By Frank Miele
According
to the Wall Street Journal, 50 percent of voters believe the political divide
will worsen. AP / Richard Drew
Did you see that Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff think Donald
Trump should be prosecuted for trying to steal the 2020 election? I mean, who
would guess?
The headline from Vanity Fair says it all: “Shocker:
Congress has evidence Trump may have engaged in a criminal conspiracy.”
The intent of that sarcastic headline is to convince you
it wasn’t a shock at all, because everyone already knew that Trump had engaged
in a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. Democrats certainly
“knew.” Liz Cheney certainly “knew.”
But what makes the headline unintentionally ironic is
that it is completely unshocking that Liz Cheney and House Democrats claim to
have evidence that Trump “engaged in a criminal conspiracy.” After all, isn’t
that what Congress has been claiming even since before Trump was elected in
2016?
To Democrats (and the Republicans who savor a drink with
Democrats in the Senate cloak room), Trump is evil incarnate – Vlad the
Impaler without the charm. Remember when he engaged in a criminal conspiracy
with the Russians to overturn the 2016 election? Oh sure, there was no
evidence of that except for what Hillary Clinton and her minions invented,
but that’s what makes Democrat allegations so dangerous – the only
evidence they need to convict a suspect is the evidence of their own
convictions. If they believe it, then it is so.
Honestly, it is hard to see how the rule of law – or this
nation which is built upon its foundation – can long continue when such
meretricious manipulators wield the power to denounce and destroy their
political enemies.
The Jan. 6 Select Committee on which they sit issued
a court
filing recently that proclaims “a good-faith belief that Trump and
others may have engaged in criminal and/or fraudulent acts” in their efforts to
prove the 2020 election was stolen.
Mind you, this has nothing to do with the Jan. 6 riot.
The violence that occurred is irrelevant to any assertion that he “engaged in a
criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.” Instead, what is being
alleged is that President Trump had no right under law to contest the election
in the United States Congress, and that by seeking to prove that the election
was fraudulent, he himself is guilty of fraud.
If allowed to stand, this would do away with the concept
of election monitoring altogether. Or perhaps that has already happened –
specifically when Chris Krebs, head of the Department of Homeland Security’s
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, declared without evidence
that “the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.”
Without evidence? Isn’t that what the Fake News Media has
constantly said about Trump’s allegations of a stolen election? Yep, the only
difference being that Trump had thousands of affidavits of fraud and mischief
while Krebs had nothing but his eyes closed tight. And in the ensuing months
since November 2020, more and more evidence has been made public that confirms
Trump’s suspicions about the election. Here are two recent examples:
— In Georgia, video
evidence has been sent to the secretary of state’s office that shows
dozens of people dropping off multiple ballots in drop boxes. This raises the
obvious question – where did the ballots come from? Even if they were obtained
and cast legally, Georgia
law is unambiguous. Each voter using an absentee ballot “shall … mail
or personally deliver same to the board of registrars or
absentee ballot clerk.” The only exceptions are for “a voter with a physical
disability” or “voters confined to a hospital.” The disabled may have their
absentee ballot returned by a family member (as defined by the law) or a
household member. Voters confined to a hospital don’t even have that option.
They can vote an absentee ballot immediately upon delivery by a registrar or
absentee ballot clerk and return it to the official, again personally.
No provision allows Democrats to pay operatives to collect and dump bundles of
ballots into drop boxes in the dead of night.
— In Wisconsin, a former state Supreme Court justice
compiled a disturbing
report that alleges bribery and official misconduct in the 2020
presidential election. Michael Gableman was hired by the state legislature to
conduct an investigation and has recommended that legislators consider
decertifying Joe Biden’s victory in the state based on his findings of
extensive fraud, including illegal use of absentee ballot drop boxes;
corruption of the election as a result of $8.8 million spent on partisan
get-out-the-vote efforts by a Mark Zuckerberg-funded nonprofit; and “many
nursing homes’ registered residents voting at 100% rates and many ineligible
residents voting, despite a guardianship order or incapacity.”
Most Americans have probably never heard of either of
these investigations, which reveals the success of the media and the
Washington, D.C. establishment in squelching any dissent from the prevailing
narrative – namely that Trump invented his claims of election fraud and had no
evidence.
But Trump was right, and the evidence of
irregularities in the 2020 election has mounted month by month, as polls
consistently reveal that millions of Americans harbor doubts about the
legitimacy of the Joe Biden presidency.
That’s why Donald Trump remains the leader of the
Republican Party and the presumptive GOP presidential nominee in 2024. He not
only believed that he was the true winner of the election in 2020; he still
believes that to this day, and so do millions of other Americans. As Trump
wrote in response to the recent court filing, “The actual conspiracy to
defraud the United States was the Democrats rigging the Election, and the Fake
News Media and the Unselect Committee covering it up.”
Trump’s statement concluded, “The Unselect Committee’s
sole goal is to try to prevent President Trump, who is leading by large margins
in every poll, from running again for president, if I so choose. By so doing
they are destroying democracy as we know it. Their lies and Marxist tactics
against political opponents will not stop the truth…”
The reference to Marxist tactics is particularly timely
as, on the other side of the world, Comrade Putin bombs maternity wards in
Ukraine and then claims that the Ukrainians are blowing up their own babies. Or
something. It doesn’t matter what because the Ukrainians are Nazis, right? So
you can say anything you want about them.
Just like, if you are a Democrat or Liz
Cheney, you can say anything you want about Donald the Impaler.
