August 21, 2022
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
Friends,
Since the
August 8, 2022, FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s Florida
residence, the American media has literally deluged us with story after story
on what certainly is a pivotal point in modern American history. Every news outlet,
every broadcast network, and most major political leaders have offered their
take, their interpretations; as well, the courts have gotten involved, with
Obama-appointed judges leading the way. And for all intents and purposes,
whatever the real contents of those boxes of records turn out to be, assuredly
we shall all be drenched over the remainder of this election season (and probably
much longer) by the continual barrage of hysterically strident voices in the legacy
media: hyped-accusations, chimerical charges, and spurious claims about how once
again this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Donald J. Trump is a clear
and present “threat to our democracy” and, according to the solemn judgment of
former CIA director, Michael Hayden, must be executed for “high treason”!
Let me
repeat that: one of the most significant members of our so-called “Intelligence
agencies” is calling for the summary execution of a US president—and he is not
the only senior official in the administrative managerial apparatus known as
the Deep State to demand something similar.
The
Mar-a-Lago raid, in fact, has nothing to do with classified records, and if you
should take a government official aside, perhaps after several shots of Jack
Daniels or Chivas Regal, he will privately admit that to you. In fact, probably
everyone in “official” Washington knows that.
No; the
raid has everything to do with preventing Trump from running for president in
2024. That is, this is the latest installment of vomiting up a continuous
stream of ugly and largely fake odiferous bilge to hopefully damage him, slime
him enough to keep him from once again entering 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
But more
than just stop the Donald, now he must be permanently silenced and exiled, put
away where his larger-than-life presence is no longer felt in any significant
facet of American life—and that may well mean locking him up in a high security
prison, or even executing him. Like a wounded lion, he is too dangerous to the
administrative managerial state, and to the politicos, seen and unseen, who run
our country, to remain on the loose.
And not
because he is actually cognizant of what his presence has meant or means.
Indeed, one can argue that with his lack of familiarity with the vicious high
stakes political war games that rule Washington, Trump’s major achievement was
ironically as a “loose cannon,” that in some ways he was not under the complete
control of the Deep State and didn’t totally hew “the party line.”
In
America in the early 21st century that is not permitted.
I have
harshly criticized Donald Trump’s appointments during his four-year presidency,
and his futile attempt to work—compromise—with the establishment GOP and the
neoconservatives who dominate the so-called “conservative movement.” His disastrous
appointments of a General James “Mad Dog” Mattis or a John Bolton to senior
positions in his administration and his reliance on such figures as Jared
Kushner and on the RNC have undercut much of whatever good that he has
accomplished.
That
“good” was, above all, for the first time an American president partially tore
the mask from the horrifying face of the Deep State which has controlled our
failing republic since at least the years of FDR, if not long before. For
literally the first time, millions American citizens began to recognize that they
were not masters of their own fate, that they did not really control what was
occurring in their country, that our elections—and political candidates—were
being bought and sold like cattle at an auction, that not only our politics,
but our educational system and entertainment industry as well were deeply
perverted and infected, and, lastly, that this nation’s big corporations and
information/Internet conglomerates were in an incestuous relationship with big
government: all working against us.
Despite
coming up embarrassingly short in two miserably failed political impeachments
based on fabricated and ideologically-crafted “evidence”—despite the abject and
utter failure to establish what CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, et al,
decried from 2017 until 2019 as “Trump collusion” with Vladimir Putin and the
Russians to win the 2016 election—despite a farcical show trial, the “January 6
investigation,” which flagrantly violates both the established rules of the
House of Representatives and the essential protections of the
Constitution—despite all this, the mere specter of a return of Trump, and more
so what he represents (in spite of himself) sends excruciating shivers up the
backs of our fearful oligarchs.
Very
simply, that was the real reason behind the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
But also
it confirmed, perhaps as the denizens of the administrative managerial state
did not actually intend, that those agencies of the federal government, once
considered above political influence and ideological poison, have now fully succumbed
to the same poisonous venom that infects most of Washington. Or, perhaps they
felt entrenched and immune enough not to care that we would notice?
Many of
us of a certain age can remember the popular television program, The F.B.I.,
which ran from 1965 until 1974, starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Then, we looked up
to and admired the FBI—it protected us from Communist spies and subversion, the
Mafia, and all sorts of ne’er-do-wells and miscreants who would harm and attack
our country.
