RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/biden-harris-doj-is-poised-to-end-lawfare-pursuit-of-trump/

Hopefully, the feds’ example will influence the progressive Democratic state prosecutors to stand down.

I confess to being pleasantly surprised by reports this afternoon that Biden-Harris Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith will end DOJ’s two cases against President-elect Donald Trump: the so-called January 6 (J6) case in Washington, D.C., and the Mar-a-Lago documents case in Florida (currently on appeal to the Eleventh Circuit).

Pleasantly surprised . . . but not shocked.

As I tried to explain in a column we posted a short while ago, the expungement of the cases — whether by pardon or dismissal by the Justice Department — is deeply in the interests of President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

Biden, of course, will soon be pardoning his son, Hunter, pre-election avowals to the contrary notwithstanding. In a vacuum, extinguishing the felony gun and tax convictions would be seen as corrupt self-dealing. But once the Trump cases are dismissed, the Hunter pardon will be seen as part of a clemency package that moves the country away from the era of lawfare — the Biden-Harris administration’s exploitation of the government’s law-enforcement apparatus as a weapon against their chief political adversary.

Democrats, moreover, must comprehend that the lawfare campaign against Trump was deeply unpopular outside Trump-obsessed circles. It was regarded as un-American by much of the country. Further, it lulled Democrats into a false sense of security that made them think they could win a presidential campaign based on sheer anti-Trump animus and with a vapid candidate — Vice President Kamala Harris — who tried to run on vibes rather than substance and policy (having turned away from the woke-progressive ideas she held until about five minutes before the nomination was handed to her).

In addition, Biden would not be giving up much by dismissing the federal Trump cases. If it were pursued, it would take years to get the J6 case to trial. The same goes for the Mar-a-Lago case, assuming DOJ wins its appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the indictment (on finding that Smith’s special-counsel appointment violated the Constitution’s appointments clause), which is no sure thing.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/our-elections-utter-losers-and-winners/

Deservedly Losers

The polls—with the exception once again of AltasIntel, Trafalgar, and Rasmussen—were off, and way off in the Senate races.

The pollsters’ reputation is again in full reverse and now back to their nadir of 2020 and 2016. Many shamelessly warped their data in the last two weeks to gin up Harris momentum, fund-raising, and voter turnout.

And to no avail.

There were plenty of indications long ago in key states of a Trump thunderstorm: defections of minorities, anger among both the Jewish and Muslim voters, alienated union members, massive increases in Republican registrations and non-Election-Day balloting. And all were deliberately ignored by the corrupt media and pollsters.

Democrats know—but will do nothing about the fact—they have become the party of the upscale professionals and rich, and the subsidized poor. They have alienated the entire middle class—white, black, Hispanic—and ceding it to the new Republican populist-nationalist party.

Open borders, hyperinflation, abortion deification, the transgendered mania, the crime wave, and the green obsessions all did their bit to repel voters. The “racist” Trump won more minority support than any Dole, McCain, or Romney figure of the past.

What now will the buffoonish Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, and Jack Smith do with their pseudo-indictments and convictions?

Try to nullify an American election by putting the president-elect in jail, as the projectionist and now paranoid Left screams that a soon to be President Trump might lawfare them in the manner they did him?

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/07/harris-was-always-doomed/

The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us.

Instead, the great Trump comeback victory was clear by the last weeks of the campaign.

The Republicans had made massive gains in voter registrations since 2020, when Trump had lost the Electoral College by only a few thousand strategically placed votes.

Republicans began to master the transition to non-Election Day balloting—first engineered by the left in 2020 under the pretext of COVID.

They not only vastly exceeded their early/mail-in voting totals of 2020, but by Election Day, they often outpaced Democrats.

For months, it was widely reported, albeit grudgingly, that there were large defections in Hispanic and African American voters from Harris.

The betting odds over the last three weeks usually favored Trump.

Harris simply could not run on anything she had so emphatically promoted in the past—given these left-wing, unpopular, and failed policies had no majority support.

So, the chameleon Harris renounced her prior 30 years of earlier radical advocacies that, along with her race and gender, had forced Joe Biden in 2020 to select her as vice president.

