hat we know about the US political class today would probably shock the Founders – and certainly any of our deceased parents and grandparents. And it’s pretty much all thanks to Donald J. Trump, isn’t it? The hoaxes, the corruption, the criminality, the two-tiered justice system, and the bald-faced lies that have been exposed have shocked many Americans – including even the few reasonable Democrats that still exist.
Consider the raft of Democrat-media complex and Deep State lies that have been uncovered. Here is just a short list of the various hoaxes that they perpetrated on the American people:H
- Hillary Clinton’s email-gate
- Trump-Russia collusion
- Steele dossier
- FISA-gate
- Trump pee tape
- Trump called neo-nazis “fine people”
- 2020 was the most secure election in American history
- Biden received 81 million votes in 2020
- Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation
- Joe Biden was not involved in son Hunter’s businesses
- J6 was an insurrection
- Police Officer Sicknick was murdered by J6 protestors
- George Floyd died from a chokehold
- Mostly peaceful protests (BLM and antifa)
- Kavanaugh rape accusations
- Racist Covington kids
- Bubba Wallace garage pull
- Duke lacrosse team rape accusations
- Jussie Smollett racist attack
- Cloth masks prevent COVID
- Ivermectin is only a horse dewormer
- The Inflation Reduction Act reduces inflation
- Manmade CO2 is causing catastrophic global warming
- China engagement is good for America
- Open borders are good for America
- DEI is good for America (and not racist)
- Biden is “sharp as a tack”
- Kamala Harris wasn’t the border czar
- The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success
And that is just a starter list! All of the above were eventually proven to be false, but each one furthered a Democrat political narrative and objective at the expense of the truth. How much more might the first Trump presidency have accomplished without the constant subterfuge and lies from the Democrat-media complex? Think about that!
And think about the long list of liars who helped perpetrate and perpetuate those elaborate lies (hoaxes): virtually all of Obama’s and Biden’s top political appointments across the federal government, Deep State apparatchiks (especially in the intelligence community and DoJ/FBI), Democrat operatives in the legacy media, leftwing nonprofits and thinktanks, Democrats in Academia and Hollywood, and many others.
The list of Democrat liars before the American people and to Congress is seemingly endless, and NONE of them ever seem to be held accountable for their lies.
A SUBSET OF THE MANY DEMOCRAT LIARS
Let’s look at some of them in context of a few of the hoaxes listed above.
- Hillary Clinton lied about compromising Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information on her unclassified server. She was falsely “exonerated” from prosecution by then-FBI Director James Comey who initiated the Trump-Russia investigation. Clinton also egregiously lied before and during the Benghazi hearings about the genesis of the attacks on the Benghazi consulate – and so did everyone in the chain of command up to and including Obama himself! She has also claimed for years that Trump stole the 2016 election. This is a good piece on the many lies told by Clinton.
- As but one example of lying Democrat political appointees, Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan Rice was a go-to liar on a number of topics, including Benghazi, the “by the book” Obama White House strategy meeting on 5 January 2017 that coordinated resistance to Trump including the Russia hoax, illegal unmaskings of Trump’s donors and others, the Bo Bergdahl swap, and Syrian weapons of mass destruction. Read more about her lies here.
- Joe Biden serially denied for years that he was involved in son Hunter’s Chinese (and other) business dealings and was backed up in those claims by the legacy media until 2013 pictures of the Biden’s hobnobbing in Beijing with Hunter’s business partners were obtained last week in through a FOIA requests by America First Legal.
- What about Democrat lies to Congress? Former CIA Director John Brennan’s lied to the Senate Intel Committee about illegal domestic surveillance of US senators and staffs. Even the leftwing UK Guardian called for his firing in 2014, as noted here. Brennan has serially lied about drones and the Russia hoax and accused Trump of being a “traitor” and “Putin stooge.” These are unprecedented and blatantly political actions by a former CIA director!
- Then there were the many lies of former FBI Director James Comey:
- He lied to exonerate Hillary from multiple felonies she and others committed in mishandling TS/SCI/SAP and other classified information – and then compounded those lies by repeatedly defending his handling of the investigation and his concluding public statement.
- He lied about being conflicted regarding the Russian dossier when he knew it to be fake from the get-go.
- He lied about passing his classified work product to his lawyer pal Benjamin Wittes at the leftwing Lawfareblog.
- He lied about POTUS not being “under investigation” when in reality the president was the target of the illegal FISA warrants and the Russia collusion hoax all along, and then he lied about the reason he got fired (as if firing one guy would somehow obstruct an investigation by dozens of Democrat lawyers!).
- He lied multiple times during testimony to the House Intel Committee in December 2018.
- And his periodic appearances on CNN continue to propagate his past lies (he has never publicly apologized for his leading role in the Russia hoax and FISA-gate).
- Obama’s former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is a known liar, too:
- He lied to Congress about the NSA’s illegal domestic surveillance of Americans (probably to protect Obama who undoubtedly directed it).
- He lied about how ISIS came to be.
- And he lied to Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood was a predominantly secular organization that “eschewed violence,” as reported here.
