The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey caused wailing and gnashing of teeth in the liberal TV studios. The most ridiculous argument came from anyone arguing that suddenly the nonpartisanship of our government prosecutors has come to an unprecedented end, as if Biden didn't weaponize the Justice Department, and Democrat prosecutors never sought to ruin Trump. Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and Senior Research Analyst Bill D'Agostino join the show to discuss Comey and Antifa.
On Meet the Press, New Yorker editor David Remnick warned about Comey's indictment, demanded by Trump: “The first term was filled with impulses and the second term is efficient, ruthless and it's happening every day. This movement toward authoritarianism is very distinct and needs to be taken seriously.”
In his 2010 book The Bridge, Remnick happily forwarded top Obama sycophant Valerie Jarrett claiming Barack Obama was so brilliant that "I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually....He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do.”
So when Remnick paints Trump as an ignorant tyrant, everyone should just know that’s another badly disguised Democrat trying to ruin the Republicans.
On State of the Union, CNN host Jake Tapper pressed House Speaker Mike Johnson to share his objection to Donald Trump over the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey: “Don't you have any qualms about the -- any president telling an attorney general, go after these three political opponents?” Johnson kept telling Tapper that Comey personified the weaponization of the Justice Department against Trump.
PBS Washington Week with The Atlantic moderator Jeffrey Goldberg mourned the Comey indictment by bizarrely claiming the Justice Department has always upheld “the dispassion and impartiality that we've always held up to the rest of the world as a gift,” Steve Hayes of the anti-Trump website The Dispatch actually made the conservative point that this is nothing new historically and that Democratic administrations have previously weaponized the Justice Department.
The New York Times reported on the death of convicted cop killer Assata Shakur, but remembered her now as a "Convicted Revolutionary." But the prize for praising a cop killer went to….National “Public” Radio. Their obituary/appreciation on Friday night's All Things Considered was headlined "Black liberation activist Assata Shakur has died at 78." They called her a "towering figure." Critics were not considered.
Bill put together a video on "The Corporate Media’s Inexcusably Cozy Relationship with Antifa," which emerged again after President Trump moved to designate Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. Chuck Todd pretended he knew nothing about Antifa, somehow forgetting he promoted Antifa "historian" Mark Bray in two interviews back in the first Trump administration.
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