This past week we learned that under Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and FBI Director Christopher Wray all signed off on opening the Arctic Frost investigation, which formed the basis of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s false elector case against Trump, as well as for other Biden administration investigations into then-former President Trump.
Yet Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine, one of the esteemed establishment organs of the anti-Trump deep state, said in a recent interview that “until this president, we have not experienced a person who has, frankly, you know, authoritarian impulses and who believes that the government should be used as a weapon against his domestic political enemies.”
Where have you been this past decade, Jeffrey? Asleep at the wheel, willfully ignorant, or just dishonest as hell?
As I was finishing up this column, I saw Victor Davis Hanson’s article, “Joe Biden — and fellow Democrats — acted way more like a ‘king’ than Donald Trump,” on the same topic. There is some overlap, and he gives some additional examples explaining that the real authoritarians who acted like unchecked monarchs were Biden and Obama while they were in office, leaders from Democrat-led states and the left in general.
For example, “No red state ever sought to remove Biden or former Vice President Kamala Harris from their 2024 ballots. In contrast, 25 blue states attempted to take Trump off their ballots,” wrote Hanson.
Another one: “In 2024, the same backroom donors and politicos who had conspired to ensure Biden was the 2020 nominee now, against his wishes, in coup-like fashion, removed him from his own re-election ticket.
“Within 48 hours and without a delegate vote, they crowned Harris the presumed nominee. Queen Harris had not received a single delegate vote in her disastrous 2020 primary run.”
That’s democracy in action. I recommend reading his complete article.