions rest in their ability to fulfill these. (Think January 6.) Did you even know they had this? On its face, this is a terrible system. It induces agents to create crimes that don’t even exist, and to ignore other types of crimes that aren’t at the top of the priority list, in order to reach arbitrary statistical goals. Patel should retire this system on Day 1.

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/12/01/exclusive-fbi-whistleblowers-priorities-for-kash-patel-n4934749

Over the weekend (before the Patel nomination was announced), legal analyst Andrew C. McCarthy wrote an unfortunate piece for NATIONAL REVIEW called “Trump Needs to End Lawfare,” in which he lamented the thought of Trump using the legal system to go after what he admits were “bad prosecutions.” He found it disturbing that Trump would echo Steve Bannon’s “battle cry for lawfare.” Read it if you’d like…

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/trump-needs-to-end-lawfare/

...but what really is a must-read is Julie Kelly’s response, in which she absolutely takes his argument apart. She’s THE preeminent January 6 expert, and her piece is so masterful, we’ll just give her the floor and encourage you to offer her your undivided attention.

Declassified with Julie Kelly

Not Lawfare. Justice.

After enduring nearly a decade of torment at the hands of hyperpartisan, unaccountable prosecutors and judges, President-elect Donald Trump appears poised to make good on his promise to hold government officials responsible for destroying public trust in the country’s once-revered legal and judicial system. Trump repeatedly pledged on the campaign trail…

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Mike Huckabee

On Monday, just as our newsletter staff was preparing to take the occasional pause that refreshes, we had one of the best news days we could’ve hoped for since Election 2024.  Talk about ending this short work week on a high note!  There’s a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

First and perhaps most important, as reported by the POST MILLENNIAL, President-elect Trump is “set to nominate Kash Patel to a top role in the FBI or the Department of Justice.”  AXIOS, citing “top transition sources,” broke the news more tentatively, saying that “the President-elect is considering him to be deputy FBI director or a high-up investigative role in the DOJ.”

In case you’re not familiar with Patel’s extensive background, the PM report summarizes it well.  Another top contender for the job of FBI director has reportedly been Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, another fabulous choice.  As we recently reported in another piece of delightful news, Mike Rogers, whose name had been floated (by whom, we have to wonder?) as a prospective FBI director, is not and has never been up for consideration by Trump.  One would imagine that once Trump heard Rogers had been given the thumbs-up by none other than disgraced former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now a contributor at MSNBC, that would have cemented his decision.

Regarding any appointment of Rogers to the FBI, Trump was quoted by senior Trump campaign adviser Dan Scavino as saying he had “never even given it a thought.”

So, why might Trump be thinking about Patel for deputy director and not the top spot?  Perhaps it’s to keep him out of reach of senators who fear him and plan to refuse his confirmation.  Patel is someone of whom it’s often said that he “knows where all the bodies are buried.” 

But Mike Davis, who might have similar knowledge of the location of those (figurative?) bodies, says Patel would have no problem with Senate confirmation.  After reading what some leftist hack wrote about him in his Wikipedia entry, we’re wondering if Andrew Bailey might actually have more trouble, with Dems and RINOs:

“During his tenure as attorney general,” it says, “Bailey has refused to release prisoners after overturned convictions, attempted unsuccessfully to restrict gender-affirming care, battled initiatives to restore access to abortion in Missouri, and staunchly defended former President Donald Trump over his legal problems.”

That was just the second paragraph, and the author was only getting started.  Most of these seem like good reasons FOR Bailey’s appointment.  We don’t know the details of those cases in which he allegedly resisted releasing prisoners but unfortunately cannot rely on the Wikipedia entry, which really is just a hit piece.  (And, sorry, Wikipedia, after showing us this slanted piece of garbage presented as an “encyclopedia” entry, you do NOT get the small donation your fundraising pop-up screen solicited.)

As for Patel, either as director, deputy director or special investigator, he is a spectacular choice.  Until Trump is sworn in and does what he will with current FBI Director Chris Wray (which should involve a man-size Hefty bag in anticipation of trash day), Wray is still there and behaving true to form.  As we reported yesterday, agents just last week raided the home of another nonviolent J6 attendee, a cancer patient, and arrested him.  January 20 can’t come too soon.

https://thepostmillennial.com/just-in-trump-to-nominate-kash-patel-for-fbi-or-doj-position-report

Speaking of confirmation, it might surprise you to know that there’s nothing in the Constitution that requires FBI background checks for any White House appointees or even the President himself.  J. D. Rucker makes the case that this FBI should NOT be doing background checks on Trump’s team.

https://rumble.com/v5swnkw-no-president-trump-should-not-let-the-fbi-do-background-checks-on-his-team.html

The actual RULE is this:  After someone is hired for the position, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Administration, which is not involved with the FBI at all, does a security check before that person receives top-secret clearance.  These professionals are looking for “threats,” Rucker says, while the FBI is looking for “dirt.”  The goal of the FBI, as they have shown many times, is to subvert the Trump administration.

This would explain why so often a nominee is derailed --- or almost derailed --- when the opposition resorts to “trotting out the women,” as we like to call it.  These alleged personal failings have nothing to do with national security.  (Exception:  when, as in the case of Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, the woman is a Chinese spy.)

Rucker notes that Tulsi Gabbard is really being “slammed hard” by political enemies with made-up stuff about her being a Russian agent.  RFK Jr. and Pete Hegseth are in the crosshairs as well.  Trump should stand firm, he says: “The moment he allows the Deep State to start weaving their tentacles into his appointees, that’s the moment when we’re going to start seeing the situations such as what we saw with Gen. Michael Flynn, who should have been in the last Trump administration.”  It was VP Pence and the FBI who stopped that.  Recall that thanks to the machinations of then-FBI Director James Comey, Flynn got to serve as Trump’s national security advisor for 11 whole days.

The Senate really can’t use FBI warnings about “national security” as pretext for rejecting nominees.  Again, that’s because after confirmation, there’s another agency that verifies they’re good-to-go.

“If they tell you otherwise,” Rucker says, “they’re lying.”  In support of that statement, we would add that one of the most vocal proponents of using the FBI for vetting has been confirmed liar California Rep. (now Senator-elect – thanks, California) Adam Schiff.

