More Law and Disorder in Trump World

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LITIGATION AGAINST 45th President Donald Trump continues. On Friday, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an order permitting three Jan. 6th lawsuits to proceed after the district court rejected Trump’s claim of presidential immunity. Trump can request a rehearing to the full panel of judges, or alternatively, appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he has another appeal pending in April, also involving immunity on the criminal case against him, Smith v. Trump, brought by special counsel Jack Smith.

Friday’s ruling was issued by a three-judge panel and the cases will be consolidated, The cases are Moore v. Trump, Kirkland v. Trump, and Tabron v. Trump. All involve law enforcement officers seeking damages based on their assertion he incited a mob to storm the Capitol and causing violence which led to various injuries, including emotional distress, they believe they incurred as a direct and proximate result. Obviously, Trump denies this.

Back in December, an appeals court ruled in Blassingame v. Trump (here) that the 45th president was not immune to lawsuits over Jan. 6th, despite his claim that his speech that day, alleged to have caused the events of the day, was an official speech on “matters of public concern,” making it subject to immunity, and further, he had encouraged his supporters to proceed “peacefully and patriotically,” which hardly constituted encouragement. (That court found the speech to be campaigning, rather than an official presidential act.)

Later that month, a similar order issued by a three-judge panel (here) denied presidential immunity to Trump in Jan. 6th cases brought by eight Capitol Police used a similar rationale, citing directly to Blassingame for authority.

Although on the surface, these appellate decisions make sense and likely follow the law, this hasn’t been how things have historically worked in practice. For example, Dems routinely tell their supporters to go ‘fight’ for this or that, or to get ‘angry’ over this bill or that, etc., and their ‘fighting words’ may be in the context of campaigning or delivering a speech, but if these public officials were held accountable for their incitements, they’d be answering for the violence of Antifa or Black Lives Matter or other disgruntled groups looking for excuses to riot, burn, loot, or pillage. Or they may be liable for the invasion of illegal aliens by unlawfully declaring their jurisdictions ‘sanctuaries.’ I’m not so sure that’s what they really want. It’s a case of being careful what they wish for…

Still, there has to be a limiting principle or principles to such immunity. What the inner and outer boundaries should be can be debated by people of good faith or quibbled over in courts, but the way the appellate courts have ruled so far on immunity in Trump’s cases will surely stifle the speech by future chief executives and sanitize their words to the extent they have virtually no meaning. Is that really the result we want? I think not…

Cheney’s Vendetta

THERE IS PLENTY OF FIRST HAND evidence that President Donald Trump did not in any way engage in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. There is now evidence that Liz Cheney and her biased, partisan House Jan. 6 Committee actually withheld key components of that evidence which, had it been known, would show much earlier this was the case, according to a recent report from Mollie Ziegler Hemingway, Editor-in-Chief at The Federalist. (More here.) Cheney has made ‘getting Trump’ her single-most important and unrelenting mission in life. 

Trump had always maintained he had suggested, but was blown off for asking that 10,000 National Guard troops protect the nation’s capital that fateful day. The denials came from then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, both hard core Democrats, as Trump has repeatedly maintained. It also has come out that Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller was intentionally slow in deploying assistance that afternoon, after the Capitol was breached. Yet Cheney denied having any evidence to these effects. She did. 

Cheney’s Committee falsely stated they had “no evidence” to support Trump’s claims, when, in fact, an early transcribed interview provided exactly such evidence and came from a key source. The interview was conducted by Cheney’s Committee, and she, herself, participated in it. She  suppressed not only the interview, but also any accurate characterization of the events. They haven’t been made public until now. 

The interview, under oath on 01/28/22, was with Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato, and it was transcribed. He testified he had heard White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows press Bowser to get as many National Guard troops as she wanted to protect the city and that Trump had suggested 10,000 would likely be needed to keep the peace among the public that day. Meadows was concerned about the large crowd size, as was Trump. Ornato also said the White House was frustrated with the slow deployment, after the fact, from Miller.  

The conversation about National Guard took place prior to the 6th and was centered on a concern that there could be clashes between Trump supporters and Antifa, the latter of which had shown itself to be violent that year in particular, along with other left-leaning groups. Of note is Ornato had been a career Secret Service official whose detail was security at the White House. 

