Red State Resurgence

Here we are, six weeks before the most consequential election in our lifetimes. The American public is offered the choice between the battle-scared and almost-assassinated Donald Trump, the America-First, pro-capitalism, pro-growth, pro-American worker former president whose governing style is well known, who left a luxurious lifestyle and lost over a billion dollars in personal wealth in his quixotic quest to rescue this country from the insanity of the Left, versus Kamala Harris; an archetypical San Francisco liberal, who was installed in a palace coup to oust the primary-winning, but secretly demented, President Joe Biden. Vice President Harris, who never had to go through the primary process to articulate her far Left and quasi-Marxist positions, was not required to earn one primary vote. Kamala Harris’ lifelong views are so extreme that they cannot be recited in public. Due to her refusal to explain her shift to the center (“flip-flopping”) on many of the major issues of the day, what Ms. Harris would advocate should she be elected president remains an enigma. On NBC’s Meet the Press, Bernie Sanders candidly admitted, on the issue of Harris’ flip-flopping that “No, I don’t think she’s abandoning her ideals, I think she’s trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election.” In other words, she’s lying!

Indeed, this most cynical of campaigns has followed the tactic of not having the sitting vice-president sit for actual press conferences (“she’s just too busy”), but instead exposing her in carefully controlled, scripted, only friendly venues, in which Kamala Harris recites memorized but empty platitudes encased in rambling “word salads” that never answer the few, actual policy questions that might slip past the totalitarian, ever vigilant All-Powerful, Democratic Party Machine. The September 10th ABC “debate”, the follow-up interview on a local Philadelphia ABC affiliate, the star-studded, but disastrous, Oprah Extravaganza and the vacuous MSNBC interview with Stephanie Ruhle (who admitted that Kamala did not answer any of her questions), are the most recent examples in which Harris resorted to the same, memorized, rambling answers to basic questions such as “how you would fix the economy” (“I was raised in a middle-class neighborhood in which my neighbors were very proud of their lawns”, etc.), or by creating an “opportunity economy” (whatever that means), as if she was reciting from some memory chip that was inserted in her brain!

This cynical strategy is being pursued in the hope that her vague promises of “joy” (what “joy?”) will flim-flam enough of the low-information voters, that will cast their ballots to supplement the regular Democratic voting base to allow her to slip into the White House! So far this tactic, at the minute, which is akin to an advertising campaign to market a new brand of toothpaste, seems to be working!

The combination of the Democratic Party and the Washington “Deep State”, along with most of the Super-Woke Media, Big Tech, academia and major corporations, Hollywood and the elite, globalist, rich “ruling class”, are all invested in having an individual like Kamala Harris, whose views are simpatico with their own, but also someone they can control when necessary, to be installed to serve largely as a ceremonial president, like Joe Biden before her, while unknown and unelected forces are actually running the country who, if given the chance, will pursue radical policies such as: ramping-up the flooding of the country with foreign “migrants” to work for half the wages of American workers and then become reliable Democratic voters in the coming creation of a dictatorial, One-Party state. Alternatively, this cabal will force manufacturing jobs to be transferred overseas to be produced by even cheaper labor, while the Southern border is permanently erased and ceded to the Mexican cartels and their Chinese suppliers, who will continue to flood the country with Fentanyl to anesthetize and poison the native-born and now-unemployed working class.

These forces will also advocate continuing to trample the Constitution by criminalizing political dissent by “lawfare”; further the creeping totalitarian censorship and eroding of the First Amendment; abolishing minority rights in the Senate by ending the filibuster with Harris’ rationale of resurrecting Roe v. Wade; abolishing the independence of the Supreme Court by “court packing” thus ending the 155-year, nine-justice Court, and in altering the balance of the Senate by admitting Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as a “state”, thus adding four more reliable Democratic votes. Most ominously, these Unknowns could potentially send your boys and girls off to war, a war that increasingly could become nuclear!

Less Big Tech and Hollywood, the combination of a dominant, totalitarian political party, in lockstep with media, academia, the military, big corporations and the ruling class was forged in Italy in the 1920s by Benito Mussolini. It was labeled “Fascism.” How different is that party from the Democratic Party of today? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has said that neither his father nor his uncle would recognize what has become of the Democratic Party, a party that allows no dissent; a party that is now controlled and represents the super-rich and super-privileged, rather than the American worker. (That mantle now rests with Trump’s GOP!) And this is the Democratic Party that is attempting to save “Our Democracy?” _^TM (Translation: “to preserve our power”)

This All-Powerful Machine so controls the narrative now days, that it is a wonder that the GOP can ever win the White House! In recent years, the new phenomenon of “The Memory Hole” has been employed by the Machine to non-report, under-report and ultimately even attempt to erase from the national memory, any news or event that may somehow seem to be unfavorable to the Democratic Party or its candidates. The following are just partial examples of news or events that the All-Powerful Memory Hole Machine has attempted to shove down the Memory Hole, to be denied the consideration by the American electorate:

– The fact that the President Biden was mentally impaired when he was elected in 2020, a fact that was hidden by the COVID-era “basement strategy” and whose dementia has exponentially increased throughout his term. Until his impairment was laid-bare in the June 27th “debate” with Donald Trump, all of the usual suspects, up to that very day, kept stating that Biden “was sharp as a tack”, glossing-over his obvious impairment and the fact that he has spent an estimated 40% of his presidency on vacation. That situation raised the obvious question, “who is actually running the country?” The foremost accomplice to what can be characterized as the greatest political fraud in American political history, is Biden’s vice-president Kamala Harris, who boasted of having lunch with Biden twice a week and kept praising Biden for his sharpness and his steady hand on the tiller.

–The fact that despite Kamala Harris’ attempts to characterize herself as the challenger rather that the incumbent in her campaign against Donald Trump, that Harris as the President of the Senate, cast the tie-breaking vote on both the multi-trillion-dollar American Rescue Plan and the Inflation “Reduction” Act, which fueled the massive inflation of “Bidenomics”. Inflation was 1.6% at the end of Trump’s term; it rose to over 9% under the Biden-Harris administration (over 20% for essentials) and at 3.4%, is still more than double of what inflation was at the end of Trump’s term, despite the COVID pandemic. Additionally, interest rates have skyrocketed by 152% under the Biden administration, making purchasing a home unassailable to most young citizens. Kamala Harris’ involvement in the policies of the administration was further amplified by Joe Biden stating on “The View” that Kamala Harris was instrumental in every policy decision that has been made over the last 3 1/2 years, and by her own comments, that she “was always the last person in the room.”

Despite the propaganda of her campaign, aided by most of the Media, Kamala Harris is the incumbent candidate while Donald Trump is the “candidate for change!” Over two-thirds of voters polled have stated that America is “on the wrong track.” Perhaps due to a Freudian slip, Harris stated the other day that “the American Dream is elusive for far too many.” Perhaps due t0 the decisions of y0ur administration?

–The fact that Kamala Harris has also bragged that she was “the last person in the room” in the planning and execution of the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which needlessly caused the death of 13 American soldiers and hundreds of Afghans at AbbeyGate and maimed, with many amputations, scores of more American troops. Additionally, this withdrawal, without notice to our NATO allies, left hundreds of American passport holders and Afghans who aided the 20-year U.S. presence to the mercy of the Taliban (you don’t withdraw the military first leaving civilians to their own devices!), abandoned the highly strategically located Bagram Air Base (which at the minimum, should have been the situs of the airlift, not the airport in downtown Kabul), and gifted the Taliban regime with $88 billion dollars of the finest American military hardware; the fourth-largest stock in the world, leaving Afghanistan with so much excess that it is the largest supplier of arms to terror groups in the world! After 20 years, Afghanistan is once again a haven for Al-Queda, ISIS and other terror organizations. The decision to carry out this sudden, poorly planned, chaotic and deadly exit was, by Biden’s own admission, a political move to withdraw from Afghanistan by the twentieth anniversary of the 9-11 attack!! Kamala Harris has stated that she is “proud” of this withdrawal from Afghanistan.

–The fact that Joseph Biden’s withdrawal from the ticket, following his debate with Donald Trump, was portrayed as a willing, noble sacrifice on his part. When Biden’s dementia was obvious to all but the politically blind to see, the supposed willing decision by President Biden to remove himself from the ticket and be replaced by Kamala Harris (despite the fact that Biden received over 14,000,000 primary votes to Harris’ none), was characterized by the likes of Nancy Pelosi and others as a sacrifice in which Joseph Biden put the country ahead of himself and whose likeness should be added to Mt. Rushmore; akin to George Washington declining to run for a third term! As Biden would have said, this myth was utter malarky, as he resisted for weeks to be ousted from the ticket and only withdrew from the ticket when threatened to be removed, in a coup, by the 25th Amendment. And under that Amendment, which constitutional officer would be the driving force to remove an impaired president? None other than the vice-president: in this case, Kamala Harris!

–The fact that Kamala Harris was the designated “Border Czar” and under her watch, an estimated 21,000,000 “migrants” (illegal aliens) have flooded the country by being allowed entry at designated crossing points, sneaking into the country as “gotaways”, or by being flown in, usually in the middle of the night, courtesy of the Biden-Harris administration. Most of these individuals have entered the country via the notorious Mexican cartels that have made millions of dollars in trafficking these people, thousands of which have died in the process and the women raped, or being forced into prostitution as sex slaves. Others have been utilized for drug smuggling, all to pay back debts owed to the cartels. Many of the children, often drugged, usually escorted by persons who falsely claim that they are a parent in order to get entry into the country, have been forced into illegal child labor or into child prostitution. The Biden Administration has recently admitted that 325,000 children, those of which they have records for, have gone missing!! It would not be an exaggeration to say that slavery in this country is currently at a highest level than at any time since the end of the Civil War!

The past of most of these migrants remain unvetted; many of which were citizens from some of the more than 180 countries that have crossed our borders that have poor, or no, record keeping; others are enemies of the United States who will not provide the histories of these people. Do they have criminal records, are they deviants or are they mentally unstable? Are some of these border crossers terrorists that have been slipped into the United States from countries like Afghanistan, Iran, etc., waiting for the “go signal” to launch a new 9-11-like attack? Others, with more pure motives, have arrived for work, which under the law is not a valid purpose for entry into the United States (most of the world would come!). They have been instructed by the cartels or NGOs, to make spurious claims of “asylum” by stating that they are fleeing their respective countries in fear of political or religious persecution, gang violence, etc., anything but trying to find a job! They are given Notices to Appear in the immigration courts to review their asylum claims, with dates that are seven, eight or nine years in the future! Most will never appear. Why should they? Reports have surfaced that many migrants are attempting to register to vote in the presidential election, despite their status as non-citizens. Other reports have stated that the Biden administration is handling a record number of naturalization applications in the weeks leading up to the election. Are these just coincidences?

In the meantime, the entry of foreign criminal gangs such as the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua and MS-13, have set up shop all across the country and are conducting major crime waves in American cities, almost all of which are Democratic-controlled “sanctuary cities” in which the foreign status of these criminals is not reported to federal authorities. It is a fact that the crime rate in Venezuela has drastically decreased over the last couple of years, as the Nicholas Maduro regime has emptied its prisons and mental institutions and “exported” its criminals and mentally imbalanced to America! This infestation of foreign crime has made such an impact that news has recently been reported that “traditional” black street gangs in Chicago are so incensed that the “migrant gangs” are invading their turf that an all-out war with them is imminent! At the same time, many innocent American citizens have been murdered and/or raped by these foreign criminals (remember Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungaray?) or assaulted and robbed; whole neighborhoods have been taken over by them; children have been sexually assaulted by these monsters (most recently in Nantucket) and others have been killed in traffic accidents by individuals who don’t understand U.S. traffic laws (Springfield, Ohio). The claims of Haitians eating cats and dogs, and the ducks, geese and swans swimming in the park lakes of Springfield, remain in controversy!

Kamala Harris has now made a trip to the Southern border, for the first time in three years, to have a photo-op staged, and spoke on how she is committed to becoming “tough” on the border as being a former district attorney and attorney general, who prosecuted trans-national criminal organizations! (No record has yet to be found that Harris ever prosecuted a case in a court of law). On the same day, someone; perhaps a whistleblower, from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (I.C.E.), released a memo that detailed the startling statistic that a total of 425,431 previously convicted migrant criminals have entered the United States and that the Biden-Harris Administration’s policy, astoundingly, was not to detain any of these criminals, but to allow them to be released, without any monitoring or supervision, to roam the streets of the country, with “Notices to Appear” before immigration courts far into the future!! Of that figure of 425,431 convicted criminals, 13,099 had been previously convicted of homicide, 15,811 had been previously convicted of sexual assault, 2,521 had been previously convicted of kidnapping and 350 were affiliated with known terrorist organizations! These statistics only account for the ones for which the administration has records for; it does not account for the unknown “gotaways!” This revelation flies in the face of the repeated lies by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Alexander Mayorkas over the years that “the border is secure.” Secure for whom, the cartels???

President Trump has said that this “criminal invasion” that has been allowed into the country under Kamala Harris’ watch as Border Czar, should disqualify her from now seeking a promotion to become president of the United States; instead she should immediately resign! Will the Media report these statistics or suppress this data until after the election?

The Biden-Harris administration has all but ended deportations. It has prohibited the beleaguered Border Patrol from enforcing immigration law (after Harris defamed them in the “whipping” hoax), instead turning the agency instead into welcoming bureaucrats. Kamala Harris has stated that she intends to “re-imagine” I.C.E, which under Woke-Speak means “abolish”. She had previously slandered I.C.E. as akin to the “white supremacy KKK”. Under Harris’ regime, there will be little, if any, enforcement of immigration laws. She has claimed that, despite evidence to the contrary, she was never the “Border Czar” but was instead tasked with “studying the root causes of immigration” into the United States. H0w about this for an answer, Kamala: “everyone wants to live in the United States, the richest and most free country in the world, a country that will provide an excellent chance for employment, decent housing and further provide for free healthcare, free education, free welfare . . . and free sex change operations for migrants???”

The healthcare apparatus in general and hospitals in particular are on the verge of collapse in treating the flood of migrants without insurance, many of whom have tuberculosis; others have been diagnosed with rare, tropical diseases; even the plague! Similarly, schools throughout the country are overwhelmed by a massive influx of children that do not speak English. Biden’s Labor Department recently came out with a statistic that half of the jobs reported in the prior quarter were taken by (illegal) migrants – no doubt at far lesser wages! Why wouldn’t the “Ruling Class” back Ms. Harris?

Kamala Harris has argued that the catastrophe at the border was caused, and was only caused, by Donald Trump ordering the “Bipartisan” Immigration Bill to be blocked in the Senate. (In actuality, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was the only Republican senator to vote to move the Bill out of Committee; even the Bill’s original GOP sponsor, James Lankford of Oklahoma, voted against it.) While the Bill did provide funding for more Border Patrol agents (to serve as additional receptionists?), it would have handcuffed a president’s inherent power to close the border under existing law, by mandating that no less than 5,000 migrants would by right, be allowed to enter the country on a daily basis and added many loopholes to allow additional daily entries. At the minimum, this “poison pill” Bill would have codified the entry by law, of 2,000,000 new migrants into the country on an annual basis!

–The fact that the two assassination attempts against Donald Trump have been downplayed by most of the Media, as incendiary comments against Trump by Democrat politicians and Media functionaries; many that may be construed as inciting his assassination, continue unabated! The first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, on live T.V., in which Trump was shot in the ear and escaped death by 1/4th of an inch (!), was almost immediately minimized by most of the Media as a “nothing to see here” event; some fanatics even claimed that the event was “staged” – though Trump supporter Corey Comperatore was murdered behind Trump and two others were gravely wounded but survived. Others mused that Trump was merely wounded by shrapnel rather than being shot – even FBI director Christopher Wray made this claim without evidence! The iconic image of a bloody Donald Trump being lifted up by Secret Service agents under an American flag was attempted to be erased by the Big Tech overlords to no avail. As the wounded Trump was raised from the stage, his immediate reaction was to pump his fist and cry “Fight! Fight! Fight!” to the roaring crowd, which even Mark Zuckerberg exclaimed was “one of the most badass things I have ever seen in my life!” The shooter, 19-year-old Matthew Thomas Crooks was immediately taken out by counter-snipers and left little record of his motivation, other than a history of studying past assassinations and three, as yet unlocked, foreign websites on his cell phone.

The second assassination attempt occurred only nine weeks later, in which Ryan Wesley Routh laid in wait for Trump at the 6th hole of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Thankfully, a Secret Service agent spotted the barrel of his rifle from among the shrubbery. Routh was apprehended after a car chase and unlike Crooks, provided much evidence of his intentions. A fanatic supporter of Ukraine who had traveled there and to other foreign destinations in a scheme to attempt to enlist Afghans to fight for Ukraine, Routh had left a letter to a female friend in a sealed box, addressed “To the World”, in which he declared that “this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000.00 to whomever can complete the job.” In light of the fact that Routh had only $68.00 dollars in his bank account, what group or nation was funding Routh’s foreign travel and supposedly staked this alleged $150,000.00 bounty on Trump’s head?? Was Ryan Routh’s motivations based on Donald Trump’s position upon his election to curtail the transfer of billions of dollars that have been sent to Ukraine to date and to try to end the war with a negotiated peace? Or was Routh’s intentions due to some other political motivation based on the heated rhetoric of this election season?

