This week’s political news was dominated by former Congressman Matt Gaetz withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general to replace the worst AG in US history, the lawless Merrick Garland. While Gaetz could have been a change agent well-suited to clean house from top to bottom at the DOJ, as Gaetz said as he withdrew his name from consideration, his confirmation battle would have been a needless distraction from the Trump 47 agenda. We agree.
The horse-trading that occurs when a new administration takes charge is substantial. Names are floated with confirmations far from guaranteed. We believe that Trump knew all along that a Gaetz confirmation was a long shot, that he put his name forward as much to get Democrats, liberals, progressives, and the dying legacy media’s heads to explode as it was for the revenge or retribution of the past nine years.
Having Gaetz step back from consideration might have been negotiated to get the remaining people confirmed. While the far left was clearly playing checkers, Trump is playing 4D chess.
It’s likely that new nominee Pam Bondi was the intended person all along given how quickly her name was elevated mere hours after Gaetz’s departure. This has many Democrats and just about all of the legacy media hyperventilating.
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There is much unfinished business at the DOJ given what’s happened during the Biden-Harris-Garland stewardship of the agency for almost four years. There are public figures who deserve new scrutiny and prosecution for their roles over the last eight years. Three immediately come to mind. Obviously, there’s former DNI chief James Clapper and former CIA chief John Brennan, both of whom got free passes for having perjured themselves during their congressional testimony.
Another is the now-disgraced Liz Cheney, who was trotted out by the failed Harris-Walz candidacy as a paragon of Republican virtue. Who on the Harris-Walz team thought this was a good idea after having vilified the Cheneys, Dick and Liz, as unrepentant warmongers for the last quarter of a century? Their “endorsement” of the Harris-Walz ticket was one of many contributing factors to the ticket’s overwhelming defeat.
Liz Cheney has a lot to answer for beyond her repudiation last year by her constituents in Wyoming, where, as a sitting Congresswoman, she was trounced by more than 30 points. She was a willing, enthusiastic “Republican” participant in Benny Thompson’s sham J6 House Committee hearings, which afterward has been credibly accused of destroying important documents. To paraphrase lawyer and Trump ally Mike Davis of the Article 3 Project (A3P), we need to haul Cheney’s “fat ass” before Congressional committees and get her on the record to explain what happened to those documents or, alternatively, exercise her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. That’s a win-win situation that hopefully will lead to her prosecution.
Now based on new reporting from John Solomon and Steven Richards on the Just the News website, we have a fourth person to add to this rogues’ gallery, US Capitol Police officer, Michael Byrd. No longer shielded by Congressional Democrats and Garland’s tainted DOJ, it’s finally time for Byrd to be held accountable for the only death that occurred on J6, that of Ashli Babbitt.
This so-called “hero” of J6 shot and killed an unarmed young woman who was exercising her First Amendment right to free speech on that fateful day. That she may have been guilty of trespassing was no reason for the 6-foot-2-inch Byrd to kill her in cold blood without any legal consequences. Byrd was absolutely reckless, receiving no punishment and, in fact, was subsequently promoted to captain for this senseless killing.
Babbitt’s family and her memory deserve better, much better.
And it’s not that this tragic event could not have been predicted. As Just the News’ reporting states, Byrd had a long record of questionable actions prior to J6. Here’s a list of a few:
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A failed shotgun qualification test
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A failed FBI background check
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A 33-day suspension for a lost weapon
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And worst of all, a precursor for his actions on J6, a referral to prosecutors for firing his gun in a residential area at a stolen car, showing willful disregard for the safety of others
Now with a new administration and a new AG about to take power, Babbitt’s memory and her family deserve that Byrd be held accountable for causing Babbitt’s needless death; at a minimum, charges of manslaughter are warranted, possibly second-degree murder.
This is not retribution; this is justice for Ashli Babbitt.
Let’s hope that Trump’s DOJ finally holds Byrd accountable given his less-than-checkered service record detailed here, not awarded an undeserved promotion two years later for Babbitt’s cold-blooded killing.
Remember, all of you J6 truthers, no one other than Babbitt died on J6, and not a single police officer. One police officer, Brian Sicknick, died two days later due to natural causes, a stroke. Period. That’s one undeniable truth of J6.
The other truth of J6 is the unprecedented detention of demonstrators arrested on that day, without any due process or access to legal representation. Merrick Garland’s DOJ was not interested in the rule of law; they were only interested in demonstrating raw power and their willingness to incarcerate or even kill those who defied them, regardless of the actual threat.
