A Hollow Kind of Freedom

If you haven’t figured it out yet, you are the final check in our Constitution’s checks and balances. Get up, there’s work to do!

by Max Morton for American Greatness

Earlier this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a pre-dawn raid on the home of James O’Keefe, the founder of the investigative journalism organization Project Veritas. The FBI was reportedly searching for a diary allegedly stolen from Ashley Biden, daughter of Joe Biden. The diary, which up until that point had not been authenticated, reportedly contained allegations of sexual improprieties within, and among, the Biden family. 

Project Veritas had received the diary from an unknown source. After unsuccessfully attempting to authenticate the document, the organization decided not to report on the contents, subsequently turning the diary over to the police. At 6 a.m. on Saturday, November 6, the FBI raided O’Keefe’s home, handcuffed him in his underwear, and seized his cell phones and other electronic media. Less than a week later, the FBI leaked the contents of O’Keefe’s electronic devices to the New York Times, which is a defendant in an already existing defamation lawsuit brought by O’Keefe and Project Veritas.

Exactly why the FBI felt the need to conduct a pre-dawn raid on a journalist, then leak the contents of the material it seized, is unknown. O’Keefe was fully cooperating with law enforcement regarding the diary and was not a threat or a suspect in a crime. Instead, the predawn raid appears to be a blatant effort at intimidation and harassment of an investigative journalist who has repeatedly exposed the corruption of Washington’s ruling class. The raid violated O’Keefe’s First and Fourth Amendment rights and sent a strong signal to other journalists that crossing the Biden regime will have undesirable consequences.

Separately, in the ongoing saga of the January 6 political prisoners, on November 2 the U.S. Marshals Service said it would remove 400 federal inmates from the Washington, D.C. jail after a surprise inspection revealed the jail did not meet minimum correctional facility standards. These January 6 prisoners are in pre-trial confinement for misdemeanor charges—held without bail on the basis of their political affiliation. In some cases, prosecutors have claimed they are a threat to public safety because they are veterans of the U.S. armed forces. (Let that sink in—because they are veterans who served this country, they are being denied their constitutional rights.) 

The U.S. Marshals and civil rights attorneys are now conducting a review of D.C. jail operations after District Judge Royce Lamberth referred the January 6 prisoners’ treatment to the Justice Department for a civil rights investigation. Earlier in October, Lamberth had placed top officials in the U.S. Department of Corrections in contempt for routinely violating the rights of the January 6 prisoners. Lamberth accused the officials of denying medical care to the prisoners and preventing them from meeting with their attorneys or reviewing legal discovery documents. The January 6 prisoners have claimed brutal treatment from D.C. jail corrections officers to include beatings, withholding food and water, and punitive solitary confinement. 

Last week, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal court injunction against Biden’s vaccine mandate. Biden’s original vaccine mandate covering businesses with over 100 employees was the subject of a temporary injunction after Attorneys General from Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah challenged the statutory and constitutional legitimacy of the mandate. Following the injunction, Biden ordered businesses to ignore the court order and proceed with the mandate or face heavy fines. The decision of the court to uphold the original injunction was an emphatic rejection of the Biden Administration’s extra-constitutional orders. 

Out of Bounds

So, what do these three issues have in common that should concern every American? They are each bold demonstrations of an executive branch operating outside the boundaries of the Constitution. In other words, outside the law. The Constitution’s deliberate inclusion of a system of checks and balances was meant to protect citizens in cases precisely such as these, where rogue individuals and institutions operate under the color of law. 

The checks envisioned in the Constitution—inherent in the powers of the judicial, executive and legislative branches—were not delegated a specific enforcement mechanism beyond that branch’s enumerated powers. Instead they were designed for good-faith compliance by the various branches when the actions of one were determined to be unacceptable by another. If, say, the executive branch decides to ignore the decisions of the judicial branch or the bills and language of the legislative branch, there is no arbiter or mechanism to make the executive branch comply with the Constitution . . . other than the people. The citizen is the ultimate arbiter in any conflict or malfeasance by the three branches of government.

