Check Your Heart

This week has been historic. There’s been so much already said about the attempted assassination of the Once and Future President Donald Trump that any additions I make are not necessary—except for my personal understanding. So I’m writing a few things, and you’re welcome to read them.

The iconic moment of Donald Trump, after being shot in the ear,
before being ushered offstage, photo credit to Evan Vucci/AP

I am among those who see God’s hand in the preservation of this man. The slight turning of his head at exactly the right moment was the difference between a flesh wound to his ear and a kill shot to his head.

diagram found on Facebook here

Here's a bonus meme (source unknown) for my fellow Latter-day Saint friends, referencing Helaman 13.

How do we know that was the work of God and not just coincidence or luck? The simple (but not necessarily easy) answer is: ask God, and then listen to His answer.

Back in the 1940s there was an assassination attempt against Hitler—actually, there were dozens, starting in the early 1930s. German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was involved in a plot in 1944; he was imprisoned, and then put to death just days before Hitler’s eventual death and the end of the war. There’s a movie coming out soon about Bonhoeffer, and a very good book by Eric Metaxas. (I think the movie Valkyrie may be about this plot, which bore that name.) When it happened, a bomb in a briefcase failed to do the intended damage—to the furor who had already put to death millions of his own nation’s citizens and carried out death and carnage in a world war—because it was incidentally moved to the wrong side of a table leg.

Hitler himself saw he preservation from the explosive as God being on his side and protecting him. That seems to me a miscalculation, especially from someone who worshipped evil rather than God.

screenshot from Megyn Kelly's show July 17, 2024

I am not comparing Trump to Hitler; that is what the enemies do. I am contrasting the two. Hitler the mass murderer was eventually stopped. Trump is fighting for the return of our freedoms—away from tyranny and coercion. And he’s doing it by all legal and constitutional—peaceful—means. The enemy, which has made it a theme to call him “literally Hitler,” are lying to cover for their own murderous hearts. We will need to be vigilant, in action and in prayer, to prevent the next several dozen attempts on Trump’s life.

There is a lot about this incident worth talking about: how could it happen? Who really caused it? What would have been the result if the attempt had succeeded? Some of that I’ll get to below, mostly sharing resources I’ve been looking at. So much more comes out every day. It may take a while for details to be sorted out—especially when the government is lying to us.

For now, what I’m really noticing are the differences in reactions. These are the differences between civilization and savagery. Donald Trump’s response, you’ll note, is exemplary of civilization.

Donald Trump's statement

Biden came out with a bland but appropriate statement, and then he asked for a lowering of the political temperature, which would have almost been believable and useful, if he hadn’t continued his own inflammatory rhetoric within a day.

This difference between civilization and savagery is not political, although there are relevant probabilities related to political leanings. We laugh about people afflicted with TDS—Trump Derangement Syndrome. It appears to be so real. Maybe what it really is can be simply stated as hatred. Calling him Hitler is a way to give themselves a sense of righteousness for their hate.

There are plenty of samples of what I’m talking about.

Not the Bee, the sister publication to The Babylon Bee, put out a collection. https://notthebee.com/article/they-missed-trending-on-social-media-after-trump-assassination-attempt-because-of-course

screenshot from Not the Bee article

another screenshot from the Not the Bee article

Screenshots of various tweets or posts have been showing up online. Here are a few, some of which have been held accountable by losing jobs. Being murderous is frowned upon by most employers. (I got all of these from Facebook; my apologies for not identifying original sources.)

These people—and others who publicly stated they wished Trump had been killed by an assassin as well as those who said it or even just thought it to themselves—they have marked themselves with their murderous, hateful intent. Their behavior—including their way of thinking—is not acceptable in a civilized society. Their hateful hearts cannot be accepted and welcomed among us. And more importantly, they have declared their murderous hearts before God.

We need to call them out, to show they felt murder was worth wanting—and laughing about lamenting the miss—ignoring the injury to Trump, the death of a hero in the audience, Corey Comperatore, who died protecting his wife and daughter, and two others (not yet identified) who were hospitalized with injuries. And of course the shooter (the one we know about) was also shot dead, which means getting the full story about his actions and motivations will be hard to get.

