There are so many lies and absurdities that comprised the No Kings demonstrations that took place on October 18 that it is hard to know where to begin.
It is about democracy, they say, and Trump is the person undermining our democracy. Yes, we’re a republic, not a democracy, but let’s just say by democracy they mean that our leaders are elected by the eligible voters participating in the voting process. Trump won a significant election less than a year ago – whether it was a landslide is in the eye of the beholder – winning 312 electoral votes, all seven swing states, the popular vote, and more than 85% of counties across the country, according to Brookings.
But of course, we don’t elect the winner by the number of counties won. Nor do we decide the winner by the number of individual votes received across the country. It is only by the number of electoral votes.
So what makes Trump a king? Is it that everyone is afraid to criticize him on air, for fear of being censored, or worse? It’s clear Jimmy Kimmel, our First Amendment martyr, is not afraid in the least to criticize Trump. Nor is Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and everyone on MSNBC and CNN, 60 Minutes and The View. Such courage.
What they won’t do is give Trump any credit for ending wars, orchestrating ceasefire agreements, closing the border that the Biden administration left open, allowing more than 20 million unvetted people into this country, complete with government-paid hotel rooms, food and healthcare, not to mention the amount of crime, death, rapes, sex trafficking, and drug trafficking that came with it. If they were to give Trump any credit, they would be pulled off the air, hounded by their fans, doxed and maybe even be murdered.
Biden never lifted a finger to stop wars. In fact, he enriched and empowered Iran to the tune of about $200 billion, mostly in oil sales to China, leading to the seven-front war against Israel. The mixed signals he sent encouraged Russia to invade Ukraine in February 2022. He claimed to be backing Israel and Ukraine, while in both cases tying their hands behind their backs and not being candid about what he was out to accomplish. He also enriched and empowered Communist China, while enriching himself and his family in exchange.
You may not like Trump’s bragging or his attacking and mocking some of his enemies. But he closed the border and has been enforcing our immigration laws, and has launched a new era of economic growth, energy independence, and ending wars, which Biden never attempted.
Trump and nearly every member of his cabinet and staff take question after question from all members of the media, and give frank and substantive answers, as compared to Biden’s rare press briefings where he might take three or four questions, generally scripted on both ends, with largely substance-free answers or outright lies.
And when it comes to abiding by court rulings limiting presidential authority, Trump has done so, often grudgingly, while Biden mostly ignored them if they got in his way.
The “No Kings” demonstrators say Trump has weaponized the justice system and gone after his political opponents. That of course is pure projection. As has been well documented, it was the Obama/Biden/Hillary Clinton team, including James Comey, John Brennan, Andrew McCabe and others that invented the Russia collusion hoax, manipulated intelligence reports, and knowingly lied to the FISA court about the Steele Dossier to give them a basis to spy on Trump and his allies.
All the while, they knew the Steele Dossier was false and paid-for opposition research. Comey leaked classified information through a friend and associate to the New York Times for the specific purpose of getting a special counsel appointed to investigate Trump and everyone in his orbit.
After he was out as president as the result of a stolen election, and only when he announced his candidacy for 2024 in November 2022, the Biden administration and other of its minions, including Fani Willis in Georgia and Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, as well as Letitia James, and Jack Smith, went to work on behalf of a truly weaponized Department of Justice and FBI to take down a former president and some of his top allies.
This past week we learned that under Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and FBI Director Christopher Wray all signed off on opening the Arctic Frost investigation, which formed the basis of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s false elector case against Trump, as well as for other Biden administration investigations into then-former President Trump.
Yet Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine, one of the esteemed establishment organs of the anti-Trump deep state, said in a recent interview that “until this president, we have not experienced a person who has, frankly, you know, authoritarian impulses and who believes that the government should be used as a weapon against his domestic political enemies.”
Where have you been this past decade, Jeffrey? Asleep at the wheel, willfully ignorant, or just dishonest as hell?
As I was finishing up this column, I saw Victor Davis Hanson’s article, “Joe Biden — and fellow Democrats — acted way more like a ‘king’ than Donald Trump,” on the same topic. There is some overlap, and he gives some additional examples explaining that the real authoritarians who acted like unchecked monarchs were Biden and Obama while they were in office, leaders from Democrat-led states and the left in general.
For example, “No red state ever sought to remove Biden or former Vice President Kamala Harris from their 2024 ballots. In contrast, 25 blue states attempted to take Trump off their ballots,” wrote Hanson.
Another one: “In 2024, the same backroom donors and politicos who had conspired to ensure Biden was the 2020 nominee now, against his wishes, in coup-like fashion, removed him from his own re-election ticket.
“Within 48 hours and without a delegate vote, they crowned Harris the presumed nominee. Queen Harris had not received a single delegate vote in her disastrous 2020 primary run.”
That’s democracy in action. I recommend reading his complete article.
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