It is no secret that the central strategy of the Democrats in this election season has been and continues to be, to “dehumanize“ Donald Trump, to constantly harp that he is a threat to “Our Democracy” _^TM, will become “a dictator on day one” and must be stopped by any means. Even after the second assassination attempt, Representative Dan Goldman of New York stated that Trump “must be eliminated.” Thereafter, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo declared that Trump “must be extinguished.” Was Ryan Routh motivated by these constant statements that can be construed as inciting violence against Donald Trump? These constant inflammatory comments by Democrat politicians and their Media allies have not been criticized by the Machine and this second assassination attempt like the first, is being downplayed and soon will disappear down the Memory Hole, as will be Routh’s violent anti-Trump and pro-Democrat rantings, as if attempted presidential assassinations are a common event in America. Subsequently, it has been revealed that Iran has now ordered the assassination of Donald Trump for his order taking out Iranian terrorist commander Qasem Solamani in 2020! Finally, with the microscope on the Secret Service, the agency is forced to take Mr. Trump’s security more seriously!

–That the Media has failed to pin Kamala Harris down on the inane and uninformed economic theories that she espouses, though they occasionally leak out from her determined strategy to not directly answer any questions. Her far-Left theories will most likely crash the stock market, gut your 401(k) accounts, cause increased inflation and shortages of goods, and cause a depression. The raising of her trial-balloon on imposing price controls on groceries was promptly taken back (until after her election?). Soviet-style price controls have never worked anywhere and only cause an increase in inflation and a shortage of goods, as manufacturers cease producing goods for which they would take a loss. The famous image of people lined up around the block to enter a grocery store on a snowy Moscow street in the 1980s, waiting to be handed one tangerine, could be a harbinger of America’s future in a Harris administration! The simple fact is that the grocery industry has one of the slimmest profit margins in the U.S. economy – between 1 and 2%, and would be decimated under Harris’ plan.

Her plan to give first-time home buyers a $25,000.00 stipend, while inflationary, would immediately raise the value of the home market by $25,000.00! Her plan to increase the corporate tax rate from the currently competitive rate of 21% to 28% will cause corporations to leave the country, and leave the workers that they employ, to countries that have lower tax rates, such as Ireland. Her plan to let the Trump tax cuts expire in 2025 will greatly raise taxes for everybody; those tax cuts most benefited taxpayers making $50,000 to $100,000.00 a year, not the “millionaires and billionaires!” And the biggest whopper of all of Kamala’s ideas is the notion to tax “unrealized income.” For example, assume that your retirement IRA had a gain of $50,000.00 during a calendar year, but no money was cashed out by you during the year. Under Kamala, you would be taxed for this unrealized income, though not one penny made it into your pocket! The disastrous effects of this idea on the American economy in incalculable!

–The fact that Kamala Harris is woefully unprepared to be commander-in-chief or to negotiate with the leaders of the great powers, who through their respective systems, whether good or evil, have risen to the top due to their intelligence, cunning or deadly ruthlessness. As the World is currently on fire due to the lack of leadership of the current administration, can you imagine Kamala Harris dealing with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un or the Mullahs of Iran? During the infamous ABC debate, the untested Kamala Harris claimed that the likes of Putin, Xi or Kim would “eat Donald Trump for lunch!” Well, if memory serves me right, no wars broke out during Donald Trump’s presidency as he stared down those despots! Vladimir Putin probably said it best, when he stated that he’s for Kamala Harris as he is enamored by her “infectious laugh!” Need anything else be said?

–That the lies that Kamala Harris made in the ABC debate, by her Media allies or in her commercials are never fact-checked by most of the Media. The Russian Collusion hoax was a lie and the Steele dossier hoax was a lie, yet the Hunter Laptop was genuine! Donald Trump is not for a national abortion ban; he has stated repeatedly that with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the issue has been returned to be voted on by the people in respective states rather than by judicial fiat. Donald Trump is not for banning I.V.F. fertility treatments, he is for such procedures and is for increasing the American birthrate. D0nald Trump did not state that there were “fine people on both sides” that participated in the Charlottesville, Virginia riot; he was referring to the issue of pulling down historical statues. Donald Trump did not state there would be a “bloodbath” should he not be elected; he was referring to the effects on the auto industry should Harris’ E.V. mandates be put into force. Donald Trump did not recommend injecting bleach to fight COVID. Donald Trump was called a “criminal” by Kamala Harris but that label will be short-lived, as his New York show-trial conviction will be reversed on appeal due to numerous constitutional violations, the most egregious being that the identity of the actual felony statute that Trump was charged with, which allowed the prosecution to take place long after the tolling of the statute of limitations, was not revealed by the prosecution to the jury (or to Trump’s defense), until after his defense had rested and was not be allowed to address the jury again! True Soviet-style tactics!

Conversely, the truths that Kamala Harris does favor, remained unexplored by the Machine. Kamala Harris supports tax-funded sex change operations for illegal immigrants. Kamala Harris supports abortion up to the moment of birth, which is truly infanticide. Kamala Harris supports “gender reassignment care” for minors without parental notification, which currently is the law in Minnesota, the state in which the governor is her running mate, Tim Walz. Kamala Harris supports mandatory gun confiscation. Kamala Harris supports biological males to compete with women in sports. Kamala Harris supports censorship, limitation of free speech and the prosecution of political opponents. Kamala Harris supports the end to all deportations, as a video was recently discovered that had Harris, along with of all people Jussie Smollett, chanting in a rally “down, down with deportation, up, up with education.” And, after the devastation that Hurricane Ian wrought on Southwest Florida in August 2022, Vice President Harris made the outrageous statement that black victims of the hurricane should be served first by FEMA, based solely on their race!

All of these lies and all of these truths, are being shoved down the All-Powerful Memory Hole Machine in favor of Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party!

This most crucial election is November 5, 2024. Let us hope and pray that enough thinking Americans (and only Americans) will sort out the truths from the lies, ignore the propaganda of the Machine and vote for Donald J. Trump and outnumber those voters who have gotten so vacuous and insipid due to the smartphone, TikTok, D.E.I., leftist education or on the single issue of abortion (which is no longer a federal issue anyway), that will cast their votes for the totally unqualified, anti-constitutional, evasive and untruthful Kamala Harris, the most radical major party candidate in American history!

-The Chicago Patriot

The conviction of Former President Donald J. Trump on all 34 Counts of charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday, May 30, 2024, was based upon a Rube Goldberg-like indictment where a long-dead misdemeanor tolled years before by the Statute of Limitations was, by some strange alchemy, metamorphosed into 34 felony charges for the crime of “altering business records with the intent to cover-up “another unidentified crime” – a totally invented crime that was not revealed until the prosecution’s closing statement. To further reflect on the absurdity of these charges, the bookkeeping entry of the reimbursements to Michael Cohen as “legal expenses” were made within the internal records of the Trump Organization and were never intended to be revealed to the voting public. Further, entry of the first payment to Cohen as a legal expense was not made until February 2017, three months after the election of Donald J. Trump as president on November 8, 2016. How then, could these “falsification of business records” have served to defraud the voting public when the first bookkeeping entry was made months after Mr. Trump had already won the election???

The criminal conviction of the first ex-president in American history has left an indelible stain on American political history and American jurisprudence which most likely will never be able to be expunged! The Rubicon has been crossed…..

Along with the outrageous New York civil verdict against Mr. Trump where he was found liable for the amount of $355,000.00 without proof of harm to any victims, this week’s criminal conviction of Donald Trump in this first-ever rigged political show trial in American history, may have dealt a deathblow to New York’s legal system; its status as center of world commerce; its economy and its reputation, in the all-consuming rage to “Get Trump.” As Lavrenti Beria, Joseph Stalin’s head of the secret police famously said, “show me the man and I will show you the crime.”

Heretofore, in the history of American jurisprudence and Constitutional Law, there has never been enacted a “Donald J. Trump Exception” to the rights afforded to a criminal defendant by the Due Process clause of the United States Constitution. From reviewing the machinations and tactics of Alvin Bragg and the decisions of his conflicted and heavily biased sidekick Judge Juan Merchan, during the first “lawfare” trial against Mr. Trump in this election season (at the sub rosa direction of President Biden), it is clear that a “Trump Exception” to the Due Process Clause applied during his trial, denying him of his basic constitutional rights. This show trial would have been nostalgic to Commissar Beria and the tactics employed by the prosecution would have won his approval!

The following are the multitude grounds of “reversable error”, that will lead to the inevitable reversal of this totally unconstitutional conviction of Donald J. Trump. The only question is whether the reversal of this travesty of a conviction can somehow be made before the election on November 5, 2024:

(1) Taking a long dead misdemeanor in which the Statute of Limitations had long tolled, and resurrecting it into 34 felony charges based upon the intentional cover-up of a further unidentified underlying crime. Furthermore, in actuality there was but one transaction and through overcharging, was repeated 34 times for each payment of each check to Michael Cohen, for dramatic effect;

(2) Failure to provide the Grand Jury with exculpatory (Brady v. Maryland) evidence, including, but not limited to, that Michael Cohen had repeatedly stated that he “had nothing on Trump.”

(3) Denial of the Motion to Change Venue out of New York City in general and Manhattan in particular when voting records showed that the electorate voted against Donald Trump in the 2020 election by 85%;

(4) Accordingly, violation of the right to an impartial jury as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution;

(5) Denial of the Motion to Recuse Judge Juan Merchan, who against judicial ethics, contributed to Joseph Biden for president; contributed to the “Progressive Turnout Project for Resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s Radical Right-Wing Legacy” and whose daughter ran a public relations firm for the Democratic Party and made millions of dollars therein. Loren Merchan further advocated during the trial for the conviction of Donald Trump and made further millions of dollars, as her father was presiding over the trial. It had been revealed after the verdict, that Judge Merchan had been previously administratively rebuked, for violating judicial ethics that prohibited judges from making political contributions;

(6) Imposition of the Gag Order that was placed on Donald Trump by Judge Merchan, which was in total violation of the First Amendment and heretofore had only been utilized to protect a defendant in a criminal trial, not the state that was prosecuting such defendant;

(7) The admittance into evidence of the irrelevant and highly inflammatory evidence, including but not limited to, the Stormy Daniels testimony, the Access Hollywood tape, the alleged Karen McDougall affair and the E. Jean Carroll verdict, all of which had no probative value on the bookkeeping charges leveled against Donald Trump. Furthermore, this admission into evidence of such “prior bad acts” that had no bearing on the charge at hand, was the basis for the reversal of the rape conviction of Harvey Weinstein as “reversible error” by the New York appellate court, that came down right during the trial of Donald Trump. Yet, Judge Merchan gave no instruction to the jury to strike from their deliberations any reference to those testimonies;

(8) The repeated overruling by Judge Merchan of objections by the defense that Non-Disclosure Agreements, such as the ones entered with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougall, were legal and were common;

(9) The denial by Judge Merchan to allow the defense to call Mr. Brad Smith, the former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, to testify on what constituted a campaign contribution in the context of Federal election law. The jury was consigned on their own, to attempt to determine whether the payment to Stormy Daniels constituted a campaign contribution or was paid for other reasons, such as to protect Trump’s marriage, and were further tasked to determine whether Federal election laws even applied to the facts of the case.

(10) The refusal of Judge Merchan to give the “missing witness” jury instruction that pertained to the prosecution’s decision to not call former Trump Organization CFO Allan Weisselberg to testify at the trial, who was the only person other than Michael Cohen, who had personal knowledge of the payments to Stormy Daniels. Weisselberg is incarcerated on Rikers Island for refusing to “flip” on Trump. The instruction would have stated that as the prosecution failed to call Weisselberg to testify at trial, it would be assumed that his testimony would have not been favorable to the prosecution;

(11) Basing a New York felony on violations of federal election laws without the New York court having any jurisdiction to prosecute such federal laws;

(12) The allowance by Judge Merchan of the prosecution in its closing statement to comment on facts that were never allowed into evidence, including, but not limited to, that federal election laws were violated in this case; that hinted that Michael Cohen’s conviction for violation of federal campaign laws and David Pecker’s immunity agreement for the violation of the same laws implied that Donald Trump was also guilty of violation of federal election laws, etc.

(13) Violation of the Sixth Amendment right to be informed on the charges against Donald Trump and the Fourteenth Amendment for Trump to be afforded due process, when the prosecution’s theory of the underlying crime that transformed the misdemeanor falsification of business records into felonies was not revealed by the State until after the defense had rested in its closing argument, with no chance for rebuttal by the defense of these newly revealed charges and legal theories;

(14) Allowing the prosecution in its closing argument, after the defense has rested, to allude to a conspiracy between Donald Trump, Michael Cohen and David Pecker to defraud the 2016 American electorate in 2016 and violate federal election campaign laws, by conspiring to falsify the reimbursement to Michael Cohen as “legal expenses”, without conspiracy being a charge returned by the New York grand jury in its indictment;

(15) The failure of Judge Merchan to enter a directed verdict at the end of the prosecution’s case, as the State failed to prove during its case, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Donald Trump’s willfully and intentionally falsified business records with the specific intent of covering-up a still unidentified underlying crime, let alone even specifying what that underlying crime was;

(16) Allowing a non-unanimous verdict by allowing the jury to pick and choose on a choice of three supposed underlying crimes that transformed the misdemeanor falsification of business records into felonies, without unanimity among the twelve jurors;

(17) Allowing a verdict form to be signed by all twelve jurors without specification of which underlying crime, by citation of the actual statute, that the jury determined that Donald Trump was guilty of, which was the basis for the conviction on the 34 felony counts;

(18) Consequently, a total lack of due process afforded to Donald J. Trump throughout these proceedings.

So went America’s first political show trial. Due to the above-unconstitutional tactics, the jury was bamboozled! Whether it will hurt or help Donald Trump’s reelection chances remain to be seen. The Left constantly bleats that with the conviction of Donald Trump, this proves that “nobody is above the law.” However, as the above-constitutional abuses show, the treatment of Donald J. Trump, the first ex-president to be criminally indicted and criminally convicted, was far below the law. One of the great ironies of these proceedings!

For another dose of irony, this may not be the last show trial that would be conducted in this country. There are literally thousands of local district attorneys and local judges in the United States of America, many located in “red states.” The Democrats may rue the day they let this lawfare tactic to be unleashed on the American body politic. Would an indictment from a grand jury in, let’s say Oklahoma City, be in the offing for Joseph R. Biden for his decades-long violation of the Espionage Act for his mishandling of, and profiting from, classified documents, despite the fact that he is “an elderly man with a poor memory?” The current president may secretly hope that the presidential immunity issue now before the Supreme Court will be decided in Donald Trump’s favor, and his own!

-The Chicago Patriot

The utter chaos that has descended this week with the fall of Kabul, after Joe Biden ordered the abrupt withdrawal of the last of U.S. armed forces and suspension of all support for the Afghan army; including air support, without first carrying out a planned evacuation of the “unknown” thousands of American civilian contractors, businessmen, members of non-governmental organizations and journalists, the citizens of our NATO allies and those Afghans who had helped us over the last twenty years from the country, has created a totally preventable situation where these unfortunates could very well serve as hostages to the whims of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, ISIS and the Haqqani Network! The 1979 Iran Hostage crisis x thousands! (Why couldn’t the State Department utilize passport records to come up with a fair estimate of the number of Americans currently in the country?) In the irony-upon-irony department, the Taliban forces are led by Kharirullah Khairkhwa, one of the five Taliban leaders freed in 2014 from Guantanamo by the Obama-Biden Administration, and swapped for disgraced U.S. Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl! As President Biden famously conceded in answer to George Stephanopolous’ interview question, the fate of those thousands and of the loyal Afghan population at large, was “priced into the decision” of Biden’s sudden withdrawal! Summary executions and forced “marriages” are now proceeding as Taliban squads are going door to door in Kabul! Beatings of persons, including Americans, who attempt to gain entry to the Hamid Karzai airport occur by the minute! People are being crushed to death in the chaos, as thousands rush the few available gates to freedom, manned by the scant American military presence. Gun battles are taking place around the airport! Those imperiled Americans currently in Kabul have been instructed to “shelter in place” by the State Department until notified to try to get to the airport; the perimeter still held by U.S. forces, ignoring the facts that the roads to the airport are controlled by the Taliban and that the State Department had issued a bulletin that the U.S. cannot guarantee their safety in reaching Karzai airport! (Later, the State Department changed its advisory, instructing Americans not to go to the airport, due to a threat of an ISIS attack!) It has been reported that British, French, German, and even Dutch special forces are proceeding to get their nationals out of the country, unlike U.S. forces, which have been ordered by President Biden to stand in place at the airport and for American civilians to try to reach them! Unbelievable! The State Department bulletin further does not even address the hundreds, perhaps thousands of other Americans that are stranded in the outlying provinces of the country. What will become of their fate? The United States is relying on the goodwill of the Taliban to try to rescue its own citizens??

As of this date, the Taliban has now set the humiliating, non-negotiable deadline of August 31st, for U.S. forces to cease all evacuation operations and leave the Karzai airport, whether or not all who are to be evacuated are rescued, or the U.S. “will cross a red line!” Biden’s move to abruptly and chaotically leave Afghanistan, without any warning or even rudimentary planning, is just the latest in a series of decisions by this weak, frail, often confused, and largely absent president, that seems to deliberately sap U.S. power abroad, or are gauged to set the American people against each other at home:

Afghanistan:

On July 8th, President Biden gave a speech, reading words from the TelePrompter, where he assured the American public and the world, that his decision to abruptly pull out of the country would not cause the sudden downfall of the government from Kabul – as one pundit put it: “it’s not as if we will pull out of the country on Friday and the Taliban enters Kabul on Monday.” But that’s just what happened, as the President and his press secretary Jen Psaki were both on vacation during this most crucial week! (Have you noticed how seldom Biden is in residence at the White House, with all of the most sophisticated communication equipment at his disposal, preferring instead to “preside” from [the famous basement?] of his home in Wilmington, Delaware?) The Administration is now claiming that this turn of events was totally unforeseen; that Biden was misled by “false intelligence”. However, now the “intelligence community” and the Pentagon are leaking to their favorite conduits in the Press that detailed predictions of what just would happen with such an unplanned, abrupt pull-out of U.S. forces were put before Joe Biden repeatedly and he rejected their advice, instead of relying on an advisory council of one, himself! One must wonder whether the intelligence community, that worked so hard to undermine the presidency of Donald Trump, due to his only crime of being an outsider that wanted to streamline their bureaucracies, are now having buyer’s remorse for their role in installing the doddering Joe Biden!

