Allow me to introduce a painful subject that’s difficult to discuss in conservative circles but long overdue: what has happened to Sean Hannity?

Now I’m not talking about the fact that Hannity seems to have done the exact same TV show for the last two years on autopilot. This seems so obvious that it’s hardly a controversial opinion. Even his ardent admirers can admit that most nights sound like they were pre-taped in 2019. What’s changed really? The scripts are exactly the same but the eyes look sad.

Let’s call this the “vape pen” phase of the Hannity show.

I’m also not talking about why Hannity keeps putting the GOP establishment’s court jester Lindsey Graham on the air to say absurd things like “I’m gonna get to the bottom of Russiagate.” Why Hannity keeps giving air time to Republican grifters like Senator Graham is a matter for Hannity and his audience to argue over — or perhaps Hannity and his shrink. Does he still believe Graham’s dumb lies? Or does he simply not care?

That’s another essay entirely.

Nor am I talking about Hannity spending 2019 and 2020 telling the American public that “indictments were coming soon” over the Russia Hoax and then staying mum when the outcome that he had personally vouched for actually turned out to be a hoax itself. This would have ended the career of any other anchor — but not Hannity. He just kept going like one of those speedboats that hits the shore and flips in mid-air and then lands like nothing happened in a James Bond movie.

Why was Hannity so cocksure that Bill Barr and his DOJ minions were going to indict the Russia Hoax plotters? Was it perhaps because DOJ “sources” called influential anchors like Hannity every other day to assure them that justice would be served — in other words, intentionally misled people like Hannity in order to delay justice until after the 2020 election when Biden would be installed? It sure looks that way. Hannity was not the only one deceived, of course, but he was the most prominent one deceived and his audience deserves an explanation.

At least Fox’s feisty Maria Bartiromo had the courage to call up Bill Barr and scream at him over the phone. (Well done, Maria!) The legendary Fox anchor Lou Dobbs took it one step further and castigated Bill Barr on his Fox show — so you don’t have to wonder why Fox news executives (with pronouns in their bios now!) canceled Dobbs’ show two months later.

What did Hannity say about getting played this way so publicly?

Nothing.

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Hannity’s Texting Problem

This particular essay will only deal with Sean Hannity’s texts to various White House officials after the 2020 election. These texts have been released by the Democrats’ January 6th Committee and they will surprise and confuse Republican voters across America. What do these texts tell us that’s so disturbing? The first thing they tell us is that Sean Hannity was basically in charge of the White House Press Office during the last days of the Trump Administration.

Let’s take a step back for a moment and ask: should we treat these texts as authentic? Obviously, I don’t trust anything the Democrats do or say or “release” as a rule. However, Hannity has not publicly stated that his texts were altered or presented out of context to my knowledge. If that were the case, wouldn’t you scream to the skies about it? (His attorney did release a note saying: “We are evaluating the letter from the committee. We remain very concerned about the constitutional implications especially as it relates to the First Amendment. We will respond as appropriate.”) His silence on the subject of the authenticity of these texts seems significant.

The texts themselves are going to be extremely difficult to explain to Hannity’s viewers too. He apparently texted White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on January 7th to say that it was time to give up on fighting the stolen election. (Here’s the entire letter from the January 6th Committee to Ivanka Trump if you want to read it.) No, I’m not kidding. Hannity was telling White House officials in private the exact opposite of what he was telling his TV audience in public:

“1- No more stolen election talk”

“2- Yes, impeachment and the 25th amendment are real and many people will quit...”

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany reportedly responded to this message with: “Love that. Thank you. That is the playbook. I will help reinforce….”

So let’s summarize: Sean Hannity was telling the White House Press Secretary what to do. And what was he telling her? He was telling her to surrender. It was time to pack it in and give up. Does that sound right to you? Hannity, who is all blood and thunder on his show, was acting as the ringleader of the “Trump should quit” brigade on January 7th.

Does this surprise you? It should. It certainly shocked me.

Hannity also texted McEnany that it was “key” to keep President Trump away from certain people, writing, “No more crazy people.” McEnany responded to this text by saying: “Yes, 100%.”

Who were these “crazy people” who Hannity considered such a problem? One can only assume that he was referring to the prominent group of lawyers and military leaders who were still contesting the stolen election at Trump’s behest: people like Sidney Powell, Rudy Guiliani, and General Michael Flynn who were invited to discuss post-election strategy by President Trump at the White House in December. (These people were all blacklisted, at various times, from appearing on Fox News too.)

And that’s the main point: President Trump himself wanted to contest the fraudulent election results and Hannity did not. Was it really necessary for Hannity to intervene and contact White House officials to contradict President Trump with his own staff? Does that sound like something Sean Hannity should be doing?

Let’s add another layer of intrigue to this surreal situation: Hannity’s employer Fox News had been caught red-handed by the American public calling the 2020 election results early for Joe Biden in Arizona two months earlier. Their ratings had tanked dramatically: half of their audience disappeared almost overnight. There was widespread panic inside Fox News as its employees realized they had just played Russian Roulette with their credibility and lost. It was in this charged atmosphere that Hannity started texting Trump’s staff to convince them that “stolen election talk” had to be silenced.

Hannity’s texts were explicit on this score: “Guys, we have a clear path to land the plane in 9 days. He can’t mention the election again. Ever. I did not have a good call with him today. And worse, I’m not sure what is left to do or say, and I don’t like not knowing if it’s truly understood. Ideas?” This is Sean Hannity himself admitting that President Trump did not agree with Hannity’s assessment of the election and that Hannity was persuading Trump’s own staff to break with him essentially.

Why was Hannity telling President Trump that he could “never mention the election again” privately while he was hollering about election fraud on his Fox show every night? It looks like Hannity was pandering to his audience on TV while, simultaneously and privately, he was dismissing “stolen election talk” to important White House officials.

Why was Hannity undermining President Trump so much when it counted in January? The obvious question that must be asked: was this merely Sean Hannity’s personal opinion sent out unsolicited to White House officials who didn’t answer to him — or was Hannity using his influence to help Fox News bring about their desired election result by persuading Trump’s own staff to concede defeat to Joe Biden? That would be truly diabolical — but it cannot be dismissed out of hand. For one thing: we have Hannity’s texts.

