As a reminder of the themes of this present Ultra series, we are reviewing in chronological order key, iconic events that fueled both the political recovery of Donald Trump and encapsulated and were emblematic of why he ran far ahead of Joe Biden and later defeated his successor Kamala Harris. We are trying again to […]
Victor Davis Hanson About six weeks after the Mar-a-Lago raid, it was the turn of the New York Attorney General Letitia James to continue the lawfare. On September 21, she filed a civil suit against Trump, his corporation, some of his employees, and even members of his family—which was designed to bankrupt and neuter the
Victor Davis Hanson From special counsel Robert Hur, the twin Biden special prosecutor to the Trump prosecutor Jack Smith, the nation would learn of the sloppy storage of the Biden documents and their multiple unsecured locations. And, in addition, Biden discussed their classified contents with his own ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer. The latter lacked a security
Victor Davis Hanson Donald Trump was three months away from announcing his presidential candidacy on August 8, 2022, when Merrick Garland ordered an FBI raid on the ex-president’s private residence. The swoop-down was the first time in presidential history in which an archival bureaucratic/civil dispute with an ex-president over the storage and possession of presidential
Victor Davis Hanson The Prerequisites for Trump Nominees So, if the traditional criteria for high government positions do not much matter to Trump, what does? There are many requirements for a Trump nominee—loyalty, competence, energy, communication skills, and in some cases prior business success. But one plus is clear and prior demonization by the very
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Victor Davis Hanson Kash Patel/FBI Director In sum, Patel’s résumé documents in detail his investigative and intelligence skills in all three branches of government (the courts, the executive branch, and the Congress). The idea that he is disqualified because he had not been in the FBI or law enforcement as an officer is silly. Before
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Victor Davis Hanson Kash Patel/FBI Director Andrew McCabe, the interim FBI director who followed James Comey and preceded Christopher Wray, by his own admission repeatedly lied under oath to both the FBI’s Inspection Division as well as to the Office of the Inspector General. Only AG Bill Barr’s wrong decision not to prosecute McCabe saved
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Victor Davis Hanson Kash Patel/FBI Director There are four “controversial” Trump nominees that the Left has gone DefCon1 on, in order to swing an anticipated 3-4 Rhino Republican senators—and thus, block them by a 1-2 vote margin: Kash Patel (FBI), Pete Hegseth (DOD), Tulsi Gabbard (DNI), and RFK, Jr. (HHS). Yet the hits against Kash
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Víctor Davis Hanson Pete Hegseth/Secretary of Defense A final area of criticism is the lie that Hegseth is an intolerant Christian zealot or racist white supremacist. No one who has worked for him has lodged such complaints; they come instead from a soldier or two who did not like his tattoos. Nor did those who
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Victor Davis Hanson Pete Hegseth/Secretary of Defense Hegseth is/was also the target of sexual harassment/assault accusations first launched seven years ago. But here too there are critical details left out by the Left. Sexual crime investigators of the Monterey Police Department in ultra-liberal California found no such assault, and after exhaustive investigations never charged Hegseth
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