If you feel the sense of our time, that time is running out, and the book of Revelation is in play, the declaration that you approve of murder puts these people in the most precarious of situations. If they could suddenly awake to the putridness of their decay, and made a 180 turn toward righteousness, there might be hope for some of these individuals. If you know and love such a person, I feel for you and wish you the best in getting their attention. Maybe some of them have simply been deceived into believing that Trump is “literally Hitler,” despite reality. But time is running out for them. Their eternal destruction is imminent. It’s a sad thing to see.

This meme states it well.

Found on Facebook linked to here

 

In Other News

There has been more news this week—big enough that in normal times would be the headlines endlessly. As they say, make sure you have your popcorn ready:

·        The classified documents case has been completely dismissed: Prosecutor Jack Smith was not lawfully appointed, nor has he been accessing lawfully appropriated funds. 

·        Donald Trump chose J. D. Vance as his running mate, the next VP of the United States.

·        Trump gave a powerful speech at the RNC Convention, thanking God for his preservation, and calling for unity and peace—following many of his family members, who also gave good speeches.

·        Biden, meanwhile, got COVID.

·        Rumors are that Biden is stepping down from the campaign (not the presidency) and will not be endorsing Kamala Harris. This is supposed to come out officially on Sunday (exactly 42 months after the inauguration). But there might be another play or two by Jill Biden to prevent him from making that decision, or allowing the surrounding party from making that decision for him. 

·        There was the biggest internet glitch in history, worldwide, on Friday, July 19, 2024, affecting airlines, banks, hospitals, 911 systems, and more. We’re assured this was not a hack; it was an error caused by a system update, and instructions for repair (which would require some physical one-machine-at-a-time procedures) were given out.

·        Alec Baldwin charges dismissed.

·        Democrat US Representative from Houston, Sheila Jackson Lee dies of pancreatic cancer. There will need to be a special election for her replacement in the remainder of her term, and an appointment for her replacement on the November ballot. 

 

Resources Related to the Assassination Attempt

We are not getting the truth from government. There are obvious and not-so-obvious lies, mixed in with the confusion that happens when an event is new and not all the details are known. A quote from the late great Alan Vera is apt here (he usually said it in the context of election problems):

"Incompetence is the perfect camouflage for malfeasance."

I am undecided at this point as to how much is incompetence and how much is malfeasance. But you have to believe the people who hate Trump the most because of his threat to their power also just happen to be unbelievably incompetent. Whatever it was, it was a massive security failure.

I suggest Dan Bongino’s daily podcast, on Rumble and elsewhere. As a former Secret Service agent, he has insider insights. I’ve also been following Robert Gouveia, a law vlogger, on YouTube or Locals, who is gathering information as it becomes available, with the eye of a defense attorney (always suspicious of government statements) building a case.

Robert Gouveia shows the official timeline, screenshot from here

And here, in no particular order, are some of the sources (mainly video) I’ve listened to and watched. (With some I’ve made comments, mainly to help me remember what was notable in that video). These are more or less listed newest to oldest.

·        Update on President Trump’s condition by his former Physician to the President, Ronny L. Jackson, July 20, 2024. 

·        “Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks' cause, manner of death revealed” Christina Coulter for Fox News, July 20, 0224.  There’s a 5-minute Fox News video within the article, which may be from earlier. This is a full week after the event. Other sources seem to have more detail.

·        “Bongino POINTS OUT something everyone missed |New Trump Shooting Facts!” Stephen Gardner, July 19, 2024. Adds that there were 10 separate reports from people saying they saw someone on the water tower at the time of the shooting. Also, we’ve learned that the perpetrator had multiple overseas encrypted bank accounts.

·        “Robert Barnes (Deep State Tried To Kill Trump: Conspiracy Theory Or Fact?)” Revel Capitalist, July 19, 2024. Barnes suggests certain people attended the RNC only because they’d planned for Trump to be taken out beforehand, which would be blamed on Iran. Deep State from both parties intended for Trump to be taken out before officially made the nominee at the RNC Convention.

·        Rooted.wings on Instagram, brief summary of the recent news, July 19, 2024. 

·        “Audio Analysis Is 100% Clear Trump& Crowd Were Shot At By Two Separate People” Peak Prosperity, Chris Martenson, confirms there was more than one shooting at President Trump, July 18, 2024. 

