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Adorable Deplorable's avatar

Hope and pray you are right about Kash and Bondo Bondi because without convictions and prison time there will be nothing to stop this in the future. Me, I just don't think anyone is going to be held accountable. Except maybe to further insult our intelligence by someone losing a pension or their security clearance. It looks an awful lot like the Left (with the help of the IC) still run the system.

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Pamazon's avatar

I'm with Don here. I don't think GOD saved PDT for defeat.

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William Coulter's avatar

We’re very early in the game and the good guys and gals are ahead. They may get tackled for a loss from time to time but they still have the ball.

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Don Burgundy's avatar

The good guys and gals recruited incredibly well. They know their dirty, cheating opponents, and have a game plan to beat them. Importantly, they have Big Mo on their side this time. The stadium is rocking, and I hope to be hoarse from it all when the fight is won.

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NNTX's avatar

I hope you are right. Don't see BHO going down though. OTOH, his "popularity" in recent polls as a leader of the Dems/Left is quite low--iirc 5%.

Maybe ignominy while savoring his filthy lucre will be his fate, at least on earth.

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Adorable Deplorable's avatar

Don't see the good guys ahead. Tied-up at best.

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Gail W's avatar

DJT got all his nominees (minus Matt Gaetz. Bondi's much better.)

The left is a Costco-sized dumpster fire.

Ir's barely over 60 days since Trump was inaugurated. Give it time.

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Jake's avatar

The Judgefare and Lawfare was expected. The Trumpster has kept them on their heels to date. Maybe releasing Crossfire Hurricane was a part of his plan to blunt or eliminate the judge shopping. One way or another, we'll soon find out..

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Joseph Kaplan's avatar

Ditto. Sadly

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Cheech's avatar

Words, words, and more words. Alan Alda, when asked if he would write another book, referenced a dictionary, saying the words were all there, he just had "to figure out what order to put them in".

All this obfuscation with words by Boasberg, Clinesmith, his attorney, et al, trying to smooth out Clinesmith's felony is felonious itself. The e-mail Clinesmith sent to his CIA colleague clearly and directly asked if Carter Page was a CIA asset. The answer was "yes". Clinesmith changed the "yes" to "no". Enough with the mincing.

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Playswithneedles's avatar

I voted for Comey Level because, even though he is irrelevant at this point, no one is going to indict the first (half) black president. His melanin level was, is and will always be his indestructible armor. The best we can hope for is the trashing of his reputation and any future income and his complete disappearance from the political scene.

If I’m wrong about that, and I pray that I am, I will be filled with schadenfreude and ecstasy.

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Jim Nelson's avatar

Totally agree with your assessment. Obama is as close to untouchable as can be.

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JT's avatar

I dunno about that. The blacks are finally rejecting Obama - and his castigation of black men not voting for Kamala was hysterically funny. Right there, he proved the Dems don't give a flying crap about blacks - especially the men. And now we have the mouthiest idjit 'Jazz' Crockett attempting to represent the blacks from the hood?! When she's really a privledged POS is uproarisly funny. (Sorry if that's mispelled - my Margarita is kicking in. LOL)

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Larry B's avatar

My vote was on the wishful thinking side. No one has been cited, indicted, arraigned, prosecuted for destroying our nation and its laws. I do believe in miracles and I will pray one happens with imprisoning these people that had even the slightest bit of a role in the destruction (attempted?) of our government. G-d speed to Pam Bondi and may she find her pen and paper to actually write an indictment or two (hundred).

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Suzie's avatar

If one sat down and wrote down a list of ALL the felonious acts the Democrats have perpetrated just over the last 8-10 years that lost would be long indeed. And none of those cases would be simple, but no one more than Trump himself woild love to see these perps frog-marched into jail for their malevolent misdeeds.

But it is also Trump who understands better than anyone that he has but a brief window in time to literally save this country from ruin before he gets to hand the job off to his successor.

And while it also of the utmost importance that Justice must done in order to resurrect and restore the Rule of Law of the land, he knows as does his AG that they must prioritize that case or cases that not only have the greatest chance for success, but also will have the most lasting and profound impact for the betterment of the nation

going forward.

If you look down your list of all those egregious acts perpetrated by these felons, choosing which one to come out of the gate with is no small task.

If your are Trump and Bondi, you KNOW it best be the one where all your ducks are rock solidly in a row, because the very future of the entire MAGA movement and all Trump seeks to accomplish on these next few years and the midterms especially, will depend on nothing short of victory.