As Mollie Hemingway told FOX NEWS’ Laura Ingraham on Monday night, “The idea that these [at the FBI] are people who could in any way vet whether a candidate is good or not, that they would be trusted to do that, is just laughable.”

Likewise Mary Katharine Ham: “The idea that by getting elected by the popular vote and the Electoral College and then naming people to his Cabinet, he’s ‘dismantling’ the government [as another confirmed liar, New York Rep. Dan Goldman, has said] seems insane to me…The idea that the FBI should be trusted by a Trump transition team --- I cannot express how wild that is without using cuss words...”

The other big, happy piece of news we received Monday is that “Special Counsel” Jack Smith finally dropped the four remaining charges against Trump related to January 6.  He had already dropped the charges against him in the Mar-A-Lago “classified documents” case.

Sadly for Trump’s two J6 co-defendants, Smith did not dismiss charges against them, as they don’t enjoy Trump’s presidential immunity as established by the Supreme Court this summer.  And in Smith’s characteristic weasel fashion, he dismissed the case against Trump “without prejudice,” meaning he could actually pick it up again at some point, presumably when Trump is out of office in 2029.  “This outcome is not based on the merits or strength of the case against the defendant,” he lied.

On the contrary, re-filing this ridiculous case should be met with extreme prejudice.

Julie Kelly has an enjoyable piece on what a graceless loser and pathetic failure Jack Smith is, outlining his history and noting that just this year, this “dirty Democratic operative” was rebuked by the Supreme Court “on three separate occasions.”  She also gets her digs in at presiding Judge Tanya Chutkan, a partisan monster in a black robe.

Kelly strongly recommends an investigation into these cases, with criminal charges “where appropriate.”  She sees plenty of evidence to support charges of conspiracy, especially in the J6 case, which “revealed collaboration between the National Archives, the DOJ and the Biden White House to concoct a documents case against Trump as early as spring of 2021.”

Continuing:  “Court proceedings in Florida also disclosed examples of evidence tampering, destruction of evidence, and witness intimidation not to mention the selective nature of bringing a documents case against a former president for the first time in history while at the same time other public officials including Joe Biden and Mike Pence were found to have unlawfully kept classified files after leaving office.”   

And then there’s the shameful Mar-A-Lago raid, which should be investigated as a likely set-up.

“If the DOJ had a Hall Of Shame,” Kelly writes, “it would be named after Jack Smith.”

https://www.declassified.live/p/biggest-loser-in-doj-history-takes 

FOX NEWS legal analyst Gregg Jarrett had some good comments Monday night with Sean Hannity, especially about the role played by the media in furthering all this.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6365192003112

Here’s more from Jonathan Turley about what a loser Jack Smith is, one that history will not treat kindly.  Not that Smith deserves kindness.

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2024/11/25/jonathan-turley-jack-smith-drop-trump-election-case/

Here’s Turley’s full column on the January 6 case.

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/11/25/congresss-jan-6-investigation-looks-less-and-less-credible/

Aforementioned liar Adam Schiff “had a hissy,” as we say in the South, about Smith dropping the J6 charges against Trump.  He blew up on X, and, yes, he actually used the line that “no one is above the law.”  (So far, Schiff seems to be.  For example, last we heard, claiming homes in two different states as one’s primary residence is called “fraud.”)  Bonchie’s excellent piece on Schiff’s reaction doesn’t spare the January 6 “Select” Committee, either.  How about “selecting” co-chairs Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, among others, for a nice, big investigation?  Not for vengeance, but to know the truth.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/11/25/adam-schiff-copes-and-seethes-after-trump-charges-are-dropped-but-hes-got-no-one-to-blame-but-himself

Finally, Victoria Taft at PJ MEDIA offers suggestions for how Trump can get “payback” against Jack Smith and “the lawfare mob.”  Again, this isn’t about revenge, but rather punishment to the full extent of the law so there’s no repeat of the lawfare against Trump and anyone representing or supporting him.  In her words, “this cancer has to be rooted out to stop its corruptive spread.”  She’s right; it needs major surgery and chemo.

Taft lays out in bullet points the myriad abuses by “Lawfare Incorporated.”  Of particular note is the 65 Project, which targets attorneys who dare to represent Trump.  Alan Dershowitz, who himself has been targeted by this group, wants a thorough investigation of that, as well as a probe of the case in New York brought by Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/11/25/heres-how-trump-needs-to-execute-the-big-payback-against-jack-smith-and-lawfare-mob-n4934619

It’s been quite some time since we wrote in detail about the “long, proud history of the FBI” when it comes to spying and other wrongdoing.  For a refresher --- very timely as the prospect of reforming our intel agencies actually seems within grasp --- Mark Levin’s must-see Sunday monologue runs through the highlights of our government’s repeated Constitution-trampling.

To those political enemies who would criticize President-elect Trump and anticipate him abusing his power, Levin points out that he was one of the most well-behaved and that real presidential misconduct started very early in our nation’s history, with second President John Adams, a brilliant but flawed human being.  It was soon after our nation was formed, in 1798, that Adams signed the now-infamous Sedition Act, which effectively criminalized criticism of, well, John Adams.  This was tough stuff: “If any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or procure...or knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...with intent to defame the said government...shall be punished by fine not exceeding $2,000 and by imprisonment not exceeding 2 years.”  Conspirators in such activity could be imprisoned by up to five years!

Americans could even be prosecuted under the Sedition Act for criticizing the Sedition Act.

Adams’ political enemy, Thomas Jefferson (who could legally be criticized all the live-long day) was OF COURSE opposed to this law, and once he was President allowed it to lapse.  But before that, 17 indictments and 10 convictions went through, “many upon charges so flimsy as to be comical,” according to Peter McNamara of the Free Speech Center.  So the beginning of our great nation was tainted by this affront to free political speech.  Just ten years after the Constitution was ratified, we were already violating it to the extreme.

Then there was Abraham Lincoln, who in 1861 suspended habeas corpus from Washington DC to Philadelphia, meaning he could jail people without charging them with a crime.  In 1862, in defiance of a federal appellate court ruling, he expanded this to cover the entire nation.  Under the authority of the military, thousands of Americans, including political opponents, were imprisoned.  Over 300 opposition newspapers were closed.  Yes, it was wartime, but this was still unconstitutional political warfare.

