Do we need FBI/IRS sanctuary states to protect us from Biden’s persecution? FL could lead the way.
The message of the Jan 6th trials is this: Leftists are allowed to violently riot and burn buildings to the ground across the country. Conservatives are not allowed to do anything. If we do, then we will be rounded up for “insurrection.” At least, that’s what they want us to believe so that we self censor and live in fear of ever protesting again. We are at an impasse. There is no compromise to be had and no agreements to be made. They want us gone, and now we want them gone because they want us gone. This is not going to change.
And apparently the judge has accepted the Justice Department redactions. So I’m not expecting much.
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A leopard cannot change its spots
Just discovered Reinhard had stuff to say about Trump back in 2017 on Facebook. The post obviously has now been removed. However, here is what Reinhard wrote back then:
“I generally ignore the President-elect’s tweets, but not this one,” said Reinhart. “John Lewis arguably has done more to “make America great” than any living citizen. Last August, I took my son to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma so he could understand the kind of courage and sacrifice required to live in a democratic society. John Lewis embodies that spirit. Although I’ve never met him, he is one of my heroes.”
“Thank you, Robert Reich, for saying what many of us feel, “John Lewis is the conscience of America. Donald Trump doesn’t have the moral stature to kiss John Lewis’s feet.”
“Or, as Joseph Welch said to Joseph McCarthy, “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
No bias there . . . . right!!
Reinhard is a woketard who detests Trump. That likely had everything to do with him approving the Mar-a-Lago raid in the first place. But wait. There is more:
Reinhart, who donated to the campaigns of Barack Obama and Jeb Bush, also shared a video from a page called “WokeFolks,” showing an instructor teaching teenagers about “racial privilege” by making them line up for a race in different starting positions based on the conditions of their birth and upbringing.
James O’Keefe and Project Veritas have been a thorn in the side of liberals for a number of years. Now the Democrat Justice Department is using its power to go after O’Keefe vigorously:
What annoys me to no end, as a rural Conservative person, is the stupidity of some people on my side. O’Keefe’s excellent organization, which has done some REALLY fine work, is located in The State of New York. And of course, for FAR too long, Trump also used New York State as his home base.
At least Trump finally got wise. Maybe after this, if he survives, O’Keefe will get the hell out of New York as well. Every New York based Conservative has a large bull’s eye on his or her back.
Rush Limbaugh realized this many years ago. What is taking the others so long?
This was an older article referenced recently, on how the US used to be a “high trust” society (when we shared a lot more in the way of homogeneous culture and values in the 1950s) and is becoming / has become a “low trust” society. And it was written in 2019 pre-pandemic and I’m sure trust in everything is way way down from then.
More Americans trusted the presidency a year after Watergate than do now.
we don’t just trust government less than we used to; we trust each other less too. In 1972, according to Pew, 46 percent of Americans agreed that “most of us can be trusted.” By 2015, even after a decadeslong decline in crime, that number had dipped to 31 percent. [and forget about that crime decline thanks to BLM now]
More broadly, low trust issues lead to corruption and big government, which is precisely what Biden is delivering on, as well as causing misallocation of resources and short sighted decisions both at the individual and governmental levels that leave everyone worse off.
If you want to see a low trust society, look at the third world.
The author proposes looking to more local government control, with better accountability, rather than more federal involvement.
This is Trump’s fault. He was two weeks late filing his request for a Special Master to oversee and go through all those documents!! TWO WEEKS!!
So now Garland has been able to review all of Trump’s supposedly confidential lawyer-client privilege docs. What a roadmap for the January sixth “committee”, and Garland as well! Trump thought he had two weeks to piddle around and pick his nose? What a jackass!!
I heard, from Conservative sources, about the need for a Special Master very shortly after the Mar-a-Lago raid. What was Trump doing for two weeks . . . . focusing on some ridiculous golf tournament in New Jersey?
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One other thing Trump, and his team, failed to do:
File a court action immediately following the raid to enjoin Garland from examining any of those documents until a court could rule on appointment of a Special Master.
What did Trump do instead:
He spouted forth with voluminous, and meaningless, social media blather . . . . his specialty.
With incompetent idiots like this leading our charge, America will be going full scale socialist in no time at all . . . . . . for lack of serious competition from Americans on the side of freedom and liberty.