In America today, the various branches of our government often operate outside the boundaries designated in the Constitution. The executive branch is especially egregious in its assault on the constitutional rights of citizens. The president cannot legally choose to ignore the decisions of the judicial branch, or dictate who is allowed to work or receive healthcare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cannot dictate to Americans what they can or cannot do for Thanksgiving or Christmas. The Department of Justice cannot unilaterally decide to re-interpret the Bill of Rights and kick down your door because you are a scary veteran or you oppose your children being masked and indoctrinated into critical race theory. 

The investigative and subpoena powers of the legislative branch exist only for the purpose of conducting its enumerated responsibilities of executive oversight and legislative action. Congress does not have the authority to conduct criminal investigations or other fact-finding activities. It does not have the authority to subpoena the phone records, personal effects and documents of individual citizens and organizations not involved in activity subject to its oversight authority. The January 6 commission does not have the authority to investigate criminal activity under a pretext of legislative or oversight activity. 

The judicial branch does not make the law, nor is it authorized to inject its interpretations into existing law in order to fundamentally change its original intent. There is no constitutional clause to support the judicial activism in Neal Gorsuch’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County. 

Off Track on Purpose

These things are all happening now or have happened in the recent past. The danger here is that we now have a government run by and for the ruling class. For all those wondering how things in America got so far off track, it is because the ruling class is no longer interested in what ordinary Americans think or want. The political elites are not worried about answering to the voters because they don’t intend to ever have to do that again. 

The misery index in America is climbing, but the elite don’t care because they can afford to pay for $6-a-gallon gas, send their kids to private schools, and hire private security. The Whole Foods store where they shop will always have an ample supply of produce, milk, and the best cuts of meat. They don’t have to worry that the FBI will kick in their doors at 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning or that they will be held in pretrial solitary confinement for misdemeanor charges. They won’t ever have to live by the rules they intend to force on you. 

The average American is living under an illusion—a hollow kind of freedom that collapses under the slightest pressure. What has happened to America, though, is partially our fault. We helped make this mess by failing our basic citizen oversight responsibilities. We kept electing the worst and expecting the best for our representation. 

Now it’s time to wake up, stand up, and take our country back. Quit electing candidates you know are lying to you. Stop putting people in leadership positions when they have absolutely no clue what you and the rest of working-class America have to deal with on a daily basis. Find some quality leaders who have proven themselves in other professions—in real jobs, not beltway consultancies—and put them in places where they can make a difference. Soldiers, cops, truck drivers, nurses, warehouse managers, whoever has that required leadership experience, get them into office or into institutions that impact our traditional way of life. If we don’t, we can expect the continued downward spiral of our way of life and the upward tick of the misery index. 

If you haven’t figured it out yet, you are the final check in our Constitution’s checks and balances. Get up, there’s work to do!

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Kyle Rittenhouse Is America

If the Left succeeds in destroying this young man’s life, it will be cruel testimony to the degree to which their lies, their cynicism, and their sordid values have won the day.

by Bruce Bawer for American Greatness

Like many others, I’ve spent a lot of time lately watching the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, and reading comments about it from people who obviously haven’t been watching it. They don’t think they need to watch it, because they’re getting reports about it from the corporate news. 

What they’ve learned from these reports, briefly put, is that Rittenhouse is a white supremacist who, desperate to take innocent lives, transported a deadly weapon across state lines, to a city he had no business being in, and ended up shooting three black people in cold blood. 

“There is proof he is part of [a] right-wing extremist group and wanted to go kill people not protect places,” somebody close to me asserted on social media. Rittenhouse’s mother “drove him across state lines” so he could “join a militia . . . group of vigilantes.” And so on. All, apparently, based on news stories in the mainstream media. 

Those of us who’ve watched the trial have a different set of facts: This is a young man who worked in Kenosha and lived just outside of it. It was his town in the way that New York is your town if you live in Hoboken and commute across the river. There’s no evidence he belonged to a militia, a vigilante group, or any kind of right-wing organization.

He went into Kenosha in the middle of a summer of hate because he wanted to help protect people and property from the real extremists, the real makers of mayhem. His gun was already there. He had every right to own it and carry it. 