Once Biden and press secretary Jen Psaki returned to the White House, as Afghanistan was dissolving before the world’s eyes, the president and his flacks predictably defended the decision to pull out of Afghanistan as “just carrying out the withdrawal plan of Donald Trump”, as if this is the first and only plan of President Trump that the Biden Administration was duty-bound to actually carry-out! Biden has since stated that in any event, “chaos was inevitable” (even with proper planning?) and when he gave his first incongruous public address after his return from his vacation on the need for COVID-19 booster shots (as the crisis in Afghanistan was spiraling out of control), he then purposedly strode off the stage, dictator-like, without answering one of the questions shouted even from reliably-handpicked reporters, about the unfolding disaster! Joseph Biden campaigned for president as the seasoned foreign policy expert with fifty years of experience; that “America was back on the world stage.” Of course, that boast ignored the comment of Robert Gates, the former Secretary of Defense who served under both the Bush and the Obama administrations, that Joe Biden had been “wrong on every crucial foreign policy decision over those fifty years!”. Yet, the record shows that Biden did not consult any of our NATO allies prior to his decision to abruptly pull out of Afghanistan (not even an email!) and made his first call about the resulting chaos, to British P.M. Boris Johnson, only upon his return to Washington. The United States now looks weak to its enemies and untrustworthy to its friends!

On Friday, August 20th, President Biden gave a short speech on the situation in Afghanistan, flanked by his “handler” Kamala Harris, that was so full of half-truths, wishful thinking, or outright lies that Jennifer Griffin, the Pentagon reporter from Fox News immediately observed that the speech was riddled “with so many misrepresentations that she did not have the time to perform a proper fact check.” Amazingly, Biden claimed, among many other Whoppers, that there were no intelligence assessments that the Afghan military would suddenly fall apart – ignoring the fact that provincial capitals were falling like dominos in the week beforehand; that “Al-Qaeda no longer has a presence in Afghanistan” – immediately thereafter contradicted by the Pentagon, and that he has received no criticisms but praise from our NATO allies for his abrupt pull-out from the country – as the British House of Commons formally condemned him for his actions!!!

Joseph Biden also repeated the defense that he was merely “carrying out the withdrawal plan of Donald Trump.” Of course, this rhetoric commingles and confuses the decision of whether to finally withdraw from Afghanistan, with how to withdraw from the country! The Trump plan to end American involvement in Afghanistan in no way resembled this catastrophic surrender: first, the gradual pull-out would commence only if the conditions on the ground were favorable and would begin only with the advent of winter, which pretty much closes off all travel for over four months in this land on the spur of the Himalayas known as the Hindu Kush, instead of withdrawing during the heart of the summer as Biden has done. (Of course, Biden was compelled to withdraw from the country during this summer, in order to carry out the cheap political stunt that it was his Administration that got us out of Afghanistan as of the twentieth anniversary of 9/11/01, not contemplating that the flag of the Taliban would be flying on the roof of the U.S. Embassy as of that date!!) The Trump plan of beginning the draw-down at the advent of winter would have thus have given the Afghan government months to consolidate its armed forces and administration before the “Afghan fighting season” commenced. Secondly, the Trump plan called for the invitation to the Taliban to join in a coalition government with the Afghan government to attempt to include all factions in governing the country. Lastly, and most importantly, the Trump plan called for the continuance of a small, but lethal American military force to remain in the country at the vast and virtually impregnable Bagram airbase, which would have included airpower, to act as an “umpire” to ensure that the Taliban would “behave” in this coalition government. (Why the Biden administration abandoned the Bagram base in favor of the largely indefensible Kabul airport is inexplicable!) President Trump made it clear in his negotiations with the Taliban leadership that should they get out of line after a coalition was formed, or if one American was harmed, that the Taliban and its radical allies, would immediately be struck long and hard!

Joe Biden’s decision to abruptly pull-out of Afghanistan, without regard to the Americans now trapped in the country, as the Taliban controls all roads to the Kabul airport, let alone the thousands of Afghans, and their families, that had aided the United States over the twenty years and the soon-to-be enslaved women of the country, is a signal to the world that the United States is in the decline, does not stand up for its allies and will invariably cut and run. Afghanistan will revert to what it was before September 11, 2001, a haven for Islamic terrorism and base for the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the Haqqani Network, only now the threat to America will now be greatly amplified with the terrorists now supplied with billions of dollars of American weapons and military equipment that were left behind due to the chaotic withdrawal from the country and, our now wide-open Southern border!

China state-run media has already started a propaganda campaign aimed at Taiwan that the United States will not support its defense of the island should Beijing finally move against the remnants of the democratic and capitalist Republic of China. With Joe Biden in the White House, the temptations of Xi Jing-Ping can only be mounting! The same temptations will urge Vladimir Putin to further subvert Ukraine, Kim Jong-Il to “reunite” the South, and the mullahs of Iran to accelerate their nuclear program with the goal of annihilating Israel. In the meantime, neither the Chinese nor the Russian embassies in Kabul have been evacuated, a clear sign that these adversary powers have reached a deal with the Taliban. The alteration of the political dynamics of all of Central Asia and beyond, by America’s chaotic and unplanned withdrawal from Afghanistan is incalculable!

Much has been said that it was time to end this “twenty-year war.” Yet it is a fact that not one American service person had been killed in Afghanistan in the last eighteen months. America has remained in Korea since 1950. Are we still involved in the “seventy-one year Korean War?”

Biden flack Jen Psaki made a revealing comment in her first press conference after her return from her ill-timed vacation: that the U.S. will now undertake to accept thousands of refugees from Afghanistan including (in order!), “Afghans, U.S. citizens, and other endangered groups.” Note that “America First” is never a thought that crosses the minds of these people! The chaotic departures from Kabul of these refugees to date, seem to have been carried out without any vetting of who are, in actuality, going to be “processed” to be admitted to the country, and who may now try to infiltrate from the wide-open border with Mexico. Citizens of over 60 countries have been processed entering the United States from Mexico due to the Biden Administration’s conscious decision to erase our Southern border. Why wouldn’t members of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, or the Haqqani Network be among those infiltrating, without the welcome of the Border Patrol, across the Rio Grande?

The Border Crisis:

Among the first decisions taken by Joe Biden, on the day he ascended to the presidency, was to enact the constitutionally dubious Executive Order to halt the construction of the border wall, which was legally appropriated by Congress and signed into law by Donald Trump, which has resulted in large gaps in the unfinished wall that serve as inviting ports of entry for illegal migrants entering the country, and his Executive Order to end the highly successful “Remain in Mexico Agreement” that Trump had made with Mexican president Obrador, that required migrants claiming asylum to remain in Mexico as their claims were being adjudicated. As current U.S. immigration laws only allow asylum in the United States for political or religious persecution and not for economic hardship – “I want a better life for my family” is not a legal justification, the statistics have shown that few asylum seekers have a viable legal claim. However, with Biden now in charge; who famously stated that he wants open borders because “I Am a Nice Guy”, the Border Patrol has been ordered to welcome asylum seekers into the country rather than for them to wait in Mexico for a determination of their claims. Reports have shown that due to the enormous crush of individuals seeking asylum from all over the world that have stormed the border and not just from Mexico and Central America, only some have been given a summons for a court date with an immigration judge, while most are merely released into the country and instructed to call for a court date once they have settled in the U.S.! Along with Biden’s other executive order that halted deportations by I.C.E. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), this influx of illegal aliens into the United States will not be stemmed soon.

A large percentage of these migrants have been trafficked across the desert to the border by ruthless Mexican drug cartels, who often extort the life savings from these individuals as a fee for their “services.” Many souls have perished in this dangerous journey, including many children, others have been left for dead and abandoned in the desert. Further, a large percentage of the female migrants, including minors, have been raped during the journey by ruthless cartel operatives, or assigned against their will to serve as sex slaves once they have entered the United States. In addition to profiting from this “trade”, of which this allegedly so-caring Administration is well aware, the cartels have additionally taken advantage of Biden’s choice to erase our national sovereignty at the border by smuggling huge quantities of illegal drugs into the United States, including heroin, cocaine, and especially fentanyl, of which even a tiny dose could be fatal. The fentanyl is produced by Communist China, which has partnered with the Mexican cartels to smuggle this dangerous drug across the now wide-open border, in a most devious way of carrying out chemical warfare against the United States! Yet the Biden Administration does not seem to care as overdoses mount, choosing the ideology of open borders for cheap labor for their corporate donors and altering the electorate to the apparent advantage of the Democratic party, over safety, security, national sovereignty, and even national identity! The heat of the summer Southwest, which usually coincides with a drop in border-crossing attempts, has not abated the crush of migrants. Almost 200,000 migrants have been “welcomed” by the Border Patrol in July alone, this figure of course does not include the thousands that surreptitiously crossed the border, including MS-13 gang members previously convicted for murder, rape, and other violent felonies! Over one million illegal aliens are expected to breach the border this year alone! Further, over 15% of those that have been processed by the Border Patrol have been found to be positive for COVID-19! Yet, the Biden Administration has enlisted the Border Patrol and even the military, to transport these individuals, even those that are COVID-positive, in the dead of night into the interior of the country; often to Texas and Florida, without notice to local governmental officials. Border towns and the states that they are located in are swamped, COVID infections are up in all areas where migrants have been placed, illegal aliens are trespassing on the properties of American landowners along the border on an hourly basis, violent crime is soaring and hospitals are overwhelmed! The educational and welfare systems will next feel the brunt as local tax structures will collapse!

Biden’s oath upon taking office to “faithfully execute the laws of the United States” has been repeatedly breached on this issue, as on a plethora of others! It seems that the ultimate goal of the Democratic Party and the Left is to create chaos in the United States. In this, they are succeeding!

Politicization of COVID-19:

The relentless politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic by Joseph Biden, Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party, and their allies in the Mainstream Media, that without doubt caused the defeat of Donald Trump, has continued unabated. The Biden Administration has refused to acknowledge that the Phizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines were developed in “Manhattan Project-like” record time by the Trump Administration during Operation Warp Speed! Before the election, both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had famously stated that they were not going to receive the vaccine as “they didn’t trust Trump”, as if Donald Trump was personally wearing a white lab coat and mixing the vaccine ingredients! (And they wonder why a significant segment of the population is now skeptical of receiving the jab, a large percentage of which are Democratic-voting African Americans!) Yet after their election victory, both Biden and Harris received the Trump vaccine!

Before the onset of the Delta variant of the Coronavirus, the Biden Administration attempted to claim sole credit for the effect of the (Trump) vaccines on the suppression of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths from COVID-19! However, with the increase in infections with the Delta virus, Biden and his Media lackeys have switched the blame for the cause of the increase in infections to Republicans: – the 74,000,000 Americans who voted for Donald Trump, in general, who are claimed to be the center of the rabid anti-vaxxers, and Republican politicians in particular, specifically Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, being the most apparent threat to Democrats holding on to the White House in 2024, should Donald Trump choose not to run for a second term. Yes, Joe Biden has promised to “bring us all together!”

As far as the first canard goes, statistics have shown that, as of late May 2021, 37% of the population of the United States remained unvaccinated, for whatever reason. Within that figure, 29% between the ages of 18 to 29 and 41% between the ages of 29 to 50 remain unvaccinated- certainly, the first group is not part of the core of the GOP voting block. In contrast, over 14% of the Black population and over 19% of the Hispanic population remained unvaccinated, both groups of which are reliable Democratic voters.

The attempt to hang the blame on the rise of Delta variant infections on Republican leaders and specifically on GOP governors such as DeSantis, for which there is no documentary proof, centers on the debate on whether or not to shut down local economies to try to stop the virus, on whether or not to issue governmental mandates to compel the wearing of masks indoors and to force children to be masked while attending school, and now recently, on the drive to compel unvaccinated Americans to be forced to be vaccinated, whether by governmental decree and now recently, by private corporations, with those who refuse to be vaccinated to be shunned from society!

Almost invariably, those who have advocated for forced lockdowns, masking, and vaccinations since the pandemic began are Democrats and Leftists, while those who champion the freedom to make a living, the freedom to choose whether or not to take the vaccine, and the freedom to utilize common sense in determining in a particular situation whether to wear a mask or engage in social distancing, are Republicans. The American people have been hectored for over a year and a half by the Left to “follow the science.” Yet, science has shown that individuals who had contracted COVID-19 and recovered, and have natural immunity far superior to the immunity gained from vaccinations, are discarded by the vaccine extremists! All must be vaccinated! Further, the documented physical, psychological and educational harm of children wearing masks for long periods are ignored! The unholy alliance between the Biden Administration and the Teachers’ Unions will no doubt condemn the youth of America to another year of being masked, if not be forced to undergo remote “learning” at home! On the issue of mandating vaccines, should not the decision on whether or not vaccination is right for a particular individual, be a decision that should be made between that person and his or her physician, instead of some politician? While the Delta variant has temporarily increased infections but not greatly increased the rate of serious illnesses or deaths in Texas and Florida (with a large percentage of COVID-positive illegal migrants being directed to those two states), few unbiased observers can conclude that the tenures of Governor Greg Abbott in Texas and Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida, and other Republican-administered states, have not been shining examples of prosperity, freedom and fewer hospitalizations and deaths since the onset of the pandemic, in comparison to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, and California, to name a few; states run by Democratic governors who clamped down on their respective states in every possible way to battle the virus, unsuccessfully, with increased hospitalizations, deaths and untold adverse consequences to their respective economies and citizens! The Biden Administration and its C.D.C., run chaotically by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, are being pushed by the far Left and the Teachers’ Unions to mandate the most extreme of these pandemic measures!

Further, the decision of Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York to order the readmission of COVID-positive nursing home patients back to their nursing homes rather than being admitted to coronavirus hospital wards, caused an estimated 15,000 deaths of these senior citizens in New York. While Cuomo has announced his resignation due to much less “serious” (and politically-charged) reasons, the fact remains that the same orders to direct COVID-positive nursing home patients back into their nursing homes, were also made by the following other Democratic governors leading to untold deaths: Phil Murphy of New Jersey; Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. On July 25, 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland conveniently announced that the Biden Justice Department was not going to pursue any investigations into whether Cuomo’s order violated the civil rights of the deceased nursing home patients by causing their deaths; this ruling of course also serves to cover the fatal decisions of Democratic governors Murphy, Wolf, and Whitmer! There will be no justice for the families of these unfortunate seniors that will be rendered by the Biden Administration!

Finally, throughout the 2020 presidential campaign season, the Democratic Party, the radical Left, and their lackeys in the Mainstream Media and Big Tech spared no effort in rejecting as preposterous, the claim that the COVID-19 pandemic, that has killed millions worldwide, originated from a leak from the Wuhan, China virology lab, instead claiming, without evidence, that the virus originated as the result of “species-hopping” at the nearby Wuhan wet market! The facts that the Wuhan lab was one of the few laboratories in the world that manipulated the DNA of viruses to make the virus more transmissible and lethal (“gain of function” research) and specifically manipulated the DNA of the coronavirus of the Horseshoe Bat, which was not native to Wuhan but only found in caves 900 miles away, was totally rejected by the Left as utterly irrelevant. The fact that the Horseshoe Bat virus is virtually the exact template for the COVID-19 virus was rejected as inconsequential. The fact that the Wuhan lab had a past poor safety record for viral leaks, and that subsequent to the onset of the pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party erased all records of the viral research conducted at the Wuhan lab and “disappeared” potential witnesses of the research performed there, were rejected as “conspiracy theories” by the Democrats, the radical Left, the Media and Big Tech! Why did the Left expend so much effort to hide the role of the Chinese Communist Party in unleashing this plague upon the world? Because of course, Donald Trump and his administration declared that the evidence showed that the almost certain origin of the pandemic was the leak from the Wuhan lab, and not from some natural cause. Because Donald Trump declared it, it had to be wrong! And China must be shielded from any blame for this worldwide plague so the blame for the coronavirus deaths in America can be placed squarely on the head of Donald Trump! It is now “curious” that the theory that the pandemic came from the leak from the Wuhan lab is suddenly gaining credibility, once Joe Biden has now been safely ensconced in the White House!

Fiscal and Economic Insanity:

On the day he ascended to the office of the presidency, Joe Biden issued an Executive Order canceling the Keystone Pipeline. With a stroke of the pen, over 16,000 well-paying jobs were eliminated. Heartless comments were made that these unfortunate career workers “would just have to learn how to code”. Seven days later, Biden issued a further Executive Order suspending all new leases for oil or gas exploration on federal lands. Gasoline prices soon thereafter rose by an average of at least one dollar per gallon and continue to rise! These actions of Biden effectively ended the United States being self-sufficient in energy production and a net exporter of petroleum, for the first time since the 1960s. Biden’s orders have devastated domestic petroleum production! Once again, America will be dependent on the importation of oil from the Middle East, from countries that hate us. On July 18, 2021, Joe Biden unbelievably asked OPEC to increase production so that the United States can increase its importation of Middle East oil! Donald Trump was very proud of his role in enabling the United States to be self-sufficient in energy production for the first time in sixty years, yet during Trump’s tenure, at the same time domestic petroleum production was mightily revived, CO-2 levels in the United States fell to 1992 levels! Nevertheless, despite that statistic, despite the boost that domestic oil production made to the U.S. economy and reduced the unemployment rate, despite the fact that increased domestic production caused gasoline prices to settle at acceptable price levels, despite the fact that self-sufficiency in domestic petroleum production is a matter of national security, like everything else, Joe Biden had to reverse these Trump achievements!

