Revenge of the SCOTUS reject
McCarthy's advice to Garland: Preserve your documents, clear your calendar
The Friday Letter / #505 / Aug. 12, 2022Shortly after news broke that the FBI had raided President Trump's home, one of my sons told me he's changed his mind on 2024. Previously of the mind that Trump is too radioactive to be on the ticket despite his undeniable accomplishments, he now stands fully behind the Trumpster.
That was shortly after the story broke on Monday. Since then, we are hearing a growing chorus of outrage from across the political spectrum, including from Andrew Cuomo. And we are hearing from the few remaining principled Democrats: Tulsi Gabbard, Alan Dershowitz, Jonathan Turley. The rest of the Democrat machine is sticking to the company line, best expressed by Obama political operative David Axelrod, who argues that DOJ wouldn't come after Trump unless it had the goods on him.
Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray are putting the finishing touches on the Democrats' generation-long campaign to turn the federal bureaucracy into their enforcement arm. Clinton got things rolling when he used the IRS to punish the Party's political enemies. (Nixon tried but was rebuffed.)
We are witnessing America's decline into a banana republic that governs by fiat and exacts punishment through the tyranny of intimidation.
“Only the most totalitarian regimes can bust down the door of a former president’s home and have the entire Democrat Party, the propaganda press, and those amplified most on Twitter cheering them on,” Jordan Boyd wrote Tuesday at The Federalist.
We can't be the only ones who suspect that Wray has fouled his own nest. Constitutional conservatives – not to be confused with Republican and Democrat Uniparty members – have been calling for Garland's impeachment when Republicans retake control of the House. That resolution should be introduced in the same hour as that to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The FBI raid was an unvarnished, desperate attempt to insure that Trump isn't the 2024 nominee. It wouldn't be difficult for Garland to get an all-Democrat grand jury in the D.C. Circuit to return an indictment, even less of a hurdle to get an all-Democrat, mostly black jury to convict, and a Democrat judge to sentence him to prison, if that is the route Garland chooses.
If that happens, we may be looking at all-out civil war, but this time it won't be a harmless goofball (41 months in federal prison) parading around the Capitol in Viking horns. And this time, when a rouge Capitol Police jackboot takes aim at a patriot, he might get some return fire, unlike when Lt. Michael Byrd murdered unarmed Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6.
It's not too early to conclude that Wray and Garland have pushed too far. In the meantime, the small and shrinking honest press should be asking who ordered the raid. Was it Garland himself, or one of the Biden handlers, someone like John Kerry, Susan Rice, Barack Obama, or Ron Klain? By now in this 18-month-old administration, we should know who is pulling the puppet strings. It's a sad commentary on the news media that we have to speculate.
Elected Democrats and their media partners were ecstatic. Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, chairman of the House Progressive Caucus, said the raid is a step toward accountability.
“That's what happens when you break the law, try to steal an election, and incite a deadly insurrection,” she tweeted. “Donald Trump should be in jail. I'm glad to see the FBI taking steps towards accountability.”
What we have learned is that the warrant was signed by a partisan Democrat corrupt federal magistrate called Bruce Reinhart, a former assistant U.S. Attorney whose office was investigating Jeffrey Epstein. He began defending Epstein and some of Epstein's employees just one day after leaving his job at the U.S. Attorney's Office on Jan. 1, 2008, the Miami Herald reported.
In 2011 Reinhart was sued for violating Justice Department rules “by switching sides, implying that he leveraged inside information about Epstein's investigation to curry favor with Epstein,” the Herald reported.
The National Pulse reported that Reinhart donated to Obama and to Trump's establishment opponents in the 2016 election. In 2017 he attacked Trump on his personal Facebook page.
According to press reports, the warrant was limited to the search for 15 boxes of documents that Trump removed to his Mar-a-Lago estate when he left office. They were locked in a storage room, and the raid should have been confined to that room.
The 30 FBI agents went much further, rummaging through Melania's wardrobe and cracking Trump's safe. One source said the agents spent about nine hours in the home and went through every room.
Non-legacy media also reported that Trump's lawyers were not allowed to witness that ransacking, and that the Secret Service was not informed of the raid until minutes before it began. Trump was not in residence.
Not allowing Trump's lawyers or the Secret Service to witness the ransacking only fuels speculation that our country's most corrupt institution could plant evidence.