There was no way Harris could still support banning fracking, defunding police, opposing border security and the wall, or calling for mass amnesties and an end to the border patrol.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/the_greatest_comeback_of_all_time.html

The “experts” said it couldn’t be done.  They called him a “loser” and an “illegitimate” president whose time in office should be stricken from the pages of history.  Political pundits said his refusal to accept the mail-in-ballot-fraud-tainted 2020 election results made him an “insurrectionist” and a “dangerous threat to democracy.”  Democrat prosecutors and judges threw his supporters in jail.  Democrat operatives in the FBI and DOJ insinuated that he is a “Russian spy” and “domestic enemy” who should be convicted of treason.  The most hoity-toity “reporters” from the fanciest newspapers in the land said that Americans would never elect a criminal defendant facing the possibility of life in prison.  All of the “very best people” from the “most respected institutions” told us that Donald Trump’s political comeback was impossible.

They…were…wrong.

No president has won a second term in office after suffering a re-election loss in 130 years.  When Grover Cleveland last pulled off this neat trick, he, too, returned to the White House after first losing it to gross electoral fraud.  Americans do not like rigged elections, but they absolutely despise elections that are so rigged that the robbery is impossible to ignore.  

In 2020, President Trump won almost every traditional bellwether county in the country by double-digits and increased his 2016 totals by over ten million votes.  He won a record share of the vote from black and Hispanic Americans, blue-collar workers, and other Democrat-leaning voting blocs.  Despite all of this evidence that the American people supported Trump’s handling of the economy, illegal immigration, violent crime, and foreign wars, professional political pundits immediately painted Joe Biden’s razor-thin “victory” (in which the dementia-addled nursing home patient magically “won” extra mail-in ballots in Democrat-controlled counties in battleground states days after the election) as a national rejection of Donald Trump.  

They…were…wrong.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/trump_s_electrifying_world_changing_victory.html

It was exactly 1:38 A.M. today that Bret Baier on Fox News said that it was clear “that the next president of the United States of America would be Donald J. Trump.”

Not taking a micrometer of credit away from President Trump 47 and his epically tireless, passionate, often hilariously funny, and brave — in spite of three assassination attempts and then a fourth death threat  —  countrywide, night-after-night, week-after-week, month-after-month, year-after-year campaign.

Whoever coined the word “superhuman” had a person like Trump in mind!

But I have to give the lion’s share of the credit for President Trump’s decisive, stunning, overwhelming, crushing, thunderous victory to the historically astute, paying-attention, loving-our-country American public.

When you think about it, it is really so understandable.

For the past four years, hardworking Americans resented spending their 8-10-12-14-hour days — more if they have two jobs — working their butts off, only to have their taxes and food prices and gas prices and regulations raised, and crime off the charts, and for what?

To send upward of $175 billion to the Zelensky grifter in Ukraine so he can buy yet another villa and another yacht?

To send not millions, but billions of their hard-earned tax dollars to the murderous, Jew-hating, Israel-loathing jihadist mullahs in Iran so they can put their, ahem, leaders up in decadently luxurious hotels in Qatar?

And, since October 7, 2023, to send more than a billion dollars to the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians…you know, the cheerleaders of the serial murderers known as Hamas and Hezb’allah?

https://www.frontpagemag.com/free-daniel-penny/

As conservatives bask in the glow of a new morning in America, we mustn’t lose sight of a consequential, ongoing news story that deserves our attention.

Opening statements began last Friday in the trial of Daniel Penny, a 25-year-old former Marine who faces up to 19 years in prison on charges related to the death of Jordan Neely, a homeless, mentally ill Michael Jackson impersonator who was (insert obligatory “allegedly”) threatening passengers on a New York City subway in May 2023 until Penny subdued him in a chokehold. Neely died later at the scene.

Penny’s lawyers Thomas Kenniff and Steven Raiser are arguing that he acted to protect the other passengers from Neely, whom one witness described as ranting in an “insanely threatening” way, including declaring “I want to hurt people,” that “someone is going to die today,” and that he wanted “to go to prison.” Court documents from the incident indicate that fellow passengers feared for their lives, The Daily Wire reported.

Penny’s attorneys are not only arguing that their client’s chokehold was justified due to this menacing behavior, but are also questioning whether the chokehold even caused Neely’s death. The medical examiner never provided specific evidence to support the claim that Neely died of asphyxiation, the New York Post reported.

“Some people say I was trying to choke him to death, which is also not true. I was trying to restrain him,” Penny has said, according to The Daily Wire. “You can see in the video there’s a clear rise and fall of his chest, indicating that he’s breathing. I’m trying to restrain him from being able to carry out the threats.”