How does Hannity know that President Trump will “lose the entire White House counsels office” if he continues to insist that election fraud was real? We know the answer because of this tweet to Mark Meadows a few days later. Hannity informs White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that VP Mike Pence’s office is already pressuring Trump’s White House attorneys to quit in protest if Trump continues to litigate the results of the 2020 election.

How would Hannity know this — unless he was in contact with Pence himself? Why would Hannity feel the need to carry water for the treacherous Pence Team at all? The answer seems to be: Hannity is texting Meadows to pile pressure on President Trump to concede the stolen election to Joe Biden.

The blockbuster conclusion one draws after reading these texts is that Hannity was playing politics at the highest levels of the GOP during the Trump Administration (in contact with Pence, Meadows, and McEnany after personal calls with Trump himself!) and dispensing bad advice all the way. This advice was in direct contradiction to his public persona and the opinions expressed on his show. That’s the most charitable explanation. That’s the best-case scenario.

The worst-case scenario is hard to contemplate — but would better explain these hypocritical texts, the frequent guest spots afforded to frauds like Lindsey Graham, the child-like trust in Bill Barr, the soft spot for Mike Pence, and much more. Is he merely posing as a MAGA supporter while his heart actually belongs to the GOP establishment? One thing is certain: no one is going to hold Hannity accountable for these mistakes. He’s simply too powerful in the world of conservative media. Hannity is the only one who has to answer to Hannity. How much is he personally responsible for undermining President Trump’s fight against a fraudulent election in those final days?

That sad look in his eyes — and that “checked out” demeanor you see most nights on his show during the Biden Regime — might just be the pangs of conscience at his starring role.

As many of you know, my piece “The Treachery of VP Mike Pence Explained” was published on Substack on February 1, and it went viral (300,000 page views and counting) far and wide. A friend called to tell me that the piece got picked up by many of the conservative newsletters and aggregators. If you wondered whether Team Pence would have to respond, the answer came when Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short suddenly climbed into the guest chair on Meet The Press on February 6th.

Marc Short @marctshort

ICYMI: Sat down with @chucktodd on @MeetThePress

February 7th 2022

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Now ask yourself: since when do Trump officials appear out of the blue to be interviewed deferentially by Chuck Todd on NBC? The answer to that question is: never. Not unless they’re really part of the anti-Trump brigade.

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Sure enough, Short was there to explain the unexplainable: why was Mike Pence cooperating “significantly” with the Democrats’ January 6th witch-hunt? Well, because Mike Pence and the GOP establishment are just as anxious to prevent President Trump from running in the 2024 race as the Democrats are. Pence cannot be seen to be too cozy with Democrats, of course, so he must send Short to do his bidding.

And, trust me, Marc Short is cooperating with Democrats.

Acyn @Acyn

“With one source telling me the committee is getting significant cooperation with Team Pence… It is hard to imagine that Marc Short would cooperate with the committee without Pence’s blessing”

December 6th 2021

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It doesn’t take a political genius to understand that if Marc Short is cooperating with Democrats, then Mike Pence is cooperating with Democrats. The rift between the two is growing wider by the day. Former Trump officials already feel comfortable going on the record with reporter John Solomon to explain that a Trump/Pence 2024 ticket will never happen — and that the pair don’t like each other.

Here’s Steve Bannon interviewing constitutional law professor John Eastman and telling you exactly how Mike Pence evaded his responsibility by deliberately misinterpreting his role in a contested election process.

Biden_Squadron @BidenSquadron

On the evening of Jan. 6, while the violent mob that drove Congress out of its joint session to count electoral votes still held the U.S. Capitol, Trump lawyer John Eastman was on Steve Bannon's show denouncing Mike Pence. mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump…

September 21st 2021

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And here’s Steve Bannon giving his verdict on Mike Pence’s character and political career a year later: “You’re gonna carry this thing to the grave. It is a mark of shame and you are a stone cold coward.”

Agent Brandoe ? The Pipe Hitter @BYounger13

“Pence you’re gonna carry this thing eventually to your grave, okay, because it is a ‘Mark of Shame’ and you are a stone cold coward.” A STONE COLD COWARD h/t @JillFitzsimmo15

February 7th 2022

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What was President Trump and his constitutional lawyers asking VP Pence to do about the contested election back in January 2021, you ask? Here’s the basic legal strategy of how the 2020 stolen election could have been handled by VP Mike Pence in a memo supposedly authored by attorney John Eastman.

This is exactly the sort of thing that Democrats would have tried if the roles were reversed — and that’s why Mike Pence would never have tried it: the GOP establishment lacks brains and courage. No Democrat politician would have even hesitated to try to throw the entire thing in their favor this way. Defunding the police, expanding the Supreme Court, collapsing the Southern border — you think the same people who did those things would get squeamish about a little maneuver like the one described in Eastman’s memo?

Don’t be ridiculous.

Disgraced Pence Aide Gets “Havana Syndrome”

In case you’re still wondering about the caliber of people that Pence staffed himself with during the Trump Administration, here is Pence’s “COVID Advisor” turned Democrat activist Olivia Troye appearing on 60 Minutes to claim that a laser beam from outer space made her dizzy — I’m paraphrasing of course.

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Olivia Troye, homeland security advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, speaks with 60 Minutes for the first time about the summer of 2019 when she says a “piercing feeling on the side of [her] head” developed while leaving White House grounds. cbsn.ws/3LY07Zg

February 21st 2022

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Clearly, this woman is psychologically unstable. She is also the national security official most responsible for America’s disastrous and unconstitutional COVID policies — and she has a framed picture of Dr. Fauci in her house to prove it. That’s right: the woman who pushed COVID lockdowns and experimental vaccines is now happy to push “Havana Syndrome.” The problem is that — according to some of our national security agencies — “Havana Syndrome” is probably an example of mass delusion.

So we have fake COVID experts like Olivia Troye pushing fake medical conditions now. It’s a great way to stir up trouble with Russia too— because Russia is usually blamed as the responsible party attacking our people with these “directed energy” weapons. (Here’s Glenn Greenwald discussing the improbabilities of Havana Syndrome.) The other idiot who’s trying to play this game alongside Oliva Troye right now is Miles Taylor — that’s the infamous DHS staffer who tried to undermine the Trump Administration while working inside the Trump Administration.

