Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee

One of the biggest political scandals in history that the media is burying (although some reporters are trying futilely to get straight answers out of Kamala Harris about what she knew and when she knew it) is the cognitive decline of Joe Biden. There was a concerted effort to cover that up and get him reelected for another four years, as the people around him prioritized their own hold on power over the security of the United States and its people.

Reluctant as I am to believe anything in one of Bob Woodward’s books, his new one “War” includes both anonymous and on-the-record quotes from people who expressed concerns about Biden’s mental state more than a year before the election.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/sources-tell-woodward-biden-struggled-speak-focus-more-than-year-before-leaving-race

While Kamala and his other defenders claimed he was vigorous and sharp as a tack behind closed doors, these witnesses describe alarming episodes of him rambling incoherently at fundraisers, forgetting common words like “veteran,” and repeating the same story three times in the same words. One said, "It was ‘like your 87-year-old senile grandfather,’ wandering around the room, saying to women guests, ‘your eyes are so beautiful.’"

When you hear Kamala say anything about Trump, remember this. If she’d lie to you this badly about Joe Biden’s fitness to be President, what lie wouldn’t she tell about Donald Trump’s fitness to be President?

Mike Huckabee

Every year around this time, we start hearing about the left’s War On Christmas, with the banning of terms like “Merry Christmas,” or even the word Christmas itself. Then, regular as clockwork, we get the smirking denials from the left that a “War on Christmas” exists. Like their denials of Biden’s cognitive issues and the endless failures of their economic policies, their certainty is impervious to all evidence. Latest case in point…

The Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalog, with its opulent gifts for the well-to-do, has become a Christmas tradition that always sparks fun conversations. But after 98 years, it is suddenly no longer called the “Christmas Book.” It’s now titled “A Neiman’s Fantasy,” and the generic cover shows a fashion model with no images suggestive of Christmas time. They’re referring to it as the “Holiday Book,” but it features no references to any holiday. Astoundingly, the company declared the change to be, “in the spirit of inclusivity as it welcomes customers of all backgrounds, religions and traditions to celebrate the season.”

What season? Yes, nothing screams “inclusivity” like erasing one of the most important holidays of Christians.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13999209/Neiman-Marcus-bans-Christmas-fury-Saks-woke.html

Many longtime Neiman-Marcus employees are furious over the change. This is what they feared would happen when the Dallas retailer was taken over by a new corporate owner. The CEO, Geoffroy van Raemdonck, announced last year that five percent of the workforce would be cut. One anonymous worker told the Daily Mail that if the CEO and his team “put as much time into running the business as they did on expressing viewpoints about DEI, we would be buying Saks or launching an IPO. Instead, my job is at risk because of our business failure.” Another said, “The book didn't need a name change. Personal opinions about inclusion - from Geoffroy and his leadership team - changed this.”  

Neiman-Marcus may be the next company to learn the hard way the lesson of “Get woke, go broke.” But of course, they'll deny it's because they joined the War On Christmas. That doesn’t exist.

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The sophisticated power play used by the “Justice” Department in Trump’s first term to safeguard their positions and their ginned-up “Russia” ploy was simply to open an investigation into him.

Really, it was that easy. That’s all they had to do. As with the current investigation of the Secret Service, it’s the little magic wand they wave when they don’t want to talk about something. Once they had their Trump “Russia” case on file --- for which the pretense, ridiculously, was Christopher Steele’s “dossier” funded by Hillary’s 2016 campaign, plus the fake “Alfa Bank” scandal, also exploited by her campaign --- they could clam up in front of congressional committees, limiting Congress’s oversight power with their non-answers. They could go into public hearings confident that their stonewalling would go unchallenged, with nothing revealed except their lack of transparency.

It’s the President’s job to hire and fire these top bureaucrats, who constitutionally “serve at the pleasure of the President,” but Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey was painted as an outrageously Nixonian attempt to obstruct justice because, why? Comey was officially investigating him. Check-MATE. These people had Trump boxed in, and that’s why he needs another term to handle them, now that he understands the game.

Trump is already working on “Special Counsel” Jack Smith (the quotation marks here mean he’s not a real one, having been appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland without ever being confirmed by the Senate), to get the January 6 case against him dismissed.

As reported by JUST THE NEWS, Trump’s attorneys asked on Thursday for a dismissal of the case against him. Their argument? Just what we said above and have always said, that Smith was unconstitutionally appointed. Florida U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, who’s been presiding over Smith’s OTHER case, the so-called “classified documents” case, dismissed it (Smith is appealing), ruling that “no legal statute gave Garland the authority to give Smith the amount of power he has as Special Counsel, and that the appointment violated the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.”

Given Jack Smith’s stained history as a prosecutor, he was just the right person to do whatever was necessary to get Trump. He would charge ahead and never second-guess himself. But as Trump’s lawyers claim, Smith was a “private citizen” when he was appointed by Garland, and so, “Everything that Smith did since Attorney General Garland’s appointment, as President Trump continued his leading campaign against President Biden and then-Vice President Harris, was unlawful and unconstitutional.” Acknowledging that is the only sufficient remedy for Trump.

If the court agrees, it will end Smith’s J6 case against President Trump. Smith has just a few days, until October 31, to file his response.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/trump-requests-dismissal-january-6-case-over-jack-smiths-appointment

Normally we don’t like to see a case thrown out on technicalities, but Trump’s accusers have gone around the Constitution so many times, we’ll take it. Otherwise, they’ll determine who will and who won’t occupy the chair in the Oval Office, and they also want to curtail Congress’s official oversight duties.

Trump himself, even after what he went through following Comey’s firing, has no qualms now about firing Smith, saying he’ll do it “within two seconds” of taking the Oval Office. He said this on a wide- ranging interview on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show last Thursday.

When asked which he would do, pardon himself or fire Smith, Trump said, “Oh, it’s so easy. It’s so easy. He’s a crooked person. I would fire him within two seconds.” (We’re thinking the best way to handle this would be to fire Merrick Garland, appoint a new AG and let THAT person fire Smith.)

As you know, Smith recently submitted a revised court filing to try to keep his J6 case against Trump going even after the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. As NEWSMAX reports, “Smith’s latest tactic is to argue Trump ‘resorted to crimes’ and ‘used private actors and his campaign infrastructure to attempt to overturn the election results and operated in a private capacity as a candidate for office.”

He means Trump wasn’t acting in his official capacity while doing the things he’s accused of doing. Ending the case because he WAS carrying out presidential duties seems, again, like getting off on a technicality, but this might be the only way to get Smith to stop his sick, Captain Ahab-style pursuit (once he’s exhausted the appeals process, of course).

https://www.newsmax.com/us/special-counsel-jack-smith-prosecutor/2024/10/24

One other part of their interview, especially interesting in light of what Kamala says about Trump abusing power Hitler-style: When he was asked about pardoning Hunter Biden, he commented that political prosecutions “are bad for the country.” He also noted that when his rally fans in 2016 chanted “Lock her up, lock her up” about Hillary --- who really should’ve been tried for destroying evidence, obstruction of justice and mishandling classified material --- he told them to “take it easy, just relax. I could have put her in jail. But I didn’t want to do that. I thought it would look terrible [for the country].”

Here’s more of what Trump said about pardoning his rivals and trying to do what is best for the country. It seems to me that if he wants to be Hitler, he’s going about it all wrong.

https://thelibertydaily.com/trump-floats-possibility-pardoning-hunter-biden-if-elected/

What’s been obvious for some time is that the little dictator wannabes locking up their political opponents are actually the Democrats. Friends of Kamala. Or, if not true friends, at least political cronies trying to get her elected.

Trump is the one they paint as the relentless authoritarian. The Hitler, even. Miranda Devine at the NEW YORK POST has a great piece that looks at the accusations Kamala is making against Trump in the final days of the campaign, and she makes this stellar point: “There is no way to sugarcoat the fact that Harris, in her desperation as her campaign heads down the toilet, has just invited more assassination attempts on her political rival.

