Lock. HIM. Up
So the Felon-in-Chief thinks the Mayor of Chicago and the Governor of Illinois should be jailed because they failed to protect heavily armored ICE agents who stormed a Chicago apartment building after rappelling from a helicopter to terrorize American citizens?
What, is he afraid the masked militia is in danger from a salami sandwich attack?
The regime’s effort to trump up a civil disturbance to justify invoking the Insurrection Act to cover what is now an illegal deployment of the Texas National Guard is part and parcel of Donald Trump’s campaign to install himself at President-for Life.
But what’s perhaps just as disturbing is the failure of other elected officials — and the legacy media — to adequately signal the peril being posed to a democracy that may not live to celebrate its 250th birthday.
The brazen lawlessness of this regime is jaw-dropping. Consider this response from a White House spokesperson when asked what crimes the president believed Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson had committed. Instead of identifying any illegality, she insisted they “have blood on their hands” because at least five people were killed and 25 shot over the weekend.
“Instead of taking action to stop the crime, these Trump-Deranged buffoons would rather allow the violence to continue and attack the President for wanting to help make their city safe again.”
Um, deranged buffoon? Try this Trump word salad:
“I’ve seen the law. And when you have a group of people where the police call off the safety for ICE officials, I’ve understood that, and I’ve read it today in numerous journals, that that’s illegal.”
Gun violence, involving weapons brought in from outside Illinois, has indeed been a longstanding problem. But that’s not what Immigration and Customs Enforcement is responsible for handling.
And if the regime wants to equate that with domestic terrorism, how does it describe the made-for-TV raids by Customs and Border Protection — which is not supposed to operate more than 100 miles from a national border?
A federal judge in Illinois is expected to hear a case today about the legality of bringing in red state National Guard troops to patrol the streets of a blue state city. While it’s never wise to predict an outcome, it’s worth noting that a Trump-appointed judge has already temporarily ruled there is no legal justification for Texas troops to patrol the streets of Portland, Oregon.
Federal district judges have remained the last bulwark of democracy with their rulings attempting to rein in the regime’s lawlessness.
But is anyone else willing to stand up and do the same? We can certainly rule out elected Republicans who are now trying to turn a legally predicated investigation of a real insurrection — the one that took place on January 6, 2021 — into an attack on them.
Pritzker is one of the few and he’s wondering where his fellow Democratic elected colleagues are:
“This is exactly the moment for people to stand up. And do I see enough people doing it? No, I don’t,” Pritzker said at a forum in Minnesota on Tuesday. “It shouldn’t be that there are Democrats that are afraid, because you know what? We’re the targets. We need to be strong, we need to fight back.”
The same question should be asked of corporate media owners who have almost uniformly bent the knee to the regime, even as journalists have faced attacks from the ICEstapo for trying to document their actions.
The most vivid example comes from Paramount, owner of CBS, the once-fabled Tiffany Network, that hired a center-right opinion journalist with no previous television experience to lead a newsroom and installed a Trump sycophant as ombudsman.
All reporting directly to the new owner, David Ellison, son of billionaire tech magnate and Trump donor Larry Ellison.
Listen to former Wall Street Journal and ProPublica editor Richard Tofel drawing comparisons to opinionated editors of print publications of a bygone era:
“‘…placing Weiss at or near the helm of a television news division makes no more sense than it would have, a generation ago, to have given such a role to William F Buckley of the National Review or Victor Navasky of The Nation.”
But perhaps the most egregious failure on the part of the legacy media is failing to perform Journalism 101 and remind readers, listeners and viewers that the man calling for the jailing of two Democrats elected in free and fair elections is a convicted felon who was found civilly liable for fraud and sexual abuse.
And someone who would have stood trial for purloining classified documents and for his role in fostering a real insurrection if he had not returned to the Oval Office, promising both retribution against his political enemies and an end to inflation.
Hitting .500 in baseball is considered good. Not so when it comes to telling the truth.