Mike Pence currently resides in New Hampshire, where he indulges his illusions of grandeur. The former vice president is convinced that he can run as “another way” in 2024, defeating Trump and ushering in a new era of establishment rule.
He gave a speech to the Granite State and criticized conservatives for criticizing the FBI after its raid on Mar-a-Lago. However, he defended the bureau’s integrity as well as its ranks-and-file personnel. As my reaction piece noted, it was the surest sign yet that Pence is a man who simply doesn’t know what time it is.
Tucker Carlson shared the same opinion with Laura Ingraham Wednesday night.
Tucker Carlson is joining @IngrahamAngleMike Pence condemns people who criticize the FBI
Tucker: He should fire everyone who tells him to run in New Hampshire for president and make dumb remarks about the FBI, even if he doesn’t know what he is talking. pic.twitter.com/p2MxdGUMzu
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) August 18, 2022
It seems that great minds are able to think alike. Alright, I’m not actually suggesting that Tucker Carlson got this idea from me, but I did write on it first, so I can pretend, right? Really, though, it’s such an obvious takeaway that it blows my mind Pence is actively choosing to step into this pile of feces. It is not 2013 anymore, and if Pence doesn’t realize that, he’s not even close to an option in 2024 (not that he was anyway).
The evidence is overwhelming that the FBI’s corruption runs deep. It is easy to see the corruption in the FBI by looking at Peter Strzok’s text messages and FISA abuse scandal. Or I could bring up the pushing of the Steele Dossier despite FBI leadership knowing it wasn’t credible. Then there’s the FBI’s role in targeting parents as domestic terrorists for speaking out at school board meetings. We could also talk about the Larry Nasser case where FBI agents helped enable the nation’s most prolific sexual abuser.
Oh, and I almost forgot that the FBI helped whitewash Hillary Clinton’s illegality by letting her dictate the investigation against her before James Comey rewrote the statute to proclaim she shouldn’t be charged. There are so many scandals that it’s hard to keep track of all of them. Further, the “but the rank-and-file” excuse does not begin to hold water anymore after what has been revealed about the government-hatched plot to “kidnap” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s scheme was so far-fetched that the two defendants were able to win using an “entrapment defense.”
Carlson correctly states that Pence believes he can lead the GOP and not have to face the hard truths of the FBI. It’s comical to see anyone pretend it’s just a few bad apples at the top when it’s so clearly not. Besides, as Carlson points out, there is nothing about Pence that says he’s the kind of free-thinking leader capable of running for president in a GOP primary. Heck, I’m old enough to remember when Pence was getting pantsed by Democrats over social issues in Indiana, a socially conservative state.
However, this situation is much more dangerous than mere dunking of Pence. These government agencies are doing something that is quite alarming. There are the FBI and intel agencies as well as the DOJ. These institutions, along with many others, have been actively used for political purposes to attack their political opponents. Pence and all Republicans could not defend these institutions knowing what we now know. It doesn’t matter what the implications of this for 2024 are, or how it affects politics. What the former vice president is doing is immoral and harmful, and yes, it’s delusional.
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