·        “Emergency Episode: Special Forces Sniper Explains Trump Shooting - Tim Kennedy” Chris Williamson, on YouTube, talks with Tim Kennedy, a Special Forces Sniper and Green Beret, July 16, 2024.   A lot of good inside info. However, this one disagrees with others who say the various groups (Homeland Security, Secret Service, and local police) would have been on a shared channel. And there continues to be disagreement about the existence of a ladder used by the attacker.

·        “DID THIS WOMAN KNOW?! Military Body Language Expert Reacts to Suspicious Woman at Trump Rally!” The Behavioral Arts, on YouTube, talks with body language expert Chase Hughes, about a woman in the stands who doesn’t react with fear. Since this video I heard, in the Stephen Gardner video (above in this list) that the woman has been identified as an FBI agent, bringing up more questions. July 20, 2024. [Correction July 21, 2024: Stephen Gardner, in this July 20 video, corrects an error; The FBI agent this was thought to be verified that she was not there. Gardner says they now know the identity of the woman and he has reached out to her and hopes to speak with her.]

·        “Secret Service COMPLICIT; FURIOUS Senators Confront Director; New Timeline DEMOLISHES Cover-up” Robert Gouveia, law vlogger, July 19, 2024.  He shows the official timeline and continues to go through the discrepancies in stories.

·        “Emergency Episode: Former CIA Agent On Trump Assassination Attempt - Mike Baker” Chris Williamson, on YouTube, talks with former CIA Agent Mike Baker, July 17, 2024. 

·        “Secret Service COVER-UP Underway; LIES to Local Police; Subpoenas to CHEATLE” Robert Gouveia, law vlogger, July 17, 2024. Secret Service chief Kim Cheatle gives implausible excuses. 

·        Tucker Carlson podcast July 16, 2024. Tucker interviews musician John Rich on his new song, “Revelation,” in response to Trump. 

·        “'That Doesn’t Add Up': Top Sniper Exposes the Biggest Holes in the Trump Shooting Narrative” Glenn Beck, July 15, 2024. Glenn talks with sniper Dallas Alexander about questions that need answers concerning the assassination attempt. 

·       Tucker Carlson clip, July 15, 2024. God made his presence known, and the whole world saw that.

·        “The Trump Assassination Attempt Explained” Michael Knowles, episode 1530, July 15, 2024. This one shows the inflammatory language Biden claims to decry. 

·        “Trump Assassination Attempt! RNC in Milwaukee! Baldwin Charges DISMISSED & MORE! Viva & Barnes Live!” Viva & Barnes, Sunday evening livestream, July 14, 2024. They talk with Lynn Westover, former sniper. Before bringing others in, Viva, who claims not to be religious, thinks about the America we are today, compared to the America we would have been today, had it not been for divine intervention. 

·        “Trump Assassination LATEST; Left Goes NUTS; Details & Reaction” Robert Gouveia, law vlogger, July 14, 2024. Early reactions and information. S

·        “Donald Trump is an American Hero” Mr. Reagan, on YouTube, Chris Kohls gives early reaction, stating what we all see: Donald Trump is a courageous and selfless man in ways that can’t be faked. July 14, 2024. 

·        Tribute to Corey Comperatore, husband, father, former fire chief, hero, July 14, 2024. 

·        BBC interview with a bystander who saw the man with a rifle on the roof and called attention to law enforcement, July 13, 2024. 

·        James O’Keefe tweets video: Trump stands up and calls “Fight! Fight! Fight!” before Secret Service ushers him offstage, July 13, 2024. 

 

The Yellow Dog Is Down

I had started a post on another topic yesterday. But that was before I watched the debate. People everywhere are responding and commenting, so anything I add here is unnecessary. And yet, because it was historic, unprecedented, and a lot of other adjectives, I want to do a little collection of responses here for the sake of history.

The Setup

My attitude before the debate was that it was likely to be interesting, and maybe I’d tune in. I’ve speculated (I’m not alone in this) that their plan A was to hope he would do well enough. But their more likely plan B was to have this debate early—it comes before either party’s convention and official nomination—so they could finagle some way to replace him on the convention floor (procedures to make that legal TBD).