No
longer. The FBI, like the CIA, has become a dedicated arm of increasing
totalitarian control and suppression, the Deep State conglomerate that governs
us, that emerged in view partially from the shadows when Trump, like a
bull-in-a-china shop, came to town. Certainly not all FBI agents, certainly not
all the rank-and-file; but yes, the administration and directors who command.
And this
event—the Mar-a-Lago raid—is in a landmark sense a “crossing of the Rubicon,” a
radical and very visible escalation of the war unleashed upon us by
administrative managerial elites. As one writer commented: “This changes
everything.”
*****
Prime
time commentator Tucker Carlson summed all this up in his Monday night, August
15, 2022, opening monologue.
Carlson
is practically the last person I watch on Fox; the rest for the most part have
become part of the problem, swimming in the tweedle-dee/tweedle-dum of
establishment American political “kulchur.” He, as well, suffers from serious
gaps— misinformation—in how he approaches issues like the War Between the
States or his consistent invitation to neoconservative hacks like Victor Davis
Hanson to appear on his program. Nevertheless, his voice remains unique in its
usual clarity and ability to note what is really occurring.
That
monologue was a frightening augury of where we are, what the future portends,
and a stark proclamation that there can be no peace, no collaboration with
those who oppose us. They inhabit a counter-reality which is Satanic. This
nation is irretrievably divided, and the other side is coming after not just
Donald J. Trump but also all the rest of us who don’t conform to the
enticements of the new Gulag. The “United” States of America no longer exists.
I have
taken the transcript of Carlson’s monologue (it can be heard aurally by
accessing the Internet address) and, with a few small grammatical edits, I
offer it here:
No honest person could believe the Trump
raid was a legitimate act of law enforcement
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-no-honest-person-could-believe-trump-raid-legitimate-act-law-enforcement
Tucker Carlson calls out the Trump Mar-a-Lago raid, says it's
really about power
By Tucker Carlson | Fox News August 15, 2022
We've had a few days to reflect
on it and have concluded that no honest person could believe that the raid
on Donald Trump's home last week was a legitimate act of law enforcement. It was
not. Even the Biden administration didn't really bother to pretend otherwise.
The official explanations that we have heard for the raid make no sense at all.
It doesn't matter how forcefully they are repeated by the media, they're
nonsensical. In case you've forgotten what they are, here's the very first
explanation they gave us:
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS,
HISTORIAN: Why did this guy have these ultra-classified documents in the
basement of Mar-a-Lago unsecured, where they could be presumably broken in on
or stolen or photographed and given to hostile foreign powers or conceivably
even terrorists?
Are you listening to this? So, it's not just classified
documents in the basement of Mar-a-Lago, but according to Michael Beschloss,
the pet historian of the halfwits who run our country, these are
ultra-classified documents, the most classified kind, just sitting there
helpless in boxes like maidens in bikinis, waiting to be photographed by
terrorists. You just imagine al-Qaeda taking selfies with these documents, one
after the other relentlessly, repulsive and terrifying.
Is it true? At this point, no one has provided proof that
it is true, not that august historians like Michael Beschloss wait around for
actual evidence before pronouncing final judgment on cable news shows. They
just go ahead, but for the sake of argument on our show, we're going to say
that it is in fact true and that Donald Trump did, in fact, have boxes of
classified documents sitting in his cellar. What would it mean? Well, what
it means depends in part on what the documents were. Did those documents
contain meaningful information? Should they have been classified in the first
place? Is there a good reason the rest of us should not have been allowed to
see those documents?
Now, you never hear those questions asked in public, but anyone
who lives in Washington knows perfectly well they should be asked in public a
lot, because in Washington, virtually anything can qualify as an official state
secret and often does.
In 2011, to name one of many examples, the CIA finally
declassified a trove of documents from the First World War. These documents
dated back to 1917, almost 100 years before. One of these documents, the most
ultra-secret of them, contained a recipe for disappearing ink. Now, why would
federal bureaucrats spend an entire century hiding an outdated recipe for ink
that you can buy legally in any magic store for your fifth grader? Good
question. No one asked it. Instead, then CIA Director Leon Panetta issued
a press release bragging about how he was giving the secret ink recipe to a
grateful public. "These documents remain classified for nearly a century
until recent advancements in technology made it possible to release them,"
Panetta wrote. "When historical information is no longer sensitive, we
take seriously our responsibility to share it with the American
people."
