New in PJ Media:
It’s a big lie that could have dangerous consequences, but leftists hate Donald Trump above all things, and so they keep telling it. The claim is that Trump is a dictator-in-the-making who is using the power of the government to persecute his political enemies. Sound familiar? Of course it does.
This is yet another instance in which the left is accusing patriots of doing what they themselves are guilty of doing. It was the Biden regime that corrupted and politicized the Justice Department and other government agencies to go after Trump and others it considered to be its enemies. Now, when Trump is lawfully initiating investigations of some of those who participated in that corruption and politicization, he is being accused of doing what was done to him.
This is dangerous because we have already seen two attempts to assassinate Trump, and as leftist leaders frequently encourage violence among their mindless and fanatical followers, it’s all too easy to imagine someone deciding to become a hero by taking out the man who is, we are constantly told, destroying “our democracy.” Nevertheless, on Wednesday, Politico ran a story entitled “Trump orders investigation of two first-term administration aides who criticized him.” The subhead was even worse: “The president signed executive orders targeting Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor, an escalation of his retribution campaign.”
That’s not what’s happening, of course. Trump, says Politico, “is targeting two former first-term appointees over their criticism of his actions.” But in reality, Chris Krebs, Trump’s former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Miles Taylor, who was a low-level Homeland Security Department official during Trump’s first term, are being investigated for clear dereliction of duty and violations of the public trust.
Trump fired Krebs in November 2020 for claiming that Old Joe Biden’s election to the presidency was entirely on the up-and-up, and that “in every case of which we are aware, these claims” of electoral chicanery “either have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.” Krebs even claimed that “Republican officials, senior officials, including the former President, lied to the American people about the security of the 2020 election,” while mountains of evidence of fraud and other dirty dealing during that election went ignored.
For years, the leftist social media giants deplatformed and silenced anyone who talked about this. But now Trump is quite rightly endeavoring to get to the bottom of this massive act of theft, labeling Krebs “a significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his Government authority.” Politico, as part of the leftist establishment that carried out the fixing of the 2020 election, can’t admit that Trump is right to investigate Krebs without giving up the entire game and incriminating itself, and it isn’t about to do that. And so the lefty rag repeats the lie that Trump, drunk on narcissism and bent on vengeance, is simply persecuting this sterling public servant.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Until now, bureaucrats have unilaterally acted on behalf of Dems and against Republicans, knowing that the former carry a grudge and the latter don’t. Now that the latter is at least not a perception, even if it is still true w/ the caveat that not holding a grudge doesn’t imply no accountability, bureaucrats will think 50 times before acting as water carriers for Dems in future
As for Politico, I suspect they are still smarting after the loss of funding from all those bureaucrats who had individual subscriptions to their site
somehistory says
Yes, every day….not missing one….the “news” feed tells me that Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance and others are going after the innocent democrats, and innocent mozlums, and critics, in a fashion that could compare with stalin. (not their words, but the meaning is certainly there)
BTW, about a dozen students and former students are charged for their actions on campus about a year ago.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pro-palestinian-demonstrators-who-occupied-stanford-building-are-charged-with-felonies/ar-AA1CImM6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=b477a281a0194e65ba9789379992c989&ei=55
And some democrat .has been charged by the DOJ…..sensational headlines….but the story is, he broke laws. If a republican broke the law during bobiden, the headline would have been about the broken laws, not that the doj was going after someone simply for their politics.
Rarely says
Trump is clearly out seeking retribution on his perceived enemies. For example, attacking law firms who acted for clients challenging Trump as well as the American Bar Association, AP, etc, , etc., and etc.
He seems determined to attack anyone who doesn’t adhere 100% to his agenda. It will be interesting to see what happens with respect to Musk’s opposition to tariffs.
Joe1 says
The law firms were at the very least unethically betraying the public interest and likely engaged in criminal activity. If you remember, those firms pleaded guilty and paid a penalty. If they were squeaky clean (as the mob says), they would have fought for their rights. They were not as naive as a 5 year-old virgin; they don’t have “victim status”.
Rarely says
Interesting. Lawyers are obligated to act in their client’s best interest. Their first, and primary obligation is to the Court and not misleading it. “Public interest”. a very vague term at best, is not the major factor. By all accounts they were attacked for having acted for clients and causes unpopular with the White House. What exactly did those firms plead guilty to? OR did they simply make an accommodation (I.e. succumb to White House pressure) so they would not be barred from US federal courts and their remaining clients would not be punished for using them?
Did they not just succumb? They were severely criticized in the legal community for doing so.
James Lincoln says
Rarely,
The American Bar Association and the Associated Press are both leftist organizations – both anti-Trump. They should be fair game.
Law firms are different. Unless they are doing something illegal – they should defend their clients to the best of their abilities even on cases where the defendants are “objectionable” to a “normal person”.