Meanwhile, all over the country, spoiled, irresponsible, psychopathic young people were committing every imaginable variety of crime—acts of assault and battery, vandalism, and arson. Homes and businesses were being wantonly destroyed. 

And it was all being done in the name of a big lie—namely, that harmless black people were being murdered in massive numbers by racist police officers. In Kenosha, the crime that Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters were supposedly reacting to was the shooting of Jacob Blake. 

On August 23 of last year, Blake’s ex-girlfriend, who had taken out a restraining order on him after he’d sexually assaulted her multiple times, called 911 to report that Blake, who had a warrant out for his arrest, had assaulted her again. When the police arrived, they found him in his car with three of his six young children, whom he’d taken from his ex’s home. 

The police tried to arrest him but he resisted violently. They drew their guns, but instead of cooperating with them, he stepped out of the car, walked around it, and reached into a car window, apparently for the knife that was later found there. When one of the officers shouted, “Drop the knife!” Blake continued to resist, whereupon the officer shot him. He survived but was left partially paralyzed from the waist down. 

For a week, Kenosha was engulfed in riots sparked by the Blake shooting. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, instead of standing up for law and order, sent a pathetically small contingent of National Guard members to Kenosha, and meanwhile parroted the BLM line that Blake was a martyr, that the cop who’d shot him was guilty of police brutality, and that the rioters were justified in their rage. 

The corporate media, too, parroted this line. And millions of Americans believed it. 

Many of us have long since learned not to trust the corporate news, but millions still do. It’s impossible to try to talk sense to these people. If you tell them that the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN are all liars, telling the same lies, how can you expect them to believe you? 

Which brings us to Kyle Rittenhouse and the events of August 26, three days after the shooting of Jacob Blake. 

I wasn’t going to write about Rittenhouse. I have no special knowledge about the case. And I figured that a lot of people were going to be out there, saying pretty much what I have to say. But ultimately I decided that it was better to have too many people standing up for Rittenhouse than too few. 

One of those who’ve stood up impressively is Peachy Keenan, who on November 15, in the American Mind, declared unequivocally: “I stand with Kyle Rittenhouse. He is plainly innocent of murder.” Recalling the ritual torture of innocent children in primitive civilizations, Keenan noted that today’s “bankrupt elites” are out to make a similar sacrifice of this “boy with a good and noble heart.” 

Indeed. Many of those who’ve condemned the prosecution of Rittenhouse have nonetheless qualified their remarks by adding, “Well, of course he had no business being there.” How ridiculous, some of them say, for a 17-year-old child to interfere in such a situation!  

Do they forget that 17-year-olds can enlist in the U.S. military? That we’ve sent 17-year-olds to fight on our behalf in highly dangerous places on the other side of the globe? 

Why, then, is it so outrageous for Rittenhouse to have tried to defend his city from an army of savages bent on destruction? 

In an otherwise estimable article for the American Spectator, Dov Fischer called Rittenhouse “a bit of a fool,” although he immediately qualified that statement by adding that “sometimes fools must enter when ‘wiser men’ won’t” and that “[t]o the degree that he foresaw that local Kenosha police would lose control of the night, he is a hero.”  

Yes, he is a hero. And he’s a fool only in the sense that every noble, selfless soul is a fool—putting his community before himself. 

When I was a kid, we’d have to write essays in school about leadership and citizenship and responsibility. Back then, they wanted us to grow up to be responsible citizens. They wanted us to lead. That’s what Rittenhouse was doing. Somewhere, somehow, he picked up those old values. 

And they made him, in Keenan’s words, “a do-gooder by nature,” eager to help others. He enrolled in the cadet programs in the Antioch Fire Department and Grayslake Police Department. He learned first aid, and was administering it that night in Kenosha before he was confronted by three berserk lowlifes who were determined to kill him.  

Brought up by a single mother who worked hard as a nurse, Rittenhouse could’ve claimed victim status. Instead, he strove to be a good citizen. 

He is America. Or he’s what America—or at least Middle America—was, back in the days before David Letterman-like irony soiled everything, before morality was relativized away, before the movies began celebrating cop-killers like Bonnie and Clyde as folk heroes.