There was no hint whatsoever that Panetta was joking when he
wrote that. You're welcome, America. Here's your century-old ink recipe. Again,
this was in 2011. So, think it through. You had to wonder what recent
technological advancements was Leon Panetta talking about in the press release
and just how recent were they? Was Panetta actually saying that CIA spies were
still communicating in World War One era disappearing ink as of, say, 2010 or
even as of 1950? Please. It was bizarre. Of course, it was another lie from the
people in charge.
Here's the truth. The documents have been classified for 100
years, not because disappearing ink was any sort of national security secret.
They'd been classified because the government's default position in every case
is that you have no right to see anything ever. It is their information. It is
not yours. You're not a citizen. You're just the taxpayer. Shut up and pay for
it all. To this day, there are large amounts of classified information
remaining from World War II. These are documents written 80 years ago by people
whose grandchildren are now old, but you still can't see it. You don't have the
clearances. Sorry.
So, when they tell you that Donald Trump had classified
documents in his basement, those materials could be literally anything, but
once again, for the sake of argument, we're going to stipulate that Trump did
have possession of documents that were classified for some good reason.
Documents that, for example, we legitimately would not want the Chinese
government to see. If that is true, would it justify what happened? Would it
justify sending a large team of federal agents to shut down the entire southern
tip of Palm Beach to raid Mar-a-Lago on a weekday? No, it wouldn't. One of the
laws they're telling you that Trump broke doesn't even have criminal penalties
attached to it because it's not serious enough.
Federal paramilitaries don't show up at your house when you
violate the Presidential Records Act. In fact, as we later learned, the actual
warrant for the raid was signed by an openly partisan judge—you couldn't make
any of this up if you tried—who once represented Jeffrey Epstein's side in the
famous underage sex case, that judge. That judge allowed the FBI to seize
virtually every piece of paper in Donald Trump's house, whether or not it had
ever been classified.
They took Roger Stone's clemency order, for example. That had
been on the front page of the Washington Post, so was therefore probably
not a secret. Apparently, the feds even walked off with Donald Trump's
passports preventing him from leaving the country. So, whatever else this raid
was, this raid was not about the Presidential Records Act. That explanation is
absurd. It's almost as ridiculous as the claim that the White House knew
nothing about the raid before it happened. Right. Please. If they're going to
lie to us, they ought to try a little harder. So, what was this raid about?
Well, we're keeping track. So, here's the second explanation they gave
us.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Now with Donald Trump,
suddenly, when we're talking about the possibility of nuclear weapons,
classified documents of the highest classified status being stolen from the White
House and taken to Mar-a-Lago.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Just a reminder of why the
Justice Department might be a little bit concerned about nuclear secrets
knocking around Mar-a-Lago.
SCARBOROUGH: Two words for you, my friend.
Two words. "Nuclear secrets."
What! Nuclear secrets? Nuclear secrets are the highest
classified status. Ultra-secret nuclear secrets. Donald Trump stole those.
Ladies and gentlemen, America is in danger tonight. That was their new
explanation for the raid. Now, that revised storyline was leaked anonymously to
an obedient press corps, which, as you just saw, repeated every word like it
was verifiable fact. Once again, no one even bothered to explain what
these nuclear secrets might be. What's a nuclear secret exactly and what did
Trump plan to do with them? Did he plan to defect to Moscow, give the launch
codes to Vladimir Putin, start his own rogue state in the Bahamas? Nobody said,
but that didn't stop former CIA director Michael Hayden from suggesting that
Donald Trump should be executed, fried to death in the electric chair, for
committing these crimes, whatever these crimes were. We still don't know.
There weren't a lot of facts floating around. There still aren't;
but there was a reason for that. They couldn't tell you the whole story. They
couldn't release all the documents because that would jeopardize American
national security. So instead, you're just going to have to trust them and, of
course, you're going to have to listen to their outrage. There was a lot of
that. There was endless huffing on television about something called the rule
of law and how absolutely no one is above that. No one. Not even a former
president.
