August 3, 2023
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McCarthy: DOJ targeting Trump as GOP frontrunner leads Biden in polls
By Robert Romano
“[J]ust yesterday a new poll showed President Trump is without a doubt Biden’s leading political opponent. Everyone in America could see what was going to come next: DOJ’s attempt to distract from the news and attack the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, President Trump. House Republicans will continue to uncover the truth about Biden Inc. and the two-tiered system of justice.”
That was House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Aug. 1 reacting to the Justice Department and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s latest indictment of former President Donald Trump for challenging the results of the 2020 election, citing recent polls that have shown Trump leading incumbent President Joe Biden.
The polls include the Messenger-Harris poll conducted by HarrisX July 21 to July 24 that showed Trump leading Biden, 46 percent to 42 percent. Critically, that includes independents supporting Trump 42 percent to 34 percent over Biden, and a whopping 24 percent saying they did not know who they would support.
What is amazing is Trump’s stickiness in the polls despite a flurry of politically-charged indictments this year by New York City and now the Justice Department and Special Counsel Jack Smith with twin cases on the former president’s receipt of classified documents when he was in office and their retention after he left office, and now with challenging the results of the 2020 election.
Remarkably, the indictments are apparently not hurting Trump politically. In fact, they might be helping. Trump has widened his lead for the Republican nomination by a lot, leading his closest rival, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, 54 percent to 18 percent, according to the latest RealClearPolitics.com average of national polls. Vivek Ramaswarmy garners 5 percent, followed by former Vice President Mike Pence with 4.4 percent.
Overall, a 36-point lead is complete domination with such a wide field for a non-incumbent candidate. Obviously, it is owed to the fact that Trump is the former president, as even before the indictments, Trump was leading the GOP field in all but one national poll taken the past two years.
And candidates who have sought to exploit Trump’s legal misfortunes — including Biden and now Pence, too — have not benefitted in the polls at all. Both are viewed highly unfavorably. That’s easy to understand, too. The Justice Department is prosecuting the sitting President Biden’s political opponents, which offends the American people’s sensibilities and democratic and constitutional norms.
After all, it is the American people, not the Justice Department, who gets to choose the president in elections. Many pundits including this author had speculated that Special Counsel Smith would attempt to bring an insurrection charge that could later be used by Congress to disqualify Trump under Sections 3 and 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, but that has not happened as of yet.
Does Smith and Attorney General Merrick Garland—and in extension President Biden—view disqualification as a bridge too far? That is, an obviously desperate gambit to rig the election by controlling who the opponents are allowed to be, something that tinpot dictatorships and banana republics resort to, by imprisoning political opponents.
I’d argue that it doesn’t matter what the charges are to Trump’s supporters and potential supporters as, either way, they are designed to put him in prison, whether it keeps him off the ballot or not. They have already made him a martyr not just for Republicans, but Americans of all political stripes who ever supported him.
This might set the stage for Speaker McCarthy and House Republicans, who appear ready to launch an impeachment inquiry against Biden over him and his family’s foreign business dealings and influence peddling, to add prosecuting political opponents, the evidence of which is overwhelming, to the list of potential charges. These are the sorts of machinations that historically have brought republics to their knees.
That makes the indictments not just constitutionally detrimental, but politically counterproductive for the incumbent party, the Democrats, who rely on counterintelligence investigations, special counsels, classified surveillance and even censorship and bids to control who appears on the ballot in the place of debate, political discourse and elections. It’s pathetic, and the American people can see it for what it is: Tyranny.
Robert Romano is the Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.
To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2023/08/mccarthy-doj-targeting-trump-as-gop-frontrunner-leads-biden-in-polls/
Video: Trump Indictment Criminalizes Dissent With First Amendment On Trial
To view online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PURUR7bE5sg
Video: Even CBS News is Asking Questions About the Biden Crime Family
To view online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLoJ8Zxk4-w
Is the Regime Blinking With The Trump Indictment?
