W³P Lives: 11/08/24

Friday, November 8, 2024

Nancy Pelosi Begins Drafting Articles Of Impeachment

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Early reports from Capitol Hill indicated that President-Elect Donald Trump's upcoming second term was already off to a contentious start, with Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi reportedly drafting articles of impeachment against him for his involvement in the 2024 presidential election.

"He won, and that's against the law," Pelosi said. "And, quite frankly, he's admitted it. He's admitted to winning the election, but no one is above the law."

Though Pelosi no longer serves as Speaker of the House and was unable to cite any specific law or statute Trump had broken by winning the election, she remained determined to follow through on impeaching him again.

"He must be held accountable for this heinous crime," Pelosi continued. "This is an urgent matter. We don't have time to deal with citing actual reasons why he should be impeached. That's not necessary. The important thing is to make sure he gets impeached for... something. We cannot let him be president again because that would be very bad for me, and that's illegal."

At publishing time, Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, thanked Pelosi for her service and assured her he would place the articles of impeachment in a brand-new special filing cabinet that looked suspiciously like a trash can.

https://babylonbee.com/news/nancy-pelosi-begins-drafting-articles-of-impeachment

Senator John Thune Requests President Trump “Stay Out of” the Senate Majority Leader Decision

Sundance reporting for Conservative Treehouse

Senator John Thune has been groomed by Mitch McConnell to be his replacement for decades. Thune’s ascension to the role of Senate Majority Leader is essentially a foregone conclusion.

Senator Thune will carry the full support of roughly 15-to-20 senate DeceptiCons (deceptive conservatives), and perhaps a dozen more squishy ones in the middle who want great committee positions. The important dynamic that comes into play now is Senate Committee Chairman “leverage” for Donald Trump’s nominees.

Earlier today on CNBC Senator John Thune discussed the upcoming secret ballot election for Senate Majority Leader. WATCH (prompted):

Essentially, this is Thune’s gentle first shot requesting President Trump “stay out of” the senate caucus decision. Likely, what matters most to President Trump is getting his nominees past the Republican majority confirmation process. Thune was in previous talks with President Trump several months ago, and again several weeks ago in Mar-a-Lago.

Senator Thune doesn’t want President Trump to put his finger on the scale. If matters of the Senate are left alone, Thune ascends – period. However, Thune isn’t stupid and would like Trump to support him. Essentially, Thune would welcome intervention so long as the intervention came with an endorsement.

Thune wants to be Senate Majority Leader. President Trump wants all of his ‘advise and consent’ nominees to glide through confirmation.

We should look for President Trump to endorse Thune; generally, that would indicate terms have been agreed and we can be optimistic. However, if we do not see an endorsement from President Trump, or if Trump endorses someone else, then we should watch out for full DeceptiCon opposition in the Senate from here on out.

A lot of the dynamic exists without any outside influence. The two positioned candidates are John Thune (SD) and John Cornyn (TX). Thune is heavily favored and likely has an easy inside track. The number of MAGA senators is around ten, not really enough to block any organized leadership challenge.

Our MAGA movement benefits from appointments gaining confirmation. President Trump well understands the negotiations and maneuvering that will be needed to get the right committee chairs and members in place.

Trump's Lawyer Makes Letitia James a Deal She Can't Refuse

One of the humiliations confronting the Biden Justice Department in its last days and New York Attorney General Letitia James is how to handle the manufactured criminal cases they are pushing against President Trump. The federal issue seems to have been solved Tuesday. Not only were the charges obviously bogus and brought by an arguably unconstitutionally appointed prosecutor, but the Department of Justice's policy is that it will not prosecute a sitting president.

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A tougher case is the New York State civil case brought by Letitia James and the fraud prosecution by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in which Trump has been convicted and awaits sentencing; see BREAKING: Judge Delays Donald Trump's Manhattan Case Sentencing Until After Election. This case is more difficult because the DOJ can't order a state to stop its prosecution of a president, though that would be uncharted waters; see What’s Next in Trump’s N.Y. Criminal Case After He Won the Election? - The New York Times. Even though that latter prosecution is at the local level, under New York law, the Attorney General has the authority to take over the case.

Is NY AG Letitia James Losing Her War Against Donald Trump?

Judge Delays Trump's Manhattan Sentencing Until After Election

Today, Trump attorney Mike Davis used an interview on "The Benny Show" podcast to lay down the law to James and her flying monkeys.

Let me just say this to Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General; I dare you, I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term because, listen here, sweetheart, we're not messing around this time, and we will put your fat ass in prison for conspiracy against rights. I promise you that, so think long and hard before you want to violate President Trump's constitutional rights or any other American's constitutional rights. It's not going to happen again.

