Great article! Has to be Trump, sui generis. Desantis blew it by running. People in FL are not happy with him. The Rino’s screwed him over royally. He is either a deep plant or a dope.
DeSantis has proven himself to be part of the GOPe. Too bad he seemed like he could'a been a contenda. He chose to take a fall for the mob and a bribe of money known in politics as a donor cash.
Open your eyes and meet his polling numbers. He's losing advisers who say he's just not a good candidate. His overseas trip--meant to reassure the establishment that they would run his FP--told me pretty much all I needed.
Exactly correct. Some additional points. DeSantis' success nationally rests solely on his usefulness as a foil to Trump. Pity he doesn't see this, as he's damaging himself. There is no running against Trump without putting oneself at odds with the MAGA base, and the policy issues you've so clearly outlined, this election cycle. Like it or not, this is Trump's moment as a majority of GOP voters believe the election was stolen. Additionally, you are absolutely correct to focus on the substance of foreign and domestic policy as the basis for Trump's support. This is key and the personal nonsense and controversies are merely cover. Pity Trump doesn't see this. In any event, the sooner Republicans reconcile to Trump's inevitable victory in the primaries, the sooner the underlying policy issues at stake can be focused upon.
I’m still struggling a bit to understand why the extreme hatred, and sabotage of Trump by many so called Conservatives. And the hubris of the Resistance.
Because Trump committed a terrible crime against many of these so-called "conservatives": he showed that they were phonies who were in reality very happy with the Deep State-dominated political landscape. It was all so easy being in opposition, pretending to fight against the bolsheviks. You could earn a good living writing pretentious articles, wearing a bow tie and going on cruise tours discussing "Whither the nation?", knowing that you'd never have to get out there and actually fight and make sacrifices. Then along comes Trump with this crazy idea that conservatives should actually be DOING something real to take on the Deep State, getting their hands dirty, risking losing friends and being smeared by the MSM. Can you imagine rubbish like Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg and Co being okay with that?
Remember their are trillions of dollars at stake. Wall Street ConInc all have allot to loose. Also, the whole DC game could dry up, these people would have to get a job perish the thought.
Indicting Trump "for repeatedly expressing his opinion that the last election was stolen, rigged, and unfair" puts the 2020 election and J6 front and center. I think the administration would have been better advised to leave Trump out of this. Now belatedly they are giving him a platform to make his case on election fraud, and even what actually happened on J6, or on the contrary restricting his right to defend himself which might prove even more damaging.
"Now, given the wording and accusations levied in the indictment against President Trump, one of his attorneys, John Lauro, weighed on FOX News with Brett Baier:
“Mr. Trump did what was exactly Constitutionally precise and in order. There was nothing illegal about that and he was required to take steps as President of the United States to ensure that election was held in a valid way. All of that now is being criminalized. The one thing I will say though: in 2020, Mr. Trump’s campaign had a few weeks to gear up and present evidence, it was very difficult. We now have the ability in this case to issue our own subpoenas, and we will re-litigate every single in the 2020 Election in the context of this litigation. It gives President Trump an opportunity that he has never had before, which is to have subpoena power, since January 6th in a way that can be exercised in a Federal court."
"Looks like the Deep State may have miscalculated going after Trump over J6."
Isn't it like...kind of a pattern? Ever since Trump descended the Golden Escalator? Time and again Trump's enemies deliver what they think is a knockout punch, only to find themselves lying on the floor?
I am reminded of the old American cartoon series featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner. Wile E. tries everything to catch his target, often deploying a wide variety of ingenious products from the Acme Company. But whatever he tries, it always backfires and Wile E. ends up trapping, flattening, or blowing himself up.
Yep. They either want him in prison for 4000 years, or so embroiled in the mire that he won't be able to campaign. They might be surprised. Let's hope the 6 Scotus judges who are still sane through this out tout suite.