We're informed of this by the same people who paid rioters to
burn down our cities, the ones who eliminated bail, the ones who encouraged
tens of millions of foreign nationals to ignore our federal immigration
statutes and move to our country permanently at public expense as a reward for
breaking our laws, but keep in mind, no one is above the law. That was definitely
the word from Joe Scarborough, a man who was accused of committing murder while
serving as a member of Congress, yet somehow moved seamlessly to the MSNBC
lineup without being charged or even investigated. No one is above the law.
Remember that.
So, there was an awful lot of posturing in the days after the
raid. But none of it was very effective because, again, it didn't make sense.
Even propaganda has to add up. Two plus two equals nine doesn't convince
anybody.
Nuclear secrets? If the Biden administration really believed
that, if they really thought Donald Trump possessed documents that posed an
imminent danger to American national security, then why did they wait a year
and a half to do anything about it? Why did they wait till 90 days before a
midterm election, an election that polls suggest they will lose? It doesn't
make, oh, wait, actually, it does make sense.
In fact, the question answers itself. Despite superficial
appearances, the raid of Mar-a-Lago was not an act of law enforcement. It was
the opposite of that. It was an attack on the rule of law. It was a power grab.
As Matt Boose put it recently, in American Greatness, the raid on
Trump's home "was exactly what it looks like, a show of force against the
opposition leader by the head of state and his personal bodyguards. If this
happened in, any other country would immediately be denounced as the act of a
dictator."
That's true, but it's hard for American citizens to hear those
words. As an American, you don't want to believe it and yet here are the
essential facts. The same week the Biden White House announced that Joe Biden
will definitely seek a second term as president, the same week, the Biden
Justice Department launched an armed raid against Biden's main rival in that
same presidential election. That's what happened. Pause for a minute. If The
New York Times told you that something like that was going on in Chad or
the Gambia, what would your reaction be?
You'd probably say to yourself, "Thank God I don't live in
a place like that, a country where politicians used armed men to cling to
power." Oh, but you do live in a country like that. You do. The
evidence is all around us. We just don't want to see it. A week to the day
after Joe Biden was inaugurated, the FBI arrested a 31-year-old man from
Vermont called Douglass Mackey. According to the subsequent DOJ press release,
Mackey committed an extremely serious crime. Like Vladimir Putin, he conspired
to subvert the 2016 presidential election.
In a tweet, Mackey had suggested, but not explicitly said, but
suggested, that it was possible to vote for Hillary Clinton by text message.
This act, proclaimed acting U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme, was a grave felony, a
felony punishable by ten years in prison. Mackey's tweet, DuCharme said,
amounted to "misinformation to defraud citizens of their right to
vote." Assistant FBI Director William Sweeney confirmed that Douglass
Mackey had, in fact, committed "vote theft." So, as befitting a
criminal of this magnitude, Mackey was handcuffed and hauled before a federal
judge in Florida called Bruce Reinhart, as it turns out, the same magistrate
who authorized last week's raid on Mar-a-Lago. Weird. Then, Mackey was hauled
off to jail.
Now, Mackey's arrest seemed like a significant story, but at the
time, media coverage was relatively scant and almost uniformly credulous. The
reporters who covered it simply clipped quotes from the DOJ press release and
moved on to something else. Why? Well, The New York Times set the tone
early by describing Mackey as "a far-right Twitter troll."
"Far-right Twitter troll" is not a technical term. In
fact, it has no agreed upon meaning of any kind. It is slang and slang is
something that serious newspapers never include in news stories, but in this
case, the term "far right Twitter troll" had a use. It sent an
unmistakable message to the country and in particular, to the rest of the media,
and it was this: Douglass Mackey is a dangerous person with unspeakably
ugly views. He deserves to be locked up. And so he was.
There was no consideration of the merits of the government's
case against Douglass Mackey. But there should have been, because the case was
absurd. If Mackey's tweets were so threatening to our system of government,
toward democracy, then why did the Department of Justice wait more than four
years until the week Donald Trump left office to charge him? And if Mackey
actually stole the votes of American citizens, as the FBI repeatedly alleged
that he did, whose votes were stolen? Who exactly were the victims of Douglas
Mackey's crimes? The media never asked. The Biden administration never said. As
of tonight, the Justice Department has never identified a single person who was
prevented from voting or from doing anything else by what Douglass
Mackey tweeted because there weren't any such people. Those people didn't
exist.