Rittenhouse is corny America, apple-pies-cooling-on-window sills America, 4-H Club America, Booth Tarkington America.

The America we’ve all long since been taught to laugh at.

He’s the young George Bailey of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” saving his future war hero brother from drowning and saving Mr. Gower, the druggist, from prison because he knows the old man, distracted by personal tragedy, mistakenly put poison in somebody’s medicine.

Go ahead, laugh at him.

For such a young man, being in Kenosha to protect property from rioters was a no-brainer. Before he was forced to kill two aggressive characters who tried to kill him, he was cleaning up graffiti.

Yes, a fool. A precious, beautiful fool. 

He shouldn’t have been there? No, the rioters shouldn’t have been there. They shouldn’t have been in Portland, in Seattle, in any of the many other cities where they wreaked havoc. Why do we accept—unthinkingly—that all those hooligans had a right to be there, but Rittenhouse didn’t?

Why do we accept that he’s the one on trial? He’s the last one who should be on trial. Not only the rioters but the politicians and media people who egged them on and whitewashed their depredations should be the legitimate targets of prosecution.

Yes, Rittenhouse took a gun with him for protection. It turned out he was correct to judge he needed it. It also turned out, as details emerged at his trial, that he wasn’t just a terrific shot—he was also excellently trained in gun safety. Unlike, say, Alec Baldwin. And unlike the staggeringly fatuous prosecutor who, during Rittenhouse’s own trial, in violation of the most basic gun-safety rules, pointed a rifle at the jury.

No, if 17-year-old Marines can be sent to restore order in Mogadishu, then a 17-year-old citizen, in a city whose people have pretty much been left by their governor to fend for themselves, has every right to try to keep the order in his own backyard. We should be angry not that he did what he did, but that dozens of others in Kenosha and its environs didn’t do the same.

Remember Nick Sandmann? He was minding his own business outside the Lincoln Memorial on January 19, 2019, when he and his classmates from a Catholic school in Covington, Kentucky, were harassed by not one but two groups that the corporate media dare not criticize—Black Hebrew Israelites and Native Americans. While a creepy old man screamed in his face, Sandmann, then 16, stood there stoically, a model of preternaturally grown-up decency and restraint.

But because he and his friends were wearing MAGA caps, another story was cooked up and sold to the public. So instead of being praised for his self-control, Sandmann was cast as a white supremacist. Even his local bishop joined in the pile-on. In the end, Sandmann was vindicated, and won large settlements from several of the media organizations that had lied about him.

But now the same media, apparently not having learned their lesson from the Sandmann affair, are doing much the same thing to Kyle Rittenhouse. 

I’d already been thinking about the parallels between Nick Sandmann and Kyle Rittenhouse when the Daily Mail published, on November 16, an open letter to Rittenhouse by Sandmann, spelling out the similarities between their plights and offering his support and advice. It was a remarkably classy and mature piece of writing, addressed to one courageous young Midwesterner by another.

These are young men who once would have been recognized by everybody around them as models of American youth.

No more. Today’s youth heroes, if you listen to the corporate media, are kids like gun-control activist David Hogg and climate-change scold Greta Thunberg. Neither of them has taken anywhere near the kind of risks that Rittenhouse took on that night in Kenosha. Neither has anything special to offer by way of insight or eloquence.

In fact, they’re both obnoxious, bratty mediocrities. But they champion causes of which the corporate media approves. And so Hogg got into Harvard, despite mediocre grades. Meanwhile, Greta can probably end up as secretary-general of the U.N., if she wants.

In these twisted times, even the truly evil gangsters of MS-13 get a kinder word from our political leaders and media superstars than the likes of Kyle Rittenhouse. Remember that when Trump called MS-13 “animals”—which is an insult to animals—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) rebuked him, asserting that even MS-13 members were “children of God”? Has she said anything remotely as generous about Kyle Rittenhouse, whom millions of Democratic voters and MSM parrots hate far more than they ever hated MS-13? Of course not. 