“She has green-lighted future efforts to murder him, with her carefully scripted, deliberately delivered official message from the official vice presidential residence in Washington DC. Using an American flag as a backdrop, just to add an obscene flourish.”

https://nypost.com/2024/10/23/opinion/the-left-puts-a-target-on-donald-trumps-back-with-nazi-adolf-hitler-smears/

[Note: We saw her press conference, which was set up with the American flag to Kamala’s right and another flag to her left. This appeared to bear the insignia of the U.S. Vice President, and she gave her shockingly political speech from the Vice President’s residence. Some have accused her of violating the Hatch Act, which prevents federal officials from “using their official authority or influence to interfere with the outcome of an election.” To show how even-handed we are, we’re going to link to a NEWSWEEK fact-check on this; they say it’s a gray area at the level of VP but rule it “false” since the President and Vice President hold certain exemptions. Even if that’s true (we’re still checking legal experts ourselves), it was horrifically inappropriate for her to use the trappings of her office this way.]

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-kamala-harris-violate-hatch-act-1973960

On the other hand, it seems glaringly obvious that “Transportation Secretary” Pete Buttigieg is blatantly violating the Hatch Act and posting the evidence of it on his personal X account:

https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/10/19/did-pete-buttigieg-just-document-himself-committing-a-federal-crime-n2180798

Is anything being done about this? Don’t count on it. This would seem to fall into the “D-Next-To-Your-Name” exemption from federal laws. As Derek Hunter writes at Townhall.com, “It’s not that the left has double standards – one for them, another for everyone else. They have standards for everyone else and absolutely none for them.”

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/10/24/the-media-are-the-scum-of-the-earth-n2646673

PROGRAMMING ALERT: Dust off your easy chair or set your DVR because Miranda Divine will be my guest this weekend on “Huckabee” on TBN, the only show on TV that will give her a forum to discuss her new book about Biden family corruption and also judge a chili cook-off.

Yesterday, we talked about the left’s historical obsession with linking their enemies to Hitler. Here’s a piece with lots of examples of how George W. Bush was portrayed as LITERALLY HITLER. It does seem much worse now, with Trump, but it’s been bad for a long time, and it actually started when Hitler was still alive.

https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/10/24/cnn-medical-analyst-george-w-bushs-silence-about-election-indefensible-n2402672

John Daniel Davidson at THE FEDERALIST has a warning about the left: “The purpose of constantly invoking the specter of a dictatorship under Trump is to condition Democrats to react violently if Harris loses.”

We know the Dems tend to do to us what they claim we’re doing to them. Case in point: Kamala’s always been “consistent and forceful,” Davidson says, “about one thing throughout her campaign: that Trump will destroy America if he’s re-elected. He’ll even use the military to round up people and put them into camps.

“What they’re doing is pushing a narrative that Trump is going to be a fascist dictator if he wins office and use the power of the presidency to go after ordinary Americans. That’s an extreme and frankly unhinged position with no basis in reality. You don’t say things like that unless you’re hoping to provoke a strong reaction, and the reaction Democrats are hoping to provoke is violent resistance to a Trump second term.”

If you thought some incarnation of Hitler had been elected to high office, and that he was going to round up your family and take them off to work camps, wouldn’t you want him taken out? Of course you would. You’d want him dead. And if he got elected and immediately fired the man who’d been prosecuting him, wouldn’t you think that was just evil? And might there be huge civil unrest because of it? The more it looks like a Trump win, the more enamored the Democrats will become of a scenario like that. It will be all they have left.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/17/kamala-harris-is-priming-democrats-for-violent-resistance-if-trump-wins/

RELATED: Political analyst Mark Halperin is just one of a number of experts warning that because of all this red hot, ginned-up Trump Derangement Syndrome, if Trump wins, “I think it will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country.” He predicts it will result in alcoholism, broken marriages and fights at kids’ birthday parties (I’d say that’s the best-case scenario.) But he thinks we’ll be fine by Inauguration Day.

Let’s all hope and pray that the leftists reach the “acceptance” stage of grief sooner than that, although we know that for some of them, any excuse for a riot is a good excuse.

https://townhall.com/columnists/scotthogenson/2024/10/20/tds-and-the-medias-agitation-of-mental-disorders-n2646468

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Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, has found something else that strongly suggests that “witness” Cassidy Hutchinson was lying under oath to the House J6 Committee.

Recall that last week, it was revealed that then-Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who co-chaired the so-called “Select” Committee on January 6 with Democrat Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, had had unethical communications with Hutchinson as her testimony grew and evolved over time.  (I suppose we should say “alleged communications,” but these conversations are right there to read.)

Now, a handwriting expert has determined that a note Hutchinson said had been written by her actually wasn’t.  She testified at a public hearing on June 28, 2022, that Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Eric Hirschmann, one of Trump’s attorneys, had dictated it to her.  The note read: “ANYONE WHO ENTERED THE CAPITOL ILLEGALLY WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORITY SHOULD LEAVE IMMEDIATELY,” with the word “ILLEGALLY” marked out.

Hirschmann has always maintained that he wrote the note himself, and this is consistent with what the handwriting expert found.  From Loudermilk’s press release: “As the Select Committee consistently did with all of Hutchinson’s testimony, they accepted and promoted her claim without any corroboration or seeking other evidence to substantiate her testimony.”

Okay, we already knew Hutchinson was lying --- her story about Trump grabbing his driver and trying to make him go to the Capitol is an obvious tall tale --- but this is just another example of the “Select” Committee bringing discredit upon itself.

https://cha.house.gov/press-releases?ID=995DD584-4385-4765-820E-4E274D09B5FC

by Laura Ainsworth, HUCKABEE writer/researcher

Monday, October 21, was the first day of early voting in Dallas County.  The sun was shining and the birds were singing as I got ready to go to the polls with husband (and HUCKABEE co-writer) Pat Reeder.  I was happy, happy, happy to finally be casting my vote for former (and, I hope, future) President Trump and everyone else on the ballot who did NOT have a “D” next to his or her name, as I absolutely cannot support any candidate still professing loyalty to the Democrat Party, given its dishonest leadership and horrible agenda.

Then I turned on the radio, earlier than usual, about 10:15, to WBAP-AM and heard a host I don’t usually hear, Casey Bartholomew.  It sure took me out of my lovely mood.  In fact, I’m still spitting nails over what he was telling his audience.

This was the second hour of his two-hour show, so admittedly, I didn’t hear everything that preceded the discussion in progress.  But Bartholomew was ardently defending Election Day as THE ONLY day to vote.  He apparently doesn’t care that Republicans are being asked --- begged --- to “bank” their votes in case something happens between now and Election Day.  He’s always voted on the actual Election Day and, by gum, he’s going to do the same thing this year.  In fact, he aggressively criticized those who vote early as people who care more about their own convenience than the seriousness of casting their vote.  He was telling his listeners that they should all wait and vote on Election Day as he does.

Now, I grew up thinking of Election Day as sacred and casting my vote as a kind of sacrament.  This year marks the first time, in fact, that I’ve voted early.  But this situation is different.  This time, it’s SO IMPORTANT for my vote to count that I just had to make sure it got in.  (Never mind the story about some voting machines in Dallas County mis-tabulating ballots in their recent trial run but being certified for use anyway.  That’s pretty horrifying, but there’s nothing I can do about it.  At least if someone else’s “R” vote isn’t counted correctly, my “R” vote can help bridge the gap.)

So many things could happen on Election Day:  What if the electrical grid is tampered with or otherwise fails?  What if some locations run out of ballots?  What if some of the machines go down or are found to have problems?  What if there’s some “black swan” event we haven’t even thought of, designed to interfere with the process? What if there’s a tornado (We are in Texas, after all)?

And then there’s me:  What if I get really sick and have to stay home?  What if there’s a family emergency I have to take care of?  What if I fall off the roof cleaning leaves out of the gutters and have to go to the hospital?  What if my house burns down and everything is lost, including my ID?  What if I’m in a wreck on the way to the polls?  (Not that I wouldn’t crawl the rest of the way if I could.)     

What if I DIE?

Since I’m not a Democrat, I know I can’t vote if I’m dead, so the best strategy is to vote as soon as possible, while I definitely have a pulse.  Now that I’ve voted, that vote will be my legacy if I happen to get hit by a bus on, say, November 4. Pat and I will be the first people ever to vote Republican after we’re dead.

I never used to have this sense of urgency about voting.  If the election system is ever reformed the way I want it --- with in-person voting on Election Day and maybe just a few days before so crowds are manageable, no electronic machines (which ARE proven hackable), and absentee ballots by request for specific reasons only --- I might go back to voting as I always did.  But that’s the “perfect world” that doesn’t presently exist.

