December 10, 2024

Trump just outfoxed Biden and his corrupt family. Again

President-elect Donald Trump just blew up Joe Biden’s pardon plan.

In an interview that was taped last Frida and aired on Sunday, Trump was asked by “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker whether he would seek retribution against his political enemies, including President Joe Biden. He insisted that vengeance is not his top priority; rather, he said, “I’m really looking to make our country successful.”

Poor President Biden; there goes his hopes of protecting himself and his family from possible prosecution. Let me explain.

Top Democrats have reportedly encouraged the president to grant preemptive blanket pardons to a slew of Trump’s adversaries, including Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and former NIH Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, supposedly to protect them from his wrath. They suggest that the nominations of Kash Patel to head the FBI and Pam Bondi for attorney general endanger the former president’s political foes, and that Trump World is bent on vengeance. Democrat leaders want Biden to protect them with a wave of his pardon wand.

Issuing preemptive pardons is an offensive idea, but also so outlandish that it must be a smokescreen. My guess: Biden hopes to bury pardons of his family members among many others, hoping the public will be so outraged about pardoning, for instance, former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who participated in the J-6 Committee, will not notice Jim or Hallie Biden on the list.

The president has already pardoned his son Hunter, getting him off the hook for misdeeds known and yet unknown. Why not extend the same protections to other family memberswho have been cited by the House Oversight Committee as pocketing money from Hunter’s activities? The more immunities granted, the fewer investigations and the safer Joe Biden himself will be.

Politico, which broke the “blanket pardon” story a few days ago, reported that the proposal was being considered by aides to the president, but had not been condoned by Biden himself. This does not pass the smell test. It is inconceivable that such a controversial idea would be leaked without the president’s approval. Also, the piece notes that even though top Democrats are “lobbying” for a raft of pardons, the potential recipients are not party to the discussions.

They think we are that stupid.

Democrats assume that Trump and his appointees will use the Department of Justice to punish some of the perpetrators of the years-long attacks on him, because that’s what they have done. But here is the truth: Trump supporters – or at least this Trump supporter – don’t want vengeance. We want accountability.

Accountability for Russiagate, the elaborate hoax cooked up by Hillary Clinton’s campaignthat undermined Donald Trump’s first four years in office. We want accountability for the DOJ giving Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton a slap on the wrist for their mishandling of classified documents (remember the boxes next to Joe’s Corvette and Hillary using BleachBit on her laptop?) but indicting Donald Trump for his.

We want someone punished for the cover-up of Joe’s mental decline; punished for allowing a sniper to lie on a roof and almost kill Trump, for the disastrous pull-out from Afghanistan that cost 13 service members their lives, for tens of thousands of fentanyl deaths and for so much more.

In the past, Americans counted on an ambitious press to hold government officials to account for such misdeeds; today, they cannot. Few in the legacy media pursued credible reports of Biden family corruption, even though the infamous laptop (authenticated and held by the FBI for more than a year before the 2020 election) provided plenty of damaging information.

Joe Biden, who corresponded frequently with Hunter’s business partners, dined with his foreign associates and, according to the House Oversight Committee, received direct monthly payments from Hunter’s business entity, Owasco PC, is almost certainly guilty of influence peddling. When the president pardoned his son, he was actually pardoning himself.

The media has not been a reliable agent of accountability; instead, the New York Times, Washington Post, CBS News et al. have operated as wingmen for the Democratic National Committee. Journalist Catherine Herridge has reported that her former bosses at CBS News refused to let her interview Elon Musk live about the Twitter files because they were afraid of what he might say.

Meanwhile, our country’s law enforcement agencies for years have bent in only one direction. While more than 1,100 Trump supporters who protested the 2020 election on January 6 have been rounded up, and over 600 sentenced to prison, there have been few prosecutions for the riots that took place after the murder of George Floyd. There were, despite lies told by Joe Biden, no police fatalities on January 6; four Trump supporters died that day, including Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed female veteran who was shot by a cop with a lengthy disciplinary history and who, two years later, was promoted to captain.

For sure, the recent election provides some accountability. Voters ejected Vice President Kamala Harris from the West Wing, who pretended Biden was sharp as a tack; that is a significant punishment. But what about people like Adam Schiff, who lied repeatedly that he had secret proof of Trump’s supposed ties to Russia? Schiff represents a district in California so blue that his constituents cheer his dishonest wounding of Donald Trump.

Even those few punished for their role in perpetuating the Russia hoax have managed to wriggle free. Remember Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the two former FBI officials who were fired when their text messages showed their political bias against Donald Trump and determination to scuttle his presidency? Earlier this year, they settled lawsuits claiming their privacy rights were violated when the Justice Department revealed their damaging messages; Strzok got a settlement of $1.2 million and Page received $800,000.

It is infuriating that the Left has been winning so many rounds; on November 5 they began what we hope will be a long losing streak. Trump is right: his retribution will be his success.