Douglass Mackey was not a criminal mastermind running a
conspiracy to commit voter fraud. Douglass Mackey was an Internet
prankster. His job was to think up funny memes on his laptop in his bedroom.
That's what he did. Here's one of his means on the screen hash:
"#DraftOurDaughters." Mackey wrote that in what was very obviously a
fake tweet from the Hillary Clinton campaign. "They are ready to go to war
for her. Are you?" Pretty funny.
Mackey was mocking Hillary Clinton. No one could miss that. He
wasn't subverting elections. He was making fun of the candidate and in fact, no
one did miss that. Not a single person in America actually believed that
Douglass Mackey’s Twitter memes infringed on "one of the most basic and
sacred rights guaranteed by the Constitution, the right to vote."
Absolutely no one believed that. No one could believe that because it's too
stupid a claim to believe, and yet Nicholas McQuaid, who went to Columbia Law
School and is now Joe Biden's assistant attorney general, made that claim
anyway verbatim and did so with a straight face, "Douglass Mackey is a
threat to democracy." So, he faces ten years in prison. The DOJ press
release said.
Three paragraphs later the same press release inadvertently
acknowledged what was actually going on. In the run up to the 2016 election,
the DOJ explained, Douglass Mackey had gained more influence on
Twitter than either NBC News or (gasp) Stephen Colbert himself. Now the criminal
complaint against Douglass Mackey actually spells that out. You can read it for
yourself. It's still online.
The Biden administration argued that on Twitter people liked
Douglass Mackey more than they liked NBC News or Stephen Colbert, and they may
not seem bad to you. It may seem fine to have grown up as you did in a country
where people were allowed to choose what they read, but according to the
government Joe Biden now runs, that's a felony.
Now you don't have to be a right-winger to find that terrifying.
In a free country, you have an absolute right to say what you think in public,
period, and it doesn't matter who is offended by what you say. It doesn't
matter if people consider your views ugly. Even if every person on the planet
finds your opinions horrifying and beyond the pale, you still have the right to
express them because you were born with that right. It's inherent. You cannot
be sent to prison for your political views--ever. That is the core principle of
the United States. That is the principle that Marines fought their way to the
top of Mount Suribachi to protect.
So, whatever you think of his means, Douglass Mackey’s freedom
of speech was very much worth defending, but virtually nobody defended it.
Aside from a few brave and honorable exceptions, even so-called conservative
media stayed silent as Douglass Mackey’s life was destroyed by the
Biden Justice Department. He's still in limbo, facing ten years. Why? Well,
because The New York Times had called him a far-right Twitter troll, and
no respectable person wanted to be anywhere near that. So, the purge
continued.
Douglass Mackey may have been the first victim of the new
authoritarianism, but he was hardly the last one. Over the last 18 months,
virtually every significant figure in the orbit of Donald Trump has been swept
up by Merrick Garland at the Department of Justice. Their homes have been raided,
their personal communications have been seized and leaked to the media. Some
have been arrested and thrown in jail. Donald Trump's lawyers are the primary
targets. Today, the DOJ subpoenaed Eric Herschmann. He represented Trump during
the first impeachment. Herschmann never worked in the White House counsel's
office.
The Biden administration is going after him anyway because he
gave legal advice to his client, Donald Trump. That used to be allowed. People
used to be allowed to have lawyers and speak to them privately, but it's not
allowed anymore. That's why the CIA seized attorney client records from
Mar-a-Lago. It's also why the DOJ is now directly targeting Trump's most
prominent personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. For years the feds have been going
after Giuliani's associates, including a man called George Dickson. Dickson was
working on a documentary about Hunter Biden. Last year, the FBI raided his home
in California. The feds also broke into Giuliani's own apartment, as well as
his office in New York. Then the FBI targeted a Giuliani associate called Igor
Fruman because he dug up evidence of misconduct by Joe Biden in Ukraine. They
sent Fruman to prison.
Then the FBI seized the phone of prominent conservative attorney
Victoria Toensing. She'd worked with Giuliani in 2020 to investigate election
fraud. They raided her home. Today, the DOJ announced that Giuliani himself is
a target of a federal investigation. Why exactly? Well, because like Toensing
and so many others who are now under investigation or under arrest, Giuliani
questioned the 2020 election outcome, in this case, in the state of Georgia.