Mike Davis has a well-earned reputation as a take-no-prisoners attorney who has successfully fought off the lawfare targeting Trump. A recent Politico article traced his transition, in the words of Steve Bannon:

“Mike Davis was a standard-stock Republican, Federalist Society lawyer, right? Standard stuff. Played by the rules. Helped get guys confirmed, could play tough, but painted inside the lines,” Bannon told me.
Mike Davis prepares to make an appearance on Steve Bannon’s "War Room" in front of the Supreme Court on June 28 in Washington. Davis is Trump’s most fanatical defender on X. | Samuel Corum for POLITICO Now, though? “He’s a full fucking MAGA warrior.”

Odds are that James will back down, as she's playing a very weak hand against overwhelming power. Still, it is refreshing to see that this incoming Trump team is not cowed by political opposition. Davis is rumored to be the front-runner for Attorney General. Whether this interview helps or hurts his case is unclear, but I hope it helps him.

EU Chief Suggested To Trump Buying US Gas Instead Of Russia's

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Friday said she proposed to returning US leader Donald Trump that the United States could supply more liquefied natural gas to the bloc to replace Russian energy.

With Trump headed back to the White House after a campaign loaded with threats of steep tariffs on foreign goods, the European Union wants to avoid a damaging trade war with its biggest ally.

European Commission president von der Leyen said it was "very important" that Brussels engaged with Trump around "common interests", pointing to her first call with him on Thursday.

"Common interests are, for example -- this is one topic that we touched upon, I would not say discuss -- it's the whole topic of LNG," she told reporters in Budapest where EU leaders were wrapping up two days of discussions.

Europe still received "a lot of LNG via Russia", von der Leyen said, adding: "Why not replace it by American LNG, which is cheaper for us and brings down our energy prices."

She said the issue could also be discussed in relation to the EU's trade deficit with the United States.

During his campaign, Trump promised at least a 10 percent tariff on all imports and other measures. The aim, he said, was to target countries that had been "ripping us off for years" and to lower US trade deficits.

The European Union has ramped up purchases of American LNG since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but has been unable to completely cut its energy link with Moscow.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also insisted there could be areas of compromise with the next US administration under Trump.

"Ultimately, the growth and strength of the United States also depend on the fact that it trades with the whole world, and in both directions," Scholz said.

"From this point of view, I think the foundations are there for developing a common policy," he told a press conference in Budapest after leaders' talks.

https://www.barrons.com/news/eu-chief-suggested-to-trump-buying-us-gas-instead-of-russia-s-451c5356

After Trump’s Victory, There Can Be No Unity Without A Reckoning

We can’t just say ‘Oh well we’re all Americans in the end’ and pretend that everything is okay.

Everything is not okay.

by John Daniel Davidson for The Federalist

Back in July after the first Trump assassination attempt, I wrote that there can be no national unity, no burying the hatchet or cooling the rhetoric with people who have been encouraging political violence and pushing assassination prep for years. You can’t smack someone in the face with a hammer and then insist everyone calm down.

Trump’s election victory doesn’t change that. Those in the news media who spent years calling Trump a fascist and comparing him to Hitler, claiming he represents a threat to democracy and that he’ll use his presidential powers to go after his enemies, should not be forgiven. Their lies and nonstop propaganda should not be forgotten. No one should ever take them seriously again. When they try to engage the public square, they should either be ignored entirely or met with a wall of mockery and derision. They are enemies of the American people, whom they openly despise, and there can be no real unity with them no matter what they might say in the future.

Going forward, it should be a mark of shame to be associated with MSNBC, CBS News, and CNN. Same goes for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Politico. All the “prestige” media outlets that perpetrated lies, distortions, and unhinged rhetoric about Trump should lose so much credibility that their reader and viewer bases collapse, advertisers abandon them, and they get broken up and sold off for parts. If Laurene Powell Jobs wants to run a vanity magazine for her own entertainment, fine. But let’s not pretend it’s a serious place where serious journalists work. We all know what it is now.

Legacy media outlets, the polling industry, the Democrat-funded nonprofits and the academics and activists who run them have all now been exposed as cogs in a giant propaganda machine. Kamala Harris was never ahead. She never had a chance of winning. There was no “joy.” She wasn’t “brat.” She didn’t even win the Democrat Party nomination, it was handed to her in a backroom deal. She isn’t relatable or cool, she’s the most cringey and fake person ever to run for president. Corporate media and the Democrats ran a massive psy-op on the American people to make them believe something that wasn’t true. And it failed. We should never forget that these people will say anything for the sake of power, so we should never trust them again.

