On Monday, I wrote about the reality of American politics in that the division the mainstream media continues to push on us in various forms is actually an illusion meant to keep you tuned in and loyal to them and the agenda they’re trying to sell you. Despite the radical left’s best efforts, America is thirsty for conversation, understanding, and middle ground.
The proof can be seen in various ways. The expansive audience of Joe Rogan, which is listened to by voters on both sides of the aisle despite the hard left’s attempts to shut him down and discredit him is a solid example. The Canadian convoy protest, supported across the ideological spectrum is another example of both sides finding middle ground. Virginia went from blue to red as the extremists become so hubristic that they thought they could openly vie for control of other people’s children, causing voters in the state to unite against the Democrats.
It all points to a simple conclusion; the left is fracturing. To be sure, it was a small, slowly developing crack at first. A celebrity would complain here, or a leftist would complain in a forum about the bubble he finds he and his friends trapped in. However, the cracks soon grew larger and as they grew, they grew faster. Now, leftists you never would have thought would ever speak out against their own ideological side are doing so openly and habitually.
Tulsi Gabbard, still considered a leftist in many ways, has now become one of the Biden administration’s most vocal critics, calling them out when they intrude upon our rights as Americans or make a nonsensical decision that benefits no one but themselves. Recently, Gabbard spoke out about Biden’s most important criteria for the next Supreme Court pick being that she be a black woman, tossing aside merit and obedience to the Constitution for identity and agenda.
Bill Maher, a consummate leftist, has repeatedly spoken out against his ideological side to the point where he seems ready to abandon it completely. While that’s unlikely, and he will probably retain many of his leftist views, the slide the Democrats have experienced due to woke culture has him slamming the party at every turn. He’s even spoken out about the lunacy of the COVID-19 mandates, and the lies that make up the left’s narrative about it.
Perhaps most surprising is the sudden outspokenness of someone I considered a leftist’s leftist. Sean Penn has even slammed the breaks on woke culture, pointing out how today’s society rewards the demasculinization of men. At one point, he even referred to cancel culture as “ludicrous” and revealed that he’s ” a little frustrated with the world.”
While I don’t expect Penn to renounce leftism by any measure, one can easily see that even to the left, the left is too left. The social justice movement has poisoned the well, and the people are starting to see more and more that they were fooled into obeying the toxic victimhood of woke culture by being told it was virtuous to do so by media figures, activists, and politicians.
What we might see is something of a great awakening among many on the left. Many are becoming disillusioned and the veil is lifting. Many are seeing the logical end to the policies and ideas they’ve been supporting. Many are being forced to leave their states as Democrats have made their lives miserable with policies, high taxes, regulations, and unnecessary lockdowns.
While many Democrats will never not be Democrats, the fracture between the moderates and the radicals is becoming larger and more apparent. The result may be a battle between the two factions that see the smaller social justice group pushed out. However, if nothing happens, then total seizure of the Democrat Party by radicals will be assured, and then you really will see the creation of a host of Republicans. That may sound like a good thing, but Democrats will still want to keep many of their ideas. It will be the Republican Party that changes as a result, not the voters.
The end game is to make the Democrat Party more moderate. If that happens, we can expect a return to a much more sane America, with the two parties working together with sensible goals, not at war with one side attempting to save the country from the other.
For the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were no officially approved outpatient treatments for combating the disease. The medical establishment expressed extreme caution regarding such treatments, and these warnings were amplified by major media hostile to President Trump, as when he touted the anti-malaria medicine hydroxychloroquine.
Although an estimated 12 percent to 38 percent of prescriptions are written for FDA-approved drugs used “off-label” (including Botox and Viagra), Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, declared early on that providers should dispense only medicines proven to be safe and effective for COVID patients through “randomized, placebo-controlled trials.” These can take months or years to conduct, often at great cost.
Some governments and independent practitioners considered that standard a recipe for inaction that meant likely death for untold numbers of victims. These medical dissenters instead treated COVID-19 as physicians have long responded to newly emerging infectious diseases: by administering designer cocktails of cheap, safe, and readily available agents—in this case including hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, aspirin, and vitamins—that had proved effective in treating similar illnesses or showed promise due to mechanisms of action.
