If Jack Smith’s Goons Don’t Pay For Their Crimes, Innocent Americans Will
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All Americans will bear the brunt of elected officials’ failure to justly punish Jack Smith and others who weaponized the federal government against conservatives.
In exposing Jack Smith’s lawless, corrupt, and tyrannical effort to criminalize the MAGA movement, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed jarring new details about the extent of the Jan. 6-justified lawfare campaign.
Smith’s partisan team carried out a fishing expedition on behalf of the Biden administration and Democrat Party that went beyond obtaining the text messages of more than 40 members of Congress despite the weaponizers knowing it likely violated the Constitution’s speech and debate clause. It also encompassed the issuance of some 197 subpoenas for records relating to 430 Republican individuals and organizations, or the collection of nearly 5,000 checks from mainly small-dollar Trump donors. But on top of all that, Grassley divulged that Smith’s sleuths secured messages from 87 Trump I White House phones and hoovered up the communications of nearly 50 media members at well over a dozen outlets, including those of The Federalist’s own Mollie Hemingway.
It is as unsurprising as it is depressing that legacy media outlets have been silent on Smith’s overreach, even though employees of those outlets had their messages pilfered by zealous FBI and DOJ officials, operating as hitmen for one political party in its effort to eliminate the other political party. The same is true of the fact that the journalists silent today over this brazen operation were yesterday screaming bloody murder that the Trump administration revoked the privileged White House access of their leftist apparatchik colleagues.
They’re silent because the Democrat mouthpieces who dominate the media and cry crocodile tears for “freedom of the press” believe that efforts to destroy Republicans are righteous and just, and the ends justify the means — freedom be damned.
A bigger problem than the hypocritical and hyper-partisan nature of the Fourth Estate is the reality that the Biden administration’s Soviet-style assault on political dissenters has done catastrophic damage. It is not clear where the victims can or will go for recompense, nor that the aggressors will face justice for their depredations — guaranteeing worse abuses are to come.
Consider the chilling implications of this operation given The Federalist’s experience. This publication has been a dogged critic of America’s ruling class, regularly features ideas and policies that threaten its power and privilege, and has exposed some of our betters’ greatest scandals — most notably with our award-winning coverage of the Russiagate hoax, led by none other than our targeted editor-in-chief.
Apparently, because of The Federalist’s effectiveness, along with its presentation of information and opinion that authorities find inconvenient and imperiling, the Biden administration-led censorship-industrial complex targeted us. Now, it just so happens, the Biden FBI and DOJ snooped on our editor-in-chief too.
What are the takeaways from this experience?