The Biden Administration crippled domestic energy production, ostensibly to battle “climate change” and reentered the Paris Climate Accords on February 19, 2021. However, the Accords only apply to restrict the economic growth of the developed world, leaving “developing countries” such as India and China (soon to be the largest economy in the world!) not having to comply with the Accords until 2030! Reportedly, China is opening a new, coal-fired power plant on a weekly basis! Then on May 19th, Biden inexplicably waived sanctions to allow the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany and Western Europe, effectively making our Allies energy hostages to the whims of Vladimir Putin! So, the Keystone Pipeline is ruinous to the future of the world, but Russia’s pipeline is okay? Joe Biden and his always-inept climate czar John Kerry, obviously haven’t figured out that the earth is a sphere!

Laughably, the Left claims Climate Change is the true cause of the Taliban’s seizure of Afghanistan as well as the real reason for our Border Crisis!

Since Biden has taken office, the dreaded silent tax of inflation has bitten into the weekly income of every American. In addition to the rise of the cost of oil, which increases the price of everything, the inflation spiral has also been exacerbated by the reckless spending and even the threat of future insane spending of trillions of additional dollars in the so-called “infrastructure bill” favored by Nancy Pelosi and the far Left members of Congress, which has little to do with the rebuilding of roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, etc. but what in actuality is packed with the trillions of dollars of the downpayment for the Green New Deal, a massive grant of amnesty for (future Democratic voting) illegal residents, the federalizing national elections laws to make permanent the unconstitutional changes in voting procedures, ostensibly past due to the pandemic before the 2020 election, that invalidates all state laws preventing voter fraud (that cast such a cloud on the results of the election), and ending the independence of the judicial branch by “packing” the Supreme Court.

Politicization of the U.S. Military, “Wokeness”, Critical Race Theory and the 74,000,000 “Insurrectionists”:

Just before the fall of Kabul, Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security, led by Alejandro Mayorkas, release a bulletin that ranked the threat to the homeland posed by terrorists. No, Al-Qaeda, ISIS or the Taliban did not top of the list, neither did the Mexican drug cartels, MS-13, or other unknown individuals sneaking across the now wide-open Southern border, nor did Black Lives Matter or Antifa make the list. No, the top two terrorist threats posing a threat of violence to the domestic security of the United States are, according to Joe Biden’s DHS and in order: (1) those Americans who object to wearing face masks and taking other mitigating measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 and, (2) those Americans who question the outcome of the 2020 presidential election! Yes, once again, Joe Biden promised to “bring us together!”

Among the first of the Executive Orders enacted by Joe Biden upon assuming the Oval Office, was to cancel Donald Trump’s order that stopped mandatory lectures promoting Critical Race Theory in federal agencies, which had been going on without President Trump’s knowledge, and to direct the Department of Education to support the teaching of the “1619 Project” and Critical Race Theory, in public schools.

The 1619 Project, originally written as an essay by radical black New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, theorizes that the history of the United States actually started in the year 1619 with the arrival of the first African slave to Jamestown, Virginia and that the history of our country did not begin with the American Revolution of 1776, which was racist in origin. Hannah-Jones postulates that the entire social framework and culture of America was, and is, based on the subrogation of persons of color, which persists to the present day, and the roots of this “system” emanated from the arrival of the first African slave to our shores in 1619. Ms. Hannah-Jones also claims that the American Revolution was not fought to obtain the freedoms denied by the British crown; those aspirations set out in the Declaration of Independence and later the Constitution, but to prevent London from abolishing slavery in the colonies, which of course, was at the time part of the British Empire.

The 1619 Project has been almost universally panned and derided by American history professors and professional historians nationwide, which is surprising considering the “wokeness” of American Academia! Hannah-Jones’ thesis cites few if any credible sources to support her theories. For one, the United States of America did not exist in 1619, the importation of African slaves into the colonies originated with the British. There is no basis for her claim that the American Revolution was fought to preserve slavery. While the British did eventually abolish slavery in the Empire, that event did not happen until 57 years after the onset of our Revolution, in 1833. Finally, Hannah-Jones thesis totally ignores the Civil War, in which hundreds of thousands of Americans gave their lives to free the slaves; ignores the constitutional amendments that outlawed slavery, gave full rights to the freed slaves and the right to vote, and ignored the judicial decisions and cultural changes of the twentieth century that corrected many of the Jim Crow laws and attitudes of previous decades that prevailed primarily in the South. Yet, the Biden Administration has supported the teaching of this false hooey in public schools! When one wants to “fundamentally change” a society, one must first erase its past!

Allied with the 1619 Project is “Critical Race Theory”, the current foremost advocate of C.R.T. being Ibrahim X. Kendi. Originally titled Critical Theory, this dogma originated in Europe in the 1920s by Marxists, led by one Herbert Marcuse. The theory was based on the proposition that for communism to spread beyond the newly created Soviet Union, the proletarian working class must be sufficiently agitated about supposed inequalities to rise up against the capitalist landowners and owners of the means of production to spark a Marxist revolution. Critical Theory did not spark the revolutions that it intended in the 1920s and Marcuse eventually fled to America with the rise of the Nazis. He then showed his gratitude for his newly adopted country by attempting to spread Critical Theory in the United States, but shortly realized that in America, the working class generally had it too good to rise up and revolt. He shortly thereafter realized that for revolution to succeed in the United States, race, rather than class, would be the catalyst to achieve a revolution in America. Critical Theory became Critical Race Theory.

Critical Race Theory is based on the simple concept that all White Americans, especially Male White Americans, are inherently Oppressors, based not on their political, cultural, or even religious beliefs, but solely on the pigmentation of their skin, and that all People of Color in America are the Oppressed, also based solely on their pigmentation! The history of America dictates these “facts!” So, in order to rectify these inequities, C.R.T. requires that White Americans must denounce the unfortunate fact that they were born Caucasian, do everything they can to atone for their Whiteness, and must reject their (and here is that term): “White Privilege”, despite the fact that the White individual may have grown up in a more poor or disadvantaged home than the Person of Color who is now supplanting him! Color of skin is all that matters! And Joe Biden has reinstituted C.R.T. lectures in all federal agencies and supports the teaching of the Theory in public schools! No more harmful doctrine to harm race relations can be found, than this crackbrained, maliciously devised theory!

On June 10, 2021, just weeks before the debacle of Afghanistan, Biden’s Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on another of Joseph Biden’s Executive Orders, to teach Critical Race Theory in the U.S. Military and, to investigate and root out “White Supremacists” from the military, which many interpreted to purge the military of servicemen that had the temerity to vote for Donald Trump! For the first time in memory, the United States military, which has been sterlingly apolitical throughout most, if not all of its history, was now for the first time to be forged as a political weapon for the party in power – the Democratic Party! While during the hearing Secretary Austin had the tact to skirt around this highly controversial subject, General Milley was a little more direct, claiming that his role as the Chairman required him to be versed on various theories: “I studied Marx, but that did not make me a communist” he declared, and then went on to state that he also read Ibrahim X. Kendi’s thesis on Critical Race Theory, in order to understand “White Rage!” While Milley apparently was referring to the January 6th riot at the Capitol about protests that the presidential election was stolen (there were also non-White rioters at the Capitol), the General was also referring to Biden’s E.O. to hunt for White Supremacists from within the ranks! Note that this was the same Chief of Staff who refused Donald Trump’s order to invoke the Insurrection Act to call out federal troops to quell riots that were burning U.S. cities across the country last summer as the result of the killing of George Floyd. Milley recently wrote that he basically singlehandedly stopped Donald Trump from staging a coup! With Afghanistan collapsing only weeks after that hearing, perhaps General Milley and Secretary Austin, should have devoted more time to studying the Art of War, rather than studying Critical Race Theory, “White Rage” and engaging in political insubordination! In any other era, these leaders would have resigned in disgrace!

The U.S. Government, like so much of corporate America, has also gone “woke” with all of the Marxist-based, Leftist theories of anti-capitalism, race, class, social engineering, the anti-growth movement, climate change, gender studies, pansexuality, etc. One must wonder whether the catastrophe in Afghanistan was even minutely caused by the propagation of wacky Leftist theories preached by some deputy assistant secretary for cultural affairs from our embassy to our Afghan allies, on subjects such as “gender fluidity”, or that “men can bear a baby!” If I was a Muhadajeen sitting on the fence, choosing between fighting for the Afghan government or the Taliban, those lectures may just have very well sent me over to the terrorists, right then and there!

On January 6, 2021, an estimated 100,000 Americans marched upon the U.S. Capitol as Congress was set to tally the electoral vote total that would elect Joseph Robinette Biden President of the United States, to protest their heart-felt beliefs that the November 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. In his speech at the Ellipse on that day, Trump urged the crowd to march on the Capitol and “peacefully make your voices heard” and that “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” He did not urge the crowd to breach the Capitol grounds. Of the 100,000 or so protesters, perhaps 700 at best, breached the building when the protest turned into a riot, some by entering through broken glass windows, but many by walking through open doors, curiously welcomed by U.S. Capitol Police! Despite the narrative by the Leftist Media, the protesters were not armed. Despite the narrative by the Media, the protesters were not all White. Despite the narrative of the Media, the vast majority of those who breached the Capitol were peaceful; did not engage in any acts of vandalism, and even walked within the velvet rope lines set out for tourists! Despite the narrative by the Leftist Media, of the five individuals who died during the riot, the only one that was deliberately killed was Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed Air Force veteran who was shot in the neck, without warning, by a yet undisclosed U.S. Capitol policeman, as she attempted to climb through a window into the Speaker’s Lobby. No, U.S. Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick was not “beaten to death with a fire extinguisher”; this claim was endlessly harped by the Mainstream Media for weeks after the riot; he died the following day of natural causes from a stroke.

Donald Trump was impeached, the second time, by the radical House of Representatives led by Nancy Pelosi for the President exhorting the crowd at his rally to “peacefully make your voices heard” and that “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” Of course, these words do not even come close to words that are geared and intended to incite a riot, as defined by long-standing case law precedent. Of course, Trump was acquitted the second time by the Senate, though this time, seven uninformed GOP senators voted to convict Mr. Trump for his words!

The events of January 6th have thereafter been endlessly characterized by Democratic Party, the Left, and their lackeys in the Mainstream Media as an “Insurrection that Threatened to Overturn our Democracy”. However, anyone who has studied the history of revolutions and insurrections knows that insurrections are not usually led by “Q-Anon Shamans” clownishly dressed in Chewbacca-like fur outfits and wearing Viking helmets, or morons taking selfies of themselves while sitting in the office chair of Speaker Nancy Pelosi! Insurrectionists come armed to the teeth with the intent to kill! Yet the FBI has spared no effort, nationwide, tracking down every individual who breached the Capitol building that day, and many who did not, and have had these people thrown into solitary confinement in the D.C. prison for months on end, until the present day, without trial and without being admitted to bail. Their crimes? Not “treason“, not “insurrection“, not “sedition“, but “illegally entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds!” Solitary confinement with no bail for that??? Other protesters were summarily fired from their careers by “woke” employers for the crime of merely attending the speech of President Trump or even just being in Washington, DC that day!

Yet, on Friday, August 20th, the FBI announced that it “has found scant evidence that the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result and that the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump.” So now, when are the imprisoned going to be released from solitary confinement and admitted to bail by Joe Biden’s Justice Department, to await trials for basically trespass offenses?

Another curiosity of the events of January 6th involves the formal indictments that have charged the protesters that remain in prison. These indictments refer to over twenty alleged “co-conspirators” mentioned in the indictment that are unidentified and their identities are under seal. Could these individuals have been undercover FBI or CIA operatives, exhorting and urging the masses to violence, in order to entrap them into committing the crime of breaching the Capitol grounds? The FBI has utilized these sorts of tactics before, the most recent being the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Joe Biden and his lackeys in the Media have repeatedly characterized the protesters of January 6th as “Insurrectionists” and “White Supremacists”, though many non-White protesters were also present at the rally at the Capitol! He has further gone on to attempt to tar the entire 74,000,000 people who voted for Donald Trump as also “Insurrectionists” and “White Supremacists” – as if the rioters acted as the agents of the Trump voters! As previously stated, Biden’s DHS has recently listed “those Americans who question the outcome of the 2020 presidential election” as the second greatest threat to the domestic security of the United States! So are we all now Enemies of the State??? Once again, Mr. Biden, you vowed to “bring us all together!”

Rising Violence in Democratic-Controlled Cities:

Finally, violent crime is surging across America, with murder, rape, assault of elderly citizens, gang violence, and arson going out of control and property crimes such as looting and now, brazen shoplifting of up to $1,000.00 in merchandise, being all but condoned by Democratic prosecutors and occurring almost exclusively in Democratic-controlled cities! While this crime wave was initiated with the killing of George Floyd, and aided and abetted by Democrat allies Black Lives Matter and Antifa (on call to take to the streets if Trump had been declared the winner!), it has only continued to rise, exacerbated by hair-brained Democratic laws that eliminated cash bail; resulting in offenders being out on the street the next day to continue committing crimes, and the Democrat-run, insane drive to “defund the police.” Since the George Floyd killing, police officers have been leery to properly enforce the law or to take measures to defend themselves, worrying that their actions will be on the next cell phone video to make the news! Some officers have been murdered as the result, others have chosen to turn in their badges and have taken early retirements. The rosters of police forces in most of these cities are running dangerously low and recruiting of new police officers is at an all-time low; why choose a profession for which you are relentlessly vilified by the Press and large segments of society? The defund the police movement keeps advocating “reimaging the police” by substituting psychologists for a fair share of the officer corps. Let us see how that will turn out when the first psychologist is shot while he/she attempts to reason with a violent offender!

During the riots last summer (the True Insurrection!), Nancy Pelosi referred to the police attempting to quell the nightly riots in Portland, Oregon as “Trump’s Stormtroopers.” Other Democrats, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, made similar disparaging comments about the hard-pressed police attempting to restore order in Democrat-controlled cities; Harris famously directed a drive to raise bail money to free violent rioters! Since he became president, Biden has failed to take a public stance in favor of the police and law enforcement and has supported passing a law eliminating cash bail nationwide; a further example of Mr. Biden being a frail puppet of the far Left and of the “defund the police” movement, which serves as further evidence of the far Left’s planned goal of unraveling American society, to be replaced by a structure of their own making.

In Conclusion:

Just before the presidential election, the New York Post, the oldest continually-operated newspaper in the United States, founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801, broke the story of the abandoned laptop of Hunter Biden, which in addition to storing the vast content of pornographic material with him as the lead male, also contained much evidence of the millions of dollars that Hunter Biden solicited in schemes involving Ukraine, Russia, Romania, and China, that was nothing less than a project to purchase access to his then vice-president father, with 10% of the cash received (bribes!) “being set aside for the big guy!” This story was utterly suppressed by the Mainstream Media, as if these reports became known it would have harmed Joe Biden’s election chances against Donald Trump! In coordination, the Post’s websites were then suspended on Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Instagram, until well after the election, so the laptop scandals could not reach a larger audience! For those who did hear of these accounts, it was declared that the content of the laptop was “Russian disinformation”; proven to be false when it was revealed, again after the election, the FBI had had a copy of the laptop’s hard drive for over a year to investigate Hunter for tax evasion, but did not reveal that fact to the public!

It was subsequently reported that 17% of those who voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election would have changed their vote, if they knew about the scandals contained on Hunter Biden’s laptop, or of the fact that Joe Biden might very well be subject to blackmail by China, Russia, or other adverse powers, who no doubt also possess this damaging information!

For those of you Independents that voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, ostensibly to return “normality” to America, or for you moderate Democrats that voted for the supposedly moderate Joe Biden, but do not favor the far Left’s “transformation of America” that is currently happening before our very eyes under Biden’s (supposed) watch, I simply ask, are you still happy with your choice for president?

-The Chicago Patriot

On January 6, 2021, at least 13 courageous and constitutionally-principled GOP senators and over 100 Republican House members will lay out for all who want to listen, and declare for history, evidence that will prove that the narrow “victories” by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris over Donald Trump and Mike Pence in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Nevada were due solely and only to numerous and varied instances of voter fraud and/or unconstitutional last minute changes in the respective state election laws. The fraud was committed in various ways: whether by phantom mail-in ballots; mail-in votes without signature verification or a proper chain-of-custody; voters that were not registered to vote; voters that were not citizens of the state in question, or of the United States; “voters” that were dead; counties and/or precincts that returned over 100% of the number of registered voters; counting mail-in ballots that arrived after election day deadlines with illegible postmarks; Democrat-machine election workers running the same ballots through electronic voting scanners over and over, as testified to by numerous poll watchers in affidavits under penalty of perjury, etc., etc.

As for the unconstitutional last minute changes in state election laws in the six states in question, these changes in election laws, procedures, qualification of voters and/or the tabulation of mail-in ballots were passed by entities other than the respective state legislatures, as required and mandated by Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution. These illegal acts rendered millions of mail-in ballots that were “allowed” as the result of the coronavirus pandemic, unconstitutional, illegal and invalid. (As Rahm Emanuel said, “never let a crisis go to waste”). These changes in election laws were made by state secretaries of state, state governors, state courts, federal courts, state and county election boards, county clerks, the entry of a consent decree with Stacey Abrams in Georgia that relaxed signature verification for mail-in ballots versus in-person ballots, etc. Note that unlike the Republican allegations of fraud, which have been hotly contested by the Democrats and the Media as “conspiracy theories”, little has been said about this glaring constitutional defect in the supposed Biden/Harris electoral college victory!