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NNTX's avatar

One cause for hope, for me, is that Dan Bongino is Kash Patel's deputy. Thrilled that Patel is Dir of the FBI. That said, Bongino chronicled the vicious conspiracies undergirding Crossfire Hurricane in great detail. He, along with Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse, was one of the earliest and most faithful to recount the abundant lies and maneuvers of the Left during Trump's first term.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Sean Hannity, John Solomon, and Gregg Jarrett chronicled it too, in great faithfulness and detail, on Fox. They should have gotten a Pulitzer for it.

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NNTX's avatar

In the early days it was only Bongino, Solomon and Sundance.

Hannity is ok...but tends, imho, to wait till the narrative is politically acceptable to his Fox bosses. Not a fan of Fox. Hannity ok...though he interrupts his guests too much.

We cut the cable last year. Don't miss it at all.

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JT's avatar

Completely agree with your assessment of Hannity. He drives me nuts. I'm forced to listen while taking care of parents because FOX is on all day. Makes me a bit crazy. He's the yappiest of dogs out there.

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NNTX's avatar

You are good to take care of your parents...and it could be worse, what if they were listening to "The View"?

Hang in there.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Yeah, I also haven't watched Fox in quite a while, just recently here and there to see how they're doing. Some recently red-pilled folks are finding Fox enlightening, which is fine and good.

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Jake's avatar

I wondered what the Trumpster would release next after Signalgate. I agree he's been planning for it a long time. He seems to be trying to take the remaining air out of the Dems tires before the midterms. It would have to be something big to get recalcitrant Repubs to take the time to vote. If it's as bad as the Surbster says, it'll shake the very foundations of the DC conglomerate. Release the Kracken.......

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William Coulter's avatar

Since Radcliffe testified that the CIA placed the Signal app on his devices I assume the CIA placed them on all of the devices in question.

Would they install a back door to the app as well? My money is on yes.

This may become a more revealing of how the deep state operates than anything else.

Trump and friends will learn much from this.

If I was a deep state operative I would be very afraid down the road. They may have given away a lot of information for very little gain.

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Suzie's avatar

Apparently Trump has assigned Elon to be part of the investigation into the Signal-gate affair. I would imagine he’s going to be looking to determine the actual security protocols within that app and whether it was, or can be accessed via a “back door”.

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LuAnn's avatar

Big Balls needs to be on this case!

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NNTX's avatar

Hoping Elon can ermine how and who put Goldberg on the Signal text invite list.

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John Swindall's avatar

I have faith. I believe the best is yet to come. I expect the reveal to cause some to flee in exile.

They are now being totally exposed and will lack the legal cover to protect them for the crimes that they have committed.

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Alan's avatar

Trump has played this masterfully. The swamp firewall is headed by Roberts and Boasberg and the entirety of the D.C. judicial circuit. If I was Trump, I’d work on flipping Bill Barr. He played interference for Boasberg and Roberts inside Trump’s DOJ. He’s a longtime CIA asset and Trump knows Bluto’s weak spot. He was terrified of being an Attorney General indicted over the 2020 stolen election and abandoned Trump in December 2020 when his cover-up work for Roberts and Boasberg was complete. As big of a pig as Barr is, I don’t think he would commit perjury. He’ll rat out his accomplices to save his precious reputation.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

That might indeed be a good strategy, to "work on flipping Bill Barr".

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Cookie McCall's avatar

Barr had some very positive comments last night regarding the legitimacy of Trump's recent actions

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Alan's avatar

Yes, he did. Barr’s been gently disagreeing the past couple of weeks re the TROs and stays by the corrupt district judges across the country.

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Deb Hill's avatar

All these judges and lawyers have one rule. Always protect the National Security State. That's why they brought in Bondo Barr to smooth things over.

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Alan's avatar

I agree, but I also wonder how many are protecting their political cover, Obama.

Obama’s mask really slipped during the last week’s of the campaign and the young black men were not impressed. There’s also the mystery surrounding Obama’s bruised face and hands the day after his young black chef mysteriously drowned in a few feet of water on Martha’s Vineyard. Between his fake Social Security card, birth certificate, another dead black man in 2008 who worked in the State Dept and covered up birth certificate and SS card, Crossfire Hurricane and the tens of millions he pocketed from arms dealers to Syria in 2013, you have to wonder how much longer his foot soldiers will risk jail for that POS. One will break, but he/she and family will need to enter the Fed’s witness protection program.

If all the Bidens suddenly disappear, they are the ones who turned on him. 🤣🤣🤣

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JT's avatar

BINGO!

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James Wills's avatar

"knee-deep in the hoopla" - Easter egg! Several other R&R references in there, but identified.

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The Trump Hellbound Train has begun to slowly roll - lots of MAGA people are patting their feet impatiently, but it's clear to me that Trump used his four years out of office to plan, and plan carefully. If I were a guilty Democrat (but I repeat myself), I would be defecating Wilkinson Swords about now. Popcorn at the ready: Laissez les bons temps rouler!