Speculation on the FBI and Justice Department's strategy is running wild. At The Federalist, Jordan Boyd quotes media and government sources who admit the goal is to goad conservatives into violence.
“I’ve seen enough,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said. “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization. When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned. Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.”
Prof. Dershowitz makes a compelling argument for our rule of law. In his outrage over the raid, he said on the Just the News television program that “I'm a liberal Democrat. I voted for Biden. I'm not going to vote for Trump if he runs for re-election. I want to have the right to vote against him. I don't want to see bureaucrats deny me that right to vote against him. That's what democracy is. And this is part of an attempt to try to get him disqualified from running.”
A final note on this. When will the dutiful Fox News mouthpieces stop accentuating every comment about the FBI with the tired cliché that the overwhelming majority of agents are hardworking, honest, law-abiding patriots? Does that include the 30 goons who ransacked Trump's private residence? The ones who refused to show Trump's lawyers the warrant and barred them from the premises? Wouldn't a hardworking, honest, law-abiding patriot resign in protest rather than take part in this lawless abomination?
Republicans who voted to confirm Garland
All Democrat Senators and 20 Uniparty Republicans voted to confirm renegade Attorney General Merrick Garland. They are:
Blunt, Burr, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cornyn, Ernst, Graham, Grassley, Inhofe, Johnson, Lankford, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Portman, Romney, Rounds, Thune, and Tillis.
Only Murkowski is up for re-election and is challenged in the Republican primary. Blunt, Burr, Portman, and Tillis are thankfully retiring.
Garland may think he's gotten the last laugh in sending 30 FBI goons to trash President Trump's private home. We'll see.
Short takes on the news
Buried Stories Department. Did the media ignore this story, or did we just miss it? In Baltimore, whose homicide rate is 8 1/2 times is higher than San Francisco’s, Democrat primary voters last month threw out Soros-controlled pro-crime prosecutor Marylin Mosby. See more of this report by Maurice Richards at American Greatness. . .
Our secret correspondent tells us FBI stands for Fascism By Incumbent. . .
Biden's 87,000 new IRS agents will join the National Treasury Employees Union, which gives 100 percent of its political donations to Democrats and whose members spent 353,820 hours in 2019 campaigning for Democrats during their taxpayer-paid working hours, in violation of the Hatch Act. Funded by the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, the new agents will go after middle and lower-income taxpayers in an expanded audit program. – from a story at The Federalist. . .
The polling organization Race to the White House gives Brian Kemp a 69 percent chance of winning re-election against Democrat Stacey Abrams and a 49-44.5% lead in polling. Trump could take the high road here and endorse the governor, who to this day foolishly claims there was no voter fraud in Georgia's 2020 election. Trump could bury the hatchet and shore up support from the most skeptical conservatives, who might otherwise find a scheduling conflict on Election Day. Enthusiasm from Trump would also benefit Certified Good Guy Herschel Walker, challenging incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock, a far-left racial bigot, for the U.S. Senate.
Quote for today
“Our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July.” – Joe Biden, in a speech following release of the Consumer Price Index for July reporting inflation at an 8.5% annual rate.
Recommended reading
“Republicans Have No Idea What Time It Is”
Shawn Fleetwood at The Federalist
“Following the FBI's raid of Trump,” The Federalist subhed reads, “congressional Republicans are doing what they always do: issuing meaningless statements.”
Some but not all of the Senate's Uniparty Republicans are retiring this year, and with luck, Lisa Murkowski will be involuntarily separated in her upcoming Alaska primary election. That will help but won't be enough if the country is to survive. Even if Republicans take control of the Senate, they will be stuck with weak, corrupt leadership in Mitch McConnell and too many lilly-livered Republicans who continue to fantasize that they can work with Democrats. (John Cornyn, Tim Scott, and John Barrasso, are you listening?)
In his piece at The Federalist this week, Fleetwood says Republican reaction to the FBI raid and ransacking at Mar-a-Lago was tepid, ineffective, and clueless.
“Taken collectively, the lackluster reaction from Republicans demonstrates once again that the party still doesn’t grasp the moment we’re living in,” Fleetwood says. “This isn’t 1990s politics anymore. The days of 'bipartisanship' and 'reaching across the aisle' are long behind us.”
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