The question was how Biden would do. We’ve seen him be feeble and deteriorating since his 2020 campaign, and yet the media hides that and says, “nothing to see here.” And his most recent State of the Union wasn’t as disastrous as might have been expected. There’s speculation that he’s drugged to keep him alert and looking somewhat functional for limited periods of time. And this debate was short, with all kinds of limitations to favor Biden. CNN hosted, so we could all predict the questions. Microphones would be cut off except during each candidate’s one-minute answer or response. Biden took over a week away from either campaigning or running the country, secluded at Camp David to prepare. Meanwhile, Trump was out on the campaign trail, during this space of time he’s not tied up in court (and hasn’t been sentenced to jail yet).

They were to have no audience, no notes (they had a pad of paper and a pen for their own use). No campaign people could talk to them during the advertising breaks. No earpieces. Biden did fuss with his ear, making people think he might be adjusting an against-the-rules earpiece so someone could be feeding him the answers. He likely also wears a hearing aid. It seemed to me they could disguise an earpiece to appear to be just a hearing aid, and they could cheat thereby. I can’t prove that, but they haven’t given us reason to trust them.

With all the advantages for Biden, I was concerned that he might not look all that bad. Maybe anti-Biden media scores the footage for only the stumbles, while the other side tries to eliminate those moments from their reporting. So I wasn’t sure we really knew how far gone he was.

But he was bad. Undeniably bad. His dementia was evident. And, even though we’ve seen him like that for years already, people who only watch certain biased news sources were seeing this version of Biden for the first time. And they were shocked.

So the question today (which has been floated around and being denied for a while) is whether/how to replace Biden, and with whom.

How Bad Was It?

I’m on a group chat with some fellow precinct chairs. The reposted tweets and memes started coming well before the debate was over. Many of the memes I’ve used are from that thread. I can’t attribute where I got them all, although many show names of who the original posters were. And some came from Facebook. I don’t mean to take personal credit for any; I’m just not able to trace them all.

Before we get to that fun, I want to state unequivocally that I am against elder abuse. Jill Biden is guilty of this. And whoever else has been propping him up Weekend-at-Bernie’s style. Joe Biden has been an evil person, and evidence from the laptop shows he has been selling out our country (I call it treason) for a long time. He deserves no respect. But the shell of a person they’re using isn’t capable of taking responsibility for his actions. He’s a prop, a puppet—more literally than any I know of in history or literature. It’s shameful to use a human in this way.

That said, there’s a fair amount of glee in response to last night’s debate. It started even before the debate began. I came across this version of Biden Debate Bingo, originating I think from Dan Scavino:

This was worth a chuckle beforehand. But during the debate I realized it was actually worth playing. (There are plenty of other versions of debate Bingo that I came across trying to re-find this one.) Biden came close to checking off the whole card. That first one, about Scranton, PA, was there, even though he left at age 10, nearly seven decades ago, never actually lived in working-class neighborhoods in Pennsylvania, and did his formative years in a wealthy area of Delaware.

Biden's walk onto the stage was a shuffle. His opening speech was a soft and hoarse mumble. Heavy slurring happened. He blamed Trump for all of the ills his administration has created. He needed his wife to escort him down the stairs and off the stage.

There were the lies—so plentiful that the middle free space on the Bingo card makes sense for that. He got fact-checked in real time, with Snopes, which has been notoriously wrong on this, finally admitting that Trump never said “there were good people on both sides” about actual hatemongers, only on both sides of the confederate symbols issue, which those of us who pay attention have known all along—because we listened to Trump’s actual speech at the time instead of the news spin about it.

And then there was Biden’s claim that the Border Patrol endorses him. There came a swift reply: “To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden.”

The brain freeze that happened not that far in was not something they could cover up by claiming those rascally Republicans created what Karine Jean-Pierre calls a Cheap Fake. The brain freeze moment was a historic turning point for our country. I’ve seen speculation that this is when the drugs they juiced him with kicked in. Or maybe they failed to kick in. Or maybe they wore off. Mr. Reagan (Chris Coles) speculated that he had a cold and it prevented him from getting drugged, because those drugs in addition to cold meds might kill a person in Biden’s condition. Before his response livestream was over, they learned that the media had indeed been informed ahead of time that Biden had a cold. That gives the media a way to excuse his less than stellar performance. Except—it was so bad, and so consistent with how he acts regularly (montages abound), that the media doesn’t seem willing to be other than shocked at his abysmal performance.

