While on the radio show Good Morning New Hampshire with host Jack Heath last week, former South Carolina Governor and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley weighed in on the latest politically motivated indictment of former President Donald J. Trump:
“Unlike the other candidates, I didn't rush out with a statement yesterday on Trump's indictment for one simple reason — like most Americans, I'm tired of commenting on every Trump drama,” said Haley. “I've lost track of whether this indictment is the third or fourth or the fifth.”
Wow. Interesting and very illuminating.
Maybe Haley -- who embarrassingly trails Trump in polls taken in her home state -- has also "lost track" of the fact that it was Trump who appointed her ambassador to the UN. Maybe Haley has "lost track" of loyalty and friendship. Maybe Haley has "lost track" of the protections granted by the Constitution of the United States. Maybe Haley has "lost track" of the growing Hunter Biden/Joe Biden connections to tainted money and foreign adversaries. Maybe Haley has "lost track" of the fact that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden were working hand-in-hand to smear first private citizen Trump and then President Trump with a highly orchestrated Russia collusion hoax in an effort to steal an election. Maybe Haley "lost track" of the multiple policy wins Trump put up on the board on behalf of the American people.
And maybe Haley has “lost track” of the fact that a sitting president of the United States seems to be using our Department of Justice as a partisan tool to take out his leading political opponent.
As more evidence that Biden and his White House might be pressuring the DOJ to prosecute Trump, let’s look at this just resurfaced background first published by the Biden-loving New York Times back in April of 2022:
“The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself.” The paper reported. “As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments. And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.”
So, a president many are convinced is the most corrupt in U.S. history, put it out there to his “inner circle” and the universe that he believes former President Donald J. Trump – his and his Party’s main political opponent – is “a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted” and we are to believe that the political hacks infesting the Department of Justice did not get that explicit message from anyone connected to Biden’s “inner circle.”
After being forced to go to Washington, DC to plead “not guilty” to the federal charges manufactured against him, former President Trump said in part: “When you look at what is happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in America…”
But it is happening in America. Our America.
In a piece for The Hill, acclaimed law professor and Constitutional authority Jonathan Turley said the new indictment against Trump “bulldozes the First Amendment.”
More than that, it brings great shame upon the White House, the Department of Justice, and any in – or formerly with -- our government participating in what amounts to a preemptive Coup d’état against a political opponent favored by tens of millions of Americans.
You don’t have to support Donald Trump politically to know right from wrong.
What’s happening with these escalating raids and indictments against him is chilling and un-American.
As a closing note to Nikki Haley, I would remind her that if they can do this to a former President of the United States and his Party’s leading candidate for president, they can do it to her or any of us.
Hopefully she won’t lose track of that reality as her ambition burns bright.
Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the book: The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence.
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