Cheney simply didn’t make the information exonerating the president available, but instead, referred people to her Committee’s website, which posted less than a half of all the 1,000 or so interviews they say they conducted, including Ornato’s. The documents the website provides seem carefully culled to only advance the narrative desired by the Dems (and Cheney) to many, including Rep. Barry Loudermilk, Chairman of the House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight. His subcommittee is now reviewing the work of the Jan. 6 Committee to see if any unethical behavior occurred, including possible collusion with other Dems to prosecute/persecute their biggest political enemy.

It gets worse. Days prior to Jan. 6th, Cheney had “secretly orchestrated” a campaign to pressure the Department of Defense to not deploy troops or resources on Jan. 6th. She arranged for her father, Dick Cheney, and other former secretaries of defense to write an op-ed for The Washington Post discouraging Miller from taking any action. (No wonder the Dems were happy to have this RINO be their token Republican on the Committee!) 

And Ornato testified to Meadows’ major efforts to speed up the Defense Department’s reaction time in deploying the National Guard and how those efforts were repeatedly blown off.  It was excuse after excuse, he stated. This testimony was hidden by Cheney, who flat-out lied and claimed Trump never gave any order about the National Guard on Jan. 6th or any other day. (The Federalist article states it doesn’t appear that the National Guard deployment was intentionally delayed from the materials it has reviewed, but who knows?) 

Aside from The Federalist reports, it has also been reported that Cheney surreptitiously conspired with Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis to prosecute Republicans she viewed unfavorably and who might stymie her own political career. Willis has denied any such coordination, and it appears the ethics committee of her county isn’t going to pursue any charges against her, which is both surprising and disappointing. (It may be correct as a matter of law however; it claims to lack jurisdiction.) The question of the Jan. 6 Committee ‘coordinating’ with Willis is being examined further by the House Judiciary Committee. It could theoretically at least make a criminal referral if Willis lied, and it appears she may have done just that.

Of note, Ornato’s description of the events is corroborated by former Chief of Staff to the Acting Secretary of Defense, Kash Patel, when he recently testified in the Colorado Supreme Court case on Sec. 3 (insurrection clause) of the 14th Amendment which State officials claimed prohibited Trump from running for president again. (We saw the argument fall flat in the U.S. Supreme Court recently, but it is at least conceivable, and one would certainly hope, the Colorado court would’ve considered this new evidence if it hadn’t been improperly concealed.) 

Another noteworthy revelation is the Cassidy Hutchinson story about Trump ‘overcoming’ a Secret Service agent and commandeering his vehicle that day, which we know didn’t—or couldn’t have—happen. Hutchinson later claimed Ornato had been her source, which he vehemently denies, along with other Secret Service agents, as well as multiple eye witnesses. The preposterous story may have been told by Hutchinson to benefit her friend, Cheney. 

MAGA Republicans have generally held Cheney in low esteem, largely because of her America-last policy preferences, and certainly none thought she was a friend of the 45th president. But that she would be so intentionally malicious and hold such animus toward him is really unpardonable for someone who at one time claimed to be G.O.P.. 

Defund the F.B.I.!

DINESH D’SOUZA wrote a terrific op-ed for The Epoch Times where he argues “conservatives and Republicans [should] start thinking about getting rid of the F.B.I.”  Once a venerated agency, he argues, it is now “biased and partisan” in the administration of justice, which cannot stand in a republic where equal protection is the law of the land.

D;Souza then compares and contrasts with recent examples. Contrast how the F.B.I. handled the Jan. 6th protesters with how it treated Antifa and B.L.M. rioters. The former were arrested and treated like domestic terrorists held in jail for what amounted to no more than trespassing or entering a government facility without authorization. The latter group of B.L.M. and Antifa protesters was considered unimportant to the F.B.I.  This should really be reversed in an uncorrupted agency.

After all, in the first instance, the only person killed was Ashli Babbitt, an innocent civilian who was shot by Capitol Police even though she posed no danger to others. In the second instance, the rioters have looted businesses, burned churches and other buildings, assaulted police offices and others, and even killed for no reason. 