Really? Questioning the election outcome in the state of Georgia? Isn't that
something Stacey Abrams has made a career of doing? Yes, but Republicans no
longer have that right.
Not long ago, more than a dozen federal agents swooped in for a
pre-dawn raid on former Trump official Jeff Clark. They left him on the street
in his underwear for maximum humiliation. Then they seized John Eastman's
phone. Eastman was also a Trump attorney. He was approached by six agents at a
restaurant in New Mexico while leaving dinner with his wife. They patted him
down and forced him to provide facial biometric data to unlock his phone. Then
the DOJ tried the same thing with Steve Bannon's lawyer, Bob Costello, trying
to force him to surrender his privileged phone and email records. We could go
on and on and on. The point is all of this is illegal. It violates the First
Amendment and violates long-established attorney-client privilege, but it's
happening right in front of us--a lot.
The FBI has shackled former Trump official Peter Navarro as he
was boarding a flight at Reagan National Airport. He was handcuffed, denied
food and water, refused permission to make a phone call to his lawyer. Then
because that wasn't terrifying enough, Biden's FBI went after a sitting
congressman perceived as too close to Trump. His name was Congressman Scott
Perry. A day after the Mar-a-Lago raid the feds seized Congressman Perry's
phone while he was traveling with his family. They could have called his lawyer
and set up something. They didn't bother. That just nabbed him in front of his
family. These are the prominent victims of this crackdown on civil liberties
being conducted by the Biden administration.
Of course, in the wake of the January 6 election justice
protests, more than 900 people have been arrested and charged with crimes
arising from that day, 900, almost all of them nonviolent, almost all of them
with no previous criminal record. More than 50 of them have been sentenced to
prison so far, including one with terminal cancer. Her crime? Walking around
the Capitol building for a few minutes, but that's just the beginning. There
are another 500 cases to go. In fact, the DOJ is getting under $34 million,
another 130 more employees, just to handle all those cases from January 6, from
the election justice protests, which is what they were. Now, superficially, all
of this is about Donald Trump
and on some level, it is. Permanent Washington does not want Trump to run
again. Of course, it's their greatest fear and they're doing all he can to
prevent it.
It turns out democracy is too important to let voters choose
their own president, but if you take three steps back and consider what's
actually going on, you'll see that none of this is really about Donald Trump,
the man. It's about power and that means it's about crushing and humiliating
anyone who gets in the way of people who want to retain power and that means
anyone. How about Alex Berenson? Alex Berenson is a novelist and former New
York Times reporter. He's got an Ivy League degree, lives in the Northeast. In
no way does Alex Berenson fit the profile of your average Trump voter.
Certainly not the stereotype.
In fact, it's hard to believe that he voted for Donald Trump. We
don't know and it doesn't matter. We do know that when Alex Berenson started to
post fact-based challenges to the lies Joe Biden was telling about COVID and
then the COVID vaccines, the White House commanded Twitter to silence Alex
Berenson. Twitter soon did that, and we're not speculating about what happened.
There are written exchanges that prove what happened. …the point is, this is
illegal. No American government is allowed to collude with private business to
silence its critics. Period. That is an unambiguous violation of the First
Amendment. It's also a violation, of course, of Alex Berenson's human rights,
and yet somehow this slipped beneath notice. The New York Times didn't
write about it. Why would they? On some level, you understand…what happened to
Alex Berenson has happened to many, many, many critics of the Biden
administration in the past year and a half. They have been censored. They have
been silenced at the direction of the White House.
Think about what this means. These are acts of aggression and
hostility aimed at Americans. No American president has ever done this. No
American president has ever explicitly declared war on his own population, and
yet for the Biden administration, it's a near weekly occurrence. Here's Joe
Biden and his attorney general, Merrick Garland, telling you that White
supremacists, in other words, Trump voters, because that's what they mean when
they say White supremacists, a term they've never defined, are the single
greatest terror threat the United States faces.
MERRICK GARLAND: In the FBI's view, the
top domestic violent extremist threat comes from racially or ethnically
motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocated for the superiority
of the White race.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: According to the United States
intelligence community, domestic terrorism from White supremacists is the most
lethal terrorist threat in the homeland.