You have, in other words, the two most disgraced and untrustworthy officials in the United States whining simultaneously about “Havana Syndrome” on 60 Minutes. Let me be clear: I have no idea if “Havana syndrome” is plausible or not — but I do know that Miles Taylor and Olivia Troye are not involved with anything plausible.

They discredit everything they touch.

Let’s hope, for the good of the country, that their security clearances are revoked immediately. They might be dangerously unwell from “Havana Syndrome” at the moment but there’s always the chance that the pair of them could recover and become dangerously well again. These are the kind of dangerous idiots that Pence and the GOP establishment installed everywhere in the Trump Administration — and it’s time for Pence to get the credit he deserves for picking these people in the first place.

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1. Neil Oliver with another memorable monologue. “Nothing stays the same — but there are to be found some absolute truths that are worthing standing and fighting for.”

Suzanne Seddon @suzseddon

Another great monologue from Neil Oliver @thecoastguy Showing support for the Truckers.???? ??

January 30th 2022

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2. While Pope Francis thinks and talks and acts like a Klaus Schwab acolyte from the World Economic Forum, the conscience of the Roman Catholic Church is now the exiled Archbishop Vigano — who sent out this fine salute to the Canadian truckers.

3) Dr. Naomi Wolf (another public intellectual banned from Twitter because she dared to criticize the vaccines!) has written an important Substack article about Canada falling into tyranny.

4. Alex Berenson has another good piece on Substack about the obvious lies of the CDC regarding the COVID data.

Unreported Truths

The CDC is hiding data showing vaccines don’t work

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5. You’re not allowed to ask which cabinet members in Canada are associated with Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum! Wake up, folks, it’s a conspiracy.

   Simon @_LoveMTB_

   Watch how much the speaker of the house starts to squirm when Klaus Schwab is mentioned. Then they cut him off, citing bad audio. They don't want this seen, so naturally, we should share it far and wide.

   February 19th 2022

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6. Remember: John Durham still can’t figure out how to indict Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan even though he’s made public admissions of his role in spreading the Russia Hoax in video interviews which circulate on Tik Tok. How’s that for justice?

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   Woah.

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7. New Zealand’s ugly little tyrant Jacinda Ardern doesn’t allow questions anymore — probably because the CCP funds her Labour Party!

Dan Wootton @danwootton

“If I could finish a sentence!” New Zealand’s Dear Leader Jacinda Ardern (who must never be challenged) snaps at a TV host who dares to ask a question she doesn’t like about the Freedom Convoy, which includes paramedics, teachers and pharmacists she has sacked. Not so kind now!

February 21st 2022

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8. If you’re wondering how popular the corporate media has become, here’s a video to warm your heart!

Glen McGregor @glen_mcgregor

I was doing a live hit with @MSNBC this afternoon when our crew was mobbed. One guy actually spit at us, others called us Nazis. MSNBC had to cut it off almost after it began. Then they chased us down the street to our bureau.

February 19th 2022

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9. Joe Biden remains as popular with NASCAR fans as he’s always been!

Kristin @Sodangfancy100

Omg this is the best thing ever! ????

February 20th 2022

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On Friday, I found myself in Georgia with Mike Lindell as a local group called Georgia Patriots (led by Holly Kelser) showed up to deliver about 40,000 sworn affidavits regarding 2020 election fraud to the office of Governor Brian Kemp. Needless to say, they were not exactly thrilled to see us.

A group called Georgia Patriots legally served Governor Kemp with these affidavits but Governor Kemp was nowhere to be found. Kemp’s Operations Manager finally took custody of the boxes once their legal department showed up. Kemp knew that angry constituents from his own party were showing up that day and so it’s probably no coincidence that Kemp and most of his staff were not in the office. Most of them had disappeared for the day.

Our producers can also confirm that Governor Kemp has CNN playing in his office. Does that sound conservative to you?

Governor Kemp should respond to these affidavits by Friday, February 25th. In addition, Georgia Patriots informed us that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received a digital copy of all the affidavits served to Governor Kemp — as well as “a legal notice of maladministration.”

The hour is already very late for clean elections in Georgia in 2022. Apparently, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is trying to force all 159 counties of Georgia into a one-year “maintenance program” to use the same infamous electronic voting system vendor that was used in the 2020 election. If these counties sign up for this program, they will essentially be trapped into using the same machines again in 2022.

That’s right: Brad Raffensperger is trying to bluff Georgia’s county election officials into using the same electronic voting machines that made the 2020 election such an international scandal!

It’s up to the local counties to decline to use these electronic voting machines — but Raffensperger and his office continue to insist, falsely, that the local counties have no choice in the matter. The counties are being strong-armed into signing right now.

Nine counties are currently declining to sign the “maintenance program.” Will Raffensperger’s plot succeed? Or will the counties recover their autonomy and actually have a clean 2022 election?

We shall soon know.

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Once again, we see the conservative pundit class go bananas over the new motion filings from the Durham investigation in the last few days. Suddenly, everybody at Fox News is “expecting more indictments” at any moment! (How did that turn out for Sean Hannity and Dan Bongino the last time?) Suddenly, everybody is supposed to be excited that Durham’s crack team finally figured out spying activities against Donald Trump that occurred in July 2016.

This is a mistake.

The first question you should be asking yourself is why it took the Justice Department almost 6 years to figure out those spying activities.

Let me use the proper analogy here. It’s like going back to your old ex-boyfriend who never treated you well because he called you once over the holidays. You know that it’s going to end badly before you even call him back — but you’re lonely and you can’t help yourself. It’s a troubled and abusive relationship — the one between FBI Special Counsel John Durham and American voters who want justice for the Russia Hoax. I don’t want to see you get your feelings hurt.

Let me explain why you’re probably being played again.

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Durham Appointed A Democrat To Be His #2

In March of 2019, Nora Dannehy returned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office to serve as Durham’s top aide. She left a year later in August. What happened? According to press reports at the time, Dannehy had to resign from the Justice Department “at least partly out of concern that the investigative team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done, colleagues said.” In case you missed the point, the Hartford Courant added helpfully: “Colleagues said Dannehy is not a supporter of President Trump and has been concerned in recent weeks by what she believed was pressure from Barr, who appointed Durham, to produce results before the election. They said she has been considering resigning for weeks, conflicted by loyalty to Durham and concern about politics.”