I tried to give Casey Bartholomew the benefit of the doubt.  Was he perhaps using reverse psychology to get his audience fired up about voting early?  Nothing in his delivery suggested this at all.  Was he trying to be deliberately provocative?  If so, this subject is too important to be playing games with the audience.  No, I think he was quite serious.  Could be wrong, but I’m pretty good with nuance, and if his nuance was lost on me, it was probably lost on most people.

This host did his listeners a huge disservice.  I hope they stayed on to listen to Dan Bongino, who gave them the antidote and maybe even helped nudge them to the polls on that first day of voting.  He’s made it clear, as we have, that it’s important to get our votes “banked,” just in case anything interferes on Election Day.  I was happy to see a long line at my polling place, and the vibe there was really good.

Have you voted yet?

(P.S. from Pat: I couldn’t tell who most of the people there were voting for, but I’m pretty sure that the guy in line behind me in the T-shirt with an AR-15 rifle and the slogan, “As long as we’re redefining things, this is a cordless hole-puncher” was voting for Trump.)

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With the presidential campaign in the home stretch, the differences between the candidates are becoming even more glaring, with the main one being authenticity. Trump is able to relate to everyone naturally, whether he’s talking to steelworkers, football fans or McDonald’s employees. Kamala Harris has to have everything scripted in advance, and even then, it can become a disaster (but not as big a disaster as when she ad-libs, like responding to a call of “Jesus is Lord” by saying, “You’re at the wrong rally.”)

The two also seem to have switched campaign themes. It’s Trump who’s exuding “joy” as he revels in fun photo-ops with regular Americans, while Harris has turned to angrily attacking Trump in every speech. She’s getting so strident, some pundits have started comparing her to the late-stage campaigning of Hillary “Basket of Deplorables” Clinton. Rep. Dean Phillips, the one Democrat who dared to challenge Biden in the primaries and earned far more votes than Kamala (zero), also dinged her for focusing on slamming Trump instead of being “clear about what she believes.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/21/dem-rep-dean-phillips-slams-kamala-harris-focusing-trump-instead-what-she-believes/

At this point, I’m not sure she even knows what she believes. Like, remember how she was against fracking before she was for fracking? Well, now she’s against it again. At least, she’s against more of it. She's attempting the rate flip-flop-flip. You try figuring her latest position out…

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/kamala-harris-faces-backlash-oil-and-gas-association-over-perceived-flip

Meanwhile, Trump spent time Monday talking and joking with regular working guys at a Bronx barber shop. The most shocking news to come out of it was when the shop owner said that under Biden-Harris, his monthly energy bills have gone up from $1200 to $15,000! Trump told him that he will cut energy prices in half during his first year in office.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/21/trump-visits-barbershop-in-bronx-n2180868

Harris had a townhall Monday with everyone’s favorite Republican, Liz Cheney. Instead of being an opportunity for voters to ask spontaneous questions, moderator Maria Shriver announced at the outset that all the questions had been “pre-determined.” Harris’ answers had also apparently been pre-written and rehearsed, which didn’t mean they were delivered convincingly.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/10/22/watch-kamala-harris-is-so-bad-at-staged-town-hall-even-liz-cheney-was-left-cringing-n2180896

Vulnerable Democrats in swing states are seeing how bad Harris’ campaign is and rushing to distance themselves from her. Even Obama’s 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina said on MSNBC that her campaign team looks “absolutely exhausted” because they have so many tough decisions to make and so little time “while everyone is telling them they’re a band of idiots, and they should do it their way.”

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/10/21/everyones-telling-them-theyre-a-band-of-idiots-2012-obama-campaign-manager-on-harris-campaign-n2180884

If it’s any consolation, I don’t think her campaign workers are idiots. That’s not where the problem lies. Or the idiocy. But make no mistake: This race isn't over. Ignore the polls and the pundits and keep turning out as if America's very existence depends on it, because it does.

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We want to offer our prayers and condolences to the family of Thelma Mothershed Wair, who died Saturday in a Little Rock hospital at 83 following complications from MS.

In 1957, she was one of the black students who became known as the Little Rock Nine after they were sent to integrate Central High School. Their attempt to simply go to school was met with a mob of threatening segregationists and the opposition of Gov. Orval Faubus, who sent the National Guard to block them from enrolling. This was three years after the Supreme Court declared segregated classrooms unconstitutional. 

It took Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sending members of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division to escort them into school on Sept. 25, 1957, to break the opposition. The students continued to be the target of harassment such as name-calling, but fortunately, they never faced any violence.

Wair went on to get a master’s degree in counseling and have a long and distinguished career as a teacher and counselor. She and the rest of the Little Rock Nine received the Congressional Gold Medal. You can read more about her incredible life at this link.

https://apnews.com/article/thelma-mothershed-wair-little-rock-nine-215186ffd2c05e086ffdccc1abdc6a07?user_email=96562a2b65b5be1731792b0833af1a087ac7be3efc5eedfd38326ff8407c26fd

And from the Wayback Machine, here’s the speech I gave at Central High School on the 50^th anniversary of its integration.

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Funny thing about Nathan Wade, Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ “special” prosecutor for her shoddy Trump case.  The minute he’s sworn in to give testimony, he forgets...well, everything.  I’m surprised he can remember his own name.

He gave what TOWNHALL characterizes as a “damning deposition” before the House Judiciary Committee last week.  They released the 132-page transcript on Monday, and it is a howler.  If you want to read the whole thing, here it is…

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-10-15%20Nathan%20Wade%20Deposition_Redacted_Errata.pdf

If you don’t, just know that he said “I don’t know,” “I can’t recall” or “I don’t recall” almost 60 times.

And read the shocking details of what he did actually reveal, at the link below.  Essentially, we learn that Willis was already preparing to prosecute Trump before she even took office.   He said he had no relevant experience for the prosecutor position Willis gave him, to the point where he had to take training in RICO law.  It was Willis’ intention to indict Trump on a RICO violation --- racketeering --- which she did.  Yet she chose for her top prosecutor someone with no background in that.  It seems he had other talents that we won’t get into.  

Wade also admitted to multiple meetings with Biden-Harris White House officials (!!!), but this is where his memory got especially hazy.  He couldn’t remember even the most basic details, like whether he had been at the White House or some other place.  (Wade was billing the Fulton County DA’s Office $250 an hour for this work.)  He confirmed that he had met with “individuals associated with” the House Committee on J6 (!!!) several times in 2022 but would not give any details.  He said these associates were “lawyers” but did not give their names or say whom they represented.

One of the most ridiculous things he said was that he didn’t know the U.S. Marshals were attempting to locate him to serve him with a subpoena because he’d turned his phone off for four days while preparing for an upcoming arbitration.  (Just wondering, what if one of the other attorneys in that case had needed to reach him?)  He gave various excuses for not immediately accepting the subpoena, including that he had hurt his ankle playing basketball and was on pain medication.

One side effect of this medication must be lingering, almost total forgetfulness.   

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2024/10/21/nathan-wade-transcript-n2646512

Luke Rosiak, a superb investigative reporter, has a good write-up as well.  Rosiak points out that Wade admitted he had never even worked in a DA’s office before and also wouldn’t answer questions about how his relationship with Willis might have affected the case.  “So now I’m getting confused,” he said, “because I didn’t think...I was coming here to answer questions about my personal life.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-house-report-reveals-trump-prosecutor-nathan-wade-met-with-white-house

I mentioned elsewhere that there would be a couple of stories about Democrats who deserve to face a REAL criminal investigation. Well, here they are…

Today’s MUST-READ: From Andrew Sullivan, not a conservative writer but a gay liberal journalist who can spot outrageous corruption when he sees it. And he sees it in shocking detail in the actions of Biden-Harris’ transgender Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS, Rachel Levine, and the pro-trans quacks at WPATH.

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/rachel-levine-must-resign-2d7?publication_id=61371&post_id=150390017&isFreemail=true&r=9bg2k&triedRedirect=true

I already reported some of the details of this story. In short, we learned that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the biggest pushers of “transing” minors with or without parental consent, knew that there was “little to no evidence” that this barbaric butchery actually helped gender-confused children, but both they and Levine allegedly covered that up and continued to push it.

As Sullivan reports, the discovery phase of a lawsuit against Alabama’s ban on “transing” children has revealed that WPATH was concerned that phrases like “insufficient evidence” and “limited data” might “empower” groups “trying to claim that gender-affirming interventions are experimental.” In other words, the truth might undermine their narrative.

