Issue: Law

Even fully paid-up members of the let sleeping dogs lie club must sit up and take notice.

When respected George Washington University law professor and Fox Contributor Jonathan Turley writes a column like this, you know Russia collusion-gate has legs. Here’s Turley’s headline:

Democrats pulled the greatest political con job ever on Americans. It’s finally unraveling

Turley writes:

This week, Washington was rocked by new releases in the declassification of material related to the origins of the Russian investigation. The material shows further evidence of a secret plan by the Clinton campaign to use the FBI and media to spread a false claim that Donald Trump was a Russian asset. With this material, the public is finally seeing how officials and reporters set into motion what may be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated in American politics. 

What is emerging in these documents is a political illusion carefully constructed by government officials and a willing media. The brilliance of the trick was getting reporters to buy into the illusion; to own it like members of an audience called to the stage by an illusionist.

Similarly sober-minded is Douglas Murray, who argues that “it’s important to get answers to Hillary’s RussiaGate plot.” The latest cache of documents to be declassified were the “annex” to the Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation. You’ll never guess where they apparently were:

Alas, the day is here: the annex to the Durham report, the investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion hoax that former Attorney General William Barr initiated, has been declassified and released. It was discovered in the FBI burn bags by Director Kash Patel.

It wasn’t just this file—thousands of documents related to the Russian interference investigation that the Obama DOJ, or lack thereof, conducted. The annex is clear about a few things, some of which you’ve already read about from Katie. 

The annex material is two things: extremely juicy and deeply troubling. Shawn Fleetwood of The Federalist examines Soros executive, who predicted that the FBI would “put more oil into the fire” to help the hoax along. The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland says the legacy media hasn’t woken up to the Russia hoax but the public has. Meanwhile, investigative reporter John Solomon says the annex is the “smoking gun.”

The Democrats have been “rending their garments and screaming their hatred for Donald Trump” since before 2016, but it’s not working says Liberal Patriot Ruy Teixeira. Teixeira advises them too “give up on #Resistance 2.0.” Teixeira writes:

In short, voters get that Democrats hate Trump; they’ve already priced that in. Endlessly reminding voters of that fact and how Trump must be #Resisted! does nothing to change Democrats’ fundamental problem: voters neither like nor trust them and therefore do not find them an obvious choice over their opponents.

Not everybody got the memo, as a frail old man who emerged from somewhere to deliver an incoherent address last night obviously didn’t. Also unemployed, Kamala Harris was on Stephen Colbert (ditto employment status) last night, where she peddled her new book—“107 Days”—you should go on Amazon just to read the summary–hilarious.       

The New York Post cover this morning is the sea of blue at the funeral of hero NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, who was murdered in the Midtown Manhattan rampage. “The Most New York Story There Is” is the headline, a reference to the fallen Officer as the son of both New York and Bangladesh.  Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch delivered an emotional eulogy.

“She Was Murdered in Midtown. The Internet Celebrated It” is The Free Press headline on a story about another casualty of the Midtown murders (I prefer “casualty to victim;”they fell in a war against civilization), Wesley LePatner. The TFP subhead:

Wesley LePatner was a mother, a wife, and a beloved boss. But to a growing number of people, she was a symbol of everything they hate.

Ms. LePatner was an executive at Blackstone, known as a mentor to young women.

The New York Post has published a disturbing picture of the face of Holly, the woman brutally beaten in the viral Cincinnati beatdown:

The woman viciously pummeled in a viral Cincinnati brawl has returned home to Russia — as relatives of one of the attackers claim the brutal beatdown is only drawing national outrage because the victim is white, according to reports.

The female victim — identified as Holly by a US senator from Ohio — was left with a gruesome black eye, busted lip, and bruises covering her face and neck after being knocked out during the horrifying melee that erupted in the city’s downtown early Saturday, shocking footage and photos showed.

Holly is also a casualty in a war against civilization.

A Cincinnati City Counsel member, you might recall, gloated that Holly and other casualties deserved the beatings because of their race. Victor Davis Hanson writes about the “the Cincinnati copouts.” Hanson cites four oddities in the attacks:

Three, there was neither a police presence nor any timely Good Samaritan interventions.

Instead, what ended the attacks was simply the fact that at least two of the targets appeared nearly comatose. So their assailants apparently concluded that their agenda of beating whites into unconsciousness was mostly complete.

Four, oddly few of the usual black spokespeople who habitually comment on interracial violence were to be seen.

Fox viewers will know about the Cincinnati brawl, but the three major broadcast networks did not cover it.

And now for some non-violent, good news.

Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel writes this morning “The Rise of the Climate Right.” The headline is a big misleading. You imagine RINOs protesting in favor of stringent net zero regulations. But that’s not what it is:

Something important happened this week, if the fuming response is anything to go by. The country is witnessing the rise—finally—of a scientifically armed and debate-ready climate right. The “consensus” gatekeepers don’t like it one bit.

The Energy Department issued a report whose title might glaze eyes: “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” The New York Times, foaming with indignation, rolled out every shame word to denounce the report’s authors as “skeptics” who “misrepresent” and “cherry-pick” as they “undermine” and “attack” the “consensus.” This fury was at striking odds with the smug “we’ve won” tone of recent climate journalism.

First Democrats said President Trump would crash the economy and when that didn’t happen, they said the Trump economy is a mirage, according to a column by Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York. Byron writes:

First of all, there’s no doubt that an annual GDP growth of 3.0% is a good report. But, just as the first quarter figure was low because of tariff-related increased imports, so the second quarter figure was high because of tariff-related decreased imports. So you can mentally take a little off the top. But remember that, even taking into account a drop in imports, the prediction for second quarter GDP was 2.3% — and then it came in at 3.0%. So it is good news. 

And it is not a mirage. And it is not crashing the economy. Obviously, Democrats want to diminish President Trump’s accomplishments in any way they can. That includes talking down the economy. But when they say the president is crashing the economy, or that economic growth is a mirage, they only make themselves look less credible.

President Trump unleashed new tariffs yesterday and that and the new jobs report brought the market futures down early this morning. The Canada deal is in jeopardy because Canada backs a Palestinian State.  You know what a Palestinian State is (to go back to a Byronic word)? A mirage. It doesn’t currently exist.

Canada is not the only country given to fantasy. “Diplomatic Terrorism?: France’s Recognition of an Imaginary Palestinian State” is a Gatestone headline. You can read the definition of a state.  A Jerusalem Post editorial asks, “Why Is Europe Rewarding Hamas Terror with a Palestinian State?”

And closing with some good, clean fun—Don’t miss Jeffrey Blehar’s delightful “Jasmine Crockett, Genuine Counterfeit.”