2020 Election
November 2, 2025 — John Hinderaker
If you created a list of the worst people in public life during modern American history, John Brennan would be near the top. As CIA Director, the (allegedly) former Communist betrayed the American people to a greater degree than any other public employee I can think of. On Thursday, Brennan participated in some sort of conference, during which he was questioned by a guy who was in the office of
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May 25, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Democrats are panicking over their abysmal (and well-deserved) approval ratings, and above all about the fact that, while they were otherwise preoccupied, the American working class deserted them. The New York Times has a report that is an endless source of schadenfreude: “How Donald Trump Has Remade America’s Political Landscape.” Donald J. Trump’s victory in 2024 was not an outlier. It was the culmination of continuous gains by Republicans in
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December 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
My law firm was one of those that defended tobacco companies against, among other things, lawsuits brought by state attorneys general. A key claim in those cases was that the tobacco companies conspired to prevent the public from learning that smoking is bad for you. “If so,” said the partner in my firm who was in charge of the case for our client, “it was the least successful conspiracy in
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July 13, 2024 — Scott Johnson
In 2021 we were contacted by NewsGuard with a set of emailed questions about Power Line. NewsGuard is a brick in the wall meant to protect us from “misinformation.” According to a 2019 New York Times story, NewsGuard has given its stamp of approval to outlets including the Times itself. NewsGuard’s site lists scores of prominent institutional clients and explains: NewsGuard deploys a team of expert journalists to rate and
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July 1, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Matt Taibbi has just posted a long subscribers-only Racket News column on the Soviet style performance of the media over the past five years. He reviews their participation in the cover-up of President Biden’s mental degradation to the best of their ability . Taibbi headlines his column “Biden is not sharp as a tack.” Taibbi draws on his own experience covering the 2020 presidential campaign for Rolling Stone. He didn’t
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June 14, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Fox News has contacted all the members of the Deep State 51 — the former senior intelligence officials who disparaged the New York Post’s 2020 reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop as bearing “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” So they said in an open letter or public statement that Natasha Bertrand duly read out for Politico (Bertrand has now moved on to CNN). Natasha, you should have
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June 14, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The New York Post cover story features President Biden wandering away from his colleagues at the G7 summit in southern Italy yesterday. Biden and his colleagues attended a skydiving demonstration. At the conclusion of the demonstration, the windmills of Biden’s mind appeared to grind to a halt. Prime Minister Meloni pulled him back toward the group. RNC Research tweeted out the video below. WHAT IS BIDEN DOING? pic.twitter.com/iY33K2srII — RNC
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June 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Hunter Biden had essentially no defense to the felony gun charges of which we was convicted today. To the extent he had one, it was represented by the presence of Jill Biden sitting in court behind him. Hunter had only the Biden defense: I am Biden. Hear me roar. Don’t screw with me. It has proved a strong and malleable defense, but it came up short today. Given the brevity
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June 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Students of ancient history may recall the disinformation that greeted the revelations of Hunter Biden’s laptop in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. The New York Post confirmed and reported them, yet they were routinely dismissed on patently fraudulent grounds. The government has now introduced the laptop as evidence in Hunter Biden’s gun trial and the FBI has vouched for its authenticity. What is to be said? KanekoaTheGreat comments
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June 5, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Today’s New York Post cover story updates the saga of Hunter Biden’s laptop: “Hunter Biden gun trial jurors shown infamous laptop first exposed by The Post in dramatic courtroom reveal.” Yes, indeed, the Post is entitled to keep taking victory laps over its coverage of the laptop from hell. Over on the editorial pages, Miranda Devine keeps running. Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” is government exhibit 16 at the first
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March 27, 2024 — Steven Hayward
• I have a vivid recollection of watching the first debate in the 2000 fall election between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush, when Gore made a claim about having visited Texas with the director of FEMA after a major wildfire. I noticed Gov. Bush suddenly had a puzzled look in his face, and I filed a mental note: “Gore just told a fabrication of some kind.” Sure
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October 24, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Today prosecutors obtained another guilty plea in the Georgia RICO case against Donald Trump and others who challenged the apparent result of the 2020 presidential election in that state. The New York Times reports: Jenna Ellis, a pro-Trump lawyer who amplified former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud as part of what she called a legal “elite strike force team,” pleaded guilty on Tuesday as part of
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August 31, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Mark Meadows is one of the defendants in the Georgia state criminal case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis against President Trump and a cast of thousands. Meadows is Trump’s former chief of staff and the two crimes with which he is charged arise from his service to Trump. Meadows has sought removal of the charges against him from state to federal court. The 14-page Meadows notice of
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May 16, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
The Durham investigation has concluded what most of us knew all along. There was no legal basis for the FBI’s 2016 probe into the Trump campaign or the Mueller investigation that followed. It was all a lie. The FBI, once a highly-revered American institution, teamed up with the Hillary Clinton campaign to (try to) rig the presidential election. And they were all in on it. Then-President Barack Obama was briefed
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May 10, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Rep. Jim Jordan’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government is set to release its report on the letter of the Deep State 51 today. The Federalist’s Sean Davis obtained a copy of the report and previews it here. The invaluable Miranda Devine devotes a New York Post column to the findings here. The Daily Mail has more here. Among the report’s findings: The CIA fast-tracked approval of
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May 5, 2023 — John Hinderaker
We have known for a long time that the Steele “dossier” was created by and for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. It was the most successful bit of disinformation of modern times. The second most successful, perhaps, was the absurd claim that the obviously-authentic Hunter Biden laptop somehow constituted “Russian disinformation.” How and why that could be true, no one ever explained. The provenance of the laptop has never been
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April 7, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
Former White House stenographer Mike McCormick spent six years (2011-2017) at then-Vice President Joe Biden’s side as he met with world leaders, delivered speeches and interacted with members of the news media, an experience that provided him with both insider knowledge and a unique perspective. In an interview with The Daily Mail this week, McCormick said that just three days after Hunter Biden joined Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings Ltd (on
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