So, not to be too literal, because this is on some level a news
show, but that's a lie. None of what you heard is true. There's not a single
statistic or piece of credible research to support what Biden or his attorney
general just said. Again, all of it is a lie. The truth, as usual, is the
opposite. These are the people who created the crime wave America is suffering
under and now they're blaming you for it. For good measure they're disarming
you because you cannot be trusted with guns because you're too dangerous. And
just in case you missed the theme here, they're hiring another 87,000 armed IRS
agents just to make sure that you obey. Got it? Got it? Is it clear? Amazingly,
some Republican leaders still don't get it or pretend they don't get it. Here's
[Governor] Asa Hutchinson [of Arkansas], still somehow the governor of Arkansas,
in a holding pattern before he transitions to the Wal-Mart board, assuring that
the FBI is completely on the level.
ARKANSAS ASA HUTCHINSON: The FBI is simply carrying out
their responsibilities under the law, a lawful search warrant that a magistrate
has signed off on and they didn't go in there with FBI raid jackets. They tried
to constrain their behavior carrying out that warrant. So, let's support law
enforcement. Let's stand with them.
Oh, the FBI is just simply carrying out their responsibilities.
Of course, they are. "What? Well, you don't support law enforcement?
There's nothing to see here." That's the line and no doubt Asa Hutchinson
and [Senator] Mitch McConnell and [Republican Congressman] Dan Crenshaw and the
rest of them will be telling you when the Biden Justice Department or some
other state law enforcement agency under their influence finally does what you
know they're going to do, which is indict Donald Trump. Obviously, they're
going to do that. Who knows how.
Maybe they'll produce surveillance video from Mar-a-Lago.
Apparently, they've already subpoenaed that, and we'll spend next year talking
about how it shows Trump mishandling classified information. Really? Remember
the endless Russia collusion hoax? We're in for a lot more of that. They will
scream about how Trump is a criminal, and if you express any support for him or
any interest in retaining the rights of free speech and due process, you're a
criminal, too. In fact, you are the threat. You're the threat, and just
mentioning that you disagree with what is happening is an attack on our
government. That's their style.
Just the other day, after
signing off on the
Mar-a-Lago raid, your Attorney General, Merrick Garland, came on stage to whine
about how actually he was the victim here. He's the victim. Apparently,
some people disagreed with the raid, so the FBI, the most heavily armed
domestic law enforcement agency in the world, is now under threat from you.
Right. You're the criminal. Our critics are in jail, but I got anonymous
threats on Twitter. Poor me.
Passive aggression is the
defining characteristic of the left. If they started putting people in camps,
NBC News would cheer them on and then attack you for complaining about it.
"How dare you violate our norms. We've always had camps."
As if to prove it, in the
hours after Mar-a-Lago raid, the usual jackals on Twitter began demanding that
Donald Trump should release the warrant that justified the raid. "If
you're not guilty, you'll show it to us," that's what they said. So, Trump
did it. He gave the warrant to Breitbart News, which printed it. Then, when the
second Breitbart piece went up, the very same jackals start screaming about how
far right-wing extremists are putting the lives of FBI agents in danger since
those agents were named in the warrant, which is a public document. In other
words, "We're the victims here. We're the victims."
It's always the same, except this time, unfortunately, it could
be a little different. Indicting Donald Trump is a very big step, not simply
because a lot of people like him and he's the former president, but because
indicting him at this point would be to reveal that this entire thing—and by
thing we mean our justice system--is just transparently political. It's just a
means to an end, a means to power and people know that at this point. They've
watched it. They understand what's happening. Even people who don't like Donald
Trump, even people who didn't vote for Donald Trump and don't want to vote for
him in 2024, they know and they cannot unknow. And that means that we are at
this point on the edge of something unprecedented and something awful. You can
feel it. Even Donald Trump feels it.
Maybe for the first time in
his life, Donald
Trump seems
sincerely interested in lowering the temperature, not just for his own sake,
but for the country. He said that. He's never said anything like that. Maybe he
doesn't mean it, but when has he ever said that? "Let's all calm down a
little," he said the other day. "This isn't good." Yeah, he's
right.
It's not good and not just for him, but for all of us. This
could get very bad, very fast, and the Biden people know that perfectly well.
They know what could happen if they continue down this path of using law
enforcement to cling to power. But they don't care because they're facing a
repudiation from the voters. They're desperate, and they'll do anything, but
at what cost? Pray they pull back before it's too late.