Second, D’Souza contrasts the raid on Rudy Giuliani and the lack of any apparent interest in N.Y. Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo. With Giuliani, the law that he allegedly broke was violation of the Foreign Agent Registration Act, a process crime.  Even if the F.B.I. had legitimate questions, Giuliani had volunteered to sit down with them and provide whatever information they needed. (He also offered them information he had about Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and his failure to register as a foreign agent while he was probably busy trafficking child porn and drugs while money laundering the Biden Crime Family’s loot from corrupt foreign actors.)

With Gov. Cuomo, who like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden (and probably his boss, Barack Obama), the big-D after his name inoculates him from investigation by the F.B.I. despite there being more compelling evidence Cuomo committed a federal crime than there is for Giuliani. The full scope of evidence against Cuomo in his sex scandals and nursing home cover-up may not be fully known now, but we do know that the F.B.I. appears to have also illegally surveilled Giuliani as they did others associated with 45th President Donald J. Trump.

D’Souza is right, to a point. Instead of ‘progressive’ howls to “defund the police,” we should defund the F.B.I. and start over from scratch. It is apparently too corrupt to remedy.  There just aren’t enough “conservatives and Republicans” to do it.

A Pillow Fight with Dominion

       

THE MY PILLOW GUY, Mike Lindell, plans to countersue Dominion Voting Systems after the company announced in late February they were suing him (and others) for $1.3 billion, ostensibly for defamation. My Pillow will counter sue, too, Lindell told Steve Bannon’s War Room on Tuesday. At the time of Dominion’s original threat to sue, Lindell responded that he welcomed it as it would enable him to use the discovery process to get the real scoop on how voting machines were exploited to ensure a fraudulent Biden victory in several key states (or words to that effect.)

“…[W]hat Dominion did is violate the rights of everyone in this country by using bullying lawsuits and RICO law. Basically what they’re saying to news outlets is, ‘If you let this guy on we’re going to sue you!’ That’s racketeering. That goes back to the mafia days,” Lindell explained on the War Room.

Apparently Lindell has retained constitutional law Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz to undertake what Lindell states Dershowitz called “one of the biggest cases for free speech in history.” If, indeed, Dershowitz is on board with this, and he very well may be, he is an excellent choice as counsel. He has liberal bona fides and credibility in both academia and the judiciary. It’s never good if your lawyer himself is controversial, and Dershowitz is not. Evidence produced at trial could be a true revelation. Bring it on!

Bannon has suggested Lindell might run for governor of Minnesota. The Black Lives Matter, Antifa, Defund the Police rabble in the Land of 10,000 Lakes from this summer don’t deserve Lindell, though he could perhaps win.

Minnesota should be so blessed.

Is Our Town Hall Idiot Tone-Deaf and Willfully Blind…or Senile?

THE 78-YEAR-OLD puppet-in-chief, Joe Biden, is dangerous. He’s making mistakes on the international stage that isn’t earning him good reviews, and here at home, he is embarrassing himself with his senility. 

For example, he held a Town Hall on CNN with host Anderson Cooper on Tuesday. It was likely meant to update the non-deplorables who voted for him on his progress in the “green new deal,” open borders, amnesty, racial reparations, student debt cancellation, universal income and health care, and other items on their bucket list of undeserved but demanded ‘entitlements.’  

None of this is good news for anyone with a modicum of common sense, but with the demented mind of Joe Biden, one can’t even begin to understand what he’s saying. Here are some highlights:

1. When talking about ‘racial disparities’ in Covid vaccinations, he said, in typical racially-insensitive Biden-speak, “A lot of people don’t know how to register. Not everybody in the community, in the Hispanic and the African-American community, particularly in rural areas that are distant and/ or inner-city districts know how to use, know how to get online to determine how to get in line for that Covid vaccination at the Walgreens.” 
2. When discussing an ongoing genocide of Uighurs by China, the C.C.P. puppet excused Chinese President Xi Jinping’s dictatorship by claiming these acts were good for a “united, tightly controlled China” and a “cultural difference.” 
3. When musing about children, he said, “Everybody knows I like kids better than people,” which is kind of creepy given his excess familiarity with young girls and sniffing people’s hair. 
4. When explaining the status of Covid vaccinations, he said, “It’s one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn’t have when we came into office, but a vaccinator.” This is flat-out, fact-check-false, as two companies, Moderna and Pfizer, had not only developed vaccines, but Biden had received both doses: one on 12/14/20 and a second on 12/22/20. ..a month before he was installed.
5. When answering Cooper’s gushing question about what it’s like in the White House, the C.C.P. puppet said, seriously, “I get up in the morning, look at Jill, and say ‘Where the hell are we?’” With anyone else, we’d assume it was awe at his fate, but with Biden, we realize he’s seriously confused.
6. In recognizing “white supremacy,” Biden named it “the greatest threat to terror in America: domestic terror,” which is preposterous, especially in light of rioting, vandalism, looting, assaulting, and killing by Antifa or B.L.M.

