Here they go again. The Dem-wing of the UniParty is so bereft of reasons to deny the GOP-wing its turn in the Oval Office that it is once again desperately playing the Hitler Card. And it gets richer still. This time it’s on the word of disgruntled ex-employee who was subjected to the “you’re fired!” treatment by the Donald— and in real life for good reason, not just on a TV show for make-pretend entertainment.
General John Kelly now says that the Donald said something positive about Adolph Hitler, but we don’t know whether the General is looking for a book deal or gig as a CNN military consultant to augment his $200,000+ per year military pension. But we do wonder why five years after getting defenestrated in the White House by the Donald that his memory of detailed conversations has suddenly come alive just days before the election—especially when no other insider has confirmed his account on the record or leaked it years ago.
After all, during his first time at the rodeo the Donald had no idea of what he was doing or who the 4,000 appointees were that were foisted upon him by the GOP machine and its beltway and Deep State allies. So 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the giant block buildings within a few square miles were crawling with people who had minimum low regard for Trump.
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And yet and yet. Even our trusty AI-researcher, Copilot, can’t find any record of another named official validating Kelly’s account.
John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, is the most prominent figure to have publicly stated that he heard Trump make such comments123. Other former officials have also expressed concerns about Trump’s remarks and behavior, but specific instances of others hearing him praise Hitler have not been widely documented.
Still, consider the context of this latest 11th hour imbroglio. It wasn’t just the usual effort by the New York Times to sabotage a GOP candidate on election eve by giving a forum to Kelly after he spent several years in the wilderness being ignored. What kicked off the latest firestorm was a screed in the Atlantic Magazine by its detestable editor and Deep State spin doctor, Jeffrey Goldberg.
It’s plain as day that Goldberg has a rancorous grudge against the Donald owing to his irreverent belittling of the late St. John McCain. Yet that surely tells you something. John McCain was among the most belligerent, blood-thirsty neocons to grace the Washington stage since the end of the cold war. At the end of the day, the disaster of Iraq and the utter calamity in Ukraine, among others, were his doing.
So what we have, therefore, is the once and former Peace Party valorizing warmongers like John McCain and a passel of retired generals who collectively have done more to undermine the US constitution than the Donald might think of doing in a month of Sundays. In this context, Kelly saw it all—got his promotions and ribbons—as he participated in Washington’s unnecessary and undeclared (and therefore unconstitutional) wars in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Ukraine and countless lesser fry.
Did Kelly ever once blow a whistle as he shimmied his way up the ladder to a general’s big fat retirement package? Yet by any rational standard the deeds of his 45-year long career in the midst of every wrong-headed Washington war going back to Vietnam were a far greater offense to constitutional democracy than the alleged back-stage utterances of a loud-mouthed Donald Trump.
Indeed, the first time around Trump actually proved himself “all hat and no cattle” when it comes to the so-called abuse of presidential power. About the only thing we can think on the latter score was the Donald’s hair-trigger approval of bombing Damacus for a couple of hours in April 2018 based on the false flag gas attacks in Douma that his generals apparently lied to him about.
So the question recurs. Donald Trump is admittedly an uncouth blabbermouth who shoots from the hip with virtually reckless abandon. But after 48 months in the Oval Office, where are all the unconstitutional deeds and acts of an incipient dictator?
Even when it comes to the matter of over-reach in the issuance of executive orders, the Donald’s worse excesses, say on the Muslim bans and border security, didn’t hold a candle to the abuses of either Barrack Obama or Sleepy Joe Biden. Obama nearly dismantled the entire electric utility industry of the USA via his Clean Power rules at EPA and also sent the US auto industry on the road to catastrophe with his wild-ass fuel economy standards designed to drive gasoline ignition engines off the roads.
And, as for Biden, the sweeping weaponization of the Justice Department against the J6 participants is in an altogether different league. So far 1,265 citizens have been charged and 460 of them were still incarcerated as of January 2024.
That’s right. Seven years after the fact and with respect to an incident that involved trespassing at worst and minor property damage only, 460 people are still in jail not owing to valid and normal law enforcement but owing to a lawfare exercise designed to loudly and visibly punish and intimidate dissent.
Indeed, the harsh treatment of the J6 participants is so egregiously disproportionate to the crime, nay misdemeanors, committed that day that it pales into insignificance anything that may have randomly escaped from the Donald’s motor mouth during General Kelly’s 24-month stint in the White House. And that’s to say nothing of the dozens of cooked-up cases brought against the opposition candidate of the Republican Party by the Harris-Biden DOJ and their confederates in Georgia and New York City.