But prosecutors in the Manhattan office of Left-wing activist District Attorney Alvin Bragg don’t need to prove Penny intended to kill in order to convict him. They only need to convince jurors that Penny “recklessly” caused Neely’s death, whereupon they can convict Penny of second-degree manslaughter.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/jack-smith-admits-the-trump-prosecutions-were-election-interference-all-along/

The Biden-Harris administration, which just lost an election to Trump, is preparing to wind down the various legal cases that it had pending against him.

The official reason is that a president can’t be prosecuted. But if that were the case, why was Trump beleaguered with an ‘independent prosecutor’ when he was in office to begin with? Democrats had spent years promising to bring President Trump to ‘justice’ while he was a sitting president.

The prosecutions and investigations of Trump were election interference all along. Since there are no more elections to interfere with, there’s no longer any point in pursuing them.

That’s not to say other ‘investigations’ won’t emerge, but they’ll be targeted to interfering with the actions and policies of the Trump administration rather than trying to sell the public on the notion that he’s a ‘felon’ who has committed crimes.

The investigations of Trump were election interference from the very beginning. Russiagate was generated by the Clinton campaign in partnership with the Obama administration to justify spying on the campaign, smearing Trump and going after his associates. Russiagate lingered on to target Trump associates. But the Jack Smith election interference campaign is really no good for any of that.

https://issuesinsights.com/2024/11/06/whats-in-and-whats-out-after-trumps-stunning-victory/

For more than a year, pundits in the mainstream media were feeding the public a steady diet of catchphrases, aphorisms, mantras, and predictions. Almost none of them turned out to be true.

But being wrong has never caused elite media types to self-reflect. They just issue a new set of catchphrases, aphorisms, mantras, and predictions.

So, rather than wait for them, we decided to make our own predictions. We will have much more to say about this election, about the unprecedented legal attacks, the vitriol hurled at half of American voters, about any violence that is unleashed by the left, about where the Democrats go from here, and so on.

But for now, here is our list of what will be out and what will be in after this truly historic presidential election.

Out: Questioning election results is anti-Democratic!       
In: Trump stole the election!!
Out: Democracy is on the ballot!
In: Democracy is not over!!
Out: Election fraud is not a real problem!          
In: Trump stole the election!!
Out: President Biden was smart to “bypass” the Supreme Court to get his way!
In: We need ‘guardrails’ to keep Trump in check!!

https://www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferguson-the-resurrection-of-donald-trump?utm_campaign=email-post&r=8t06w&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

It’s tempting for me to say this isn’t a surprise.

Back in May last year, I predicted “Trump’s second act,” telling Spectator readers: “He can still win, in spite of everything.” My point was that the Democrats’ strategy of lawfare against Donald Trump was highly likely to backfire. “If Lula [da Silva] can come back from one-and-a-half-years in jail to win” the Brazilian presidency, I wrote, “Trump may have little to worry about, as there isn’t the slightest chance of his being locked up between now and Election Day next year. Indeed, the perception that Democratic operatives are using the legal system for political ends will likely help him win votes.”

“Joe Biden,” I concluded, “is in serious danger of following Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush into the bin marked ‘one-term presidents.’ ” 

Last week, too, I was ready to predict that Kamala Harris was destined for the bin marked “incumbent vice presidents who lost.”

Nevertheless, I am surprised by the scale of Trump’s win. 

They used to call Bill Clinton “the Comeback Kid.” He cut a forlorn figure these past few days, trying feebly to drum up enthusiasm for the Democrats’ worst candidate since George McGovern. Well, move over, Bill. There’s a new Comeback Kid in town. Except that Trump is the Comeback King.

This is a bigger comeback than Grover Cleveland’s in 1892, when he became the first—and, until last night, only—American president to win a second nonconsecutive term. This is a bigger comeback than Richard Nixon’s, when he was elected president in 1968, eight years after he lost by a dubious whisker to John F. Kennedy. It’s bigger than Winston Churchill’s multiple comebacks, the biggest of which were in 1940 and 1951. It’s bigger than Charles de Gaulle’s in 1958. It’s bigger than Napoleon’s Hundred Days in 1815. In fact, I am tempted to say that the only comeback it’s not bigger than is the Resurrection.