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When Donald Trump seemed to have a lock on the 2016 Republican
primary, the Democratic Party concluded that the people could not be
counted on to do the "right thing" of electing the Democratic candidate
in waiting for Hillary Clinton.
Eight long years of
extralegal efforts followed to neuter the candidate, then President,
then ex-President, and then-candidate again, Donald Trump.
The nonstop efforts were all justified as "saving democracy" -- albeit by nearly destroying it.
In
2015-2016, the Hillary Clinton campaign fueled the lie that discredited
ex-British spy Christopher Steele had discovered Trump to be a
veritable Russian agent.
Hillary did not disclose that she had
paid Steele with checks hidden behind three paywalls. The FBI, under
Director James Comey, also hired the fraudster.
Yet almost nothing in his "Steele dossier" was true.
The
FBI doctored evidence submitted to a FISA court. Comey leaked
confidential documents about his private conversations with President
Trump to the press.
Comey's successor, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, lied to federal investigators on numerous occasions.
Both
former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper repeatedly lied to the nation, saying that
Trump was de facto working with the Russians.
The result? Trump lost the 2016 popular vote but still won the Electoral College.
Next,
celebrities and well-funded liberals waged a media campaign to convince
the electors to become "faithless." Left-wing elites begged them to
renounce their constitutional duties and instead throw the election to
Hillary Clinton.
Once Trump was elected, "Russian collusion" was fired up again in hysterical fashion.
A special counsel, Robert Mueller, consumed 22 months of the Trump
presidency. His investigation team constantly leaked falsehoods about
the "walls closing in on" Trump.
After nearly two years, Mueller announced there was no evidence of a Trump effort to collude with Russia.
Next was Trump's first impeachment, nearly the moment he lost the House in 2018.
Supposedly, Trump had leveraged Ukraine to investigate a corrupt Hunter Biden by delaying foreign aid.
Trump was impeached on a strictly partisan vote.
But
later, no one denied that the drug-addled Hunter Biden had indeed
gotten rich from Ukraine, or that Joe Biden had fired a Ukrainian
prosecutor looking into his son's misadventures while still vice
president, or that Trump released all the military assistance designated
by Congress, or that he included offensive weapons formerly denied
Ukraine by the Obama-Biden administration.
Next, in 2020, when
Hunter's laptop turned up abandoned at a repair shop and full of
incriminating evidence of more Biden family skullduggery, the left
struck again.
It rounded up "51 former intelligence authorities"
to mislead the American people on the eve of the vote that the laptop
was likely a fake -- once again cooked up by Russian disinformation
experts to aid Trump.
And once more, that was another complete
falsehood. However, the lie proved useful to Joe Biden in the debates
and campaign. And he won the election.
Next, the learn-nothing, forget-nothing left turned to the 2023-2024 campaign.
This time, their next extra-legal efforts were twofold.
One, they unsuccessfully sought to remove Trump from some 15 state ballots.
Two, local, state, and federal courts began to wage lawfare to
convict and jail candidate Trump, or at least bankrupt him and keep him
off the campaign trail.
Three county and state prosecutors
campaigned on getting Trump on charges never filed before against a
presidential candidate -- and rarely against anyone else as well.
The Fani Willis, Georgia lead prosecutor, met secretly with the Biden White House counsel.
Alvin Bragg's Manhattan team hired the third-ranking federal prosecutor in the Biden Justice Department.
A court found special counsel Jack Smith to have been illegally appointed, and much of his case was dismissed.
On
July 14, a shooter nearly killed candidate Trump, nicking his ear after
somehow firing a rifle from a rooftop a mere 140 yards away -- while
undetected by law enforcement inside the very same building below.
Prior to the shooting, Joe Biden had boasted to donors that "it's time to put Trump in a bullseye."
Biden
had railed nearly nonstop that a Trump victory would spell the end of
democracy -- a theme the left had fueled by comparing ad nauseam Trump
to Adolf Hitler.
Yet here we are in mid-July 2024, and Trump, the
Republican candidate, is alive and leads incumbent Biden -- either
because of or despite the crude efforts to destroy him.
After nearly a decade of utter madness, can we finally order the FBI, DOJ, and CIA to butt out of our elections?
Can a bankrupt media cease whipping up hysteria about a supposed Nazi-like takeover?
Can the left stop relying on washed-up British spies, corrupt ex-spooks, and teams of clownish partisan prosecutors?
Instead, why not, at last, just let the people choose their own president?
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