In 1917 and 1918, respectively, Democrat Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act and Sedition Act, which, according to Levin, “would come to be known as the most egregious assaults on free speech in our history.”  Thousands were prosecuted under these laws, most notably Wilson’s own political opponent Eugene Debs, whose sentence was later commuted by Wilson’s successor, Republican Warren G. Harding.

Wilson implemented the most extensive censorship regime of any President, according to Levin.  And the Espionage Act of 1917 lives on.  We would add that “Special Counsel” Jack Smith used it to charge President Trump with “willful retention of sensitive national defense information.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-pleads-not-guilty-to-37-federal-felony-charges-out-of-classified-records-probe

Then there’s the IRS.  Documents prove that Franklin Roosevelt and his administration used it to destroy the careers of their political enemies, such as former Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, a Republican whom they knew was innocent.  FDR’s IRS also targeted newspaper publishers, among them William Randolph Hearst and Frank Gannett, who expressed opposition to the New Deal.  This is just scratching the surface.

JFK’s IRS provided him with the supposedly private tax information on individuals, businesses and groups.  Conservative groups were audited under “the Ideological Organizations Audit Program” (so, Lois Lerner wasn’t the first to do this).  JFK used the FBI to spy on Martin Luther King, Jr., tapping his phones, bugging his house and monitoring his every move.  Lyndon Johnson went further, using the FBI, IRS and CIA to spy on opponent Barry Goldwater, wiretapping his campaign headquarters.

According to Levin, they found out that one of Barry Goldwater’s staffers was gay, which Goldwater had known, and were threatening to use that. Goldwater called a senior member of LBJ’s campaign and said, “Please do not ruin this man’s life.”  Ultimately, they chose not to.

Being paranoid about Robert Kennedy, LBJ sent FBI spies to the 1964 Democratic Convention, where they also continued monitoring Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders.  In ‘68, when Hubert Humphrey was nominated, LBJ had the FBI tap his phones as well, to check his loyalty about the Vietnam War.  Again, this is just the tip of the iceberg, or spies-berg.

Levin skips over the Nixon administration, perhaps because their most famous spying is so well-known (but note how Democrats at the time pretended to be shocked by it.) He fast-forwards to President Obama and his AG Eric Holder, of whom even CNN’s Jake Tapper said, “The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists...more than all previous administrations combined…”  That would be seven times.

Recall that in 2013, the “Justice” Department seized, with no notice or justification, phone records for 20 telephone lines to AP offices and journalists’ home lines, affecting more than 100 journalists.  Just a week later, the DOJ named FOX NEWS journalist James Rosen a criminal co-conspirator in a leak case, tracking his movements, seizing his email logs and even spying on his parents.  Obama’s spying gets much, much worse; check out this story from 2016…

https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/311026-obamas-legacy-will-be-one-of-secrecy-and-hostility/

As for Obama-Biden and the Deep State’s actions against Trump, you know all about those horrendous abuses of power:  the unrelenting lawfare against Trump and his associates; the spying on his campaign and White House; massive leaking (including Trump’s tax returns); the Russia Hoax; two sham impeachments; the raid on his home; and the agencies’ role in January 6 and the spying, tracking, raiding, arrests and convictions that followed.  Not to mention the government’s online censorship activities.

So the good ol’ USA has a long history of abuse of power by its leaders.  But not by Trump --- he was the victim of it.  How ironic that the very one who’s actually trying to change this, to make this country the kind of open, honest place we’d like to think it is, is the one being hounded and feared and called a dictator. They accuse him of “destroying norms,” but if the norm he plans to destroy is government spying on American citizens and abusing its power for political reasons, then bring on the wrecking ball.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6365141316112

Speaking of January 6 abuses, BLAZE MEDIA has an update on their journalist Steve Baker, who recently chose to plead guilty to four misdemeanor charges (such as “milling” and “parading”) rather than endure a trial.  As it happens, his pre-trial hearing was the day after the election, and he says the judge “really showed his intolerance.”

This judge, no doubt ticked off at the election outcome, wouldn’t even allow discovery.  “He showed that he was going to be completely inflexible in the trial.” Baker says.  “He dismissed all our motions...and the most important motion that we had is, we were requesting from the government discovery on the other 80 to 100 journalists that went through the building and weren’t charged with anything.”  According to Baker, his judge is “best friends with Merrick Garland.”

This, combined with the prospect of a Washington DC jury pool, is what led him to change his plea to guilty.

After that, Baker says, the judge “made a serious unforced error” in chastising him.  “He criticized none of the [alleged] behavior...but what he did criticize me [for]...[was] my remarks in my journalism about weaponized Department of Justice and the bias of the court.”

So, not his actions, but his words, critical of the government.  (Ah, we come full circle to John Adams’ Sedition Act.)  Steve Baker needs to be at the top of the list of those J6 political prisoners Trump pardons immediately after his inauguration.  Watch this five-minute clip of his interview with Pat Gray here, highly recommended, in which he says the government is still at this, as it just SWAT-teamed and arrested an Austin man (a cancer patient) who had nonviolently entered the Capitol that day.  This was done last week, AFTER the election.

https://www.theblaze.com/shows/pat-gray-unleashed/steve-baker-felon

When you have time, here’s investigative reporter Julie Kelly interviewing 22-year Marine Corps. Veteran, Purple Heart recipient and J6 political prisoner Christopher Kuehne.

https://blubrry.com/happyhourjulieliz/138738195/ep-173-julie-and-liz-talk-to-christopher-kuehne-decorated-combat-veteran-purple-heart-recipient-and-j6-political-prisoner/

Tristan Justice at THE FEDERALIST has an exclusive report on the evidence that shows the Pentagon deliberately delayed the deployment of the National Guard on January 6.  Recall our recent story about the Inspector General “knowingly concealing” the extent of the delay and Rep. Barry Loudermilk’s letter to IG Robert P. Storch about this, insisting he correct his report.