In any event, Donald Trump was, and will probably prove to be again, among the very worst US presidents—but that’s owing to his policies that among other offenses added $8 trillion to the public debt or more than the first 43 presidents accomplished during the first 216 years of the Republic.
But as for the Hitler Card and Trump’s alleged wanna be dictator aspirations, they ultimately rests on nothing more substantial than the completely false J6 Insurrection Narrative cooked up by the Washington Dem Machine operatives and their RINO allies like Liz Cheney who have now shown their true colors.
So not to belabor the point, but the J6 lies and propaganda on which the whole Trump-the-Dictator canard is based needs be reviewed once again.
As it happened, Donald Trump’s first presidency effectively ended in the midst of a cockamamie riot in the US Capitol Building. On the evidence, it was essentially a happenstance outbreak of blind mob mayhem enabled by piss poor policing by the amateur cops who are pleased to call themselves the Capitol Police. Nothing that happened during that five-hour melee remotely resembled the violent insurrection against American democracy it’s now cracked up to be.
But like in almost everything else nowadays, this beltway insider’s narrative has supplanted reality. Completely. Absurdly.
As usual, however, RFK has seen through the subterfuge. The entire Congressional investigation, related mainstream media “insurrection” narrative and the vicious prosecution of the pro-Trump protestors who stumbled into the Capitol’s open doors on January 6, 2021, is just another instance of the weaponization of the machinery of justice.
“I have not examined the evidence in detail, but reasonable people, including Trump opponents, tell me there is little evidence of a true insurrection. They observe that the protestors carried no weapons, had no plans or ability to seize the reins of government, and that Trump himself had urged them to protest ‘peacefully.’”
he pointedly ridiculed the idea that the protesters and rioters were in any position to take over the government: “What’s the worst thing that could happen? Right? I mean, we have an entire military, Pentagon, a few blocks away.”
That’s exactly right. The United States government is the most lethally armed organization in the history of mankind. The very idea of an “insurrection” against it that is worthy of the term, therefore, implies extensive pre-planning, preparatory rehearsals, secret communications networks, detailed D-day organizational protocols and maneuvers, publicly announced manifestos and demands and, of course, the marshalling of an extensive array of arms, ammo and armor.
Alas, review all 14,000 hours of camera footage between noon and 8 PM on J6 if you will, but you will find scant evidence—nay, no evidence at all—that any of these rudiments of an “insurrection” were even remotely present at the US Capitol Building that day.
To the contrary, the entire over-hyped and utterly confected Beltway Narrative represents nothing more than the final spasm of the Trump Derangement Syndrome that has engulfed the nation’s ruling elites and their megaphones in the mainstream media. Accordingly, the
J6 Narrative has become the Big Lie of the 21st Century. Yet not a bit of the Day of Infamy narrative is true, plausible or warranted.
In the first place, there was nothing organized about it whatsoever. During the hours, days and weeks preceding the leaderless march of the mob to the Capitol after 1PM on January 6th there was nothing more ominous going on than the expostulations of a tiny smattering of rightwing whackadoos pinging each other on social media.
Even more surely, there was nothing armed about it, either. Among the thousands of yokels and diehard Trumpites who frolicked through the Capitol Building, law reinforcement has not identified a single man, woman or child who was carrying a gun, sword or even a stink bomb when the Capitol Police essentially stepped aside and gave them the run of the building.
And yet, the pro-establishment servitors in the mainstream media insist that somewhere in the massive crowds who came for the inauguration and to protest the election outcome, a handful of participants brought guns to Washington but not the Capitol Building on January 6th. And even this handful of cases involving handguns or other alleged armaments were so obscure as to have been identified by law enforcement only long after the fact.
But really. What kind of “insurrection” is it when nobody actually showed up at the Capitol that day toting even a “North American Arms Mini Short: Single-Action .22 Short Revolver”?
And what is worse, the lie has been repeated so often with such false verisimilitude by the MSM that presumably honest observers have taken the Big Lie for Truth. For instance, the editor of the once august Cleveland Plain Dealer recently averred as follows:
Chris Quinn, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, recently wrote that angry right-wing readers were complaining to him that “Biden, not Trump, is the criminal dictator.” He responded that it is a “false equivalency” to draw political comparisons between Trump and Biden.