Reference will also be made to the outright censorship by the Media and Big Tech, that suppressed the burgeoning Hunter Biden and Biden Family scandals, for which over 17% of those who voted for the Biden ticket stating they would have voted differently, if they knew about the scandals! Despite the Media’s claim that there is “no evidence” of impropriety, this overwhelming evidence of fraud and invalid votes will be presented; evidence that no court had the “asbestos” hands to handle – and despite Media claims, never actually reviewed the evidence! No technical legal dodges like “standing” or “laches” will prevent these congressmen from revealing this evidence to the public!

The Democrats still have a slim majority in the House. As for the Senate, the twin runoffs in Georgia on this day will determine the majority in that chamber. Nevertheless, the rules require that a majority vote in each House of Congress must decertify a state’s electoral vote for president. No Democrat member of Congress will vote to decertify any of the six states’ electoral tally for Biden/Harris and many unprincipled, uninformed and/or cowed Republicans will join with the Democrats!

Unfortunately, the chance of overturning the electoral vote on January 6th in favor of Donald Trump in any of these six states is infinitesimal. Nevertheless, at the very least, these brave congressmen will make a stand for the Constitution, and create a record of what transpired on and after November 3, 2020. Perhaps some firm might publish the legal and constitutional arguments offered in the House and the Senate that day in a paperback that can make the New York Times best-sellers book list and serve as evidence; evidence that the Media claims does not exist, that the pillars of the Biden/Harris Administration are set in quicksand.

-The Chicago Patriot

With the presidential election only 24 days away, some thought must be given to the future aims and ambitions of the now truly radical, Democratic Party, should Joe Biden be elected president on November 3rd, the Democrats hold the majority in the House of Representatives, and succeed in gaining the majority of the United States Senate. While both Biden and Kamala Harris have refused to answer questions repeatedly posed to them, on vital issues such as: whether they are in favor of “packing” the Supreme Court with additional justices beyond the nine that have comprised the Court for the last 151 years; whether they approve the abolition of the 233-year old filibuster rule in the U.S. Senate, or whether they agree to pushing statehood bills through the new Congress for the admission of the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as states of the union (thus guaranteeing four additional permanent Democratic senators), among others issues, the punditry class and the Mainstream Media, have not been so shy! Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.), Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D.-Ca.), the Speaker’s far-Left House firebrands, and the radical Leftist agitators masquerading as political commentators in the Mainstream Media, have repeatedly threatened that “everything is on the table” should they gain control of the White House and both Houses of Congress on November 3rd. Their goal: the complete restructuring of the federal government and its relationship to the citizens of the United States, to ensure the creation of a Soviet-style, one-party state and the perpetual ownership of the White House by the Democratic Party! The Democratic Party, now controlled by individuals that can only be described as socialists, intends to gain permanent and ultimately dictatorial power, with little, if no input from what would remain of the Republican Party and the millions of conservative Americans, through the following means:

(1) Abolition of the Filibuster Rule in the U.S. Senate:

The abolition of the Filibuster Rule in the U.S. Senate by the Democratic Leftists, would be the key radical change that would make possible, all of the following radical changes to the Supreme Court, the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, future presidential elections, the structure of the federal government and Washington’s power over the people.

The structure of the federal government, created by the U.S. Constitution drafted and ratified in the 1790s, set up a two-chamber Congress, comprising of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The House was directly elected by those citizens which, at the time, were authorized to exercise their franchise; the number of members of each state’s delegation to the House being allocated by the population of each state as determined by a census to be conducted every ten years. The Senate, in contrast, was elected by each state’s legislature; each state electing two senators, despite the population of the state. This original constitutional plan, later altered by the Seventeenth Amendment which provided for the direct election of senators in 1913, created an obvious difference between the two legislative bodies as the House, directly elected by the people, reflected the mood, at the time, of the people, whereas the Senate, representing the individual states, exerted a more, measured conservative point of view.

The Constitution provides that both the House of Representatives and the Senate “shall make their own rules.” Consequently, the House from the beginning, has been and is, to this day, an absolute dictatorship in which the majority has total and absolute control and the minority can do little but offer comment and attempt to persuade members of the majority to defect and join the minority to defeat proposed legislation. The machinations of the current Nancy Pelosi House of Representatives is a perfect example of the power of the majority to exercise total control to pass or to block legislation, to conduct investigations, valid or not, and to even pass specious articles of impeachment against a sitting president of the opposition party.

The Senate, in contrast, from the very beginning, passed rules that protected the rights of the minority party in the Senate to exert influence and, if the minority controlled enough seats, to actually block legislation introduced by the party controlling the majority of seats in the Senate. This power was first labeled the “filibuster” in the 1850s. The existence of the filibuster rule over the past 233 years has resulted in the Senate being largely forced to pass bipartisan measures, requiring the contribution and ultimately consent of the minority party, in light of the power of the minority to potentially block legislation offered by, at times, the hot-headed House of Representatives. Supposedly, George Washington is said to have told Thomas Jefferson that the framers “had created the Senate to “cool” House legislation just as a saucer was used to cool hot tea.”

In the current 100 member Senate, if 40 senators object to legislation, the minority party can block a law from passage. Conversely, if the majority party controls the Senate with at least 60 votes; such as in 2009 when the Democrats passed Obamacare, legislation can be passed over the objections of the minority party that controls less than 40% of the body – the filibuster is then neutralized. This formula has been in existence, with various ratios, since the founding of the Republic on bills involving legislation. In 1975, the filibuster rule was changed from then empowering only 1/3 of senators to filibuster legislation to the current ratio of 40%.

On proposed appointments to the executive and the judicial branches, for which the Senate has the power of “advice and consent”, as opposed to legislation, the history of the filibuster has had a more complicated history. While technically, the filibuster rule was available to block appointments of Supreme Court justices, cabinet officers, federal judges, etc., from the founding of the Republic, there existed a tradition that allowed only a majority vote by the Senate to confirm appointments by a sitting president. This tradition continued until 2003, when the then-minority leader of the Senate, Harry Reid (D.-Nv.) commenced utilizing the filibuster rule to block proposed appointments by George W. Bush’s administration. Later in 2013, when Barack Obama was president and the Democrats now had the majority in the Senate, the now-majority leader Reid exercised what became known as the “nuclear option” to abolish the filibuster rule for all proposed appointments with the exception of Supreme Court justices. Consequently, only 51 votes, as opposed to 60 senators, were then required to confirm President Obama’s nominations.

When the Republicans regained control of the Senate in 2014 and Donald Trump unexpectedly was elected President in November, 2016, the tables were turned. In April, 2017, the Republican majority of the Senate , led by majority-leader of the Senate Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.), completed Harry Reid’s overall of the filibuster rule for appointments, by providing for only a majority vote to confirm proposed appointments to the Supreme Court as well, which led, of course, to the confirmation of Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and now, perhaps Amy Coney Barrett.

In light of the fact that Harry Reid’s vandalism of the tradition that only a majority vote was required to confirm proposed appointments was imposed only seventeen years ago in 2003, Mitch McConnell’s rule change that allowed confirmation of Supreme Court justices in 2017, as well as all other proposed cabinet officers, judges etc., by a majority vote, merely reestablished the tradition of majority vote confirmations for appointments that went back to the founding of the Republic. However, today’s threat from the radical Left to abolish the Senate’s minority party’s filibuster power to block legislation, as opposed to merely appointments, would be a truly radical step that would trash the 233-year old structure of the United States Senate and make the Senate a diminutive copy of the dictatorial House of Representatives where the minority party has no rights. As previously noted, the Constitution states that “each House shall make its own rules.” Should Joe Biden be elected President and the majority of the Senate passes to the radical Democrats, it would be perfectly constitutional for Chuck Schumer and his minions to abolish the filibuster rule for legislation as well. All of the following fundamental changes to the federal government and its relationship to the people, would then flow from this radical, history-shattering act:

(2) “Packing” the Supreme Court with additional Justices:

The Supreme Court has comprised of a total of nine Justices for 151 years, since 1869. Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi’s blatant threats to “pack” the Supreme Court with perhaps 6 (!) additional Leftist justices to overwhelm the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett and what would be the new 6-3 conservative majority on the Court would be a truly radical step, forever altering the Supreme Court from a neutral, judicial body to a politically-tinged super legislature, for which there is no recourse of appeal. As of this minute, opinion polls indicate that a large majority of the American public are opposed to altering the 151-year old structure of the Supreme Court by changing the number of sitting justices. That is most likely is why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris refuse to answer the question of whether they favor “packing” the Court, stating that “after the election, you will learn of (our) views on this issue!” Further, on Friday, October 9, 2020 Biden outrageously told reporters that the voting public does not “deserve” to know his stance on Court “packing” until after the election! Should the Mainstream Media suddenly take interest on this fundamental issue and force the Democratic candidates to answer this question, if Biden and Harris should respond “yes”, that could well alienate a large percentage of swing voters (if the Media actually begins educating them on the consequences of this precedent-shattering step.) In contrast, in the unlikely event that Biden and Harris state “no” to Court “packing”, that would turn-off their far-Left base! In one of the last televised interviews of the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg, she stated that “nine is a good number for the Supreme Court.” Further, footage has been discovered this week, of then-Senator Biden in 1983, stating that notion of packing the Supreme Court would be a “bone-headed move.” But, that was then!

Despite what the Media echo chamber has been blaring that Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Barrett is an illegitimate, unconstitutional move, 29 times in the country’s history has a sitting president, in the final year of his term, nominated a justice to fill a vacant seat on the Supreme Court. Amy Coney Barrett’s ascension to the Court prior to the upcoming election is especially vital now, to break a potential 4-4 tie on litigation that will no doubt reach the Supreme Court based on the chaos that will ensue from the national mail-in voting “experiment.” It is a historical fact that pressure was put on the then-elderly Justice Ginsberg in 2016 to resign, allowing Barack Obama to fill her seat in the final year of his term. However, Justice Ginsberg declined, stating that sitting on the Court was “her life’s work”, no doubt assuming that when she would subsequently vacate the seat, for whatever reason, Hillary Clinton would nominate her replacement. But Donald Trump won the election in 2016! Despite the clamor from the Left, historical precedent is clear that it was the results of the 2016 presidential election and not the upcoming election, where the American people spoke on how to theoretically fill any vacant seat of the Supreme Court, including the position held by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Barrett’s nomination and probable confirmation was also aided by the GOP’s gain of three seats in the Senate during the 2018 midterm elections, due mainly to the outrageous behavior of the Democrats during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings! As the wise philosopher once said: “karma is a bitch!”

Title 28 United States Code Section 1, states:

“The Supreme Court of the United States shall consist of a Chief Justice of the United States and eight associate justices, any six of whom shall constitute a quorum.” – June 25, 1948

When Chuck Schumer and his radical, leftist minions in the Senate, should they enjoy a new Democratic majority as of January 3, 2021, proceed to vote the unprecedented, constitution-shattering measure to eliminate the 233-year old filibuster rule on legislation, as opposed to confirmation of appointments, it is expected that the first vote that the Democrats will then undertake with a mere 51 vote majority, will be to repeal the above-cited statute that codified the number of Supreme Court justices at nine, and thus end the 151-year composition of the Court. Thereafter, Joe Biden would proceed to nominate new additional justices; the current betting is that six new, radical Left judges will be picked, to increase the Court to fifteen members. Schumer’s majority will then proceed to conduct hearings on the new nominations and confirm each of these new judges, each with the minimum of 51 votes, thus resetting the Leftist vs. Conservative justice ratio from 3 to 6 to 9 to 6! As a consequence of these radical moves, the Supreme Court will lose all legitimacy as it will be viewed by the majority of the country as a partisan super legislature, the make-up of which can be altered by current prevailing trends, at the majority party’s whim!

(3) Erosion of the Bill of Rights by the expanded Supreme Court:

Once the Supreme Court has been expanded beyond all recognition, it seems clear that the new bloated Court will not only promptly move to fend off any and all challenges to Roe v. Wade, but also move to overturn Heller v. District of Columbia, where in a 5-4 decision, Justice Antonin Scalia held that the Second Amendment did indeed grant an individual right to bear arms. Another case on the chopping block would be Citizen’s United v. Federal Election Commission, where the Court, also in a 5-4 decision, held that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibited government from limiting political campaign contributions by corporations, labor unions and other associations. Also expect the freedom of religion clause to sharply be curtailed when challenged by the Affordable Care Act’s mandate for religious organizations to provide contraception coverage in the revisiting of the Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania case, or in cases involving when freedom of religion is balanced against LGBTQ rights. Labor unions will prevail over state laws that guarantee secret ballots in union elections. “Right to Work Laws”, which allow workers the option of not joining a union, will be struck down. No-bail laws would be upheld, to the detriment of local communities. The draconian measures imposed by state governors during the COVID-19 pandemic will be sustained. The abolition of I.C.E. and the decision to no longer enforce existing immigration laws will be upheld, as well as free health care for illegal aliens. Confiscatory taxation to fund this new utopian “paradise-on-earth” will also be upheld as the American economy crashes due to massive increases in regulation, taxation and the elimination of domestic energy production. Once the massive mandates of the Green New Deal is put into effect, it would not be expected that the expanded Court would favor challenges to the onerous edits of the Green New Deal, which will cost trillions of dollars, based on violations of the due process clause of the Constitution. Finally, while statehood for the District of Columbia and the abolition of the Electoral College would seem to require constitutional amendments, as each are specifically mentioned in the Constitution, it is uncertain how “creative” the new radical Left justices would be, in coming up with tortured reasonings on how the new Congress can do the job on its own!

DC statehood would add two more perpetual Democratic senators, representing a geographical zone less than half the size of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago or Houston! Abolishment of the Electoral College in favor of a national popular vote in deciding the presidency, would result in campaigns focusing only on the large population states such as California, Florida, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois and the rest of the country – the Republican heartland, would be forever more ignored. Such a move could well plant the seeds for a new civil war!

(4) Statehood Bill for Puerto Rico

The Democratic House and the Senate, without the filibuster, will most likely also pass a Statehood Bill for Puerto Rico, thus most likely guaranteeing two perpetual Democratic senators, if the citizens of the island vote to be admitted as a state of the union. In past plebiscites, both votes for statehood as well as votes for independence have repeatedly failed, the majority of Puerto Ricans being content with the status of the island as a commonwealth, rather than a state of the United States. However, this might now change with the encouragement of the new radical Democratic party.

(5) Citizenship Bill for the 30-40 million illegal alien residents in the country

The radical Democratic House and Senate, without the filibuster, will then most likely proceed to pass a citizen bill granting full citizenship, including the right to vote, to the 30-40 million illegal aliens residing in the United States. This Act, which would grant the right to vote to millions of individuals who originally lived in socialist-run countries and have little knowledge or experience with American free-market capitalism, history and heritage, and who already lean Democratic, will no doubt put the final stamp on a perpetual Democratic one-party state. As a result, no Republican will become President of the United States for the foreseeable future, if ever!

(6) Nancy Pelosi’s bill to create a Presidential Disability Commission for “future presidents”

On Friday, October 9th, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi presented a bill that will be voted on by the radical Democratic House, to establish a Presidential Disability Commission, as provided for but never previously enacted by Congress, in the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. That Amendment, which partly deals with presidential succession in cases where a president becomes mentally disabled, states that when the Vice President and a majority of cabinet officers or a majority of such other body as Congress may create, determines that a president has become incapable of carrying out the duties of his office, the Vice President shall become Acting President, unless the President responds that he is functional, upon which both Houses of Congress vote to determine whether to remove the President by a 2/3 vote. Note that during the press conference, Speaker Pelosi stated that this Bill will apply to “future presidents”, which could only mean Joseph Robinette Biden! It is obvious that the radical Democrats are openly planning to supplant the alleged “moderate” Biden with Kamala Harris, who has been rated as the farthest Left senator in the current U.S. Senate, even farther left than Bernie Sanders! If the Biden/Harris ticket wins on November 3rd, how far beyond January 20, 2021 would Biden serve as President before Harris and this Commission determines that he must be replaced with the radical Vice-President Harris? Before October 9th, it had been noted in various circles that moderate “Lunch Bucket Joe” is merely serving as the Trojan Horse for the far-Left wing of the Democratic Party. After Pelosi’s curious press conference; one would think that such a declaration would be made only after the election, Biden’s role as the Trojan Horse for the Democratic Socialists is now obvious!

A plea:

Based on all of the probabilities that have been here discussed, the election of November 3, 2020 will be easily be the most consequential election since the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860! For all of those voters that remain undecided, for all of those independent voters that have not yet made up their minds, for those voters that do not like Donald Trump because of his tweets or his bombastic style, for those senior voters who intend to vote for Joe Biden when persuaded that Donald Trump would falsely destroy Social Security or raise prescription prices based on false propaganda advertisements financed by Big Pharma in response to the president’s executive order to buy cheaper medications abroad, and for those Never-Trumper Republicans who swear never to vote for Donald Trump, this country is truly hurtling toward the precipice! A vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will end the United States of America as we know it, forever, and create a perpetual, one-party, socialist and largely dictatorial state!

Please vote for Donald Trump and Mike Pence!

And please vote for your local Republican congressional and senatorial candidates!

Thank you.

-The Chicago Patriot

Desecrated statue of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish author who wrote Don Quixote and other works, in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

The unjustified and unlawful killing of African-American George Floyd by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020, ignited a nationwide outbreak of protests against police brutality in scores of American cities that quickly devolved into an orgy of mob violence and anarchy, including random murders, arson, assaults upon innocent bystanders and small business shopkeepers attempting to defend their lives’ work, widespread looting of businesses large and small, widespread destruction of private and public property and constant assaults upon police officers attempting to restore the rule of law.

