The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Insight

“The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.” —John Peter Zenger (1697-1746)

For the Record

“Ghislaine Maxwell got moved to a minimum security prison with yoga and pilates… In case you were wondering how seriously our government takes her running the world’s largest, most powerful pedophile ring…” —Tim Young

Dog & Pony Show

“Nearly 18 months of private chats between friends from the Trump White House show that Jan. 6 Committee star witness Cassidy Hutchinson dramatically changed her story about what she knew and how she felt about what she witnessed as a White House staffer. When Hutchinson testified in Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s Soviet-style show trial last month, the former White House aide to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said she ‘still struggle[s] to work through the emotions’ of Jan. 6. … Yet in a series of private communications from December 2020 through May 2021 … Hutchinson commiserated with other targets of the probe about how little information she had about any wrongdoing that day, and lamented how corrupt the politicized committee was. Far from being upset with Trump, Hutchinson repeatedly spoke in favor of him and his presidency. ‘I would rather shoot myself dead into the Potomac than see marine one flying around this city without 45 again,’ Hutchinson wrote in one message nearly three months after the Capitol riot. … In May, Hutchinson outlined a conversation she had with a stranger in D.C. ‘A real conversation that just took place,’ she began: ‘Person on sidewalk: your sweatshirt says 45.’ ‘Me: yes.’ ‘Person: like, Trump?’ ‘Me: yes.’ ‘Person: stares.’ ‘Me: I’m an insurrectionist.’ ‘And then I put my headphones in. The end.’” —Mollie Hemingway and Tristan Justice

The BIG Lies


“I didn’t recommend locking anything down. ” —National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci (“Any state that is having a serious problem, that state should seriously look at shutting down.” —Fauci, July 2020 | “When it became clear that we had community spread in the country … I recommended to the president that we shut the country down.” —Fauci, October 2020)

“All I have ever done, and go back and look at everything I’ve ever done, was to recommend commonsense, good CDC-recommended public health policies that have saved millions of lives. If you want to investigate for me [sic] for that, go ahead.” —Anthony Fauci

Spin Doctor

“Two negative quarters of GDP growth is not the technical definition of recession. It’s not the definition that economists have traditionally relied on.” —White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese

Veep Thoughts With Kamala

“I am Kamala Harris. My pronouns are she and her. I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.” —Vice President Kamala Harris