The drip-drip of evidence that the 2020 election was corrupted by fraud in at least six states is doing nothing to slow the Democrat-media machine from spewing endless stories that explain why Donald Trump should be indicted and sent to prison. This suggests the left's growing alarm about the upcoming midterm elections, and even more alarm about the possibility of Trump's rising like a phoenix in 2024.
All that's required to understand the panic is to read the New York Times, something we recommend only on the condition that you don't reward these serial liars by purchasing their product. And only with the understanding that nothing it publishes is believable, excepting perhaps the food section and crossword puzzles.
Last Sunday a page 1 Times story repeated a monotonous refrain: The walls are closing in on Donald Trump. The implication is that it's just a matter of time before Donald Trump is rousted from bed at 5 a.m. and shackled in leg irons, à la Peter Navarro and Roger Stone.
Here is the lede paragraph:
“The criminal investigation into efforts by former President Donald J. Trump and his allies to overturn his election loss in Georgia has begun to entangle, in one way or another, an expanding assemblage of characters.”
Later, “. . .the local Georgia prosecutor has been pursuing a quickening case that could pose the most immediate legal peril for the former president and his associates.”
Notice the key words for Internet surfers: criminal investigation, expanding assemblage, overturn his election loss, entangle, characters, immediate legal peril.
To afford this story any credibility, the reader must accept the Times premise that Trump lost Georgia. We don't accept the premise. More on that below.
Who are these entanglers? Fran T. Willis, the highly-partisan district attorney of Atlanta-area Fulton County – Georgia's most Democrat-infested county – is leading the campaign to imprison Trump. Her list of entanglers includes such nefarious characters as a car dealer (what can be lower except for a Member of Congress?), a high school economics teacher, and various varieties of Republican activist lowlifes known to law enforcement. They conspired to steal the election from Joe Biden by daring to question the vote-counting process.
(This week, Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland assured Lester Holt on NBC that Trump's federal indictment is certainly possible.)
Willis says her aim is to build “a framework for a broad case that could target multiple defendants with charges of conspiracy to commit election fraud or racketeering-related charges for engaging in a coordinated scheme to undermine the election.”
In other words, people must be prosecuted who contest Georgia's caught-on-video drop-box stuffing, mail-in voting fraud, and late-night counting of ballots after Republican poll watchers had been sent home.
The Times says she's bringing these charges because states have more flexibility than the federal government in pursuing crimes against the state's political enemies. What she means here is that it will be easier to convict Trump with an all-Democrat jury in Fulton County than with an all-Democrat jury in the D.C. federal court.
The sum total of DA Willis' “evidence” is that President Trump urged Georgia's hapless secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to look closer at the vote totals to see if some were overlooked. Working on behalf of the Biden administration, Willis takes this to mean that Trump “ordered” Raffensperger to find more Republican votes.
It was hardly an unreasonable request from one elected Republican officeholder to another. Ultimately, Georgia election officials would claim that Biden won by 11,779 votes, a margin of 23/100th of 1 percentage point. As late as Nov. 13, 2020, CBS News reported Biden's lead at only 1,585 votes.
In today's civics lesson, we note that Georgia's secretary of state is a sovereign official, elected by the voters, answerable only to them. He can and did ignore Trump's request, going to the absurd extreme of claiming there was no election fraud in Georgia.
In supporting the claim that Biden won Georgia, never-Trumpers Raffensperger and GOP Gov. Brian Kemp argued that repeated recounts showed almost the same results. Of course they did. When you count the same votes over and over, eventually you will get the same results. But these recounts never excluded bogus manufactured ballots that got stuffed into the ballot box.
The local CBS affiliate reported a video shown to a Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee hearing of “people taking out at least four boxes of ballots from underneath a table, and then counting them after hours with no election supervisors present.” It was about this time, as documented in the video timestamp, that Biden began to receive “a huge spike in numbers from Fulton County,” explained in Mollie Hemingway's Rigged.
“Democrats knew that the video looked absolutely awful,” Hemingway writes. “In came liberal media to tell people not to believe their lying eyes – there was no problematic behavior in the suspicious footage.”
Hemingway lays out what really happened in Fulton County in 27 pages of exhaustively-researched details, supported by 76 footnotes.
One sad if relatively minor part of this story is that Raffensperger won his re-election primary, leaving conservatives to wonder what difference it makes who wins the seat in November.
Short takes on the news
Biden's nominee for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is a leftist activist who wants to abolish prisons and defund the police, Bob Unruh writes at USSA News. Roopali Desai is not a current judge but serves on the board of Just Communities Arizona, which Unruh describes as an “abolishment organization” that prefers “a world in which prisons and jails are unnecessary. She has worked with Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and partnered with teacher unions to indoctrinate schoolchildren in Critical Race Theory”. . .
Biden's chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers says the administration is pleased with the progress of the economic slowdown it has created. “We are already seeing signs that the Federal Reserve’s monetary policymaking is starting to slow down the economy. So far it’s been in that gentle way that we would hope,” Cecelia Rouse said in an MSNBC interview. A key part of the Biden policy is to make gasoline unaffordable, driving people to buy even more unaffordable electric cars. . .
