Victor Davis Hanson On Trump Raid: ‘The
FBI is Beyond Redemption’ (Video)
Gateway Pundit,
by
Mike LaChance
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/14/2022 4:16:29 AM
The writer and historian Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most serious thinkers of our time. When he says something, people should listen.
Following the raid on Trump’s Florida home, Hanson is saying that the FBI is beyond redemption. That it cannot and should not be saved in its current form.
To hear Hanson saying this should alarm people. He is not the type of man who engages in outrageous talk. He means this, for real.Victor Hanson: ‘We Don’t Have Rule of Law in Washington … FBI is Beyond Redemption’
When asked about the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Fla., professor, author, and
Reply 1 - Posted by:
5 handicap 8/14/2022 5:50:03 AM (No. 1247615)
You gotta love VDH! As usual Hanson gets to the correct point with little wasted time! Hanson is without doubt a National Treasure.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 8/14/2022 6:46:40 AM (No. 1247629)
Ok. The FBI is now Frankenstein’s monster. Will a Republican Congress, presumably after this November, have the huevos for this job of tearing it down? What can replace it? DOJ (Completely politicized)? Homeland Security (Bush’s Joke)? In fact, the whole apparatus of our government needs a thorough do-over, clearing out all the leftists roaches, if we’re going to survive as a unified country.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 8/14/2022 6:54:56 AM (No. 1247635)
Before anyone can do something about the FBI, something needs to be done about the spineless Republicans first, otherwise it will be the same ole same ole, all talk and no action.
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#3 is right. We all know that the real solution is electing veto-proof majorities of honest Patriotic Americans in both chambers and a true Constitutional Conservative in the White House. We can’t get all the way there in 2022, obviously, but how close we could be after 2024 depends on our solidarity between now and then. We have to do better at coalescing after the primaries. Duke it out through August, but rally around the candidate for November. Otherwise, as ominous as VDH’s sentiments are, this is just the tip of the iceberg. I know I’m preaching to the choir, but maybe get out there and convince your neighbor who was gonna stay home since their guy got 2nd in the primary. Until we have a better system, let’s make the most of the system the Founders gave us. That means we always vote, and we always vote for the more conservative of our 2 options, even if we have to hold our nose when neither is perfect. One is always worse, and we have a civic duty to vote against them. We’ve seen what happens otherwise.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/14/2022 7:22:51 AM (No. 1247649)
VDH is the lamp of reason in a sea of darkness and tyranny.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 8/14/2022 7:37:22 AM (No. 1247664)
Did you really mean “huevos,” #2, or “cojones”?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Highlander 8/14/2022 7:49:52 AM (No. 1247674)
#6; Both huevos and cajones are understood and used interchangeably in referring to “having brass pelotas.”
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 8/14/2022 7:51:43 AM (No. 1247676)
If the Republicans take the Congress, much may not be done about the FBI. Many Republicans are Deep State members and blackmailable by the FBI if they attempt to reform the organization.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TCloud 8/14/2022 8:14:33 AM (No. 1247691)
Hillary Clinton's personal *Self Protection Unit* is/was the FBI/DOJ!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ruhn 8/14/2022 8:29:24 AM (No. 1247707)
There is no need for a federal police force. All 50 states have their own law enforcement capabilities.
The abuse of power is not a relatively new trend. The rot goes back to Hoover and even before him with Directors going after perceived political enemies.
Tear it down. Unfortunately the swamp (and/or DC Uniparty) will not idly allow that to happen.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/14/2022 8:50:08 AM (No. 1247725)
VDH has an open invitation to Texas (rumor has it that he's a farmer)
The Republic of Texas approaches.
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, S Dakota, N Dakota, Montana, Alberta (Canada), Saskatchewan (Canada), Manitoba (Canada), and a few states along the sides. Let's go EAST. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida.
We have every shipping port in The Gulf of Mexico and half the Atlantic and more oil than the Saudis ever dreamed of.
