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What the DOJ and FBI are up to these days

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From Scott Johnson at Powerline:

The FBI appears to have taken up the role of the ruling party’s enforcement arm.

I submit that that happened a long time ago.

The post contains many links to help you get up to speed. It’s very chilling.

Andrew McCarthy has his own take on it, beginning with this:

The Justice Department is engaged in subterfuge to conceal its focus on the former president.

In the last week, the Biden Justice Department has taken aggressive investigative actions against former Trump administration officials and advisers. What is going on could not be more obvious: Egged on by the House January 6 committee and progressive Democrats who want former president Donald Trump to be criminally charged in connection with the Capitol riot, the department has obtained search warrants to raid the home of former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and seize the cellphone of John Eastman, one of Trump’s private lawyers.

I think they are afraid of Trump 2024. But I think deSantis could be an even stronger candidate. Nevertheless, they would like Trump and anyone who ever helped him to be put away as a warning to others in the future and as revenge against him for the past.

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What the DOJ and FBI are up to these days — 58 Comments

  2. I hope that this will be a case of “ready, aim, shoot self in foot”.

    If they keep this up and force Trump out of the race, thereby clearing the way for DeSantis or Pompeo that will be a big plus for the GOP. At least IMO.

    My concern is that Trump will divide the GOP vote.

    I consider either DeSantis or Pompeo to be the best possible GOP candidate, and the best potential President. Both are extraordinarily intelligent. Both are demonstrably tough. Both have Executive Level experience. Of the two, DeSantis is the more flamboyant, and the more experienced politician. But, Pompeo is plenty articulate; and comes across as a serious, and trustworthy person..

  4. DC can’t allow someone to reach the White House without going through the parties. It happened once and they won’t let it happen again.

  5. Our system of justice is completely broken, perhaps beyond the point of possible repair. It is a matter not only of the complete politicization and the utter corruption of the FBI/DOJ, but of the entirety of the structure of law enforcement. A very lamentable manifestation of this tragic consequence of the “long march” is the recent release from custody of the incompetent Somali cop (Mohamed Noor) who, for no reason whatsoever, shot and killed an Australian woman (Justine Damond) in Maoist Minneapolis five years ago and has just finished serving a ludicrously paltry sentence.

  6. Oldflyer, I’m with you.

    Whether Trump, DeSantis, Pompeo, or some other, the candidate needs to be prepared to clean out the federal government. Trump waited too long, and they got him.

  7. Andy McCarthy is back to his shocked mode about that woman’s testimony from yesterday.

    At this point I don’t care if he eventually comes around on these issues because he continually falls for them at the beginning time after time.

  8. I prefer DeSantis, Pompeo, or some other conservative rather than Trump for 2024. It seems that a lot of conservative politicians have learned from Trump that standing for the right things without caving to the leftist media is the way to go. These Trump “bombshells” keep getting knocked down, over and over, but the cumulative effect is damaging. The new wave of Republicans will also be vilified, but not as effectively.

  10. Kate,

    Not sure how popular this statement would be but I don’t think Trump could beat anybody outside of maybe Biden in 2024 and Biden won’t be running. The amount of gettable voters that will NEVER vote for Trump is just too high.

    On top of that just the constant drama is just too much and it is not all about the media creating the drama either a good portion of it is on Trump himself.

    DeSantis is the choice for me right now. He is young and has a great life story with a beautiful young family and he can tell the great success story that is Florida.

  11. It’s been going on since Barky days, they worked against DJT from his first day. And like to remind everyone the FBI has taken down 2 Republican Presidents.
    And don’t get how someone who just has hearsay to pass along is a prime witness.

