New in PJ Media:
It is now well established that the FBI has become thoroughly and possibly irreparably corrupt and politicized, serving as a thuggish arm of the Leftist establishment rather than any kind of law enforcement agency. Its decline accelerated during the tenure of the intensely partisan Leftist apparatchik James Comey as FBI director, but in the six years since Donald Trump removed Comey from office amid a storm of controversy, the lanky corruptocrat has shown not the slightest hint of introspection, much less regret. Instead, he just went on MSNBC to warn that a new Trump administration could see the president weaponizing the justice system. Well, Comey certainly knows all about weaponizing federal agencies for partisan purposes.
Former Biden explainer and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki said to Comey, “You’ve said that Trump poses a near-existential threat to the rule of law, and, and this is something, similar language, that I hear privately from national security officials, some people you and I both know, who will say this, privately, about what a second term could mean. But tell me a little bit about the specifics of what he could try to do. What do you mean by that?”
The question was ridiculous, and the whole scenario was a charade. Now that the Russian Collusion hoax has been definitively exposed and the Democrats’ Jan. 6 “insurrection” scenario has been discredited, Psaki should have been asking Comey about the contempt for the rule of law of his Leftist friends and colleagues, not of Donald Trump. But for that, Psaki would have to be a genuine journalist, not a flack for the Leftist establishment playing the role of a journalist in order to fool gullible MSNBC viewers and throw red meat to the committed ideologues among their tiny audience.
Comey answered: “Well, think about what four years of a retribution presidency might look like. He could order the investigation and prosecution of individuals who he sees as enemies — I’m sure I’m on the enemies list — because the president constitutionally does oversee the Executive Branch entirely, which includes the Department of Justice, prosecutors and investigators. And so he could commission, direct, that individuals be pursued. He could also direct all kinds of other conduct that people would maybe take to court to try to stop, but who enforces court orders? Mostly the United States marshals service, which is in — part of the executive branch, and reports to the president. And so President Trump could say, ‘I don’t care what the Supreme Court says or these district judges say, I’m tellin’ the marshals service, Don’t enforce the court order.’”
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mgoldberg says
In other words, everything that has been done, or attempted to do by the Biden administration, upon others, they fear will be done to them, and they’re calling it, unconstitutional.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’m w/ Vivek on this. It’s time to wind up the FBI and simulate what the states do – just as states have a local law enforcement arm and local prosecutors, at the federal level, just have federal marshals and the DoJ. The FBI is just a bureaucracy, for which there is no need.
I was watching Megyn Kelly’s show last week (I had given up on her in 2016, but caught her coverage of Tucker, & so now occasionally listen to her depending on who her guests are). She had on Tara Reade, the woman Joe Biden raped in the 90s and who’s now in the process of seeking refuge in Russia. That ought to tell us how things have changed. During the Cold War, it used to be Russians desperately making a beeline for the US or other Western countries, fleeing the KGB: now, it’s an American seeking refuge in Russia fleeing from the FBI. And she’s not even an Edward Snowden: it’s just that the FBI is now to the Democrat Party what the KGB used to be to the CPSU
I’ll vote for Trump again if he’s the nominee, but given that he did little to damage the FBI in the 4 years that he was there, I’m going w/ Vivek. The 3 GOP candidates I will not vote for even if they are the GOP nominee are Pence, Haley and Hutchinson: they’re the same establishment people, just w/ an (R) after their name, which is little improvement
Hoi Polloi says
GP: “Laura Loomer Detained in Illinois After Confronting Disgraced Former FBI Director James Comey at His Book Signing”
At least someone confronted him. A Retribution Presidency, he charges? How about a Justice Delivered Presidency?
Interesting vid out saying that the UK has more than 10x the speech charges against individuals that Russia does. Seems we can’t speak against Comey. His FBI needs to end. DoJ can follow. As a start.
Kepha says
Good for Trump! Consitutional interpretation (and loyalty to its text) is for all three branches of government, not just the judicial one. Still, much as I approve of Trump’s tenure in office and see him as head and shoulders above any possible Democrat (except, perhaps, Joe Manchin), I am watching DeSantis, Scott, and Ramaswamy. I admit that I never was 100% comfortable with Trump, for Shrillary Shrooooooo was a very low bar to jump (as is most of the Democratic Party).
While Trump may also be vulnerable for having deferred way to much to Fauci during the pandemic, as well as for rushing through untried vaccines which late proved dangeorous to the very young and very old (as a not quite very old myself, I’ll also say that three jabs didn’t do anything to me but allow me to fly Lufthansa), I will give Trump the benefit of the doubt, since we didn’t really know what was going on at the time. I also admit I was impressed at how he got the USA producing some of its own PPE; which tells me that the spirit that got our industry rolling during WW2 isn’t completely dead. I also give Trump credit for his fool-me-twice-shame-on-me approach, which was manifested in dealing with North Korea (New York businessman Trump, in the 1990’s, approved his then-friend Bill Clinton’s approach of sending food aid for the North Korean famine; President Trump seemed willing to tell the starving people of North Korea to eat Communist cadre and missile scientists).
The O and Zhou Baideng have done a lot of damage to our country; and I will not support their party.