California and New York can print their own money. If they want to trade they can use Panama. We WILL protect our borders ,north, south, east, and west.
If you're coming to visit Texas bring your US passport with the pre-approved visitor's visa.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
franq 8/14/2022 8:56:24 AM (No. 1247728)
#8 brings up a major point: blackmail.
It's how they roll.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Daisymay 8/14/2022 8:58:22 AM (No. 1247731)
Well, #3, if that's the case Republicans in Congress had better find another Speaker of the House! McCarthy is acting like it's a done deal and he will have that Gavel! House Members has better start getting together and deciding who they want to be their Leader OTHER than McCarthy, because HE is Deep State!! I would suggest Jim Jordon!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 8/14/2022 9:04:28 AM (No. 1247740)
As of now I wouldn't trust the FBI to run a parking garage that would be tainted too. Useless political hacks that serve no purpose. The FBI doesn't fight crime they create crime then manufacture evidence. Minus the collateral horrible carnage of Oklahoma City bombing Tim McVie was right after Ruby Ridge and Waco this includes the ATF and now the militarization of the IRS. They are all enforcer arms of the DNC.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cireskul 8/14/2022 9:37:11 AM (No. 1247762)
Not interested in a situation where Republicans once power again start offering olive branches. No, there must be retribution. There must be a serious consequence, no turning the other cheek. Done with that BS.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/14/2022 9:47:04 AM (No. 1247774)
We keep hearing how noble most of the field agents are...Question, when you are in a corrupt organization do you stand and watch or do you blow the biggest whistle you can find? There is you're answer, most of them accept the corruption and in my view that makes them willing participants, PERIOD! What would happen if ALL of the good agents blew the whistle AT THE SAME TIME? The sound would be deafening!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
slipstik 8/14/2022 10:34:35 AM (No. 1247823)
This is NOT a Federal Bureau of Intimidation problem. This isn't even a DOJ problem. Our ENTIRE government is totally out of OUR control. The government has gone from being our servants to be our masters...and WE let it happen. The federal government has seized EVERY rein of power and will not voluntarily give any of them back.
So CDC/FDA kills us with poisonous vaccines.
Dept of Ed destroys our children's mind and spirit.
Dept of Energy cancels all energy production that doesn't fit their attitude.
IRS is now ready to kill us.
The "Patriot Act" is used to persecute us
The government has seized all the free land in the country.
There are no borders.
We are at the edge of losing our 2nd, which is the official end of our freedom.
We can't say much anymore because even what little I'm saying right now and here could get me arrested.
The rot goes so deep in the entire structure of our government that there's no way to fix it.
Even the Post Office collaborated in stealing the '20 election.
We're done. It's time to pass into history as another failed human experiment.
There is a flaw in us that we are currently unable to conquer. Probably akin to "lust for power". I think God built it into us as a limiting factor.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 8/14/2022 10:40:33 AM (No. 1247831)
Who couldn't see this secret police train wreck coming. When Bill Clinton's Janet Reno fired ALL 93 DOJ offices senior prosecuting attorneys the federal bureau of intimidation went downhill fast as Rby Ridge and Branch Davidians were warm up events. AG Alberto Gonzales under GW Bush tried to clean it up but when he fired 9 prosecutors for Nazi behavior he was forced out by fascist Democrats in Congress. And no talk about these fake "inclusive" elites being unbelievably rascist?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 8/14/2022 11:10:25 AM (No. 1247849)
Victor David Hanson, one of the last remaining treasures of California. Mr. Hanson, not of the Coastal SF Bay Area, but of the The San Joaquin Valley, where the farming is done.
BTW I wish Hannity would shut up about all the good FBI agents in the Bureau. Weren't they the ones who are carrying out the orders of the 7th Floor? Weren't they the ones photographed holding AK15 firearms in Florida at the home of President Trump, in FBI armed boats outside of MAL? Were these FBI agents the ones inciting a riot at J6? Weren't these FBI agents the ones who were moles in the Trump Adm. spying on him? The FBI agents are DIRTY AND CORRUPT!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/14/2022 11:15:25 AM (No. 1247859)
Lady Chihuahua mentioned something. There is this 'mysterious' device called a camera that one can download pictures to a memory stick. Who needs to take top secret 'nuclear' papers out of the Whitehouse?