That first really big stumble is here. Benny Johnson clips it, and he’s pretty gleeful about it, but it’s a convenient clip. By the way, Biden does correct “trillionaires” to “billionaires” eventually, not shown here. Not that it helps. The math, if correct (dubious), of taxing billionaires in a way that would cause them to put money elsewhere—but if you assume they don’t change their behavior, then he says the additional taxes would be $500 million, which he corrects to $500 billion, over ten years. So $50 billion a year he says would wipe out all “his” deficits (does he mean Trump’s?) and do a bunch of other things. But he’s given more than $50 billion a year to Ukraine regularly now. So that would pretty much wipe out any theoretical new tax revenue. Right? It’s hard to tell what he means through the stumbling.

There was a point where he got stuck, backed up, and repeated words, the way you do when you have a memorized statement that you can’t quite remember, so you have to start at an earlier point to get the flow going again. In other words, he wasn’t thinking of answers; he was just trying to regurgitate talking points, and even that is what he was failing at.

There was a question on abortion. Biden thinks killing babies up to and beyond birth is a winning issue. And here’s how he “articulated” that:

Trump passed along this Babylon Bee meme, which is very nearly not satire:

Almost immediately afterward, to talk of replacing Biden began. CNN’s John King was one.

Houston radio guy Michael Berry passed along a tweet from NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wishing for Biden to step aside. Kristof is assuming, of course, that Biden is capable of reflecting on his debate performance, which I wouldn’t guarantee.

Charlie Kirk points out a Politico announcement that “Biden is toast.”

And a couple more:

During Robert Gouveia’s response video on Friday, he mentions a New York Times tweet, reported on by Cassandra McDonald with Tim Pool’s team, asking: “I would like to know why Nick Kristoff and the New York Times had this article calling for Biden to drop out due to his debate performance. Why was that already preloaded on their back end on June 25^th, two days before the debate.”

It may be like that old photo showing a headline that “Dewey Defeats Truman” back in1948; they have two versions, and they may print a limited number of both, and then when the news is certain they go ahead with the one that happened.

mistaken news headline, Truman won in 1948
image found here

But the New York Times seems to be pushing this message now. Today, Fox News reported this: “New York Times editorial board calls for Biden to drop out: His candidacy is a ‘reckless gamble’” (by Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Fox News, June 28, 2024). It’s getting weird when news outlets report as news the news and opinions of other news outlets. But I digress.

By the end of Friday I was hearing speculation about invoking the 25th Amendment. The downside of that is Kamala Harris, who is both sides' worst nightmare.

Today a Business Insider headline showed up in my news feed, with some fill-in-the-blank possibilities to replace Biden. I think seven is a stretch; they do not have a deep bench. Or any bench:

Among the nightmare scenarios, the most likely may be Gavin Newsome, who has ruined the formerly beautiful state of California beyond recognition and would like to do similar service to the entire US. And there’s Hillary still waiting around. (This is a meme, not real, I shouldn’t have to say, but…”

 

Was It Planned?

Was this all a setup? Was it planned as a way to take Biden out? It’s possible. Carol Swain is a careful thinker, but she’s looking at what we’re all seeing. And others agree:

It’s Not about Trump

Trump had some good moments in the debate. He was quick and capable, and answered what he wanted, regardless of the questions that were meant to set him up. One of the better moments was, “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.” Biden had said something about the border being better now than under Trump, but even with the transcript it wasn’t intelligible, or truthful.

Trump was very understated. Almost never has there been a debate or major even like this when the talk wasn’t about Trump. He knows how to make talk happen. But this time—I believe intentionally—he was steady, less bombastic, clear, and clearly capable. He got out of the way and let Biden be the story, because it was not going to be anything but a bad story.

Polling show Trump shooting up about 15 percentage points and Biden dropping by about that many. Such a fall, for such good reason, is not recoverable. It’s probably well beyond the cheating margin.

Robert Gouveia shows a polling result immediately after
the debate, during his livestream and response

Serious Talk

There’s some satisfaction in seeing what we all knew finally being acknowledged by all but the “yellow dog Democrats” [i.e., those who would vote for any Democrat on the ticket, even if it’s a yellow dog], and even some yellow dog voters are bailing.

But the serious situation is, our country is being led by an incompetent man. Dr. Hur had said he wasn’t capable of standing trial because he’s an old man with memory problem. Maybe one ought to extrapolate from that that such a person doesn’t belong in the Oval Office, ostensibly running the free world.