  13. Related:
    “The Astonishing Implications of Schedule F”—
    https://brownstone.org/articles/the-astonishing-implications-of-schedule-f/
    H/T Instapundit.
    Key grafs:
    ‘Two weeks before the 2020 general election, on October 21, 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order (E.O. 13957) on “Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service.” …
    ‘…It sounds boring. Actually, it would have fundamentally changed, in the best possible way, the entire functioning of the administrative bureaucracy that rules this country in a way that bypasses both the legislative and judicial process, and has ruined the checks and balances inherent in the US Constitution….
    ‘…Donald Trump came into office with the promise of draining the swamp, without understanding entirely what that meant. He gradually came to realize that he had no control over most of the affairs of government…
    ‘…In May of 2018, [Trump] took his first steps to gain some modicum of control over this deep state. He issued three executive orders (E.O. 13837, E.O. 13836, and E.O.13839) that would have diminished their access to labor-union protection when being pressed on the terms of their employment. Those three orders were litigated by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and sixteen other federal labor unions.
    ‘All three were struck down with a decision by a DC District Court. The presiding judge was Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was later rewarded for her decision with a nomination to the Supreme Court….’
    ‘…Trump’s next step was radical and brilliant: the creation of a new category of federal employment. It was called Schedule F. …
    ‘…Ninety days after October 21, 2020 would have been January 19, 2021, the day before the new president was to be inaugurated. The Washington Post commented ominously: “Mr. Trump will try to realize his sad vision in his second term, unless voters are wise enough to stop him.”
    ‘Biden was declared the winner due mostly to mail-in ballots.
    ‘On January 21, 2021, the day after inauguration, Biden reversed the order….’

  14. T,
    Crooks and Liars are just that, crooks and liars.

    From the new testimony, Trump not only knew members of his MAGA crowd were carrying weapons to his speech, he demanded to remove the metal detectors so they could bring them to the US Capitol.

    This is just a big stinking pile of poo. Liberals are the party of poo.

    As to McCarthy’s comments– Hutchinson’s testimony has already been refuted twice. She’s just a grifter looking for her 15 minutes.

    The whole idea that Trump’s “intimidation” of Pence constitutes a crime is a farce.

    The one advantage President Trump has is his money. At some point DeSantis or Pompeo are any other candidate will have to go looking for money. And that is the leverage that will be their undoing. The people with money are fine with the globalist, wall st. agenda. They hated Trump’s America First policies. Republicans are no different than Democrats.

    Remember the lip service Republicans gave to building a wall back when Bush was president? They even passed a bill called the Secure Fence Act. It was a con.

  16. i agree about DeSantis, the fascists may be shooting themselves in the foot by destroying Trump

  17. Did I hear correctly that DR. Christine Blasey Ford is, as we speak, on her way to DC…to testify that she had a vision that everything Hutchinson says is the ABSOLUTE truth…as far as she can remember…(but, she continued, the vision was a bit murky, which she is certain is the fault of Trump’s simply awful vibes, distractions and continuous efforts to spiritually destroy his opponents)?

    (…Or maybe it was just my extraordinary intuition…or my vivid imagination….)

  18. Brian E, I think I have read that DeSantis has raised something like $150 million for his gubernatorial campaign. I think he could raise lots of money to run for president.

  19. It would be best if DeSantis stayed in Florida, and (assuming he is re elected) spent his second term continue to build up the state as a successful, conservative paragon.

    If the last five and a half years have taught us anything it is that the Presidency has largely become a figurehead office. The administrative state, along with their byzantine network of NGOs, lobbyists, think tanks and the beltway media runs the executive branch. They can thwart a President easily (Trump) or pull all the puppet strings of one just as easily (Biden).

    The swamp is undrainable. The best course of action is to construct and offer successful alternatives at the state level. That’s what DeSantis is currently doing and should continue to do.

  21. “I think he (DeSantis) could raise lots of money to run for president.” -Kate

    No doubt. But that’s not the issue. What strings will be attached to that money?

    President Trump got the support of rust belt democrats. The roles of the two parties were upended with Trump creating a populist movement of blue collar/ small business owners while the democrats became the chamber of commerce/ international corporatists.

    The Bushes were a disappointment. For all their supposed conservatism, they were internationalists. What the last 35 years have shown is the fortunes of the forgotten Americans have suffered, while the investor class seems to have prospered, at their expense.

    This is not really an anti-DeSantis/pro-Trump rant. In fact, how about DeSantis for president and Trump as Secretary of State? Now, that would upset the world order (in a positive way).

  22. Nope, the Feds have been aiming a bit higher in the last 5 years, more like bottom surgery. People have noticed IMO.

  23. DeSantis looks good right now largely because all of the fire is still focused on Donald Trump. He’s pretty clearly not a Mitt Romney but we don’t really know how he would handle things in the White House.

    And the guy did win the Florida governorship by like 0.4% of the vote, so he’s not necessarily the greatest campaigner on Earth.

    A Trump/DeSantis ticket in 2024 seems like the natural choice to me.

    Mike

  24. What needs to happen is to shear off the crime lab and the cybersecurity portions and shut down the rest of the FBI, debarring its employees from working in federal law enforcement. It’s not that it has outlived its usefulness, it’s that we have specialized services to cover discrete areas and the FBI is now more trouble than it is worth given its rotten institutional culture.