Everything the FBI is doing to Trump is BS. This is nothing but abuse of power, and everyone involved needs to be removed from power and jailed.
VDH is right about the FBI. It also applies equally to Congress and the executive branch.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NotaBene 8/14/2022 11:38:34 AM (No. 1247875)
The FBI together with the D.C. judges and Marxist juries control our lives. Only hope I see is to bring back Trump.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 8/14/2022 11:50:33 AM (No. 1247884)
The FBI has been acting more like the KGB and Gestapo than any sort of a legal, moral law enforcement agency for a long time.
At this point, I see no possible recovery. The totalitarian "We ARE the law!" mindset is too deeply ingrained, and cannot be undone.
Erase the FBI, replace it with an interstate information exchange agency without arrest or investigative powers. No badges, just facilitate state police agencies to work together in the unusual cases where criminal cases are interstate.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Geoman 8/14/2022 12:30:44 PM (No. 1247909)
Re: "spineless Republicans and feckless GOP sentiments" - Republican politicians are spineless because a large number of conservatives and GOP voters always seem to respond to left wing outrages by cautioning each other, "now is not the time ..." Such warnings have increased since the raid on MAL, class to action are ignored.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Hardright 8/14/2022 12:32:08 PM (No. 1247910)
#17, Cloward and Piven, destroy from within. It worked.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/14/2022 1:50:16 PM (No. 1247990)
Correcto Mondo. The FBI is just another arm of the Deep State. Instead of Brownshirts they wear blue jackets. They are not independent but side with the likes of Lame Duck Joe. The FBI must cease to exist. Do not create another FBI, remember J Edgar Hoover, it was just as suspect when he ran it.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Borderboy 8/14/2022 2:51:53 PM (No. 1248048)
#'s 6 & 7...both terms are correct, adding, "pelotas" to the mix adds another selection...Spanish is certainly a descriptive language...
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/14/2022 8:49:58 PM (No. 1248270)
It is time to suspend operations at the fbi. Also, certain operations at the doj also need to be suspended. Somebody needs to come to grips with this government breakdown. And that somebody isn't biden the cheater, kamalie, or the dims.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 8/14/2022 9:22:23 PM (No. 1248280)
Yes, VDH is a National Treasure, a grape farmer from Central CA, also a prof at Stanford in Palo Alto…
Any state should be so blessed.
CA also is home to Pastor John MacArthur, pastor at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, CA, for over 50 years, and Chancellor at The Master’s Seminary and Master’s University [where I was blessed to receive an MABC]. Thousands of seminary graduates share the Truth of Scripture around our world!
CA is also the home of my two Grandblessings, 6 and 3.
God indeed works in mysterious ways…
Trust Him.
TBIYTC
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/15/2022 10:42:11 AM (No. 1248727)
I completely agree with Victor David Hansen...Washington DC's deep state will take years to dismantle...but WE must start somewhere...so...first WE take the house...and then the senate...and then the Whitehouse...as for the rinos...they are being exposed and will not last long...bye-bye lizzie cheney....so long Romney ...
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#17. you're depressing me! Buck up, friend, and have a little faith--
#16, I understand where you're coming from, but honestly, if I look at it from the viewpoint of an FBI agent, I'd be a little cynical/hopeless/resigned. We have let many, many, MANY obvious wrongdoers off the hook for 30 years (I'm arbitrarily starting with the Clintons in 1992. but could probably be persuaded to go back even further), so why should I risk all on the slimmest reed that a corrupt society and a spineless GOP would hold anyone accountable? It's one thing to risk much when there's a chance it will do some good, another to risk it when it's pretty unlikely to have any effect at all.
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