RealClearInvestigations spoke or corresponded with 12 such advocates for early outpatient treatment globally—from California, Texas and Honduras to France, Israel, and India. These physicians used their clinical experience to make educated guesses about what combinations of drugs might work. Few used the same cocktail, but all insisted the treatments proved most effective when administered as early as possible.
Researchers knew fairly early in the pandemic that COVID infections progressed through several stages. For example, it was known in March 2020 that the illness progressed from a viral phase to massive inflammation across the body. Anti-inflammatory drugs—such as colchicine, the choice of Dr. Darrell DeMello in Mumbai—could have been given at clinicians’ discretion.
By June 2020, it was known that COVID could cause major blood clotting. The blood thinner Plavix, another choice of Dr. DeMello, is often used to prevent and treat clotting. As Dr. Brian Tyson, a primary care physician in Imperial County, California, who champions outpatient treatment, explained, if patients are “showing inflammatory changes, let’s use an anti-inflammatory. We see people getting clots, dying of coronary artery clogs, let’s use a blood thinner.”
It wasn’t until April 2021 that the National Institutes of Health announced it would fund a large clinical trial to study repurposed drugs, including some of those favored by several of the doctors RCI interviewed. Why wasn’t there greater urgency to conduct studies like this one?
President Trump’s advocacy of hydroxychloroquine put him at odds with the Washington media and medical establishment. This may in part have colored public perceptions of the use of off-label drugs in the U.S. Articles in the highly influential medical journal The Lancet played a significant role—with one that pooh-poohed hydroxychloroquine being retracted after proving fraudulent. Although hydroxychloroquine is used around the world every day to treat various illnesses in adults and children, including lupus and malaria, health officials cast it as potentially dangerous. “As a result,” Dr. Scott Atlas, the often-dissenting adviser to the Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force, writes in A Plague Upon Our House, his new tell-all, “doctors were blocked from prescribing the drug, even though prescribing any other approved drug for an off-label use was routine.”
U.S. tech giants censored much discussion of outpatient treatment, branding it “misinformation.” YouTube in particular has silenced heterodox thinking, suspending the YouTube channel of Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a proponent of early treatment who convened two hearings on the matter in late 2020, and removing several of Senator Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) YouTube postings.
Most of the regimens advocated by early outpatient treatment proponents also included ivermectin (IVM), a common drug that became controversial in the United States after the podcaster Joe Rogan said his doctor prescribed it off-label to him once he contracted COVID. Media voices opposed to unapproved treatments described the drug—widely given to people and livestock—as a “horse dewormer.” The FDA advised against using IVM against COVID—yet IVM is one of the repurposed drugs being tested in the NIH-sponsored trial that began in June.
Dr. Miguel Sierra-Hoffman, an associate professor of infectious disease at Baylor Scott & White Hospital and of pulmonary medicine at Texas A&M University, who has overseen the care of thousands of COVID patients at multiple hospitals, remains convinced that the embrace of outpatient treatments early on would have been a difference maker—and an economical one. “If we had given people aspirin, ivermectin, colchicine, and if they get complicated, a little dexamethasone, we could have saved the world with one dollar.”
For his part, Senator Johnson blames public health authorities for orchestrating a broader campaign against early treatment with repurposed drugs. “Rather than seriously consider evidence showing the potential of early treatments including ivermectin, your agencies prefer to mischaracterize, conflate and misconstrue anything that goes against the mainstream narrative and the financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry,” he wrote in an October 2021 letter to Biden Administration health officials.
These pathetic attempts at J-6ing are not working with wide swaths of an increasingly international audience—though they maintain their hold in the echo chambers of Canadian official opinion.
Very odd things are happening in Canada, not the least of which is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fleeing the capital city for security reasons, or so officials say. Canadians are a notoriously compliant, unquestioning, deferential lot. But this hasn’t stopped thousands of them from gathering near the parliament buildings in Ottawa to effectively shut down the central part of the city.
The trigger for this unprecedented protest is a vaccine mandate for long-haul truckers, whose big rigs now line the streets, horns blaring between a variety of protest chants, some of which are more printable than others (“Truck Trudeau,” and variations thereof, has been a common refrain). Last week, as the convoys moved toward and converged on the capital from the east, west, and south—numbers are disputed, but it seems certain they formed the longest convoys in history—it became clear that the list of grievances had grown to include just about everything associated with some of the most enduring, draconian, and nonsensical COVID restrictions in the world.