For the government officials and institutions who tried to bankrupt and jail Trump, there should be more severe and formal consequences. On Wednesday it was reported that the Justice Department will be dismissing Special Counsel Jack Smith and dropping his cases against Trump before Trump takes office. That’s great, but Smith should not be allowed to simply walk away. He and everyone else at Biden’s DOJ who was involved in these lawfare cases against Trump needs to be investigated and held accountable for their actions.

And of course the problem goes far beyond Smith. What the Justice Department and the FBI did to Trump was one of the most egregious abuses of power in American history, and we shouldn’t just shrug our shoulders at it because Trump won. These agencies need to be dismantled entirely and re-built from scratch. The FBI in particular has shown itself to be an enemy of the American people and a danger to the republic. Its director, Christopher Wray, should not simply be allowed to resign. He should be removed and placed under criminal investigation.

Same goes for New York Attorney General Leticia James, whose lawfare against Trump is an ongoing scandal. James said on Wednesday that her office is preparing to “fight back” against the incoming Trump administration. She should be disbarred, at a minimum for trying to bankrupt Trump with a bogus fraud case in which there were no fraud victims.

Then there’s Liz Cheney, who in her role as vice chair of the Jan. 6 Committee has been accused of inducing witness perjury, destroying documents, and suppressing exonerating evidence. Cheney posted what seemed like a message of conciliation on X Tuesday night, saying we must accept the results of the election. But she shouldn’t get off so easily either. Her role in the Jan. 6 Committee should be fully investigated and she should face criminal charges if warranted.

The truth is, if Trump hadn’t won he’d be going to prison. For supporting Trump, Elon Musk would have been targeted by the government, bankrupted, and subjected to years of lawfare. The people who howled loudest about Trump weaponizing the government against his political opponents have spent years doing just that to Trump and his associates.

The idea that we should just forget all that now for the sake of unity is deeply misguided and naïve. If those responsible aren’t held accountable, they will never stop trying to destroy their enemies by any means they can. Before we ever achieve anything like unity in America again, there must be a reckoning and there must be justice. Without those things, the divisions in our country won’t be able to heal.

Even with a reckoning, unity will be difficult. We can’t just say “Oh well we’re all Americans in the end.” That won’t cut it. The stark reality is that there are a large number of our countrymen who are no longer Americans in any meaningful sense. As Glenn Ellmers has written, they “do not believe in, live by, or even like the principles, traditions, and ideals that until recently defined America as a nation and as a people. It is not obvious what we should call these citizen-aliens, these non-American Americans; but they are something else.”

After those who broke the law are held accountable, and those who lied are ostracized and ignored, we will still face the problem of disunity and division among our people. We will still be two nations occupying the same territory, with two irreconcilable visions of what the country should be. We can’t paper over those differences, and we shouldn’t.

To achieve real and lasting unity we’ll need a counter-revolution in America, a re-founding of the country. That in turn will require a conversion of the American people and a return to the ideals, principles, and way of life that made our republic possible in the first place.

Unity, Schmunity: Leftist Governors Declare War on Trump's Agenda Just Days After His Historic Victory

Well, all those Democrat calls for unity and a peaceful transfer of power didn’t last very long. As we’ve reported, California’s extremist governor Gavin Newsom quickly called for a special legislative session to prepare for future combat against President-elect Trump’s priorities, while the governor of Massachusetts promised not to cooperate with the new president’s directives on immigration.

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But they’re not the only ones. “Looks like the Dem Gov bat signal went out," as one of my colleagues said, because in what will probably be a long line of TDS-riddled state executives, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzer are also throwing down the gauntlet. Pritzker threatened, “You come for my people, you come through me.” Well, that's a wide enough target.

Murphy, meanwhile, vowed to "fight to the death" against the administration if he believes the new administration detects behavior "contrary to our values." Calming words.

Pritzker’s call for togetherness:

Way to represent all your people, JB:

Meanwhile, here’s Murphy:

He issued opposite messages at the same time:

"[A]s we respect the peaceful transition of power, if there is any attack on the Garden State or any of its communities from Washington, I will fight back with every fiber of my being," Murphy said.

"If there’s an opportunity for common ground, we will seize that as fast as anybody," he conversely added.