Armed with data from the Crime Prevention Research Center on mass shootings since 1950, a Gun Owners of America rep says 94 percent occur in gun-free zones, places like schools where ordinary citizens can't have weapons. Shooters feel more immune from armed retaliation, Antonia Okafor told a congressional committee looking into ways to punish gun manufacturers. . .
Great strides in career preparation. The University of Kansas history department introduces a course in “Angry White Male Studies.” Why reading the course description is important before enrolling: “Employing interdisciplinary perspectives, this course examines how both dominant and subordinate masculinities are represented and experienced in cultures undergoing periods of rapid change connected to modernity as well as to rights-based movements of women, people of color, homosexuals and trans individuals.” (We corrected UK’s bad punctuation so that you might actually understand this, if that is possible.) – from a story at Campus Reform.
An Obama-appointed federal judge ruled that a 10-year-old boy must be allowed to play on the girls softball team at his public school in Indianapolis, a pro-homosexual website owned by The Hill reports.
The unidentified boy suffers from sexual dysphoria, believing he is a girl. The judge, Jane Magnus-Stinson, said Indiana's H.B. 1041 law, requiring children to play on the sports teams of their birth, violates Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb vetoed the bill in March. The Indiana General Assembly overrode his veto. The conservative news aggregator Revolver News calls the judge “crazed.”
Recommended reading
“Girl(ie) Power on Display”
Bob Maistros at Issues & Insights
If Peggy Noonan writes something positive about you, it's a safe bet you aren't an American Firster. Not that any description of Cassidy Hutchinson needs clarification. Duped into telling a knee-slapper to the January 6 kangaroo court, Cassidy wants you to believe that President Trump's pretzel arms allowed him to almost wrestle control of the presidential SUV in his failed attempt to overthrow the government of the United States.
Maistros' piece starts out hilarious, picks up steam and delivers what we writers want most: a serious message told in an entertaining style. He begins:
“Peggy Noonan did pundits everywhere a colossal favor in her July 4 weekend Wall Street Journal column: made it safe again to talk about things women do because they are women.” That's just the warmup graf.
Noting Peggy's observation that Cassidy took notes in her low-level White House job instead of strutting around like somebody important, Maistros reminds readers that “her job was pretty much exactly to take notes.”
Excerpt: “Ah, the 'patriarchy.' Those privileged but inferior males who only won America’s independence; freed slaves; defeated imperialism, fascism and communism (until the all-female “Squad” reawakened the discredited doctrine of socialism); landed a man on the moon; invented just about everything worthwhile; and instilled the quintessential American work ethic. All without a Chief Diversity Officer in sight.”
Noonan, a Never-Trump establishment Republican, says it took “guts” for Cassidy to rat out the president.
Indeed, Maistros replies. “If you think 'guts' means seeing those men and their allies denounced as 'corrupt' in prime-time hearings; harassed with subpoenas; having property illegally confiscated; rousted outside in underwear in a 'Stasi-like' raid; and clapped in cuffs on a flight. And then turning tail to tattle on the bosses who offered such 'power and prestige,' and thereby win mainstream media plaudits and warm hugs from Liz Cheney.”
“Chauvin Guilty Verdict Completes the Total Collapse of Law, Order, and Due Process in Biden's America”
Revolver News
“I want to thank the jury for their service, for doing what was right and decent and correct and speaking truth and finding the right verdict in this case,” Prosecutor Steve Schleicher said right after the jury found former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty on two counts of murder.
The only problem is that Chauvin didn't murder anybody. Think about this: Would it make any sense for a police officer to intentionally kill someone under his control knowing the consequences? Chauvin may have used poor judgment, though his defense argued that he was following department procedure in controlling this very strong, violent felon who was fatally high on fentanyl. Murder requires intent.
The only reason we can find for a book not yet written on Chauvin's Inquisition-style trial, conviction, and punishment is that no publisher will touch it. The denial of his constitutional rights, however, is indisputable, and this unsigned article lays out the details. In fact, we know of only one omission, that of a juror who announced before the trial that she was planning to find him guilty.
Unless an appeals court fairly hears this case and doesn't cave to high-pressure bullying by the press and BLM anarchists, Chaivin's life is ruined. Unfortunately for him, and for justice everywhere, prisoners, convicted rightly or wrongly, tend to be forgotten once they are hauled off to prison.
Also recommended
“'Nixonian' Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”
Vincent McCaffrey at American Greatness
Lessons in competency
Our lede story last week on election fraud in Wisconsin included the following paragraph:
The commission wanted election workers to “correct” errors without contacting the voter. Lawmakers saw this as an opportunity for ballot tampering. Perhaps they secretly wondered if people too competent to fill out a simple form have any business voting in the first place.
That should have read incompetent. As published, the paragraph made no sense, and we didn't catch the error before posting. (We did correct the website version.) The story didn't say anything about the competence to detect and correct typographical errors before pushing the non retractable Publish button.
With some trepidation, we think we got it right this time. Reminds me of a story I have told before, about a newspaper correction that ran something like this:
“Our story incorrectly identified Mr. Huffington as a defective on the police force. Mr. Huffington is, of course, a detective on the police farce.”
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