Desperate Trump haters and the Jan. 6 lynch mob

 Conrad Black:

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... The same Peggy Noonan who told us 18 months ago that President Donald Trump was a “malignancy metastasizing in the Oval,” threw down the mask of calm counselor to the Republican Party and emerged the full-metal jacket Trump-hater. She expects great things of the Jan. 6 committee, a shabby Pelosian lynch-mob with 14 seasoned prosecutors, although the Congress has no power to prosecute anyone, and where the Republican leader’s nominations to the committee were rejected. This is a kangaroo court where the kangaroos have been replaced by jackals.

In phrasing her charges of insurrection as she did, Noonan denied the legitimacy of the crowd of hundreds of thousands of peaceful supporters whom Trump addressed, and focused entirely on the hooligans whom she clings to with the fervor of rigor mortis as faithful representatives of Trump the insurrectionist, in the nasty and forlorn hope that it will extirpate Trump after all the silver stakes and misapplied crucifixes of relentless years of Trump-hate have failed.

The director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, said shortly after the Jan. 6 incident that he had found no connection between the vandals and Trump or his campaign. A moron with 10 percent of Noonan’s intelligence could see that the last thing in the world Trump wanted was violence inside the U.S. Capitol, and it doesn’t require Sherlock Holmes to see the desperation of the attempt of Trump’s enemies to attach sedition to the bill of attainder they had been trying to write up to dispose of him for five years.

There were over 40 million potentially harvested ballots in the 2020 election, where about 45,000 flipped votes in Pennsylvania and two of Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin (where there was completely inadequate verifiability) would have won it for Trump. The Republican Trump-haters have drawn their wagons into a circle, and Noonan has endorsed Sen. Mitch McConnell’s assertion that Jan. 6 was “a violent insurrection meant to stop the constitutionally mandated process.”

Trump warned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser that reinforcements would be needed for the Capitol police, unusually for someone plotting an insurrection. They ignored him. He saw that there could be a fringe of hooligans in the large and peaceful crowd of his supporters that he addressed on the Ellipse that day, and he urged them to demonstrate “peacefully and patriotically.”

The preceding election was of doubtful constitutionality, and the judicial coequal third branch of government that was called upon to judge the issues raised by the extraordinary amendments to the voting and vote-counting procedures in a number of swing states in the election simply abdicated. The courts refused to hear any of the 19 lawsuits that directly challenged the constitutionality of the changes that brought about the unusual factors in determining the outcome of the election. None of these issues was judged on its merits, and the overwhelmingly biased national political media attempted to sell the country the fraud that the issue of the legality of the election had been entirely determined by the failure of Rudy Giuliani’s helter-skelter trick-or-treat canvas of courts on behalf of individual aggrieved voters.

McConnell and Noonan know perfectly well that they have joined entirely with the Democrats in trying to use the unhappy events of Jan. 6, 2021, as a method of politically disposing of Trump. No one who voted for or publicly favored the conviction of Trump on the second of his spurious impeachment trials should be judged acceptable to retain any position in the Republican Party.
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To date, none of those indicted for the events of Jan. 6 have been charged with insurrection to my knowledge, but the Trump haters are desperate to charge him.  Black is right about the Jan. 6 committee.  It is a bad faith operation by those who want to thwart a democratic comeback of Trump.  Meanwhile, they have stuck the country with the most incompetent President in history with Biden. 

There are legitimate questions about the 2020 election that should be investigated and dealt with.  What is not legitimate is the Jan. 6 committee.  It is illegally constituted and pursuing a means of thwarting democracy.