These governors are so repugnant in their divisive behavior. The American people have just delivered a very clear to the Democrat politicians in this country—namely that progressive policies have failed. People are tired of unfettered illegal immigration, sanctuary states and cities, epidemic crime, and rampant inflation. But these little wannabe dictators are going to preach unity out of one side of their mouths while fighting Donald Trump and the will of the people out of the other.

It was a great election if you’re a conservative. But it's far past time to jettison some of these undemocratic, radical governors and install some folks like Ron DeSantis who actually care about more than just their left-wing urban residents.

It looks like Trump is going to face the same types of opposition from within our own country as he did the last time around, but I’m confident that he’s learned many lessons since then. There’s a new—or at least, returning—sheriff in town.

Take note, JB and Phil.

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REMINDER: President Trump Agenda 47 Outline to Confront The Deep State

This is just a reminder of the March 2023 policy and intent presentation made by President Trump during his Agenda-47 series. This highlight is the specific actions he proposed to begin dismantling the Deep State. {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH:

There’s also a YouTube version below.

Democrats Couldn’t Get Away With 2020-Style Election Shenanigans In 2024 Thanks To The Election Integrity Movement

Donald Trump won in a landslide in part because Republicans and conservatives mobilized like never before to ensure free and fair elections.

Brianna Lyman reporting for The Federalist

The 2020 presidential election was marred by irregularities, insecure election practices, and last-minute rule changes that, as election integrity activists have since pointed out, benefitted Democrat Joe Biden. As The Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway put it in her bestseller, the election was “Rigged.”

But four years later, President-elect Donald Trump won in a landslide in part because Republicans and conservatives mobilized like never before to build a massive election integrity network focused on ensuring free and fair elections.

Take 2020 for example. Republican observers “were either kept out, or allowed inside but kept too far away from the counting to see what was happening” at the Philadelphia Convention Center, as explained by my colleague Beth Brelje.

But following reports on Tuesday that Republican poll watchers were being “turned away” in Philadelphia, York, Westmoreland, Allegheny, Lehigh, Cambria, Wyoming, and Lackawanna counties, the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) was on top of it.

RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a post on X that the committee “deployed our roving attorneys, engaged with local officials, and can now report that all Republican poll watchers have been let into the building.”

Similar action was taken in Milwaukee after the “Milwaukee Elections Commission announced over the weekend that certain voting precincts may be limited to only one Republican and one Democrat poll watcher on Election Day,” as the RNC wrote in a Monday statement. The RNC noted that the city’s elections commission “not disclosed which precincts” would be affected. The RNC filed suit, and Milwaukee responded by affirming that “it will respect the public’s right to access and observe the election process in accordance with the law,” the RNC announced in a follow-up statement.

On Tuesday, Republican poll watchers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin noticed something amiss. A poll watcher told The Federalist’s Matt Kittle that when the day began, the tabulator machines inspected by observers had been sealed.

“Later one of our observers noticed that the seals (on the machines) had been broken,” the source told Kittle. That means the machines “had effectively been unlocked, presenting a potential integrity breach,” Kittle explained, citing the observer. Roughly a dozen machines were compromised, sources said. RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump said on Tuesday that their legal team was aware of “unsecured” counting “conditions” in Milwaukee and that the RNC was “unambiguously calling on Milwaukee’s officials to do their jobs and count ballots quickly and effectively.”

Approximately 31,000 absentee ballots that were counted were slated to be recounted after the security problem, as Kittle reported.

But it wasn’t just the RNC that helped counter Democrats’ shenanigans with election integrity efforts.

Wisconsin’s “most notorious elections clerk” who “repeatedly failed to follow election integrity laws” was ordered to comply months after the Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit, as Kittle also reported. The suit alleged Green Bay Clerk Celestine Jeffreys “did not comply with procedures for auditing voters who registered to vote on Election Day” at their designated polling places for the past four years, Kittle wrote. The state election commission sent Jeffreys a letter late last week ordering her to certify after the election that she completed the necessary steps as required by the law and “Commission guidelines” regarding Election Day registration.

Election integrity has been an ongoing focus nationwide in the years and months leading up to the 2024 election. Just last year, Carol Snow (who is affiliated with the North Carolina Audit Force group), alerted the North Carolina State Board of Elections that the state’s voter registration form did not make it clear to applicants that they were required to submit their driver’s license identification number or the last four digits of their Social Security number, as The Federalist previously reported. The form only highlighted in red “required” fields like name, address, and date of birth.

The board acknowledged the form lacked clear instructions and, as NCSBE Public Information Director Patrick Gannon previously told The Federalist, unanimously agreed to update the form to make clear that registrants must provide either their driver’s license identification or the last four digits of their Social Security number.