Kash Patel, who was then chief of staff for the Defense Department, is quoted here from a FEDERALIST story back in March, insisting that President Trump authorized those 10,000 National Guard.  It’s now crystal clear that Trump did just that and has told the truth about it all along.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/21/exclusive-dod-intentionally-delayed-national-guard-deployment-to-the-capitol-on-jan-6/

Speaking of Kash Patel, he appeared Sunday on FOX NEWS with Maria Bartiromo to explain how he as FBI Director would restore public trust in the Bureau.  Exposure of the corruption is a must, he said.  “Put out the documents.  Put out the evidence.  We only have gotten halfway down the Russiagate hole.”

In other words, it’s far worse than we know after almost four years.  Watch Patel’s interview at THE GATEWAY PUNDIT, which also features a rundown of the transgressions (that we know of) by current FBI Director Chris Wray.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/kash-patel-displays-why-he-is-best-pick/

Trump’s cabinet nominations are the clearest sign he could give that it’s no longer business as usual for the Deep State.  (And for those who still question the use of the term “Deep State” and whether or not it’s even real or just a conspiracy theory, we say YES, it’s real, and YES, that’s our preferred term.  Expect to see much more discussion of it here in the next months, as we watch it being dismantled.)

(Note: For those who scoff at the idea of Trump being able to dismantle these agencies, Vivek Ramaswamy of Trump’s new Government Efficiency agency explained that the “dirty little secret” of DC is that the government isn’t being run by the people we elect but by unelected executive branch bureaucrats. And most of their power and the damages they cause stem from regulations that the Supreme Court has recently ruled they had no unconstitutional power to impose. So yes, Trump will have the authority to gut them. Remember that some of the same people crying that a smaller government can’t do its job also said Twitter couldn’t function if Elon Musk cut 80% of the work force. It seems to be functioning just fine.)

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ramaswamy-outlines-doges-vision-bring-sweeping-change-bureaucracy-restoring-accountability

Matt Gaetz for Attorney General is the most obvious example of a jolt to the Deep State, as the left is freaking out over what they wrongly see as retribution or revenge against the DOJ.  Former federal prosecutor Andrew Cherlasky told the DAILY CALLER that “Gaetz is clearly an outsider and disruptor, and that’s the point.”  He’s “exactly what President Trump promised for the DOJ during his campaign, namely to end the department’s left-leaning focus on lawfare, censorship, and election interference.”

Sounds perfect.  On the other hand, legal analyst Andrew McCarthy isn’t too pleased, suggesting that Gaetz lacks qualification because he was “among the leading proponents of the effort to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election.”  Sigh.  We have to wonder what McCarthy’s assessment of that election might be one day, after everything comes out in the wash.

Here’s more on the Gaetz pick and others from the DAILY CALLER.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/17/trump-doj-bureaucrats-unexpected-leadership-picks/

Speaking of the 2020 election, another sign that things are changing is the discussion of revoking the security clearances for those 51 former intel officials who signed the infamous “classic earmarks” letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop being Russian disinformation.  That letter might have been the biggest single piece of election interference of all time.  The signers are lucky if they’re not prosecuted.

One might wonder what any FORMER intel officials need with security clearances, anyway.  Wouldn’t you think that once they leave the government, they shouldn’t retain them?  California Rep. Darrell Issa is asking that question.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/11/15/remember-those-51-hunter-biden-laptop-deniers-they-may-lose-their-security-clearances-n4934340

Gaetz was the subject of an ethics investigation in the House, and Speaker Mike Johnson is saying that since he has already resigned his House seat --- a curious move --- it would violate House rules for the House Ethics Committee to release it.

Whatever happens with this, and whether or not Gaetz wins Senate confirmation, we trust that whoever ends up with that job will be as tenacious as he is.  Details at THE EPOCH TIMES…

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/speaker-johnson-will-ask-house-ethics-committee-not-to-release-report-on-matt-gaetz-5760483

As we said last week, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is at the hub of the intelligence wheel.  Now Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for DNI, has reportedly sparked “a special kind of unease among Democratic lawmakers, the liberal media, and elements of the intelligence community.” And for ridiculous “reasons” that sound like a rehash of the Trump I Russia Hoax.

Tom Nichols at THE ATLANTIC is having a cow.  Likewise, Bill Kristol.  Wow, that sounds like the best recommendation FOR Tulsi Gabbard we could possibly have!  This piece at THE BLAZE is a must-read…

https://www.theblaze.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-has-national-security-experts-worried-the-dni-has-access-to-every-single-secret

Mike Huckabee

The original idea of “The View” was to present a daily discussion of major topics by women with a variety of viewpoints. It’s morphed into a daily hivemind session where five leftists compete to see who can shout the craziest leftwing talking points to get the audience to clap like trained seals. But after last week’s election shocked them, ABC executives are finally starting to question whether it’s wise for their bottom line to air a show that spends an hour a day calling the majority of Americans stupid, sexist, racist, fascist Nazis.

So the New York Post reports that ABC is planning major changes to “The View,” such as adding some women with actual differing views, even – brace yourselves – a Trump-voting Republican!

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/11/14/the-view-looking-to-hire-pro-trump-woman-as-ratings-nosedive-n2647789

If it’s the usual network set-up of one Republican being shouted down by four crazy liberals, we’re not sure who would take the gig. One suggestion we’d love to see was Roseanne Barr. She’d send the other four fleeing to their dressing rooms in tears. But if she didn’t take the gig, who would? Some commentators have suggested they find one of the many hard-working women who take on jobs that nobody else wants to do, from caring for the elderly to changing diapers. That would prepare them for being on “The View.”

RELATED: Whoopi Goldberg accused a New York bakery of refusing to take a cake order from her because the owner didn’t approve of her political views. The bakery got bombarded with calls over it.

We know liberals love to play the victim, but the baker said she turned down the order, as she explained, because her building is from 1930 and has an unreliable boiler so she can’t accept orders weeks in advance since she doesn’t know if the equipment will be working. She did supply 50 treats to “The View” that day, and she said she didn’t know or care about the politics of whoever picked them up.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/whoopi-goldberg-claims-bakery-refused-service-leftist-views-they-did-not-like-my-politics

Mike Huckabee

The Democratic Party is facing an “existential threat,” but it’s not the bad orange man. To paraphrase the comic strip “Pogo,” they have met the enemy, and it is them.