They shared this information with Levine at HHS, who was very concerned that listing “specific minimum ages for treatment…under 18, will result in devastating legislation for trans care.” In other words, the truth might have kept doctors from mutilating minors and set back the radical trans agenda. So Levine REMOVED the recommended minimum age limits!

Result: Because WPATH and Rachel Levine allegedly prioritized their radical sexual/political views over medical science, at least 14,000 American kids have received highly questionable chemical or surgical treatments that have left them permanently disfigured.

Sullivan calls the actions of Levine and WPATH “despicable.” He demands the resignations of Levine and “the heads of every so-called gay group that have pushed and lied about ‘gender-affirming care,’" along with possible legal consequences for doctors like those at WPATH who continued pushing this quackery while secretly knowing there was no evidence that it helped. As Sullivan notes, that’s not only a violation of the Hippocratic Oath, it’s the equivalent of female genital mutilation, which is illegal under federal law and in 41 states.

Sullivan sees this as medical quackery particularly aimed at gay teenagers who would have been fine if they’d been allowed to mature past puberty. He urges any gay man or lesbian who was misled into this malpractice to “start the lawsuits. It’s the only way. No gay men or lesbians will come to your aid. Kamala Harris and the gay groups sure won’t. ‘LGBTQIA+’ billionaires will sacrifice any number of gay kids if it means not being called ‘transphobic’ at a dinner party…A movement that began with defending gay men and lesbians is now sacrificing a generation of gay kids at the behest of trans extremists and critical gender theory.”

Rachel Levine should be immediately removed from office and face a criminal investigation, along with any other doctor who knowingly pushed this unconscionable butchery onto confused children. Maybe then, Democrats who have been calling their political opponents “Hitler” will finally notice that they’ve been harboring a Joseph Mengele of their own.

Mike Huckabee

It’s horrible to contemplate, but California voters might be on the brink of sending Adam Schiff, Congress’s biggest liar (an astonishing accomplishment), to the Senate. But maybe America will be spared from that fate by having him sent to prison instead.

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/10/20/election-fraud-schiff-files-contradictory-statements-about-principal-residences-in-different-states-n2180825

At the request of Just The News, retired FBI supervisory special agent Jeff Danik investigated allegations that for the past 20 or so years, Schiff has claimed on both election and mortgage documents that his two homes in California and Maryland are BOTH his “primary residence,” depending on which was convenient at the time. Danik dug up election and real estate documents from 2009, 2011 and 2013 that suggest Schiff was doing this, so he could run for office in California while getting better mortgage terms in Maryland. Legally, Americans are allowed to declare only one home as their primary residence.

There are growing calls for investigations, and if these allegations are confirmed, Schiff could be facing major ethics violations and even criminal prosecution. It would be divinely ironic if the man who’s made so many false charges against Donald Trump was brought down by his own contempt for electoral rules and genuine real estate fraud. Of course, that would require Congress to investigate him and the DOJ to prosecute him, so…maybe after January.

I hope it would also mean that we’d never again see another self-righteous movie from Hollywood (Shiff’s home district) about how terrible it is for a Congress member to wave around a blank piece of paper and claim it’s evidence of Russian agents in the White House.

Mike Huckabee

Kenneth Allard

The average American may not have heard of Yahya Sinwar or even attached much significance to his death this week. But clarification was not long in coming: the primary military leader of Hamas, the godfather of the October 7 massacre that killed more Jews at one time since the Holocaust, and a stone-cold killer whose murderous rampages targeted both Jews and Palestinians who had opposed him. In short, the Hamas equivalent of Osama bin Laden and an eminently ignoble creature to be returned to his Maker.

One also has to be impressed by the gutsiness of the Israeli Defense Forces as well as the sheer chutzpah of Benjamin Netanyahu, absorbing the terrible shock of those initial attacks and then rallying his countrymen for an extended fight in the urban killing zones of Gaza. He deserves even greater credit for keeping the IDF hard at it, deploying and re-deploying them into the toughest combat there is.

Not for the first time, Mr Netanahu reminds me of Winston Churchill, summoning his country to battle against the Nazi blitzkrieg in northern France, through the heartbreak of Dunkirk and the hard-fought Battle of Britain. When Montgomery finally managed a desperate victory against Rommel’s Afrika Corps at El Alamein, Churchill kept his focus on rallying Britain for what still lay ahead. “The Germans have received back again that measure of fire and steel which they have so often meted out to others. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/famous-quotations-and-stories/

In much the same way, Israel understands far better than the strategically challenged Biden-Harris White House that, while new opportunities may emerge from their recent decapitation of the Hamas-Hezbollah leadership, the essential geo-politics of the Middle East remain unchanged. Iran is still intact: So are its client-countries surrounding Israel’s periphery, all armed with missiles, money and “technical advisors” from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp. So long as those facts remain unchanged, Iran also remains a potential nuclear power, a slow-motion Cuban Missile Crisis with every potential to create a second Holocaust against the very same people who fell victims during the first one.

That forbidding backdrop might provide the best way to appreciate Joe Biden’s characteristic missteps. Begin with the fact that Robert Gates, probably our best-ever secretary of defense, famously recalled in his memoirs that Mr. Biden had been disastrously wrong on every major defense issue over the previous four decades! https://www.yahoo.com/news/gates-slams-biden-memoir-reveals-194654938.html/

But more recently, there have been persistent indicators that either President Joe or maybe Candidate Joe was feeling heat from the left wing of the Democratic Party. Did they really have Israel’s back, despite their not-so-very subtle bows to the Democratic left? The strategic crossing point at Rafah, in southern Gaza has been a frequent object of presidential and vice-presidential ire, Ms. Harris frequently insisting the she could, after all, read a map. Which made it all the more embarrassing when Yahya Sinwar, was brought to divine justice from a building in Rafah attacked by an IDF infantry patrol, doing what infantrymen always do: Patrolling the ground and engaging the enemy with direct fire. Perhaps Ms. Harris could ask her running mate to explain such subtleties.

In an insightful article on US-Israeli tensions over recent days, Professor Charles Lipson reveals just how annoying White House knob-dickery has become: There is “also the unconscionable action of leaking highly-secret targeting information to the Washington Post, as soon as the Israelis shared it with the White House. That leak tells Iran where to concentrate their defensive efforts and where not to bother. The words that best describe that leak cannot be uttered in polite company.”  https://thespectator.com/topic/follows-yahya-sinwar-death-israel-war-gaza-beyond/

Small wonder that Lipson concludes by suggesting that the combination of American hi-tech weaponry mixed with bad strategic advice means that Israel will likely act in its own best interests. So where do those interests lie? I think both Winston Churchill and Benjamin Netanyahu would probably argue that Israel’s interests require a two-state solution, the two states being Israel and a New Iran – i.e., one no longer governed by the ayatollahs and the IRGC. If the Iranian leadership is deposed by any means necessary, then its empire also goes away, literally from Gulf to Sea. However, you can rest assured that such bold ideas are strictly off-limits in the Biden Pentagon, the elite foreign-policy salons of Georgetown and as well as the Ivy League’s DEI-infested warrens. But let us hope that Israel has not forgotten who fights on their side!

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

Mike Huckabee

Last night, President Trump was the keynote speaker at the Al Smith Dinner in New York City, a fundraiser for Catholic charities that brings people of different political views together for a good cause. In presidential election years, both candidates traditionally appear to make speeches taking humorous jabs at each other.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-headline-sold-out-al-smith-charity-dinner-harris-sends-pre-recorded-video-message

It’s a sign of how panicky the Harris campaign must be that she became the first major party candidate in decades not to appear in person (other than at the 2020 COVID virtual event), snubbing the dinner to campaign in a battleground state. Instead, she sent a video message featuring her and former “SNL” star Molly Shannon as Catholic school girl Mary Katherine Gallagher. Critics noted that it allowed someone else to do most of the talking and handie the jokes. It didn’t go over well in the room. Trump joked that the last candidate to skip the dinner was Walter Mondale, and it didn’t work out so good for him.

Trump, on the other hand, showed up in person, despite the room being packed with his political enemies, including Chuck Schumer, Bill DeBlasio, Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who’s abusing the powers of her office to try to bankrupt and imprison him.