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Jake's avatar

I vividly remember Hillary lamenting, "If that Son of a Bitch wins, we'll all hang".. I guess we may find out why she uttered that in her time of ultimate despair.

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Alice Ball's avatar

💯 agree! It’s coming. They’ve been planning for years. What we lived through from 2016 forward was just a fraction of what Trump lived through at their hands. What we’re going to see for a while is the reckoning and the consequences of their actions and I am happy every day for it! There is absolutely no way on earth That they will not pursue this until they’re all in jail or disbarred. Even if they are hands off with Obama, he and Hillary will be utterly and completely exposed as the criminals they are.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

And this is necessary, because a majority of the Democratic voters MUST take a red pill--voluntarily or thru watching the trials of all the Democratic criminals--or our country will not be able to go forward safely.

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LuAnn's avatar

I am at the point where I think almost everyone should be forced to take the red pill.

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Jim Murray's avatar

Stooge Boasburg, appointed to the wildly corrupt DC Circuit by Obama, is one of 15 judges. Court procedures mandate case assignments on a rotating basis. What are the odds that Boasburg was randomly assigned the cases against Trump? *** Never follow wanna be perceived as conservative Jonah Goldberg's advice. *** Government attorneys appearing in matters of discipline always, always, always get slaps on the hand no matter what. Got caught concealing evidence? Man you knew was innocent spent 12 years in prison? Not to worry. You get a 30 day suspension from the State Bar. No punishment by the criminal court. The county pays for your defense against the innocent man's claim for damages. The State and County pay the damages. (one of many real cases - Santa Clara County, CA.) That is how the Protect Your Own system is designed. *** Coverup? What coverup? The official conclusion of the Warren Commission reached the ballistically impossible conclusion that a bullet traveled through Kennedy's head, made two changes of direction to travel through Governor Connolly while remaining intact as if it was just manufactured. The Ford Museum still has the windshield from the Kennedy Lincoln. There is what appears to be bullet hole in that windshield. The Commission report fails to mention that irrelevant little fact.

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Steve Boggs's avatar

Does anyone here think we’ll find out who ‘inadvertently’ added Goldberg to the chat? And if not inadvertent, why?

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Jake's avatar

Not buying that it was "inadvertent". Some are positing that the staffer was tricked into selecting a contact that had been changed after a hack. It's pretty odd that Goldberg just happened to have been available when the chat started. The Dems needed something to blunt the Trumpster and this was the best they could do.

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Steve Boggs's avatar

Yes, a few too many coincidences

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Suzie's avatar

Senator Warner, in the Nat Sec Hearing the other day mentioned, (in the midst of his spittle-laden outrage), that Goldberg had received the invite at the time he was sitting in his car at a grocery store parking lot.

Didn’t read the Atlantic article, so don’t know if that info came from there or from subsequent Goldberg interviews about the matter.

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JT's avatar

Warner is spittle itself. An elitist that thinks he actually knows National Security. He's worked against that since he got into office. Goldberg should be prosecuted; he's got a history of being a liar.

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Epstein Did Not Kill Himself's avatar

The chances of it being inadvertent are extremely small. Just think, first the new contact just happens to be a reporter from an unfriendly news organization. What are the odds of that? Goldberg was either added by Walz, a close Walz associate, or someone there close and a member of the deep state.

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LuAnn's avatar

Added by a member of the deep state.

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Alice Ball's avatar

Lots of chatter that it was either a set up to expose waltz or a set up to again remind Europe that it is responsible for its own security.

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Suzie's avatar

In the ongoing negotiations to get to a ceasefire/ peace deal over the Ukraine/Russia war, Putin asked that EU agriculture sanctions be lifted. The EU said, “No”.

They are actively working to scuttle any progress toward peace.

My take is they’re doing it to also obstruct Trump any way they can.

Amazing.

We live in interesting times.

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Brian LeMay's avatar

Don't we ? We are going to have to make hard on Western Europe so their people will rise up and reclaim their countries .

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JT's avatar

They better hurry up. The UK is fully totalitarian now with hard Islamist leanings. NOT good.

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Jim Nelson's avatar

Remember that Trump's first NSA back in 2017 was Gen. Mike Flynn who was set up by Jim Comey in a sting. So now we have Mike Waltz, NSA to PDJT's second term being hounded by Dems and the media for the Signal snafu. Coincidence? I hope Trump tells the mob to piss up a rope and backs Waltz.

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james garrett's avatar

Ann Coulter writes yesterday;

" National Security Adviser Mike Waltz included The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg......"

