Miranda Devine: The country deserves better than the Dems ‘cracked out clown show,' ‘elite' media ignoring Gabbard's bombshell

New York Post

4 days ago

America deserves better than the degenerate propaganda machine that passes for 'elite' journalism. We deserve better than the evil 'cracked out clown show' the Democratic Party has become.
The New York Times and The Washington Post all but ignored DNI Tulsi Gabbard's bombshell press conference Wednesday, at which she announced that she had sent criminal referrals to the DOJ and FBI implicating former President Barack Obama and his national security team in the 'seditious conspiracy' of the Russia collusion hoax.
No wonder the best of the Democrats have switched to the Trump GOP. Authentic, principled leaders who might once have rescued Democrats from the abyss, like Gabbard and Bobby Kennedy Jr., now serve in the Trump cabinet, and countless unnamed voters have switched allegiance. Only the very wealthy protected class and the controlled underclass remain with a smattering of grifters and the irredeem­ably Trump-deranged, but that doesn't mean the party isn't dangerous.
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As time goes on, and more evidence is painstakingly chipped out of hiding, we see just how rotten are the apex Democrats: Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
No wonder their party is a shambles: 'Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided,' wrote veteran Democratic strategist James Carville in the Times this week, warning of an impending 'civil war' between whatever is left of the moderate rump and the parasitical radical faction that is sucking the party dry.
Dem blood-suckers
But the energy of the party is with the blood-suckers, like commie nepo-baby Zohran Mamdani, who may disastrously win the New York City mayoralty. His clones are popping up everywhere.
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When Hunter Biden emerged from hiding to attack Obama and his proxies, the politically ambitious Hollywood 'brand' George Clooney ('not a f–king actor') and the smug former Obama bros at Pod Save America ('junior f–king speechwriters'), he was speaking on behalf of his father, Joe, the aggrieved former president who has become the scapegoat for his party's ills.
'What right do you have to step on a man who's given 52 years of his f–king life to the service of this country?'
He actually has a point.
But Hunter also looked for all the world, in his four-hour-plus rants on two podcasts, to be auditioning for his own presidential run in 2028, which, given the parlous state of his party, is not such an implausible prospect.
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Hunter's friends often have spoken of his political ambitions. In writings on his laptop and in his memoir, he bitterly recalls ex-wife Kathleen's skeptical reaction when he expressed a desire to carry on the Biden political dynasty after brother Beau's funeral. 'Are you serious?' she said, reminding him that he had just been discharged from the Naval Reserve in disgrace after testing positive for cocaine his first weekend.
As if to plant the seed of 2028, Hunter expounded this week on some of his whacky political positions — extreme open borders like Daddy, faux concern for the working man, crack is healthier than alcohol, a lot of F-bombs — and delivered a line that must have been practiced in the mirror, possibly naked.
'I'll tell you what, if I became president in two years from now — or four years from now, or three years from now . . .'
Don't be surprised to see Hunter Biden vs. George Clooney, AOC and Jasmine Crockett, duking it out in the Democratic primaries.
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If you think it's a clown car now, just wait. It can get a whole lot worse, to the detriment of all of us.
It's not healthy to have one party spiraling.
Dems have proved in the past six months they are not willing to admit where they've gone wrong. But Gabbard is forcing a reckoning on them, by declassifying Russia­gate evidence in systematic, ruthless fashion, to focus accountability, at last, on Obama and his band of cynical manipulators who abused the intelligence agencies to sabotage Trump's first presidency.
Damning evidence
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt introduced Gabbard to the podium Wednesday by crisply summarizing the latest damning declassified evidence and pointing the finger squarely at Obama, his former CIA Director John Brennan, former DNI James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and others who 'conspired to subvert President Trump's 2016 election victory and undermine the democratic will of the American people while publicly pretending to engage in a peaceful transfer of power.
'In private, former President Obama went to great and nefarious lengths to sow discord among the public and sabotage his successor President Trump,' she said.
'The new evidence released by DNI Gabbard confirms that the Obama administration manufactured politicized intelligence which was later used against President Trump in an effort to delegitimize his [2016] victory before he even took the oath of office . . .
'The Russia collusion hoax was a massive fraud perpetuated on the American people from the very beginning.
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'And the worst part of this is Obama knew that truth . . . There was no collusion, no corruption except on the part of Barack Obama and the weaponized intelligence agencies at the time.'
Leavitt wasn't finished. She called out The New York Times and The Washington Post, which had uncritically regurgitated the manufactured intelligence spat out by Obama's henchmen and 'ridiculously' won Pulitzer Prizes for their efforts.
'It's well past time for those awards to be stripped from the journalists . . .
'It is not journalism to propagate political disinformation in service of the Democrat Party and those in the intelligence community who hand over out-of-context and fake intelligence to push a false political narrative.'
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Gabbard then unveiled a series of bombshells including:
Brennan suppressed intelligence showing Russia was not favoring Trump and actually believed that Hillary Clinton would inevitably win the 2016 election; Russia was withholding compromising evidence on Clinton until after her victory so they could damage her presidency.
Russia's foreign intelligence service had DNC communications that Clinton was suffering from 'intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression and cheerfulness [and was] placed on a daily regimen of 'heavy tranquilizers.'
The original December 2016 Presidential Daily Brief with intelligence showing Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election would have been briefed to Trump if it hadn't been scrapped and a new bogus intelligence assessment [ICA] fingering Russia ordered by Obama.
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The fabricated Steele Dossier that was forced into the ICA by Brennan, against objections from the CIA's top Russia experts, was not just in the appendix of the new ICA, but in the body.
When confronted by his own handpicked analysts objecting to the inclusion of the farcical 'pee tape' dossier, Brennan said, 'Yes, but doesn't it ring true?'
The evidence 'directly point[s] to President Obama leading the manufacturing of this intelligence assessment,' said Gabbard. The result was 'a yearslong coup against the incoming president of the United States, Donald Trump.'
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The first question from CNN to Gabbard was whether she was just trying to curry favor with Trump.
The Times buried the story on its webpage, mentioning it only in a scathing 'analysis' addendum to its breathless Epstein coverage, to say that Gabbard 'targeting Obama' was an attempt to 'change the topic.'
The Washington Post was just as bad, with a loaded headline downpage: 'Gabbard sidesteps question on weaponizing intelligence.'
Talk about burying the lead.
The Democratic Party will never reckon with its problems while it has a media that continues to cover for it.