Biden needs to go back to hiding out in his basement.

In Which Congress Has a Collective Bitch Session…

DAY TWO of the bogus ‘impeachment’ trial of the 45th President of the United States began and ran late today, with House managers (prosecutors) presenting their case, absent an actual judge, in a kangaroo court, where it doesn’t really matter. Here, the acting judge will return to the juror box and vote with his colleagues. (If this were a real impeachment, Chief Justice John Roberts would be presiding, but he refused, surely realizing this was a completely unconstitutional exercise in futility and insanity.)

A bunch of privileged crybabies, the Congress-critters whined about Orange Man Bad and emoted about how threatening he was to their safety and the nation’s in what was tantamount to a collective bitch session. They played videos, taking words and acts out of context. Most remarkable were the double standards.

Never once did Trump talk about how he’d like to take Joe Biden “behind the gym” and beat the crap out of him, as Biden did about Trump — with impunity. Never once did Trump talk about taking Maxine Waters “out,” like she did about him — with impunity. Never once did Trump threaten Supreme Court justices by saying they’d “pay the price,” as Chuck Schumer did to Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Never once did Trump call law enforcement a bunch of “stormtroopers” like Nancy Pelosi did this summer when cops were being ‘defunded’ while trying to protect cities against Antifa and Black Lives Matter from being plundered and burnt. 

And why is it Stacey Abrams can say her election was “stolen” and refuse to concede with impunity when Trump can’t? And why can a ‘Bernie Bro’ shoot Rep. Steve Scalise and others, without Sanders being held responsible as Trump is for someone whose manner of death isn’t yet investigated, but is blamed on someone who may or may not have been a Trump supporter, and may not have even voted?

Because this was a ‘snap impeachment,’ the House is running its collective mouths off in a conclusory fashion, without evidence to back up their assertions. This is apparent when there is more ‘testimony’ about how Trump pre-planned everything, organizing his supporters well in advance to strike, and encouraging them all to be ready, willing, and able to fight on that fateful day than there is about Trump’s alleged ‘incitement.’

In fact, the ‘case’ sounds more like a conspiracy than incitement. These are temporally inconsistent theories — conspiracies require preparation, unlike incitement.

The drama continues tomorrow.

Let Her Eat Crow

NANCY PELOSI is herself “deranged, unhinged, dangerous,” as she claimed President Trump to be in her crazed interview with Lesley Stahl on the ancient CBS ‘newsmagazine,’ 60 Minutes recently. Pelosi’s only goal is to maintain her standard of living, including but not limited to a $20,000 freezer loaded with various varieties of $12 per pint ice creams and exotic dark chocolates. Towards that end, she has made it her obsession to destroy the duly-elected President of the United States Donald Trump by whatever means necessary.

After it didn’t work in its first iteration, she reimagined an Impeachment 2.0 against the poor man. The article of impeachment claimed he incited insurrection at his Saving America rally in Washington, D.C. on January 6th after protesters trespassed into the Capitol. The article was rushed before all, or even any of the facts were in and evaluated. 

We now know a lot more. We know through the F.B.I. and others that Antifa and Black Lives Matter activists participated in the breach. It has been widely reported that one John Sullivan was arrested and released against the wishes of prosecutors. It turns out, his brother James agreed to work with the F.B.I. and turned his brother and about 226 other Antifa members in for their acts. It is also clear that the rioting was openly planned in advance of the president’s speech and the breach carried out before he had even finished speaking. The breach and subsequent “snap impeachment” was a false flag orchestrated to divert attention from some damaging declassified documents, especially relating to Russiagate, that were expected to be released imminently, according to investigative journalist Paul Sperry. 