It’s no coincidence that the two people Rittenhouse killed were human scum. He didn’t go there to kill. They did. They were used to harming others. Anthony Huber, who was shot dead when he hit Rittenhouse with a skateboard, had a long rap sheet of domestic battery and other offenses, including assaults on his mother and grandmother; Joseph Rosenbaum, who was shot when he tried to kill Rittenhouse and grab his gun, had been indicted on 11 counts of child molestation and spent several years in prison.

Earlier that evening he’d committed several potentially deadly acts of psychotic mayhem, including setting a Dumpster on fire and trying to push it toward some police cars. He’d also been heard shouting the N-word—as part of a riot that was represented in the media as an assertion of black dignity.   

Huber and Rosenbaum are perfect examples of the kind of demented, misanthropic creeps who were out in Kenosha that night, determined to destroy decent people’s homes and businesses. But at Rittenhouse’s trial, these two hoodlums were depicted by the prosecution as virtuous victims. Outside the courthouse, anti-Rittenhouse protesters have waved pictures of them, claiming them as martyrs.

This is the upside-down world we live in now. If so many of us are so concerned about Kyle Rittenhouse’s verdict, it’s because he embodies so much about the America we love—the America of goodness and decency that the Left has been bushwhacking for decades (and decrying as racist) and that Donald Trump sought to restore. If they succeed in destroying this young man’s life, it will be cruel testimony to the degree to which their lies, their cynicism, and their sordid values have won the day in this country that some of us, at least, still love. 

Terror in the Capitol Tunnel

The D.C. Medical Examiner’s Office concluded Rosanne Boyland died of a drug overdose but that autopsy result is highly suspicious.

by Julie Kelly for American Greatness

In 2018, after a local news crew filmed Ryan Nichols rescuing dogs abandoned by their owners after Hurricane Florence, the former Marine appeared on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show.” Not only did DeGeneres commend Nichols’ longtime work as a search-and-rescue volunteer, she donated $25,000 to the Humane Society in his name and gave Ryan and his wife, Bonnie, a $10,000 check to pay for the honeymoon they had missed the year before so Ryan could assist rescue efforts in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

But instead of heading to Hawaii, the Nicholses used the generous donation to buy a rescue boat. With his Marine buddy and best friend, Alex Harkrider, at his side, the pair has participated in “dozens of hurricane rescues and disaster relief efforts,” according to Joseph McBride, Nichols’ attorney.

Three years after his appearance on the DeGeneres show, Nichols was featured on another program, but this time, Nichols spoke from the fetid confines of a political prison in the nation’s capital. And instead of telling a heroic story of saving dogs drowning in rising flood waters, Nichols told Newsmax host Greg Kelly a harrowing tale of what he saw at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

“We showed up in good faith . . . to protest the election results but never would have imagined we would encounter the horrors that we did on the west terrace and in the tunnel that day,” Nichols explained to Kelly in a phone interview on November 9. “When I saw women being beaten and in distress, my rescue instinct kicked in and I knew I had no choice but to help rescue them.”

Nichols’ account is detailed in an appalling new court filing that confirms what American Greatness has reported for months: on January 6, D.C. Metro and Capitol police assaulted nonviolent protesters with explosive devices, rubber bullets, tear gas, and in some cases, their own fists and batons. A tunnel on the lower west side of the Capitol building became a dangerous—and, likely for at least one protester, deadly—battle scene as police viciously attacked American citizens on the “hallowed” grounds of the U.S. Congress.

Nichols, of Texas, has been behind bars since his January 18 arrest; he sits in the D.C. jail specifically used to house January 6 detainees, charged along with Harkrider with multiple offenses including assault of a police officer, civil disorder, and unlawful possession of pepper spray.

So, what on Earth turned two decorated veterans with a history of helping people in crisis into “insurrectionists” who attacked police officers? It was what they saw when they approached the tunnel around 3 p.m. on January 6. “They hear people screaming in pain and crying for help—women and old men are bloodied and injured,” McBride wrote in a motion seeking Nichols’ release. “Training and instincts kick in and they head to the tunnel, wondering if an accident had happened and if other people were even more seriously injured.”

