The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts
For the Record
“Clearly, there was a Clinton campaign strategy to frame Trump. Yet the most sensible interpretation of the evidence Durham has amassed is not that the FBI, in evaluating its collusion evidence, failed to weigh intercepted Russian intelligence about that strategy. It is that the FBI was well aware of Clinton’s strategy, fully expected Clinton to be the next president, and helped implement the strategy, regardless of what Russian spies may or may not have thought about it.” —Andrew McCarthy
“The Durham Report shows, in essence, collusion between the Clinton campaign, FBI, and the Obama administration to weaponize government power against Trump. It is appreciably worse than Watergate. It was far deeper in the bowels of the government and reached to the highest levels.” —Ben Shapiro
A Trip Down Memory Lane
“I saw information intelligence that was worthy of investigation by the bureau to determine whether or not such cooperation or collusion was taking place.” —John Brennan, May 2017
“We saw cold, hard evidence of the Trump campaign — indeed, the Trump family — eagerly intending to collude possibly with Russia, a hostile foreign power, to influence American elections.” —Nancy Pelosi, July 2017
“Christopher Steele may have found out even before our own intelligence agencies that the Russians were in fact aiming to help Donald Trump in the election. That has now been borne out by ample evidence.” —Adam Schiff, October 2017
“This is absolute proof of what we knew all along and what the president has denied, namely that we were attacked. This is a very serious attack against the United States by a hostile foreign power, an attack against our election process, our entire governing process. … Imagine if FDR had denied that the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor and didn’t react. That’s the equivalent. … We know there was collusion with people in the campaign with Russians.” —Jerry Nadler, February 2018
“In our investigation, we saw strong evidence of collusion.” —Eric Swalwell, March 2018
“I don’t think you can seriously argue that the Russians weren’t trying to help Trump and hurt Clinton. … The evidence is quite overwhelming on this. It was the early conclusion of the intelligence community, but that’s only been furthered by all of the evidence we’ve seen in our investigation.” —Adam Schiff, March 2018
“It is, I think, of a size and scope probably beyond Watergate.” —Adam Schiff, May 2018
“It’s a Watergate moment. … Every single remedy, including indictment of the president, should be on the table.” —Richard Blumenthal, August 2018
“It’s become very clear that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians in trying to subvert the election.” —Jerry Nadler, November 2018
“I believe that the president is compromised by the Russians.” —Peter Strzok, September 2020
Re: The Left
“Reparations is a shameless pander. It’s nothing more than a leftist effort to play the races against each other, and it has virtually no chance of succeeding — even in a deep-blue state like California. Put another way: Given that the Golden State is approximately 40% Hispanic, 37% white, and 15% Asian, what are the odds that this 92% of the state’s population is going to willingly cough up such a massive sum to the 6% that is black? Not. Gonna. Happen.” —Douglas Andrews
“If America is systemically racist against blacks, if every white American is a racist, why have more than 4 million blacks immigrated to America from Africa and the Caribbean? Are they dumb? Is there any other example of a vast number of people immigrating to a country that hates them? Did any Jews immigrate to Germany after the Nazis came to power in 1933?” —Dennis Prager
“America is not a ‘systemically racist country.’ Joe Biden served as vice president to America’s first black president, Barack Obama. And his vice president today, Kamala Harris, is serving as the nation’s first black vice president. Yet, they are stoking the fires of racial discord by telling black Americans that the biggest problem they face is an America filled with bigotry. It’s outrageous!” —Gary Bauer
“It’s easy to laugh at and mock the left’s transgender insanity. But this is deadly serious. The people who fall for this almost always do so because they want to be ‘tolerant’ and ‘compassionate.’ But they fail to realize that the thing they are tolerating intends to stamp out all normalcy.” —Gary Bauer
“Inflation is a big deal. Consumer debt is a big deal. The border is a big deal. Crime is a big deal. Mental illness is a big deal. The FBI colluding with Democrats is a big deal. The woke mind virus is a big deal. Teen depression is a big deal. Gender confusion is a big deal. Dems: We need to eat bugs if we’re going to save the planet. Also, cops are bad and there’s not enough porn in schools.” —Seth Dillon
Political Futures
“Unlike the Republicans, [Democrats] don’t have a clear future. No Democrat as young as DeSantis stands out as their next-generation leader. Ten years ago, that was supposed to be Barack Obama. But instead of ushering in a new Democratic Party, the Obama years ended with a nostalgia trip. The party looked back to Hillary Clinton as its 2016 nominee. It looked backward again, to Joe Biden, in 2020.” —Daniel McCarthy
“The party of FDR and JFK was a party of hope, looking forward to new deals and new frontiers. The party of Biden is a party of fear, looking back with hate upon an America founded on slavery and ahead with disgust to an America that will never be rid of racism, transphobia, guns, greed and God. Donald Trump is not young, but he gave the GOP a new identity in 2016. And it’s telling that in 2024 the Republican contest is between the original visionary and a younger leader who promises to carry the party even further in a populist, culturally right-wing direction. Obama had no heir, not because Democrats haven’t changed at all — but because what they’re changing into is a party whose progressive ideology is too extreme to produce electable national leaders.” —Daniel McCarthy
“The crisis confronting the Democrats isn’t just old leaders. It’s the radicalism of their new ideology.” —Daniel McCarthy
Demagogue
“In Australia, you had one mass shooting 50 years ago and they said, ‘Nope, we’re not doing that anymore.’ That is normally how you would expect a society to respond when your children are at risk.” —Barack Obama