And since we know he’s not capable of running the free world, we are being “ruled” by someone we did not vote for. (Not that We the People ever truly voted Biden in.) We don’t know who that is.

Glenn Beck pointed out the serious danger we’re in with a dementia patient who has access to the nuclear codes. He walked through the seven minutes it would take for a missile from, say, North Korea, to reach us, in which the president must make the decision to use such a weapon in response—before we even know whether what is launched at us is nuclear or not. If we respond a nuclear weapon, we would wipe out several hundred thousand people. And fallout would affect possibly hundreds of thousands of Chinese as well, which would be taken as an act of aggression, of course. And fallout could affect Russia as well, with them taking it as an act of aggression against them. Can this demented old man make such a decision? Clearly he cannot. And our enemies around the globe know this. They have known for a while—hence wars in Ukraine and Israel. But it still wasn’t spoken of openly. Now our weakness is exposed.

We ought to make note of who has tried to foist this incapacitated puppet leader upon us. His wife is one. His close staff and cabinet. His VP. His spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, and her staff. Many upper leaders—possibly of both parties, although you can mainly blame the Democrats for this travesty. Media people. All of these people knew he was incapacitated, and yet they pretended he was fully capable—not just of a campaign but an additional four-year term. They hid him and covered up, and blatantly lied. They put our nation at risk to perpetrate this deceit on us. Their betrayal is not a small thing.

We can hope to get to the election and to the transfer of power. If we can get that far, before our enemies take advantage, then there is some chance for recovery. And then we need accountability—a better word than retribution, and more accurate. We absolutely need the swamp cleaned out.

We need to return strictly to our Constitution.

 

 

Yet Another Indictment for Non-Crimes

We have a scripture reading schedule at church, and my husband and I do some daily reading to keep up. Thursday morning we happened to be on Acts 24, in which Paul is accused of sedition. Those bringing him before the authorities have no evidence to provide against him. They are prosecuting him mainly because of his beliefs, which differ from their own.

This was nearly 2000 years ago, but it looks an awful lot like current news headlines.

Fox News headline, but I got the screenshot from The Benny Show.

On Tuesday, law vlogger Robert Gouveia went through the indictment, reading major portions of it online, splashed with some of his commentary. [He’s been covering this every day. This is Wednesday’s, which was also good. You can get all the clips and sources he uses from his daily mind map, available on his website, RobertGouveia.com.] Most surprising, he points out, is that there is no charge for seditious conspiracy. There are members of the Proud Boys in prison right now, convicted of seditious conspiracy, who claim they were led by Donald Trump. But there’s no charge that Trump was conspiring with them or participating in any actual sedition.

Of course there’s the possibility that they’ll add that charge later in a superseding indictment. Nothing is past the government at this point.

But, in reading through what the charges actually are, it comes down to this: Trump was told by multiple people that the election was not stolen, and that his plan to have alternate electors considered was not legally sound. He therefore knew (had mens rea) that what he was saying about the election was not true, and that what he was asking for in the counting of electors couldn’t be done.

What the charging document fails to note is that there were also multiple people, including very respectable legal counsel, telling him what most readers here believe: there was enough wrong with the election to suspect, or even assume, it was stolen. And one reading of the Constitution—which has historic precedence, and which the Democrats have attempted multiple times this century—is that when a state’s slate of electors are challenged, Congress can go into discussions and consider the claims of both sides. (Side note: there was enough confusion about what the VP had the power to do that a 2022 law clarifies it—meaning there was plenty of ambiguity in 2020.)

The various legal counsel with that opinion are now being called co-conspirators in an attempt to defraud the United States.

Charlie Kirk, on his Wednesday, August 2, podcast, interviewed attorney John Eastman and asked him whether he could confirm speculation that he was one of the co-conspirators. John Eastman verifies:

Yeah, well, it’s— It doesn’t take much to go from speculation to confirmation. They quote unindicted co-conspirator number 2; they quote a number of public documents of mine that are in the public realm. So, anybody that spends half a minute looking at this stuff knows I’m co-conspirator number 2. My attorneys put out a statement to that effect last night. But I suppose it’s good news, from my point of view, that I’m an unindicted co-conspirator rather than an indicted conspirator. I look forward to maybe being called as a witness, to come to President Trump’s defense.

Because, getting legal advice about contested interpretations of constitutional provisions is not and never has been and never should be a criminal action.