With Matt Gaetz out, and Pam Bondi now the nominee for attorney general, if confirmed she will be tasked with bringing accountability back to those in power. Michael Byrd’s killing of Ashley Babbitt is an open-and-shut case. Garland’s persecution of J6 demonstrators was clearly unlawful and he must answer for it. And intelligence community chiefs abusing their positions and lying about it to Congress needs to be dealt with decisively and lawfully.
Call it retribution, or revenge, or payback if you must. It is the only path to restoring the confidence of the public in our governmental institutions. If it is even possible at this point.
I replied on a previous VDH post on what the American people want, need, and must have, based upon what the Rule of Law Demands. Retribution will be the application of the law. No Lawfare should ever be used again and in fact the violations of black letter law were so egregious and ubiquitous that all that Republicans and newly appointed officials need to do is apply the law as it is meant to be applied. My suggestion is that no time should be wasted to advance forward using Def-Con 4 tactics. It will not be long before the media will reinvent the expected defense of accusing the Administration of doing what they have done. Hell, they are going to do it anyway because that is their Alinsky playbook MO and they know no other. The Democratic Party is fully transformed. They are the SSS Party… Slavery, Segregation and Socialism. They are an American Party no longer and the few conservative Democrats I know (there are some Al Smith types) admit that their party has been coopted by feral and rabid socialists (fascists) which aim to fundamentally change America even if they have to destroy her. And the first thing they did, and continue to do, is to ignore, malign and use law which is not applicable (ultra vires).
I previously said that I can forgive a lot of what Trump may not get right (already batting 95%) but the one thing America can not forgive him for, including me, is to leave the guilty unpunished. The way to peace and prosperity is to do what Netanyahu is doing because he must. America is at war and the evidence is the body count representing innocent lives and that includes women and children who never deserved to die. The people who are responsible have to be punished so that the killing fields and indoctrination centers never again enjoy an opportunity to use use the law, and the bureaucracies, and to infect the courts to blemish and pollute Founding principles and the Constitution designed to protect all Americans equally.
The racist Michael Byrd definitely needs to be prosecuted for 1st degree murder, no question about it. However, getting a racist, extremely biased DC jury to convict him will be another matter entirely. But at least some justice would be done by hauling Byrd before a court and having evidence and testimony against him made public–not to mention the burdensome legal expense (I wonder if GoFundMe would break its rules which prevent funding for those charged with criminal offenses ).
However, not sure Byrd can withstand a civil trial outside the confines of a highly partisan and racist DC jury pool. If Babbitt’s family has not filed such charges, I hope they do.
task, there is only so much Trump can do in four years, so unfortunately, many of the the injustices of the past four years may go unpunished–at least in this lifetime.
However, the cold-blooded murder of Babbitt, and the SWAT raids of totally innocent people by the FBI needs to be avenged.
…“They are the SSS Party… Slavery, Segregation and Socialism.” Very good play on words and line.
Between your distillation and Maximus’s - I can’t think of anything (I know - hard to imagine) to say except that - if we do get a raft of convictions, and if execution of traitors wasn’t sadly unlikely in this day and age?
I would like to see set up on the grounds by Washington Monument a collection of scaffolds for those guilty of murder by deliberate malevolence and fomenting of the aforementioned horror J-6, the Afghanistan withdrawal ad nauseam - the leaders of the Democrat Party who were in charge of such monstrous events - to meet their just deserts in a way, orchestrated like those old synchronized swimming affairs of the 30s or 40s;
only instead of water splashing - we saw the worst scum of the earth - since Hitler and Stalin stained the earth by walking upon it? Who are guiltier than sin of causing so many to suffer and die horribly - unnecessarily - to advance their perverted agenda?
One by one - passing - one right after the other - sent along their ways to be back again where they belong - with their lord and master and mentor in hell.
Mayhap, maybe, perhaps - knowing that this is the fate that awaits those who betray the country - and humanity writ large - they might be inclined to think twice before doing what they have done, been doing and for which no punishment has yet been meted.
Justice for Ashli Babbitt and Rosalind Boyland & a cessation of injustice towards the J6 political prisoners is absolutely necessary for this country to get past the riot in the Capitol in 2021. All of the planted agitators that helped turn a protest into a riot need to be dragged into the spotlight and held accountable for their actions. Once the J6ers are released, I would suggest that they file civil suits against any media outlets or person who refers to them as insurrectionists – it is well past time for the bit of gaslighting to be demolished once & for all.