Despite that, he gave a well-received speech that was sometimes funny (“Tradition holds that I'm supposed to tell a few self-deprecating jokes this evening. So here it goes. Nope. I've got nothing”… “I’m not worried at all about (White Dudes for Harris) because their wives and their wives’ lovers are all voting for me”) and sometimes serious. He reached out to Democrats and offered to work together to make New York and America great again. You know, like fascists do. Some complained that he was too political or went on too long, to which I would say, “It’s Donald Trump. What’s your point?”

https://www.westernjournal.com/savage-roasts-yet-trump-brutalizes-absent-kamala-doug-emhoff-tim-walz-front-powerful-democrats/

(Full Trump speech here: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363410527112)

I thought the most interesting thing about the event was the reaction to Trump, which was surprisingly warm, considering, as he pointed out, 75% of the people in the room probably hated him. The host, comic Jim Gaffigan, has been a harsh anti-Trumper on social media, but he seemed quite welcoming to Trump and even laughed at his jokes. Maybe he was just being a good host, but it seemed genuine. Some of Trump’s most strident political opponents, like Chuck Schumer, also laughed and shook Trump’s hand.

It showed that they can actually act like civilized adults if they force themselves to, or maybe that all their “Trump is a Nazi Hitler threat to democracy!!!” hysteria is just what Pat Moynahan used to call “boob bait for the Bubbas,” with the Bubbas in this case being the gullible nose-ringed undergrads and Chardonnay ladies that comprise the current Democrat constituency.

Or maybe it shows they’re growing resigned to the idea that Trump is going to be the next President so they’d better get over their hysterics and learn to work with him. That would be the healthiest thing for America, and a big relief to those who worry that a Trump win will result in a giant national temper tantrum of rioting.

RELATED: Poor Jim Gaffigan may have harmed his career in ultra-liberal show business by actually making jokes about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Of course, the mostly liberal crowd didn’t laugh: they have so little sense of humor, they think Stephen Colbert is a comedy genius. But you might appreciate some of his lines:

https://www.westernjournal.com/jim-gaffigan-humiliates-kamala-democratic-colleagues-reminds-harris-really-became-nominee/

This isn’t part of that article, but I liked this comment from Gaffigan as well:

"I'm sorry. Why is Vice President Harris not here? I mean, consider this. This is a room full of Catholics and Jews in New York City. This is a layup for the Democratic nominee. I mean, in her defense, I mean, she did find time to appear on ‘The View,’ Howard Stern, Colbert and the longtime staple of campaigning, the ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast. You know what I think it is? I think she doesn't like me." 

Maybe he’s finally seeing the light. He should go on “Gutfeld,” where comics can actually say what they think, be funny without fear of humorous leftist scolds, and be seen by a much larger audience.

Mike Huckabee

Here’s an update on Kamala Harris’ disastrous interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier. One moment that has been overlooked in the blazing heat of the dumpster fire, but deserves more recognition, is Harris’ claim that Trump is unfit for office because he allegedly threatened to turn the military on his political opponents.

Baier has since admitted that the wrong clip of Trump was run, and it was supposed to be a clip of him talking about “the enemy within” (Trump says he was talking about Marxists and fascists). To that, Harris responded, “He has repeated it many times, and you and I both know that. And you and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military on the American people. He has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protests. He’s talked about locking people up because they disagree with him. This is a democracy. And in a democracy, the president of the United States, in the United States of America, should be willing to be able to handle criticism without saying that he would lock people up for doing it. And this is what is at stake.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/fox-news-bret-baier-says-he-made-a-mistake-and-another-donald-trump-clip-should-have-run-during-key-moment-of-kamala-harris-interview/ar-AA1ssZiG

I’m glad she’s suddenly opposed to Presidents threatening their political opponents or talking about locking their critics up or turning the military against them, but she might want to pass that view on to the current President, Joe Biden. We’ve all seen the lawfare aimed at imprisoning Trump (Biden was just fantasizing this week about watching Trump be sentenced to prison)…

https://ijr.com/biden-claims-trump-is-running-to-stay-out-of-jail-says-he-wants-to-watch-that-sentence/

And let’s not forget Biden's comments about using F15 fighter jets against gun owners who might try to resist the government. Or that unhinged speech he gave in front of the blood red wall, accusing “MAGA Republicans” of not respecting the Constitution, the rule of law or the will of the public. He ranted that “MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards. Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.  They are a threat to our personal rights and to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.”

Doesn’t sound very respectful of fellow Americans with differing views, does it? Maybe that would explain why his DOJ is working so hard to send pro-life Christians to federal prisons for peacefully protesting abortion.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/harris-rails-about-trump-locking-people-up-for-disagreement-as-doj-sends-christian-pro-lifer-to-prison-for-peaceful-protest

Apparently, Biden’s violent and unhinged rhetoric about half of his fellow Americans has inspired one of his followers to send anonymous letters to Trump supporters in Pennsylvania, threatening their property, families and even pets.

https://amgreatness.com/2024/10/17/voters-in-pennsylvania-receive-threatening-letters-warning-there-will-be-consequences-for-supporting-trump/

And here’s yet another example of a Democrat who’s been fired up to commit harassment and violence by mindless Trump hatred, and who thinks it’s perfectly justified…

https://redstate.com/brutalbrittany/2024/10/18/a-pro-trump-yard-sign-and-an-anti-trump-rap-song-lead-to-a-shooting-in-las-vegas-n2180735

So for once, I agree with Kamala Harris. Nobody should be locked up or threatened for criticizing the government. The people who should be locked up are those who commit actual crimes, like threatening others with violence for not voting the way they prefer. Maybe she should give her boss and her own supporters that message.

Mike Huckabee

Here is an interview I gave to Wendy Griffith at CBN.com about the importance of voting and the dire consequences to the nation when 40 million Christians don’t even bother to vote.

https://cbn.com/news/us/its-shocking-former-governor-mike-huckabee-calling-christians-vote

Our judges are doing their part to ensure that Americans believe that the election is trustworthy. Only kidding: they’re siding with Democrats to undo virtually every voting integrity measure.

In Nebraska, the State Supreme Court ruled that convicted felons can vote in the November election.

https://www.breitbart.com/news/nebraska-high-court-to-decide-if-residents-with-felony-records-can-vote/

The Harris campaign celebrated a Georgia judge blocking a rule that election officials must hand-count ballots after they’re machine-counted.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-campaign-celebrates-georgia-judge-blocking-hand-count-ballot-rule

The next day, a (guess where?) Fulton County, Georgia, judge declared an entire slate of new election rules to be “illegal, unconstitutional and void,” including the hand-counting rule above.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-georgia-election-rules-passed-by-trump-backed-board-are-unconstitutional-judge-rules/ar-AA1soNoM

These stories can be added to the pile, along with California’s ban on asking voters to show ID.

I don’t print these stories to discourage you from voting. I relay them to show you which party is working 24/7 to make elections less secure (which I don’t believe they’re doing for purely altruistic reasons) and to make you so furious that you will not let anything keep you from voting, and taking as many like-minded people with you as possible. Make sure that the vote to stop this kind of thing is so overwhelming that it dwarfs any ballot chicanery that might be attempted.

Speaking of voting, here’s Kurt Schlichter on that very subject, and he has a message I want every Republican to hear:

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/10/17/get-out-there-and-vote-right-now-not-later-now-n2646288

Mike Huckabee

Wednesday, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump both made appearances before questioners who were perceived as not being especially friendly. Trump appeared before a Fox News forum of women and a Univision townhall of Latino voters. As usual with Trump, he answered even uncomfortable questions and maybe won over a few people who were predisposed by the media to hate him. Here are links to stories on both of those appearances:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-vows-to-ban-trans-athletes-from-women-s-sports-declares-himself-father-of-ivf-in-fox-news-town-hall-with-all-female-audience/ar-AA1soiHa

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-rips-harris-illegal-immigration-during-latino-voter-town-hall-hispanic-voters-most-against-it

And now, to the one you’ve been waiting for, the interview that has Democrats howling and some analysts saying it ended Kamala’s campaign (I don’t believe that; if the majority of her followers cared about her being prepared, competent or even coherent, her campaign never would have started.) That would be Harris’ interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier. Stories about it have used the word “trainwreck” so many times, I can’t believe Pete Buttigieg wasn’t involved.