A U.S. Attorney resigning due to politics is like a Navy captain resigning due to water. It’s an absurd excuse. (Dannehy has since confirmed her liberal credentials by being named General Counsel to Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont (D). It looks like Dannehy signed up for an investigation that would do nothing, and then resigned publicly when the American public demanded an update on her activities. Needless to say, there was no reason for Durham to name someone like Dannehy to help investigate the origins of the Russia Hoax when everybody knows that the Russia Hoax leads back directly to Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Remember that Durham and Dannehy and the rest of the Justice Department sat around and did nothing about the Russia Hoax through most of the Trump Administration — an inexcusable lapse that should never be forgotten. Their boss, Attorney General Bill Barr, played a heavy hand in the stolen 2020 election— and it was to ignore election fraud. Getting rid of President Trump has been the overriding goal of the FBI and the CIA and the DOJ since 2016 — and Durham is an employee of the DOJ. He’s not Clint Eastwood and the Lone Ranger rolled up into one superhero.

The bottom line: hiring Nora Dannehy should make you wonder about John Durham.

What’s the Delay?

Why should it suddenly be exciting to people to hear, one more time, that Hillary Clinton (and Barack Obama) spied on Donald Trump’s campaign? Didn’t we know this already? Haven’t we known this for almost six years?

Ask yourself: why would it take Durham more than 3 years to file these indictments?

Why has Democrat super attorney Marc Elias not been indicted yet? Why was the Democrat snakepit law-firm Perkins Coie allowed enough time to sever itself from Marc Elias last year (on August 22) while Durham was going over their billing records before filing charges (on September 16) against Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussmann? Let me hazard a guess. It’s probably because Elias is absolutely essential to Democrat efforts to stop election integrity laws in various swing states across America. In other words, he’s too valuable to the Biden Administration to be indicted right now. Maybe after the midterms.

How about National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan — was his indictment lost in the mail too? Sullivan is up to his neck in the Russia Hoax, and he’s easy to find over at the White House with those blank eyes and that terrible haircut. Why hasn’t the Biden Administration been deprived of his services yet? The answer is perfectly obvious: Sullivan and Elias are getting the kid glove treatment from the U.S. federal government.

Just look at the Kevin Clinesmith case. The sentence was a complete farce. Durham asked for a few months in prison (which is absurd) as punishment and got nothing but probation. How’s that for justice? Clinesmith pled guilty to a felony, but he’s not even been disbarred in Washington DC.

That’s what happens when you charge national security officials who conspire against the President with process crimes. This should tell you that Durham’s investigation is basically a sham. It took 3 years just to get to the lowest tier of conspirators. By the time Durham gets to the major players in the Russia Hoax, we will all be living through the second Hunter Biden Administration.

(The Russia Hoax has so many jokers that it deserves its own deck of cards.)

What’s The Long Game?

Durham and his team have the habit of filing indictments at the last possible moment —usually a day or two before the statute of limitations expires. What does that mean? It means that Durham is playing for time. That’s why media reports that Durham is “about to release his report” always turn out to be false. That’s why the charges that Durham brings against bad FBI lawyers are very narrow and involve light sentencing. He wants his investigation to run as long as possible. Why would he want to do that?

My own theory is simple: Durham exists so that the FBI can regain some credit with the American public (“hey, those Clinton people lied to us!”) while directing the media narrative away from Obama. You already see this misdirection in the corporate media headlines this week: Hillary did it. Durham exists, in other words, as a kind of insurance policy against the ambitions of the Clintons. His real goal is keep his investigation afloat through 2024. That would explain his slow, slow, slow progress. If Hillary Clinton suddenly decides to run in a primary against Biden/Harris for the 2024 ticket, then Lady Macbeth and her old campaign staff (Sussmann, Elias, Sullivan and the rest of them) will find themselves in very hot water.

If you find it implausible that national security officials spend all their time interfering in domestic politics and rigging elections — all I can say is: what cave have you been hiding in for the last six years? Perhaps you should listen to Overstock’s ex-CEO Patrick Byrne explain how he assisted the FBI in setting up Hillary Clinton to accept a $18 million bribe in 2016 — a bribe that Byrne claims was engineered by James Comey to help President Obama keep control of Hillary once she won the election. Apparently, the plan was for Hillary Clinton to be POTUS in 2016 and 2020 before Michelle Obama took over in 2024 — that’s what Byrne was told “by four officials of three different flavors” from our three-letter agencies at the time.

It’s an incredible story — and you simply have to watch Byrne explain “Operation Snow Globe” in detail (it starts at minute 24:30). It’s probably the best explanation of what really goes on inside the Deep State that we can expect to hear from a participant. Even so, Byrne’s story simply confirms what you already know in your gut about America in 2022. We don’t just have fraudulent elections due to electronic voting machines — we have fraudulent elections because the entire system is rotten. The system understands that it has to pretend to clean itself up too — because the illusion of “the consent of the governed” is still required. That’s why Durham is pretending that he will clean up the Russia Hoax mess — but are you dumb enough to believe it?

He’s going too slowly and charging the perpetrators too lightly to be taken seriously. Durham isn’t dispensing justice — it’s more like the pantomime of justice. That much should be obvious to you — even if the rubes over at Fox News want to get you hooked on indictment dreams all over again.

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It’s official: I’ve joined LindellTV to host a new one-hour news show that will debut in the next few weeks.

I found a conservative news network that doesn’t want to enforce Biden’s vaccine mandate. Can you imagine? There’s really a conservative news network that doesn’t have a blacklist of conservative guests. Crazy — right? LindellTV will actually cover the stolen 2020 election — rather than just call Arizona early for Biden on Election Day. It’s exciting to work for people who really care about free speech and voter fraud.

Mike Lindell made the announcement on The Jenna Ellis Show.

My new job has the added benefit of driving the beta-males at left-wing propaganda sites like The Daily Beast absolutely bonkers.

Something called Gone Trending did a cut-and-paste job of The Daily Beast’s article — as did another bogus site called Raw Story.

A woman named Cheryl working at Business Insider which is “powered by Microsoft News” failed to do any journalism too.

Another site called Hill Reporter employs people like this “New Jersey based tech writer” to claim that I was “too extreme for Newsmax.” Ah yes, the amazing tech incubator that is New Jersey!

The UK newspaper The Independent also whined about it.

Something called Business Insider Australia was equally afraid.