  25. MBunge,

    ‘0.4%’

    In 2018 a very bad year for Republicans to run for office.

  26. For all their supposed conservatism, they were internationalists.

    The internationalist-isolationist dichotomy is anachronistic, and, with respect to starboard politics, has been so for 60-odd years. The distinction is between patriots and sellouts. As far as I can see, in Congress, the sellouts include 98% of the Democratic caucus and about 1/3 of the Republican caucus, including Bitc* McConnell.

  27. I know I’m being selfish, but as a new resident of Florida I kinda hope DeSantis stays put. There’s a lot of hate towards him in the cities that needs to be dealt with. Plus all the NY locusts moving here to turn it blue.

    He would make a great prez. Trump would lose just because of all the hate directed at him.

  28. and yet mccarthy fell for the banana in the tail pipe again, as he did with plame, with mueller, with vindman, the january 6th

    desantis has the velvet glove, with his veiled fist, we dodged too bullets the blanc mange putnam in the primary and the indicted down low tweaker in the general, he’s had to be the shadow president, as far as he could manage, challenging the mandates and other elements

    but with a pair of corrupt security organs (as the brits would say) and equally corrupt media, the truth the law doesn’t matter

  29. The DOJ and FBI acting as the democrat party’s enforcement arm will in the long run prove to be a pyrrhic victory for the Left. Ultimately it is unsustainable without resorting to an undeniable and blatant tyranny.

    I’m not particularly impressed with Pompeo. I like De Santis, he fights and is much more articulate than Trump, while keeping his points simple to understand.

    But given Dominion’s widespread infiltration and acceptance of late mail in votes and undated voter ballets in swing states, upon what basis would we expect that any republican can now win the Presidency? Have I missed some reforms outside strong republican control?

  30. Griffin (4:05 pm) is “not sure how popular this statement would be but I don’t think Trump could beat anybody outside of maybe Biden in 2024 and Biden won’t be running. The amount of gettable voters that will NEVER vote for Trump is just too high.”

    For what it’s worth, the statement is popular with me. I agree with it, particularly taking into account the amount of voters gettable by whatever means necessary in key states. I also agree with the balance of your comment, very much including your determination that “DeSantis is the choice for me right now.”

  31. “Whether Trump, DeSantis, Pompeo, or some other, the candidate needs to be prepared to clean out the federal government.” Kate

    I agree but absent radical Congressional action, upon what legal basis would President accomplish that goal?

    Griffen,

    Andy McCarthy, whom I once held in some respect… is a dissapointment.

    “I don’t think Trump could beat anybody outside of maybe Biden in 2024 and Biden won’t be running. The amount of gettable voters that will NEVER vote for Trump is just too high.”

    Perhaps so but… the democrats are doing their level best to dissuade their base from voting. Nor should we forget that Biden did not get the highest # of votes… ever.

    Brian E,

    “At some point DeSantis or Pompeo are any other candidate will have to go looking for money.”

    I strongly suspect that the great majority of money donated in Presidential campaigns is wasted, pissed down the drain.

    Ackler,

    Unless you posit that Trump wins and succeeds in slaying the federal Medusa… If De Santis stays Governor, how long will he be able to make headway against the federal juggernaught? Do you doubt that the dems have plans to rein in the States’… ‘noncompliance’?

    MBunge,

    Based on past performance, I think we have a pretty good idea of how De Santis would perform as President. Unlike Trump’s gut instinct approach, De Santis acts from deeply held principles.

    Art Deco,

    “What needs to happen is to shear off the crime lab and the cybersecurity portions and shut down the rest of the FBI, debarring its employees from working in federal law enforcement.”

    What needs to happen and what are politically achievable are two horses of a different color. Congress would have to shut down any federal agency.

    Upon what legal basis might the debarring of the FBI’s former employees from working in the future in federal law enforcement be achieved?

    The distinction is between nationalists and internationalists.

    “As far as I can see, in Congress, the sellouts include 98% of the Democratic caucus and about 1/3 of the Republican caucus, including Bitc* McConnell.”

    That’s a remarkably optimistic estimate 😉

  32. mccarthy has gone from mere disdain to strong hatred, from fool to knave, how many voted for this treacherous gun proscription, 14, thats almost a quarter of the caucus,

  33. Ackler:

    A figurehead office? Hardly.