We also know the Capitol Police had advance notice of the attack, provided by the F.B.I. days before. The Congressional Sgt.-at-arms, who reports directly to Pelosi, was then notified. The Capitol Police also asked numerous times for a National Guard presence, which was denied by Pelosi and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D). More is coming to light that supports Democrat complicity in events that day that the president was foolishly impeached for. When impeachments become de rigueur in the future, we know to blame Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Adam Schiff.

Of note is the fact that the Article of Impeachment, voted and approved on before Christmas, has yet to be forwarded to the Senate. And perhaps it never will.

Declassify, Declassify, Declassify! Wash, Rinse, Repeat!

THE EMBITTERED, vengeful, and out-of-touch former First Lady and failed Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, could’ve been Madam President in 2016 had the Democrat instruction manual on election fraud been followed as closely as in was in 2020. We now know she didn’t campaign much because she didn’t think she had to because they had her covered. While we endured the constant stress of our president being under siege for four years by the wrathful party, at least he tried to expose and weed out some of the most pernicious ones.

Now, with the emergence of the illegitimate puppet-elect, Joe Biden, Clinton believes she has free rein to insult Americans with impunity once again. Clinton got the space in The Washington Post editorial pages to say, “Trump should be impeached. But that alone won’t remove white supremacy from America.” She crawled out of her den to call for the tracking and censorship of Trump supporters. And is trying to make him toxic and unmentionable. She was quick to exploit mass hysteria with the events at the Capitol last week, which very possibly were provoked by Black Lives Matter and/or Antifa false flags. This all shows the authoritarian or totalitarian tendencies which are innate in this vile woman. This racial division and tyranny couched as social justice and ‘wokeness’ may play to the Deep State players, bought and paid for by China or some other adversaries, but maybe there will be reckoning someday. What can be bought can be sold (out.) 

Regrettably, Trump waved the white flag early in his presidency when he told “60 Minutes,” a self-styled TV newsmagazine, “I don’t want to hurt them [the Clintons], I don’t want to hurt them. They’re, they’re good people.” Trump should’ve been more aggressive in demanding she be investigated and prosecuted. Since he wasn’t, though, before he leaves office, he needs to declassify any and all materials relevant to the Clinton inquiries, even if they are embarrassing or worse.

If he  doesn’t, he has no one to blame for injustice but himself. If he doesn’t, he will have lost credibility as a slayer of the Deep State. 

Even Rudy Giuliani urged Trump to do so. Giuliani speculated on “Steve Bannon’s War Room”: “What it contains is embarrassing information that will demonstrate that the prior administration engaged in, again I say, fascist tactics in order to prevent Trump from being president. And then in order to remove the rightfully elected president of the United States by clearly unlawful means.” 

What Happened at the Capitol on Wednesday…

IF YOU LISTENED to breathless, excited accounts in the mainstream media of what happened at the Capitol on the night of Wednesday, January 6th, you’d be mistakenly lead to believe that the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, lead thousands of ‘lone wolf’ racist right-wing extremist, conspiracy-theorist, domestic terrorists to the site and then incited them in an act of sedition to riot and shoot innocent bystanders indiscriminately in an attempted coup d’etat.  But it’s just a stone’s throw from 2020, the year when fake news was perfected to a level that would even impress George Orwell…

It was destined to be a big event anyway, because it was when Vice President Mike Pence was to lead a Joint Session of Congress to count the electoral votes to either accept or reject them. The President was to appear at a Save America rally at the Ellipse during the count and give a speech, presumably his last before turning over the reins to the Dog-Faced Pony Soldier, Joe Biden. All that happened, and more… 

By mid-day, the area was inundated with people. Estimates varied. Anti-Trump sources said simply there were many thousands, pro-Trump sources claimed the crowd exceeded a million, and the truth was probably in the middle at well over a half-a-million.

