NYTimes Barks: Purge Trump
It’s long been known the New York Times operates like Pravda did in Soviet Days: as a mouthpiece for The Regime. That’s clearly the case with its new editorial demanding President Trump be purged.
Title: “Donald Trump Is Not Above the Law.” Whose law? Certainly not the U.S. Constitution nor the laws of this country. They’re talking about Regime Law, which means anyone who bucks The Regime gets harassed, investigated, maybe arrested and jailed.
It begins: “Over the course of this summer, the nation has been transfixed by the House select committee’s hearings on the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and how or whether Donald Trump might face accountability for what happened that day.”
No, the nation has not “been transfixed,” only The Regime and its toadies in the media have been. It’s a kangaroo committee in which the Republican leadership did not cooperate. The only two GOP members are Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who didn’t run for re-election because he would lose. And Liz Cheney, recently bounced from the nomination to be re-elected by Republican voters in her state. She hates Trump because he correctly said her father, former VP Dick, was a war criminal for killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in that insane war.
“The Justice Department remained largely silent about its investigations of the former president until this month, when the F.B.I. searched his home in Palm Beach, Fla., in a case related to his handling of classified documents. The spectacle of a former president facing criminal investigation raises profound questions about American democracy, and these questions demand answers.”
Yes, and the questions are these: Can the United States survive as a free country if the leader of the opposition is harassed, raided and possibly arrested, prosecuted and jailed?
“Mr. Trump’s unprecedented assault on the integrity of American democracy requires a criminal investigation.”
No, it’s Biden, his henchman Merrick Garland and the compliant, rubber-stamp media that are conducting an “unprecedented assault on the integrity of American democracy.”
“The disturbing details of his postelection misfeasance, meticulously assembled by the Jan. 6 committee, leave little doubt that Mr. Trump sought to subvert the Constitution and overturn the will of the American people. The president, defeated at the polls in 2020, tried to enlist federal law enforcement authorities, state officials and administrators of the nation’s electoral system in a furious effort to remain in power. When all else failed, he roused an armed mob that stormed the Capitol and threatened lawmakers.”
No, let’s be clear what happened. Trump and the protesters only asked VP Pence and Congress to audit the state vote counts. VP Pence and Congress declined to do so, instead just adding up the tallies from the states. Some protesters got a little rowdy. Some federal agents apparently urged the protesters to go into the Capitol, whose doors were open. A Capitol police officer murdered protester Ashli Babbitt.
“The Justice Department is reportedly examining Mr. Trump’s conduct, including his role in trying to overturn the election and in taking home classified documents. If Attorney General Merrick Garland and his staff conclude that there is sufficient evidence to establish Mr. Trump’s guilt on a serious charge in a court of law, then they must seek an indictment too.”
Those are marching orders: Get Trump!
“This board is aware that in deciding how Mr. Trump should be held accountable under the law it is necessary to consider not just whether criminal prosecution would be warranted but whether it would be wise. No American president has ever been criminally prosecuted after leaving office. When President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, he ensured that Nixon would not be prosecuted for crimes committed during the Watergate scandal; Ford explained this decision with the warning that such a prosecution posed grave risks of rousing ‘ugly passions’ and worsening political polarization.
“That warning is just as salient today.”
That part’s right. But the Times doesn’t care. It wants to haul America down the road and into a Gulag concentration camp.
“Pursuing prosecution of Mr. Trump could further entrench support for him and play into the conspiracy theories he has sought to stoke.”
Imagine that! The Times here is outlining its own “conspiracy so immense,” of Trump subverting Our Democracy, that he must be imprisoned, along with anyone who advances “conspiracy theories!”
“It could inflame the bitter partisan divide, even to the point of civil unrest. A trial, if it is viewed as illegitimate, could also further undermine confidence in the rule of law, whatever the eventual outcome.”
But it’s The Times and its minions who are provoking “civil unrest.” Let’s also remember it was the Times that led the media brainwashing effort on Trump’s “collusion” with Russia, since disproved by both the Mueller Report and the prosecutions of John Durham. The latter has shown the Russiagate Hoax was cooked up by Hillary Clinton and her campaign, then advanced by the same corrupt FBI secret police currently going after Trump.
“There is an even more immediate threat of further violence, and it is a possibility that Americans should, sadly, be prepared for.”
Don’t you dare exercise your First Amendment right to assembly peaceably or you’ll be arrested and thrown in a dungeon like the Jan. 6 protesters!
“More important, democratic government is an ideal that must constantly be made real.”
Translation from NYTimesese: The only way to preserve democracy is to destroy it.