Daily Verse | Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food.
Tuesday’s Reading: 1 Corinthians 1-4
I don’t know what you think of president-in-exile Donald J. Trump and I’m not sure I care. Don’t take it personally; I’m not sure what I think of him anymore, either.
On the one hand, I admire the man who obviously loves this nation and accomplished in four years what our ruling class couldn’t do in dozens of years over several administrations. Things like helping the Arabs and Jews take more steps towards a lasting peace with the Abraham Accords, bringing business back to America, lowering taxes for ordinary Americans, restoring a sense of pride in the American experiment, and exposing the Deep State in all its depredatory evil for all to see.
On the other hand, I got tired of his obnoxious self-centeredness, the constant drama, the off-the-cuff comments that became self-inflicted wounds, and his absolute naïveté about the level of corruption that exists in the government. He trusted too many of the wrong people, many of whom sabotaged his presidency and created a sense of instability in his administration.
Of course, the thing that I loved most about him was the same thing Abraham Lincoln loved about Ulysses S. Grant: he fights. He could give as good as he got, and he took it to the arrogant and sophisticated elite while doing what he could to put America first.
But no matter what I or you think of Trump, there is absolutely no excuse for Merrick Garland to have appointed another special counsel to “investigate” Trump.
The special counsel, Garland said, will take over the investigation of Trump’s purported mishandling of presidential records and probe whether Trump can be held criminally liable for the events that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021. The former is a desperate follow-up to the latter after the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 emerged empty-handed from an 18-month investigation.
Hey, didn’t I just read in the Washington Post that “investigators have ‘not found any apparent business advantage to the types of classified information in Trump’s possession,’ nor did anything recovered ‘point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell or use the government secrets.'”
Oh, and isn’t it true that as the chief executive, no one can exceed Trump’s authority?
When government drones “classify” documents, they do so only because their authority comes from the president. They can neither challenge nor exceed the president’s authority. Neither can Congress for that matter.
This isn’t me saying that. This is the Supreme Court of the United States in an unchallenged decision that relies on a long-standing (as in, back to 1788) assignment of power to the executive. Presidents can voluntarily respect a national security law, but they do not have to abide by it.
That’s because the president—and only the president—has plenary power when it comes to national security matters. Plenary power means “a power that has been granted to a body or person in absolute terms, with no review of or limitations upon the exercise of that power.”
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Note that there are no procedural rules the president must follow to exercise his authority. Again, that’s because neither Congress nor the bureaucracy (which reports to the president) has the power to impose rules on him.
Because Trump was still the President of the United States, at the very moment when he transferred those documents from the White House to his private residence, they were automatically and instantly declassified. After that, nothing in his possession was either “sensitive” or “classified,” and neither the current nor the past Attorney General can change that fact.
In other words, Garland’s appointment of a special counsel is just another Deep State bid to further harass Trump because, although there’s nothing there, the process itself is the punishment.
The motivating factor? Trump has announced another bid for the White House, and they can’t allow that.
I suspect that Michael Anton is right: They can’t let him back in because Trump’s attack on the regulatory “deep state” with all its globalist affiliations would bring their elitist party to an abrupt end. “The people who really run the United States of America,” Anton wrote, “have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again.”
Garland isn’t even pretending that it’s anything different.
“It is in the public interest to appoint a special prosecutor to independently manage an investigation and prosecution based on recent developments, including [Trump’s] announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election and the sitting president’s stated intention to be a candidate as well,” Garland told reporters at an afternoon press conference.
From now on, expect that any challenger to the current president will be prosecuted by the AG. It’s also striking that Garland is not appointing a special counsel to investigate either Hunter Biden or his father, Brandon, even though there is ample evidence that they are compromised by the Chinese communist government.
This is a political persecution designed to derail Donald Trump, the most investigated president in our history.
The Russia hoax failed. The impeachment over a fabricated scandal in Ukraine failed. Prosecution over the Emoluments Clause failed, and the Jan. 6 Committee failed to serve the long-sought indictment that’s become the top item on the Democrats’ policy agenda for six years.
You don’t have to like or approve of Donald J. Trump to see that this is an abuse of political power visited on a man whose only crime was opposing the agenda of those who run America. We live under a fascist regime, and Merrick Garland is one of its architects.