“We can debate the success and mindset of our current president, as we have about most presidents,” Quinn said. “But Biden was never a threat to our democracy. Trump is.”
Trump, not Biden, “sparked an insurrection intended to overthrow our government and keep himself in power,” he continued. “No President in our history has done worse. This is not subjective. We all saw it.”
No, Mr. Quinn. You absolutely did not see an armed insurrection to overthrow the American government, and “armed” is the only type of insurrection that could threaten our lethally armed Leviathan on the Potomac. And that’s because no such thing ever happened. Period. Full stop.
Indeed, the only blood that was spilled during this faux “insurrection” and alleged attempt at coup d’ etat was that of Ashli Babbitt, a decorated hero of America’s pointless forever wars and earnest Trump supporter. She was shot point blank without warning by a Capitol Police officer, who had a record of anger management issues that were hardly trivial.
Moreover, what kind of insurrection has no list of demands, no ringing declarations of purpose, no fiery ultimatums? In most of the hours upon hours of video footage available the meandering crowds look as surprised to be in the U.S. Capitol as the proverbial car-chasing dog who finally caught his prey.
Likewise, the audio track of the event resembles nothing so much as the undulating din of a milling crowd. Even the normal menacing chants of a purposeful demonstration were few and far between.
The fact is, American democracy was not under fire that afternoon. It was not imperiled one little bit by the mayhem in the Capitol which briefly ensued after the Donald had dispensed his usual bombast, self-promotion and rhetorical incoherence to the hyped-up crowd on the Mall.
Still, the unfortunate acts of rowdyism, trespassing and property damage which did occur are the fault of first, the Capitol Police for opening the Capitol Building’s doors to an obviously unruly and ill-behaved mob; and, secondly, the Donald himself. Instead of watching the spectacle on his White House TV, he could have cleared the building in less than 30 minutes with a firm call for his misguided supporters to stand down.
As to the Capitol Police, the dirty secret of this age-old patronage operation was on full display that afternoon. For crying out loud, these payrollers are not trained law enforcement officers who could keep the peace even in Podunk Iowa. They mostly sit as desks examining IDs and directing tourists to the Visitor Galleries.
The fact is, what happened that day was the result of pathetically incompetent police work.
Period.
That tens of thousands of agitated pro-Trump demonstrators had come to Washington was plain as day, as was the intelligence indicating that some among the estimated 30,000 horde gathered at the Ellipse for the Donald’s parting speech were planning to descend on the US Capitol Building where the electoral votes were being counted. The “attack”, therefore, was the very opposite of the hoary Pearl Harbor analogy proffered by shameless demagogues like Senator Chuckles Schumer.
Indeed, the “forcible entry” part of the narrative is even more threadbare than the utterly laughable “five deaths” canard. Besides Ashli Babbitt, it has been well established that three pro-Trump demonstrators died of a heart attack, stroke and drug overdose, respectively, and that the stricken police officer, Brian Sicknick, succumbed to a medical ailment, not an assault by a fire extinguisher.
Still, the forcible entry claim should embarrass anyone who has ever had a visitors pass to the US Capitol. The place is a veritable fortress with a few dozen very small entryways that can be readily sealed off by barricades and a decent supply of tear gas, bear spray and water cannons.
If they didn’t want a disorderly and emotional crowd entering the building during the electoral vote counting pageant, then they could have closed the building to all visitors, invited or not, with alacrity. After all, the normal electoral vote counting ceremony in the Senate Chambers barely takes 60 minutes.
Obviously, what happened was the opposite—a veritable afternoon-long Gong Show of confusion and random disorder.
From the law enforcement side, barricades were poorly placed, if at all; little attempt was made at crowd control via nonlethal deterrents like tear gas and water cannons; the Capitol Police was not briefed and drilled for the event or given clear rules of engagement— even though it self-evidently promised to be the biggest, most fraught event in many moons at the US Capitol.
And most crucially, the videos make damn clear that many of the Capitol Police officers sympathized with the demonstrators and were likely Trump voters. So when the crowds surged toward a number of entryways, the officers simply stood aside and let the demonstrators enter the “people’s house” unimpeded.
On the other side, the so-called Trump “insurrectionists” mostly meandered randomly about the interior of the Capitol Building, surprised to find themselves in Nancy Pelosi’s unlocked office or the Senate Chamber which had earlier been vacated.