The live crowd, just some donning masks, and the remote audiences online, perhaps with Right Side Broadcasting Network, or watching television, probably Newsmax, waited patiently for the president to appear, listening politely to his adult sons and Rudy Giuliani as the warm-up acts. The masses erupted with excitement when the president arrived and gave a characteristically rambling but inspiring and patriotic speech. Trump said he held out hope his vice president would demand Congress reject the electoral votes of the contested states, pointing out the obvious fact that the elections in at least some of those states were rigged. It was just like any other Trump rally, except a little bigger… 

After describing for the crowd any of a number of the means by which the election was rigged, Trump suggested they walk towards the Capitol where Congress and Pence were assembled for the Joint Session to let them know they were there. Many did. Trump was obviously safeguarded in a secure vehicle en route. A little while later, the crowd began showing up outside the Capitol. The accounts were largely short videos people took on their phones and posted to Twitter or Facebook. Some had gone up the outside stairs. Then a few scaled the outside of the building. And a few managed to obtain access to the inside…

Interestingly, the people who went inside walked through Statuary Hall. They were almost solemn and stayed within the roped boundaries. They walked single-file without disturbing anything, most notably the statues, which were of the ilk that ‘triggered’ so many Antifa and B.L.M. rioters over the summer, provoking them to knock them over and break them. Those they hadn’t destroyed, they demanded be taken down by the government which, remarkably, some states obliged back then…

The Joint Session of Congress was underway at the time of the Capitol security breach. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was reportedly requesting a ten-day extension to conduct an investigation into the numerous voting irregularities or anomalies just to make sure everyone really wanted the votes to stand. It had also been fairly widely reported that there was at least one senator and one congressman prepared to object to the certification of the electoral votes sent by at least four of the contested states, which would at least result in a statutorily mandated internal debate on the matter before a final vote, where a simple majority could then certify it. Neither were totally satisfactory to those who voted for President Trump or cared about election integrity, but it was better than nothing… 

And nothing was about as much good as his vice president would be for Trump. Earlier, Pence had issued a written statement to Congress (worth the read here) saying, essentially, he saw his role as President of the Senate to be more ministerial than anything, and he would therefore limit himself to just counting votes…

Pence is likely right. He had supposedly checked with a number of constitutional scholars in reaching his conclusion. Yet there is not much if anything in terms of precedent. That debate needs to occur beyond these particular pages, but a reasonable and good faith argument could be made that his was clearly not simply a ministerial role for a vice president/president of the senate: otherwise, why couldn’t another competent person of good character do the counting? (The qualifications to count votes at the state level certainly aren’t high!) If that were so, it could be implied they have some discretion…

In any event, given precedent so lacking, there was seemingly no reason Pence couldn’t have spoken, for the record, about the particularly challenging election and how he endorsed the Cruz 10-day extension to allow time to adhere to the terms and spirit of the Constitution. If President Trump felt betrayed, he didn’t wait for a kiss on the cheek by Brutus Pence before uninviting his chief of staff into the White House. For his part, Brutus followed up maturely by unfollowing his boss on Twitter…

Not that that mattered much. Before the day was over,  Trump would be banned on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram in varying insulting degrees. This purportedly had Trump scrambling to get a verified account on a newish social media platform that didn’t censor posts, especially conservative voices, called Gab. Gab needed to upgrade its servers to accommodate the anticipated volume though, according to rumor. Meanwhile, back in the rotunda…

Pence was standing on ceremony when Congress was about to vote on Arizona’s electors. Suddenly, the Capitol was on lockdown. It seems the Capitol police finally realized the building had been breached and that nothing good would come of it. Some sort of gas had been emitted, presumably for crowd control. Congressional personnel were told to lock down, though eventually they were able to evacuate using ‘escape hoods’ they are apparently supplied with in their offices. The situation got worse from there…

Then gunshots were heard in the House Chamber. Reports were someone was hit in the neck or in the head. Details were  sketchy for some time, but it was believed a woman who was shot had died. Ultimately, it was learned the woman was 35-year old Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran and Trump supporter. She had died rather quickly from a gunshot wound to her neck from a Capitol  police bullet. It all happened so quickly…     