- Other liars during the Obama regime included John Kerry, Victoria Nuland, and Marie Yovanovitch at the State Department; Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, and Sally Yates et al at DoJ; Andrew McCabe, James Baker, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, and others at the FBI; Mike Morell and others at the CIA and within the intel community.
- Then there are the Democrat liars in Congress: Adam Schiff lied about the Ukraine hoax, Eric Swalwell filed a lawsuit accusing Trump and others of inciting the J6 “riot,” Nancy Pelosi lied about J6, Jamie Raskin lied about “a trusted FBI informant’s allegations that Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe while serving as vice president,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s serial lies, and many more.
- Remember all the Democrats, including Chuck Schumer and Kamala Harris, who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Kavanaugh rape accuser until the accuser admitted it was a lie?
- Kamala Harris made a public appearance in January 2018 with Jussie Smollett and stated, “This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.” Just another lie!
- What about all the media complicity in the Russia hoax? In 2018, so-called journalists from The New York Times and The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for their biased and inaccurate coverage of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax (their supposed collaboration to interfere with the 2016 election). Those Pulitzers have yet to be returned!
- Then there was the media narrative that the BLM riots in 2020 were “mostly peaceful” despite widespread video recordings of looting, setting of fires, and other violence. The Democrats even ran on the police brutality narrative during their 2020 national convention.
- Other media perfidy in recent years includes: lying about 2024 presidential polls (including one in Iowa that predicted Harris would win by 3% when Trump actually won by 13%!), lying about the effectiveness of masks and social distancing, lying about the effectiveness of Ivermectin (I know it works from personal experience!), hiding Joe Biden’s mental decline for years, promoting and propagating the Democrats’ election year lawfare against President Trump, lying about 2020 election fraud (and systematic Democrat election fraud in general), committing election interference in 2020 by suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop, etc., etc. No wonder the credibility of the legacy media is almost completely shot!
WHY ALL THE LYING?
The main reason is the Democrats’ lust for political power, and political propaganda is one of the biggest weapons in their arsenal to gain and maintain that power. With political power comes corruption just as surely as day follows night, and corruption means serious money to the Democrats and their allies.
Consider the deep corruption that has existed for decades among the political class: nepotism, insider trading, secret sexual harassment suits settled with taxpayer funds, House bank and post office scandals, money-laundering and kickbacks, influence-peddling, etc. The lack of accountability for the perpetrators, as well as the complicity of the legacy media in obfuscating and covering up all the crimes is simply breathtaking! The legacy media regularly bury important stories, twist and spin them beyond all recognition, literally excuse certain crimes by Democrats and Deep State operatives, support lawfare against Republican/conservative policy initiatives, fail to honestly follow and expose the evidence regardless of where it leads, and carry water for the Democrat narrative of any given day through the “daily legacy media narrative.”
Deep State minions are equally complicit. Democrat political appointees and other members of the federal bureaucracy have made protection of members of the political class essentially a main mission. And the way to advance one’s career in the federal bureaucracy is to toe the line, politically.
The embedded Obama and Biden-Harris regime underlings are the result of a long pipeline of corrupt officials who advanced their personal careers in service of the Democrat Party and their RINO partners. Their primary raison d’être is to cover up crimes committed by Uniparty politicians and Deep State bureaucrats after which they are rewarded with private sector sinecures between government jobs in order to be liberally “paid back” for their services. In short, the lies told ensure payback for services rendered over their careers.
The common components underlying all of these crimes and the corruption have been perfected over the years:
- A culture of leaking to serve political ends that has been cultivated, excused, facilitated, and expanded since the Watergate years.
- A double standard in the application of the rule of law and equal justice under the law for those in service of Democrat and RINO policies and objectives.
- Routine exoneration of Democrat politicians and Deep State bureaucrats even when publicly available evidence provides an overwhelming indication of guilt.
- Bald-faced lying by all of the nefarious actors highlighted above in order to cover up and excuse egregious crimes like mishandling and/or leaking classified information, obstruction of justice, illegal domestic surveillance, misprision, sedition, and – yes – treason! Creating and owning the narrative is key.
- An unaccountable palace guard consisting of Deep State operatives who protect other Deep State denizens at all costs, and who do their bidding to destroy other Americans for political reasons whenever directed.
- Sitting Democrat presidents and Democrat leaders in Congress willing and able to orchestrate the greatest political, ethical and legal scandals in US history against their political opponents, especially President-elect Donald Trump.
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
Many Americans have been clamoring for serious accountability for the deluge of lies that have been told over the past decade or more. The effects of those lies have been profound; one major result was the inauguration of an illegitimate president who led efforts to undermine if not destroy the American constitutional Republic over the last four years, including all the damage subsequently done to US domestic and foreign policy and national security.
The lies told and repeated by many in the political class and their enablers in the legacy media, Academia, and Hollywood have helped make it all happen.
A round turn on corruption laws, including strict enforcement by federal and state law enforcement, is long overdue. Time to hold the liars to account! Some seditious conspiracy and RICO prosecutions would work wonders, for starters.
The end.
(6) Serial Lying by Senior Democrats and their Partners in the Deep State