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Greetings, Dear Reader,
Oh boy. We can’t arrest Biden, he’s way too old. Can we? Nah. Maybe … No no no.
But who can we arrest?
WATERGATE SHMATERGATE
First of all: Nixon did nothing wrong. He shouldn’t have resigned. History will exonerate him.
With that out of the way, when do we start arresting Biden people?
News broke Wednesday with a series of revelations that outlined the Biden DOJ’s efforts to financially map, surveil and harass what amounts to the entirety of the conservative movement. They came as a result of a whistleblower sending Sen. Chuck Grassley internal documents related to Jack Smith, the Merrick Garland special counsel whose mission was to imprison Donald Trump.
The documents lay out how nearly 200 subpoenas led to 430 individuals swept up in Smith’s surveillance efforts. Senators, Super Pacs, members of the media, media companies themselves. Even TPUSA was targeted. The RNC was targeted. Apple Computers was targeted!
Attorney General Garland signed off. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco signed off. FBI Director Chris Wray signed off.
The judge at the center of it all: Judge James “Injunctions” Boasberg of the DC Circuit Court. The same judge liberals have been running to every time they need to judicially stymie Trump’s agenda. The same judge, in fact, who gave disgraced FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who forged FISA warrants to surveil Trump, just a year probation for the crime.
“This was a concerted effort to ‘process is the punishment’ all of us, smear and ruin reputations, and invent fever dream justifications for possible crimes that didn’t exist. J Edgar Hoover could only dream of building something at this scale,” said Rachel Bovard, a VP at the Conservative Partnership Institute, which was also targeted in the dragnet.
Words truly cannot express how deep this rabbit hole goes, and how lucky we are this administration did not get another four years. God knows what they would have done given another term with this power and access to this information.
As a result of Smith’s legal demands, Chris Wray’s FBI had wiretapped almost as much as 20% of the Senate GOP’s phone lines.
Sen. Ted Cruz is calling for Boasberg’s impeachment. Sen. Eric Schmitt is calling for “Watergate-style hearings on this for MONTHS.”
We need more than that though. We need indictments and convictions. We need Boasberg rendered utterly destitute and jammed into the same conditions as the J6 rioters.
Think I’m joking? I decidedly am not. Boasberg has demonstrably done more to upset the Democratic process in America than any rock-throwing, MAGA-hat-wearing Trump voter ever did on J6.
If justice is still balanced in this country, he’ll see a cell. Garland and Wray as well. If Roger Stone and Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro can go to jail, so can they.
I’m realizing now this is exactly why they were so terrified of “retribution.” Remember? The media whined about it for weeks on end. Trump would seek “retribution” if he won. They asked him about it nonstop.
It was this. They were terrified that their little legal jihad would be exposed.
They simply cannot help themselves. They use the surveillance tools at their disposal to spy on their political opposition, they use a willing media to leak the information they find, and they abuse the legal system to drum up charges.
They did it in 2015 with Crossfire Hurricane, and they did it again in 2022 with Arctic Frost. All to deny the will of the people and to upset and ultimately overturn the Democratic process that led to two fair elections of Donald J. Trump.
If powerless people went to jail for throwing rocks through windows on January 6, the absolute book needs to be thrown at these people.
It’s up to Kash Patel and Pam Bondi now. Let’s see what they do.
WHAT I’M READING
The left deeply wants your tax dollars to go to buying Red Bull energy drinks at Walmart.
Left’s Anti-Trump Mania Makes Them Defend What They’ve Always Hated Most
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This has been the most cringe-inducing book tour in the history of politics.
‘Watching Mike Tyson Fight A Baby’: Democrats Reportedly Can’t Stop Laughing At KJP Stump For Her Book
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Get ‘em, boys!