They will be surprised. They should fear the mountain of evidence he has amassed just waiting for the proper time to produce it. We who have no special access to information have seen enough to convince us the election was fraudulent, and have been frustrated by the gigantic cover-up going on that has resulted in zero adjudication of election irregularities. Should the regime succeed in once again not allowing the evidence to be heard it would be proof positive that our government is no longer worthy of trust.
You have nailed it. Trump has been waiting for this moment! I would bet beyond anything that he's got everything he witnessed in the SCIF ready. He has orchestrated this moment by taunting them, and they fell for it.
"the gigantic cover-up going on that has resulted in zero adjudication of election irregularities."
Yes. This is a point lost on my 'liberal' 'friends' who insist that the 2020 election irregularities have been repeatedly litigated by Trumpsters who have lost...every...single...time. As you say, the overwhelming majority of 'losses' have been in courts which have used a myriad of procedural and non-substantive devices to avoid hearing the cases on the merits.
It would appear that this indictment of Trump will allow him to present his case on the merits.
Eli Lake should be declared brain dead. Toast. It is terribly clear that Zhou loves money more than his son, whom he has used shamelessly as a personal bag man. That’s love? Excellent piece from Trump. Heartening.
Great content, per usual high standards. Having done a bit of a deep dive on the JFK Assassination recently, it seems clear the Deep State was in full bloom by the early 60's, having been fueled from the CIA origins post WW2 and the McCarthy era lunacy. Similar to today's neocon anthem of Russia, Russia, Russia their mantra was Commie, Commie, Commie.
Eisenhower tried to warn in his farewell address as he left office:
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. “We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.”
Truman who created the CIA in 1947, wrote (much too late) on Dec 22,1963 in a very carefully worded article in the Washington Post about the danger of the CIA taking over the government:
“I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency—CIA . . . “For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas. We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.”
Basic research into the JFK murder is pregnant with details of a complex executive action operation. Trying to work on peace with the USSR, which he spoke clearly about in the Peace Speech delivered at American University on June 10, 1963 signed his death warrant five months later. (https://youtu.be/0fkKnfk4k40)
Trump disrupting the Hillary power parade was his sin, along with sniffing too close to the Ukraine golden goose, which clearly struck a big nerve.
The operation on Trump was equally complex running from Russia, Russia, Russia during and after the campaign into the Mueller farce. Sniffing in the general direction of Ukraine led to Impeachment 1 and the Covid rearrangement of election process and Jan 6th (Impeachment 2). Like the fruitless Mueller process, we now have a full frontal assault by DOJ and the ongoing promotion of Jan 6th as a critical event in our history.
Hopefully the trial will provide the opportunity for a fun root canal of the actions and inactions of the DOJ, state level election fraud, gov't directed social media censorship and the FBI election meddling of the Hunter laptop which was in their possession for the year prior. They knew it was a bombshell and worked actively to avoid it's detonation until post election.
Hopefully a new administration will revisit the Eisenhower and Truman warnings, along with the documented actions behind the removal of JFK and Trump, with an understanding that too much time has been lost and time is of the essence for saving our great land.
Thank you for this excellent post. It’s plain to see the roots of the chaos and corruption of today go back many decades. The last 3 years have been eye-opening for me learning the REAL history of the world.
Going back a bit farther, I have regarded Trump from the beginning as Tea Party 2.0. When the Tea Party began, the Democrats tried to dismiss it, tried to copy it with their fake "Coffee Party," and even used the IRS to hamper its few organizations. The Republicans varied--a few accepted it, quite a few tried to get their money, and some went along with the Dems. So they stalled the Tea Party, and then they got Trump. And my view ever since 2016 has been that if the Establishment of both parties succeeded in stopping Trump, they will find out that Tea Party 3.0 will be even worse. I don't know who will lead it--DeSantis, Ramaswamy, or someone we haven't even heard of yet. (It won't be Pence, Hutchinson, or Christie.)
