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Amazing.

With a clear display of exactly what’s wrong with the Washington Establishment “swamp”, over 200 people — in thoroughly and tellingly bipartisan fashion — have affixed their names to what they call “An Open Letter Opposing White House Retaliatory Investigations.”

Among other things, the Open Letter says the following:

We write with grave concern about the two presidential memoranda dated April 9, 2025, targeting Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor, respectively — two former national security officials who served the people of the United States. These executive actions represent a dangerous escalation in the abuse of presidential power: weaponizing federal agencies to carry out personalized retribution against named individuals.

The Letter goes on to say a decided falsehood. It says:

Presidents of both parties have long respected the independence of federal law enforcement and refrained from using the power at their disposal to punish perceived enemies. Indeed, presidents have gone out of their way to avoid even the appearance of impropriety or influence.

Say what?

Were these people asleep when the Biden Justice Department and local Democrat prosecutors in New York and Georgia went out of their way to issue multiple indictments of Biden’s political opponent, Trump?

It doesn’t take much to make a trip to Wikipedia and find this:

Trump was indicted on state charges in a March 2023 indictment in New York. He faced 34 criminal charges of falsifying business records in the first degree related to payments made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. The trial began on April 15, 2024; Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts on May 30, 2024. Sentencing was scheduled for September 18, but was delayed until November 26, 2024. On January 10, 2025, Trump received an unconditional discharge of his sentence.

Trump was indicted in June 2023 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in a federal indictment related to classified government documents. Trump faced 40 criminal charges alleging mishandling of sensitive documents and conspiracy to obstruct the government in retrieving these documents.

Trump was indicted in August 2023 in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in a federal indictment related to attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Trump faces four criminal charges of conspiring to defraud the government and disenfranchise voters, and corruptly obstructing an official proceeding.

Trump was indicted on state charges in an August 2023 indictment in Georgia. Trump faces 8 criminal charges related to alleged attempts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia, alongside 18 accused co-conspirators.

In other words, contrary to the impression this Letter gives that previous presidents have “refrained from using the power at their disposal to punish perceived enemies,” the Biden administration and local Democrat prosecutors did exactly that. And to say the least, that was a decidedly authoritarian move on which both Taylor and Krebs were apparently and mysteriously silent.

Using the power of the federal government and state governments in New York and Georgia, 44 — say again 44 — criminal charges against then-former President Trump were filed.

Which is to say, this “Open Letter” is based on a serious untruth.

Next is the conduct of the two ex-administration officials who are the subject of the Trump memoranda. The Letter says President Trump “is explicitly targeting two Americans because they exercised their First Amendment rights and criticized him.”

Hello? This is decidedly not about two people who “exercised their First Amendment rights and criticized him.” That, too, is a decided untruth.

What these people did was use their government positions — neither of them elected — to sabotage the elected president of the United States as he went about doing what he was elected to do: run the government of the United States.

Both Miles Taylor who was serving in the Trump first term as a deputy chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security, and Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, did exactly what a federal government employee should never do: use their position in the government to undercut the elected president’s administration of that government.

If a government employee in a president’s administration does not agree with their duly elected boss — then resign.

Instead, Taylor took to the pages of the New York Times to write an op-ed headlined: “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration: I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”

Using the pseudonym “Anonymous,” Taylor betrayed both the president and his colleagues by using his office to attack the president — anonymously, of course — for his policies.

In a display of typical Washington Establishment arrogance, Taylor proclaimed, as mentioned, that he was using his government position “to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”

What he should have done if he disagreed with the President is what any 10-year old with an understanding of right and wrong would do. Namely, write a letter of resignation, hand it to his immediate boss — the secretary of homeland security — gather his belongings, decidedly not including internal correspondence that was government property — and leave the building.

Taylor did the exact opposite. He skulked around using the trust bestowed on him that he was an honorable and honest public servant, and betrayed that trust. In the New York Times!

In Krebs’s situation, as reported in The Hill, Krebs “was adamant that the nation’s elections were not compromised.”

Amazing. As detailed previously in this very space, my own state of Pennsylvania has a very long, documented history of “compromised” elections. (RELATED: The Washington Post Attacks Pennsylvania Election Audit)

As noted when written in 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, and 2008, “there were repeated examples of voter fraud in Pennsylvania. All seriously documented.”

I also noted this New York Times headline from 1994: “Vote-Fraud Ruling Shifts Pennsylvania Senate”

The Times article began by reporting this, bold print for emphasis supplied: 

Saying Philadelphia’s election system had collapsed under “a massive scheme” by Democrats to steal a State Senate election in November, a Federal judge today took the rare step of invalidating the vote and ordered the seat filled by the Republican candidate.

With multiple examples of voter fraud from six — say again six — Pennsylvania elections seriously documented, for Krebs to be, as noted in the Hill, “adamant that the nation’s elections were not compromised” is amazing.

Laughingly, this Letter closes by saying this: “These actions, if carried out, will leave a permanent stain on our institutions and erode our democracy. History will not forget who stood silent. We will not stand silent.”

Say what???!!! “History will not forget who stood silent. We will not stand silent.”

Newsflash? The signers of this letter signed exactly zero letters like this when the Biden administration and New York and Georgia Democrat prosecutors were leaving a “permanent stain on our institutions” and going about eroding our democracy with their multiple Trump prosecutions.

Yet there is serious, if decidedly unintended, merit in this letter. It illustrates clearly to Americans who voted for President Trump that there is, in fact, a Washington Swamp run by the insiders of both parties, and they cannot abide Outsiders. In this case, that would be the Outsider-in-Chief, who is the duly elected President Donald Trump.

In short?

In short, the “Open Letter Opposing White House Retaliatory Investigations” has backfired. Backfired Big Time. Throwing a spotlight on the very real corruption that permeated the Biden administration and permeates Establishment Washington itself.

To borrow from the Letter? “History will not forget who stood silent.”

Exactly. Which is why the moment to stand up and not be silent about the corruption of the Washington Establishment’s letter has arrived.

Well done, Washington Establishment. Well done!

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