I don’t like to be too negative, so let me start out with some praise: She finally agreed to do a live interview with Fox News and actually showed up. That showed more courage than any other interview she’s done so far (of course, most of them were with fawning fans like “The View” and Stephen Colbert. And Trump shows up to hostile media outlets almost daily. Bret Baier interviewed him last year and didn’t go easy.) Plus, she reportedly showed up 15 minutes late, forcing the scheduled 25-minute interview to be cut to 15 minutes. Baier said her handlers were frantically waving off-camera after 15 minutes to wrap it up (I can imagine why, and not because of the clock.) And there are those who say she never would have agreed to it if her internal polling wasn’t brutal...

Nevertheless, she did show up, and for that, I give her credit.

But everything beyond that…Hoo boy! This interview proved why she has only talked to fan club members up until this point. Baier was the first real interviewer she’s faced, and she imploded like the Tropicana Hotel. Some are even comparing it to Biden’s campaign-ending debate performance.

Baier asked questions that she has been asked before and should have been ready for, about illegal immigration, how her policies differ from Biden’s, when she noticed Biden’s mental decline, etc. The difference was that Baier didn’t accept the same canned, robotic non-answers she’s given before and kept asking follow-up questions to try to get a clear answer. She seemed unprepared for that and became rattled, defensive and irritated.

Perhaps the moment that best summed it up was when she ended a typical evasive word salad response with “You and I both know what I’m talking about,” and Baier replied, “I actually don’t, what are you talking about?” This was in an interview in which I lost count of how many times she said, “Let’s be clear,” then proceeded to be about as clear as Mississippi mud.

https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1846680688189161605

I’m not going to go through every bad moment, or this would just be a full transcript. In fact, rather than tweeting the most damaging clips as campaigns usually do, the Trump campaign simply tweeted out the entire interview. It’s also sparked so many write-ups that I’ll link to some of the best:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/16/bret-baier-questions-rattled-kamala-harris-on-deadly-consequences-of-her-open-border-policies-in-fox-news-interview/

https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2024/10/16/breaking-kamala-shouts-whines-cannot-answer-basic-questions-in-fox-interview-n4933408

https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/10/17/vigilant-fox-kamala-harris-fox-interview-thread-n2402313

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/10/16/heres-how-kamalas-interview-with-fox-news-went-n2646338

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/10/16/kamala-harris-gives-a-train-wreck-fox-interview-n2180674

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/10/17/kamala-harris-tried-to-use-her-fox-news-interview-to-attack-trump-it-failed-miserably-n2646339

And here’s Scott Pinsker of PJ Media on the scrambling fallout over the interview…

https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/10/16/the-pr-fallout-of-the-kamala-harris-fox-news-interview-n4933410

If I had to pick the most disturbing moment for me, personally, it would be her failure to apologize to the families of Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin and Laken Riley for their deaths at the hands of criminal illegal aliens. Just saying “I am so sorry for (their) loss, sincerely,” when you at least indirectly caused it isn’t sympathy, it’s deflection.

https://www.toddstarnes.com/values/kamala-refuses-to-apologize-to-families-of-americans-killed-by-illegals/

But the line that will undoubtedly appear in hundreds of Trump ads was when Harris said, “You got to take responsibility for what happened in your Administration.” Yes, you do. So when will she start?

Democrats and the Harris-doormat media are frantically trying to spin this as a win for her…

https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/10/17/top-10-meltdowns-over-kamala-harris-fox-news-interview-n2402298

…Or to accuse Baier of “ambushing” her (with predictable questions?) Joe Scarborough called him “shockingly rude,” which I would define as showing up 15 minutes late for a live TV interview – or calling someone a Nazi, Joe. But he was just being that rarest of things in 2024: a journalist doing his job, without regard to politics.

What this interview really exposed is something that even Democrats once understood: Kamala Harris is not presidential material, which is why she didn’t even make it to the Iowa Caucuses in 2020 and had to be handed the nomination without winning a single primary vote. If she can’t even withstand an interview with Bret Baier, how is she going to stand up to Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong-Un? It’s not sexist to ask that. I wouldn’t want a man in that job who couldn’t go face-to-face with our enemies, and I would never question whether a woman like Margaret Thatcher could do it.

In fact, here’s Trump dealing skillfully with an actual hostile interviewer just this week (FYI: Harris was invited to this same event, but declined.)

https://www.theblaze.com/news/bloomberg-interviewers-attempts-to-needle-trump-backfire-and-the-crowd-loves-it

Here are more reactions to Harris’ Fox News interview from a number of sources. The best might be from Danny DeUrbina, who tweeted that “getting absolutely COOKED on Fox News right now is the closest Kamala has ever been to working the fries.”

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/10/16/im-speaking-bret-baier-interviews-kamala-harris-n2402284

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/10/16/the-reactions-to-kamalas-interview-have-been-brutal-n2646342

I’ll give the last word to the Babylon Bee…

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-wondering-if-its-too-late-to-go-back-to-joe-biden

Mike Huckabee

The plagiarism scandal is getting worse around Kamala Harris’ 2009 book, “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer” (that title had to be stolen from someone else, since no part of it applies to Kamala.) I reported yesterday that some substantial portions of it were found to have been copied from Wikipedia, which is not only plagiarism, it's lazy plagiarism.

Well, here are the latest updates:

It appears that in the same book, Harris cribs a story from the Rev. Martin Luther King and presents it as if it happened to herself.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/15/kamalas-plagiarism-scandal-just-got-worse-n4933359

Harris’ publisher accidentally CC'd Christopher Rufo, the journalist who broke the story, on an internal email revealing that they’re in damage control mode and see this as a “very sensitive topic.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/kamala-harris-publisher-damage-control-mode-accidentally-leaks-internal-message-plagiarism-scandal-report/

And the New York Times attempted to brush the story under the rug, first by claiming the stolen parts weren’t substantial enough to matter, thus establishing a new literary standard that “a little plagiarism” is okay. Then they tried the “Republicans pounce” trope and claimed that pointing out the plagiarism was racist. Then it turned out the plagiarism expert they quoted to exonerate Harris hadn’t even seen the entire book, just excerpts provided to him by the Times reporters.

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/10/14/sad-trombone-the-new-york-times-is-not-handling-the-kamala-harris-plagiarism-news-well-at-all-n2180570

As I always say, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” You may quote me on that.

Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee

Dr. Stefan Weber, the famous Austrian “plagiarism hunter” who has outed plagiarist politicians in the German-speaking world, also works in English and says he’s uncovered multiple violations by Kamala Harris in her 2009 book, “SMART ON CRIME:  A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.”  Conservative investigator Christopher Rufo reports that he’s independently confirmed these examples, which he says are “comparable in severity to the plagiarism found in former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s doctoral thesis.”

Claudine Gay had to resign the Harvard presidency over her plagiarism, as well as her anti-Semitic comments.  In light of that, what kind of standards do we have for the U.S. Presidency?

https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1845847673657774387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp

One standard used to be that the candidate did not plagiarize.  When Kamala says she can’t think of anything she’d do differently from President Biden, I wonder if she remembered Biden had very credibly been accused of plagiarism, too.  He was knocked out of the 1988 Democrat presidential primary after it was found that he’d plagiarized a paper (five pages’ worth) during his first year in law school (he failed the course but made it up) and, during that primary campaign, “borrowed” the family history and public remarks made by British politician Neil Kinnock.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6128386404001

Rufo says Harris plagiarized “at least a dozen sections” of her book.  Hilariously, THE NEW YORK TIMES is now saying that Kamala’s plagiarism is “not serious,” given the size of the plagiarized portions, which are relatively small, they say, compared to the overall size of the book.  Gosh, I wish they’d specified the exact percentage of a book that’s okay to plagiarize, as that knowledge would be very helpful to me when I write my next one.

While she was San Francisco district attorney, Kamala co-authored the book with Joan O’C Hamilton and had it published for her 2010 campaign for California attorney general.  That’s according to Wikipedia, which ironically is one of the sources Kamala is alleged to have purloined from.

Yes, that’s right.  Kamala allegedly plagiarized from WIKIPEDIA.  When it came to writing her book, she was like the lazy C student who forgot her term paper was due and had to pull an all-nighter cribbing from Wikipedia.

The book SMART ON CRIME --- this quote is also from Wikipedia, haha --- “outlines her vision of how the criminal justice system should function.”  Judging from the way it has functioned under Biden-Harris, that must boil down to “not well.”  In fact, it’s hard to make any connection between Kamala Harris and a book called SMART ON CRIME, except in the most sarcastic way.