The event that future historians will cite that served as a tacit message that the rule of law was not going to be “rigorously” enforced; which sparked insurrections in Democratic-controlled cities across the country, was the decision by Democrat Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to not defend, but to surrender the Third Precinct of the Minneapolis police department, which led to its seizure and burning on May 28th. That police station was the home station of Officer Chauvin and the other three police officers charged with George Floyd’s death. Frey stated that he thought the surrender of the precinct would mollify the protesters. It did not, resulting instead in increased tumult and strident demands. Later, when Mayor Frey appeared at an outdoor rally to show support for the protesters, a riot almost developed as he was forced from the stage after expressing skepticism over the demands that the Minneapolis police department be dismantled. “Revolutions always devour their own children.” When Democrat Minneapolis City Council Chairperson Lisa Bender was asked what would a homeowner do when his/her house was being broken into in the middle of the night if the police department was disbanded, she responded with words to effect that such fears come from a place of (white) “privilege” for those of us for whom the system is working. In keeping with the spirit of the times, the city council voted 12-0 to disband the MPD, inspiring home invaders nationwide.

Quickly, the anarchy that engulfed the United States metamorphosized from the looting of wealth and property to the pillaging of the Nation’s heritage, history and even its founding, which was grounded upon the anti-capitalist, Marxist-tinged teaching of U.S. History and sociology in most American universities (and even many high schools) after the seizure of control of these institutions by far-Left professors over the past decades, that preached that the founding of the country was irredeemably tainted by the presence of slavery in the Southern states. Of course, this propaganda masquerading as education, totally ignores the Civil War and the 360,000 Union soldiers that died in freeing the slaves; the Reconstruction-era Amendments to the Constitution; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (only passed through Congress due to support by Republicans); innumerable judicial victories for African-Americans and the tremendous advancements that black Americans have made over the recent decades.

Nevertheless, these ill-educated and propagandized rioters; six of seven being white, took to the inflamed streets, using the death of George Floyd as an opportunistic pretext, seeking to loot and destroy all vestiges of capitalism within reach and ransack America’s “degenerate” heritage, legacy and ancestry. The rampage across America’s cities was provoked and oftentimes directed by the black-clad, “professional” far-Left anarchists of the ANTIFA movement. Those monuments and statues that came into the path of the mob were indiscriminately defaced and toppled, though many individuals so honored in marble or bronze had nothing to do with the Confederacy’s defense of the “peculiar institution” of slavery or of slavery itself, including Ulysses S. Grant, who led the Union armies that defeated the Confederacy and freed the slaves, and Norwegian-born abolitionist Christian Heg, who died fighting to end slavery in the Civil War at the Battle of Chickamauga. His statue at the Wisconsin state capitol was toppled, beheaded and then thrown into a lake. In Boston, rioters defaced the 54th Regiment Memorial to black soldiers who died fighting for the Union in the Civil War, immortalized in the movie “Glory”.

Other statues depicted individuals who were not even Americans, the prime example being the curious, passionate vendetta against Christopher Columbus, who has been dead for 514 years! What specific crime did the “Admiral of the Ocean Blue” commit, other than inadvertently discovering the third largest continent, that was mostly inhabited at the time by hunter-gatherer nomads? Almost as curious, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi was defaced, a prime champion of non-violent protest, whose life was an inspiration for Dr. Martin Luther King. At Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, a cross-bearing statue of Junipero Serra, the Franciscan monk that established the Catholic missions in California was toppled and a monument to Miguel de Cervantes was defaced, the 14th-century Spanish creator of the modern novel and author of Don Quixote, who did not own slaves but was himself enslaved for five years after being taken prisoner by Ottoman pirates! If the statue was of a white man and looked to be a person of prominence or authority, he must have been a bastard and a slaveholder and must come down!

Further, Shaun King, a civil rights activist allied with Black Lives Matter, has called for the eradication of all images of Jesus Christ as being symbolic of white supremacy!

The ultimate acts of historical cognitive deficit that erupted in this burgeoning American Cultural Revolution occurred in Washington, D.C. The World War II Memorial, honoring all American servicemen and servicewomen killed in the War, black as well as white, was defaced. The statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park, directly in front of the White House was attacked and barely saved, for the moment, as the rioters set fire to and defaced St. John’s Episcopal Church, the “church of the presidents”. Briefly, the Park was declared to be the “Black House Autonomous Zone”, with encouragement by D.C.’s Mayor, Democrat Muriel Bowser. Most shocking was the defacing of the Lincoln Memorial and the current threat to topple the Lincoln Emancipation statue, which was funded by donations of freed black slaves and sponsored by the foremost freedman of his time, Frederick Douglass. If the Great Emancipator is not immune to vandalism and removal by the eradicators of U.S. history, nobody is! These acts come directly out of the playbook of the Bolsheviks and Maoists, as true totalitarian radicals aim to “wipe the slate clean” of a society and start anew, including the eradication of a nation’s past history. The calendar starts at Year One with the Revolution!

The controversy over the removal of historical statues of Confederate generals and politicians began with the movement to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, which led to a riot in which a woman was killed. (It was due to this incident that Donald Trump has been so blatantly and repeatedly misquoted, stating that “there were good people on both sides”, referring to the statue issue, not the Klansmen and Neo-Nazis!) While controversial statues of Confederate leaders such as Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis and others invoke passion among many, for being traitors to their country as well as defenders of slavery, now Portland, Oregon has seen the defacement, toppling and burning of the statue of slaveholder George Washington and assaults or threats have been made to monuments of slaveholders Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, etc. There is now talk of renaming cities and streets that honor these historical leaders, including the renaming of Washington, D.C.! No effort is made to put either the lives of these men in the historical context of the era that they lived in, or to separate their good works (the Declaration of Independence; the founding of the country; the formulation of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, etc.) from the less savory aspect of their lives. In the true spirit of the Maoist Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when Chinese society was utterly overturned and millions died, do you feel “struggled against” yet? If not, you may feel it soon, perhaps while living in an “autonomous zone!”

The protests that originally arose from the death of George Floyd were immediately co-opted by Black Lives Matter, which despite its innocuous name, is in actuality a radical Marxist-oriented organization calling for, in the name of “the end of the war on black people”, the redistribution of the wealth and reconstruction of the U.S. economy to collective ownership (Communism); abolition of prosecutors and police in favor of neighborhood “tribunals” and “militias”; reparations for “past and continuing harms”; emptying all prisons of persons of color and divestment of “all” institutions that “criminalize, cage or harm black people” (whatever that means). No wonder millions of dollars have poured into the coffers of Black Lives Matter, offered by major American corporations over the last few weeks as acts of fearful supplication!

Of course, the great irony of the Black Lives Matter movement is that not all black lives matter, but only those deaths of African-Americans killed by white people; preferably white police officers, for which political and social unrest can be triggered and monetary extortion can be applied. The statistics disprove the constantly-trumpeted claim that blacks are being systematically murdered by racist police in the United States. In 2019, police made more than ten million arrests in the U.S. As of the result of these ten million arrests, a total of 1,004 people were fatally shot by the police; most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous, of which 235 were African-Americans. The officers involved in these incidents were both white and black. Of this total of 1,004 fatalities, 28 of those fatally shot by police turned out to be unarmed individuals. Of that total of 28 unarmed individuals, 19 were white and 9 were black, out of over ten million encounters. While these figures do not include deaths as the result of chokeholds, tasers, etc., which will increase the numbers of all fatalities; both black and white, these statistics serve to cast a glaring light to disprove, as false, the claim that blacks are being systematically killed in large numbers by police officers in general, let alone racist white police officers in particular. Left unaddressed by Black Lives Matter are the 7,407 black homicide victims of 2019 killed by other African-Americans. Last weekend in Chicago, 104 black people were shot in the city, of which 14 died, including three-year-old Mekhi James. Did his life matter?

The nationwide insurrection continues on a nightly basis; all in Democratic-controlled cities, with protests, riots, burnings, vandalization of monuments, and attempted ambushes of police, all based on the blatant lie that the largest threat to African-American lives is from racist white police officers. On Wednesday, June 24th, Hank Newsome, the president of Greater New York Black Lives Matter, threatened to “burn down this system” if “the country doesn’t give us what we want”, in an interview with FOX News host Martha MacCallum. “What they want” is the overthrow of the political, legal and economic system of the United States!

Yet, the leaders of the Democratic Party have said little to condemn, or even address, the tumult that has seized the country since the killing of George Floyd and the resulting threats to the stability of the nation. Where are the statements of outrage from Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, etc.? Where are the calls for peace, reconciliation or patience from these leaders? Where are the calls supporting the men and women in blue, who put their lives on the line every day? Are the Democrats so cowed by Black Lives Matter that they fear that any condemnation of the violence will impact the black vote for Joe Biden in November? Or, is there a more sinister, ulterior motive for their silence? The ongoing “autonomous zone” in Seattle, with its far-Left mayor Jennie Durkan, serves as the poster-child of the paralysis that has apparently seized the Democrat leadership of these American cities in turmoil. Or, is their inaction more calculating?

In the never-ending quest to delegitimize or remove Donald Trump, both before his surprise victory in 2016 and after he assumed office, the Democrats for the last three and one-half years have tried unseating the President over allegations of treason through the Russia Probe; via the third Presidential Impeachment in U.S. History over a nebulous telephone call; on claims of campaign finance violations over the Stormy Daniels affair; on an apparent plot to remove Mr. Trump for legal incapacity under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, and through numerous tell-all books, among others; all to no avail. More recently, the Democrats have tried to shift the blame for the deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus and the resultant massive economic collapse from Chinese duplicity and deliberate infection of the rest of the world, to Donald Trump. However, his poll numbers remained steady, until the outbreak of the riots across the country. The magic formula may have finally been found! The Democratic leaders have largely failed to call out the national guard to restore order and all have refused the President’s constant offers to help. In the meantime, Defense Secretary Esper and Chief of Staff General Milley made gratuitous public declarations that they would not support Trump’s order to federalize the national guard or to deploy the regular army to restore order in various cities based on the Insurrection Act, leaving the President with little leverage over the nightly turmoil in Democrat-controlled jurisdictions, other than statements of condemnation and prosecutions for violence committed on federal property and now based on the Monuments Act. Donald Trump is adhering to the structure of Federalism, which to the uninitiated, makes him appear weak. The Democratic leadership knows that and their silence; the Silence of the Wolves, serves as acceptance and even encouragement for the turmoil, making them co-conspirators with the anarchists and Marxists for the ongoing wreckage. The silence of Biden, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Sanders, Harris, Clinton and the deliberate inaction of the Democratic governors and mayors to quell the violence and offer support to the police, is proof that the Democrats are willing to have the country torn apart, if only it will cause Donald Trump to be finally removed from office!

Joe Biden, the apparent Democratic candidate for President, is putatively far ahead in the polls at the minute due to the turmoil, despite the fact that he is obviously suffering age-related cognitive deficits. The Democratic Party’s decision to retain Biden as their candidate despite his deteriorating mental condition is the ultimate in cynicism; he will be an empty-suit puppet for the far-Left of the Party that will make all decisions that he will, duty-bound, read off the TelePrompter, until he can no longer even perform that function. But should Joe Biden win in November, will the anarchists and Marxists be mollified by the Democrats’ silence and refusal to help the President during this critical period in the Nation’s history? Or will they up the ante, demanding their share of spoils in the defeat of Donald Trump? What concessions will the radicals demand and what consequences will result if their demands are not met by a Biden Administration? It may be one of the most momentous events of American “history.”

-The Chicago Patriot

The Chinese Communist Party’s lies on the origin of the world pandemic officially known as COVID-19, (China Origin Virus-Identification-2019) or the “novel” coronavirus, are finally being exposed. The truth is now coming to light despite the massive disinformation campaign being waged by Beijing that the deadly bat virus from the horseshoe bat originated in Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market (the “wet” market) and not from the Chinese government-operated Wuhan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only some three miles away. The claim forwarded by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is that the bat virus mutated into a species-hopping form that tainted the animals for sale for consumption at the wet market and then individually infected those persons who consumed food from the market. Beijing’s efforts to spin these falsehoods have been tirelessly aided by certain media outlets that have, shall we say, “financial interests” in maintaining a cordial relationship with Chairman Xi Jing Ping (and prefer instead to attack Donald Trump.) China’s spin efforts have also been assisted by the UN’s World Health Organization, whose director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia, was successfully championed by China to ascend to the post in 2017. By then, Ethiopia had become a virtual vassal state of China, both financially and militarily. As China’s backed-candidate, Dr. Tedros has served his patrons well, trumpeting Beijing’s line to the world that the bat virus had no capacity for human-to-human transmission as late as January 14, 2020, when hundred of Wuhan citizens were already stricken and dying from the virus as far back as at least, December 10, 2019, most with no connection to the consumption of food from the wet market. In December, Wuhan opthalmologist Dr. Li Wenliang warned his colleagues about a new SARS-like respiratory syndrome and was jailed by CCP authorities for “spreading rumors.” He was forced to publically recant his warnings about the COVID-19 outbreak, under duress. Unfortunately, he died of the virus on February 7, 2020. Additionally, Dr. Ai Fen, the director of the emergency department of the Central Hospital of Wuhan, also attempted to warn the world about the virus. She disappeared on March 30, 2020 and has not been seen or heard from since.

China’s tale that the virus originated in the Huanan wet market was first challenged by an excellent article by Bill Gertz in the Washington Times on March 30, 2020, entitled “Chinese Researchers Isolated Deadly Bat Coronavirus near Wuhan Animal Market.” Mr. Gertz reported that Chinese government researchers had isolated more than 2,000 new viruses at the Wuhan Lab, including the deadly coronavirus from the horseshoe bat, and carried out scientific work on these viruses just three miles from the wet market that China had identified was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report quoted biosecurity researcher Richard Ebright of Rutgers University, who noted that the Wuhan Lab in question was a biosafety level-2 facility, “which provides only minimal protections against infection of lab workers”, and not a high-security BSL-4 facility more suited for deadly viral research. He stated that “virus collection, culture, isolation or animal infection at a BSL-2 lab, with a virus having the transmission characteristics of the COVID-19 virus, would pose a high risk of accidental infection of a lab worker, and from the lab worker to the public.” Mr. Gertz noted that in recent months in 2019, Chinese state media had touted the virus research at the Wuhan Lab and had lionized in particular the key virus researcher at the Lab, Mr. Tian Junhua, as the leader in bat virus research. A video posted online in December, 2019 and funded by the CCP, boasted that China has “taken the lead” in global virus research (supplanting the United States), and showed Mr. Tian inside bat caves taking samples from captured horseshoe bats and storing them in vials, an activity that was described as difficult and dangerous. Tian reportedly had gathered thousands of bats for research work on bat viruses since 2012. He stated that “bats have a large number of unknown viruses on their bodies” and that “the more thorough our research on bats is, the better it will be for human health.” The video depicted workers in the Wuhan Lab under Mr. Tian’s direction wearing inadequate personal protective equipment and engaging in unsafe practices, according to Mr. Ebright. Mr. Tian stated: “I am not a doctor, but I work to cure and save people.” “I am not a soldier, but I work to safeguard an invisible national defense line”, with the goal of developing anti-viral vaccines. Since the outbreak of the global pandemic, no reference has been made to Mr. Tian or his work. He has not been heard from since.

As of the date of the publication of the article on March 30th, some U.S. and international researchers have dismissed reports linking the new novel coronavirus to the Wuhan Lab, insisting that the virus jumped naturally to humans and then began spreading from person to person. But others noted at the time that a growing body of evidence indicated that the horseshoe bat virus may have been under study in the Lab and escaped, either through an infection of a worker or through an infected lab animal. This theory was amplified by an article in the Washington Post dated April 14, 2020, that revealed a State Department memo from the US consulate in Wuhan from January, 2018, which warned of unsafe and inadequate safety measures at the Wuhan Lab and referred directly to bat virus research, which the memorandum theorized could lead to a “new SARS-like epidemic.” Further, on April 15, 2020, Fox News was able to report with “increasing confidence” from several sources, that the horseshoe bat virus escaped from the Wuhan Lab via an intern – Patient #1, who was accidentally infected within the Lab, then went into the town and to the wet market, and then infected her boyfriend. The CCP’s attempts to blame the wet market are a deliberate campaign of disinformation to deflect blame from the Chinese Communist regime’s negligent operation of the Wuhan Lab! (Remember at one point, China actually blamed the United States, for the COVID-19 outbreak!) No information has been forthcoming of the fate of the intern or her boyfriend. One source suggested that this “could be the costliest government cover-up of all time.” Representative Michael T. McCall (R.-Tx.), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, stated “this is one of the worst cover-ups in human history, and now the world is facing a global pandemic” and that “China should be held accountable for the pandemic.”

In the meantime, China had all horseshoe bat virus samples destroyed in the Wuhan Lab, banned all foreign reporters from Wuhan, denied all requests from the US Center for Disease Control and other Western health agencies for access to Wuhan or for any information on the sequencing of the virus, and imposed total censorship on any information on the origins of the virus, without prior approval from the Communist party. Furthermore, the CCP cornered the world market in protective face masks and made a veiled threat to halt life-sustaining medications and antibiotics, produced in China, from being shipped to the United States. As of this date, the United States has reported 33,490 deaths from 654,343 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with a death rate per one million persons of 102.4, which is greatly exceeded by Belgium at 425.2, Spain at 409.4, Italy at 366.0, France at 256.3 and the United Kingdom at 205.5. In the meantime, China currently claims a mere 3,342 deaths from 82,341 confirmed cases; a death rate of 2.4 per million! These figures bely reports of ill Wuhan residents being entombed in their apartments as soldiers soldered shut their apartment doors, more than 60,000 funeral urns being shipped to Wuhan, 24-hour cremations proceeding around the city and estimates of at least 2,900,000 cases of COVID-19 in the Peoples’ Republic, with an unknown number of death caused from the virus!

