I mean no disrespect to the messenger from Powerline here but this – the more general phenomenon of acting as if the newly provided evidence was really necessary for those who were willing to see (i.e. not brain-dead Democrats and not delusional Never Trumpers of old) what was going on back then – comes across, to me anyway, as means for those on the other side to dismiss blatant un-Americanism as “old news” and as soft cover for those who I have often referred to as the enablers (of the other side) inside our perimeter to save a little face well after the fact under the “we are just learning this now” facade:

How the Democrats Prosecuted Trump

The Democrats’ attempt to imprison Donald Trump, their number one political opponent over the last decade, is unprecedented in American history and is more redolent of a banana republic than the American political tradition. Democrats in New York and Georgia largely did their party’s dirty work, charging Trump under state laws.

Democrats maintained the pretense that these bogus prosecutions were independent of the Biden administration, but we now know that wasn’t true. The effort to end Trump’s political career through farcical criminal charges was orchestrated from the top. …

“Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis coordinated extensively with the Biden Justice Department and White House as well as Democrats on the House Jan. 6 investigative committee as she built a failed criminal case against President Donald Trump…”

…The Georgia complaint, among its other failings, never alleged a single criminal or even improper act committed by Donald Trump. Ultimately, it was rightfully dismissed by an embarrassed Fulton County Attorney’s office.

But the ones who really should be embarrassed are the lawyers in the White House and Joe Biden’s Department of Justice who contributed to the farce.

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We “now” know? Well…let’s take a step back to March 20, 2023 (a week or so before the first Trump indictment):

The American Abyss, Volume 1 – The Stacked Deck and Driving the Republic Over the Edge

I want to step back for a moment here…it is important to remember how, in late July 2016, the Obama inner circle knew (i.e., through official channels) within hours of it being put into motion exactly what the Clinton campaign (through their wholly owned subsidiary in the DNC) had put into motion to create the Russian Collusion Hoax. The reaction (or lack thereof) from the Oval Office was nothing less than Presidential approval to proceed. President Obama could have aborted the entire ugly episode of un-Americanism with little more than an honest frown to his staff. But sufficient character was lacking in that little twit. (Elections have consequences, you know.)

The point to this little side story is to draw the similarity to the events that are dealt into the cards for the coming week. This “legally and factually dubious” Royal Flush that has been arranged in the state of New York does not happen without the full support and approval of Team FJB. And that group of individuals and/or entities that now function as the President of the United States now sits primed to play the ill-gotten cards…or not. Make no mistake, the Code Red arrest does not happen if they do not order the Code Red arrest.

They stacked the deck. We know they stacked the deck. They know that we know that they stacked the deck. (Only the reliably incurious press and the fully anti-intellectual NT crowd may not know the obvious…but that is nothing new.) …

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And then on March 30, 2023 just after that indictment:

The True Headline: Biden Indicts Trump

As I said a few days back, none of this happens without explicit direction from the Oval Office.

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I assure you, if it was so obvious that it could be seen and acknowledged from behind this keyboard, it wasn’t that hard to know. But, no doubt, many in the deep recesses of soft center right comment sections across the blogosphere can now find comfort in “knowing” (among friends, of course) what was perfectly knowable all along.