In trying to figure out what caused last week’s shellacking at the polls, some Democrats are crying, pointing fingers, having tantrums and meltdowns, and claiming the problem is that the party wasn’t “progressive” enough (How many men can you fit INTO a girl’s bathroom?!)

https://notthebee.com/article/f-them-to-the-moon-and-back-editor-of-scientific-american-apologizes-after-calling-trump-voters-fing-fascists

But other Democrats are trying to take the party back from the far-left loons and drag it back toward the center. They’ve sensed that catering to the lunatic fringe and its boutique “problems” while calling working class voters stupid bigots and Nazis for complaining about $7-a-pound butter wasn’t a smart election strategy.

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/11/11/centrist-democrats-roast-far-left-for-alienating-voters-with-nonsense-that-caused-election-loss/

Will they be successful in restoring common sense to the Democratic Party? It’s not looking good, if early reactions are any indication.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/11/11/massachusetts-democrat-seth-moultons-former-interns-staffers-demand-apology-over-lgbtq-remarks/

For instance, former staffers and interns of Rep. Seth Moulton are demanding an apology, and some LGBTQIA+++ activists even want his resignation over "offensive" remarks he made in an op-ed. Here’s what he said (Better cover the eyes of any children in the room):

He said the Democratic Party spends “way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face. I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”

I guess he should be afraid to say that if he wants to be a Democrat politician. He should join us over on the Republican side. We’ve been speaking obvious truths for years and not caring what lunatics say about us. It’s remarkably freeing.

Mike Huckabee

With Tulsi Gabbard’s strong commitment to freedom, individual rights and peace through strength, along with her military background (two tours in the Middle East with the National Guard), it was a foregone conclusion that President-elect Trump would find a choice spot for her in his second administration.  That has happened, with Trump announcing Wednesday that she is his nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI).  She’s an outstanding pick.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-appoints-tulsi-gabbard-as-director-of-national-intelligence

Relatively few Americans even know what the role of the DNI is, but it’s pivotal, especially at this time of reorganization and reform of the intel agencies.  Yet most news stories about this, including the one linked to above, offer little clue as to what it’s for, so we’ll explain.  First, the federal government has 18 (count ‘em) different intelligence agencies!  We’re all familiar with the CIA, FBI and NSA, but there’s also the Defense Intelligence Agency for military intel and numerous others much more obscure.  The State Department, Treasury Department and DEA have their own intelligence bureaus.  The Army, Navy, Marine Corps., Air Force, Coast Guard and Space Force each have their own intelligence offices.  You can learn much more about this at the DNI website.

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/what-we-do/members-of-the-ic

Of course, part of the reform of the intelligence community will almost surely be to eliminate some of these and consolidate others, but in the meantime, the Office of the DNI is intended to be the go-between, the one who coordinates communication and intelligence sharing among all of them.

As DNI, Tulsi will be at the hub of all that.  In theory at least, when, say, the CIA wants to work with the FBI on a particular investigation, they’re supposed to work through the DNI.  (The CIA isn’t supposed to just go in and spy on Americans, you know --- only the FBI can do that, haha.)

On their website, they provide this capsule description of the DNI’s role: The DNI “serves as the head of the U.S. Intelligence Community, overseeing and directing the implementation of the National Intelligence Program and acting as the principal advisor to the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council for intelligence matters related to national security.  Specific duties are outlined here…

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are

Obviously, for someone like Trump who himself has been targeted by multiple intelligence agencies and who wants to bring as much transparency as possible to their activities, the person in this job must be impeccably trustworthy. John Ratcliffe, Trump’s superb nominee for CIA Director, used to be the DNI himself.  In Trump’s announcement on Tuesday, he said this about Ratcliffe:

“From exposing fake Russian collusion to be a Clinton campaign operation, to catching the FBI’s abuse of Civil Liberties at the FISA Court, John Ratcliffe has always been a warrior for Truth and Honesty with the American public.  When 51 intelligence officials were lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop, there was one, John Ratcliffe, telling the truth to the American people.”

In 2020, Trump awarded Ratcliffe the National Security Medal, which is, Trump said, “the Nation’s highest honor for distinguished achievement in the field of intelligence and National Security.”  Previously a Texas congressman, Ratcliffe really has been at the leading edge.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-taps-former-director-of-national-intelligence-john-ratcliffe-to-lead-cia

Investigative reporter Julie Kelly is liking what she sees at the DOJ, as she sees the “rats fleeing the ship” in anticipation of Trump’s allies coming in and the scales of justice having a chance to “recalibrate.”

For example, in an update on our “Special Counsel” Jack Smith story from Wednesday, he and his prosecution team confirmed they’ll be resigning before Trump takes office on January 20.  It’s not yet clear whether or not Smith will file a confidential report summarizing their work, required under the DOJ’s rules for special counsels.  Oh, well, Smith always seemed to make up his own rules. And he’s never really been a special counsel, anyway.

According to a story in THE NEW YORK TIMES, Smith now “finds himself on the defensive” (all together now: “Awwwww!!”).  This is because, as we reported yesterday, Republicans Jim Jordan, House Judiciary chairman, and Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, have told DOJ officials working on their two Trump cases to preserve all of their communications for investigators.  (Of course, the House’s sham January 6 committee was supposed to preserve all their records, too, and they chose to destroy them instead, with no repercussions so far.  I digress.)  The NYT writers say this is “a sure sign that a new balance of power in Washington will make Mr. Smith among those being hunted by congressional investigators and others.”

Ah, we get what you’re saying, NYT writers.  It’s the REPUBLICANS who are “hunting” now, simply for wanting accountability for the man who was hunting President Trump and exploiting the legal system in every twisted way possible to stop him from becoming President again.

As Kelly details, Smith “filed unprecedented federal indictments” against the President in Washington for the events of January 6 and in Florida “related to Trump’s alleged hoarding of national defense secrets,” but that his all-out pursuit of Trump is ending with “a whimper, not a bang.”  This must surprise all the cable news hosts and so-called legal experts who, she says, “hung on Smith’s every move in court, salivating over the vision of the war-crimes prosecutor [that was Smith’s background] hauling their long-time nemesis off to the gulag in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit.”

