There was so much wrong with the “Russian collusion” hoax perpetrated against President Donald Trump, it is hard to know where to begin listing all of the injustices. But one of the most egregious aspects of the scandal is that it was launched by our own government against a sitting and duly elected leader – a truly unprecedented abuse of power that, frankly, should have landed dozens of people behind bars for the better part of what remains of their lives.
Instead, they got away with what they did, and while some figures like James Comey and Andrew McCabe were eventually fired, the black mark on their professional record was obscured by the fact that the ‘deep state’ takes care of their own: Both men have since gone on to make millions of dollars thanks to book deals and lucrative cable news contracts. But the one thing none of them can escape is the fact that Trump made the biggest political comeback in the country’s history, and he gets to torment them every single day from her perch as the most powerful leader in the world.
Case in point: Russia hoax prosecutor Andrew Weissman, who ran Robert Mueller’s bogus special counsel investigation that turned up nothing (because it was a hoax, after all), just went off on an unhinged rant on the most unhinged ‘news’ network currently on the air, MSNBC. During a segment on Ari Melber’s The Beat, Andrew Weissmann was asked about the Trump administration’s arrest of a Wisconsin judge accused of shielding an undocumented immigrant from federal immigration authorities, as well as the broader issue of what many view as unprecedented judicial intervention aimed at obstructing the president’s agenda.
“As we try to deliver on what we aimed for tonight, are the lessons going forward for the things that worked dealing with this Trump legal onslaught?” Melber asked. Weissman compared the administration’s actions to the McCarthy era, which is often criticized in left-wing circles as a time of unjust prosecutions and accusations, even though there was well-documented communist infiltration of American institutions in the early 1950s.
“Let’s learn from history is the way I look at this, which is all of us at this table were too young for the McCarthy era, but I think there are real lessons there for us, which is we are seeing blacklisting,” the left-wing prosecutor claimed. “We’re seeing the same kind of abuse, the same kind of fear, the same kind of obeying in advance. And I think the lesson if you think it can’t happen again, it is happening now.
“The idea that, ‘oh, that’s something that’s just in our history and we’re well beyond that.’ No, that is what is happening now. Not just blacklisting, but people going along with it, not being the people who stand up.” He added: “I think that is the lesson, which is if you want to be on the right side of history, you need to not be afraid. You need to speak. You need to be saying to people who want to use fear as a way to silence you, that you still have a First Amendment right.”
Last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, who is accused of aiding the escape of an undocumented immigrant facing violent crime charges when federal agents arrived to take him into custody. Dugan, a nearly ten-year veteran of the Milwaukee County bench, has been charged with obstruction of justice and harboring Eduardo Flores-Ruiz following a pre-trial hearing. If convicted on both counts, she faces up to 10 years in prison.
That’s not “McCarthyism,” that’s called upholding the rule of law. Granted, Dugan hasn’t been convicted yet and she’s presumed innocent, but she wasn’t arrested in a vacuum, she is charged with serious crimes. Maybe if Weissman the prosecutor was more interested in justice he could see past his political bias. But alas, he’s a Democrat hack first and foremost.