The most important point here is that getting legal advice about contested interpretations of law must not ever be considered criminal. You can think one way or another about Trump and still want the actual rule of law—rather than lawfare—to prevail.

This is both ridiculous and extremely dangerous. Legal counsel isn’t required to be right or else be punished with prison. Legal counsel is to give a plaintiff advice about ways to present a case. It is about presenting ideas and opinions in what is intended to be an adversarial system. You eliminate any balance of the scales of justice, if one side arbitrarily gets to decide it is right—before trial—and anyone disagreeing is not only wrong but illegally subversive.

from Wikipedia

John Eastman goes on to describe what we might call lawfare:

What’s really going on here is an attempt to prevent people who are unpopular with the elites in our country from having competent legal representation—from having any representation at all. The effort by the 65 Project to go after every one of the attorneys that was involved in any of these election challenges—they make no bones about it. They specifically said, “Our goal here is not just to have them disbarred, but to make them toxic in their firms and in their communities so that right-wing legal talent will never take on these election challenges again.” Of course, if that’s succeeds, then it clears the path for complete manipulation of election processes without anyone willing or able to step up to challenge it in the courts.

It takes a certain personality to engage in lawfare. Prosecutor Jack Smith is one such example. In a podcast (“Jack Smith - A Psychological Analysis” August 2, 2023) Mr. Reagan (Christopher Kohls) might be on the verge of name calling. But he calls out prosecutor Jack Smith as a nerd—a cool-guy wannabe who hasn’t grown out of his awkwardness even well into middle age. Smith exaggerates, uses dramatic emphasis in his delivery, and in every way verifies to us that he is unhinged by his hatred of all things related to Trump—and, by extension, all of us. His wife produced a documentary on Michelle Obama. There isn’t a chance Smith is unbiased or professional. He’s just a tool.

Humor helps in times like these.
meme found on Facebook

It has been a while since I read Orwell’s 1984. I remember the “memory hole” way of changing history. Check. And I remember the unwillingness to accept differing views. Check. I remember the protagonist, Winston, being subjected to something considered therapeutic to eliminate his unwillingness to submit to the state’s version of truth—until he finally comes out gladly proclaiming that 2+2=5. Let’s call that an attempted check so far. In the book, did they arrest and imprison people for disagreeing with Big Brother? Maybe they did. So, we’re either like the 1984 dystopia, or we’re worse.

I say this as I still freely write this and post it (albeit in obscurity). Because, at this point government power is attempting to be absolute, but the people have not yet submitted.

Two podcasts I listened to played a clip of one of Rush Limbaugh’s last broadcasts [The Benny Show and the Charlie Kirk podcast]. It’s worth quoting Rush here:

I know that they desperately want Trump gone. And I know that they desperately want it codified that Trump cannot run again, because, make no mistake, they remain scared to death of you, and they remain scared to death of Trump. Trump’s 75 million, 80 million votes. And I’m going to tell you, you’re not going anywhere. Even if Trump does, you’re not. They can’t separate you from Trump. And, more importantly, they can’t separate you from the ideas. They can’t separate you from MAGA. They can’t separate you from Make America Great Again—which I think remains one of our big campaign strengths going forward. They believe that they can destroy this bond that exists between you and Trump, if they somehow make Trump look bad, make Trump look like a reprobate, embarrass you about Trump. They can’t do it, because you came before Trump.

The great Rush Limbaugh, in one of his last shows.
Screenshot from here

Rush reminded us that their persecution of Trump is essentially a proxy war for their persecution of us—the ones with minds that they do not yet control. They can’t stand not controlling us. And Trump is in their way. Trump himself has said as much.

The enemy seems to have this misconception that, because our side is made up of law-abiding citizens, we must be scandalized by a federal indictment of a candidate. Trump must be bad if the feds have brought charges against him, right? But too many of us see this as it is: a political attack—on us, through him. So his poll numbers go up.

OK, back to the document. One of the charges suggests Trump is guilty of “conspiracy against rights,” whatever that means. Charlie Kirk explained it on his show:

Conspiracy against rights. What in the fresh heck is conspiracy against rights? 18 U.S.Code § 241. What in the heck is that? Conspiracy against rights?