No, instead they’re going to see their “nemesis” re-inaugurated.  And they won’t understand this, but if Smith turns out to be the one wearing an orange jumpsuit, it won’t be for “revenge” but for justice over his abuses of a defendant’s rights.

Rep. Jordan has also indicated that he may ask Smith to testify publicly, as Special Counsel Robert Mueller had to do after his investigation was over.  (Remember how oddly confused Mueller appeared to be?  It seemed that his second-in-command Andrew Weissmann might have been the actual leader.)  From what she knows of Smith’s personality, Kelly anticipates that he “will lay bare his sense of superiority and air of imperviousness for all the world to see.”

She suggests they also interview Jay Bratt, who is also planning to beat a hasty retreat from the DOJ.  Recall that Bratt is alleged to have threatened a defense attorney --- the one who was up for a judgeship? --- in the so-called “classified” documents case, to induce him to pressure his client to flip on Trump.  Bratt also visited the Biden White House at least twice and is alleged to have pushed aggressively behind the scenes for the armed FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago, which he sure got.

Kelly goes on to note that, according to a story in POLITICO, DOJ employees are “terrified” over Trump’s return, with one attorney saying that department prosecutors are “losing their minds.”  He said, “The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they’re going to be driven out.”

That’s exactly what needs to happen at the DOJ.  And Trump isn’t even in office yet.  This is what they’re calling “the Trump effect.” It’s like cockroaches scurrying to hide when the kitchen light comes on.

Prosecutors know they could be in big trouble over such abuses as withholding exculpatory evidence and violating the due process rights of J6 defendants, who often were detained for months and years without knowing the charges against them and without even being able to speak to their attorneys.  As Kelly reports, “In June, the Supreme Court concluded the DOJ unlawfully applied 18 USC 1512(c)(2), obstruction of an official proceeding, in J6 cases but not before hundreds were charged and over 100 sent to prison.”

Then we have selective prosecution.  Kelly writes that “no other group of political protesters in U.S. history has been subjected to the kind of federal charges levied against J6-ers.”  No wonder these prosecutors are panicked; they know what they did.  They might have thought they were safe, assuming they’d “get” Trump before he could come back and “get” them.  But, again, a re-tooled DOJ “getting” them on things they actually did sounds more like justice, not vengeance.

https://www.declassified.live/p/rats-flee-sinking-doj-ship?

RELATED STORY:  In a very different take on Trump’s new term, MSNBC intel expert Jeremy Bash (Dana Bash’s ex-husband and one of those 51 officials who signed the “classic earmarks” letter about Hunter’s laptop) said on Monday that he “expects” U.S. military and intelligence leaders to undermine President Trump and disobey orders if they decide they’re “unlawful” or “political.”

These are the “institutionalists,” he said, “who will apply “checks and balances.”

Oh, really?  Are these the same checks and balances they used when they disregarded Trump’s authorization for 10,000 National Guard troops at the Capitol on January 6, which would have prevented the riot that they apparently really, really wanted to have?

You have to read this.  This guy personifies the very attitude that has to be swept from the DOJ and the entire intelligence community.

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/13/msnbc-intel-expert-jeremy-bash-says-institutionalists-within-the-government-will-thwart-trumps-agenda/

MORE READING:  For when you have time, Trump’s Agenda47 (not to be confused with “Project 2025,” which has nothing to do with Trump) lists point-by-point the actions Trump plans to take to dismantle the Deep State.  They involve establishing a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” to declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and abuses of power.  Transparency at last!  Better prepare to be shocked.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-president-trumps-plan-to-dismantle-the-deep-state-and-return-power-to-the-american-people

And here’s a snippet of Victoria Taft’s interview with investigative reporter Lee Smith about it…

https://x.com/VictoriaTaft/status/1856444459900350969?ref

Huckabee Team

At the time of this writing early Wednesday morning, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has been nominated by President-elect Trump to head the CIA --- fabulous choice, Mr. President --- but his nominee for FBI director is yet to be announced.  That’s going to be such a key position, right up there with U.S. Attorney General, because the FBI has to be taken apart and put back together in order to fix it.  The corruption there is breathtaking, as a story that hit late Tuesday reminds us.

An FBI analyst testified before the House Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (Barry Loudermilk’s subcommittee) that the FBI’s “Foreign Influence Task Force” has been using a new software tool specifically to track election-related speech on social media.  Never mind the word “foreign” in this task force’s name, because the task force doesn’t pay attention to that, either.  According to this analyst, they’ve been using their new “tool” on Americans.

In a (probably useless) letter to FBI Director Chris Wray, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan wrote that this tool was being used to monitor social media posts “regardless of whether the users are American citizens or foreign actors, to search for ‘content indicative of criminal conduct.’”

According to the analyst, the FBI then shares user names and specific content with social media companies “to censor such conduct accordingly.”  That’s right --- they’re STILL DOING THIS.

When the witness was asked about the scope of said “criminal conduct,” FBI counsel repeatedly prevented him from fully answering.

“Therefore,” Jordan continued, “we write to obtain additional information in order to understand whether the FBI has or could use this software tool to censor or infringe upon lawful speech, particularly Americans’ political speech.”

This is more election interference by our own FBI, and Americans have had enough.  These power-mad bureaucrats just can’t seem to stop themselves from spying on Americans and controlling what we’re allowed to say, so someone else is going to have to stop them, even if it involves firing the whole lot of them.  Every one of them, that is, except the whistleblowers, who deserve a raise and a promotion.

https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2024/11/12/analyst-testimony-suggests-fbi-used-tool-to-track-and-spy-on-americans-engaged-in-election-related-talk-n2181913

Kenneth Allard

At dawn a week ago, I was driving on an overhead connector in San Antonio, several stories taller than most of the thrill-rides at our local theme parks. Only barely awake after watching the election returns, I listened as a radio announcer played the song the victorious Trump election team sang to celebrate the victory confirmed only moments earlier. To my utter amazement, they sang, “How Great Thou Art,” a traditional evangelical hymn I heard performed by my first-generation Swedish grandparents. At that same instant, a brilliant sunrise peaked over the edge of the horizon, the heavenly light demonstrating that grace might still be spreading to Texas as well as our sister-states.

