I’m not watching a whole lot of Fox lately, since they’ve revealed a Bud Lite-like disdain for their customers. At this point I’m avoiding the brand, and following only a few individuals I like. I watch at least the first 10 minutes of Gutfeld, and the last 15 of Bret Baier’s show, and I’ll stop fast forwarding and watch whenever they’ve got Brit Hume or Victor Davis Hanson on.
But I did watch the two-part interview that Baier did with Trump this week. And if he was trying to do what successful candidates do – make it hard for people to vote for your opponent and easy to vote for you – he went one-for-two.
He did take some effective shots at Biden and the Dems, though at this point that is not exactly a tough task. (They are so manifestly creepy and despicable that any normal and not super-partisan-left human is already repelled by them.) He also showed a few flashes of the old, spicy, hard-elbows Trump, as when he needled Baier about how many viewers Fox has lost lately. (Fact check: true.)
But I am aggravated by how he continues to make it harder for anyone who is not already a die-hard Trump fan to support him.
You know that his lawyers had to be drinking with both hands when he started talking about the details of the documents case against him, for example. His charges about how the MSM and left has attacked and lied about him – and how they’ve covered for Biden and every leftist miscreant around – since 2015 are all true, and made even more effective by the joke of an indictment from Alvin Bragg, and the transparently bogus civil suit by Jean Carroll.
But his defense to the more serious current indictment with Baier was muddled at best, and he seemed at several points to admit to some key charges against him. Rather than having declassified all those docs at the end of his presidency – which would have been an air-tight legal defense – he agreed that he had said (apparently on tape) that he could have classified them but didn’t.
I think that if you’re not going to charge Hillary or Biden for doing the same or worse, Trump NEVER should have been charged. But I also think that Trump’s petulance and lack of discipline handed his enemies – whom he already knew were people with no moral compass who have happily fabricated evidence against him – an armful of evidence to hammer him with.
But Trump’s thoughts on loyalty were the low point for me. You all know that I’m pulling for DeSantis, so it always irritates me that he accuses DeSantis of disloyalty just for daring to run for president. But at least I can see why Trump feels that way, even as I disagree.
But when Baier read just a partial list of all of the Trump appointees whom Trump eventually turned on and attacked, it wasn’t new, but it was damning just the same. Every administration has picks that turn out to be bad calls, and even a few turncoats, and I didn’t blame Trump for most of those early on. I liked that he was such an outsider, and I knew that that meant he didn’t have a deep network of “experienced pols” (which is not the compliment for me that it is for some) from whom to choose.
But when the titles, names and insults are listed – cabinet members who are all idiots and cowards and traitors, secretaries of state and ambassadors and candidates you supported who all did lousy jobs – it makes Trump look terrible. Either he picked a line-up of the worst, most disreputable job candidates in history – and we’ve all seen the Biden and Obama administrations, so that’s going to be a hard “no” – or Trump throws everyone who ever disagrees with him under the bus.
He even trashed Kayleigh McEnany! All she ever did was defend him loyally, outwit the dimwits in the press corps, and look great doing it. (And set a standard for spokespeople that makes the Ginger Prevaricator and Kewpie-Doll Identity-Hire Pierre look even worse. Which I wouldn’t have thought possible.)
But when McEnany cited one poll saying that Trump was up by 25 points, he attacked. Because another poll showed him up by 34, he called her “milquetoast” and said that the “RINOS and Globalists can have her. FoxNews should only use REAL stars.”
That’s how he treats his people who did a good job for him! Compare that to the praise he’s been giving to leftist Schiff-shows like Ken-Doll Newsom, Grandma-Killer Cuomo and Spineless Charlie Crist, just because doing so allows him to smear DeSantis.
If I were him, with that record, I wouldn’t be talking a lot about loyalty.
It pains me to write that, and I will obviously still vote for him if he’s the nominee, because Trump at his worst is way better than any of the current Dems at their best. But I’m afraid that he’s only making the future tougher on himself, even if he does return to the White House.
Because he’s going to need to hire a ton of good people to carry out his plans to drain the swamp, clean out the deep state, etc. And with the way he’s been treating his people from the first administration, he’s making that task a lot tougher.
But enough about that unpleasantness – let’s remember who our real opposition is.
I know we’ve all heard enough about Hunter Biden this week, and his unutterably corrupt sweetheart deal that has allowed him to skate on a boatload of felonies without even a slap on the wrist.
But I think the more telling story about Hunter this week came from LA, where a member of “an elite sex club” revealed that Hunter was also a member.
None of you, reading the last paragraph, gasped in surprise, and thought, “Martin, are you telling me that that jumper-of-his-brother’s-widow and degenerate druggie who filmed himself cavorting with hookers of many nations belonged to a sex club? The hell you say!”
The guy who ratted Hunter out, Damon Lawner, has been kicked out of the sex club. Because, and I quote, the club “upholds a strict code of conduct to protect our members’ safety and privacy.”
Ah, yes. Nothing says “strict code of conduct” like asking rich LA weirdos, “Do you have $75K, and would you like to bang strangers? You’re in!”
The most salient part of the story? Hunter Biden was kicked out of the club for being, and I quote again, “a scumbag.”
That’s right. The son who makes Joey Gaffes so, so proud, was actually too scummy to meet the high moral standards down at Club Chlamydia.
Speaking of a group with the moral gravitas of a skeevy sex club, the ACLU is mad again, and that’s good news for us.
This story starts in 1984, when an evil pervert named Duane Owen raped and stabbed to death a 14-year-old girl while she was babysitting. Two months later, he broke into a home and beat a 38-year-old mother of two to death with a hammer. Her kids found her body the next morning.
For the next thirty-nine years he sat on death row, until Florida finally executed him last week.
So why is the ACLU mad? Are they outraged because his conviction and execution were so rash and speedy that he may have been wrongly killed? Probably. But they’re REALLY angry because ol’ Duane claimed to be transgender, and Florida still cruelly refused to give him “medically necessary gender-affirming care.”
You can’t make this up. (Also, happy Pride Month everybody!)
The ACLU said that by not using Duane’s preferred pronouns and giving him the “care” he wanted, the state caused him “enormous suffering” and exposed him to “cruel and unusual punishment.” They also hoped to prevent the execution because of how hard they’ve made it to get the drugs used in that procedure.
Since “gender affirming care” for males is often a ghoulish euphemism for castration, I would actually have been in favor of giving that surgery to Duane. Imagine his surprise when it was explained to him that the state had spent all of its drug budget on execution drugs, so the “gender affirmation” would have to be done without anesthetic.
Fortunately, Florida was able to find execution drugs, and justice was done on June 15th.
Owen’s final statement was, “I have transcended space and time, I have seen the visions of the crow.”
Everybody at the prison gave a confused look and shrugged their shoulders, but Joe Biden got what he was putting down. “That guy makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle, doesn’t he? God save the queen, man.”
Biden delenda est!
“Dr.” Jill Biden/ Damon “More Moral than Hunter” Lawner, 2024!