Despite the efforts of Canadian media to downplay and distort events in Ottawa, it is easy to see right through them. In the absence of genuine grievances, it would be impossible to convince thousands of people to act—people who are not, I should add, in the professional protesting class that forms an entire subset of Canadian society. These are not the laptop class but working people who live paycheck-to-paycheck and have families to feed. They cannot afford to take weeks off from whatever work remains to them and march around in minus 35-degree wind chills for frivolous reasons.
In fact, many of the protesters have said they are themselves vaccinated, as have many of the thousands of ordinary citizens who, also in sub-zero temperatures, cheered the convoys on as they passed. But they have also said they are robustly for freedom of choice, not to mention the right of people to make a living. They are understandably less keen on policies that are manifestly worthless for halting COVID and have significant trade-offs and costs, including empty shelves in Canadian supermarkets.
The extent and disingenuousness of elite attacks on the protesters has astounded even me—a reformed Canadian who grew up on a steady diet of Canuckprop. It’s not as though Canadians are unused to organized protests. To the contrary, they have become quite used to preferred protesters, such as “indigenous peoples,” occupying things—including people’s houses—and the government doing essentially nothing for months or even years at a time. Trudeau himself has boasted of his participation in protests which suit officially approved views, such as Canada’s copycat Black Lives Matter disruptions which, if possible, were even more inane (though less violent) than their American counterparts.
The revulsion of the elites stems from the fact that, having encouraged a culture of near-permanent protest, the protesting has now metastasized, and the folks who this week control the streets of Ottawa simply don’t travel in bien-pensant circles, or have the ears of those who do. And they are also very much in the faces, and parking spaces, of the elites.
While it’s true that most of the protesters appear to be considerably whiter than Justin Trudeau in blackface, not all of them are. Nevertheless, this helps make them a particular object of the prime minister’s ire and contempt. Before the truckers even arrived, in high dudgeon and with a tone of condescension that only someone named Trudeau can muster, the prime minister insisted they were nothing more than a “small, fringe minority.” In Trudeau-speak, “fringe” means any position not approved by elite opinion. More recently, he has refused to meet with protesters, claiming, implausibly, that they are racist, and, more plausibly, that they fill him with disgust.
It appears some tiny handful of individuals amongst the protesters—motivations and paymasters unknown—have behaved badly. At last count, if the media are to be believed on anything, a single Confederate flag was fleetingly waved by an individual who was (uncharacteristically) masked, a Nazi flag was unfurled on the periphery, a couple of monuments were not treated with the respect they deserve (protesters quickly cleaned them up and began guarding them), and a downtown soup kitchen’s operations were briefly interfered with—vagrants have rights!—but beyond these incidents, not much to note, except righteous indignation on the part of many crowd members, and calculated disgust on the part of their fringe prime minister.
But elite hope springs eternal that, given time, someone, somewhere, will do something seriously wrong.
Meanwhile, Jim Watson, the marionette mayor of Ottawa, has informed the protesters that they have already “worn out their welcome” (if this is what passes for an official welcome in Ottawa, we must wrack our brains to imagine what an official slight must look like) and complains that hinterland protesters take an enormous toll on people in the prosperous capital. Perhaps two years of COVID restrictions have not, at least for those in his line of work.
Notwithstanding the chaos around Parliament Hill, parliament in fact reconvened on Monday, with Trudeau in absentia. In a statement particularly rich with irony, one of the prime minister’s lackeys immediately lectured the press on the importance of parliament meeting in person—which it has refused to do for much of the last two years, because of COVID. And it has refused to do so with the assent of mostly neutered and co-opted “opposition” parties.
Canada, once a beacon of Westminster-style parliamentary government in North America, has had no responsible government for much of the time its irresponsible government has been exercising extraordinary emergency powers—unless one counts occasional Zoom meetings, and appearances by the shielded prime minister at his cottage. Elites were fine with all of this—but peasants blocking roads in ways that inconvenience lawmakers when they finally do decide to show up for work? Unacceptable and un-Canadian!