Well, it was passed in the 1870s, known as the KKK Act. Not used very frequently. It’s hard to prove. But for those of you that watch our show closely and carefully, for those of you that take our warnings seriously, there was a test case.

Do you remember the young, innocent man, who we tried our best to raise legal support for? Who— Actually, I think Turning Point donated I think $10,000 to his legal fund. Douglass Mackey. Does that name ring a bell? Well, recently Douglass Mackey was sentenced—well, I don’t know if he’s been sentenced; he’s been convicted, awaiting sentencing—because he made a meme in the 2016 election. Remember that? Because he made a meme making fun of Hillary Clinton, the Biden DOJ goes and says, “We’re going to put you in federal prison.”

Now, we were infuriated about this. Tucker Carlson, to his great credit. By the way, there’s clear examples of Democrats doing the exact same thing. Douglass Mackey, being a white, conservative meme warrior, faces nearly a decade in federal prison. But it was a test case. Because they indicted him on 18 U.S.C. § 241, Conspiracy against rights, dusting off a KKK era bill, a law that allows the federal government to criminalize your activity, your constitutional rights, if it’s a threat to the regime—if they can convince twelve people to do it.

This is a well-orchestrated legal trial-and-error. They try it on Douglass Mackey to be able to use it against Donald Trump.

And a lot of people said, “Oh, the Douglass Mackey thing. He made a meme. How does that impact me?” Well, Douglass Mackey was patient zero. Douglass Mackey was patient zero of the dusting off of 18 U.S.C. § 241, Conspiracy against rights.

I looked up the meme. 

meme attributed to Douglass Mackey, found here

It’s clearly satire, mocking low-information Democrat voters. If someone lacks the intelligence to know that, without a well-publicized change in the law (see 2020, when such things as illegal voting process changes happened, but were definitely well-publicized), you have to actually vote in person, not by social media post, then that person lacks the intelligence to vote. Now, while we don’t have an intelligence test for voters (although there are times when that might seem like a prudent option to pursue), a real voter ought to know, among all the other facts, that there is more than one race on the ballot, so you actually need a ballot in order to vote. This satire didn't infringe on any actual person's right to vote. Nevertheless, Mackey is convicted, pending appeal.

The timing of the Trump indictment seems to be following a pattern. More than one person has pointed out the correlation between bad news coming out about Biden and new charges against Trump. [As an aside, there’s a similar correlation between bad Biden news and alien reports—called UAPs now instead of UFOs.] Trump attorney Alina Habba provides the list: 

The fact that I am standing here for the third time in five months is not a coincidence. This is the Biden political lawfare that we have seen time and time again. It is a deflection from everything that they have done. And if you don’t believe me, look at the facts:

·        On March 17 Hunter accidentally admits that it was his laptop from hell. The next day DA Alvin Bragg indicts President Trump.

·        June 8^th, an FBI document is released, showing that the Ukrainians paid the Biden crime family millions and millions of dollars. The next day, the Mar-a-Lago Raid, and the Mar-a-Lago indictment.

·        Last week Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal fell through when the judge realized it had blanket immunity. The following day, a superseding indictment against Donald Trump.

·        July 31^st Devon Archer goes to testify in front of the House. That was only after they failed to put him in jail prior to the fact. What happens the next day? The January 6^th indictment that we’re here for today.

This is not a coincidence. This is election interference at its finest, against the leading candidate right now for president, for either party. President Trump is under siege in a way that we have never seen before. President Trump and his legal team, and everyone on his team, will continue to fight—not for him, but for the American people.

 In his Wednesday night special, Glenn Beck went over a number of things we’re facing. But there was something somewhat hopeful that he said:

You have to realize you have the power still. You have all of the real power. You just don’t believe it. The Deep State was forcibly exposed last week in court. Does that happen without people like you and me speaking out every time we see this stuff? I don’t think it does.

The exposure needs to continue, because, if we don’t, we will lose.

It’s hard to see times as bad as these and be hopeful. But companies who showed that they hate their customers have learned they need those customers more than the customers need those companies. This has been true for Budweiser, Target, Disney, and a number of others. We stop doing business with them, and the companies sink. We had more power than we realized.

We have that power—God given—in the political sphere as well. We used to think it was our collective votes that made us powerful, but they have mainly taken that from us. So it will have to be either recovering free and fair elections or some other way we can’t yet see. May God show us what to do, and when, so we can recover our constitutional republic!