They all tried to cancel me — but it didn’t work. If we stand together, they’re not going to cancel any of us. It’s time to toughen up. Stand your ground. Do not bend the knee. America is in the midst of a Marxist cultural revolution conducted by our corrupt political elites who are being paid by communist China. If we don’t fight for our freedom now, your children and your grandchildren will be slaves.

It’s time for the free people of this country who still believe in God to fight back.

It’s time to remind them: we own the government — the government doesn’t own us.

Will you stand with me? I’ve got your back.

NOTE: The renowned journalist Thomas Lipscomb has just completed a new manuscript (with Jerome Kroth) titled The Oswald Letter and it contains a number of staggering claims based on these federally released documents as well as fresh accounts from new eyewitnesses who have never before been interviewed. This is the third excerpt from The Oswald Letter to appear here on my Substack.

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According to the catalog listing of the National Archives in Washington, this is the “Windshield Removed from the Presidential Limousine that Carried President John F. Kennedy During the Assassination.” It is still carrying its FBI evidence tab.

But is it?

The Secret Service had the Presidential limousine shipped from Dallas to the White House garage the night of the assassination. Then they sent it to the Ford Factory at River Rouge in Detroit, where it was built, for refitting.

When a senior manager there, George S. Whitaker, came to work two days after the assassination, he was ordered to immediately report to the glass plant lab. He was let in through locked doors and found two of his men had already removed the limousine windshield.

As Whitaker said in a recorded interview: “And the windshield had a bullet hole in it, coming from the outside through…it was a good, clean bullet hole, right straight through, from the front. And you can tell, when the bullet hits the windshield, like when you hit a rock or something, what happens? The back chips out and the front may just have a pinhole in it…this had a clean round hole in the front and fragmentation coming out the back.”

In an interview a few months later he added: “The hole was about 4 or 6 inches to the right of the rear view mirror [as viewed from the front]. The impact had come from the front of the windshield. If you have spent 40 years in the glass [illegible] you know which way the impact was from.”

Following their orders, Whitaker had his men use the old windshield as a template, create and install a new one, and then once again following orders, they ground up and destroyed the original windshield with the bullet hole in it. The refurbished limousine was then sent back to the Secret Service in Washington.

Whitaker is far from the only witness who saw a bullet hole in the windshield. Several members of the Dallas Police, a nurse, and several doctors (and others) at Parkland Hospital noticed it when it was still parked outside while doctors were trying to save Kennedy. One motorcycle patrolman was quite specific: “There was a hole in the left front windshield…It was a hole, you could put a pencil through it…you could take a regular standard writing pencil…and stick [it] through there.”

Dallas Motorcycle Patrolman inspecting limo windshield at Parkland

None were called as witnesses by the Warren Commission.

The Warren Commission finding? “The windshield was not penetrated by any bullet. A small residue of lead was found on the inside surface of the windshield; on the outside of the windshield was a very small pattern of cracks immediately in front of the lead residue on the inside. The bullet from which this lead residue came was probably one of those that struck the President and therefore came from overhead and to the rear. Experts established that the abrasion in the windshield came from impact on the inside of the glass.”

To make this clear, the windshield in the photo (on display at the National Archives today) has a small black circle on the left side. Blown up by the National Archives, the area looks like this:

It certainly doesn’t look at all like Whitaker’s bullet hole. Or what a young medical student at Parkland described. She said: “No way there’s even any cracks associated with that bullet hole, It seemed like a high velocity bullet that had penetrated from front to back in that glass pane” A St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter saw it and said: ““A few of us noted the hole in the windshield when the limousine was standing at the emergency entrance after the President had been carried inside.”

Even a Secret Service agent reported to his boss after inspecting the limousine in the White House Garage, after it had been flown back from Dallas on the day of the assassination: “In addition, of particular note was the small hole just left of center in the windshield from which what appeared to be bullet fragments were removed.”

Most tellingly, some of the first photos taken during the assassination by professionals like Ike Altgens of the Associated Press and even amateurs like Muchmore have this common disfigurement on the same place on the windshield that doesn’t look at all like the cracks on the windshield in the National Archive. In fact they look more like — a bullet hole.

Here are two of Altgens’ photos taken about a second and a half after the first bullet hit President Kennedy. Notice the circle.

All factions to the never-ending argument about who killed Kennedy agree that the first shot hit the President as his limousine passed behind a Stemmons Freeway sign, which temporarily obscured it from the Zapruder film.

But in Zapruder frame 230, the limo emerges with Kennedy clutching his throat from the effects of the first shot. He’s been hit. The Warren Report details Oswald’s two hits for his three shots. All of them came from behind the limousine from Oswald’s “sniper’s nest” up on the 6th floor of the Dallas School Book Depository.

The first shot missed and nicked a bystander with a piece of the bullet or pavement. The first shot that hit Kennedy where he is clutching his throat, shown in frame 230, is the one the Commission claims was “the magic bullet.” This bullet, we were assured, entered Kennedy’s back, exited his throat and went into Governor John Connelly’s back then down his arm, shattering his wrist, and ended up in his thigh. The final bullet fired was the fatal headshot.

But there in frame 230, in the Zapruder film as well as the Altgens, is that white spec on the left side of the windshield, in exactly the same place in all photos. It doesn’t take a ballistics genius to see, just looking at the Zapruder frame, that if one draws a straight line to the place Kennedy is clutching his throat to the white spec on the windshield — and it IS a bullet hole, just as so many witnesses have said, the line of fire extends to the FRONT of the limousine. And that means the first shot to hit Kennedy came from in front of him.

And in that one discovery it becomes clear why the windshield with the bullet hole was destroyed, why the witnesses were disregarded, and why the phony windshield was put on exhibit in the Archives. The Federal Government was destroying evidence that would impeach the findings it wanted produced and faking the evidence it wanted seen. It claimed only two bullets hit Kennedy, both from the rear from Oswald on the 6th floor. But if the first bullet came from the front, what about the second bullet? And Whitaker was ordered to destroy the windshield on the day of Kennedy’s funeral. The Warren Commission hadn’t even been created yet.

Ten years ago a privately printed book came out by a remarkable Certified Senior Crime Scene Analyst named Sherry Feister. She had been working in crime scene investigation and crime scene reconstruction for 30 years. The Federal Government could destroy the original windshield with the bullet hole, but it couldn’t destroy those photos and records of witnesses, and Feister knew just what to look for and what to do with them when she found them. She had done it all her life with many a crime scene.