__________________
Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Daily
Inter Lake in Kalispell Mont., is a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His new
book, “What
Matters Most: God, Country, Family and Friends,” and his earlier books are
available from his Amazon
author page. Visit him at HeartlandDiaryUSA.com to
read his daily commentary or follow him on Facebook @HeartlandDiaryUSA or on
Twitter or Gettr @HeartlandDiary.
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ARTICLE
Project Veritas Torches the New York
Times and Explodes the January 6 Narrative
By MARK JUDGE | The Stream
Serious
journalists know that our oligarchs used Jan. 6 as a Reichstag fire, to target
political dissidents.
A Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times reporter
has been caught in
a video by the conservative group Project Veritas admitting his
colleagues vastly exaggerated the danger of the election integrity protest on
Jan. 6.
The reporter, Matthew Rosenberg, also called his
colleagues names that questioned their courage and manliness.
January 6 Was in Fact “No Big Deal”
Rosenberg, the national security correspondent for the New
York Times, said the media’s coverage of the Capitol riot was
“overblown” and that the events of Jan. 6, 2021 were “no big deal,” according
to undercover video released Tuesday by Project Veritas.
In print, Rosenberg and his colleagues have described the claim that there were FBI plants
instigating the protestors outside of the U.S. Capitol a year earlier as a
“reimagining” of the “attack.” But in the Project Veritas video, which appears
to have been recorded without his knowledge, Rosenberg paints a different
picture. Here he admits that “there were a ton of FBI informants amongst the
people who attacked the Capitol.”
Could These Reporters “Man Up” Already?
“I know I’m supposed to be traumatized,” Rosenberg said
in the video, “but like, all these colleagues who were in the (Capitol)
building and are like, ‘Oh my God it was so scary!’ I’m like, [expletive]
off!’”
Rosenberg said the Times was “not the
kind of place where I can tell someone to man up,” but he said “I kind of want
to be like, ‘dude come on, you were not in any danger,’” according to the
video. “These [expletive] little dweebs who keep going on about their trauma …
. Shut the [expletive] up.” Rosenberg then used a profanity to indicate that
his colleagues at the Times lack courage.
“They were making it too big a deal,” Rosenberg said of
the political left. “They were making this some organized thing that it
wasn’t.”
Breathless Accounts of the GOP’s “Far Right”
Transformation
Jeremy Peters, another New York Times reporter,
recently published Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got
Everything They Ever Wanted. The book argues that the Republican party
has changed in recent years, becoming a far-right collective under Trump. At
the same time it ignores evidence that at the same time Democrats have migrated
to the radical left.
Thus, Peters fetishizes the January 6 breach of the U.S.
Capitol while ignoring the most extreme actions of Democrats — like bailing out
violent Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters. Or the Stasi-like attack on
Brett Kavanaugh during his nomination for the Supreme Court, which only
receives a few fleeting pages at the end of Insurgency.
Like many liberals, Peters obsesses about January 6. He
describes the atmosphere around the crowd as having “an almost bestial energy.”
He also claims that “Trump didn’t bring anything to the Republican party that
wasn’t already there.”
Which Party Drifted to the Extreme?
The truth is, the Times has it exactly
backwards. It is liberalism that has drifted into insanity, not conservatism.
This is evident in James Piereson’s remarkable
book, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination
of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism.
Piereson argues that in the 20th century up until the
1960s, liberalism was largely a doctrine of maintaining government programs and
slowly expanding freedom and equal justice for all people. Institutional
liberalism was not radical. Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy liberalism had
little overlap with the Communist-infiltrated progressive movement. Indeed,
radicals on the American left derided pro-American liberalism as
“conservative.”
A Bit Insipid
This liberalism, argues Piereson, was competent,
patriotic, often anti-communist, and accomplished good things. Still, over time
it became such a dry and programmatic philosophy that it was missing something
vital. Namely, the human soul, the thrill of a life in God, even just plain
fun. Liberalism saw little role for faith and no room for the complexity,
excitement, unpredictability, and tragedy of life. The worldview was not
revolutionary but … managerial.
This is why 1950s liberalism was criticized by the left
as much as the right. Piereson cites the liberal intellectual Lionel Trilling,
and his 1950 book The Liberal Imagination. Trilling wrote: “The
world is a complex and unexpected and terrible place which is not always to be
understood by the mind as we use it in our everyday tasks.” As Piereson
elaborates, “liberalism … because of its programmatic focus and near exclusive
emphasis on politics, lacks an imaginative dimension that might give it a
better sense of the richness and complexity of life.”
One Day in Dallas
When John F. Kennedy was killed, liberalism went crazy.
Unable to face the fact that Kennedy was murdered by a Castro-loving Communist
(Lee Harvey Oswald), liberalism fell into conspiracy mongering. Its managerial
calm gave way over time to a violent, anti-religious, paranoid and utopian New
Left frenzy. Thus was forged the world view of our Stasi media and socialist
politicians.
That’s why those people were so ruthless and
propagandistic in dealing with the protestors of January 6. Piereson argues we
now have “punitive liberalism.” That is to say, punishing liberalism. America
was to blame for Kennedy’s death, and traditional Americans should be shamed
and made to pay.
Punitive liberalism has become the religion of modern
liberals. Liberalism today, in its censorious cancel culture, race obsession
and policing or speech, is completely malicious.
Project Veritas has just exposed its snarling face.
https://stream.org/project-veritas-torches-the-new-york-times-and-explodes-the-january-6-narrative/
