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Do Any Republicans Really Think a President DeSantis Won’t Get Impeached Or Framed By The FBI?
The Federalist ^ | 06/15/2023 | Joy Pullmann

Posted on 06/15/2023 8:46:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

After these last seven years, it’s obvious any politician who questions the Congress-defying security state will get the Trump treatment.

Anyone who has been watching for seven years — and counting — has seen the nation’s top Republican politician framed, impeached, raided, prosecuted, and now indicted by corrupt spy agencies on behalf of the Democrat Party. Their goal is to send their top political opponent to prison on charges they said were fascist to bring against their own presidential candidates.

After these last seven years, how can anyone not expect that any Republican who questions the unelected, Congress-defying security state won’t get the Trump treatment? If they can and will do it to Trump, they can and will do it to Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Robert Kennedy Jr., and anyone else who threatens their power. (Clueless candidates like Mike Pence and Nikki Haley don’t.)

Remember, even ineffective, regime-pleasing nice guys Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were cast as a dog torturer and grandma murderer. But standard media smear operations pale in comparison to media functioning as a security state propaganda tool to frame dissidents for treason.

Any Republicans who think the security state wouldn’t frame others the same way it has Trump are in denial about the evidence repeatedly stampeded across their eyeballs for seven years. This means if D.C. Republicans want any president but Trump, their only ticket to that outcome is fighting back good and hard against his relentless persecution.

If the law is not equally applied to all, it turns into a weapon for injustice. If the powerful can break constitutional norms about legal equality for one man, they can — and will — break constitutional norms about legal equality for anyone else they want.

The Trump Treatment Is Already Spreading

We’re already seeing this lawless weaponization of government bleed past Trump. The security state has also targeted Republican senators who have gotten a little too close to its corruption, Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, and lower-profile Republicans like former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry. DeSantis has also started to get the Trump treatment with a Texas sheriff’s attempt to bring criminal charges over DeSantis’ lawful removal of illegal border-crossers.

Don’t forget, either, the FBI and DOJ entrapment of Mike Flynn, raid on pro-life dad Mark Houck, jailing of a pro-Trump meme creator, lawless allowance of violent mobs to pressure Supreme Court justices, pressuring of social media giants to help rig elections, unhinged pursuit of people accused of misdemeanors on Jan. 6, targeting of parents as “domestic terrorists” for protesting at school board meetings, and apparent spying on churches as hotbeds of anti-regime messaging.

Atop all these, how can anyone forget the lessons of Spygate, the bulk of the security-state iceberg we’re currently able to see? Spygate is an extremely dense saga, partly because of how many powerful institutions worked together to frame Trump as a Russian traitor to conceal evidence of Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden’s own traitorous activities.

It took seven years to even get an accounting from a special counsel who brought zero accountability. In the meantime, a few dogged reporters — led by The Federalist — steadfastly blew away Democrats’ deep haze of lies. For a quick Spygate summary, here’s John Yoo and Robert Delahunty:

In 2016, the Hillary Clinton campaign fabricated false reports of ‘collusion’ between Trump and Russia and spread them to a sympathetic law enforcement and national security bureaucracy.

The ‘Russia hoax’ sparked a special counsel investigation that paralyzed the Trump White House for two years. The recent Durham Report fingered political bias by high FBI officials as the culprit.

Here’s a good place for more background on this credibility-killing operation from the federal agencies still cooperating to jail the nation’s top Republican. Spygate was intelligence agency election interference that boosted Democrats for two presidential election cycles, and now possibly a third.

This is what Democrats and U.S. security agencies are willing to do to get their way.

A Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations

Many more such operations occurred in the Trump era, probably many of them unknown. While the DOJ and FBI are obviously among the worst actors, they’re in plentiful company. Recall also the “Resistance” that involved insubordinate federal employees across all agencies working to thwart the policies of their constitutionally designated, democratically elected boss.

Here’s another: Several brazen, court martial-worthy acts by one of America’s top generals, Mark Milley. During Trump’s presidency, he secretly told Chinese officials he’d warn them if Trump ordered a strike on America’s chief foreign adversary.