For the first time the cold equations of forensic science were applied to the considerable evidence that still existed rather than the passions, speculations, and wild theorizing of well-meaning amateurs. It also meant after 50 years, time was running out for the Warren Commission’s carefully constructed façade of lies and misdirections. But the book received little publicity so its remarkable work never reached proper public notice.

After a deeply detailed consideration of the evidence and locations, Sherry Feister sited the source of the first shot from the front to trees along a Terminal Annex parking lot on the South Knoll to Kennedy’s left front headed down Elm Street. It was not the much-discussed “Grassy Knoll” to the right of the underpass. She concluded it was a perfect headshot at 150 yards deflected down by hitting the angled windshield into Kennedy’s throat below his Adam’s apple. The sniper knew his business.

With the Kennedy limo headed right towards his location, improving his odds considerably, the assassin lined up the fatal head shot from almost the same position at a range of only 100 yards. And he fired and vanished from his position among dozens of parked cars. His work was done.

At a press conference for the doctors who tried to save Kennedy at Parkland, an hour after he was declared dead, Dr. Malcolm Perry stated clearly the wound in Kennedy’s throat was an entrance wound and the bullet appeared to be coming from in front of him. Dr. Perry had not only seen the original wound, he installed the tracheal bypass that distorted it in later photos. 

Later Dr. Perry (like so many other witnesses including Kennedy intimates David Powers and Kenneth O’Donnell who had claimed shots were fired in front of the limo) was intensely pressured by the Secret Service. He was called by doctors doing the autopsy that same night at Bethesda and Warren Commission staff to change his testimony. He finally stated it could be an entrance or an exit wound. That went into the Warren Report.

Members of the Warren Commission were pressured as well. Commissioners Richard Russell, Hale Boggs and John Sherman Cooper refused to sign the final Warren Report unless their objections to the ludicrous “magic bullet” theory were contained in the records of the Warren Report. President Johnson and Chief Justice Warren were personally contacted and well aware of this. And then the General Counsel J. Lee Rankin’s lie that their objections were included wasn’t exposed to them until Harold Weisberg told Russell’s chief of staff — years later.

The National Archives are a repository for the records of the government. They can hardly be blamed for exhibiting a fraud that they have been told is an historic object and cataloging it as it was described to them by those in authority.

But one might well ask why the government would also evade a 1992 Records Act passed by Congress, signed by a president requiring ALL documents pertaining to the Assassination to be released by 2017-2018, and deny full release under both Presidents Trump and Biden because of idiotic “security practices concerns”? 

Perhaps because we now see the Federal Government had been destroying evidence, changing testimony, and intentionally lying to the American people for almost 60 years about the facts it knew well about the assassination of a beloved American president one November day in 1963.

In any case, as long as that phony windshield keeps being exhibited at the National Archive, there is a constant reminder that for all the Freedom of Information laws and pledges of transparency by political candidates, our current government not only wants to govern our present and arrange our future, but to control our understanding of the past as well.

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(This excerpt from the unpublished book The Oswald Letter by Thomas Lipscomb with Jerome Kroth appears courtesy of Don Fehr at Trident Media Group. Inquiries may be sent to: [email protected])

Only a week after I wrote an article about the final extinction of the Never Trumpers (“The Cruise Is Over”) a remarkable thing happened: Jonah Goldberg announced that he was joining CNN. Finally, he was embracing his new role as the laughingstock of the Right. Think about: Jonah gets to do zoom calls now with Jeffrey Toobin! (I’m sure those two will be fast friends.) He gets to lecture the public using his imaginary doctorate as the “Asness Chair of Applied Asininity” along with fellow academic Don Lemon! This was the height of perfection in terms of comedic timing, and I want to personally thank Jonah for humiliating himself so publicly.

The thing you have to understand about Jonah is that he’s no longer even the most popular pundit in his own family. How do I know this? Because I noticed a number of links attached to some of my recent Substack articles coming from Lucianne Goldberg’s website. That’s right: Jonah’s mother prefers to read Emerald Robinson. Can you really blame her?

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Jonah has fallen very far and very fast in the world and hubris has been the lube that greased those skids all the way. A prominent Washington think tank expert once told me a remarkable anecdote about Goldberg and Stephen Hayes back in 2016. While Trump was busy beating Hillary Clinton, these two magazine editors were busy sending out dinner invitations to other conservatives to inform them that any pro-Trump journalists who came to town would be targeted and drummed out of the business. Their self-appointed mission, in other words, was to police conservatives. Goldberg was still at the National Review, and Hayes was running the Weekly Standard -- and both of them believed that they controlled conservative journalism in America.

Now they’re both a year or two away from starring in Jenny Craig diet commercials.

Shameless people do shameless things. Stephen Hayes was just picked up to be a “conservative analyst” at NBC News — Chuck Todd even put out a statement about it. Any serious conservative intellectual who got a compliment from Chuck Todd would ordinarily go into hiding — but Hayes has signed up to be the court jester for NBC because he doesn’t really have any core beliefs. He claimed that he couldn’t stand Tucker Carlson’s view anymore but joining a network that promotes anti-white bigots like Joy Reid and Russia Hoax diehards like Rachel Maddow is just fine with him. Does that sound conservative to you?

Trump broke these people. There is simply nothing that they won’t do (or say) in order to be viewed as his opposition. That’s why Bill Kristol is now a fundraiser for Democrats. That’s why Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are working with Nancy Pelosi That’s the most important thing that you must understand. The Never Trumpers are still on TV because they provide the intellectual justification for jailing Trump supporters on flimsy pretexts in the run-up to the 2024 election. Does this sound like hyperbole to you? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just released this bulletin about “misinformation” on February 7th:

While the conditions underlying the heightened threat landscape have not significantly changed over the last year, the convergence of the following factors has increased the volatility, unpredictability, and complexity of the threat environment: (1) the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions; (2) continued calls for violence directed at U.S. critical infrastructure; soft targets and mass gatherings; faith-based institutions, such as churches, synagogues, and mosques; institutions of higher education; racial and religious minorities; government facilities and personnel, including law enforcement and the military; the media; and perceived ideological opponents; and (3) calls by foreign terrorist organizations for attacks on the United States based on recent events.   