...and I know many here at Surber University hate Ann..... Trump dumped her after election and she has behaved like ex-girl friend scorned...but I believe that she and Jeff Sessions were integral to Trump 45.....

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JT's avatar

What happened to Ann? She used to be the darling. Somehow, she's now the woman scorned. I missed the cat fight.

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LuAnn's avatar

It might have been a deep state staffer.

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Brian LeMay's avatar

If there is an electronic trail , it's just a matter of time . Whomever is to blame was to quick on the trigger .

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Brian LeMay's avatar

Dang it , " too quick " .

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Kevin C.'s avatar

The Atlantic should be referred to as “Mrs. Steve Jobs’ Atlantic Magazine” to remind readers it is a (another) liberal billionaire pushing an agenda.

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Don Surber's avatar

Point well taken

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MartyB's avatar

Remind me what the sentence for treason is. I’m looking forward to the gallows being rebuilt at the Capitol. Only this time they’ll be used by the legitimate government and its elected President. FJB and B Hussein.

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Steve (recovering lawyer)'s avatar

The question of the hour is: Will America continue to be a representative republic or go further down the road of government by unelected autocrats? Will the cabal of unelected judges and administrators of the deep state be allowed to rule us or will they be (probably temporarily) checked by Trump and those he has brought with him? The answer may be forthcoming. Meanwhile the application of Conquest's Second and Third Laws of Politics to our national government becomes ever more self-evident: 2. Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing. 3. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

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LuAnn's avatar

Yes to that, Steve. Conquest's Second and Third Laws of Politics are playing out all over the Western world. It's rule by unelected bureaucrats and globalists. And voters are starting to wake up, but the slumber is deep. What we are getting now in Canada is an unelected globalist foisted on us by the Liberal Party of Canada. His name is Mark Carney and Canadians should be very afraid. But the whole election is now being wrapped up in a Trump tariffs vs. Canada fight. Canada is almost lost and if voters are stupid enough to elect this guy, we are done.

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Mitchell Moore's avatar

"Trump must make Obama pay."

Definitely. Obama is the evil head of the snake.

Any real reporter would salivate at the release of these records. The legacy media will circle the wagons to protect the Deep State.

Great job, Mr. Surber, of connecting the dots for us on Malcolm Wallace. Thank you.

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NNTX's avatar

Yes. I think Mr. Surber buried the lede on this post.

The culpability of the corrupt, lying and awful LBJ is a HUGE story.

So many of our current woes can be laid at the feet of LBJ: 1)The trillions spent on the "War on Poverty" with no discernible results, 2) Vietnam escalation and subsequent damage to our military and our defense priorities, 3) HUGE expansion of the Welfare state, 4) Morphing the more noble approach to Civil Rights championed by MLK into a toxic victim laden identity politics approach, 5) Affirmative Action as a cudgel to undermine merit in every realm of life.

Sure that other Surberites can add more to the list of LBJ's legacy and its cost to us 60 years later.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

That was a good list!

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NNTX's avatar

Please add others...LBJ wrought must damage to the body politic.

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LuAnn's avatar

Unfortunately, there are few "real" reporters in the MSM left to do the work. But I do think that new media can unravel this mess.

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Danny Huckabee's avatar

Obama will never be touched. The rich white liberals, Jews and gentiles, who propelled him to power will never admit error and would do anything to protect him. There will be revelations made public, for sure, that will embarrass him, but no convictions. Even if Patel and team bring him to trial, jury nullifications by either white liberals or blacks on the jury will prevent conviction.

Be thankful if at least some of the upper tier gangsters and some downstream get justice. All the institutions are packed with leftists and they are not going let their man get convicted. The very gentle handling of Paul Weiss by Trump, considering all the mayhem and criminality they have been engaged in for years, shows that even he isn't going to much more than embarrass the principals and make very minor dents in their networths.

Danny Huckabee

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Obama may become the O.J. Simpson of the 21st century. Out and free, but everyone knows he did it.

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Danny Huckabee's avatar

I think that's correct. He'll be shunned by all but the fanatical socialists and will have less and less public influence over time, as most everyone will avoid him.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

And, like O.J., it will be Obama's race that lets him slide from proper prosecution. And that is because Americans at heart are not a vindictive people. Like Douglas Baringer comments here today, "We are too good hearted to finish the daunting job of slaying the dragons."

Obama will likely be exposed as a devoted Marxist, who "under the radar" partnered with the Deep State, and corrupted our judiciary, and Lord only knows what the real story is as to Michelle. But Obama was the first black President of America, and he was elected because millions and millions of Americans were willing to give him a chance and hoped he would do well.

So Obama does represent something about what is best about America, and for that reason, grace will likely be shown to him.

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LuAnn's avatar

Good summary, TPG.

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