Or at least some of them since the only ones in which Kamala had gained a clear plurality appeared to be those few which routinely fail to enforce voter standards –and so counting naturally takes longer. But those were the exceptions as the red wave swept inexorably toward the astounding total of over 300 electoral votes. Unlike four years ago, this election had been too big to lie about! Having suffered from a very Protestant skepticism that, all other things being equal, the electorate will usually choose Barabbas, it was hard to believe when TV cameras showed Amish villages enthusiastically hosting Trump caravans. And even died -in-the-blue New Jersey neighborhoods were now featuring Orthodox Jews proudly waving Trump banners. In the end a single pregnant fact underlined the Democratic debacle: Even in the familiar precincts of his home county, Governor Tim Walz had failed to achieve a win.

As regular readers may remember, I have long pondered the possibilities of civil war, those cleavages in our society reminding me both of our own history and my left-over nightmares from Bosnia. The Balkans hung together under the Ottoman Empire, Stalinism, the Cold War and, for a while, even the break-up of the USSR. But when separatism, historical revisionism and fratricidal agendas took over, 800 years of Bosnian unity shattered into three desperately warring factions. My treks over and through that shattered country continuously replayed themselves during what certainly seemed like the summer of our discontents. I have loathed Joe Biden’s reckless rhetoric about “MAGA Republicans” for a long time, his nefarious suggestions seemingly matched by the lawfare campaign organized under White House tutelage. The attempted assassinations mounted against Donald Trump were deeply shocking but not in the least surprising. History provides too many examples of what can happen after an assassination, the murder of Arch-Duke Ferdinand in Sarajevo becoming a proximate cause of World War I. Was something like that in our future as well?

Because so much was unknown and un-knowable, I avoided making firm plans until after the election – which suddenly came, went and we won! All through Veterans Day, I have been profoundly at peace, careful to pray as hard after those events as before, now combined with simple gratitude that maybe, just maybe, we might be spared the worst of all outcomes. As a former soldier, I know only too well what those outcomes could be: watching the steady erosion of our forces and their arms caches; and desperately contemplating those ten million illegals let in by Kamala as a Fifth Column of potential adversaries. Would you seriously expect the Russians, Chinese or Iranians to ignore their potential should push come to shove?

With the prospects for World War III seemingly growing daily, I certainly would not, which was why my day perceptibly brightened when the news arrived that our friend Governor Mike Huckabee will be our next ambassador to Israel, and that another governor, Kristi Noem, will shortly become the head of DHS. And then, later in the day, came the trifecta: Pete Hegseth appointed as SECDEF!

I turned immediately to CNN for a fresh demonstration of the legacy media’s institutional dereliction of duty. Sure enough, there was Erin Burnett, practically in tears as she related the dread tidings of these latest appointments by Donald Trump. Commiserating with a Democratic congressman (naturally enough), she even alluded to a secret plan by the incoming president to dismiss senior generals who were “too woke” to meet his standards. And wasn’t an unqualified Fox analyst like Pete Hegseth the perfect choice for such a scurrilous task? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/11/12/trump-woke-generals-warrior-board-executive-order/

Nonsense, Erin! For the record, Pete Hegseth is an exquisitely experienced junior Army officer and distinguished author. A generation apart, I only wish him Godspeed as he sets out to trim the Pentagon bureaucracy with the nearest axe that might be handy!

Colonel (Ret.) Ken Allard is a former West Point professor, Dean of the National War College and on-air military analyst for NBC News.

Mike Huckabee

Today is Veterans Day, when we should all fly our flags and do whatever we can to express our gratitude to America’s veterans and active-duty military for putting their lives on the line to protect our freedom and security, and for all they do to protect other innocent people all over the world.

Despite all the other news demanding our attention, this day should never be overshadowed or overlooked. Today is about something far more important than passing political news. It’s about the men and women who make it possible for us to have elections and the Constitutional rights to freedom of speech and religion, and to protest and seek redress when we think our government isn’t doing right by us (even though we have far too many people in DC who seem to have forgotten that we have those rights.)   

Memorial Day in May is to honor veterans who gave their lives in defense of America. Veterans Day is to honor all veterans, living or dead, past and present.

It began as Armistice Day, declared by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, to commemorate the end of World War I. In 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks of Birmingham, Alabama, began a personal crusade to expand Armistice Day into a state holiday honoring all veterans. In 1953, an Emporia, Kansas, shoe store owner named Al King launched a campaign to make it a national holiday. Just one year later, in 1954, he succeeded. It helped that the President was a retired army general from Kansas named Dwight Eisenhower.

Not only is today Veterans Day, but yesterday was the 249th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. It commemorates the day in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Marines to serve in the war against Great Britain. After the Revolutionary War ended, the Marines were disestablished for a time until President John Adams reestablished the Marines as we know the Corps now, on July 11, 1789. But November 10th, 1775, is still considered the birth of the US Marines.

So if you see someone in uniform, this is a great day to say “Thank you.” Then again, any day is a great day to do that.

RELATED: Vice President-elect J.D. Vance wished a happy birthday to the Marines. It’s hard to believe, but in 249 years, he will be the first Marine veteran ever to become Vice President. Since the Democrats are always wanting us to vote for people because they’ll be the first this or that to hold the office, you’d think they’d be happy about this.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/10/jd-vance-first-marine-to-become-vice-president-wishes-fellow-marines-happy-birthday/

Mike Huckabee

I hope and pray that Trump accomplishes all the things he says he will, which will be great for all Americans, who voted for him across all demographic lines despite the Democrats’ best efforts to divide and conquer us. As usual, Rush Limbaugh was right: The best thing for Republicans’ electoral fortunes is for Democrats to get into power for just a little while and remind people of how much damage they can do in a surprisingly short time.

I was disappointed that Kamala Harris remained on brand to the end, refusing to face the cameras or make a difficult speech. When it was obvious she had lost, a minion was sent out to tell her disappointed followers to go home and get some sleep. There was no unifying congratulatory call to Trump or gracious concession speech. Wags accused her of plagiarizing Hillary Clinton. There was some rumbling from the Dems’ lawfare brigade about the race not being over for days, but when you’re down by five million votes, that’s what meant by “beyond the margin of fraud.”

