Seems that the slander section (Part 2) of the Mueller Report has given emotional license to some of President Trump’s longtime , thinly and obviously disguised critics to really cut loose this past week.
Perhaps most prominent among them is the aging, bitter, and wildly overrated ‘media princess’, Peggy Noonan and the hack former New Jersey Superior Court Judge and the Fox News’ Murdoch boys’ favorite “legal expert”, “Judge” Andrew Napolitano.
Each descended to their personal worst this week…unsurprising in her hatred for Trump was Noonan and for “Nappy” just a shocking progression of his unhidden hidden dislike for Trump.
In the case of Judge Napolitano, it appears that with the takeover of Fox by Rupert’s sons, the very liberal James and Lachlan Murdoch, the self-proclaimed Libertarian has “woke”. In recent months and years, Napolitano has evolved into one of Fox’s most prominent Trump critics. It has been somewhat of a race between “Nappy” and ‘Shep’ and Neil Cavuto to see who will eventually capture the “Maxine Waters Impeachment” trophy first.
In what to us was the “Judge’s” strongest, and we believe most embarrassing outburst yet, Napolitano, on Friday, termed “the president’s behavior as described in the Mueller Report “immoral,” “criminal,” “defenseless” and “condemnable” (“condemnable”? Wow! Nappy, that’s pretty strong stuff!).
“Prosecutors prosecute people who interfere with government functions and that’s what the president did by obstruction, where is this going to end? I don’t know, but I am disappointed in the behavior of the president,” Napolitano said during a monologue of his Fox Nation show “Judge Napolitano’s Chambers.”
“If he had ordered his aides to violate federal law to save a human life or to preserve human freedom, he would at least have a moral defense to his behavior,” he added. “But ordering them to break federal law to save him from the consequences of his own behavior, that is immoral, that is criminal, that is defenseless, that is condemnable.”
I don’t recall hearing in this diatribe that the judge acknowledged “in my opinion”. But, I believe that it was…and nothing more. Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor and widely respected legal authority acknowledges that some details in Mueller’s report paint the president in an “unsavory” light but actually only provide “grist” for the Democrats to pursue impeachment. As to “obstruction” McCarthy convincingly disagrees with Napolitano…and doesn’t even feel a need to use words like “condemnable”.
It may be interesting to note that Napolitano is nothing if not ‘flexible’. He quickly picked up that Fox is under new management, and by golly, he’s ‘adaptable’. Some may recall that in 2017, the Judge was ‘pulled off the air’ for an indefinite period, related to a ‘conspiracy theory’ involving President Trump’s accusation that former President Obama had “wiretapped” him. Napolitano, at that time agreed that Trump’s accusation was accurate.
But then, “Nappy” got the “Lachlan/James memo”.
Ya think Napolitano will repeat that ‘wire tap’ thing’ , given it has since been proven?
The handsomely coifed legal expert and one time New Jersey judge also advised us that Attorney General William Barr’s views on the issue were out of step with “the obstruction statute” as well as “law enforcement.” We hope General Barr takes this “expert analysis” to heart.
Remember it comes from a refugee from that bastion of true justice, New Jersey, where the old joke used to be that “the economy is so bad in the Garden State that the Mafia had to lay off 12 judges.”
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As for “Miss Peggy”, it is just the ‘usual’ invective and inaccuracy
In her outburst, little new, just more critical assessment from the left’s favorite ‘Republican’:
“How Trump Lost Half of Washington”
The title of her latest column on President Trump’s shortcomings, observes that “The old ambassadors were willing to give him a chance. He destabilized the whole town instead.”
Highlights:
“Donald Trump was not their type. But early on they were willing to give him a chance.
– “When he came in he was a shock to the system, almost literally. He didn’t act like a liberal or a Democrat, or a conservative or a Republican. It was not clear he thought, as opposed to felt. It was clear he was emotional—lots of resentments, wounds and complaints. As the first year went by and then the second the stories were out there, sometimes from his own aides. He doesn’t read, doesn’t like his briefings, he’s spending time tweeting and watching television. He’s picking fights with celebrities and haranguing the Boy Scout Jamboree about our rotten media. He’s firing people or they’re resigning—the chief of staff, chief strategist, then the generals. The travel ban, Charlottesville, he’s a “stable genius,” he’s shoving the prime minister of Montenegro and blowing up immigration talks.”
– “They feared Madness of King George-ism. They’d come to think the president was, irredeemably, a screwball. In the nuclear age this is a dangerous thing.”
– “And so a closing word on the Mueller report. I have thought since the
beginning that appointing a special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election was right and justified; that Robert Mueller was an excellent choice because of his experience and integrity. Also his age and stage. He was a patriot looking to finish a distinguished career with integrity. He hired killers, tough lawyers and investigators who were hunting the whale and intended to harpoon it. They did everything they could to get the story. What they produced is a more dreadful portrait of Mr. Trump than his supporters will know, because most Americans won’t read it.
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n the end, Mr. Mueller did not bring charges. He left it to Congress.
Should the Democrats move to impeach? No, not for reasons of merit but of national interest.
Progressives will want to proceed with their usual blithe rage. But the investigation lasted almost two years. It was exhaustive and consumed daily headlines. Trump supporters, almost half the country, will feel, understandably, that its work is complete. They would experience an impeachment attempt as proof of what they always assumed: that this whole thing was a cynical attempt by the left to achieve by other means what it could not achieve at the ballot box.
They would see it as subverting democracy. And anything that damages faith in democracy at this point in our national life should be rejected. We need to build trust and faith, not lessen it.”
– “It is 2019. We elect a president in 2020. Democrats would be wise to spend the next year showing America that their party is capable of governing, up to leadership, that its ideas are not crazy but pertinent, that it actually has a philosophy.
Seriousness and calm would be nice, and after the past few years would serve as a welcome counterpoint. There is an unarticulated wish out there to return to some past in which things were deeply imperfect and certainly divided but on some level tranquil, and not half mad.”
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And there it is…the ‘gospel’ according to ‘Miss Peggy’ , the person who “saved” the Reagan presidency (in her own mind)!:
“What they (Mueller & Co.) produced is a more dreadful portrait of Mr. Trump than his supporters will know, because most Americans won’t read it.” (including so many of her readers who will rely on her reckless biased interpretation)
If you are a Trump supporter, it’s only because you’re ignorant of all the stuff Peggy, “Nappy”, Adam Schiff, and Bob Mueller know about “how Trump lost half of Washington”.
DLH