To the Biden Administration lackeys at DHS, the term “domestic terrorist” is simply code for Trump supporters. The White House has put out a “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism” that is probably the most Orwellian document ever produced by the U.S. federal government. It’s also completely unconstitutional — but, these days, who cares about that in Washington? The creeping authoritarianism of the Biden regime continues to grow because the GOP establishment also wants Trump supporters muzzled. How else are Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney going to get their party back now that GOP voters have deserted them?

Just watch as Goldberg and Hayes (and Kristol and Boot and all the rest of the Never Trumpers) cheer on the Biden regime’s harassment of Republican voters in the coming years. We are watching the United States fall into tyranny — and they’re going to support it every step of the way. How’s that for a prediction of the ultimate fate of the author of Liberal Fascism? He’s going to end up denouncing everything he once defended. He’s going to end up as Jennifer Rubin with a beard. It reminds me of a delicious quote: “If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”

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There have been so many scandals recently at America’s least favorite cable news network CNN that it’s hard to remember them all — they’ve multiplied like the ex-husbands of the Kardashian clan. Who can keep up with all the jokes now? Just take the most recent one: the forced resignation of CNN’s president Jeff Zucker. The first scandal is that not one, but two women were interested in being romantically involved with Jeff Zucker — who could be described, generously, as the least attractive man in the Eastern Seaboard. (I’ve been unable to confirm whether both women were legally blind when they met Zucker.)

The second scandal is that the woman who was romantically linked with Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust, was not only romantically involved with Zucker for a decade but that the pair were personally involved in PR crisis management for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. This included “calling him to do news segments with his brother Chris Cuomo and even coaching him on what to say during his infamous COVID briefings” according to the New York Post.

Why was the top executive of a cable news network coaching an elected official? Perhaps because his girlfriend had previously been the communications director for Governor Cuomo? Perhaps because Governor Cuomo’s brother hosted a nightly news program for CNN? Perhaps because CNN has always operated as the cable news wing of the Democrat Party under Zucker’s direction? In terms of ethical violations at CNN, we are spoiled for choice.

Let’s not forget the scale of the scandal that Zucker and Gollust were aiding and abetting Andrew Cuomo to escape: he had ordered that COVID patients should be placed into New York nursing homes. (There’s absolutely no reason to do that unless you want to spread the disease to the elderly.) Then Cuomo and his team intentionally withheld nursing home death data during the Trump Administration. In other words, Zucker and Gollust helped Governor Cuomo’s cover-up of COVID-19 nursing home deaths while ostensibly employed by CNN to inform the public of such cover-ups. It’s hard to imagine a more serious ethical breach at a media outlet.

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What was the reaction, you ask, of CNN’s staff to Jeff Zucker’s resignation and the serious ethical breaches behind it? They all got together for a staff meeting and defended Zucker of course. (We know this because most of them leaked details to other media outlets like the New York Times.) This might be surprising to anyone who thought people like Brian Stelter and Jake Tapper and Don Lemon were actually journalists and not just a motley crew of misfits that were hired by Zucker over the years. Did anyone really trust these people to give them information anymore? Since CNN has lost 90% of its audience, the answer to that question is a resounding no.

More good news emerged after this emergency staff meeting was called at CNN’s headquarters in Washington DC after Zucker’s sudden resignation: Chris Wallace (who just jumped ship from Fox News) was reported to be “very upset” with the news and was said to be “second guessing his decision.” According to an anonymous source:

“Chris is the type of person who makes it known if he doesn’t like something,” said a TV industry insider.

“He went over there for Zucker and now Zucker is gone. Wallace feels that he has been stiffed. He’s got no staff, no Executive Producer and the guy he gave up a prized gig for has just walked out the door.”

That’s right: Chris Wallace has no staff and no producer and no show and no boss. How wonderful. Wallace thought he was “jumping ship” from Fox to CNN for one last paycheck and, instead, his career is sinking like a rock to the bottom of the ocean. How marvelous. That will make it just as easy for liberals to ignore Chris Wallace as conservatives have for the last decade. One word explains Wallace’s career in journalism and that word is: nepotism. I think I speak for most people when I say: sayonara to the mediocre son of Mike Wallace.

And, finally, let’s not forget to salute Chris Cuomo for choosing the Samson Option with his old employer. None of this would have happened if Jeff Zucker had simply paid out the remainder of Cuomo’s contract at CNN. But, luckily for us and the world, Zucker decided to be cheap — and the rest is history.

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Finally, President Donald Trump chose to lob a verbal grenade in the general direction of his old VP Mike Pence last Sunday night — regarding Pence’s ability to formally contest the results of the stolen 2020 election. This was, for many Trump supporters, long overdue. Here is Trump’s statement on the matter:

The reason that Mike Pence did not exercise the power to lawfully contest the election is because Mike Pence was never a Trump loyalist. He’s a GOP establishment loyalist. There were plenty of problems inside the Trump Administration, and Vice President Mike Pence was at the center of many of those problems. In fact, it’s always been obvious that Pence and his staff were deeply involved in trying to remove President Trump from office.

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Whenever the subject of Mike Pence comes up in casual conversation, I always ask the same question: “Do you know Olivia Troye? Do you know Jennifer Williams? Do you know Katherine Seaman and Josh Pitcock?”

If you’re drawing a blank with these names then I’m sorry to inform you that you were not paying close enough attention to politics during the Trump Years. Also, you were not paying attention to my Twitter feed — because I was reporting on these problems all the time during the Trump Administration.

So, without further ado, let’s review all the evidence against Mike Pence. Trust me: there’s a lot of evidence.

1) Who Fired General Michael Flynn?

Let’s begin with Mike Pence’s least favorite question: “Why did you insist that President Trump fire his National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in the opening days of the administration?” The official story is that Gen. Flynn had lied to Mike Pence about Flynn’s contacts with Russian diplomats. Nobody has bothered to ask Pence exactly how he was informed about Flynn’s private conversations. Think about it: somebody went to Pence with transcripts of Flynn’s calls, and told Pence that Flynn was a national security risk. Who would have access to such phone calls? Who would want to lie about the nature of those phone calls to get Flynn fired?

It almost certainly must have been disgraced FBI agent Peter Strozk.

