America’s Biggest Threat Was Not 1/6
– Making Sense by Michael Reagan –
What was the biggest threat to America in the last seven years?
If you have swallowed the party line of the Democrats, it was the storming of the Capitol by dangerous Trump “insurrectionists” on Jan. 6, 2021.
For more than two years, Democrats and their parrots in the liberal media touted 1/6 as the worst thing that has happened to the United States since 9/11.
President Biden went even further, repeatedly claiming that 1/6 was the “greatest threat” to American democracy since the Civil War.
But sorry. I don’t buy Biden’s BS for a nanosecond.
Jan. 6, 2021, was definitely not a good day for America.
There were violent skirmishes with police outside the Capitol and a lot of window breaking and trespassing inside. Some police were hurt and their attackers have been charged accordingly.
But the unarmed mob — mostly middle-aged men and women in their finest MAGA gear, a few dozen rightwing nutjobs and a sprinkling of undercover government informants – killed no one and was hardly an existential threat to America.
Jan. 6 was a big deal, but it will never happen again. It was a one-off, a one-day national embarrassment that played out in front of the whole world. It’s over. Done.
But what is not over and done is actually the greatest threat to America since 2015 – the weaponization of the FBI and the CIA by Democrats to help the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton and hurt Donald Trump.
The details of that weaponization were reported this week in the long-awaited Durham Report.
In its 305 pages, special counsel John Durham confirms what we have known all along – that the FBI’s upper management was a corrupt gang of Obama/Hillary partisans who abused their powers to harm Trump politically.
They broke the law, lied to federal judges, hid information and did whatever it took to ensure that the FBI helped Hillary and hurt Trump before and after he was elected president.
The FBI bosses hated President Trump so much that they were willing to continue pushing an investigation into his supposed collusion with Russia for four years.
They kept the Russian collusion hoax alive – with the enthusiastic help of the dishonest or dumb Trump-deranged liberal media – even though they knew that the “Steele Dossier” was a pack of lies made up by the Clinton campaign.
Hillary knew what the FBI was doing, of course, but so did President Obama.
What the FBI did on the inside of government was far more harmful to the country than anything the “insurrectionist” Republicans did from the outside on 1/6.
Not only that, to this day the FBI is still a threat to the country because of its obvious partisanship.
It’s hiding information, ignoring or slow-walking its investigations of Hunter Biden’s laptop – which it’s had since 2019 – and the Joe Biden Family pay-for-play racket.
It’s also doing other un-American stuff for purely political reasons – infiltrating conservative Catholic churches that hold Latin Masses and treating some conservative parents as terrorists after they demanded information about what public schools were teaching their kids.
The Durham Report is four years too late to do the country any good. You can bet no one will be held accountable and the major media have already moved on to other more important topics like pronoun abuse and transgenderism.
The report was immediately dismissed by the liberal media as another “nothing burger” that proved the FBI did nothing wrong and nothing bad really happened.
Yeah, MSNBC, CNN and the New York Times, nothing wrong has happened inside our government.
Except that thanks in large part to your dishonest journalism, the FBI, the CIA, Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton and their Democratic pals were able to get away with undermining the foundations of the country.
–
Copyright 2023 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.
Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to reagan@caglecartoons.com and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.
Viewpoints and perspectives expressed throughout The Independent are those of the individual contributors. They do not necessarily reflect those held by the staff of The Independent or our advertising sponsors. Your comments, rebuttals, and contributions are welcome in accordance with our Terms of Service. Please be respectful and abide by our Community Rules. If you have privacy concerns you can view our Privacy Policy here. Thank you!
Click here to submit an article, guest opinion piece, or a Letter to the Editor
James I liked your editorial, and agree with most of it.
But I don’t care much for your choice to be tied to The Independent as an editor.
A few years back I was approached while picketing a local car dealer by Josh and he asked why I was picketing Stephen Wade. I told him my story and he ran a story about it. Which I really appreciated, and I told him that.
But as time went on, and my battle continued to expose the unethical business practices that Stephen Wade was using to fraudulently take consumers money Josh’s once concern about informing his readers of these practices, suddenly turned to me having buyers remorse and attacking a “good business man” for making a profit. Even though I told Josh I loved my car and would never regret buying it, even if I was taken advantage of. I think the reason Josh changed is attitude about my story is because Stephen Wade threatened to quit advertising with in the Independent, and Josh decided to put money ahead of the story, like all media does nowadays. I’m sure Josh will deny that was reason, and I don’t have any proof of my ass-u-me-ption, besides Josh likes to consider The Independent the “voice for southern Utah, and this might hurt that claim.
I continued my fight to help protect and inform consumers of these unethical business practices used by not only Stephen Wade, but most of the car dealers in this state and every state. I got a 2 bills passed, the latest one in this pass session that goes into law starting in July. The FTC created a new Rule this year for the same reason I created my bill, they had millions of complaints about the same unethical business practices that were costing consumers billions of dollars every year, so they created the rule to put a stop to these practices. If you want more information about my bill and the FTC rule I would be happy to talk to “you” and share my story with “you”. But I don’t want The Independent/ Josh to “make money” from my story. If not that’s fine because I’ve accomplished my goal and proved that what I told Josh was true and worth exposing. It had nothing to do with buyer remorse like Stephen Wade and Josh claimed it did.
Are you sure you want to be affiliated with The Independent and work for Josh? I wouldn’t but I have morals, ethics and integrity, something Josh has none of in my opinion. If you stay with Josh and The Independent make sure you demand more compensation because he’s making money off of your name and skills. As Josh says peace out. lol He’s such a wannabe rebel and fighter for the people. Have a nice day.
Thank you David, there was a mistake when posting this article. The actual author of this piece was Michael Reagan which was indicated at the beginning and end of the article as well as in the Topic tags but the author was not assigned correctly. I have updated that to reflect the true author of this article. As always, Opinion pieces posted to our site do not reflect the opinions of our staff and are not an endorsement of the content.
As to the other comments, I would like to learn more about the situation you experienced and the bill you’re referring to but as for Josh. I have always know him to be as fair and balanced as anyone possibly could be. However, since I don’t know the full truth behind your experience and the decisions that were made back then, it would be unfair for me to comment past acknowledging the situation. If you’d like to discuss any of these matters further, I would welcome your interest.
So let me understand what Mike is alleging here. The biggest threat to America is . . . um, Democrats? Yeah, exactly the kind of rhetoric that continues to divide the country for political purposes alone. Oh, and btw, lives were lost on Jan. 6th. I have a hard time giving much thought to anyone who denies that simple fact. What a hack!