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The media and other whining Democrats are bemoaning recent actions by the Trump Justice Department, which they claim show that the President is visiting retribution on his political foes.  They’re even trying to equate this to Richard Nixon’s so-called Enemies List.

Nixon maintained what has been called his Enemies List.  The list actually was denominated the Opponents List.  Although the Nixon Administration encouraged the IRS to audit those listed, an investigation proved the IRS never undertook such audits.

Nixon’s list contained 823 entries, and was a veritable Who’s Who of prominent Americans, including most Democratic Congressmen and Senators, labor leaders, journalists like Jack Anderson, and for some reason even Paul Newman, Tony Randall and Barbra Streisand.  (Okay, Streisand was an annoying bag even back then, so I’ll give Nixon that one).

The point is that Nixon was simply listing unfriendly persons and organizations which, apart from vocally opposing him politically, had done nothing to him which would warrant retribution.  The legal actions undertaken on the foes of President Trump are a completely different case.

To date, James Comey has been indicted for lying to Congress, Letitia James for mortgage fraud, and former National Security Advisor John Bolton for mishandling classified documents.  In addition, a mortgage fraud investigation is underway on Senator Adam Schiff (for brains), and former CIA Director John Brennan has been referred by Congress for prosecution for perjury.

These actions have the leftist media up in arms.  A recent article in the ultra-Left New Republic is a good example.  It claims, “The air is thick with talk of revenge.”  Coming from Democrats this is rich.  “In 2023, when Trump proclaimed to a conservative audience, ‘I am your retribution,’ he said that it would be ‘for those who have been wronged and betrayed,’ no small group in Trump’s mind.”

It’s actually no small group in anyone’s mind, as it included, off the top of my head, not only the President himself, and his children, but General Flynn, Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Paul Manafort, George Papadopulos, Rudy Giuliani, Linda McMahon, Roger Stone, and Alan Weisselberg, all of whom were subjected to Democrat witch hunts.  And, oh yes, let’s not forget the 430 Republican Congressmen, Senators,  Trump Administration officials, as well as 92 conservative organizations that Biden Prosecutor, Mad Dog Jack Smith, subpoenaed without any good faith reason.

Useless, fake Republican, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski has said,“retaliation is real.”  The New Republic reminds us “it was Michelle Obama who said, ‘When they go low, we go high,’ she might as well have been speaking for her husband and other Democratic leaders, who have shied away from bare-knuckle politics.”  Seriously?  Her husband prosecuted journalists.  And it was his Attorney General, Eric Holder, who said, “When they go low, we kick them.”  It’s what they called “the Chicago way.”

According to The New Republic, Trump rebelled against the norms.  Of course, one of the norms involved crooked bastards from both Parties lying to and ignoring the wishes of the voters.  It’s what made a Trump candidacy possible, and if that was a rebellion, it was long overdue.  The magazine drones on that, “We are dangerously near the precipice of an executive coup.”  Just how a sitting President can orchestrate a coup is unexplained.  On the other hand, Democrats staged a real coup attempt against Trump 45.

The New Republic then laughingly counsels that, “If political leaders refuse to accept the loss of elections, democracy is impossible.”  Really?  This will come as a shock to Hillary Clinton, Stacy Abrams, Nancy Pelosi, and all the other Democrats who have called, and are calling, Donald Trump an illegitimate President.  Hillary said the 2016 election was rigged, and Democrats have challenged every election they’ve lost in recent times.

The New Republic piously warns, “If rule of law means anything, it’s that the power of the State not be used for vengeance.”  Now with that, I agree.  It’s just a shame that Democrats didn’t practice what they now preach.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “There can’t be retribution unless somebody has screwed you first.”  Let’s explore that subject.

Comey says he’s a victim of retribution.  This from the man who treated his new boss as a criminal target.  He ambushed General Flynn in the first days of Trump 45, bragging that he never would had done it, but for the fact that Trump was new to Washington and didn’t know the rules.  He had the FBI, remember Peter Strozk and Lisa Page, working against Trump’s campaign, compiling “insurance” information to be used in case he won in 2016.  He used the Steele dossier, which he knew to be untrue, as well as falsified evidence, to obtain four wiretaps to spy on the Trump campaign and Administration.  He orchestrated the call for a Special Counsel, who’s investigation crippled Trump’s first term.  Against this backdrop, if Comey lied to Congress, why does he deserve a pass?

As an AG candidate, Letitia James pledged to “get” Trump before she had access to any evidence of supposed wrongdoing.  She constantly reminded us that “no one is above the law.”  She concocted a phony financial case to bankrupt Trump businesses. She tried to fine Trump $500 million for a case with no victims and no financial loss.  The fine was thrown out by an appellate court.  If she defrauded mortgage lenders, why should she be above the law?

Adam Schiff is under investigation for mortgage fraud.  Schiff says, “Trump’s “long and growing” list is not a secret, while warning his Republican colleagues that even they will not be protected from the president’s “vengeance.” Schiff is a pathological liar who ran the phony Trump impeachments.  He lied about  having seen evidence of wrongdoing which never existed.  As a member of the January 6th partisan witch hunt Committee, Schiff sensationalized what was largely trespassing, then destroyed all evidence exculpating the defendants.  Simply put, Adam Schiff is scum.  If he broke the law, he should face the music.

Apart from these examples, Democrats who are coming under scrutiny are the same people who sent the FBI to investigate parents at school board meetings, the same people who dared complain about boys in girls’ locker rooms, the same people who arrested and imprisoned grandmothers for praying outside abortion clinics, the same people who persecuted January 6th trespassers, and the same people who continually call Trump and his supporters Hitler and Fascist, conduct which led directly to two assassination attempts and the murder of Charlie Kirk.

The foes of Trump who now face the justice they denied to so many others are screaming bloody murder.  But what’s at the heart of their complaint?  Retribution?  Selective prosecution?  Vindictive prosecution?  These terms may play in the media, but they’re legally useless.  Selective prosecution?  Next time you get a speeding ticket, go to court and tell the judge he should let you go because many others were also speeding.  Good luck with that.

Vindictive prosecution?  James Comey’s actually planning a motion to dismiss on this basis.  Here’s the problem.  Comey and Letitia James aren’t in court because Donald Trump signed a Complaint against them.  They’re there because grand juries indicted them.  23 people went into a room and heard evidence, and at least 12 of them decided that probable cause exists to believe they broke the law.  So long as a court finds that enough evidence was presented to permit reasonable grand jurors to return an indictment, the case will go on, regardless of the Government’s motivation.

It’s often said that pay back is a bitch, and these prosecutions may well be pay back for the 4 indictments, the civil fraud case, the 2 impeachments, and the disruption of the lives, not to mention the bankrupting of so many people who were hauled into court simply because they supported Donald Trump.  If it is retribution, I say it’s long overdue.