It’s likely that Strzok was the one who pushed for VP Pence to fire Flynn because we know that Peter Strozk's assistant was Katherine Seaman — the wife of Mike Pence’s chief of staff Josh Pitcock. We also have the text exchanges between Strozk and Page discussing infiltrating the Trump White House in great detail. (This was the subject of an extraordinary letter from Senator Grassley and Senator Johnson to AG Bill Barr.) What did Pence know about the FBI’s attempts to spy on the Trump White House? Is it even possible that Mike Pence was totally unaware that his chief of staff’s spouse worked directly for the chief of the counter-espionage unit of the FBI?

We know that President Obama warned President Trump not to hire Flynn in 2016. We also know that Flynn himself believes that Obama advised Trump against hiring him because Flynn knew about the Obama administration’s role in spying on Trump’s presidential campaign. Removing Flynn as Trump’s National Security Advisor was a top priority for the Deep State.

In other words, Mike Pence was the first person to set the Russia Hoax into motion.

2) The Ukraine Impeachment

During the failed Ukraine impeachment of President Trump, plenty of State Department and NSC swamp creatures crawled out of the shadows to hurl lame accusations about Trump’s phone call with Ukraine President Zelensky. Did you know that one of main accusers was a national security official on Vice President Mike Pence’s staff?

A State Department official named Jennifer Williams was placed on Pence's staff in April of 2019 — which was just in time to get involved in the Ukraine call and the subsequent impeachment. (What a coincidence that she arrived mere weeks before the call!) Just imagine being a few months into your new job in the White House only to volunteer to testify against the President in an impeachment trial over phone calls you didn’t like.

If you find that scenario absurd, you’re not alone. During her testimony before Congress, Jennifer Williams identified her working colleagues on Ukraine issues as Alex Vindman, Fiona Hill, and George Kent. She also testified that Trump’s call was”unusual and inappropriate” without explaining her legal reasoning. (That’s not so strange because Williams had defied an order from the White House by agreeing to appear for her deposition at all.) She was then sent off to CENTCOMM right after the Ukraine impeachment was over.

Williams’ attempted takedown of President Trump moved her immediate supervisor Lt. Gen Keith Kellogg to issue his own statement about Williams:

Ms. Williams was also on the call, and as she testified, she never reported any personal or professional concerns to me, her direct supervisor, regarding the call. In fact, she never reported any personal or professional concerns to any other member of the Vice President’s staff, including our Chief of Staff and the Vice President.

Again, obvious questions should be asked. Did Williams ask permission from Pence to testify against Trump? What did Pence know about Williams and her sudden interest in testifying at an impeachment trial against President Trump? Why did Pence not dissuade her from testifying in the first place?

This is the second time that Mike Pence and his office were involved in plots against President Trump manufactured by national security officials. Do you see a pattern forming yet?

3) Olivia Troye And The COVID Vaccines

The worst mistake that President Trump made during his administration was probably turning over the COVID Task Force to VP Mike Pence — because Pence turned it over to his chief of staff Marc Short and Marc Short turned it over to a little known national security official with no medical expertise. If you want to know the name of the person most responsible for unleashing the Dr. Fauci vaccine nightmare on America then remember the name of Mike Pence’s “COVID advisor”: Olivia Troye.

Why was the decision made to treat the COVID virus (developed and funded by the U.S. Government under the thin disguise of the EcoHealth Alliance) exclusively with experimental vaccines (developed with funding from DARPA) instead of therapeutics? Perhaps because Pence picked a national security official to advise him on COVID who regularly appears on TV now with a framed picture of Dr. Fauci hanging prominently behind her in her house.

Olivia Troye was just as motivated to destroy the Trump Administration as Jennifer Williams, but she didn’t have the same level of interest in protecting VP Mike Pence from the fallout. (Pence’s people probably figured this out the day that Troye appeared in a TV ad announcing that she would vote for Biden.) Once again, Gen. Keith Kellogg was sent out to explain that Olivia Troye was another bad apple that happened to be planted in Pence’s office. (In fact, Kellogg announced that he had personally escorted Troye out of the White House when she was fired.) Troye then started a personal grift operation called the Republican Accountability Project — in which she came out of the closet as a full time political operative for the Democrat Party.

So that’s three members of VP Mike Pence’s office who engaged in anti-Trump activities during normal business hours. That’s a lot of treachery. Let’s not forget the ringleader of so much of this malice too: Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short.

4) Pence’s Chief of Staff Gets Locked Out of White House by Trump

If you still harbor doubts about Pence’s treachery, let’s turn to Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short for confirmation of these activities. On January 6th, Short found himself locked out of the White House with his car still in the parking lot. When a reporter asked Short why this had happened, Short’s reply was surprisingly honest: “He’s blaming me for advice to VP.” The he in this case, of course, is Trump.

My own sources in the White House told me that Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short was literally the first person to call for Trump to accept the results of the stolen election and concede to Biden. Like I said at the beginning: there’s a lot of evidence of Pence’s treachery.

Long before GOP voters were suddenly surprised by Pence’s “lack of courage” on January 6th, I warned my followers on social media that any trust in Pence was misplaced. My sources in the White House told me that Pence simply disappeared after the 2020 election. (He went skiing in Vail rather than bother with contesting the 2020 election.) I wrote on Twitter at the time:

• We might need to stick VP Mike Pence’s face on the back of milk cartons because he’s disappeared. Nov 08, 2020

Why did Pence and his staff spend four years hobbling the Trump Administration? Why can’t people believe that the GOP would try to impeach Trump to clear the way for Pence? Most Republican voters have never met the big GOP donors — and have no idea what they do with their money. The big donors wanted a Mike Pence/Nikki Haley ticket in 2024. They don't really care what GOP voters want, and they never have. These are the people who pushed Jeb in 2016. And Paul Ryan before that. And Dan Quayle before that.

Pence is a creature of the GOP donors, not an America First patriot. That much is obvious now. Pence was added to the Trump ticket to restrain Trump's populism — and that’s what he tried to do for four years. When pro-Trump aides were sidelined in the Trump White House, I heard the same thing from all of them: they were told to sit down and shut up and, if they were quiet, they might get to work for Pence and Haley in 2024.

It’s time for Republican voters to admit that they had no idea who Mike Pence was. Don’t be too upset with yourself. He fooled plenty of people. The man you thought he was — that guy doesn’t really exist. It’s time you paid much closer attention to your favorite politicians though— if you want your country to survive.