But for background on how stuff like this goes, read some American history of the period from 1763-1775. One good source is Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly." One section of the book covers the actions of the British government that triggered the American Revolution. Most of our current politicians are no smarter than George III and his ministers.
Dear Phil - the only item I'd add to your commentary is to note the degree to which the GOPe also tried to dismiss the Tea Party. They effectively aided and abetted the Democrats in the attack on the Tea Party.
He had been. Ronald Reagan had been one, too. The Democrat party has changed drastically in my lifetime. I grew up in a UAW household--my father was an hourly employee at Ford. My parents thought the world of FDR. In the old days, the Dems were the party of the Working Man, and the Repubs were the party of Business (Big and Small). The modern Dems are the party of Big Government, Big Finance, Big Tech, and Big Academia, with assorted out-groups who don't get along all that well. They have abandoned the white working class in favor of blacks, liberal Jews, feminists, gays, Hispanics, Muslims, and now transgenders. They still have the union brass, but not the rank and file.
Historically, it is not uncommon for someone of the upper class to take the side of the lower classes against his own group. Julius Caesar did that in ancient Rome; his rival Pompey was the favorite of the Roman Senate and upper class. FDR was as upper-class as you could be, but he took the side of the workers against the elites.
Nice mention of that great historian, Babs Tuchman. I'm reading "The Proud Tower" about how the supposedly "golden" age of the late 1890s/early 1900s led to WW1. It's pretty much the same script as now: a deluded and arrogant élite and many good men who kept quiet.
Said one President "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Thank you for your superb summary, but it leaves me wondering if there is a solution. Surfing the internet I find a whole gamut of strongly held opinions, and there seems to be no possibility of ever coming together. Are we finished as a Country, capable of coming together for a common cause?
I have a feeling that what is happening in America is a part of what is happening in the whole world: a gradual then rapid parting of the ways between those who accept reality and those who don't.
Yes, long term cold civil war, but in many ways they are at the mercy of we, the people. You put on a show, but if the audience doesn't show up.... They propose, but in many ways we dispose. Sure, they force us to pay taxes and to be careful about J-walking. They make conditions difficult, almost impossible, but we not only muddle through, but craft solutions for our betterment. As for cooperating with their plans, beg us, please, please, with a cherry on top.
Thanks, Ray. Although, a literal repetition of the actual talking points that are out there doesn't really qualify, IMO, as "facetious". Still, my bad.
If Congressman Comer produced deposit slips of cash from Hunter's shell corporations into Joe Biden's bank account, the Dem dweebs would still cry fake.
And on second thought ... "potential"? Strange word choice for a facetious tweet on this subject. Ain't no "potential" about it. Docs, emails, witnesses, bank records.
Third thought. Yeah, now I get the facetiousness of "potential". Rough day today after struggling yesterday with Macs and Mcs. Turns out they were all Macs!
Great article! Has to be Trump, sui generis. Desantis blew it by running. People in FL are not happy with him. The Rino’s screwed him over royally. He is either a deep plant or a dope.
Superb post! Thank you, Mark.
You don't see a compelling alternative ? Open your eyes and meet Gov. Desantis.
DeSantis has proven himself to be part of the GOPe. Too bad he seemed like he could'a been a contenda. He chose to take a fall for the mob and a bribe of money known in politics as a donor cash.
Open your eyes and meet his polling numbers. He's losing advisers who say he's just not a good candidate. His overseas trip--meant to reassure the establishment that they would run his FP--told me pretty much all I needed.
Exactly correct. Some additional points. DeSantis' success nationally rests solely on his usefulness as a foil to Trump. Pity he doesn't see this, as he's damaging himself. There is no running against Trump without putting oneself at odds with the MAGA base, and the policy issues you've so clearly outlined, this election cycle. Like it or not, this is Trump's moment as a majority of GOP voters believe the election was stolen. Additionally, you are absolutely correct to focus on the substance of foreign and domestic policy as the basis for Trump's support. This is key and the personal nonsense and controversies are merely cover. Pity Trump doesn't see this. In any event, the sooner Republicans reconcile to Trump's inevitable victory in the primaries, the sooner the underlying policy issues at stake can be focused upon.
