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Commentary: Shock and Awe on the Campaign Trail
April 29, 2024 Admin by Roger Kimball1/2
I would wager that a million or more words have been written about the trials and tribulations — but especially the trials — of Donald Trump. I have written quite a few myself, here at American Greatness and elsewhere.
Some stories from the left are of the gleefully salivating variety. “Goodie! The Bad Orange Man is Getting His and Might Even go to Jail. Hallelujah!”
But it is my impression that more and more commentary has a worried, if not an out-and-out tone of alarm. Former Attorney General William Barr is no fan of Donald Trump. But he recently announced that he was endorsing Trump because the likely alternative — Joe Biden — was so much worse.
I suspect that, with the passage of time, that endorsement will be seen to mark a turning point in l’affaire Trump. If even an anti-Trump figure like Bill Barr has lined up behind the former president, a rearrangement of the stars is underway.
Note well: The primary fulcrum of this change is not an assessment of the relative merits of Trump vs. Biden. Rather, it’s a reaction against the perversion of the DOJ and the coercive power of the state under Biden.Trump is the most obvious victim. But any opponent of the regime is a potential target.
“Shock and Awe” is the popular phrase military folks use to describe a strategy of using “spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy’s perception of the battlefield and destroy their will to fight.”
That is a good description of what the Biden administration is attempting to do to Donald Trump. Thanks to the incisive reporting of Julie Kelly, Mike Davis, and others, we now know that there was extensive co-ordination between the Biden White House and the myriad prosecutors, attorneys general, FBI agents, and other official factota to formulate a strategy to indict, intimidate, and neutralize Trump as a political actor.
The commentator Andrew McCarthy is no more a fan of Donald Trump than is Bill Barr. I don’t know that he has gotten around to endorsing Trump, but he, too, has been appalled by the perversion of justice on view in the scramble to“Get Trump.” In an important recent essay, McCarthy outlines some of the ways in which Biden, as President of the United States, has been colluding with (not to say directing) the “shock and awe” legal assault against Trump.
Regarding District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s so-called “hush money” trial in New York (really, it is a “hush Trump” trial), he points out that Bragg chose as his lead prosecutor Matthew Colangelo, “one of the very top lawyers in the Biden Justice Department — the associate attorney general overseeing the government’s civil, civil-rights, antitrust, and tax-enforcement activities.” McCarthy notes that “Most prosecutors see themselves as working in law enforcement; Colangelo specializes in anti-Trump enforcement.”
He goes on to observe that: it is highly unusual for a lawyer in so lofty a federal perch to decamp to a county DA’s office for a line-prosecutor post — even allowing that the county is in the Big Apple and the trial gig is a prosecution of Donald Trump, which will make Colangelo a very famous fellow. But in this instance, it is a seamless transition. Prior to joining the top echelon of Biden’s Trump-hostile Justice Department, Colangelo had worked at the New York attorney general’s office — where Bragg was then a top deputy andwhere Colangelo specialized in lawsuits against Trump and his organization. It was Colangelo’s work against Trump that Bragg touted in running for district attorney in blue, blue Manhattan.
That’s my emphasis but Colangelo’s bias.
https://tennesseestar.com/culture/commentary-shock-and-awe-on-the-campaign-trail/admin/2024/04/29/
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McCarthy’s entire essay is worth reading, as is “America in the Shadow of Lawfare,” a long essay by Kenin M. Spivak that appears in The American Mind. Spivak rehearses what has become a familiar litany of abuses of state power to take down Trump. It is said that familiarity breeds contempt. But in this case, I believe it would be more accurate to say that familiarity has bred complacency.Clear your mind of what you know about these cases and ponder this partial list of Spivak’s inventory of extravagant legal abuse.
Beyond E. Jean Carroll’s so far successful defamation cases funded by billionaire Reid Hoffman and failed efforts in 36 states to take Trump off the ballot for purportedly engaging in insurrection, Trump is a defendant in five active criminal or civil actions, and an unindicted co-conspirator in two additional criminal cases, all brought by partisan progressive Democrat prosecutors seeking hundreds of millions of dollars of fines and more than 100 years of prison time.”
And note these two points:
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“The timing of these cases was coordinated to inflict maximum inconvenience and cost on Trump, and to make it impossible for him to campaign actively.”
