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Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist: The Clintons are clearly traitors willing to endanger their nation for profit, and it would be fully just to prosecute them as such. Yet as president when he had the chance, Trump decided not to pursue it. According to Trump Attorney General Bill Barr’s recently published memoir, “Trump brought up the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails and surprised Barr by saying that he had wanted the matter to be dropped after the 2016 election,” according to a review of Barr’s memoir in the fall 2022 Claremont Review of Books. “‘Even if she were guilty,’ he told Barr, “for the election winner to seek prosecution of the loser would make the country look like a ‘banana republic.’” Ever since riding down his golden escalator, Trump has been ceaselessly vilified as a tinpot dictator, an evil supervillain, an authoritarian, the second coming of Adolf Hitler. But Democrats cannot change the facts, which include that Trump had fully legitimate justification to prosecute his horribly corrupt political opponent and refused to do so. They can make no such argument for themselves.

Kurt Schlichter contributor to TownHall: And now, desperate to maintain the power and prestige they did not earn, they seek to disenfranchise and oppress us. Understand – they are fine with their bizarre weirdo minions murdering us, with unarmed little Christian kids collateral damage in their culture war. But the rest of us are armed – thank goodness, because in the future historians may begin their lectures “Yet, thanks to the wisdom of the Founders in making sure the Second Amendment was in the Bill of Rights, the conspiracy to wring the freedom out of America failed.” And it is a conspiracy, though it’s not being executed by some well-tuned, complex machine but, rather, a collection of pinkos, perverts, and potential Pol Pots that are acting in semi-concert to undermine everything the country should be about. They call this kind of campaign a “Color Revolution” when it happens overseas.

Victor Davis Hanson contributor to American Greatness: Were the opposition to match tit-for-tat these Democratic means, then the republic would quickly descend into a spiral of illegality and chaos analogous to what ended the late Roman Republic. That fact is well known to the new hard-left Democratic Party. So it has assumed the role of the spoiled teen who feels he has a blank check of lawless behavior that his parents would not dare emulate, given that for adults to do so would destroy the family. In other words, the Left is saying to America something along the following lines, “We are so morally superior to you that we can and must employ any means necessary to achieve our unpopular political ends. But you cannot respond in kind or deter us by mimicking our own tactics, because should both parties do so, the resulting disorder would undermine the republic. And that is something you won’t dare do.”

Brian C. Joondeph contributor to American Thinker: I am sad for my children and grandchildren. They will be the first generation that will most likely have fewer opportunities and a less prosperous life than their parents had. They say empires last not more than 250 years and America’s 250-year anniversary is in 3 short years. What will be left in 3 years? Will we be in World War 3 against Russia, China, and Iran, with a ruined economy and hyperinflation, living in a police state, ruled by tyrants willing to use whatever means necessary to stomp out any opposition or resistance? Where are American leaders, men and women of principle and conscience? Will it be left to mob rule or civil war to change course? Welcome to the Banana Republic of America.

John Hinderaker is an attorney and a contributor to PowerLineblog.com: “The Left now has a demonic new aim: to make ordinary people poorer.”

Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA): “Whether you like him or not, the government does not have the right to hunt Donald Trump, to hunt the Trump Organization, to hunt his family. And every Democrat out there who believes in civil liberties, should be standing up and saying this is wrong.”

Elle Purnell contributor to The Federalist: It’s worth noting, of course, that Trump never did throw Hillary in jail, quite likely because he understood what the optics would do to the country. Clinton lies to this day about those top secret emails sent from her private server, and the Justice Department let her team get away with destroying evidence with BleachBit and hammers.

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(From 11/22/2022) Showalter: More about that famously ‘impartial’ Trump prosecutor, Jack Smith

After a long speech droning on about “impartial and determined,” “integrity,” and “highest standards of professionalism” of the appointment of Jack Smith as special prosecutor for Getting Trump, Attorney General Merrick Garland sounds a little phony about that right now. Latest news about Smith from Newsweek:

Newly appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith is married to a documentary filmmaker who worked on a 2020 film about former first lady Michelle Obama and donated to President Joe Biden‘s 2020 campaign. […] . . . somehow, he seems to go after only Republicans in his storied career as a prosecutor — a man who, as Garland claimed, would “independently manage an investigation and prosecution” “in the public interest” with “commitment to both independence and accountability” and “indisputably guided only by the facts and the law”; a “veteran career prosecutor”; a former “chief of the public integrity section”; a man with a “reputation as an impartial and determined proscutor”; a man who will “follow the facts wherever they lead”; a man of the “highest standards of professionalism” — “with integrity,” of course, because it’s the “right thing to do,” and Smith is the “right choice to handle this matter in an even-handed and urgent manner.” This from the guy who led a prosecution that was so flawed against Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell that the Supreme Court, . . . […] Worse still, Smith was the actual instigator to the IRS’s attack dogs, led by the infamous Lois Lerner, who fired the starting pistol for the IRS’s persecution of Tea Party groups in 2012, . . .

THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS U.S. INTELLIGENCE/ADMINISTRATIVE STATE APPARATUS

Toensing: Christopher Wray and the Politicization of the FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has shocked many Americans by becoming a politicized law enforcement arm of the Democrat party. As the target of one of the FBI and Department of Justice political attacks — solely because I had been talking to Ukrainian whistleblowers about Biden family corruption in that country — I want to discuss the problem. It starts with the most political Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray. How exactly did Wray become Director? The saga of who headed the most prestigious and respected (previous to Wray) law enforcement agency under Donald Trump includes political naivete as well as sophistication, depending on the actor. The naivete begins with the Trump transition team. My husband (and law partner) Joe diGenova and I sent message after message to the team to have President-elect Trump fire then-Director James Comey immediately. We were well aware of his many instances of harassing conservatives with baseless federal investigations. We were informed that “New Yorkers” on Trump’s team thought it would look “unseemly.” They were unaware that cleaning house in a new administration is regular order in D.C. How did it look months later when Trump fired Comey in the midst of the Russia, Russia, Russia! investigation? Having limited knowledge of both Washington politics (one must know who the alligators are to drain the swamp) and federal law enforcement, Trump turned to a person who should have such knowledge to propose a Comey replacement: . . . […] Wray’s politicized raid cost us over $500,000 in legal fees. We had to protect our clients’ privileged information, which Wray authorized seizing even though the search of a lawyer’s client information violates DOJ rules. Yet, because of it we have even greater resolve to champion justice against the weaponization of federal law enforcement and hold those responsible accountable. Friends have started a GiveSendGo called the Joe diGenova /Victoria Toensing Litigation Fund at to help us with our mission.

BIDEN’s COVID VACCINATION JAB MANDATES

Kirsch: Vax death count = COVID death count according to latest Rasmussen Reports poll

Why did the CDC never poll Americans as a “reality check” to make sure they got it right? I’ve known the answer to that for a long time since I did polls of an unbiased audience long ago back on July 4, 2022. But of course nobody paid attention since I’m a “misinformation spreader.” But now Rasmussen comes out with the most important poll they’ve ever done and the results are devastating. You can watch it on YouTube and share with your friends. The only question left is how long will it take YouTube to remove the video and ban Rasmussen forever? […] The polls show that the one thing in this country that both Democrats and Republicans agree on is that the vaccines are as deadly as COVID. That’s stunning.

REPUBLICAN U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY

Solomon: House GOP looking to punish politicized prosecutors by stripping them of legal immunity

or months, House Republicans have decried the actions of leftist local prosecutors who free violent felons or prosecute political enemies like Donald Trump. Now they are beginning to rally around a solution that could inflict significant punishment on wayward district attorneys. Rep Austin Scott (R-Ga.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told Just the News that Republicans are considering turning the tables in a debate started by liberals a few years ago when they tried to eliminate the qualified immunity that protected police officers from lawsuits. “I think you’re going to have to look at prosecutorial misconduct and whether or not prosecutors in this country should be exempt from liability,” Scott said in an interview Friday night on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF FOREIGN POLICY

Sundance: Zelenskyy Sends “New Democracy” Jackboots to Shut Down Orthodox Christian Religion in Ukraine

While the United States is sending hundreds of billions to fund the new form of “western democracy” in Ukraine, the outlawing of political opposition, the shutting down of non-state-controlled media, and now the cancellation of religion has a historical rhyming to it. Leftists in the general sense are supporting these new constructs within this newly defined version of democracy, and the western corporate media seem to be subservient to the fiats. In the latest development, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sent the state police to shut down Metropolitan Pavel Lebed, the leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Pavel Lebed is now under house arrest. Pavel’s sin against the Ukraine regime is described by Politico: . . . […] History tells us that churches and organized religion are always the first targets of the totalitarian state, because they represent a unity of purpose and assembly that is not reliant on the totalitarian state. In all communist regimes, religious worship is generally banned.

