On the full podcast today I discussed the damage done by the private and public lawfare against Trump supporters, Republicans more generally, and anyone who got in the way of Democrats.
The spark for that discussion was a tweet by Will Chamberlain of the Article 3 Project:
There’s going to be a lot of talk about Trump needing to “extend the olive branch.” NO.If he had lost, he would have been jailed. And for his support of Trump, Elon likely would have been bankrupted and jailed.Those who launched the lawfare must be held accountable.He doesn’t need to persecute random Democrats. He does need to ensure that his DOJ investigates Fani Willis, Nathan Wade, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Merrick Garland.
I discussed the need for accountability in the podcast excerpt below:
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There were a lot of people hurt by this outgoing administration, of which Harris was an integral part. Lives were destroyed, lives were ruined. Reputations were damaged, people were prosecuted, people were bankrupted. And I’m not even talking about people arrested in connection with January 6, but all over the place.There’s an effort by Democrats to go after the Bar licenses of lawyers who fought on the Republican side. They even announced and launched an initiative — I think it’s called Project 65, though I might be wrong on the name. Their goal is to make Republican lawyers toxic in their communities. They want to go after their licenses; they want to scare Republican lawyers away from doing what lawyers do. I mean, these are bad people, and they need to be held to account.Prosecutors who went out of control, prosecutors who announced as part of their political campaign that their goal was to use their public office, if elected, to go after Donald Trump and his family — those people need to be investigated and held to account.One of the things I noticed very clearly in Trump’s speech last night was how conciliatory it was, how positive it was. He said, you know, we will unify the country through success, essentially sort of a “rising tide raises all boats” argument. And that is Trump. The media portrays him as the most vindictive, nasty person, but that is actually Trump. That’s what he tried to do his first term.But there are also people on the internet, on Twitter, who are saying, “No, you’ve got to go after these people now.”I was even thinking of doing a reader poll, Should Trump unify the nation or get even?And as I wrote it out and was about to do it, I realized it’s not a binary choice. It’s not one or the other. He can unify the nation, he can unify communities, but these nasty, malicious people who abused our prosecutorial system, who abused their public office, who engaged in what amounted to extortion against Republicans and Trump supporters, they need to be held to account.So, I would say do both. President Trump: unify the nation, but also create task forces and create special counsel to go after the corrupt people who tried to destroy our society, not just destroy you, but destroy your supporters and people who disagreed with them. Those people need to be held accountable. Don’t let your laudable goal of unifying the nation get in the way of holding those people accountable.
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