Half the country does not believe the 2020 election was legitimate. I know the GOP has been intimidated into not saying that, but the rest of us don’t have to be intimidated.

But put aside what happened in the big cities in the middle of the night when Donald Trump’s lead evaporated. The Hunter Biden laptop story by itself shows the extent to which the fix was in to rig the election.

More than 50 high-ranking members of the Deep State were all in on defeating Trump. Their infamous letter was orchestrated by the Biden campaign.

They so desperately wanted to stop a populist conservative president from getting reelected that they were willing to sacrifice whatever honor they had in a raw political maneuver.

We now know that Michael Morell, Obama’s acting CIA director, organized the letter denouncing the Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation” at the behest of Antony Blinken, who was working on the 2020 Biden campaign.

In an October 2020 email to John Brennan, another Obama CIA director, Morell wrote, “Trying to give the [Biden] campaign, particularly during the debate on Thursday, a talking point to push back on Trump on this [the laptop] issue.”

Once again, we see how the truth and reality are always forced to give way to the left’s “talking points.”

So, the debate was rigged. As soon as Trump brought up Hunter’s laptop, Biden immediately responded by pointing to the letter and dismissing the laptop as disinformation. Biden said:

“Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan… Five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him.”

Of course, the journalists at the New York Post who broke the story about Hunter’s laptop knew the truth. But the Deep State had been grooming Big Tech into believing the laptop was “Russian disinformation.”

So, the Post was deplatformed. Elements of our own government effectively silenced the free press and suppressed the truth.

The Real “Russian Actors”

Here’s what we can say with certainty about this entire outrageous episode:

Not only was the laptop story not Russian disinformation, but powerful forces in the U.S. government working with Big Tech oligarchs acted and operated like the Russian government or any dictatorship would.

They were the “Russian actors” in this episode!

They censored the truth.

They manipulated an election in a way that would make Putin blush!

Elements of our intelligence agencies agents did that.

They used Russia to scare us, and then did exactly what you would expect a dictatorial government to do.

Many voters, if they had known the truth — if they had known of the existence of Hunter’s laptop — would have voted for Trump.

About That Jobs Report…

The April jobs report came in much stronger than expected — 253,000 new jobs were created last month compared to an estimate of 180,000. The stock market jumped several hundred points on the news, and Biden spent the weekend bragging about the “great economy.”

But… The job figures for March and February were both revised downward by a total of 149,000 fewer jobs than we were initially told.

Economist Larry Kudlow called these downward revisions “breathtaking,” adding, “I’ve been in this game for a long time, you seldom see this kind of thing.”

While Republicans need to address the economic challenges confronting working families, they need to talk about all the problems facing families today. Republicans must tie the left to everything it is doing to undermine the country.

For example, a recent poll found that 72% of Americans believe things in the country are “out of control.” The main issues people cited for feeling like the country was out of control were the state of our politics, the economy and “our culture and values.”

Of course, the White House will gleefully spin Friday’s jobs report. But why should we trust an administration that doesn’t know what a woman is to manage our economy?

Moreover, we’ve already seen how the government is willing to lie, whether it’s COVID, the southern border or Russian collusion. Many people look at what they’re seeing with their own eyes and wonder if we’re being lied to with these jobs reports.

But here’s the bottom line: The 2024 GOP campaign must include economic fears, but it must also be bigger than just the economy.

I continue to recommend that we don’t run on a platform of, “Elect us and we’ll get deeper into Ukraine.” We should run on, “Elect us and we won’t make stupid mistakes like Biden, who could accidentally get us into a nuclear war.”

Rather than running away from values issues, we should attack Biden for his pro-abortion extremism and transgender insanity.

Smash The Good Samaritan

New York City is not a safe place right now. Violent crime is out of control, which is one reason why Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Donald Trump on petty bookkeeping charges is such a joke. But I digress.

Early last week, Jordan Neely, a crazed vagrant with 44 arrests and an outstanding warrant for felony assault, was frightening passengers on the New York City subway. Five people called 911 to report Neely’s erratic and threatening behavior.

A young Marine veteran stepped up and put Neely in chokehold. Two other passengers, one of whom was black, helped restrain him. Neely passed out and was taken to a hospital, where he tragically died.

Immediately, the left pounced.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused the Marine of murder and demanded his arrest. Fellow “Squad” member Ayanna Pressley tweeted that Neely had been “lynched.” Notice how they always try to increase racial tensions.

Other left-wing politicians piled on in ways that condemned the Marine and America. The Young Communist League issued a statement, declaring, “Neely needed food and adequate housing but instead, our racist, capitalist system facilitated his murder for experiencing homelessness.”

We’ll see if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris can resist injecting themselves into this tragedy.

Too many times in recent years we’ve seen women, elderly people and even children being attacked by thugs, rapists and insane street people. Our hearts have been broken not just by the sight of this senseless violence, but because we also see abled body men who slink away rather than step up and get involved.

We think to ourselves, “What is happening to America and to American men?”

So, now one man acts the way we hope every man would, and the neo-Marxist left is ready to lynch him. He’s everything they hate — a white man and a Marine. He’s also a good Samaritan.

Why would any man watching this left-wing mob attacking a Good Samaritan risk defending women and children knowing this could happen to him, too?

Once again, the left intends to own the streets. And it intends to crush anyone who has the courage to stand up and fight back.

Left-wing Lunacy

America’s neo-Marxist left is panicking. In spite of everything, Biden continues to drop and Donald Trump is rising in the polls. One poll shows he’s up eight points over Biden.

As the left becomes more desperate, we’re going to see them do things that are unthinkable. For example, Paul Krugman, the left’s favorite economist, just wrote this about the debt limit standoff: “Let’s not make a deal: Republicans are effectively engaged in a fiscal version of Jan. 6.”

He then recommends that Biden consider a couple of “gimmicks” — his word, not mine — including the bizarre idea of minting a $1 trillion platinum coin. Krugman insists that such a monetary magic trick wouldn’t be inflationary.

Really?

Then why not just mint 50 $1 trillion platinum coins and cancel all taxes on the American people? Problem solved, right? No, wrong! But these idiots will try anything.

Good News

• The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a pro-life law in Indiana requiring abortion clinics to ensure the respectful disposal of human remains.
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation banning the use of woke ESG standards by state agencies and financial institutions in the Sunshine State.
• Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed legislation protecting children from mutilating transgender surgeries.
  
• The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld a popular voter ID law and the right of the state legislature to draw the redistricting political maps.
• Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed legislation protecting children from mutilating transgender surgeries.
• Another Soros-funded, soft-on-crime district attorney calls it quits.