That is to say, that didn’t come with a plan to “occupy” it, nor did they possess any of the aforementioned hallmarks of insurrectionists trying to seize and hold power. Not only were they bereft of weaponry, but they also brought no communications equipment other than standard cells phones, no food and canteen supplies and no protective gear.
To be sure, these citizens behaved rudely, disgracefully and irresponsibly once they stumbled into the Capitol. They should have been charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing, destruction of public property and fined a meaningful sum to underscore the inadmissibility of their raucous behavior on a day of such important national symbolism.
But, actually, that’s just the point. This was not a coherent political force that threatened anything other than the paperweights on Nancy Pelosi’s desk. It was actually just a disorganized mob of 5,000 to 10,000 mainly yahoos, yokels and societal riffraff, who originated on the margins of the political system and streamed into Washington on whims and wild-ass distaste for their societal bettors.
Overwhelmingly, they were not experienced GOP political operatives, elected officials, leading citizens or people of any means at all. They did not come to the nation’s capital city the way real power-seekers do—in troop transports or corporate jets. They couldn’t have seized and held power if Donald Trump himself had led them into the Situations Room.
In short, the Capitol Building riot was not remotely the Day of Infamy that now forms the core of the January 6th Insurrection Narrative. To the contrary, it was merely an accidental moment of rank police incompetence that enabled a few ruffians and a large, naive crowd of surprised pro-Trump demonstrators to have their proverbial 15-minutes of fame, milling around the Capitol Building with no purposeful intent other than to vent their anger that the Donald was driven from office by a mere 44,000 votes in three states out of 157 million cast around the nation.
Yet the liberal elites and their progressive-left allies have turned this great big nothing-burger in the annals of actual historical putsches, coups and insurrections into a putative assault on American democracy, ranking way above Shay’s Rebellion and nearly at the level of the South Carolina militia’s firing on Fort Sumter. And it all happened from beginning to end largely in the course of a single afternoon during which the beltway establishment and mainstream media confected this blatant fiction from the pointless contretemps unfolding inside the Capitol.
Still, the January 6th Insurrection narrative could never have gained traction absent the Trump Derangement Syndrome. That’s because the everlasting irony of Donald J. Trump’s presidency is that he had all the right enemies, but virtually without exception made all the wrong decisions during his hapless four-year sojourn in the Oval Office.
The list of his enemies is enough to make any right-thinking supporter of peace, prosperity and liberty proud. That starts with the TV networks and print organs of the mainstream stenographer’s club, who peddle the state’s propaganda and call it news. This most especially includes the masters of mendacity at CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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It also includes the bipartisan national security mafia, the climate change howlers, the race card hondlers, the Russophobes, the Neocon War Brigades, the NATO/IMF/UN acolytes, the Washington nomenclatura, the careerist racketeers of K-Street, the beltway shills of the Lincoln Project, the Silicon Valley thought police and the celebrity scolds of entertainment and media, among others.
With so many worthy enemies it is amazing that the Donald managed to do so little good and so very much wrong. But there is really no mystery to it when you cut to the essence of Donald J. Trump, the POTUS Poseur.
That is, the Donald was a principle-free Caesarean nationalist whose over-riding objective was his own personal power and glorification. His route thereto was inflaming a superficial nationalism that allowed him to pose as the defender of the flag, the military, the borders, guns, domestic jobs, policemen, firemen, law and order, religion, middle-class probity (sic!), the right to watch politics-free football games and, above all, to stand tall in the face of foreign malefactors and plunderers of America’s wealth.
Alas, as much merit as might lie among this pastiche of groups, things, purposes and symbols, the Donald’s form of bombastic knee-jerk advocacy added up to nothing that was coherent, urgent or ameliorative of what really ailed the nation, and which had caused the desperate citizens of Flyover America to cast a 63 million-vote Hail Mary during the 2016 election.
So in the end, therefore, the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, was the pitiful denouement of a world class narcissist and bumbling Cesarean who never should have crossed the Potomac.
Unfortunately, he is back again and this time may chance to accomplish some real damage to American democracy and middle-class prosperity, albeit not by an illegal insurrection, J6 style or otherwise. Trump’s real danger is that his re-election would only further intensify the Trump Derangement Syndrome among a goodly share of the populace and 90% of the ruling elites and media, but also further bury the nation in fiscal calamity and insuperable public debt.
Reprinted with permission from David Stockman’s Contra Corner.
