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If Trump Can’t Handcuff the Swamp, This Will Do
American Thinker ^ | 12 Aug, 2025 | John Green

Posted on 08/12/2025 4:17:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Justice served is the highest ideal. But we can enjoy a side benefit of swamp creatures’ exposure in the meantime.

The Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton plan to undermine an election is unraveling. Evidence is being revealed. Whistleblowers are coming forward. Bureaucrats are being fired. Criminal referrals are being made. Grand juries are being empaneled. Conspirators are “lawyering up.” The truth is coming out.

Traitorous actors within our own government tried to overthrow a duly elected president, and now the public is learning the details. To call what was done “treasonous” is not hyperbole, but how consequences will be delivered is yet to be determined. I optimistically hope for justice, but I realistically expect something less.

Nobody wants to see the three stooges of Obama’s intelligence community (Jimmy, Jimmy, and Johnny) fitted for orange jumpsuits more than I do. But I no longer have enough faith in our institutions to expect a TDS-afflicted jury of Washington swamp-dwellers, in a trial presided over by an Obama judge, to convict one of their own. But though justice may be elusive, President Trump’s staff is providing something equally important: deterrence.

Either consciously or subconsciously, all criminals are in the risk-reward analysis business. It doesn’t matter if they’re engaged in strong-arm robberies of New York bodegas or violating the civil rights of Americans using the power of the FBI. Criminals all consider whether the rewards of their misbehavior offset the risk of significant punishment.

The craftiest commit crimes with reasonable rewards and minimal risk of punishment, such as shoplifting less than $950 of merchandise from San Francisco retailers. The less astute criminals commit capital crimes, while leaving thousands of pages of evidence in a room at FBI headquarters. That brings me back to our three stooges: former FBI director James Comey, former ODNI director

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1 posted on 08/12/2025 4:17:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I hope these people have trouble sleeping at night.


2 posted on 08/12/2025 4:18:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

What swamp judge is going to allow a fair trial? Is. Swamp jury going to convict anyone?


3 posted on 08/12/2025 4:21:32 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: MtnClimber

Yep.


4 posted on 08/12/2025 4:23:10 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: All

Ehe three stooges of Obama’s treasonous intel operation
financed by Hillary need to be fitted for orange jumpsuits:
<><>The Obama/Hillary Clinton plan to undermine an election is unraveling.
<><>Evidence is being revealed.
<><>Whistleblowers are coming forward.
<><>Bureaucrats are being fired.
<><>Criminal referrals are being made.
<><>Grand juries are being empaneled.
<><>Conspirators are “lawyering up.”
<><>The truth is coming out.

Traitorous actors within our own government tried to overthrow a duly elected president, and now the public is learning the details. To call what was done “treasonous” is not hyperbole, but how consequences will be delivered is yet to be determined.

I optimistically hope for justice, but I realistically expect something less. But I no longer have enough faith in our institutions to expect a TDS-afflicted jury of Washington swamp-dwellers, in a trial presided over by an Obama judge, to convict one of their own.

But though justice may be elusive, President Trump’s staff is providing something equally important: the decided deterrence.


5 posted on 08/12/2025 4:27:49 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish bless ing))
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


6 posted on 08/12/2025 4:31:46 AM PDT by nopardons
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cont

FTA-—Tulsi Gabbard, and John Ratcliffe, have changed the risk/reward calculus —
and hopefully the behavior — of govt miscreants for years to come.

Imagine a career criminal watching an episode of Forensic Files and learning that a new scientific test can link him to past crimes with evidence undetectable to the human eye. He now goes to bed every night wondering if it will be the night his door is shattered by a law enforcement battering ram, and he awakens every morning wondering if the crime for that day is worth the unknowable risks. Even without embracing a new morality, recognition that the future is unknowable causes a bias toward less crime.

Similarly, our taxpayer-funded federal criminals have learned that changing voter sentiment can install a “new sheriff” at any time, and the risks of undermining our republic are far greater than they had judged just six months ago. “Deterrence” isn’t as emotionally satisfying as retribution, but it isn’t nothing, either.