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Parroting the politicians and raising them, Canadian state media, in the form of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has been on an incessant search for lone wolves, Confederates, neo-Nazis, and science-denialists in the overwhelmingly good-natured, if occasionally angry, crowd. Like the pod people they appear to be, reporters from multiple Canadian news outlets read credulously from the same script.
And in an apparent attempt to jump the largest shark in the theater of the absurd, state media has suggested that the Russians are behind the protest! The BBC has even gotten in on the act, quoting government ministers who make their livings pointing out various “reprehensible” acts protesters are alleged to have committed. Not to be outdone, CNN reports that protesters devote themselves to taking “meals away from the homeless.” A velvet revolution is being photoshopped to make it appear to be clad in chainmail.
As is so often the case in Canada, those few politicians (mostly Conservatives) who are not quite fully on board with official storylines tend to behave like deer in the headlights, set back on their heels by demagogues who dominate the field, forced to condemn things they obviously don’t support, as when a Conservative member of parliament was attacked for merely being in newsreel footage in which somebody in the background is displaying a Nazi emblem—in what appears to be an attempt, however misbegotten, to condemn, rather than endorse, fascism. An appropriate, if not characteristically Canadian response to such cynical chicanery might be to say to one’s accusers: Go to hell. Go directly to hell. Do not pass go. Do not collect 78-cent Canadian dollars.
Fortunately, these pathetic attempts at J-6ing are not working with wide swaths of an increasingly international audience—though they maintain their hold in the echo chambers of Canadian official opinion.
A notable exception to the mendacity and pusillanimity of those in the Canadian opinion-forming classes is Conservative Member of Parliament Leslyn Lewis, who stood with the protesters, both literally and in spirit. As a black woman who immigrated to Canada from Jamaica, she not only marginally bests Trudeau on the racial and gender authenticity fronts, she is also one of the rare known vertebrates among Canadian politicians. Appropriating a tried and true leftist trope, she forcefully insisted that this is what democracy looks like, and the people in fact rule the government, not the other way around. She stood, in other words, with ordinary citizens who have their backs to the wall and are attempting to petition a willfully, characteristically, endlessly obtuse government for a redress of real, as opposed to phantasmagorical, grievances.
Nowadays, truckers don’t have enough of either. In Canada, that’s a combustible combination. Let’s pray they storm the border and head to Washington next.
Three witnesses who were in the hallway outside the Speaker’s Lobby of the U.S. Capitol when Ashli Babbitt was shot were once wanted by the FBI, but their photos have disappeared from the FBI’s January 6 Most Wanted page.
The men, including one who tried to administer first aid to Babbitt while she lay bleeding on the floor, were initially listed on the most wanted page on April 16, 2021. They were assigned numbers 310, 311, and 312.
On April 29, sometime after 6:45 p.m., their photos were scrubbed from the FBI list, according to an archived version of the FBI.gov website stored by the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. It is not clear why the photos were removed.
The listing of “wanted” photos now skips from 309 to 313.
It has been the FBI’s practice to leave photos on the page and label them with a red banner that says “ARRESTED” any time a person is taken into custody.
These three men once on the FBI Most Wanted list were removed on April 29, 2021. (U.S. DOJ)
Fifteen of the more than 50 witnesses to the shooting of Ashli Babbitt. The numbers indicate if they are on the FBI Most Wanted list or the list maintained by Sedition Hunters. (Graphic by The Epoch Times)
The man has covered rioting in Portland and was present in Kenosha, Wis., the night Kyle Rittenhouse shot three men in self-defense during rioting over the police shooting of a black man armed with a knife in the summer of 2020, Hansen said.
“I can imagine he’s seen some stuff and dealt with something like that in the past and that’s why he was so level-headed compared to everyone else in that room,” Hansen said.
One of the other men removed from the FBI Most Wanted list is a still photographer, Hansen said. The third man, who carried a United States flag in the Speaker’s Lobby hallway, was among the first people to leave the area after Byrd shot Babbitt.
Aaron Babbitt, Ashli’s husband, said the situation leaves him wondering.
“I’d like an explanation as to why they’ve been removed,” Babbitt told The Epoch Times. “If there’s nothing nefarious, then that shouldn’t be a problem. The silence is, and has been, deafening.”