By Bill Wilson
The indictment of former President Donald Trump on August 1 has been loudly cheered by the cadres of regime defenders and zealots. From the propagandists at MSNBC and the other house organs of the Deep State to the celebrity-driven outlets of Hollywood and the various arms of the “Outrage Industry”, you can almost hear the collective breath being taken. This obscene act has at its core the lashing out, the vicious act of a cornered animal, of an existential battle for survival. The regime knows it is in trouble and attacking Trump is the best they can do to put up a defense.
Yes, the indictment came on the same day as America’s credit rating was downgraded. This signal that the massive, unsustainable debt was killing the country was expected. $32 trillion dollars in debt, adding more than a trillion a year for the foreseeable future is simply not something that can be ignored. So, the regime covers it up, their house organs ignore or belittle it and we move on with yet another communist give-away. But that is not the real reason for the indictments.
And, yes, Devon Archer has pulled the curtain fully back for all to see the repulsive corruption that is the Biden family. There is no longer any question that poor Hunter was the bagman for an influence peddling operation that knew no limits. Seeing just how rancid the Biden family is almost explains Hunter’s addiction to drugs and illicit sex and other perversions. He is desperate to escape the hold of his father, if even for a few minutes. Hiding or delaying the public judgement of this crime family is aided by the indictments. But, that is not the real reason for the insane and ridiculous indictments.
The real reason for the wave of attacks on Trump and more broadly the MAGA movement was revealed by no less an authority than the CIA Newsletter (a.k.a. the Washington Post) in a lead editorial today. Entitled “How to Safeguard NATO from Mr. Trump” the tome begs Congress to enact some fig leaf legislation to block any future President from withdrawing from the One-World, globalist military block.
This says it all.
First, it tells us that the regime – and the outright control of the Post by the Deep State is obvious and well known – believes that Donald Trump could in fact be elected in 2024. Indictments or no, the MAGA movement is energized and enraged by the actions of the illegitimate Biden cabal. Trump seems to have gotten his footing and is downplaying the ego trip a bit in favor of reaching out to the mass of the American people who have been abused and hurt by the “establishment” from the Bushes on thru to the current sock-puppet. They cannot depend on another set of ballot stuffing exercises or the dysfunctional Post Office to carry the day.
Second, the Post exposes what the regime really values, what they are most worried about. Gone are the sickening platitudes about “democracy” or the near-silly claims about defending the Constitution. Given how the regime has gutted the protections of the Constitution, how they ignore all provisions of the founding document at will to benefit their designs, how they spit on the founders are every opportunity. Clearly, like their spiritual father Woodrow Wilson, they hate the Constitution and only use it to fool and manipulate the mob.
What they really care about is their globalist, One-World project. And that, whether in the guise of so-called “climate change” or NATO or world public health is only about one thing – power. Power over the People to extract as much wealth as they can. Power to dictate every more. Power for power’s sake. The fact that the Post would expose this so openly tells all of us that it is the real reason for the assaults on Trump and MAGA, it tells us that they are a bit worried, almost desperate. And it tells us that all pretense is now tossed aside. Either they don’t fear being exposed any more or they believe they have no choice.
And, the most important thing it reveals is the truly fragile nature of their revolting plot. If the election of Donald Trump so threatens their designs, if the election of one man who has had the scales drop from his eyes and enabled him to see the vile, mutated structure that has evolved since the end of World War II can literally threaten their existence, then patriots and the rational peoples all over the world have far more ability to counter the poison than anyone might have thought.
By indicting Donald Trump and openly exposing their real fears, the regime is blinking. It is, in the parlance of the poker players, a very big “tell.” They are telling us all that they are not confident of their standing. Now is the time to push back hard.
Bill Wilson is the former president of Americans for Limited Government.
To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2023/08/is-the-regime-blinking-with-the-trump-indictment/