McBride viewed three hours of surveillance video captured by Capitol security camera—the extensive system captured at least 14,000 hours of footage that the Justice Department and Capitol police are desperate to keep away from public view—and described for the first time what happened inside the tunnel where a combination of D.C. and Capitol police, ostensibly, were stationed to prevent protesters from entering the building:

“[Just] after 4:00 pm, Ryan is sprayed multiple times by an officer standing on a ledge in the tunnel,” McBride wrote in a November 1 filing. “He is also separated from a woman who stood next to Ryan at different times at the Western Terrace. She was middle aged and nice. Ryan promised to keep an eye on her. The woman was wearing a red shirt and a MAGA hat. Shortly thereafter, officers begin terrorizing people in and around the tunnel. People are screaming and getting crushed. There is a pile of human beings stacked on top of each other at the tunnel entrance. People are trapped and there is nowhere to go.”

McBride focused on the conduct of one officer in particular, with badge number L359 and wearing a white shirt. The unidentified officer begins “to beat a man for no apparent reason . . . [and] beats the man so badly that the man crawls over to the woman with the MAGA hat.”

At this point, according to the security video, the officer turns his sights on the woman. “Then for reasons that no fair minded or decent human being will ever understand—[the officer wearing the] White-shirt turns his attention to the woman and begins to pulverize her,” McBride explained. “The weapon this officer appears to be using is a collapsible stick, designed to break windows in emergency situations. This stick is neither designed nor to be used against another human being.”

For the next several minutes, between 4 p.m. and around 4:15 p.m., the officer in the white shirt relentlessly beats the woman; McBride furnished a literal blow-by-blow account in the court document.

2:07:01: White-shirt hits the woman in the head with his baton five times in seven seconds;

2:07:22: The woman is sprayed directly in the eyes by officer on ledge;

2:07:24: White-shirt uses his baton to hit another person with a mask on;

2:07:30: The woman and others are still being maced and hit by White-shirt and ledge officer;

2:07:38: Blood is visibly coming out of the woman’s head and can be seen on the white hoody;

2:07:55: White-shirt and other officers are randomly assaulting people for no apparent reason;

2:08:17: White-shirt makes his way to front of crowd again and targets woman who is attempting to escape;

2:08:30: White-shirt spears and pokes the woman with his baton about the head, neck, and face so as to inflict maximum pain; 

2:08:46: White-shirt beats the woman with his baton striking her eight times in six seconds;

2:09:13: White-shirt punches the woman in the face, with his left-hand, landing five punches in five seconds, with all of his might;

2:09:35: Another officer joins in and starts beating the woman in the head with his baton, landing twelve strikes in seven seconds;

2:10:47: If you pause the video here, you will see the welts on the woman’s face along with a disturbing look of helplessness;

2:10:54: Officers push the woman around the tunnel;

2:10:55: The woman briefly collapses; 

2:11:13: White-shirt follows the woman to the front of the tunnel and beats her with his baton as she’s falling; 

2:11:24: The woman is taken to the back of tunnel and is never seen again.

These assaults occurred about 10 minutes before the lifeless body of Rosanne Boyland was seen lying on the ground, just outside the tunnel. Most of the violent brawls between police and protesters take place near this tunnel in response to what McBride calls “overwhelming police brutality and misconduct.” 

Body-worn camera footage released by the courts and seen here show Boyland on her side not moving as her friend, Justin Winchell, begged for help. “She’s gonna die!” Winchell tries to scream while holding on to Boyland. He turns to the crowd. “I need somebody, anybody,” he pleads. “She’s dead! She’s dead!”

McBride then confirms another report by American Greatness: “Roseanne (sic) Boyland’s body is dragged into the tunnel at 4:30 p.m., and is never seen again.” In September, I reported that, according to his congressional testimony, Officer Aquilino Gonell appears to be the person who handled Boyland’s body after she died, dragging her inside the building where he is then met by Officer Harry Dunn.

Dunn told the January 6 select committee in July that he carried an “unconscious woman,” presumably Boyland, into House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s office.

The D.C. Medical Examiner’s Office concluded Boyland died of a drug overdose but that autopsy result is highly suspicious considering the video footage and first-hand accounts of others about what happened to her that afternoon.