Three facts tend to blow a hole into the Chinese Communist Party’s deception about the origin of the pandemic: (1): the horseshoe bat is not native to Wuhan or Hubei province – that particular species of bat lives no closer than 450 miles away from Wuhan; (2): the Huanan market never sold the horseshoe bat for food at the wet market, and (3): with the reopening of Wuhan, the wet markets are back in operation as of April 13th. If the CCP actually believed that the wet markets are the source of COVID-19, would they have allowed these markets to reopen?

Only on January 21st did the CCP official organ, the Peoples’ Daily, mention for the first time a human-to-human transmitted respiratory coronavirus epidemic and Chairman Xi’s actions to fight it. Two days later, Mr. Xi ordered the Peoples’ Liberation Army to cordon-off Wuhan and the entire province of Hubei; some 65 million people, almost the population of the United Kingdom. All domestic travel and commercial traffic in and out of the province was forcibly halted, however, curiously, international travel out of Wuhan’s international airport proceeded unabated, during the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, amounting to some five million unscreened people! There were three direct flights a week from Wuhan, China to Milan, Italy, that no doubt seeded the horrible virus outbreak in Northern Italy as well as the rest of Europe, before the routes were suspended by Italy on January 31, 2020, the same day President Trump imposed a travel ban on China and then upon the E.U., ten days after the first novel coronavirus case was reported in the State of Washington.

Communist China’s increasingly apparent complicity in negligently causing the release of this new pathogen into its own country and then, through its unpardonable cover-up, through the rest of the world, has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, the loss of trillions of dollars of wealth and the interruption and perhaps extinction of millions of people’s livelihoods worldwide. The 21st Century has been predicted by many to be the “China Century.” Will this Andromeda Strain-like pandemic cause a halt to Beijing’s ascendancy? And what recompense can the United States, and the rest of the world, expect from China, for its recklessness, negligence and duplicity?

-The Chicago Patriot

On Tuesday, January 21, 2020, the third impeachment trial of a president in U.S. history, the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump, will commence in the United States Senate, based on Articles accusing the President of “Abuse of Power” and “Obstruction of Congress.” Never have Impeachment Articles been transmitted to the U.S. Senate that were based on such thin constitutional grounds and little, if any, evidence that is not grounded on inadmissible hearsay and/or speculative “evidence” and nakedly-partisan legal opinion!

It is a matter of common knowledge that a large body of the Democratic caucus in Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives had been calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment from the day he was inaugurated on January 20, 2017, way before the July 25, 2019 telephone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy; the putative reason for this impending drama. Ms. Pelosi crowed just this weekend on Bill Maher’s HBO show that “Donald Trump will be impeached forever.” Her declaration was uttered only days after she claimed that the process she unleashed was “mournful and somber and required prayerful reflection”, a statement that was belied by the expensive pens with Pelosi’s signature embossed in gold; paid at taxpayer expense, that she handed out to all of her fellow travelers during the signing of the impeachment Articles! Nancy could barely keep the smirk off her face! The drivel that emanated from the one-sided drumhead, kangaroo courts president over by Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler; where the President had no right to have counsel present, nor the right to cross-examine witnesses, nor the right to confront his accuser – the anonymous “whistleblower”, nor the right to present evidence; yielded baseless and constitutionally-invalid Articles of Impeachment that have no chance of resulting in Donald Trump’s removal even in a 50-50 Senate! Was it Nancy’s only goal to go down in history as the Speaker that “impeached Donald Trump forever?”

The Trial Brief submitted by President Trump’s legal team on Saturday, January 19th for the third impeachment trial of a president in U.S. history, argues that:

“The Articles of Impeachment are constitutionally invalid on their face. They fail to allege any crime or violation of law whatsoever, let alone “high Crimes and Misdemeanors”, as required by the Constitution. They are the result of a lawless process that violated basic due process and fundamental fairness. Nothing in these Articles could permit even beginning to consider removing a duly elected President or warrant nullifying an election and subverting the will of the American people.”

The first Article, the nebulous “Abuse of Power”, sounds very much like the theory of “maladministration” that was expressly rejected by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and the other Founders, as being a ground for impeachment, when that concept was considered along with “treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors” as grounds that the House of Representatives could consider in wielding its “sole power of Impeachment.” As stated in Donald Trump’s Trial Brief, no crime or any violation of the law whatsoever, let alone a “high Crime or Misdemeanor”, was pled by the Democrats in this Article. It may be remembered during the one-sided, Stalinist-like hearings conducted by Schiff and Nadler, that first Bribery, then Extortion, then a theory based on a tangible Quid pro Quo demanded by Trump of Ukraine, were individually considered (and focus-group tested?) and were each then found to be wanting. Note that this is quite reminiscent of the last three years, as “Russia”, and “Stormy” and the “Emoluments Clause” and the “25th Amendment” were all trumpeted as the “Silver Bullet” to finally get Trump, and then all went on their respective ways!

None of these alleged crimes survived the winnowing process to be included in an Impeachment Article for one reason: there was no evidence that any of these offenses ever occurred, save for rank presumption, speculation, hearsay and unhinged and blatantly partisan, Harvard and Stanford legal opinion! All of these speculative and hearsay-based suppositions, that would never be admitted into evidence in any court in this country, were eclipsed by the President’s unexpected release of the transcript of his July 25th phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, released the day after Nancy Pelosi announced the opening of the “Impeachment Inquiry.” Further, the two individuals who have stated for the record that they spoke to Mr. Trump about the subject actually exonerate him. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified that when he asked the President what he wanted from Ukraine, Mr. Trump replied “I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo.” Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin reported that, when he asked the President whether there was any connection between security assistance and investigations, Mr. Trump responded: “No way. I would never do that.” The House Democrats ignore these statements and rely totally on inadmissible speculation, hearsay and outright falsehoods.

The plain language of Donald Trump’s own words in the July 25th phone call transcript contained no evidence of bribery, or extortion or demands for a quid pro quo for an opening of an investigation into the Bidens in return for military aid, which was nevertheless approved and delivered to Ukraine weeks later – lethal military aid that the Obama administration refused Ukraine over its eight year term. Mr. Zelenskyy has repeatedly stated that “there was no pressure” from Donald Trump’s call. The call did mention the fact that other European countries such as Germany were not carrying their fair share to support Ukraine’s resistance of Russian incursion. The call did raise the important issue of Ukrainian corruption and of the newly-elected Zelenskyy’s pledge to eradicate the same. The President has a constitutional obligation to “insure that the laws are faithfully executed.” That duty would include insuring that hard-earned tax dollars are not being deposited into corrupt Ukrainian oligarch’s pockets. And the call did include Donald Trump asking a favor of Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.” Mr. Trump was seeking help from Zelenskyy to investigate the hacking of the DNC’s emails during the 2016 presidential election that resulted in Robert Mueller’s Russia Probe and Zelenskyy’s predecessor, Petro Poroshenko’s possible role in that conspiracy. Though the President did mention, as an aside, that Joe Biden had pressured Mr. Poroshenko to fire his chief prosecutor and stop the investigations into Ukrainian corruption and “Biden’s son” (for a quid pro quo of one billion dollars!), Trump’s plain language during the call did not seek “a favor” to investigate the Bidens to aid him in the 2020 presidential election!!! It was never said. It is not by accident that both Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi have repeatedly misstated Trump’s words by claiming that the President asked Zelenskyy to do him a favor to investigate his potential 2020 rival, Joe Biden!! In fact, Nancy repeated that same stunt only last week!

The second Article, “Obstruction of Congress” is a joke and should be immediately subjected to a Motion to Dismiss by the Senate. The House threatened subpoenas to demand testimony of the President’s closest advisors and extensive document production, trampling upon the President’s Executive Privilege right to private advice and counsel from his advisors, a privilege that has been asserted back to George Washington. When Trump threatened in turn to assert Executive Privilege, did the Democrats then issue subpoenas and bring suit in Federal court to seek compliance? They did not.

The President’s sole law professor expert witness, Jonathan Turley, testified before Nadler’s committee on the Democrats’ claim that Mr. Trump was guilty of “Abuse of Power” and “Obstruction of Justice” for his assertion of Executive Privilege to block Congress’ demand for testimony of the President’s closest advisors and document production. Professor Turley offered his expert opinion that for the House of Representatives to vote an article of impeachment on the President’s assertion of Executive Privilege, without first obtaining an Order of Court that Mr. Trump’s assertion of that Privilege had insufficient legal basis, that that would truly constitute Abuse of Power, an Abuse of Power by the House of Representatives!!! And of course, Jonathan Turley testified that despite his expert opinions in favor of Donald Trump, he is a registered Democrat and voted for Hillary Clinton in the last election!!!

President Trump has the right to assert Executive Privilege to preserve the Separation of Powers and protect not only his presidency but all future presidencies. Pelosi and Schiff and Nadler were in too much of a hurry to vote to impeach the President (before their members might face their constituents over the Christmas break?), as Donald Trump presented a “clear and present danger to the Constitution” and was a “threat to the integrity of the 2020 election.” What hooey!!!

It may be instructive to briefly review the two other impeachment trials of a sitting president in U.S. history, to compare the similarities and the merits, or lack thereof, to the impending proceedings against Donald Trump.

The impeachment trial of Bill Clinton in 1999 was generated by articles of impeachment voted by the House of Representatives, that charged Mr. Clinton with eleven individual statutory violations of federal law; including perjury and obstruction of justice, that were claimed to have been committed by Clinton during the civil sexual harassment suit brought against him by Paula Jones. Ms. Jones claimed that in 1991, while she was an employee of the Arkansas government, then-Arkansas governor Clinton asked Jones up to this hotel room, exposed himself, and attempted to coerce her to perform a sex act, for which she refused.

During the subsequent litigation of Jones’ claim, it was discovered that now-President Clinton had been receiving the same sex acts he demanded of Ms. Jones with 21-year old intern Monica Lewinsky, which had been ongoing in the library immediately adjacent to the Oval Office. In his deposition, Clinton, under oath, denied that he had a “sexual relationship”, “sexual affair” or “sexual relations” with Ms. Lewinsky. Clinton ultimately testified before a federal grand jury on the issues of whether he committed perjury in his sworn deposition or otherwise obstructed justice in the Jones case. He reasserted his denials. After his grand jury testimony, President Clinton’s denials that he had “sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky” were proved to be false and perjurious, based on forensic, objective tests of a stain on an unwashed, “little blue dress” that Lewinsky had worn during one of the escapades, that she presciently retained!

The House of Representatives then voted to impeach Bill Clinton on eleven counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice, in a bipartisan vote with five Democrats voting with the Republican majority to impeach the President. However the Senate acquitted Clinton in the subsequent trial, without one Democratic senator voting for conviction. Perhaps Senators Biden and Schumer and Sanders, who sat as jurors during the Clinton impeachment, thought that Bill Clinton’s transgressions constituted merely “Low Crimes and Misdemeanors???” Nevertheless, Mr. Clinton settled with Paula Jones for $850,000.00 after the trial and was further disbarred by the Arkansas supreme court for committing perjury and obstruction of justice. Despite the chorus from the Clinton acolytes in the Mainstream Media, it was never “just about sex.”

The other, first impeachment trial in U.S. history was brought against Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln’s vice president who ascended to the presidency after Lincoln’s assassination in 1865 at the end of the Civil War. Andrew Johnson was a Southerner, from Tennessee, though always was an adamant Unionist. Yet the “Radical Republicans” who took control of both Houses of Congress during the war years, were suspicious of the new president as being too sympathetic with the now beaten and occupied former Confederate states. The Radicals passed a series of increasingly harsh laws and regulations against the prostrate South and thought that Johnson was dragging his feet in carrying out Congress’ dictates. By mid-1867, calls for Johnson’s impeachment by the Radicals were increasingly demanded by the Radicals, a scenario not unlike the last three years of President Trump’s tenure.

(Also similar to today’s impeachment, an argument can be made that Donald Trump’s impeachment, like the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, is in actuality based on policy differences with the Democrats on a host of issues, and not really based on allegations that the president was guilty of the commission of high crimes and misdemeanors.)

Andrew Johnson had initially retained all of Lincoln’s cabinet members, one being Edwin Stanton, Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of War, who was the Radicals foremost ally in the Executive Branch. Stanton’s ardor in his desire to carry out Congress’ harsh measures versus President Johnson’s belief that many of these policies were counterproductive to the South’s reconstruction, had the potential to lead to a constitutional crisis. And that crisis was sparked by a statute passed by Congress in March, 1867, which was vetoed by President Johnson but then overridden by a 2/3 vote of each house of Congress, known as the Tenure of Office Act.

The Tenure of Office Act stated that the Senate had the constitutional power to advise and consent on the dismissal of all federal officers, in addition to having the power to advise and consent on the appointment of federal officers. Of course, the Constitution empowers the Senate only to confirm appointments proposed by the president; by the plain wording of the Constitution, Andrew Johnson could fire whomever he wished to dismiss. This blatantly unconstitutional statute was passed by Congress for one reason only, to lay a trap when President Johnson would finally dismiss Secretary of War Stanton over their continuing conflict on how to handle the beaten South.

When President Johnson finally fired Stanton in early 1868, the House of Representatives, on March 2, 1868, voted that President Johnson should be impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act by a vote of 126 to 47. The Senate, only three days later, convened the first impeachment trial of a president, which commenced on March 5, 1868. For each trial day, 1,000 tickets were printed, allowing admission to the Senate gallery for a single day. An all-star lineup of attorneys were put together to defend the president. The trial lasted until May 16, 1868 when the final vote was taken: 35 senators voted to convict and remove Andrew Johnson which 19 voted to acquit him, one short of the 2/3 constitutional requirement for conviction. One more vote to convict Johnson may very well have led to the precedent of Congress routinely passing “votes of no confidence” of a president, as is regularly done in the British parliament to oust a sitting prime minister. Of the 19 senators who voted to acquit, seven were “Republican Recusants” such as Iowa James Grimes, who stated “I cannot agree to destroy the harmonious working of the Constitution, for the sake of getting rid of an Unacceptable President.” Nancy Pelosi, take notice!

Will the precedent set by the constitutionally invalid impeachment of Donald Trump lead to the trashing of the doctrine of Separation of Powers and lead to an all-powerful parliament-like legislature that would have sprung from Andrew Johnson’s conviction, a conviction that would have been based on “trumped-up” charges similar to those leveled today against Mr. Trump? Was it worth it to today’s “Radical Democrats” to “destroy the harmonious workings of the Constitution, for the sake of getting rid of an Unacceptable President?” Will one-party political impeachment vendettas become the “new normal”, as warned by Alexander Hamilton over two hundred thirty years ago? Once the dust settles from this fractious turmoil, I predict that history will not be kind to Nancy Pelosi! But then again, “history is written by the winners.” Let us hope and pray that the Senate stands firm to preserve our constitutional structure of government and reject the poisonous partisanship that the Founders had warned us about!

-The Chicago Patriot

STAR-CHAMBER, n. A former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat in secret and without a jury. The Star-Chamber became noted for its irresponsible, arbitrary and oppressive methods and severe punishments. It was abolished in 1641.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D.-CA.) decision to replace House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D.-NY.) as the ringmaster who was running the “unofficial” House impeachment inquiry with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D.-CA.), was based on more than just Jerrold Nadler’s rotund countenance!

Unlike Judiciary, the Intelligence Committee usually meets in closed-door sessions as the topics discussed have a bearing on national security. Moving the “official” impeachment inquiry to secret Intelligence Committee hearings controlled by the habitual liar Adam Schiff (he claimed that he had “irrefutable proof” of Donald Trump’s collusion with Russia for over two years) results in hiding Schiff’s sleazy, unfair and totally one-sided partisan tactics from the American electorate and further prevents the release of “inconvenient truths” that are revealed before the Committee!

The Republican minority on the Committee has no rights. According to the rules that Schiff has dictated, the GOP will be prevented from learning the identity of the “whistleblower” and thus, the individual will not appear in person before the Committee to render testimony, though the whistleblower statute makes no reference to anonymity, just immunity from subsequent retaliation. The testimony apparently will be by audio-feed only, perhaps with the person’s voice electronically altered, like a Mafia-turncoat in witness protection!

Obviously then, the Republicans, on behalf of the President, will not be availed the opportunity to cross-examine the whistleblower! Through his surrogates, Donald Trump will not be allowed to “confront” the witness against him, as guaranteed to the lowliest defendant by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution. Also against the Sixth Amendment, the Republicans will not be granted the power to subpoena and call any witnesses in the President’s favor! Further, pursuant to the secrecy rules of the Intelligence Committee, the GOP members risk sanctions from even commenting on any details of what happened during the closed-sessions of the Committee!

On these terms, in an official proceeding reminiscent of medieval England’s notorious Star-Chamber, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is going to vote on Articles of Impeachment against this duly-elected president? Another attempt to reverse the results of the November 8, 2016 election and disenfranchise the vote of 63,000,000 Americans, after “Russia” and “Stormy” and the “Emoluments Clause” and the “25th Amendment” have gone their way?