Every prez basically ends up being a FP prez, because prez no longer has any control over spending. Judge on that, then.
I'm reminded from reading "Art of the Deal" the idea that Donald Trump relished courtroom battles.
Looks like the mother of all courtroom battles is in the offing.
I’m still struggling a bit to understand why the extreme hatred, and sabotage of Trump by many so called Conservatives. And the hubris of the Resistance.
I bet a lot of them are getting paid off the same way as the Bidens. I think this is what Trump is trying to expose.
Trump’s a threat to their security, safety, and beliefs.
A position at the trough where the politicians slop up taxpayer money for personal enrichment and power.
Because Trump committed a terrible crime against many of these so-called "conservatives": he showed that they were phonies who were in reality very happy with the Deep State-dominated political landscape. It was all so easy being in opposition, pretending to fight against the bolsheviks. You could earn a good living writing pretentious articles, wearing a bow tie and going on cruise tours discussing "Whither the nation?", knowing that you'd never have to get out there and actually fight and make sacrifices. Then along comes Trump with this crazy idea that conservatives should actually be DOING something real to take on the Deep State, getting their hands dirty, risking losing friends and being smeared by the MSM. Can you imagine rubbish like Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg and Co being okay with that?
Remember their are trillions of dollars at stake. Wall Street ConInc all have allot to loose. Also, the whole DC game could dry up, these people would have to get a job perish the thought.
Indicting Trump "for repeatedly expressing his opinion that the last election was stolen, rigged, and unfair" puts the 2020 election and J6 front and center. I think the administration would have been better advised to leave Trump out of this. Now belatedly they are giving him a platform to make his case on election fraud, and even what actually happened on J6, or on the contrary restricting his right to defend himself which might prove even more damaging.
I just copied this from The Gateway Pundit:
"Now, given the wording and accusations levied in the indictment against President Trump, one of his attorneys, John Lauro, weighed on FOX News with Brett Baier:
“Mr. Trump did what was exactly Constitutionally precise and in order. There was nothing illegal about that and he was required to take steps as President of the United States to ensure that election was held in a valid way. All of that now is being criminalized. The one thing I will say though: in 2020, Mr. Trump’s campaign had a few weeks to gear up and present evidence, it was very difficult. We now have the ability in this case to issue our own subpoenas, and we will re-litigate every single in the 2020 Election in the context of this litigation. It gives President Trump an opportunity that he has never had before, which is to have subpoena power, since January 6th in a way that can be exercised in a Federal court."
Incisive and bold--I like it!
Wow! That is very interesting! Looks like the Deep State may have miscalculated going after Trump over J6. God I hope so!
"Looks like the Deep State may have miscalculated going after Trump over J6."
Isn't it like...kind of a pattern? Ever since Trump descended the Golden Escalator? Time and again Trump's enemies deliver what they think is a knockout punch, only to find themselves lying on the floor?
I am reminded of the old American cartoon series featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner. Wile E. tries everything to catch his target, often deploying a wide variety of ingenious products from the Acme Company. But whatever he tries, it always backfires and Wile E. ends up trapping, flattening, or blowing himself up.
We can only hope!
Will forever love the golden escalator!
Yep. They either want him in prison for 4000 years, or so embroiled in the mire that he won't be able to campaign. They might be surprised. Let's hope the 6 Scotus judges who are still sane through this out tout suite.
They will be surprised. They should fear the mountain of evidence he has amassed just waiting for the proper time to produce it. We who have no special access to information have seen enough to convince us the election was fraudulent, and have been frustrated by the gigantic cover-up going on that has resulted in zero adjudication of election irregularities. Should the regime succeed in once again not allowing the evidence to be heard it would be proof positive that our government is no longer worthy of trust.