Dr. Weber says in his summary of findings, “Kamala Harris copied virtually an entire Wikipedia article into her book without providing proper attribution to Wikipedia.”  He also accuses her of fabricating a source reference, inventing a nonexistent page number.  There’s promotional material from Goodwill Industries that she used without attribution.  And in many instances, he says, “even when a source was cited with a footnote, the text was directly copied and pasted without using quotation marks.  Quotation marks would have been the most transparent and honest approach...”

“Further signs of dishonesty may be evident when sources were copied but specific details were altered, such as replacing a Subway store owner with a sandwich store clerk (p. 124) or highlighting Southeast Asia in the context of the US gang problem (p.184).”

As reported in BREITBART, Rufo says that in a discussion of high school graduation rates, she “lifted verbatim language from an uncited AP/NBC News report.”

“In another section of the book,” Rufo says, “Harris, without proper attribution, reproduced extensive sections from a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release.  She and her co-author passed off the language as their own, copying multiple paragraphs verbatim.”  Rufo puts the two side by side, showing how blatant this is, an obvious cut-and-paste of entire paragraphs.  (The editor probably made those tiny punctuation changes, such as changing “%” to “percent,” per their stylebook.)

“In a section about a New York court program,” Rufo says, “Harris stole long passages directly from Wikipedia --- long considered an unreliable source.  [Indeed, she apparently passed along an inaccurate and unverified interpretation of a statistic.]  She not only assumes the online encyclopedia’s accuracy, but copies its language almost verbatim, without citing the source.”  And then, again, he lines them up side by side; it’s obvious.

And it’s enough plagiarism for TRENDING POLITICS to call it “rampant.”

https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/just-in-kamala-harris-rampant-plagiarism-revealed-in-bombshell-report-mace/

Can you imagine the media uproar if, say, J. D. Vance were found to have plagiarized parts of his book HILLBILLY ELEGY?  He’s already posted about this on X, mocking the so-called “fact”-checkers and saying, “I wrote my own book.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3188843/vance-accuse-harris-plagiarism-2009-book/

As BREITBART notes, it was just two months ago when the Harris campaign was caught plagiarizing Biden’s issue page from his campaign website, after she’d been criticized for not even having an issue page.

Harris campaign spokesman James Singer has responded to the allegations: “This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the Vice President clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout.”  Okay, except when she didn’t.

Because we like this particular comment on Kamala’s candidacy and the corrupt media that bury any story that interferes with their agenda, we’re going to run it with quotation marks around it and attribute to BREITBART’S John Nolte, who wrote it:

“Look at how far Harris rose --- attorney general of California, U.S. Senator, Vice President, and Democrat presidential nominee, without the corporate media discovering this.  Think about that… think about all the corporate media outlets out there that are supposed to be vetting candidates and competing for scoops… Think of the endless resources available to them: billions of dollars and tens of thousands of staffers… And yet, they never bothered to vet Kamala’s book --- or they did, discovered the plagiarism, and hid it from the public.”

We’d be willing to bet it’s the latter.  Somebody probably knew about this and kept it under wraps for a long time.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/14/nolte-famed-plagiarism-hunter-busts-kamala-harris-book-copied-virtually-entire-wikipedia-article-fabricated-source-reference/

If Kamala somehow finds herself cornered with a question about this, we have to wonder if she’ll throw her co-writer under the bus.  When the NEW YORK POST called to ask Joan O’C Hamilton about it on Monday, she said she was surprised to learn about the allegations.

“Oh, gosh,” she reportedly told the POST.  “I haven’t seen anything.  I’m afraid I can’t talk to you right now, though, I’m in the middle of something.  Let me go try to figure that out.”

She’s in the middle of something, all right.  Wonder if they’ve heard back yet.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/us-news/kamala-harris-accused-of-plagiarism-in-co-authored-2009-book/

 

by HUCKABEE writer/researcher Laura Ainsworth

The BREITBART headline captured it well:  “Kamala Harris posed for second VOGUE cover as Hurricane Helene destruction and death toll mounts.”

Where did anybody get the idea that the Democrat Party was about compassion?  Oh, I remember; it was from the Democrats themselves.  (They also lie to me repeatedly that “Donald Trump never cared about anything but himself.”)  And with their lousy sense of timing, they can’t even manage to LOOK compassionate, not even when it counts the most, right before an election.  In other words, they’re not even good at faking it.

Kamala’s latest let-them-eat-cake moment was on October 7 --- yes, the anniversary of Hamas’ slaughter of at least 1,200 Jews, with hundreds more taken hostage, including Americans --- when she took time out of her busy schedule of leading efforts to help devastated hurricane victims (kidding) so she could pose for VOGUE with celebrity photographer Annie Lebovitz.  The cover photo was previewed for the media on Friday.

Whoever orchestrates these things must have looked at Kamala’s slipping polls and decided she desperately needed a quick boost with...what, rich, left-leaning women?  That in itself doesn’t seem like the best focus for the campaign, but it was their choice.  On the other hand, they might not need to concentrate more on fundraising at this point, as they’ve reportedly raised A BILLION DOLLARS, not counting this in-kind contribution from VOGUE.  They are rolling in money like Scrooge McDuck.

VOGUE --- I’ll get to them later --- gave Kamala the cover for their latest online edition, bumping singer Billie Eilish, who remains the cover of the print edition because there wasn’t enough lead time to bump her from that, too.  (Eilish herself is such a leftist that she was presumably fine with this, maybe even honored to help beat Trump and elect a far-left non-white woman, never mind that the candidate is an idiot.)

As BREITBART reports, “On the day of the photoshoot, which was not on her official schedule, Harris posted on X a website and phone number that survivors could contact for FEMA assistance.”

(NOTE:  This isn’t the first time Harris has been spirited away to an event that wasn’t on her official schedule.  There’s also that little matter of her unscheduled visit to DNC headquarters, where a pipe bomb happened to be “discovered” at the entrance on January 6, 2021.)

Perhaps Kamala was just too busy picking out jewelry for the shoot to remember that many residents had lost their phones and computers in the flood.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/11/kamala-harris-posed-for-second-vogue-cover-as-hurricane-helene-destruction-and-death-toll-mounts/

Not only did Kamala get the cover --- “The Candidate for our Times,” ugh --- but there’s also a fluffy interview.  VOGUE posted the following on X, and have your barf bags ready:  “Only rarely are individuals summoned for acts of national rescue, but in July, Vice President Kamala Harris received one of those calls.  With President Joe Biden’s decision to end his re-election campaign, the world looked to Harris with hopes and doubts.”

Even the leftist DAILY BEAST called this a “gushy profile.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kamala-harris-gets-a-consolation-prize-online-only-vogue-cover

If Kamala Harris is the candidate for our times, I would have to call our times The Era of Brainwashed Morons.  On the bright side, the world looking at Kamala with doubts is the one thing the editors at VOGUE got right.  Even so, they’d probably chalk those doubts up to misogyny and racism, not the fact that she is a mediocrity who, hand-in-hand with Joe Biden, is responsible in large part for massive increases in inflation, crime, uncontrolled immigration and global instability, failure on every front.

And speaking of Biden, do the rocket scientists running the fashion world actually believe he’s the one who made the decision to end his re-election campaign?  Um, that was not his decision; he held on tooth-and-nail.  It took that disastrous debate --- which he almost certainly was set up for --- and pressure from Democrat leadership to end the campaign for him.  The “pro-choice” party gave him no choice.

Using the word “rescue” was particularly tone-deaf, as legitimate rescue efforts were going on throughout the Southeast.  Real rescuers were recovering bodies while phony rescuer Kamala posed wearing, according to VOGUE, “her own Gabriela Hearst suit and Tiffany earrings.”  This decidedly non-middle-class suit reportedly cost over $3,000.  It looks okay in the photo --- which is much better than her first VOGUE cover --- but most of the time on the campaign trail, Kamala has looked as though she takes fashion advice from Hillary Clinton.

https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2024/10/11/kamala-lands-last-minute-vogue-cover-but-the-story-behind-the-photo-will-enrage-you-n2180435

Recall that in all the time she was First Lady of the United States, the coolly sophisticated Melania was never once invited to be on the cover of VOGUE or other major fashion magazines, despite the fact that she’d had a successful modeling career and could be said to be as iconic fashion-wise as First Lady Jackie Kennedy.  One has to wonder if the editors at these magazines got together one day for a long lunch at the Four Seasons and, over many bottles of fine chardonnay, decided to blackball her, much as snobby sorority sisters do during rush to exclude the girls they decide aren’t a good fit.