The Democrats appear to be ready to finally itch that hard-to-reach itch and impeach Donald Trump:

(1) despite the fact that the whistleblower was not a party to the telephone call;

(2) despite the fact his (or her) allegations against the President are based on rank hearsay;

(3) despite the fact that Pelosi launched the “official” impeachment inquiry before the President unexpectedly released the transcript of the telephone call to President Zelenskyy (with his permission), that contained no language that demanded a quid pro quo from the Ukrainian president to cooperate in the investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden, or of any 0ther matter;

(4) despite the fact that that rascally-liar Chairman Schiff; in an official hearing, read into the official record his “interpretation” of the telephone conversation of Donald Trump that contained damning and theatrical dialogue of his own making;

(5) despite Schiff denying meeting the whistleblower in advance of the airing of the claims when in actuality, Schiff and his staff met with the whistleblower in advance, advised the individual and procured a lawyer for him/her to compile the written complaint;

(6) despite the fact that Nancy Pelosi launched the “official” impeachment inquiry without a vote of the entire House of Representatives, contrary to past precedent of the inquiries begun against Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton – thus depriving the minority Republicans of any power during the proceedings, and:

(7) despite reports that the secret and anonymous whistleblower is a CIA officer, a registered Democrat with strong partisan views, who reputedly was on the staff of Joe Biden when he was Vice-President and may have even accompanied Biden on his trip to Ukraine!

Ben Franklin famously stated that “the best disinfectant is sunlight.” The unexpected release of the transcript of the July 25, 2019 call between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy clearly reveals that the gravamen of the President’s request for Ukraine’s help was to aid in the investigation into the Obama Administration’s launching of the “Russia Probe” in 2016, and that the President’s mention of the Bidens occurred later in the conversation, as an afterthought. Thus, as demonstrated below, the President was initially requesting help from Ukraine to aid in the probe currently underway that is being run by Attorney General Bill Barr and U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut John Durham, about the origins of the FBI’s 2016 investigation into the Republican candidate Donald Trump, the supposed hacking of the DNC’s computer system during that year, the Hillary Clinton email controversy, and the discredited and largely fictitious Steele Dossier commissioned by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign! Here are the relevant paragraphs of the telephone conversation, which took place after Donald Trump profusely congratulated the erstwhile-comedian, actor and screenwriter Volodymyr Zelenskyy on his upset-victory; a win not unlike Trump’s own unexpected election:

The President: I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people… The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.

The above paragraph clearly refers to the Russia probe. Crowdstrike is a California cybersecurity company that was retained by the Democratic Central Committee in 2016 to conduct a cyber analysis concerning which entity or country hacked the DNC’s mainframe hard drive during the election campaign. Crowdstrike concluded the hacker was Guccifer 2.0, a Romanian hacker, commissioned by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, who then supplied the hacked emails to Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks. Note that the DNC subsequently refused to allow the Obama Administration’s FBI access to the mainframe hard drive for the government to conduct its own analysis, stating that Crowdstrike’s conclusions were “final.” The President’s reference to “the server”; meaning the DNC’s hard drive being in Ukraine, was based on persistent rumors that Crowdstrike has an Ukrainian oligarch as one of its owners and that the hard drive in question is currently in Ukraine.

The reference to “that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller” obviously refers to Mueller’s disastrous testimony before Congress in July of this year that concluded that Donald Trump did not collude with Russia, and refers once again to the two-year long Russia hoax; “the collusion delusion!” The further reference that “I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it” also obviously refers to Attorney General Barr’s investigation into the origins of the Russia Probe. The United States has a treaty with Ukraine to mutually cooperate together on criminal investigations, a treaty similar that the U.S. has with most other nations. President Trump has a constitutional obligation to “insure that the laws are faithfully executed.” He has the right, even the duty, pursuant to the treaty, to request aid from Ukraine into the investigation of the origins of the Russia Probe, without any demand for a quid pro quo. Parenthetically, that duty could also apply to Hunter Biden’s tenure on the board of directors of the Burisma gas company and Joe Biden’s pressure to fire the Ukrainian prosecutor looking into Burisma, with Biden’s expressed and threatened quid pro quo! No quid pro quo demanded, express or implied, so far by the 45th President! The transcript of the telephone call continues:

President Zelenskyy: Yes it is very important for me and everything that you just mentioned earlier. For me as a President, it is very important, and we are open for any future cooperation. We are ready to open a new page on cooperation in relations between the United States and Ukraine. For that purpose, I just recalled our ambassador from United States, and he will be replaced by a very competent and very experienced ambassador who will work hard on making sure that our two nations are getting closer. I would also like and hope to see him having your trust and your confidence and have personal relations with you so we can cooperate even more so. I will personally tell you that one of my assistant spoke with Mr. Guiliani just recently, and we are hoping very much that Mr. Guiliani will be able to travel to Ukraine, and we will meet once he comes to Ukraine. I just wanted to assure you once again that you have nobody but friends around us. I will make sure that I surround myself with the best and most experienced people. I also wanted to tell you that we are friends. We are great friends, and you Mr. President have friends in our country so we can continue our strategic partnership. I also plan to surround myself with great people and in addition to that investigation, I guarantee as the President of Ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly. That I can assure you.

Note that it was President Zelenskyy and not Donald Trump, that first brought up the name of Rudy Guiliani. Zelenskyy pledged that he would offer complete cooperation with Guiliani’s investigation when he traveled to Kiev. Which investigation was Zelenskyy referring to? From the context of the conversation up to that minute, the investigation that the Ukrainian president was referring to had to be concerning the origins of the Russia Probe, not of the Bidens. Zelenskyy then guaranteed that “all of the investigations would be done openly and candidly. That I can assure you.” The transcript of the telephone call continues:

The President: Good because I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good, and he was shut down and that’s really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Guiliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. Rudy very much know what’s happening, and he is a very capable guy. If you could speak to him that would be great. The former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news, and the people she was dealing with in the Ukraine were bad news so I just want to let you know that. The other thing, there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it… It sounds horrible to me.

President Trump continues on with the subject of the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor and then linked Guiliani investigative efforts with those of Attorney General Barr. (The linkage of private-citizen Guiliani with the official inquiry by the A.G., admittedly is legally dubious!) However, once again, viewing the context of the conversation at that minute, Trump’s reference to the fired Ukrainian prosecutor had to do with inquiries into the origins of the Russia Probe frame-job against him, not the Bidens. For further insight into the DNC’s and the Clinton campaign’s use of Ukraine and its former president Petro Poroshenko, to discredit Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and then subsequently attempt to sabotage his presidency, refer to an article of Politico, dated January 11, 2017, by Kenneth P. Vogel and David Stern.

Donald Trump’s reference to the former ambassador from the United States to Ukraine being “bad news” was Marie Yovanovitch, a Obama-appointee who remained as U.S. ambassador in Kiev up until March of 2019, when she was dismissed by the President “for lack of trust”. Ambassador Yovanovitch was the U.S. ambassador for Ukraine during the Poroshenko administration and reputedly was the point-person in Kiev for both the DNC and Clinton campaign shenanigans and Joe Biden’s now notorious shakedown visit, and also facilitated the distribution of the evidence used against Paul Manafort in his prosecution by Robert Mueller! Ambassador Yovanovitch testified within Schiff’s Star-Chamber last week and I’m sure, provided one-sided testimony favoring the Democrats with no chance for the Republicans to conduct any cross-examination of her activities in Kiev! Kurt Volker, former United States Special Representative for Ukraine negotiations, also testified before Schiff’s secret and one-sided tribunal the week before and reputedly gave Schiff and his cohorts nothing of value against the President, which of course, was not revealed to the American electorate!

President Trump then went on, as an afterthought, stating: “the other thing, there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it…It sounds horrible to me.” Note, there’s no evidence, expressed or implied, of a quid pro quo. The Democrats claim that the hidden item of value demanded for Ukrainian cooperation into investigating the Bidens was the withholding of the granting of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine. Yet, evidence has since revealed that the withholding of this military aid was ordered four months previously, in March, 2019 and that the reason for the decision to withhold the missiles was the off-repeated attempt by the Trump Administration to urge the European Union, specifically Germany and France, to contribute more funds toward arming the Ukrainians (and to spend more on their own respective military budgets). The missiles have subsequently been delivered to Ukraine. Further, as discussed previously, Ukraine had a treaty obligation with the United States to cooperate on potentially criminal investigations in any event.

On October 9, 2019, Ukrainian president Volodmyr Zelenskyy spoke at a daylong event with media inside a Kiev food market; a speech almost totally ignored by the American “mainstream media.” Zelenskyy stated that the transcript released by the White House is accurate and that he knew that the U.S. had withheld $400 million in military aid due to concerns about corruption and concern for American “taxpayer money.” But the issue, he said, was never linked to Trump’s desire that Kiev rekindle an investigation into an energy company with ties to former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. “There was no blackmail”, Zelenskyy said. “They blocked this money and nobody asked us for anything.” During the event, Zelenskyy further told reporters that his country will “happily” investigate whether Ukrainians (the Poroshenko regime) interfered in the United States 2016 elections. “We can’t say yes or no as to whether there was any interference without an investigation.” Democrats, take notice!

Perhaps, Adam Schiff could be persuaded to call President Zelenskyy to testify within the Star-Chamber!

Thus stands the current status of, now, the Ukrainian probe! Eventually, the entire House will have to take a record vote, member by member, to vote yea or nay, on Articles of Impeachment against Donald Trump based upon the transcript that I just have analyzed, and perhaps also based on the hearsay-musings of the anonymous, disembodied “whistleblower”, who we will never see, who reputedly had been Joe Biden’s Aide during the Obama Administration and may have traveled with him to Ukraine! The “mainstream media”; the Democrats’ “Government in Exile”, have been conducting wall-to-wall coverage that Trump’s words in the telephone transcript amount to “impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors” and that “the constitution must be defended”. Much of this cheerleading is being carried out by John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Susan Rice and Andrew McCabe, all potential defendants in Bill Barr’s and John Durham’s ongoing investigation! To say that they all have a vested interest is to annunciate the obvious!

The radical Democrats in the House have enough votes to impeach Donald Trump, for this alleged, “high crime and misdemeanor!” But for the President to be removed in the subsequent Senate trial, a two-third’s vote of 67 senators would be required. A vote of conviction and removal from office (and the President’s disqualification for running in November, 2020) would thus require 20 Republican senators to join the 47 Democratic senators, if all Dems. choose to vote “yea”, based on this evidence! And no Virginia, neither Hillary Clinton nor Nancy Pelosi would then ascend to the White House in any event! It would be Mike Pence!

With the evidence at hand, to date, Donald Trump will never be removed from office and this whole charade of an impeachment inquiry is a fool’s errand! For all Democratic House members representing congressional districts that voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and for those representing districts that voted marginally for Hillary Clinton, a “yea” vote for impeachment will be nothing short of a kamikaze mission! Time to hand over the gavel, Nancy!

-The Chicago Patriot

With the “disasterous” performance on Wednesday, of the man-that-would-be-Special-Counsel Robert Mueller, the Democrats’ last throw of the dice to topple Donald Trump by non- electoral means crapped out!    The red dice on the green felt table gleamed two white snake eyes!    Though the Left and their hand-maidens in the “Mainstream” Media may not know it yet (their battered ratings will suffer further), this attempted coup is over!

This episode of almost elder-abuse at the insistence of House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) was almost painful to watch!    It became readily apparent that the nomination of the esteemed, 74-year-old Robert Mueller; twice FBI Director, decorated Vietnam war hero and nominative Republican, to head what will go down in history as the “Russia Probe”, was nothing more than a sham, a “beard” to cloak who was ACTUALLY running this witch hunt to attempt to reverse the results of the 2016 Presidential Election – the seventeen Clintonista attorneys, all who had vast and severe conflicts-of-interest that in any other legal situation would have led to their immediate removal.   Foremost among  Mueller’s staff was Andrew Weissmann, the attorney who most likely was actually in charge of the investigation and authored the “Mueller” Report; he was a Hillary Clinton maximum donor who famously attended Hillary Clinton’s aborted victory celebration on the Hudson on the evening of November 8, 2016!   Another staff member who had severe conflicts-of-interest was Jeannie Rhee, who, in her past life, actually represented the Clinton Foundation during the 2015 litigation regarding Clinton’s “private emails!”   All seventeen staff members were maximum donors to Clinton’s presidential campaign and could not credibly undertake a dispassionate investigation.  Yet Robert Mueller either did not know, or did not care, about these conflicts when he brought them on to his staff!

Yet even this squad could not conjure up a credible case that Donald Trump and/or his campaign colluded or conspired with Vladimir Putin and Russia to “steal” the 2016 election from Hillary, the heiress-apparent!    Mr. Mueller was competent enough to respond in the affirmative that “his” investigation found no evidence of collusion with the Russians!   As far as Trump’s “obstruction” of an investigation with no underlying crime (other than winning the election!), the Trump Administration provided the Special Counsel’s office literally millions of documents and hundreds of hours of witness testimony, including 30-hours of testimony by the President’s own attorney, Donald McGahn, which Trump allowed by waiving his attorney-client privilege.    Volume Two of the “Mueller” Report reported ten vignettes of Donald Trump in various stages of rage, ordering Mueller to be fired or for a witness not to testify, but none of these orders were ever carried out!    This behavior was that of an innocent man enraged by this cooked-up fantastic plot against him; a billionaire who had been said “no” to, very few times in his life!    Nothing more!    There was no obstruction of the investigation!    There was no Obstruction of Justice here!    Yet Nadler as his band of merry men intend to go on with their theatrics, despite polling that clearly shows that the majority of the American electorate has had enough with this Kabuki play!    Donald Trump was not a Russian agent!   Donald Trump was not a traitor to his country!    Case closed!

The fact that Robert Mueller had little, if any contact with the day-to-day activities of the Russia Probe became obvious when it was shortly revealed during questioning by Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee that Mr. Mueller had NEVER heard of Fusion GPS, the firm that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee famously hired via their cut-out law firm, Perkins-Cooe, to retain former MI-6 spy Christopher Steele to compile the now infamous Dossier, probably crammed with Russian disinformation supplied by Steele’s Moscow contacts!    Looking for Russian meddling in Our Democracy????   Here it is!!!   Moscow played us all like a Stradivarius, thanks to Hillary and the DNC!!!    And let’s not forget, all of these events occurred during Barack Obama’s watch!

Further, every time a Republican congressperson asked Mr. Mueller issues about the investigation, such as whether he investigated the fact that the FISA Court had not been appraised of the fact that the Steele Dossier, which was used as probable cause to surveil Trump campaign member Carter Page and everyone else that he communicated with, was funded by the Clinton campaign and the DNC, Mueller stated that that issue was not “in his purview.”   Also not in Mueller’s (or Weissmann’s) purview was the fact that the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with Donald Jr. in Trump Tower for twenty minutes in 2016, met with Fusion GPS’s president, Glenn Simpson immediately before and immediately after, her meeting with Trump Jr.    That meeting took up seven pages of the Report.    Yet never once did the fact that Ms. Veselnitskaya was retained by Fusion GPS and the Clinton campaign to meet (and entrap?) Donald Jr., was mentioned in the narrative.   Isn’t the credibility of a witness a cogent fact in determining the veracity of evidence during an investigation?

Other items that Robert Mueller testified were not in his purview were the facts that James Comey signed off on the veracity of the FISA application that contained the Steele Dossier but later testified that the facts contained therein were “salacious and unverified”; the fact that the DNC would not allow the FBI to forensically analyze the hard drive that Wikileaks allegedly hacked (proof has yet to be unearthed); the fact that Christopher Steele was never interviewed during the investigation; the true affiliations of the mysterious Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud that entrapped George Papandopolous, etc. etc. etc.   Mueller repeated that all of these issues are now being investigated by other probes.    Yet, these investigations all were initiated shortly before, or after, the conclusion of the Russia Probe.   Why weren’t these issues probed during the investigation?    Perhaps because with Robert Mueller apparently asleep at the switch, Weissmann and his prejudiced band had NO interest in examining the other side of the coin!

My previous post on this Website, The Real “Russia Collusion” (1/11/18), authored just when all of the details of the plot against Donald Trump, both before and after the 2016 election, began to start leaking out, sketched in great detail this elaborate plot against Mr. Trump that was carried out by the FBI headed by James Comey, the CIA headed by John Brennan, the intelligence apparatus headed by James Clapper, the Obama Justice Department headed by Loretta Lynch, hand-in-hand with the complacent Mainstream Media.    All of the facts laid out in my prior post have turned out to be, sadly, true!   Over the ensuing months the names of Alexander Downer, Stephan Halper, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, James Baker, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, etc. etc. have become household names, at least to those in the know (Fox News); many of these individuals have since become stars in the Get-Trump Media establishment!    The constitutional violations committed by this coterie amount to the greatest political scandal in modern American history.   Yes, Virginia, this is truly “worse than Watergate!”    Yet, the Media, blinded by its hatred of all things Trump, collectively failed to grasp the brass ring of the Pulitzer Prize of this century, or for that matter, of the last century!!!

These violations of civil rights occurred during the stewardship of President Barack Obama and his Vice-President Joe Biden, the administration that crows about its “lack of scandal! ”  It stretches credulity to believe that the surveillance campaign against Donald Trump, the opponent of Obama’s handpicked successor,  Hillary Clinton, was not cleared by the highest authorities by Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and that Obama, and perhaps Biden, HAD to know of the machinations of this byzantine plot, including the four consecutive FISA applications against the Republican nominee that were approved by judges that were not availed of the whole (or any) truth!

The Russia Probe has run its course, despite the continued and fruitless fulminations of the Democratic controlled House of Representatives.    The Investigations of the Investigators have now begun, headed by Attorney General William Barr, who has tasked U.S. Attorney for the District of Conneticut John Durham to investigate this scandal, in conjunction with the probe headed by U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, John Huber.    Both of course, have Grand Jury subpoena power.    Additionally, the Justice Department internal investigation by Inspector General Michael Horowitz is reportedly nearing its conclusion.    As the the 2020 Presidential Election nears, revealations from these investigations are bound to yield titanic news stories.   The question remains, will they be fairly reported, or will they be trivalized and perhaps even surpressed?

-The Chicago Patriot