Soon, the president took to Twitter (before being banned) to try to calm people down. When critics complained it wasn’t enough, he followed up with another. He then made a public statement to his supporters, saying, in effect, he understands their disappointment and pain over the stolen election, which he shares, but it was time to go home. “We have to have peace,” he said, “We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt.” By then, however, he had been banned on traditional social media, such as Twitter, where no one could reply, retweet, or even ‘like’ his message “due to a risk of violence.” This gagging of a president would also do Orwell proud: 

The hatred some have for this president is omnipresent. And it’s as intense as the adoration the other half has for him. Shutting off his means of communication is crucial to the goal of rendering him impotent. Interestingly, a Media Research Center study showed Trump was censored 65 times more than Biden by social media. And leaders of China and Iran were censored by them zero times, too…

The troublemakers had the markings of being part of a false flag operation. It was a high profile event where opponents wanted to change the narrative and had a huge motivation to do so with an excellent chance of not being discovered directly.  The innocent participants, nearly all of them, are sure to be treated worse than the B.L.M. and Antifa rioters from the summer. It’s unlikely we’ll know for sure for quite some time if this was, indeed, a false flag, if we ever do…

We  know that this was not the fault of the president, who his opponents were too quick to blame. Somehow, Dems couldn’t be blamed for B.L.M. “peaceful protester” thugs burning and looting, but the president can be blamed for some unnamed peaceful individuals engaging in political expression, and a few, in civil disobedience. The Capitol breach was a failure of law enforcement, even though there were multiple points in the area where I.D.s had to be shown and metal detectors were employed. These security measures were apparently deemed vital (if useless) there, but not at polling places. Suddenly, protesting is a serious charge where there are calls for imprisonment instead of a suspended fine.

A lot will be written about this day for sure: it’s all a little Shakespearean; a little Orwellian. And it’s not simply about Trump or Biden. It’s about voter/election fraud and disenfranchisement of roughly half the population. It’s about separation of powers and checks and balances. It’s about duty and loyalty. It’s about causation and attribution. It’s about responsibility and accountability in the public sector. It’s about censorship and disenfranchisement. It’s about hypocrisy and disingenuousness. It’s about life and death, political and otherwise. 

Dems’ attempts to “cancel” Trump and his supporters is a tremendous mistake, both in principle and practice. As Dems explained, B.L.M. and Antifa shot, burned, destroyed, looted, and ravaged because they felt marginalized and that everything had been stolen from them, so they had nothing to lose… Et tu, Brutus? 

UPDATE: Five people lost their lives; a Capitol police office in the line of duty, one by gunshot, and three from “medical emergencies.” Congress resumed later and accepted Arizona’s and other votes for Biden. The alternate slates of electors for Trump were all denied. Pennsylvania was debated only perfunctorily. The final vote was identical to the fraudulent count on election night: Biden 306, Trump 232. Trump was forever banned on Twitter.

F.U., Trump! I’d Rather Burn in Hell!

Riots. Threats. Vandalism. Arson. Explosions. Looting. Assaults. Shootings. Violence in a number of American cities continues unabated, presumably as planned. You see, there are people with a vested interest in having civil unrest and internal terrorism within the contiguous states so as to, they think, get Orange Man Bad out of White House Good. 

You might think it’s those pesky Russians, but Russians make better scapegoats than grizzly bears in the West today. There are instigators and provocateurs, such as the toxic George Soros and his well-financed Black Lives Matter and Antifa, but others are just puppets for an entitled and frightened political class here at home. One such example is Portland, OR’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, who, on Friday, released an open letter to the President telling him to, in essence, take his offer of help and shove it. The rude, factually-incorrect F.U. letter can be read here.

As he has with other hot spots, President Trump again offered the mayor help of federal law enforcement to help quell the violence engulfing the homes and businesses of innocent Portlanders. Wheeler seems to think it was a threat. Portland has been under siege by violent and destructive rioters for 94 nights and counting. Thus, Wheeler’s letter is nothing less than staggering.

Trump had sent federal law enforcement into Portland to secure federal buildings there, but left after assurances the property was secured. That turned out to be a false sense of security. Violence reemerged quickly.

Interestingly, but unsurprisingly, a number of the violent rioters seem to be from out-of-state. The latest unrest is in Kenosha, WI, which ultimately,  did take some help from Washington, D.C., but presidential hopeful Joe Biden was noticeably not talking about it at the convention.