    Presidents don’t have much power over what the bureaucracies do, but they have plenty of power nevertheless. Look what Trump accomplished (and what Biden has mostly destroyed) in terms of immigration, foreign policy, energy independence, Title IX, and judicial appointments.

  34. Andrew McCarthy has always been a creature of the Beltway, and always will be; it’s his ecosphere. I used to at least enjoy his occasional perspective from that understood vantage point, kind of like Peggy Noonan, but like Peggy, I’ve given up trying as they dig themselves deeper into their thought-hole.

    To me, that people are saying Trump ‘shouldn’t run’ is indicative of the corrosive, pervasive, toxic influence of the constant anti-Trump propaganda. ‘Too divisive’ many of them say. But he wasn’t divisive; the attack on him, his personality, his policy, his comportment was unrelenting, 99% negative 100% of the time, from 95% of the Legacy Corporate Media.

    And this is its net effect – a negative connotation has been successfully attached to Trump that is alienating voters that would ordinarily by inclined to judge him by his policy results as well as his sometimes oafish comments. They’re afraid of bad future press coverage. Much easier to shy away than, for example, stay outraged about show trials and sham impeachments, where the machinery of government is being harnessed to persecute political enemies large and small. A sad commentary on the power of science-driven influencing.

    And Ron deSantis, charismatic as he now appears, has never had to contenc with back-stabbing RINOs targeting his policy and ambitions, and does not have the experience to confront the treacheries of veteran pols like Mitch McConnell, may he roast in perdition forever. Nor does he have the executive experience that Trump has come by the hard way. It’ll be an interesting 2023.

    There’s a fellow here in town that is under house arrest by the Jan 6 committee. He was there apparently – but never went inside the Capitol. And yet here he is – under house arrest a year and a half later.

    And I read last night the FBI, with helicopter and drone backup, raided the rural home in south Texas of a retired couple, threw some flash bangs into their busted-in home, scared their dogs off, cuffed them, and then – later – decided not to arrest them after all. Eventually they produced the warrant. Same story – the people were there on the 6th, but never went into the Capitol.

  35. Remember when Reagan was going to shutter the Department of Education, which had only been formed the year before his election?

    How did that work out?

  36. This happened no later than early 1993 with investigations culminating in the firing of the White House travel office personnel. Since Clinton had not been president for more than a few weeks it is clear that the FBI was doing this at the behest of the Democrat party and not merely the Clintons.

  37. Aggie, to be clear, if Trump is the nominee I’ll vote for him with enthusiasm.

  38. “The FBI appears to have taken up the role of the ruling party’s enforcement arm.”
    If “ruling party” means the Democrats, whether they hold the office of president or not, then I agree. They most clearly worked against President Trump during his term.

  39. “Based on past performance, I think we have a pretty good idea of how De Santis would perform as President. Unlike Trump’s gut instinct approach, De Santis acts from deeply held principles.”

    Yeah, I don’t want to beat up on DeSantis but he’s never had to face anything like what Trump has had to deal with. He’s gotten about 1/100th the attention from the national media and never had to deal with GOP backstabbing from people like Mitch McConnel or Mitt Romney. And do we have any idea what his foreign policy would be? Is DeSantis going to stand up to the neocons and the military industrial complex?

    This is “backup quarterback syndrome.” I’d rather stick with the starter who would begin his first day in office with absolutely no fear and no need to worry about ever facing another election.

    Mike

  41. My preference at this point would be DeSantis over Trump, but I will enthusiastically vote for whoever wins the Republican nomination. My biggest fear is that if DeSantis somehow manages to win the nomination, Trump’s ego wouldn’t allow him to support DeSantis in the general election and cause many of the diehard Trump fans to stay home.

  42. If you didn’t see Tucker’s monologue tonight watch it. It speaks directly to this topic and really calls out the terrorizing of the opposition by this administration by using the DoJ and the FBI

  43. I don’t doubt there are many who hate Trump, but when his campaign simply compares things like immigration, crime, inflation, energy prices, etc to what they are under the Democrats many will look into their wallets and purses and vote for him anyhow. They just won’t admit it.

  45. Yawrate,
    That’s the way I feel, but we mustn’t give up hope.

    I saw the Tucker in Brazil episode that physicsguy mentions. I’ve been thinking about the comparisons between Brazilian gov. corruption and prosecutions and US gov. corruption for a while. Unfortunately, I only have rather minimal knowledge of the former.

    Tucker warns that the US could become as bad as Brazil. Are we not there yet? I’m not sure. I’m not shooting for hyperbole here, I just wonder if it is not an open question.

