Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein—cheered on by
Hillary Clinton dead-enders—sued in three states to recount votes and thereby
overturn Donald Trump’s victory in the Electoral College. Before the quixotic
effort imploded, Stein was praised as an iconic progressive social justice
warrior who might stop the hated Trump from even entering the White House.
When that did not work, B-list Hollywood
celebrities mobilized, with television and radio commercials, to shame electors
in Trump-won states into not voting for the president-elect
during the official Electoral College balloting in December 2016.
Their
idea was that select morally superior electors should reject their
constitutional directives and throw the election into the House of
Representatives where even more morally superior NeverTrump Republicans might
join with even much more morally superior Democrats to find the perfect morally
superior NeverTrump alternative.
When that did not work, more than 60
Democratic House members voted to bring up Trump’s impeachment for vote.
Trump had only been in office a few weeks.
Photo: Tom Steyer
Then San Francisco billionaire
Tom Steyer toured the country and lavished millions on advertisements demanding
Trump’s removal by impeachment—and was sorely disappointed when he discovered
that billion-dollar-fueled virtue-signaling proved utterly bankrupt
virtue-signaling.
When that did not work, celebrities and politicians
hit social media and the airwaves to so demonize Trump that culturally it would
become taboo even to voice prior support for the elected president.
Their
chief tool was a strange new sort of presidential assassination chic, as
Madonna, David Crosby, Robert de Niro, Johnny Depp, Snoop Dogg, Peter Fonda,
Kathy Griffin, and a host of others linguistically vied with one another in
finding the most appropriately violent end of Trump—blowing him up, burning
him up, beating him up, shooting him up, caging him up, or decapitating him.
Photo: Kathy Griffin Decapitating Trump Ugly Stunt
Apparently, the aim—aside from careerist chest-thumping among the entertainment
elite—was to lower the bar of Trump disparagement and insidiously delegitimize
his presidency.
When that did not work, during the president’s first year
in office, the Democrats and the media at various times sought to invoke the
25th Amendment, claiming Trump was so mentally or physically impaired that
he was not able to carry out the duties of president. At one point,
congressional Democrats called Yale University psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee to
testify that Trump was unfit to continue.
Photo: Dr. Bandy X. Lee
In fact, to prove her credentials,
Lee edited The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump that offered
arguments from 27 psychiatrists and other mental health experts. In May
2017, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein met secretly in efforts to poll Trump cabinet members to discover
whether they could find a majority to remove Trump from office—again on
grounds that he was mentally unbalanced.
According to McCabe (Right), Rosenstein (Left) offered to wear a wire, in some sort of bizarre comic coup attempt to catch
Trump off-guard in a confidential conversation.
When that did not work, 200 congressional Democrats in
late 2018 sued in federal court to remove President Trump, claiming he had
violated the esoteric Emoluments Clause of the Constitution that forbids
federal officials from taking gifts, jobs, and titles from foreign governments.
They alleged Trump’s presidency has enhanced his overseas real estate holdings
and interests.
Yet, according to some sources, the various Trump companies
have lost some $1 billion in value after he took office—to the delight of
the same critics who swore he has profited enormously as president.
When that did not work, the ongoing “Resistance” both
covertly and overtly sought ways to retard or destroy the Trump
presidency—often by leaking presidential memos, conversations, and phone calls.
An anonymous op-ed published in the New York Times on
September 15, 2018 boasted of a plan of resistance to his governance and
initiatives from those in the administrative state from inside the Trump
Administration, most of them allegedly establishment Republicans.
When that did not work, progressive heartthrob lawyer and
now indicted Michael Avenatti reintroduced pornographic film star Stormy
Daniels to the public.
Photo: Stormy Daniels (Left), Michael Avenatti (Right)
He claimed that Daniels had somehow been tricked
into signing a supposedly improper and now invalid non-disclosure agreement not
to talk about an alleged sexual encounter of a decade earlier with private
citizen Trump in an exchange for a payment of $135,000.
Allegedly, Trump’s acquiescence to Daniels’ veritable
blackmail demands had now impaired her own opportunities of further profiting
to a far greater degree from the past alleged tryst with a now President Trump.
Until his recent indictment for a number of felonies, Avenatti himself had
translated his work with Daniels into media celebrity-hood, appearing over 100
times on cable news shows to damn Trump, predict his impeachment, and prep his
promised 2020 presidential run against Trump.
When that did not work, federal law enforcement
officials stormed the offices of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, in search of
incriminating materials. Cohen quickly was leveraged by federal attorneys,
flipped, and offered anti-Trump testimonies and documents in exchange for
leniency.