The Epoch Times contacted the U.S. Department of Justice regarding the three men, but did not receive any response.
Another 15 of the 50+ witnesses to the shooting of Ashli Babbitt. The numbers indicate if they are on the FBI Most Wanted list or the list maintained by Sedition Hunters. (Graphic by Epoch Times)
Eight of the more than 50 witnesses to the shooting of Ashli Babbitt. The numbers indicate if they are on the FBI Most Wanted list or the list maintained by Sedition Hunters.
Surveillance video shows a protester—the FBI alleges it is George A. Tenney III— unsuccessfully tried to open the inner Columbus Doors from the inside by pushing his shoulder against them. When that failed, he turned around and appeared to be listening to someone off-camera. He then returned and was able to open the left door.
Police rushed in and fought to stem the flow of protesters into the Rotunda. A high-pitched entry alarm rang. Protesters forced their way past two police officers at the door. “Open the other door!” someone boomed off camera.
A female officer in riot gear was thrown to the ground to the left of the open door. A few protesters went to help her up, but another officer rushed and warned the protesters, “Get back! Get back!” The female officer was helped to the Rotunda, where she was seen leaning over with her hands on her knees.
Back at the doors, a protester is ranted at a police officer guarding the inside of the Columbus Doors.
“‘We’ve got a job to do?’ I don’t care what you said. That’s a poor excuse!”
The officer asks the man, “You serve your country?”
“Yeah I did, for five years, and that’s a poor excuse!”
“So did I, for 25 years.”
“That’s a poor excuse, ‘I’ve got a job to do.’ Give me a [expletive] break!”
Agent of Chaos
One of the men the Babbitt family is most interested in identifying is known online as #RedOnRed.
He is seen on video in numerous places on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6. On the ground level, he launched a long 2-by-4 through a window. On his way to the Speaker’s Lobby, he is seen doing martial arts kicks into wooden office doors. He was standing to the left of Babbitt when she climbed into a broken window and was shot.
One video shows him with two hands on the arm of a police officer. “We’re not against you, we’re not against your family,” he says. “We love this country. You love your country. You love your family. We’re standing up together.”
“Thank you,” the officer replies.
“You’re welcome. We’re not the enemy.”
#RedOnRed also appears on video by John Sullivan taken after Babbitt was shot.
He approaches the camera and said, “It’s the second guy on the left shot her.”
Sullivan replied, “Nobody else had a gun,” to which #RedOnRed said, “It’s the second guy on the left.”
Almost
half a century after it was stolen, a Roman statue of the god Bacchus
has been handed back to the French museum where it was displayed.
The 1st Century bronze of Bacchus as a child was taken by thieves in December 1973, along with 5,000 Roman coins.
Art detective Arthur Brand traced the statue to the museum when a client was offered it by an Austrian collector.
"Fifty years after a theft it's unheard of that something comes back - normally it's been destroyed," he told the BBC.
The
40cm-high (15.7in) statue was dug up on the site of the Gallo-Roman
village of Vertillum in eastern France in 1894 and years later featured
in a Paris exhibition of France's finest art pieces.
When Mr Brand handed the statue back to the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais
this week, director Catherine Monnet said she realised how much more
beautiful it was than the copy that had been put on display.
The Dutch art sleuth, who has built a reputation for tracking down
stolen masterpieces around the world, said the museum was
"flabbergasted" when he told them he had traced their missing statue.
He
described how he had been contacted by a client who wanted to know more
about the statue after he was offered it by an Austrian collector, who
had bought it legally and in good faith.
There
were no databases in 1973 but Mr Brand eventually found a reference to
it in an archaeology magazine dating back to 1927, and French police
then found their report from the time of the theft.
"I
contacted the collector. He didn't want to have a stolen piece in his
collection so he wanted to give it back, but French law dictates that a
small amount has to be paid for safekeeping."
That small amount in relation to the statue's value is still a considerable sum of money.
While
half was paid by the local authority in Chatillon, the rest was
provided by an auction house specialising in ancient art in the English
port town of Harwich. "The piece belongs in the museum so it's only
right people can get together and make that happen," said Aaron Hammond
of Timeline Auctions.
