When the elected Democrat district attorney of Manhattan and his 12 (likely Democrat) Manhattan jurors convicted Donald Trump on artificially inflated felony counts of business accounting, you could count on leftist journalists to try to make it the Most Historic Event Ever.
We’re not even sure it won’t all be reversed on appeal. But “historic” is their word of choice … when they like the result.
In 1999, when Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about sex with an intern named Monica Lewinsky, Geraldo Rivera was furious on the “Today” show: “It was a spiteful action, an action that they performed absolutely in violation of the framers’ intent. It was a legislative coup d’etat.”
Impeaching Trump twice was never a “coup” to NBC News. But the worst part of that spectacle was leftist activists like Rivera trying to speak for the framers of the Constitution. He was implying it wasn’t just a revolting result but revolting in the eyes of James Madison and the rest. The Left reveres nothing about the Founders, routinely denouncing them as a racist, sexist, capitalist patriarchy.
This regrettable citation of the Founding Fathers happened again with the Trump trial, and again in this case, the American revolutionaries were placed on the side of the Democrats. George Stephanopoulos began his commentary on “This Week” with the second president: “In 1774, John Adams said representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty. Two hundred and fifty years later, the heart and lungs of liberty are facing what may be the ultimate stress test.” It’s John Adams vs. Trump.
The front page of the June 3 New York Times was topped with an editorial — labeled “News Analysis” — from their White House correspondent Peter Baker. He picked Patrick Henry as the Trump opponent.
“The revolutionary hero Patrick Henry knew this day would come,” Baker began. Henry “feared that eventually a criminal might occupy the presidency and use his powers to thwart anyone who sought to hold him accountable.” In Henry’s words, “Away with your president, we will have a king.”
Never mind that historians pointed out Henry was inveighing against the Constitution before it was ratified. Baker channeled the Democrat line: “The notion that 34 felonies is not automatically disqualifying and a convicted criminal can be a viable candidate for commander in chief upends two and a half centuries of assumptions about American democracy.”
Inside the paper, the headline over Baker’s essay was “If a Felon Becomes President, Can Anyone Limit His Power?” The text box underlined the theme again: “Revival of a long-ago fear that a U.S. leader could try to be a king.” All that followed was the argument ad infinitum that Trump’s second term would result in “unfettered abuses of authority.”
What Baker and Stephanopoulos refused to understand was that this rhetoric of a president abusing authority can also be applied to President Joe Biden. On CNN, Scott Jennings mocked Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) on how Biden ruthlessly ignored the courts and the Congress in offering $165 billion in student loan “forgiveness” to win younger voters.
“You’re a member of Congress,” Jennings told Auchincloss. “Does it not offend you that the president of the United States is usurping your authority?” The eventual answer was no.
The Democrats and their media enablers use “history” to establish how there is a “right side,” and that is their leftist agenda. Undercutting democratic norms and coequal branches of government is admirable when the ends justify the means. The Founding Fathers are just yellowed paper puppets in their relentless power games.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Thoughts of John Adams;
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”,,,(Enter Joe Biden)_
“ I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.” ,,,,,,,,,(Not Woke weasel ideas that don’t work)
“A government of laws, and not of men.” (Laws Written in stone do not change, while men often act like Chameleons)
“The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws”
“Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide”( Which is why they gave us a REPUBLIC)
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” (Which is why, thanks to secular Democrats, government is failing to work, and justice is often denied, When they drove God out government, schools, and the law, in came the Devils, because nature has always abhored a vacuum. A clean Holy spirit cannot dwell in an unclean temple, and your body is the very temple that houses your holy spirit. Corrupt the individual and the Collective soon falls.)
As was once said about the silent enemy creeping up on American life, Joseph Stalin said this” Education is a Weapon- the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struct down.”
Then, A Former Republican President, Richard M. Nixon, later on said this,” Never Forget, The Press is the enemy, The Establishment is the Enemy, The Professors are the Enemy, The professors are the Enemy, Write this on A Blackboard 100 Times and never Foget it.”
Then, Gopusa Headlines of a story once said, “Shocking New Poll ” Is America Worth Defending, democrats Say, NO”…!
Wasn’t it also stalin, who said “Give me their kids, and i will so the seeds of rot so much, that after they’ve taken root, we will CONTROL THEM for generations”, or some such nonsense like that??
“Are you going to believe me, the corrupt, lying, drug addict Hunter Biden or your lying eyes?”
The corrupt, treasonous Democrat elite and the Democrat Party supporters never take responsibility or are held accountable for their own treasonous, unlawful, destructive, dishonorable, immoral actions and agendas. Democrats always Lie and blame someone or something else for their own actions and policies. Even if the Democrats are caught “red handed”.
Hitler once said,” When an opponent says” I will not come over to your side, I clamly say, Your child belongs to us already, Who are you,? You are old, Your decendents stand in this new camp. Pretty soon they will know nothing else but this new community.”
To paraphrase Hitler.
He also said [strong]The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.[/strong]
Which we SEE all the time with how the dems LOVE Shoving GUN Control laws in our faces, “ALL to save the kids”..
STRANGE they are now LOVING what the founders said/did, to belittle don, WHEN FOR YEARS they’ve been decrying the founders, as racist mysognists, and joining in the push to pull down statues HONORING THEM.
It’s election time,,,,when the Democrat party masks go on and truth comes off. They really should no longer be allowed to call themselves democrats as they threw all democrat concepts ans well as our babies, out with the bath water.
Shouldn’t, BUT SINCE they control what, 80% of the media, they will continually get away with it.