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Team Trump’s legal arguments veering into paranoid kook-land (NeverTrumper Alert)
NY Post ^ | 11/27/2020 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 11/28/2020 12:51:46 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

Sen. Joseph McCarthy liked to insist he had evidence of Communists in the government, but he couldn’t show you the names right now. The number of Communist infiltrators on his secret list changed from speech to speech.

Listening to President Trump’s legal team claim over and over again that they have voluminous evidence that the election was stolen, it occurred to me that we’re in a kind of repeat McCarthy era. Only this time, to borrow from that old-school Communist Karl Marx, history is repeating itself not as tragedy but as farce.

Take Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor who became a right-wing darling as the lawyer for Michael Flynn, Trump’s 24-day national-security adviser. Trump repeatedly touted her as a member of his elite legal team, a group nicknamed Strike Force.

Powell has hinted darkly that a state-of-the-art computer hacking program masterminded by the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez was used to hand the election to Biden, with the help of Cuba, George Soros, “likely” China and other “Communistic” forces. Powell subscribes to the view, pushed by pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood, that the outgoing president actually got 70 percent of the popular vote and 400 Electoral College votes.

To Powell’s credit, she actually provided some “evidence” for this: a meandering affidavit from an anonymous whistleblower who begins his or her fevered meanderings, “I am an adult of sound mine.” No wonder Powell hasn’t released any more evidence.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crackpotken; jonahgoldberg; nevertrump; nevertrumpers; somuchwinning; stoppostingnypost; trimpwillwinbro
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To: bagster

To be sure. Goldberg forgets his publications’s institutional history: Whitaker Chambers, long associated with National Review, proved the communist conspiracy and exposed Alger Hiss.


41 posted on 11/28/2020 5:44:43 AM PST by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole; you had so much to offer, did you offer your soul?)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Why would NY Post publish anything Jonah Goldberg writes.

He is just a self-aggrandizing Trump-hater who never veers from his disgusting message.


42 posted on 11/28/2020 6:22:10 AM PST by detch (")
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To: Spirochete

“Communist plots to take over government and co-opt instiutions were once dismissed as paranoid kookery. “

I guess the John Birch Society and Joseph McCarthy were right after all.


43 posted on 11/28/2020 6:27:27 AM PST by dljordan
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Goldberg is scum. It turns out that McCarthy was right all along, there were and still are communists within our government. Sidney Powell maybe will be smeared and attacked today and may lose her case, but she will be vindicated by history. Goldberg is just another bodyguard for the lies of the neo-cons, Never Trumpers, and the Media-Dem Party.


44 posted on 11/28/2020 6:31:04 AM PST by euram
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Jonah Goldberg is a die hard never Trumper on the order of George Will. Neither of them being particularly deep thinkers.


45 posted on 11/28/2020 6:50:07 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Either this guy is so insane that he cannot function in reality, or he is a wackadoodle propaganda writer with three whole faithful readers.

You have to be brain dead to actually pay for tripe stories like this to bolster your world view.

Reality does not care if you whistle in the dark.


46 posted on 11/28/2020 7:26:50 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Nice try asshole, now try reading the complaint before you write again. You and your scumbag NeverTrump pals are finished and there are only some many spots on the NYP staff. Try Fox - they’d love you. You and Fats Conway could do a nightly show interviewing each other.


47 posted on 11/28/2020 8:23:53 AM PST by jmaroneps37
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

““I am an adult of sound mine.””

OMG! It’s the TYPOS!

Never mind about the illegal vote manufacturing, stealing, and swapping, A witness signed an affidavit with a “TYPO” on it!

THROW IT OUT AND OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

FUJG


48 posted on 11/28/2020 8:55:25 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: A_perfect_lady

Yes, she was good. I used to like Rob Long’s column too.


49 posted on 11/28/2020 9:31:19 AM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Goldburg also appears in NR.


50 posted on 11/28/2020 9:31:57 AM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

“Sen. Joseph McCarthy liked to insist he had evidence of Communists in the government, but he couldn’t show you the names right now. The number of Communist infiltrators on his secret list changed from speech to speech.”


Well now: That describes Adam Schiff and his “indisputable evidence” he’d seen but could never produce.

Goldberg’s a nut.


51 posted on 11/29/2020 6:48:44 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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