According
to Mr Brand, the museum director cried tears of joy when she saw the
statue: "I thought she was going to drop it she was so nervous."
Finally, President Donald Trump chose to lob a verbal grenade in the general direction of his old VP Mike Pence last Sunday night — regarding Pence’s ability to formally contest the results of the stolen 2020 election. This was, for many Trump supporters, long overdue. Here is Trump’s statement on the matter:
The reason that Mike Pence did not exercise the power to lawfully contest the election is because Mike Pence was never a Trump loyalist. He’s a GOP establishment loyalist. There were plenty of problems inside the Trump Administration, and Vice President Mike Pence was at the center of many of those problems. In fact, it’s always been obvious that Pence and his staff were deeply involved in trying to remove President Trump from office.
Whenever the subject of Mike Pence comes up in casual conversation, I always ask the same question: “Do you know Olivia Troye? Do you know Jennifer Williams? Do you know Katherine Seaman and Josh Pitcock?”
If you’re drawing a blank with these names then I’m sorry to inform you that you were not paying close enough attention to politics during the Trump Years. Also, you were not paying attention to my Twitter feed — because I was reporting on these problems all the time during the Trump Administration.
So, without further ado, let’s review all the evidence against Mike Pence. Trust me: there’s a lot of evidence.
1) Who Fired General Michael Flynn?
Let’s begin with Mike Pence’s least favorite question: “Why did you insist that President Trump fire his National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in the opening days of the administration?” The official story is that Gen. Flynn had lied to Mike Pence about Flynn’s contacts with Russian diplomats. Nobody has bothered to ask Pence exactly how he was informed about Flynn’s private conversations. Think about it: somebody went to Pence with transcripts of Flynn’s calls, and told Pence that Flynn was a national security risk. Who would have access to such phone calls? Who would want to lie about the nature of those phone calls to get Flynn fired?
It almost certainly must have been disgraced FBI agent Peter Strozk.
It’s likely that Strzok was the one who pushed for VP Pence to fire Flynn because we know that Peter Strozk's assistant was Katherine Seaman — the wife of Mike Pence’s chief of staff Josh Pitcock. We also have the text exchanges between Strozk and Page discussing infiltrating the Trump White House in great detail. (This was the subject of an extraordinary letter from Senator Grassley and Senator Johnson to AG Bill Barr.) What did Pence know about the FBI’s attempts to spy on the Trump White House? Is it even possible that Mike Pence was totally unaware that his chief of staff’s spouse worked directly for the chief of the counter-espionage unit of the FBI?
We know that President Obama warned President Trump not to hire Flynn in 2016. We also know that Flynn himself believes that Obama advised Trump against hiring him because Flynn knew about the Obama administration’s role in spying on Trump’s presidential campaign. Removing Flynn as Trump’s National Security Advisor was a top priority for the Deep State.
In other words, Mike Pence was the first person to set the Russia Hoax into motion.
2) The Ukraine Impeachment
During the failed Ukraine impeachment of President Trump, plenty of State Department and NSC swamp creatures crawled out of the shadows to hurl lame accusations about Trump’s phone call with Ukraine President Zelensky. Did you know that one of main accusers was a national security official on Vice President Mike Pence’s staff?
A State Department official named Jennifer Williams was placed on Pence's staff in April of 2019 — which was just in time to get involved in the Ukraine call and the subsequent impeachment. (What a coincidence that she arrived mere weeks before the call!) Just imagine being a few months into your new job in the White House only to volunteer to testify against the President in an impeachment trial over phone calls you didn’t like.
If you find that scenario absurd, you’re not alone. During her testimony before Congress, Jennifer Williams identified her working colleagues on Ukraine issues as Alex Vindman, Fiona Hill, and George Kent. She also testified that Trump’s call was”unusual and inappropriate” without explaining her legal reasoning. (That’s not so strange because Williams had defied an order from the White House by agreeing to appear for her deposition at all.) She was then sent off to CENTCOMM right after the Ukraine impeachment was over.
Williams’ attempted takedown of President Trump moved her immediate supervisor Lt. Gen Keith Kellogg to issue his own statement about Williams:
Ms. Williams was also on the call, and as she testified, she never reported any personal or professional concerns to me, her direct supervisor, regarding the call. In fact, she never reported any personal or professional concerns to any other member of the Vice President’s staff, including our Chief of Staff and the Vice President.