There were some suspicious incidents at polling places around the nation, but the RNC’s lawyers responded fast, and shut them down PDQ. Kudos to Lara Trump and Michael Whatley at the RNC for fighting back on that front.

I also hope that the Democrats will learn from this that Americans reject the savage and divisive politics of racial grievance and slandering opponents as Nazis and garbage, and will work with Trump to make things better for all Americans. Sadly, their initial reactions to losing don’t fill me with optimism.

Some “progressives” blasted the Dems for not running far enough to the left. Yep, that would’ve done it. One arrogant liberal who flaunts her Ph.D. on Twitter/X decreed that this election shows we’re ruled by stupid, uneducated people. She reminds me of the great comedian Brother Dave Gardner’s observation that “some people are ‘educated’ beyond their intelligence.” I suspect she’s confused “educated” with “indoctrinated.” She may think she’s sipping Chardonnay, but she’s really drinking the Kool-Aid.

CNN seemed to sniff disaster early on, so they refrained from too much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, knowing that conservatives would post it on YouTube and laugh at them for years to come. But there was no such restraint among the lefty loons at MSNBC, where Joy Reid had the predictable meltdown, ranting that Florida is an extreme, right-wing fascist state, apparently because it’s capable of counting votes quickly and efficiently.

Reid and her ilk also claimed that there was voter suppression, despite the heavy turnout. One state they cited was Texas, so I’ll let my writer Pat Reeder, who lives in suburban Dallas, respond to that:

“Laura and I voted early, and we live in a racially-diverse, lower middle-class neighborhood (Note to the Gov: We need a raise.) Not a Kamala Harris ‘middle-class neighborhood,’ but a real one. The line stretched out the door but moved quickly, and it only took about 20 minutes. Both voters and poll workers were of various races. We all smiled at each other, talked politely, voted and left. I didn’t notice me or anyone else being suppressed, except we did all have to show our IDs. Everybody had one, though. Shocking.”  

Leaders around the world sent congratulations to Trump, saying they were looking forward to a close and friendly working relationship. I imagine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is especially relieved to know that Israel will once again have a firm ally in the White House.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/world-leaders-react-trump-victory-on-historys-greatest-comeback

That’s odd: I’d been assured by all the smartest people that other world leaders mocked and disrespected Trump.

Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee

As of Monday, we are one week and one day away from what may be the most important election of our lifetimes, and for once, that’s not hyperbole. It will determine whether the United States continues sliding over a cliff or changes course and returns to its foundations.

I’ve run and been involved in a lot of campaigns, and I can tell you that in successful ones, by this late stage, you’ve nailed down your base and should be making the case to persuade the persuadable undecideds to break your way. It’s when you’re barnstorming the country to make your final argument for why you deserve their vote and to fire up enthusiasm among your supporters to get to the polls and do it. That’s become even more important now that Election Day has been stretched into Election Weeks or Month, so that voters are already casting millions of ballots.

So how did Donald Trump and Kamala Harris each spend this all-important weekend?

In between a flurry of campaign appearances, Trump sat down for three hours with podcaster Joe Rogan, who is immensely popular with young listeners, especially males. It was posted late on Friday and as of this writing early Monday morning, it had already racked up 33 million views on YouTube alone, plus over 436,000 comments. Most were positive, with some calling it the best political interview they’d ever seen. Some said they were former Democrats who are now voting for Trump, and many remarked on how intelligent, measured, knowledgeable and funny he is, nothing at all like the dumb, crazy fascist the Democrats depict him as being.

Some said they didn’t intend to sit through the whole thing, but stayed up half the night listening. How often do you hear that about any political interview these days? Maybe Rogan and Trump together will bring back the requirement that political candidates have to be able to speak for hours without a teleprompter. That can only be a good thing.

One thing I found heartwarming is how many commenters stated they were in nations all over the world, from Denmark to Malawi, but they love America and are praying for voters to elect Trump. If you haven’t seen it yet, here are some highlights…

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/10/26/heres-the-highlights-of-joe-rohans-three-hour-interview-with-trump-n2646816

But honestly, it’s worth setting aside three hours for. Here’s the entire thing…

Trump followed that on Saturday with a rally in Novi, Michigan, where he introduced a group of respected local Muslim leaders who endorsed him. Imam Belal Alzuhairi said, "We, as Muslims, stand with President Trump because he promises peace, not war! We are supporting Donald Trump because he promised to end war in the Middle East and Ukraine. The bloodshed has to stop all over the world, and I think this man can make that happen. I personally believe that God saved his life twice for a reason." This came amid news of a stunning YouGov poll showing Trump now leads Harris among Arab-American voters by 49-47%.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-earns-endorsement-highly-respected-muslim-leaders-battleground-state

Then came the big kahuna on Sunday: Trump’s historic rally at Madison Square Garden. (Full video here): 

https://www.youtube.com/live/HysDMs2a-iM?si=p2VZGGZlna6A0i0r

Despite Democrat politicians telling Trump he wasn’t welcome in New York (and trying to jail and bankrupt him to prove it), the people of New York packed the 20,000-seat venue with an estimated 75,000 more standing outside. Hillary Clinton compared the event to a 1930s Nazi rally there (nonsensical on all fronts, especially considering she and Bill have both held rallies there.) Tim Walz said much the same thing as Hillary in suggesting that Americans who support Trump are Nazis…

https://pjmedia.com/graysonbakich/2024/10/27/tim-walz-calls-trump-madison-square-garden-attendees-nazis-n4933698

Despite threats that any Trump appearance would be disrupted by the communist toddlers of the Dems’ professional protester class, police reported that it was not only peaceful, but everyone was friendly, polite and respectful. They even cleaned up their trash, which was also a hallmark of the old Tea Party rallies. Man, these people just don’t know how to be Nazis.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/27/worst-nazi-rally-ever-n4933703

Also, for a “Nazi rally,” there were a surprising number of Jewish people in attendance.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/10/27/jewish-people-attend-trump-nazi-rally-at-madison-square-garden-didnt-they-get-the-memo-n2181154

Lawrence Jones said on “Fox & Friends” that he was surprised to see so many people in his NYC apartment building wearing red MAGA caps because they’d never displayed their political beliefs before. Trump isn’t just making America great again, he’s making Americans feel emboldened to speak out freely again and stop self-censoring.