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Being a city boy jackass, Trump probably never has learned what a poor idea it is to allow the fox to guard the henhouse!
Meanwhile, the NY Governor is channeling her inner Biden “you ain’t black” to tell all the state’s Republicans that they aren’t New Yorkers and they should leave the state. The Party of Unity strikes again.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, who hasn’t proven shy about issuing orders, had one for the state’s Republicans this week — all 5.4 million of them: “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?” she said. “You are not New Yorkers.”
I dont know, this feels like it could be calculated. Trump’s team knows what was in those files. And they know what a Special Master would’ve passed along to the Justice Department anyways. If they know there’s nothing material to keep out of their hands, why bother?
When Garland lashes out with info from those files, Trump’s response can now be to harp incessently on how they illegally obtained the information in the first place. Do things properly and timely, and they wouldnt have that excuse. And, this backdoor breach of priviledged attorney communications puts the info out in the open without Trump needing to affirmatively waive that priviledge. Details that could potentially help, while still allowing Trump to hide behind the priviledge shield.
I admit that it seems far to calculated and strategic for Trump, and it is most likely plain old carelessness. But I like to give the benefit of the doubt whenever possible.
There you have, in essence, the Justice Department’s argument before the judge. They are asserting no unbiased, third party, Special Master is needed because they themselves have already performed the task of sorting through the Mar-a-Lago documents.
Anybody who believes this, especially after two plus years of Trump-Russia hoax, is either insane or hopelessly stupid.
I hope the judge is smart enough to support Trump’s, albeit horribly belated, request for a Special Master. The overwhelming anti-Trump bias at the wildly politicized Justice Department, and at the top of the FBI, is self-evidently undeserving of any trust whatsoever!!
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One down. Many, many more to go
He’s finally out. Big whoop. Biden still is POTUS. The damage to traditional America goes on apace. That is all that matters to the socialists. The election rigging worked just fine.
Might this be exactly what Trump is banking on? He doesnt need a fair process, he needs the perception of an unfair process. It’s what he’s thrived on since day one.
I had one hellish difficulty researching the name of the guy the FBI just booted. It’s because a lot of my information comes in via audio, not on the net. Obviously I Googled but kept coming up with information on Tim Tebow, the athlete. Clearly Tebow is unrelated to this situation. Finally:
The guy’s name is Timothy Thibault. He is a career FBI guy and Trump hater. He just got “perp walked” out of FBI headquarters. Now here are the two parts to this:
First, I was right when I castigated Trump over wanting a redo on the 2020 election. This even though now, with a kind assist from Facebook’s Zuck, we know of Thibault’s filthy, nefarious, yet critical role in the Hunter cover up which almost certainly impacted the 2020 election outcome. That is history today.
But here is what I missed, and this is easy to miss because it is only just now emerging and of course the mainstream media would NEVER cover this:
He was the mastermind behind the affidavit to raid Mar-a-Lago.
He has longtime connections to the Clintons and the Obamas.
If this turns out to be confirmed, the Thibault malfeasance moves from history right into the present. This guy is obviously a VERY bad actor. And my criticism of Trump for going after him could be in error.
Also, to the extent Garland and Wray relied on this skunk, as the article details, regarding Mar-a-Lago, they might be less to blame than I originally was thinking. This is unclear right now.
Bottom line, Thibault should never have occupied in the first place the position he did. His firing was entirely appropriate . . . . but it came YEARS too late.
I know around these parts sources such as this are considered the equivalent to biblical text, but for those of you who don’t drink that kool aid…The Gateway Pundit is an American far-right fake news website. The website is known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories.
Interesting that Wikipedia’s political editors get to declare not just the political leaning (which isn’t too controversial), but that they’re “fake news”. They would beg to differ, calling out various MSM hoaxes and falsehoods.
Instead of an ad hominem attack, you could have done a 30 second search to verify the story is also carried by left-wing news media.
Timothy Thibault, a top-level FBI agent who had been under fire for his role in investigations regarding President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, resigned late last week and was walked out of the FBI, two U.S. officials confirmed.
It wasn’t the fact that he has been under criticism and now retiring, it was the allegations from GP that were overtly bolded in the original post - He was the mastermind behind the affidavit to raid Mar-a-Lago. He has longtime connections to the Clintons and the Obamas.