You have nailed it. Trump has been waiting for this moment! I would bet beyond anything that he's got everything he witnessed in the SCIF ready. He has orchestrated this moment by taunting them, and they fell for it.
"the gigantic cover-up going on that has resulted in zero adjudication of election irregularities."
Yes. This is a point lost on my 'liberal' 'friends' who insist that the 2020 election irregularities have been repeatedly litigated by Trumpsters who have lost...every...single...time. As you say, the overwhelming majority of 'losses' have been in courts which have used a myriad of procedural and non-substantive devices to avoid hearing the cases on the merits.
It would appear that this indictment of Trump will allow him to present his case on the merits.
Eli Lake should be declared brain dead. Toast. It is terribly clear that Zhou loves money more than his son, whom he has used shamelessly as a personal bag man. That’s love? Excellent piece from Trump. Heartening.
Great content, per usual high standards. Having done a bit of a deep dive on the JFK Assassination recently, it seems clear the Deep State was in full bloom by the early 60's, having been fueled from the CIA origins post WW2 and the McCarthy era lunacy. Similar to today's neocon anthem of Russia, Russia, Russia their mantra was Commie, Commie, Commie.
Eisenhower tried to warn in his farewell address as he left office:
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. “We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.”
Truman who created the CIA in 1947, wrote (much too late) on Dec 22,1963 in a very carefully worded article in the Washington Post about the danger of the CIA taking over the government:
“I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency—CIA . . . “For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas. We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.”
Basic research into the JFK murder is pregnant with details of a complex executive action operation. Trying to work on peace with the USSR, which he spoke clearly about in the Peace Speech delivered at American University on June 10, 1963 signed his death warrant five months later. (https://youtu.be/0fkKnfk4k40)
Trump disrupting the Hillary power parade was his sin, along with sniffing too close to the Ukraine golden goose, which clearly struck a big nerve.
The operation on Trump was equally complex running from Russia, Russia, Russia during and after the campaign into the Mueller farce. Sniffing in the general direction of Ukraine led to Impeachment 1 and the Covid rearrangement of election process and Jan 6th (Impeachment 2). Like the fruitless Mueller process, we now have a full frontal assault by DOJ and the ongoing promotion of Jan 6th as a critical event in our history.
Hopefully the trial will provide the opportunity for a fun root canal of the actions and inactions of the DOJ, state level election fraud, gov't directed social media censorship and the FBI election meddling of the Hunter laptop which was in their possession for the year prior. They knew it was a bombshell and worked actively to avoid it's detonation until post election.
Hopefully a new administration will revisit the Eisenhower and Truman warnings, along with the documented actions behind the removal of JFK and Trump, with an understanding that too much time has been lost and time is of the essence for saving our great land.
Thank you for this excellent post. It’s plain to see the roots of the chaos and corruption of today go back many decades. The last 3 years have been eye-opening for me learning the REAL history of the world.
Agreed, very powerful statement by the Donald. And it also gives me hope that there's at least someone in his orbit who gets the bigger picture.
Going back a bit farther, I have regarded Trump from the beginning as Tea Party 2.0. When the Tea Party began, the Democrats tried to dismiss it, tried to copy it with their fake "Coffee Party," and even used the IRS to hamper its few organizations. The Republicans varied--a few accepted it, quite a few tried to get their money, and some went along with the Dems. So they stalled the Tea Party, and then they got Trump. And my view ever since 2016 has been that if the Establishment of both parties succeeded in stopping Trump, they will find out that Tea Party 3.0 will be even worse. I don't know who will lead it--DeSantis, Ramaswamy, or someone we haven't even heard of yet. (It won't be Pence, Hutchinson, or Christie.)