    Brazil had this massive “Operation Car Wash” investigation. The former president Lula da Silva did 580 days of prison time and the then current president Dilma Rousseff was impeached and removed from office. They were hard left. Could this have happened here?

    If you read more details on the above it gets much more complicated. Lula’s case was handled by a plethora of courts over time with extreme variations in results. It might be true that their courts are much worse than ours in general.

  46. But I think deSantis could be an even stronger candidate.

    Agreed. Articulate but not overmuch, no loose cannon, enters scraps and wins.

  47. What we’re up against in 2024:
    1. Divisions within the Republican Party.
    2. Weak or undependable prominent Republicans formerly presumed to be solid, trustworthy, and smart.
    3. Minimal understanding among many Republican voters of the mounting threat of overturning our way of life, probably permanently.
    4. The entrenched corruption in federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies as co-opted by the left; their brazen willingness to use their power to intimidate and defeat their enemies.
    5. No guarantee that the 2024 election will be any more transparent than 2020; the Democrats will be more devious and you can be sure they’re already laying the groundwork for another takeover of the process, with no shortage of resources.
    6. Despite many effective voices—conservative, centrist, center-left, even progressive—speaking up, I don’t yet see an organized resistance effort that could make a difference. I don’t even see how that could happen, but it’s needed.

  49. What the [Democrats] are up to these days:
    “South Carolina Lawmaker in Leaked Audio Strategizes ‘Sleepers,’ ‘Dope Money’ to Finance Senate Campaign”—
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/south-carolina-rep-in-leaked-audio-strategizes-sleepers-and-dope-money-to-finance-senate-campaign_4562090.html
    Key grafs:
    ‘A South Carolina state lawmaker who was on the June 28 ballot in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary runoff has been heard in leaked audio strategizing on how to utilize Democratic “sleepers” to run as Republicans in local elections, as well as requesting drug money from a state prison inmate.
    ‘Project Veritas, the watchdog organization that obtained the recording…verified [that] state Rep. Krystle Matthews was the person speaking with Perry Correctional Institution inmate David Solomon Ballard.
    ‘ “When we get enough of us in there, we can wreak havoc for real from the inside out,” Matthews is heard saying in the recording, dated Feb. 15….’

    I guess it was a bit too much to expect of Liz Cheney (of “Democrats-should-switch-parties-to-vote-for-ME-in-the-primaries” fame) that she’d actually try anything truly original…

  51. Maybe someone can explain to me why the deep state is so adamant about destroying Trump.

    What exactly did he do that offends or scares them so much?

    He has not occupied any political office since Jan 2021 and yet the dems and the deep state (but I repeat myself) are looking to either impeach him, yet once again, or indict him, yet once again, or actually toss him in jail.
    Why such a profound animus towards Trump?

    Something just smells real bad, and it has to be more than just a personal dislike for the guy.
    Something deeper is afoot.

  52. I have learned not to underestimate Trump and his ability to win. I agree on DeSantis mainly because he engages and fights like Trump but in a less offensive (to many) way. To be clear, I am not the least bit offended or upset by Trump’s style, but I think he makes a lot of people in the middle cringe.

    The lifelong politicians and power brokers hate Trump because he threatens their power and, I believe, ability to enrich themselves off the public. They continue their assaults on Trump in the hopes of distracting much of the public from the abysmal performance of the Biden presidency.

    I have no doubt that if DeSantis runs he will be attacked and vilified just as enthusiastically as Trump has been. He doesn’t have the sort of background, like Trump has, that will make it easy, but I have no doubt they will come up with something.

  53. Upon what legal basis might the debarring of the FBI’s former employees from working in the future in federal law enforcement be achieved?

    Statutory law.

  56. They’ve got most of the country to believe that the old man was fighting with secret service agents for the control of a moving vehicle based on a completely fabricated account, so why do you think Desantis won’t be easily ruined by a lie? If I were a Democrat strategist, I would go with the most absurd lie possible–Desantis is holding a black woman as a slave in his basement, systematically rapes her, and his wife and kids take pleasure in whipping daily with a cat o nine tails. They’ll produce the paid actor with Hollywood-created scars and wounds to make these accusations in court and he’ll go to jail before the 2024 election.

  57. @ saveit – after the Blasey-Ford spectacle, among other candidates for the Democrats’ “Oscar,” it’s easy to believe what you suggested is possible.

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