Photo: Michael Cohen
He produced stealth tapes of private conversations with his own
client Trump—and shortly afterward was disbarred by the New York State
Supreme Court for pleading guilty to a series of felonies.
When that did not work, Russian collusion hysteria
continued to sweep the country. The moribund phony Steele dossier (that had
failed to derail the Trump campaign and transition) was reignited by the media
and progressive politicos after the firing of FBI director James Comey, leading
to the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and the emergence of
Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein.
Photo: Former President Barack Obama (Left), James Comey (Center), Robert Mueller (Right)
Rosenstein then appointed Robert Mueller as
special counsel—in a series of events prompted by none other than fired James
Comey, who admitted that he illegally leaked confidential, if
not some classified, presidential memos to create the conditions necessary for
such a special appointment.
Mueller’s subsequent media darling
attorneys—praised as the “dream team,” “all-stars,” “army,” “untouchables,” and
“hunter-killer team”—of mostly Democratic partisans, some Clinton donors, and a
few who had defended either the Clinton Foundation or Clinton aides then spent
22 months, and between $30-40 million trying to build a case. In the
end, they leveraged mostly minor Trump satellites on process crimes,
misleading testimonies, or past business deals in hopes of finding collusionary
guilt.
Leaking was a Mueller team trademark as each week the
collusionary media announced another “bombshell” or “noose tightening”
around the neck of Donald Trump—or mysteriously showed up at the home of the
next Mueller victim, to wait for the arrival of SWAT teams to swoop into make
an arrest.
When that did not work, congressional committees and the
left-wing mob next went after William Barr, Trump’s “hand-picked” attorney
general (are not all AGs “hand-picked” by the president?).
Barr’s crime was
that he had followed the law to the letter.
And so Barr spent a few days
after the arrival of the exonerating Mueller collusion report to ensure first,
before releasing it to the public, that it did not endanger national security
or besmirch the reputations of innocent named individuals. If in a blink,
“collusion” had died, soon in its death throes it birthed “obstruction”—as
if Trump’s objections to vast resources wasted on chasing an imaginary
non-crime of collusion was obstruction
When that did not work, congressional committees
mobilized to sue and force Trump to release at least six years of his private
income tax records, elements of which already in bits and pieces had been
leaked.
Are such efforts in the future to be institutionalized?
Will the Left nod and keep still, if Republicans attempt
to remove an elected Democratic President before his tenure is up? Are appeals
to impeachment, the 25th Amendment, the Emoluments Clause, the Logan Act, and a
Special Counsel the now normal cargo of political opposition to any future
elected president?
Is it now permissible in 2020 for Trump’s FBI
director to insert an informant into the campaign of the Democratic
presidential nominee?
If Joe Biden is the 2020 nominee, will the
Trump Justice Department seek FISA warrants to monitor the communications of
Biden’s campaign team—in worries that Biden son’s business practices in the
Ukraine had earlier compromised Biden who had intervened on his behalf by
threatening to cut off aid to Ukraine?
Will they investigate Biden’s
propensity to hug and kiss under-aged girls? Will Trump’s CIA director contact
foreign nationals to aid in spying on Biden’s aides? Will National Security
Advisor John Bolton request that the names of surveilled Biden campaign
officials become unmasked as a way of having them leaked to the media?
Will
Trump hire a British ex-spy to gather together rumors and gossip about Biden’s
previous overseas trips and foreign contacts, especially in the Ukraine, and
then see them seeded among the Trump CIA, FBI, Justice Department, and State
Department? Is that the sort of country we have now?
America over the last half century had been nursed on the
dogma that the Left was the guarantor of civil liberties. That was the old
message of the battles supposedly waged on our behalf by the ACLU, the
free-speech areas on campuses, and the Earl Warren Court.
Not now. The left believes
that almost any means necessary, extra-legal and anti-constitutional or not,
are justified to achieve their noble ends.
Progressive luminaries at CNN
and the New York Times have lectured us that reporters need
not be disinterested any more in the age of Trump—or that it might be a crime
to shout “lock her up” at a Trump rally. Will those standards apply to coverage
of future Democratic presidents?
No reporter seems to care that Hillary
Clinton hired a foreign national to work with other foreign nationals to
sabotage, first, her opponent’s campaign, then his transition and his
presidency, along with the wink and nod help from key Obama officials at the
Department of Justice, State Department, National Security Council, FBI and
CIA.
The final irony? If the CIA, FBI, and DOJ have gone the
banana republic way of Lois Lerner’s IRS and shredded the Constitution, they
still failed to remove Donald Trump.
Trump still stands. In Nietzschean fashion
what did not kill him apparently only made him stronger.
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