Peggy Noonan and David French were once solemn people, but like their heroine Liz Cheney, Trump broke their brains.
A few decades ago, Noonan wrote an excellent biography Ronald Reaganbut since then she seems to have gotten lost in the dizzying forest of beautifully appointed Republican donor tables – a dreary grove of Egyptian cotton, hors d’oeuvres and Napa Valley wines. A boor like President Donald Trump simply won’t work. So the institutional Republicans and their morons continue their desperate search for a worthy successor to the Bush family dynasty. The farcical January 6th Committee gives them the perfect platform to propagate Trump Disorder tropes.
In a recent opinion entitled Wall Street JournalNoonan wrote a passage beatifying fellow suffragist Cassidy Hutchinson. Noonan promotes the “me too” sentiment from the very first sentence: “Only a woman would do what Cassidy Hutchinson did, because only a woman in a place of such power and prestige would record everything and write it down carefully, rather than spending that time wandering around was significant. ”
Why Noonan chooses to begin his article by lending weight to his dwindling credibility to disgusting progressivist fiction about misogyny says a lot about who Noonan is today. Trump is a litmus test. It’s the kryptonite of the political class that has Washington apparatchiks running in all directions with bulging eyes and babbling behind gurgling lips. Anyone who drives the swamp creatures inside the Beltway into such hysteria must be good for the country. And invoking The Squad’s favorite chant puts Noonan firmly in the Pink Pussy Hat club, where figures like Madonna call for violence against a sitting president.
There are many male “witnesses” with whom they decorate the committee on January 6 commentator listnot the least of which is former Attorney General Bill Barr — he doesn’t seem to have spent much time “wandering” around the White House. The way Noonan structures his article gives the impression that he is more concerned about the gender of the “witness” than the content of the “testimony.”
Hutchinson is hailed by Noonan as a modern-day Joan of Arc, standing in her polished armor before the menacing stares of the Inquisition on January 6. Hutchinson had no chance of being burned at the stake. In fact, she was met with a completely sympathetic audience and delivered most of her remarks via video. Noonan dumbs down the concept of courage beyond meaning.
It doesn’t matter at this point whether Hutchinson lied. One of her most sensational claims concerns Trump’s attempt to take away the driver of the presidential limousine from a Secret Service driver. Anyone familiar with dignitary protection understands the utter absurdity of this statement at first glance. However, Noonan finds this entirely plausible because “woman.” And there’s no problem with Hutchison’s statement being hearsay. Noonan quotes former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy in justifying the inclusion of hearsay because the Jan. 6 commission is purportedly a fact-finding body that impartially seeks “credible, admissible evidence.” McCarthy argues that “hearsay is not only allowed, it is encouraged.”
That’s all well and good, but the narrative here is very clear. Although Noonan dismisses Hutchinson’s story as hearsay, she has already convinced herself that it must be true – or at least she desperately wants it to be true. The tone of the entire song is a rhetorical accusation of President Donald Trump. Why post a statement with such juicy details if you’re just doing a blind justice job?
Unfortunately for Noonan, the whole “Trump tried to take control of the presidential limousine” story turned out to be true completely discredited not through hearsay. Secret Service agent Bobby Engle – the man Hutchinson says under oath witnessed the attempted takeover of the limousine – categorically denies that the incident occurred. Both Engle and the limo driver said they will testify before the committee on January 6. Strangely, no subpoenas were issued seeking the testimony of any of the agents. Officially, the Secret Service stated that there was no attempt to hijack the limousine. For Mr. McCarthy’s edification, this is the so-called direct testimony, considered much more reliable and actually admissible in court.
However, Mr. McCarthy’s indirect point is well taken – the January 6 commission is not a legal proceeding, but rather a highly politicized kangaroo court presided over by nine political hacks. Their records speak for themselves, and two minority members are confirmed RINO members.
Noonan brings David French into the fray by quoting him at length from a recent event Get it done article. The Frenchwoman tries very strenuous, but there’s only so much you can get out of “because she said.” French said: “Early this afternoon she [Hutchison] gave the most extraordinary testimony to Congress that I have ever seen.” High praise in airy of actual congressional testimony regarding the real, lifelong consequences of infanticide or the devastating effects of “gender reassignment” procedures. But let’s put all that aside, because we have a chance of triggering Trump Disorder Syndrome.
The French even go as far as deepening it Brandenburg v. Ohio1969 Supreme Court case Attempts to apply facts from Brandenburg, statements of a member of the KKK leader, to Donald Trump’s January 6 statements. French mentions statements from other members of Trump’s cabinet and his supporters, but only Trump’s comments were imbued with the ominous nature of potentially causing “imminent, unlawful action.”
Here Trump’s speech from that day on in its entirety. Read, listen and decide for yourself. You don’t have to be a lawyer to know whether Trump had “imminent unlawful actions” in store. You will read or hear a lot of typical political rhetoric used by both sides of the conflict. Here’s a sentence to consider: (*6*) If you’re not foaming at the mouth over Trump’s political destruction, you won’t discover anything criminal.
Noonan and the French are apoplectic when it comes to the former president. Donald Trump is everything they are not. He is growing in popularity while the tired Mitch McConnell-Lindsay Graham wing of the Republican Party is weakening. America is tired of a political class that exists only to serve itself, expand the scope and complexity of the state, and politely lead us into the abyss of national debt. Noonan and the French serve the interests of a kleptocratic bureaucracy whether they know it or not.
