A couple days ago I clicked on Time magazine’s May 28th interview of President Biden. Time actually has this quote on the transcript: “Below is a lightly edited transcript of the interview conducted by TIME Washington Bureau Chief Massimo Calabresi and Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs.” That adverb “lightly” made me distrust Time magazine’s recounting of this interview and I didn’t even waste my time reading any further.
A week ago we were bombarded with media hit takes, recognizable when across liberal media they start repeating the same words and phrases, on the verdict in a NYC court against former President Trump. This week Hunter Biden is on trial in a Delaware court room facing charges that he illegally purchased a gun. Both trials highlight a definite sleaze factor – Trump paying hush money to a porn star and Trump hired Michael Cohen as his personal lawyer and had him on the payroll for years, then there’s Hunter Biden’s drug addiction, sexual relationship with his dead brother’s widow, and a wide array of debauchery he personally chronicled on his laptop.
However, in all fairness the Trump trial had Trump being convicted on 34 counts, where the jurors didn’t even have to agree on the underlying crimes and I still don’t understand how federal crimes that the feds didn’t prosecute could be given new life as the basis for state crimes in NY. In the Hunter Biden case, its clear that Hunter Biden was a drug addict and he lied on his application for purchasing a firearm. Usually federal prosecutors guard their turf when states try to overstep, but in Trump’s case, the #3 lawyer at the DOJ joined the NY prosecutor’s team to get Trump. All of it will lead to more corruption, less trust in the criminal justice system and more abuses of power. America is on a very dangerous path.
Democrats are way more organized, ruthless, and shameless in lawfare and in their media spin war efforts. Yesterday, I saw a Dem talking point warning that Trump will try to throw his political opponents in jail… as Trump is awaiting sentencing in July and could have a Biden-supporting judge toss him in jail. It’s surreal at this point.
If you aren’t emotionally invested in one of the partisan sides, well, I think most people would consider America’s leaders and their families trashy and corrupt. The media, across the board, is trashy and corrupt too. However, Democrats and their liberal media friends have decades of experience running these elaborate spin war operations and Republicans only began to grasp the scope of the Dems spin information war since Donald Trump entered the political arena.
When it comes to sleaze, we can add in all these highfaluting, top former intelligence officials, who pedaled the Clinton campaign’s bogus Steele dossier, purporting Trump was colluding with the Russians and presented the dossier as a serious intelligence report by a former British spy. Along with the “dossier” (doesn’t that word sound official,) since 2016, the “consensus of experts via a letter released to the media” has become a common Democrat spin tool of persuasion. There have been a string of these letters, orchestrated by Democrats to fearmonger and spread lies about Trump and intelligence information, which the liberal media then puts on blast to amplify. In October 2020 many of the same officials who pedaled the Steele dossier in the media got behind a letter signed by dozens of former intel officials stating that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
The mainstream media and social media companies tried to squash the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, but this week, the federal prosecutor in this Hunter Biden gun trial called a FBI expert to the stand, who testified under oath that the FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop in custody in 2019 – long before the November 2020 election and the FBI knew the laptop was Hunter’s and not Russian disinformation. Why didn’t the FBI issue any kind of statement in 2020 after those former intelligence officials released that letter? Did any of those former top intelligence officers contact the FBI for information? And, what does Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State, who reportedly orchestrated that intelligence officers’ letter spin effort, have to say?
In the past few days, media reports that top Democrat senator from NY, Chuck Schumer has a brother at some fancy law firm and his brother provided three of the firms top lawyers to be part of Alvin Bragg’s team to prosecute Trump. So, it wasn’t only the DOJ’s #3 top lawyer who assisted Bragg. And at the same time Democrats and their liberal media cronies keep blabbing about how serious these cases against Trump are, how they’re all about “protecting our democracy,” and how there’s nothing political about these cases.
No matter what happens to Trump, Democrats have normalized their scorched earth spin war, where they’ll spin up any lies with the aid of their media friends, if it advances their political objectives and now they’ve normalized using the courts to take down political opponents. It’s going to be very hard to reestablish boundaries in our politics, even if there’s a public demand for it. And once one side stakes out new political rules and boundaries, the other side will surely play by the new rules. The Trump campaign in the 2024 GOP primary adopted many of the same vile Dem spin game tactics against Ron DeSantis and at times both Democrats/liberal media and Trump mouthpieces were running the same orchestrated spin lies to destroy DeSantis.
All the words coming out of our political class ring hollow and sorry, the political class won’t save America. In 2024, Trump might look like the safer choice, even to Republicans and conservatives who cringe at Trump’s lying and baggage (for example, like hush money to a porn star and having sleazebag Michael Cohen on his payroll), but the truth is political partisans and our media, across the board, are 100% committed to escalating the spin information war, not ending it.
In 2024, we have two old men running for office – one whose cognitive function is declining rapidly and who has always been a big liar and the other doesn’t look well either and he too has always been a big liar. That’s the truth. We’re still left with picking the lesser of two evils. Even a conservative like me, who doesn’t care for Trump at all, can say Trump policies were better for me and my family and better for America, but what’s on my mind is this scorched earth spin information war could easily take more dangerous turns before we even get to election day this year. Democrats successfully used the FBI and intelligence agencies in their scorched earth spin operations, even when Trump was president. Now, Democrats control the executive branch. What’s left for Dem scorched earth tactics to stop Trump? We’re sure to find out in the next few months.
It’s been over 20 years that I’ve been blabbing about the danger of this spin information war having only one outcome – tearing our country apart and I still believe that. There is no 2024 candidate who is going to save America as long as Americans buy into this scorched earth spin information as an acceptable part of our political process
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