Conservatives and election integrity advocates have also been working in the months leading up to Election Day to hold election officials accountable when it comes to maintaining clean voter rolls and ensuring only eligible citizens participate in U.S. elections. For example, in September, conservative group America First Legal lodged lawsuits on behalf of the Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona and resident Yvonne Cahill against 15 county election recorders in Arizona for allegedly failing “to take the actions required by law to ensure that foreign citizens are removed from their voter rolls,” as The Federalist has reported.

FBI Employees Terrified of Being Fired When Trump Arrives: He's 'Going to Smash the Place to Pieces'

Employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are reportedly terrified that there will be a "bloodbath" of layoffs once President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.

Which is odd, since our friends in the mainstream media have previously indicated the term "bloodbath" is a secret siren call for violence.

Kerry Picket of the Washington Times spoke to several inside sources who claim top officials at the bureau are “stunned” and “shellshocked” at the overwhelming victory for Trump in Tuesday's election.

Trump didn't just win -- he received an overwhelming mandate from the American people, along with solid Republican control of the Senate and very likely retaining control of the House.

There will be very little standing in the way of Trump's policies and platforms being implemented.

Who Will be First to Go at the FBI?

With that knowledge, it seems employees at the FBI are fraught with concern for their livelihoods. That starts at the top, with Director Christopher Wray, according to the insiders.

“It’s a countdown for Wray because [people here] don’t think he will stay to get fired after what Trump did to Comey,” the first source said. “Trump will say, Yeah, 'fire his ass. Don’t let him take the plane home.'"

Wray, who has overseen the malicious prosecution of Trump supporters involved in the mostly peaceful protest known as January 6th, even as his own bureau had laced the grounds with an unknown number of informants (former Capitol police chief Steven Sund has estimated the number - combined with DHS informants - to be in the dozens), should be the first to receive a pink slip.

Trump has previously called on Wray to resign for covering up President Joe Biden's cognitive decline in Congressional testimony. He needn't be given the opportunity to resign. Fire him. Day one.

It Isn't Just Wray

Beyond Wray, however, other senior management or executive-level officials at the FBI are equally concerned that their jobs may be in peril.

"Others on the 7th floor of the FBI are so concerned about their own jobs that they are likely to flood the Washington, D.C., private security job market," the report says.

Their sources indicate nobody feels safe from being let go, fully expecting Trump to “smash the place to pieces when he gets in," ushering in a spectacular “bloodbath.”

From an HR standpoint, of course. From their lips to Trump's ears.

They're Terrified of Elon Musk Too

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this new report involves the FBI sources who admit that they're worried about Elon Musk coming in and cleaning house as well.

Trump made a campaign promise vowing to create a government efficiency commission to audit the entire federal government. Musk would reportedly lead the effort.

One source tells the Times that cutting waste at the FBI will naturally lead to a massive reduction in staff, because the waste is everywhere in this partisan cesspool.

“When he tries to do efficiency at headquarters, the place is going to have five people … if he’s talking about a lot of dead weight,” they said, according to Picket.

“Try to find a person that’s actually working,” they continued, suggesting the FBI is clearly "bloated."

Well, we know somebody is working there. Overtime. Because they've charged over 1,265 individuals in relation to the J6 cases.

Speaking of which, the Times notes that some employees who didn't appreciate being forced to work the J6 beat are amused “that Trump [likely] pardons everybody involved” in those cases.

Other Feds Worried About Being Fired

It isn't just the folks at the FBI who are worried that President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance, and efficiency czar Elon Musk are going to clean house.

Within weeks of the election, a report surfaced covering various government agencies as they came to terms with the fact that their jobs might be on the line if Trump were to defeat Kamala Harris.

A large portion of these federal workers seeking to jump ship were with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They wanted out of a department they felt would be target-rich for a Trump administration eager to eliminate waste and overspending.

One couple complained that they were being forced to put off buying a new car and making home renovations because they were worried about their jobs.

Oh, the humanity.

Early on in his campaign, Trump announced a plan to clean up the federal government and take on the entrenched federal bureaucracy by requiring all federal employees to pass a Civil Service test to prove their understanding of the United States Constitution.

Requiring federal employees, especially those at the FBI, to prove they understand the Constitution will eliminate a substantial percentage of the bloat in and of itself.

The Biden-Harris administration has weaponized every facet of the Justice Department to jail their political opponents. They've used every facet of other government agencies to intrude on your personal lives through regulations and economic policies that cause hardships.

Come January 20th, let the cleanup commence. Mr. Trump, go ahead and "smash the place to pieces."