Future court filings, interviews, and security footage will slowly reveal to the public how law enforcement, beginning at around 1 p.m. that day and continuing for hours, attacked and beat American citizens who dared to protest the election of Joe Biden. Further, it will become clear that Joe Biden’s Justice Department, with compliance by D.C. District Court judges, are keeping several eyewitnesses to the terror in the tunnel behind bars awaiting trials delayed until at least the middle of 2022. Nichols’ hearing for bond is set for December 20, at which point he will have been incarcerated for more than 11 months. (He has no court date.)

Much more to come as American Greatness continues to expose the truth about January 6.

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Durham Investigation Intrigue: Sergei Millian, an FBI Plant?

It seems the forces weakening our country, to the delight of Vladimir Putin, come to a head in one Sergei Millian.

by John D. O’Connor for American Greatness

The recent indictment by Special Counsel John Durham of Igor Danchenko raises potentially explosive possibilities, so far overlooked by public reporting. They all stem from a central question: who was behind the maneuverings of the mysterious Sergei Millian? 

Until the Danchenko indictment, it had been the prevailing wisdom for years that a key damning allegation—that there was a “well-developed conspiracy” of Trump-Russian electoral collusion—came from Millian, the president of the grandly-named Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, a sketchy, dime-store organization headquartered in Millian’s Queens apartment. 

Christopher Steele, author of the now-infamous dossier, himself revealed Millian’s role to the FBI in early October 2016, while defensively labeling him as a “boaster” and “embellisher,” seemingly seeking distance from a potential liar. 

But, to the surprise of most, Durham’s recent indictment states that the story Danchenko attributed to Millian (alternately, Source D and Source E in the Steele dossier) did not come from Millian. Rather, the story came from the long-time Clinton supporter, PR executive Charles Dolan, himself tied to the Russian Federation from past years representing the country. At the same time Dolan was sourcing these claims to Danchenko, he was closely consulting with Russian “diplomats,” another word for “intelligence agents.” 

So, yes, this is a jaw-dropping revelation, because it shows direct collaboration between the Clinton campaign and the Russian government in fomenting a baseless charge. In other words, Clinton forces can no longer blame the anti-Trump smear campaign on a shady British ex-spy.

But this seeming blockbuster is dwarfed by the implications of Millian’s nonengagement in Steele’s lies. Millian was not a dishonest Danchenko crony, as astute observers had assumed. Rather, the evidence suggests he was working for . . . the FBI! If that is so, then the FBI was not just acting incompetently by vetting the partisan falsehoods of the dossier. Rather, it was, chillingly and actively fabricating them.  

On January 20, 2017, after the Trump victory, lowly Trump aide George Papadopoulos met with Millian and his “good-time-Charlie” friend, who blurted out, “Sergei works for the FBI.” An embarrassed Millian looked up at the ceiling, denying nothing. Days after this, FBI agents questioned Papadopoulos about Millian, questions confirming ongoing talks with Millian. But we may ask, so what? 

Let’s go back further in time. Before the 2016 election, around October 7, Millian had offered Papadopoulos employment for $30,000 per month, to be paid by a former Russian energy minister (read: Kremlin agent), on the condition that Papadopoulos must also be working for an elected Trump. Papadopoulos suspected Millian was wearing a wire, because he wore a scarf in a warm room. The day of this conversation, October 7, 2016, is key, because at that time the FBI was desperately scrambling for any illegality by a Trump agent to strengthen its weak FISA application. Without an illegal act, the FISA warrantfor Carter Page as a suspected Russian agent was doomed. 

Failing on Papadopoulos, Steele soon fabricated a huge payoff to Page by Rosneft, a Russian oil company, for supposed Republican platform concessions on Russia. But had Papadopoulos actually bitten on Millian’s offer, this later fabrication would have been unnecessary. So, we can infer that the unsuccessful outreach by Millian to Papadopoulos had been meant to entrap Papadopoulos to support the FISA application.

Going back further, Millian’s attempt to cultivate and entrap Papadopoulos had begun in July and August 2016, when Millian emailed Papadopoulos out of the blue, claiming he had “disruptive technology” to assist in the election, again weaving a web of collusion.