Read ore: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/01/zelenskyy-sends-new-democracy-jackboots-to-shut-down-orthodox-christian-religion-in-ukraine/

CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY

PresentDangerChina.org: The ‘Chi-den’ Administration: Is it Possible to Defeat the CCP if Our Leaders Work for It?

Joe Biden, A Case Study in Chinese ‘Elite Capture’ Evidence continues to emerge of an alarming threat to U.S. national security. It includes recent revelations by congressional investigators examining the nature and extent of Joe Biden’s longstanding, personal and lucrative dealings and those of his family with businesses and individuals tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – among them known members of its intelligence services. What could possibly go wrong? The short answer is plenty. The possibility that the United States’ Commander-in-Chief is now what one career CIA undercover operative, Charles “Sam” Faddis, has described (here, with more evidence here) as a “controlled asset” of the CCP has the most dire national security implications imaginable. That is especially true at a moment when the Chinese Communists are openly threatening a shooting war with America. [NOTE: In the webinar Peter Schweizer, Miranda Devine, Trevor Loudon, and Brian Kennedy are interviewed.]

Reynolds: Chinese spy balloon DID gather intelligence from sensitive US military sites as it flew across America before it was shot down

The balloon entered US airspace on 28 January and was shot down on 4 February after passing over US nuclear missile sites, including the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. The intel collected was mostly from electronic signals, rather than images, the officials told NBC.China previously claimed that the balloon was a civilian weather balloon that strayed off course. The foreign ministry condemned its shooting down as an ‘overreaction’. China was reportedly able to control the balloon as it passed over the same site in figures of eights. This allowed it to transmit information in real time, the officials warned. Information collected from electronic signals can be picked up from weapons systems or communications between personnel on the base.

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA’S AMERICA LAST REGIME: RADICAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Nolte: Democrat Party’s Prosecutorial Abuse Crusade to Rig 2024 Election Has Only Begun

There are 19 months between now and Election Day 2024. Trust me, what the Democrats have in store to rig the 2024 presidential election through prosecutorial abuse has only just begun. To begin with, you have to remember just how vile and depraved the Democrat party has become. To appease their demonic base, Democrats like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi openly advocate for child mutilation, gay porn in elementary schools, mentally ill men invading the girls’ locker rooms, and exposing little kids to the kind of depraved drag queens who want to expose themselves to kids. What’s more, to hold on to a U.S. Senate seat, Democrats were willing to kill John Fetterman. Additionally, Democrats have openly aligned with the rioters, murderers, and cop killers in Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Democrats are so eager for power and to replace Americans with more compliant illegal immigrants, they are willing to flood our country with the poison of fentanyl and enable sex trafficking, including the trafficking of children.

Waldman, M.D.: Obamacare: Still Killing People 13 Years In

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed his namesake legislation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) colloquially Obamacare, into law. On March 23, 2023, the Biden-Harris administration celebrated the ACA’s thirteenth anniversary. They should be holding a funeral, not a celebration party. The ACA has caused countless avoidable American deaths. They are due to Washington’s conflation of a piece of paper (an insurance policy) with a professional service: medical care. Xavier Becerra, the Health and Human Services secretary, astonishingly missing during the entire COVID health crisis, declared the following: “As we celebrate the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act today … this law has lived up to its name, providing a way for Americans to access quality, affordable health coverage.” […] Note the conflation of care with insurance. Washington wants you to think having the latter means you get the former, presumably when you need it. Otherwise, what good is insurance? Having insurance does not mean getting timely care. In fact, there is a seesaw effect: as the number of people with government-provided insurance increases, access to care decreases.

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY

Hubbard: Hunter Biden’s artwork to be featured alongside world-renowned abstract painters

The “Bridging the Abstract” group exhibition will open in Soho’s Georges Berges Gallery on April 6, and it will feature works of art from President Joe Biden’s son as well as art greats such as Elaine de Kooning and Helen Frankenthaler. Gallery owner Georges Berges has showcased Hunter Biden’s works before. Biden’s art has reportedly been priced between $75,000 and $500,000, sparking ethics concerns from congressional Republicans. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) previously said Biden’s art sales need to be studied to ensure that they are not part of a larger money laundering scheme.