I cannot wait.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-trump-just-outfoxed-biden-his-corrupt-family-again

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Liz Peek

6 hours ago

My Morning Rant:
I am alternately peeved and sympathetic with Chip Roy, Ralph Norman and the others who torpedoed Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. But after reading the fine print this morning and realizing that reforms to Medicaid don’t kick in until 2029 !!!! I am disgusted. I get that states need some time to adjust to a change in rules regarding Medicaid eligibility – maybe a year or 18 months — but do they really need four years? No, they do not. The extended timeframe is an obvious play to put political repercussions off until after the midterms. Legislators from swing districts fear losing their seats because able-bodied adults lose their free ride. They want to put off any change as long as possible.
On the other hand, those vulnerable legislators will almost certainly get canned if the 2017 tax cuts don’t get extended and Trump’s agenda crashes. We need both to get the bill passed, and to make it tougher.
The conservatives calling for bigger spending cuts are completely correct. Just ask Moody’s, which in recent days downgraded U.S. debt. Imagine, the United States of America has lost its triple-A status. (The other two major ratings agencies had already made this downgrade.) This would be a wake-up call except that most of our country is asleep, lulled into a false sense of complacency by hours spent on Tik-Tok or watching the NFL. We all need downtime, for sure, but we also need to pay attention to what’s happening with our country’s fiscal outlook. It isn’t good. Even the Fed, no friend to the Trump administration or to fiscal austerity, has announced it will cut staff and overhead. Of course, why the Fed has a headcount of 24,000 is a mystery. How can they employ so many people and still get it wrong most of the time? This is the group that never spoke out against Biden’s reckless spending; it’s quite the switch.
Simply put, the country endorsed a huge surge in government spending to compensate for the wrong-headed directives during Covid that shut down schools, businesses and churches. The government under Trump wanted to keep Americans employed and the economy ready to rebound, which it did. Biden kept the spending at max level, refusing to let a crisis go to waste. Democrats in Congress and the Fed went along, spurring the highest inflation in decades.
Now we have to go back to the trend-line pre-Covid spending; the bill on the table doesn’t do that. Republicans must do better if they want to keep the majority. … See MoreSee Less

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Right on, as usual! Thanks for all your clear-headed messages.

We need a balanced budget amendment! Deficit spending needs to end!

Liz Peek Well written, my friend!

Nailed it

Just sick of BOTH parties. Neither are there for the Working Americans. BOTH parties responsible for the theft going on. Repubs should have read the bills that gave away money..

Convention of States is looking better everyday.

Honestly you should be somewhere in Trumps administration Liz.. Just sayin

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What happened to DOGE???
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DOGE isn’t meeting its goals — you can thank the political establishment

DOGE chief has been thwarted at every turn — by judges, Democrats and their media allies, even Republicans.

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The Uniparty doesn't want their gravy train turned over.

Democrats are Americas virus.

3 days ago

My Morning Rant:
John Hawley, Senator from Missouri, is out with a blistering attack on Republicans in Congress who want to “cut” Medicaid spending. He declares those in favor of Medicaid reforms contained in the House bill “a noisy contingent of corporatist Republicans — call it the party’s Wall Street wing” who are not on board with working-class Americans and who want to “build our big, beautiful bill around slashing health insurance for the working poor”. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opinion/josh-hawley-dont-cut-medicaid.html
What rot. Working Americans of all classes are sick and tired of an ever-growing amount of their hard-earned taxes going to fund those who are not working. This is not a Wall Street issue- it’s a fairness issue. Though some groups say most Medicaid recipients are working, that is not true. A study by AEI showed that “In December 2022, 44 percent of non-disabled working age Medicaid recipients without children worked at least 80 hours” per month, compared to 72% not receiving Medicaid. Focusing on “prime working ages of 25 to 54, the share working at least 80 hours was 51 percent among Medicaid recipients and 84 percent among non-Medicaid recipients.” So why would 49% not be working?
Here’s the problem: the Medicaid changes that GOP legislators want to make don’t target “the working poor”, they target able-bodied men and women who are not working, and who historically would not have qualified for Medicaid benefits. Only when Obama rescinded the work requirements for Medicaid did the program blow up entirely and become the drain on the fiscal purse that we see today. As he states in his op-ed, Hawley’s problem is this: “Today [Medicaid] serves over 70 million Americans, including well over one million residents of Missouri, the state I represent.” Hawley, who was elected last fall by a 14-point margin, fears he’ll lose ground with those million recipients if he embraces fiscal common sense. Or maybe he fears losing the support of healthcare professionals, who donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign. www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/josh-hawley/summary?cid=N00041620
Our country has seen a long-term decline in able-bodied men working. The labor participation rate for that group is 89.1% which sounds high until you realize that it was 97.1% in 1960. That’s a huge slide, with troubling implications for U.S. productivity. If you believe, as I do, that work is healthy, it is also bad news for the individuals who are, at least in some cases, gaming the system.
Instead of railing about sincere efforts to reform an out-of-control entitlement, why doesn’t Hawley turn his attentions to improving job opportunities and training in his state? Or attracting more employers? And, where are his ideas for cutting federal spending, which is too high and which is hurting our nation? Some $50 billion in Medicaid outlays funds fraud or constitutes “improper payments.” What is Hawley doing to confront that?
Maybe I would be more impressed with his arguments but for his having published his screed in the New York Times- is that the most efficient way to speak to working-class Americans? Bernie Sanders probably thinks so, and so does Josh Hawley. … See MoreSee Less

Sen. Josh Hawley – Campaign Finance Summary

Fundraising profile for Sen. Josh Hawley – Missouri

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We have to end the idea that working for McDonalds at the counter is the end game career wise. It’s what you do in high school and college to pay your bills. If you want to be in that industry, you need to think manager then owner as that is the career.

Uniparty in action. They are there to Take money, not help The People.

Trump just outfoxed Biden and his corrupt family. Again

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