7 posted on 08/12/2025 4:35:46 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish bless ing))
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To: MtnClimber

This is why there’s a Grand Jury in Florida looking at this now. Not one in DC

Raiding Mara Lago opened the door to indict there


8 posted on 08/12/2025 4:38:02 AM PDT by digger48 (Mp)
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To: MtnClimber

I suspected this level of malfeasance from that bunch of scumbags the day that Jeh Johnson got caught red-handed messing with Georgia’s voting system...checking for potential weaknesses, for security reasons, of course. You never know but what the Rooshians might try to interfere in Our Democracy.


9 posted on 08/12/2025 4:39:09 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Liz

“Imagine a career criminal watching an episode of Forensic Files and learning that a new scientific test can link him to past crimes with evidence undetectable to the human eye.”

That’s what happened to that serial killer (Golden State Killer?) in CA. He stopped his years-long killing spree the day he learned about DNA. And DNA is what finally caught him.


10 posted on 08/12/2025 4:41:17 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Deterrence: “Imagine a career criminal watching "Forensic Files" learning that a new
scientific test can link him to past crimes with evidence undetectable to the human eye.”

That’s what happened to that serial killer (Golden State Killer?) in CA. He stopped his years-long killing spree the day he learned about DNA....... And DNA is what finally caught him.

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Nice connection to the new reality.

11 posted on 08/12/2025 4:48:08 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish bless ing))
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t get the “Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy” part


12 posted on 08/12/2025 4:50:00 AM PDT by albie
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To: albie

Make that 2 jimmys and a Johnnie


13 posted on 08/12/2025 4:50:39 AM PDT by albie
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(Jimmy, Jimmy, and Johnny)

Jimmy Comey

Jimmy Clapper

Johnny Brenan

14 posted on 08/12/2025 4:52:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I hope these people have trouble sleeping at night.

Very, very doubtful.

Without a conscience or a soul, anything is possible.

15 posted on 08/12/2025 4:54:02 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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Many criminals never stop until incarcerated or eliminated. Sometimes they band together to form “families”, gangs, political parties or countries. These criminal collectives are the least likely to stop. What force can stop them?


16 posted on 08/12/2025 4:56:22 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Oh duh thank you


17 posted on 08/12/2025 4:56:58 AM PDT by albie
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To: MtnClimber

I saw an X that Brennan left the country.


18 posted on 08/12/2025 5:02:58 AM PDT by roving
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Obama official says Democratic Party ‘afraid of its
own future,’ wants it to embrace “Mamdani strategy”
Fox News ^ | August 11, 2025 | Brian Flood
Posted on 8/11/2025, 8:48:26 PM by nickcarraway

Ben Rhodes points to the “Mamdani strategy”——the Ugandan-born Democratic socialist as “the model” for party’s future direction. Rhodes, a key former Obama administration official, believes Dem Party is “afraid of its own future” and needs to embrace the strategy of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani——an avowed “Democratic socialist.”

Rhodes, who was deputy national security adviser to Kenyan Obama, is perhaps best known
<><>for his advocacy of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal
<><>and has since emerged as a prominent figure in liberal media
<><>he’s a contributor to MSNBC
<><>and co-host of the “Pod Save The World” podcast.
<><>His latest is a NYT op-ed: “How Short-Term Thinking is Destroying America,”
<><>he suggests Dems are reluctant to “stand behind controversial positions that polls well
<><>because cowardly Dems they don’t want to alienate donors.

“Even when presented with Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York — an innovative example of fresh political tactics and policies — many party leaders recoiled. The party seems — quite literally — afraid of its own future,” Rhodes wrote (more at foxnews.com) ...


19 posted on 08/12/2025 5:04:52 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish bless ing))
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To: MtnClimber

Deterrence will be in effect only as long as the Woke left remains out of power. If they ever seize full power again, which could happen as early as January 20, 2029, they will resume their illegal activities immediately, and will do so with a vengeance like we’ve never seen before.


20 posted on 08/12/2025 5:19:58 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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