Joe Biden appeared with a smile on his face when he greeted President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Nov. 13, perhaps in recognition that he is the only candidate who has defeated Trump in a race for the presidency. However, he has since gone on a campaign of planting metaphorical landmines and hand grenades in an apparent attempt to hinder the smooth transition he promised that day.
Also, during his lame duck final months in office, the Biden administration is continuing its weaponization and politicization of the Department of Justice, investigating some of Elon Musk’s companies, using the Antitrust Division to target other firms and pursuing states that attempted to keep illegal migrants off the voter rolls. House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan sent a letter to the department demanding answers on these matters and insisting that they preserve all records.
Among the actions Biden has taken are the authorization of long-range U.S.-made missiles, the ATACMS, to be fired into Russia, already provoking new missile attacks by Russia and the threat of a nuclear war. Even CNN has highlighted the inconsistency and recklessness of the decision, noting that, similar to the situation with tanks, MiGs, and HIMARS, Ukraine had been begging for this aid for years.
CNN waited until after the election to call out the Biden administration for essentially tying Ukraine’s hands behind its back in fighting Russia while simultaneously proclaiming its unwavering support. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN’s Chief International Security Correspondent, addressed this post-election policy shift by Biden and its implications, making the following points:
- There aren’t enough of these missiles being sent to make a difference;
- This is a complete about face for the Biden administration, which for a long time said they didn’t want to make this decision because of how “escalatory” it would be for the war;
- This “symbolic move” gets the U.S. more “deeply involved” in the war at an “utterly key time;”
- It will likely complicate the situation for incoming President Trump,
- It “follows a very familiar pattern” for the Biden administration in terms of aid to Ukraine in that it’s the same thing they did with the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) precision missiles, the Abrams Tanks, and the F-16 jets; “all things Ukraine has asked for for months and they’ve been told by the White House they can’t have them. Allies have stepped forward publicly and privately and briefed how much they want this technology to be given to Ukraine and then ultimately, almost when perhaps Ukraine has given up asking, the technology is furnished to Kiev. It’s exactly the same story with these ATACMs.”
In another situation, Biden ramped up sanctions on Israel while easing them on Hamas and Hezbollah, according to the New York Post. “Despite an ongoing campaign of terror by Palestinians in the West Bank, Biden has used his order to target Jews almost exclusively,” according to the outlet.
But under the category of having it both ways, the Biden administration, to its credit, vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution approved by the other 14 members on November 20 that called for a cease-fire in Gaza without insisting on the release of hostages by Hamas. It also condemned the International Criminal Court, which the following day issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On another disastrous policy move by the outgoing administration, the Biden administration is eliminating in-person check-ins for migrants and replacing them with an app, to go into effect next month, according to the New York Post.
“The outgoing administration intends to launch an ICE Portal app starting in early December in New York City that will allow migrants to bypass in-person check-ins to their local ICE office.”
I could go on. Biden is seeking another $100 billion for “disaster relief,” which if approved could be a parting slush fund, and if declined by a GOP-led House, would be used by Democrats as an example of Republicans’ callous demeanor.
This has been a rough time for the mainstream media, after pushing so hard for a Kamala Harris win in the election earlier this month. What was generally propaganda acting in the service of trying to get Kamala Harris elected, by the likes of CNN, MSNBC, ABC, The New York Times and Washington Post, has given way to a period of reflection and a circular firing squad, trying to figure out what went wrong.
After Trump’s first week of cabinet picks, most of the media were in stunned silence, not believing that with all the thousands of times that they and their guests suggested Trump was a fascist and Hitlerian, and often wondering how it could be so close a race, that this could be the outcome. Didn’t America hear or heed their warning?
Apparently a majority of voters just weren’t buying it. They could see for themselves — at the border, at the grocery store, on university campuses, along with the use of the Biden-Harris Justice Department to go after their political opponents, the debacle in Afghanistan, the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Blaming it all on Trump and the Republicans wasn’t believable and didn’t stick. The country had seen four years of each administration.
Trump won both the electoral and popular vote, the GOP held on to the House, barely, but they have won back the Senate and have 27 governors compared to the Democrats’ 23. Landslide? Mandate? Those terms are in the eye of the beholder, but change is in the air. Meanwhile, the lawfare cases are falling by the wayside, one at a time, all headed for the ash heap of history where they belong.
Now, while the evidence is still attainable, it is time to investigate the 2020 election, the January 6th Capitol riots, and the evidence of lawfare against Trump and his allies. Not retribution, not revenge, just truth, justice and reconciliation.
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