Again, obvious questions should be asked. Did Williams ask permission from Pence to testify against Trump? What did Pence know about Williams and her sudden interest in testifying at an impeachment trial against President Trump? Why did Pence not dissuade her from testifying in the first place?
This is the second time that Mike Pence and his office were involved in plots against President Trump manufactured by national security officials. Do you see a pattern forming yet?
3) Olivia Troye And The COVID Vaccines
The worst mistake that President Trump made during his administration was probably turning over the COVID Task Force to VP Mike Pence — because Pence turned it over to his chief of staff Marc Short and Marc Short turned it over to a little known national security official with no medical expertise. If you want to know the name of the person most responsible for unleashing the Dr. Fauci vaccine nightmare on America then remember the name of Mike Pence’s “COVID advisor”: Olivia Troye.
Why was the decision made to treat the COVID virus (developed and funded by the U.S. Government under the thin disguise of the EcoHealth Alliance) exclusively with experimental vaccines (developed with funding from DARPA) instead of therapeutics? Perhaps because Pence picked a national security official to advise him on COVID who regularly appears on TV now with a framed picture of Dr. Fauci hanging prominently behind her in her house.
Olivia Troye was just as motivated to destroy the Trump Administration as Jennifer Williams, but she didn’t have the same level of interest in protecting VP Mike Pence from the fallout. (Pence’s people probably figured this out the day that Troye appeared in a TV ad announcing that she would vote for Biden.) Once again, Gen. Keith Kellogg was sent out to explain that Olivia Troye was another bad apple that happened to be planted in Pence’s office. (In fact, Kellogg announced that he had personally escorted Troye out of the White House when she was fired.) Troye then started a personal grift operation called the Republican Accountability Project — in which she came out of the closet as a full time political operative for the Democrat Party.
So that’s three members of VP Mike Pence’s office who engaged in anti-Trump activities during normal business hours. That’s a lot of treachery. Let’s not forget the ringleader of so much of this malice too: Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short.
4) His Chief of Staff Gets Locked Out of White House
If you still harbor doubts about Pence’s treachery, let’s turn to Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short for confirmation of these activities. On January 6th, Short found himself locked out of the White House with his car still in the parking lot. When a reporter asked Short why this had happened, Short’s reply was surprisingly honest: “He’s blaming me for advice to VP.” The he in this case, of course, is Trump.
My own sources in the White House told me that Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short was literally the first person to call for Trump to accept the results of the stolen election and concede to Biden. Like I said at the beginning: there’s a lot of evidence of Pence’s treachery.
Long before GOP voters were suddenly surprised by Pence’s “lack of courage” on January 6th, I warned my followers on social media that any trust in Pence was misplaced. My sources in the White House told me that Pence simply disappeared after the 2020 election. (He went skiing in Vail rather than bother with contesting the 2020 election.) I wrote on Twitter at the time:
We might need to stick VP Mike Pence’s face on the back of milk cartons because he’s disappeared. Nov 08, 2020
Why did Pence and his staff spend four years hobbling the Trump Administration? Why can’t people believe that the GOP would try to impeach Trump to clear the way for Pence? Most Republican voters have never met the big GOP donors — and have no idea what they do with their money. The big donors wanted a Mike Pence/Nikki Haley ticket in 2024. They don't really care what GOP voters want, and they never have. These are the people who pushed Jeb in 2016. And Paul Ryan before that. And Dan Quayle before that.
Pence is a creature of the GOP donors, not an America First patriot. That much is obvious now. Pence was added to the Trump ticket to restrain Trump's populism — and that’s what he tried to do for four years. When pro-Trump aides were sidelined in the Trump White House, I heard the same thing from all of them: they were told to sit down and shut up and, if they were quiet, they might get to work for Pence and Haley in 2024.
It’s time for Republican voters to admit that they had no idea who Mike Pence was. Don’t be too upset with yourself. He fooled plenty of people. The man you thought he was — that guy doesn’t really exist. It’s time you paid much closer attention to your favorite politicians though— if you want your country to survive.