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“State and federal prosecutors met in the White House to refine their cases and for purposes that have never been disclosed.”
The timing was coordinated.State and federal prosecutors met in the White House to refine their cases.
Why are people not up in arms over these revelations? We are not talking about something that is happening in Bolivia or Venezuela. It is happening right now here in the United States of America. The regime party is coordinating with the instruments of legal enforcement and the media to keep the chief opposition candidate off the campaign trail and make it impossible for people to vote for him. That party is also actively attempting to bankrupt him. As Spivak notes, “No sitting or former president of the United States has ever before been indicted, let alone faced a coordinated, multi-layered legal attack.”
It is hard, I suspect, for most people to grasp the enormity of what is going on all around us. A Rubicon has been crossed, and advance troops are already besieging various outposts of our taken-for-granted institutions and assumptions about our social lives.
If the regime party succeeds in taking down its chief opponent, it will be open season on all of us.
Spivak is correct: “The United States is now seeking to financially destroy and incarcerate a former president who is also the leading opposition candidate for that office. This is what happens in Third World countries, which routinely confiscate assets of and imprison, the opposition. Regardless of whether Trump prevails in his trials,America has crossed a line from its republican past into something very ugly.” Verbum sapienti satis est: i.e., don’t say you weren’t warned.
(We are all in "shock & awe"!)
https://tennesseestar.com/culture/commentary-shock-and-awe-on-the-campaign-trail/admin/2024/04/29/
Turn the volume down, just a warning! KEK
Rep. MTG Calls Out Speaker Johnson For "Sharing The Speaker's Gavel" With Hakeem Jeffries
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AZ Senate Candidate Kari Lake: My Opponent Is “More Radical Than AOC” his name is Ruben Gallego. Get out the vote for Kari Lake, she’s being blocked by RINOS
(Released today, AZ will cheat for him)
Statewide Elections
In the Arizona U.S. Senate election, 45% support Democrat Ruben Gallego to replace retiring Senator Kyrsten Sinema, while 43% support Republican Kari Lake; 12% are undecided. Since March, Gallego’s support has increased by one point, and Lake by three.
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Russia Says Intercepted U.S.-Supplied ATACMS Missiles Fired From Ukraine
By AFP
Updated: 14 hours ago Sergei Aksyonov / Telegram
Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that itsforces shot down six U.S.-supplied missiles launched by Ukraine, with Moscow-backed officials in annexed Crimea claiming some of the weapons were downed over the Black Sea peninsula.
Washington quietly shipped an unspecified number of long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to Ukraine in recent weeks after repeated calls from Kyiv for more powerful weapons as its military fends off advancing Russian troops.
Russia's Defense Ministry said it destroyed six ATACMS missiles "over the past 24 hours," though it did not specify where they had been shot down.
The Russian-installed head of annexed Crimea Sergei Aksyonov said one of the missiles was destroyed over the village of Donskoye, outside the city of Simferopol. "After an ATACMS missile was shot down, undetonated submunitions scattered," Aksyonov said on the Telegram messaging app. "If you find such a weapon, do not pick it up or come close and call emergency services or the police."
Aksyonov posted a photo of a metal ball which he said was part of the destroyed missile. He did not say whether the missiles caused any damage.
Earlier on Tuesday Moscow-backed officials in occupied southern Ukraine said air defense systems were responding to aerial projectiles over Simferopol and the town of Dzankoi in northern Crimea.
An anonymous U.S. official cited by Politico later rebuked Moscow’s claim that its forces shot down the long-range missiles that were launched toward the annexed Peninsula. “We have no indications this claim is accurate, and the Russians do have a long history of embellishing and inventing battlefield achievements,” the official was quoted as saying.
Ukraine has regularly attacked Crimea since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion over two years ago, however, it did not comment on Tuesday's reported missile attacks.
Last week, Washington said it had sent ATACMS missiles to Ukraine following a directive from U.S. President Joe Biden.
Ukrainian forces are now awaiting the arrival of new U.S. weapons and supplies as part of an aid package approved by Biden after months of wrangling with Republicans in Congress.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/30/russia-says-intercepted-us-supplied-atacms-missiles-fired-from-ukraine-a84998