According to Grassley and Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., Milley also “reportedly ordered senior officers to check with him before executing orders from then-President Trump.” The woke general who pushed Marxism on American troops also worked to prevent the president from repulsing nationwide rioting by Marxist agitators and pulling U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The inspector general has inexplicably declined to even investigate Milley despite such widely reported treasonous interference with the policies of the constitutionally appointed commander in chief.

Any future Republican president — and increasingly governors and senators — can look forward to similar behavior from an American bureaucracy that has come entirely unmoored from constitutional restrictions on their actions.

Indictment Is the Same Play as Spygate

After its successful 2016 election interference operation, the institutionally corrupt FBI interfered in the 2020 election by leaking about Hunter Biden’s laptop to boost Democrats’ false claim it was “Russian disinformation.” Since then, it is becoming more apparent the FBI wasn’t so much investigating the laptop as burying it, as it appears to be doing with other evidence of Biden corruption that endangers U.S. national security.

In their indictment this week, the DOJ’s special counsel boasted of “audio recordings of Trump appearing to confirm he’d retained a document he failed to declassify as president.” The same agency hid from elected lawmakers evidence about audio recordings of Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly taking $10 million in bribes from Ukranians.

Prosecutors also claimed Trump’s documents include major national security information, like nuclear secrets. How convenient that these documents are allegedly classified information that nobody can see. Regardless, “the president and the president alone decides what is a presidential record and what isn’t. He may take with him whatever records he chooses at the end of his term.”

Beyond that, Trump has been falsely accused of being dangerous with nuclear information so many times, anyone accepting this wild claim without good, hard, complete evidence is either a propagandist or an idiot. Remember how the security state’s narrative, formed by selective leaks about Trump’s call with Ukraine, was disproven by Trump releasing the transcript of the call? Of course, that didn’t stop Democrats from impeaching Trump while hiding key evidence and structuring the impeachment to make Democrat leaks the only way for information to get out.

As Grassley recently pointed out, deceptive leaks are now DOJ and FBI standard operating procedure. They constantly leak information out of context to form false narratives that benefit Democrats. That’s called disinformation and misinformation. It’s election interference, it’s authoritarian, it’s illegal, and it’s accelerating.

DOJ and FBI employees use misleading leaks to corporate media to legitimize their pursuit of jailing their top political opponent, like tyrannies from East Germany to Venezuela. No one can trust a word these agencies emit. They are staffed with hardened liars for whom facts stripped of context are weapons of power, not truth.

End Abuses of Power with Legitimate Uses of Power

It’s willfully blind to disregard this overwhelming evidence to presume any Republican who pushes what the party’s voters want will not receive the Trump treatment. There’s so much evidence, it’s impossible to fit it into even a long article. This hasn’t even touched on the Fulton County, Georgia prosecution of Trump that looks like a coverup of gross election abuses there, Trump’s ridiculous indictment from New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the FBI’s multiple coverups for Hillary Clinton established in the recent special counsel report, the FBI’s retaliation against whistleblowers, and lots more.

This is not about Trump himself. It’s about the voters he represents. As my colleague Jordan Boyd notes, “The left’s short-term goal may be hampering the right’s chances in the next presidential election, but the long-term goal was always to outlaw the ideological platform that made this new GOP competitive in the first place.” That’s why the tyrannical tactics used against him will expand — unless those who deploy such tactics are held legally accountable by something a lot stronger than no-consequence reports and made-for-TV hearings.

The first thing this unprosecuted history of institutionalized crime ought to teach is that the people willing to do things like this will do anything they can get away with. The second is that they must not get away with it. That’s not going to happen unless others in power stop these systemic abuses by applying their rightful authority. It will take a long time, and it will happen to a lot more Republicans on the way.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deepstate; desantis; docsgate; fbi; fbiakastasi; fedmob; framing; impeachment; trump; trumptreatment
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To: SeekAndFind

They will certainly try, but DeSantis has a very capable group of people in Tallahassee that he can take with him to DC. He won’t need to hire swamp creatures like Trump did. As for the swamp, if DeSantis is ready to fire agency heads on his first day, he has a chance.