Earlier yet, in March 2016, someone connected with Western intelligence had sent in another asset to entrap Papadopoulos: the “Russian-connected” professor Joseph Mifsud who, in turn, absurdly presented Papadopoulos with an attractive Russian female student introduced as Vladimir Putin’s supposed niece. Mifsud then began talking about Russia having Hillary Clinton emails. 

Following Mifsud’s meeting, Papadopoulos was approached by Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, whose relay of Mifsud’s comment opened the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. This was followed by FBI spy Stefan Halperaccompanied by an attractive FBI undercover investigator going by the name of “Azra Turk,” who plied Papadopoulos for information.

Years later, during the Mueller investigation, on June 8, 2018, the shady Israeli businessman Charles Tawil, for no good reason, gave Papadopoulos $10,000 in cash while the two were in Israel—seemingly so that Papadopoulos would fail to declare the money when the FBI braced Papadopoulos on his return flight to America. Instead, Papadopoulos wisely left the money behind.

We can see that Millian was but one of a parade of FBI assets sent toward Papadopoulos, but perhaps the most potentially compromising. That Millian was working for the FBI would explain why he would not be a source for Steele, from whom the FBI wanted distance for the sake of deniability. Thus, Dolan conveniently became the real source, while the seemingly Russia-connected Millian was the false front for the dossier.

To show corroboration of a reverse nature, let’s look at the FBI inspector general’s report on FISA abuse. Oddly, every key description of Millian is redacted. We are told in the report about “Source 2” and “Source 3,” the “Confidential Human Sources” who weaseled into Trumpland. But who is “Source 1”? Now, with the Danchenko indictment, we may have a good idea.

If we are correct, the FBI was entrapping the Trump campaign, falsely giving information to the FISA court and Congress, compromising the media, and lying to the American people. Yes, Clinton, through Steele, was lying to the FBI. But the FBI itself, to this day, has been lying about Sergei Millian, concealing the FBI’s role in a sickening takedown of a presidential campaign and later a president. 

It seems the forces weakening our country, to the delight of Vladimir Putin, come to a head in one Sergei Millian. But don’t hold your breath waiting for an apology from any of James Comey’s FBI leadership team, or the media they falsely fed.

Joe Biden Plays Approval Limbo and Makes His Advisers Look Like Idiots

Bonchie reporting for RedState

Joe Biden hit another low in approval yesterday, once again showing he has no floor. That was driven by a disastrous survey from Quinnipiac being added to the polling averages. The president was at just 38 percent in that poll, and now sits at 41.2 percent overall, per Real Clear Politics.

There hasn’t been a poll this month that shows Biden anywhere close to above water.

What’s so astonishing about this result is that it comes after another propaganda blitz by the White House, following the passage of the infrastructure bill. They’ve been going gangbusters doing photo-ops over the last week, including the president’s tone-deaf driving of an electric Hummer. Pete Buttigieg even managed to show up for work, donning a hardhat for the cameras, while being otherwise generally useless.

Then there’s Baghdad Bob here, who just can’t help himself.

Biden is making his advisers look like absolute idiots. He has them out in public, gaslighting everyone, blowing smoke up the collective backside of Americans with cherry-picked points — and nobody is actually buying it. When you drill down further into this Quinnipiac poll, the results are absolutely terrible for the White House and show no one is buying what they are selling.

You can lie to people about a lot of things when it comes to politics. What you can’t lie to them about is how much money they have in their pocket. Inflation concerns are real, because the current inflation boom is real. It is putting downward pressure on the middle class in ways that we haven’t seen in decades. As RedState previously reported, October’s year-over-year inflation number was over 6 percent. The actual forecast by the administration was just 2 percent.

So, while Biden and his cohorts can pretend this is all expected and normal, it wasn’t and it isn’t. Normal Americans understand that because the price increases hitting them are daily and highly visible. No amount of tweeting or talking about kids getting vaccinated is going to change the country’s current mood. As I’ve suggested before, the cake is largely baked. Biden does not have the capability or the will to do the things necessary to turn this thing around. With that said, 2022 awaits.