What is the matter with the Wall Street Journal?
On January 6, four years after the unpleasantness on Capitol Hill, the Wall Street Journal opined that some of the people who entered the Capitol on January 6 should not be pardoned by soon-to-be President Donald Trump. Some of the offenders, the editors pointed out, had been guilty of assaulting members of the police. One emptied a can of pepper spray at the police. One had a metal baton in a hip holster. One threw an “equipment container lid” that “beaned” a cop, causing momentary loss of consciousness and perhaps a concussion. Not good stuff, no question.
“This,” wrote the Journal, “was the brutal reality of the Capitol riot that many want to forget.” Yes. But it’s not the only brutal reality.
And compared to other brutal realities, this was candy-snitching.
And as some may remember, the only person killed that day was Ashli Babbit, an unarmed, diminutive 35-year-old Air Force veteran from California who was shot by a disgraced black policeman—the whole affair being quickly hushed up by the Pelosi-Schumer axis because it didn’t fit the anti-Trump narrative.
Here’s a question the Journal’s editors should ask: What should the public’s reaction be if they think an election has been stolen? Send a stern letter to the New York Times? Ooooh! What would the editors of the Journal do if they were convinced a presidential election had been stolen? Take a Valium and a cup of warm broth?
Are citizens ever justified in fighting for their country—when all the high muckety-mucks say, “Move on. There’s nothing to see here?”
The Hillary Clinton 2020 presidential campaign invented the Russia collusion hoax in order to nullify the will of the voters and to cripple the new Trump administration, and Hillary was at least partially successful. What was the punishment? A few days ago she received the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest honor awarded to a civilian.
Hillary had earlier erased 33,000 files from her computer using a program aptly named BleachBit. She claimed they were all personal—just files relating to her daughter’s wedding, yoga routines, and other private communications. Did anyone believe her? No. Was she punished for that? Of course not. Move on! Nothing to see here—and certainly not after being soaked in BleachBit.
In October 2017, Clinton referred to Trump’s presidency as “illegitimate” and implied collusion without direct evidence.
Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), among others, made multiple public statements asserting that there was evidence of collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. In March 2017, he stated there was “more than circumstantial evidence” of collusion. In August 2018, he said there was “plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight,” and he reiterated his claims in various interviews, press conferences, and public appearances over several years.
Schiff lied, and lied, and lied. What was his punishment? He was elected to the Senate from California.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) supported the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation and spoke of a “web of deceit” in the Trump administration’s dealings with Russia.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in May 2017 that “Trump’s behavior begs the question: What is he hiding about his connections to Russia?”
Maxine Waters (D-CA) repeatedly stated in 2017 that Trump should be impeached over alleged collusion.
It was all lies—and they all knew it was all lies!
The Democrat establishment sought to cripple Trump—sought, essentially, to nullify Trump’s election by the people of the United States. Nothing to see here?!
Then Joe Biden won the 2020 election. How? Now Secretary of State Antony Blinken got fifty pals to sign a letter saying a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden—which contained some of the most scandalous files imaginable—was a Russian hoax. They knew it wasn’t. They just lied, and lied, and lied. And they lied for the purpose of subverting the election—and they were successful. The only poll taken at the time (shortly after the election) indicated that Trump would have won but for the lies about the laptop. For engineering the lie, Blinken was awarded an appointment as secretary of state.
So we got Joe Biden as president? How did that work out? It has worked out that he has been perhaps the worst U.S. president ever. That’s not just an entry in the history books: his failures had, and will have, serious consequences for real people. A few: He pulled out of Afghanistan in such a disorderly manner that thirteen U.S. servicemen were killed (for which no one was punished because the disaster had been Biden’s call). He and his administration covered up his cognitive decline. He engineered a terrible economy, which greatly harmed working people and the middle class. He repeatedly defied the Supreme Court. He halted executions of serial killers, a cop killer, and child molesters. He withheld critical weapons from Israel. He wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on failed green-energy giveaways. And, of course, much, much more.
All this failure from a man who didn’t even win the election honestly.
We need to compare the actions of the January 6 Capitol Hill candy-snitchers with all the lies told about Donald Trump by Democrats and with the disaster of the Joe Biden presidency and particularly its illegitimacy and those who crafted the deception and theft. The actions of the January Sixers pale in comparison. Some of the miscreants have already served years in jail. It’s time all of them were pardoned and freed.
And the Wall Street Journal’s editors need to climb down from their lofty perch and mingle with real people.
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Daniel Oliver is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the Education and Research Institute and a Director of the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy in San Francisco. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under President Reagan, he was Executive Editor and subsequently Chairman of the Board of William F. Buckley Jr.’s National Review.
Email Daniel Oliver at Daniel.Oliver@TheCandidAmerican.com.
The J6 people knew the election was stolen and, obviously, so did the Administration. After all they did the stealing. What type of press ignores the fact that it was statistically impossible for 160 million votes and ballots to be counted when only 169 million people were registered to vote? A press which avoids the obvious makes it impossible to be trusted.
Then there is Roberts and Barrett. The later is a judicial toady but Roberts defended his decision to stand down because the Texas lawsuit lacked standing. Here is a man, a judge, considered the highest in the land, who helped advance ObamaCare, not once but twice and ultimately decided it could be defended if it was considered to be a tax. The argument was that it was not a tax and yet he went out of his way to plead for the advocates what they never pleaded. If he really considered, in 2020, that the fraudulent election lacked standing he certainly could have done the wrong thing again, as he did with the ACA, to right a great wrong. But he didn’t and that makes him an enemy of democracy and free speech. He is no different than any other tyrant.