If (when!) Trump wins this time, and Melania is a second-time First Lady, their rejection of her is bound to be even nastier, but she seems not to care.  It’s easy to understand why she keeps her distance from politics as much as possible, and it says a lot for President Trump that he supports her in this.  I hate to see spouses used as campaign props.

Bob Hoge at REDSTATE examined a particular claim in VOGUE’s fawning Kamala article, which quotes California State Senator Scott Weiner (a story for another day) as saying “she was held in very high esteem” while working as a San Francisco city attorney in the early 2000s.  Take a look at these dismal performance reviews from her time as a prosecutor, and you will come away with a much different impression.  On a scale from 1 to 5, she and her team got mostly 2’s.  She scored badly on such basic considerations as being “thorough, helpful and proactive” and showing “good judgment.”  Oh, well, you don’t have to demonstrate those qualities as President; you just have to not be Donald Trump.  This is a must-read…

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/10/11/f-for-fail-performance-reviews-of-kamalas-stint-as-san-francisco-city-attorney-revealed-n2180465

REDSTATE’s Teri Christoph asks, “What in the world happened to VOGUE?”  I would offer this:  The fashion magazines, led by VOGUE’s Anna Wintour, have leaned Democrat for decades.  Of course, they featured Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Jill Biden on their covers, and all three First Ladies have been portrayed as goddesses in their pages.

https://www.vogue.com/article/from-the-archives-the-extraordinary-hillary-clinton

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2016/11/129580/michelle-obama-vogue-cover-december-2016

The political slant of fashion editors has long centered on two issues:  sexual orientation and “women’s reproductive health” (abortion).  They added “equity” and DEI.  And then they went off the rails when Trump ran for President as a Republican and beat Hillary.

As I’ve said often, TDS is a terminal brain-wasting disease.  Those brain cells aren’t coming back, and it’s not as if those afflicted have many to spare.  Exceptions exist, of course, but the typical leftist fashionista reminds me of a beautifully groomed and pampered Afghan hound, but with far less intelligence.

The other thing that has always chafed me about VOGUE is that their content is not just geared to leftists but to very, very rich leftists who blithely jet around the world --- while showing they care about the planet by buying “sustainable” products --- and fill their custom closets with high-end designer “pieces” that individually can cost more than a new car.  You know who I mean, the AOC supporters who’ll be paying $75,000 apiece this year (up from $50,000 a year ago --- inflation!) to attend the Met Ball, where they’ll chat about Donald Trump caring only about his rich friends.

Kamala’s people probably thought posing for pictures was a relatively safe campaign activity for her, as she didn’t have to TALK.  But I think there will be a huge backlash from this photo shoot that they’re just too tone-deaf to anticipate, and it seems to have already started.  Here’s a sample, coming from both the left and right…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/kamala-harris-slammed-for-tone-deaf-vogue-cover-released-on-solemn-anniversary-of-israeli-massacre/ar-AA1s8y5f

BONUS FUN:  Hilarious memes abound, of course.  Here are a few from TWITCHY; these really get good about halfway down, starting with the cover of...VAGUE.

https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/10/11/kamala-vogue-cover-memes-n2402055

RELATED: The online magazine Evie was launched to give women an alternative to the increasingly leftist march of almost all women’s fashion and lifestyle magazines. This is an article about why it was needed…

https://quillette.com/2019/02/20/women-needed-a-magazine-that-doesnt-lie-to-them-so-i-started-one/

And here’s its website, if you’d like an antidote to the toxic leftism of Vogue, Elle, et al…

Evie Magazine

Mike Huckabee

When former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson went on CNN to discuss his new book, host Jake Tapper wanted mostly to get his take on something in Bob Woodward’s upcoming book.

Johnson surely would have rather talked about his own book.  But Tapper apparently thought this would be a way to elicit some remarks critical of Trump, so that was the strategy.  He wanted Tapper’s reaction to an unsourced allegation that Trump has talked to Putin as many as seven times after leaving the White House.

As we discussed yesterday, former UN Ambassador under Obama Susan Rice has already commented on this, suggesting that Trump had violated the Logan Act and thus had broken the law.

But according to Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung, “None of...these made-up stories by Bob Woodward are true.”

Anyway, when asked about this on CNN, Johnson disappointed Tapper by saying, “I don’t know if that’s true, and I’m certainly not privy to the contents of those sorts of conversations.”

Not only did he not offer anything to support Susan Rice’s lame “Logan Act” allegations against Trump, but he proceeded to blast away at the whole “Trump-Russia” lie: “What I can tell our viewers is that when I had dealings with Trump over Russia, like when the Russians poisoned people in the U.K., it was actually the Trump administration that really...exceeded expectations.  They expelled 60 Russian spies.  It was the Trump administration that actually gave Ukrainians lethal weaponry --- the Javelin missiles to use against Putin’s troops.”

Talk about an awkward moment for Jake Tapper.  Take that, CNN!  Tapper quickly changed the subject to Johnson’s own book (which was the appropriate topic, anyway), so the Russia comments take up just the first couple of minutes in the video interview…

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/world/video/the-lead-boris-johnson-memoir-reviews-united-kingdom-political-rivals-trump-jake-tapper

As BLAZE MEDIA points out, Johnson has also said that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine under Trump’s watch.

Here’s Johnson on Britain’s TIMES Radio: “I happen to believe that when Donald Trump says that had he been President in 2022, there would have been no Russian invasion of Ukraine, my view is that that is a credible assertion.  I really do think that’s credible.”

https://www.theblaze.com/news/boris-johnson-blows-up-trump-russia-narrative-silencing-cnns-jake-tapper

 

 

RELATED CORRECTION: I made reference a couple of days ago to Bob Woodward’s new book and some explosive comments allegedly made in private by President Biden. I apologize for forgetting to include the standard disclaimer about any Bob Woodward book:

“Warning: These alleged quotes come from anonymous sources and any resemblance to anything actually said by the person being quoted might be purely coincidental.”

Mike Huckabee

Yesterday, Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel in retaliation for the IDF’s killing of the leadership of Iran’s terrorist buddies in Hamas and Hezbollah.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/10/01/idf-iran-has-fired-missiles-at-israel-all-residents-ordered-to-bomb-shelters/

Fortunately, most of the missiles were intercepted and destroyed by Israel’s anti-missile defense system, and there were no reported casualties at this writing. However, at around the same time, there was a terrorist shooting attack at a train station in Jaffa that killed a young Israeli mother who was shielding her baby.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/israeli-mom-killed-jaffa-terror-attack-while-shielding-9-month-old-son-israel-says

Now, an ominous quiet has fallen, as Iran awaits Israel’s response. I can’t help wondering if the mullahs are feeling like the dog that kept chasing a car and barking at it until it finally caught the car and realized it was about to get flattened.

For years, Iran’s militant Islamist leaders have threatened to attack Israel. Well, now, they have. Launching a barrage of ballistic missiles at a sovereign state is known as an “act of war,” and it wasn’t launched by some terrorist surrogates like Hamas or Hezbollah, but by the Iranian government itself. It was a rash, foolish and possibly suicidal act. Israel would be perfectly justified in responding with overwhelming force, taking out Iran’s military bases, its nuclear facilities and more.

Just as with the celebrations over Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, I believe many Iranians would joyfully welcome Israel’s destruction of Iran’s war machine and the decapitation of their government, which uses that war machine to oppress its own people as much as it does to threaten its neighbors.

As Katie Pavlich reports, a clue that something bigger could be coming is that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu made a statement directed at the people of Iran, assuring them, “The people of Iran should know, Israel stands with you…When Iran is finally free, and that moment will come a lot sooner than you think, everything will be different."

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/01/message-to-ayatollah-n2180023

Meanwhile, President Biden gave orders to the US military in the region to shoot down any Iranian missiles targeting Israel. And both presidential candidates made statements, neither of which did much to bolster confidence in our current leadership in the Middle East.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/01/heres-what-so-scary-about-kamalas-first-public-statement-about-iran-attacking-israel-n4932997

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-slams-biden-kamala-says-we-have-no-leadership-as-iran-attacks-israel