DOJ Strikes Back

https://tinyurl.com/2p85wb2j

The link is to the DOJ’s formal response to Trump’s filing for the appointment of a Special Master and other relief. In addition to compelling legal arguments – raising questions about the basic competence of Trump’s lawyers – it also includes a detailed timeline of events which makes for very interesting reading. It addresses and rebuts the lies being spread in defense of Trump’s behavior on many points.

For example, when government agents visited Mar-a-Lago to collect subpoenaed material they were explicitly denied permission to look inside any of the boxes held in the storage closet. So much for “full access” as some here have claimed.

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the Covid Origins Cover-Up

Source: The Unz Review.

Covid-19 origin stories have been a touchy subject since the very beginning of the pandemic. To even suspect that the virus is manmade, possibly even the product of bioweapons research, has been to invite ridicule. That began to change last May when Jeffrey Sachs published a paper in PNAS calling for an investigation into the true source of the virus.

The article contains links and background.

The Truth Begins to Trickle Out

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/30/trump-officials-books-covid-kushner-birx/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_politics

The Trump administration was “… an administration uniquely unsuited to meet the demands of a pandemic.”

That has to be the understatement of the year!

Even I was surprised to learn that Trump lied about having tested positive for COVID when he met with Chris Christie to prepare for the Presidential debates. He gave Christie the virus and then, true to form, blamed Christie for having given him the virus.

Trump attacking our nation’s librarians.

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/28/national-archives-trump-search-threat

Honestly, is there nothing he won’t threaten?
“…They could have had it anytime they wanted—and that includes LONG ago. ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK. The bigger problem is, what are they going to do with the 33 million pages of documents, many of which are classified, that President Obama took to Chicago?”

Truth Social post.

We know he is lying because there are records of letters, emails, phone calls, subpoenas asking, begging, over and over for more than a year. But his MAGA folks got the message and now our nations archivists are under threat. I guess if America plays along he will “turn down the heat”. If we beg hard enough, perhaps.

Extortion by any other name is still extortion.

Biden Willing To Take Food From Needy Children To Advance Gender Identity Agenda

Source: Kerry: Unemployed and Unedited.

I am not entirely opposed to the federal government using its purse strings to influence the behavior of states. For example, I am in favor of de-allocating federal funding for states that allow various forms of “sanctuary city” to declare themselves within their jurisdictions. But starving children to force schools to promote weird sexual philosophies doesn’t meet my standard of acceptable federal action.

To my mind, federal extortion of the states may be acceptable when the objective is consistent with some explicable national interest and some demonstrable consensus of the public. A two part test. I do not believe that gender-identity politics meets that standard.

It seems very clear to me that Joe Biden and his clan don’t care about anyone but themselves.