Bondi confirmation hearing is proud moment for Trump supporters
If Trump is going to run the rats out of the DOJ, his most critical appointment is that of U.S. Attorney General.
Photo credit: Pam Bondi
by Laura Ainsworth
Perhaps the most important thing for incoming President Trump to do right away is the cleaning out of the “Justice” Department, just so we can finally take the quotations marks off the word “Justice” and get back to having some semblance of actual justice.
It’ll never be perfect, but we have a long way to go before it’s even anywhere near acceptable. I made the point earlier this week that all January 6 defendants need to be pardoned, as the DC court system that convicted them was boundlessly corrupt. (If someone was found guilty of committing an egregiously violent act, then AT LEAST grant that person a new trial, starting from scratch and with a change of venue from DC.) Civil rights attorney Alan Dershowitz has even been considering getting the Innocence Project involved in overturning these convictions.
Today, Kurt Schlichter makes the same case, in harsher and more pointed language than I used. (I do like his use of the term “human eggplant” to describe our current on-the-way-out President. Not just a vegetable, but a nightshade vegetable.) Here’s my favorite part, the meat, of his must-read column: “To accept the validity of any J6 judicial proceeding is to accept that these biased, tyrannical prosecutions could ever generate a just result. A two-tier justice system targeting our people in a biased venue in front of biased judges via misapplied statutes can never deliver a just result. None of the proceedings undertaken against these J6 defendants could ever be just. Every single prosecution was and is absolutely corrupt. Every single trial verdict was fatally tainted. Every guilty plea was presumptively coerced.”
Indeed, we know many defendants pleaded guilty simply because they saw how the deck had been stacked against them in these DC courts and chose not to take their chances there.
That’s why it does no good to bring up cliches such as “the rule of law,” as, in Schlichter’s words, “these prosecutions themselves are a direct assault on the rule of law.”
Trump’s pardons should be immediate because going through the cases one by one will just take too much time, and these victims of the legal system have already lost too much of it. Where do they go to get it back? (I would add, this doesn’t even address those who committed suicide.) Schlichter makes the case that “it is better that ten allegedly undeserving defendants be pardoned than one undeserving defendant spend one single additional day in jail or be burdened by an unjust conviction.” He also believes that all these defendants should be paid “compensation for the gross violations of their civil rights.”
Sounds good to me --- especially since many of these political prisoners (and make no mistake, that is what they are) have endured literal torture. One of these cases was detailed in the newsletter not long ago, in which the inmate was chained for up to 18 hours at a stretch while being transported from prison to prison to prison, presumably to keep him away from journalists who wanted to interview him, and kept in solitary for weeks at a time. Conditions being what they were, he lost 40 pounds and was described as looking like the Tom Hanks character in CASTAWAY. This man deserves to be paid a huge amount with a long string of zeroes after it, and even that won’t be enough to make up for what he has endured.
Schlichter also makes a good point about strategy that I hadn’t thought of: a mass J6 pardoning will have the Democrats shrieking so loudly, it “will draw attention away from the dozens of other vital, but potentially controversial, things that he will do that first day. As his enemies focus their fire on the pardons, all the other important stuff will slip through the cracks.” Quite conceivably so.
The vital issue here, according to Schlichter, “is not whether someone went too far on January 6. This is about a systemic persecution of American citizens not resulting from an individualized consideration of their exact circumstances but simply because they were affiliated with the out-of-power party. You can’t tolerate this in a free society. If you do tolerate this, it stops being a free society.”
If Trump is going to run the rats out of the DOJ, his most critical appointment is that of U.S. Attorney General. His nominee, former Florida AG Pam Bondi, made it clear in her Wednesday Senate confirmation hearing that the weaponization of government will end under President Trump. She showed that she’s a fine choice --- in part because she stood in such cool contrast with the Democrat senators who still don’t even realize that they were humiliating themselves in that hearing room.
Adam Schiff, especially, made himself look foolish with his question to Bondi about whether she’d pay attention to someone who “beat a police officer.” As Jason Chaffetz told FOX NEWS’ Trace Gallagher Wednesday night, “How about Joe Biden offering a pardon to 37 murderers --- people who are on Death Row? Did he say anything about that?” (Note: it was actually commutations to life sentences, not pardons.)
“If I am attorney general,” Bondi said during the hearing, “I will not politicize that office; I will not target people simply because of their political affiliation. Justice will be administered even-handedly throughout this country...We’ve got to bring this country back together --- we’ve got to move forward, or we’re gonna lose our country.”
The left is so alarmed now about Trump’s weaponization of government, this fear can only be understood as projection on their part, since weaponizing the government against Trump and his supporters is what THEY’VE been doing since before he was even elected.
That was exactly the impression Brandon Morse of REDSTATE got. “I had the distinct feeling this was going to be the one person they feared the most,” he wrote, “because a Trump attorney general would be the one that hurt Democrats the most when it came to draining the swamp.” But she won’t have to abuse power to do it, because, as he said, “There’s a laundry list of things Democrats did that are worth investigating, and I have a feeling Bondi will be spoiled for choice in terms of threads she can start pulling on.”
The Democrats treated Bondi with contempt, but it seemed to be contempt arising out of fear. I think they’re terrified of her. They know they can’t really stop her confirmation, so their treatment of her now is meant to set up the narrative that she is GOING to abuse power, even though she isn’t (and they were the ones who did).
Morse, like many, noticed that Adam Schiff seemed particularly concerned about whether she saw a “factual predicate” to investigate “Special Counsel” Jack Smith, and pushed hard to get her to commit, one way or the other --- which, of course, she couldn’t do, as she hasn’t looked at the case documents. “What I see on the news is horrible,” she told him as he tried to talk over her. “Do I know if he committed a crime? I have not looked at that.”
Ashley Hayek, former Trump National Coalitions director, described Trump’s nomination process this time as “an organized, well-oiled machine,” saying on FOX NEWS Wednesday night that “we’ve been terrorized by the Biden administration for the past three-and-a-half years, and it’s time for putting America first again.” I’d say Bondi’s nomination also shows that it’s time to put AMERICANS first again, the rights of individual Americans.
RELATED: While Bondi was in her Senate hearing, John Ratcliffe was in his, as Trump’s nominee for CIA director, another critical position.
Ratcliffe’s message in his opening statement was spot-on, similar to Bondi’s in that he made it clear that the politicization of the CIA would stop under his leadership. “We will produce insightful, objective, all-source analysis, never allowing political or personal biases to cloud our judgment or infect our products,” he said.
He had a message for the agents as well: “To the brave CIA officers listening around the world, if all this sounds like what you signed up for, then buckle up and get ready to make a difference! If it doesn’t, then it’s time to find a new line of work.”
Bonchie at REDSTATE looks at something masterful Ratcliffe did during his hearing that, yes, also involved Adam Schiff. Without mentioning Schiff’s name (he didn’t have to), Ratcliffe mentioned “a chairman of an intelligence committee” misrepresenting a laptop owned by Biden’s son as “a Russian intelligence operation.” This is GREAT --- the gold you pan for whenever you force yourself to sit through hearings like these. Don’t miss…
Laura Ainsworth is a HUCKABEE Writer and Researcher.
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