THE MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX HAS CANCELLED THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH

Boston Children’s Hospital director calls for drastic increase in capacity for gender surgeries for minors

The director at Boston Children’s Hospital said medical school students should learn transgender surgeries in residency programs

Brock & Duggan: ‘Age Is A Number’: Gender Clinic Offered Puberty Blockers To Kids As Young As 8, Surgery Referrals At 14, Records Show

The Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) Gender and Sexuality Development Program offers medical interventions to children as young as eight as part of the medical transition process, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Clinic employees have publicly advocated for certain cross-sex surgeries for minors, along with hormones and puberty blockers, and have downplayed the seriousness of the infertility which is a known consequence of some of these interventions.
“I think it’s really important to remember that age is a number,” clinic co-founder Dr. Linda Hawkins said. “But as an adolescent medicine and developmental specialist, we know that where a child is cognitively and socially is more important than that exact number of their age.”

(Skin color over merit) Do No Harm: Standing Up Against Woke Ideology

Watch the 8:55 minute interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81xsB5sWhxk

EDUCATION INDOCTRINATION

Greenfield: America’s Crime Problem Begins in Our Colleges

We think of crime as emanating from the poor and the underprivileged, but the country’s crime wave actually has its roots in the work of academics who taught at prestigious universities. The pro-crime movement that originated in the 1960s and has since swept America began in part with an article by Communist leader and agitator Angela Davis: ‘Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition’. Davis, a UCLA academic, was catapulted to national prominence during her trial for supplying firearms to terrorist Jonathan Jackson, who used them to murder a California judge presiding over the homicide trial of his criminal brother George, who later died after slitting the throats of three guards while attempting to escape from San Quentin. There are shrines devoted to Davis at prominent schools like University of California – Santa Cruz. Angela Davis began her seminal incitement by . . . […] In her Communist dogmas and support for domestic terrorism, Davis is not alone. Other former leftist terrorists have occupied influential academic positions including Bill Ayers and Susan Rosenberg: two Weather Underground bombers. Ayers taught at Columbia Teachers’ College, and the University of Chicago, he has boasted that he set bombs in the Pentagon, and has promoted defunding the police. Susan Rosenberg, who was released after Bill Clinton commuted her sentence, was offered a position at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and co-chaired the fiscal sponsor of Black Lives Matter and its Marxist leaders.

OTHER NEWS, COMMENTARY, OPINION

Revolver.news: Desperate Ray Epps Enlists Notorious Dem-Clinton Operatives to Threaten Tucker and Revolver News for J6 Reporting

the identity of Epps’ new lawyer. Epps’ former lawyer who advised him through the Jan 6 Committee questioning and other things was a man by the name of John Blischak, who just happens to be a 9 year veteran of the FBI. Epps’ new lawyer is Michael Teter, has an even more unlikely pedigree for a defender of Epps. Teter currently works for an organization called Facts First USA, a nakedly partisan organization targeting the agenda of the so-called “MAGA Majority” in Congress. The President of Facts First USA is none other than the disgraced Democrat/Clinton machine hatchet man David Brock. For those unfamiliar, Brock’s resume includes founding the Soros funded Media Matters, a so-called “watchdog” group that watches conservative media 24/7 and excerpts “gotcha” clips for political purposes. […] As an underling of David Brock’s, Ray Epps’ new lawyer Michael Teter is every bit as embedded as Brock is within the nexus between the Clinton-Democrat Machine and the Deep State. Apart from Teter’s employment with Brock’s Facts First organization, Teter is the managing director of yet another Brock-project, the Democrat lawfare outfit known as The 65 Project. As it happens, former Trump Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark wrote an excellent guest piece for Revolver flagging Teter’s group: . . .[…] To cap it all off, Teter used to work for the notorious law firm Perkins Coie, which functions as the legal arm for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, and whose attorneys played a prominent role in promoting the so-called Russia hoax.

Ross: They’re the Democratic Party’s Top Operatives—and Lobbying for a Company Accused of Destroying Black Heritage Sites

American Bridge 21st Century is the progressive movement’s largest super PAC, and it has a staff of Democratic superstars to prove it. Chief among them are Bradley Beychok, the group’s cofounder, and James Carville, the “Ragin’ Cajun” Clinton operative and talking head who serves as an adviser. The pair has won praise for advancing progressive causes. They also run ABI Associates, a consulting firm that’s raking in cash from clients that are likely to raise eyebrows among their Democratic colleagues. Clients like Greenfield Louisiana LLC, which stands accused of “environmental racism” for a proposed building project that would destroy historical slave sites in Louisiana. And the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, a trade group whose members include the companies behind the Keystone XL Pipeline, a perennial target for progressive attacks. […] The billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who has given $4.5 million to American Bridge through his Democracy PAC, funds numerous civil rights groups and has decried “environmental racism.”