But for background on how stuff like this goes, read some American history of the period from 1763-1775. One good source is Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly." One section of the book covers the actions of the British government that triggered the American Revolution. Most of our current politicians are no smarter than George III and his ministers.
Dear Phil - the only item I'd add to your commentary is to note the degree to which the GOPe also tried to dismiss the Tea Party. They effectively aided and abetted the Democrats in the attack on the Tea Party.
Wasn’t Trump a Dem back then?
He had been. Ronald Reagan had been one, too. The Democrat party has changed drastically in my lifetime. I grew up in a UAW household--my father was an hourly employee at Ford. My parents thought the world of FDR. In the old days, the Dems were the party of the Working Man, and the Repubs were the party of Business (Big and Small). The modern Dems are the party of Big Government, Big Finance, Big Tech, and Big Academia, with assorted out-groups who don't get along all that well. They have abandoned the white working class in favor of blacks, liberal Jews, feminists, gays, Hispanics, Muslims, and now transgenders. They still have the union brass, but not the rank and file.
Historically, it is not uncommon for someone of the upper class to take the side of the lower classes against his own group. Julius Caesar did that in ancient Rome; his rival Pompey was the favorite of the Roman Senate and upper class. FDR was as upper-class as you could be, but he took the side of the workers against the elites.
George III was mentally unstable so your comparison is spot on.
Nice mention of that great historian, Babs Tuchman. I'm reading "The Proud Tower" about how the supposedly "golden" age of the late 1890s/early 1900s led to WW1. It's pretty much the same script as now: a deluded and arrogant élite and many good men who kept quiet.
Said one President "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Thank you for your superb summary, but it leaves me wondering if there is a solution. Surfing the internet I find a whole gamut of strongly held opinions, and there seems to be no possibility of ever coming together. Are we finished as a Country, capable of coming together for a common cause?
I have a feeling that what is happening in America is a part of what is happening in the whole world: a gradual then rapid parting of the ways between those who accept reality and those who don't.
Yes, long term cold civil war, but in many ways they are at the mercy of we, the people. You put on a show, but if the audience doesn't show up.... They propose, but in many ways we dispose. Sure, they force us to pay taxes and to be careful about J-walking. They make conditions difficult, almost impossible, but we not only muddle through, but craft solutions for our betterment. As for cooperating with their plans, beg us, please, please, with a cherry on top.
Correct, except that I'm not sure if we are totally at their mercy. The best laid plans of mice and men....
Except Eli Lake later tweeted that remark was facetious.
Thanks, Ray. Although, a literal repetition of the actual talking points that are out there doesn't really qualify, IMO, as "facetious". Still, my bad.
Or he tweeted, got lots of pushback, and clarified his position.
The tweet does represent some people’s beliefs / talking points.
If Congressman Comer produced deposit slips of cash from Hunter's shell corporations into Joe Biden's bank account, the Dem dweebs would still cry fake.
And on second thought ... "potential"? Strange word choice for a facetious tweet on this subject. Ain't no "potential" about it. Docs, emails, witnesses, bank records.
Third thought. Yeah, now I get the facetiousness of "potential". Rough day today after struggling yesterday with Macs and Mcs. Turns out they were all Macs!
Both of them are Big Macs too. Especially the colonel. Great man!
Maybe more people are waking up. I don’t know. But maybe. #1 on the charts is a big middle finger to those who would control and dictate.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jason-aldeans-try-that-in-a-small-town-soars-1-billboard-hot-100-wife-brittany-celebrates
Yes, there have been some encouraging signs of resistance. Bud Light was a real counter punch. May it long continue!
Jeff Childers Substack today lays out the process for discovery and notes the negative fraud justification DOJ now has to pursue.
I agree. He really nails it.
So what are the odds that Lake is sane? Biden? Hunter? Clinton?
They have lived lies so long they can no longer tell true from false.
Delusional. Outright numbed.
Spoken by a known liberal liar. No more needs to be said than that flat out truth.