41 posted on 06/16/2023 5:01:52 AM PDT by elenvee ("...against all enemies, foreign and domestic..")
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To: SeekAndFind
No, I don't think he'll have any problems. They'll say "okay, this is the way it is" and he'll say "yes it is".

Seriously he's been in politics nearly his entire life. He knows what the rules are.

42 posted on 06/16/2023 5:05:17 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Alberta's Child

A JAG officer gets a bronze star by deploying to Fallujah with Seal Team 1. And you won’t get the details because it was Specops and none of our business. I was an Intel officer and I have a medal where the write-up just says “classified operations.” A bunch of glowing verbiage, but absolutely no detail. Same reason.


43 posted on 06/16/2023 5:07:35 AM PDT by elenvee ("...against all enemies, foreign and domestic..")
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To: SeekAndFind

“Do Any Republicans Really Think a President DeSantis Won’t Get Impeached Or Framed By The FBI?”

First of all, the FBI can’t ‘impeach’ anyone.
Second, only the House of Representatives has the power to ‘impeach’.
Third, if Republicans control the House, there will be no impeachment of DeSantis or Trump or my dog.


44 posted on 06/16/2023 5:07:40 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: Theophilus

What would you call that clown show with the microphone at the OK rodeo? That was idiotic.


45 posted on 06/16/2023 5:12:49 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Alberta's Child

Oh, that info will be forthcoming one of these days.


46 posted on 06/16/2023 5:14:14 AM PDT by dforest
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To: SeekAndFind

Joy is stupid

Her piece is journo malware


47 posted on 06/16/2023 5:16:15 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: elenvee

The swamp creatures already own the Meatball. He can drag Zelensky’s hand maiden to DC to push neocon wars.


48 posted on 06/16/2023 5:16:17 AM PDT by dforest
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To: SeekAndFind

“Do Any Republicans Really Think a President DeSantis Won’t Get Impeached Or Framed By The FBI?”

I don’t think he’ll be impeached or framed. Either (1) he’s one of them, and/or (2) he’ll be happy to play their game and take their money.


49 posted on 06/16/2023 5:16:29 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: SeekAndFind

There is never going to be a President Desantis so why speculate?


50 posted on 06/16/2023 5:17:06 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: elenvee
Color me skeptical. The guy was a lawyer, not a Navy SEAL.

When they use the term “throw the book at him” in court, they’re not talking about launching a copy of the UCMJ at the enemy.

51 posted on 06/16/2023 5:21:39 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: devere

Assuming he gets the nomination, he has to convince millions of Trump supporters (assuming DJT does not have a natural cause incident or voluntarily takes himself out of the race) to show up and vote for him. That plus the rigging/fraud will keep him out of the WH.

That aside, even being out of the WH, he can still get framed by the deep state .... ask the former IL gubnar Blago.


52 posted on 06/16/2023 5:22:06 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: SeekAndFind

If DeSantus is Deep State, then Deep State won’t need to do either.


53 posted on 06/16/2023 5:22:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: dforest
I don't have time to pay attention to that crap.

FJB


54 posted on 06/16/2023 5:30:31 AM PDT by Theophilus (flush the alphabet soup!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The FBI will do whatever it wants until they are defunded and rebuilt to a new American Standard.


55 posted on 06/16/2023 5:48:05 AM PDT by chopperk ( C)
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To: GunRunner

Not sure. Trump blew through appointees and staff at lightning speed. Maybe if DeSantis makes better appointments and really does choose outsiders for his inner circle and Cabinet.
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Too hard on Trump. He was inexperienced then (but not now), and he had a bad Senate.


56 posted on 06/16/2023 7:15:44 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: nickcarraway

But they let trump?


57 posted on 06/16/2023 7:37:49 AM PDT by DrewsMum
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To: tired&retired

Evidence?


58 posted on 06/16/2023 7:38:03 AM PDT by DrewsMum
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To: Responsibility2nd

But it’s not true


59 posted on 06/16/2023 7:38:32 AM PDT by DrewsMum
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To: proust

*****More “why bother voting?” demoralization. A democrat couldn’t say it better*****

Bingo


60 posted on 06/16/2023 7:40:10 AM PDT by DrewsMum
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