The estimated half a billion tax dollars spent by the DOJ over the past four years to pursue Donald Trump and his supporters demands accountability. And consequences.
McCarthy is all about making himself relevant and growing his bank account. He is one of the Deep Staters, more of a democrat than a republican. Very few people who have and still are actually reporting on the J6 injustice , Julie has been way out in front of all of them. I anxiously await her bombshells after January 20 when Trump releases all the internal J6 committee documents showing how corrupt all of them were. The next four years will be earth shattering as all the scandals will be exposed. One of the biggest scandals will be exposed, the pipe bomber and why Kamala nor any democrat ever mentioned this.
I have even more hope this morning with the news that Kash Patel will be the next FBI director. He will uncover scandals we don't even know about--of course I believe one of his top priorities will be releasing all the files related to Jan 6.
Thank you Julie! It will be interesting to finally hear the truth and all the scandals we do not know about, I’m sure there will be punishable felonies our new AG will pursue aggressively!
There needs to be a special committee authorized to look into Jan 6-the real truth, and why was the Fraud Broad, Kommie-la, at the DNC on that day etc., headed up by Julie Kelly.
Equally, there needs to be another such committee to look into Phony Tony the little Devil in short pants for all of the covid lies.
Amen sister! Megyn Kelly once said- and I would think you would agree- that this won’t stop until we make it stop. Trump does not seem to be vengeful, but I sure am.
The last time that I heard Rich Lowry on the MK podcast was before the election and he was bragging about his NeverTrumpery, yet said that his vote wouldn't hurt the Trump election effort because he lived in State where his vote was inconsequential. Once again, proving the post William BUckley, Jr NR to be spineless cucks.
The issue is very simple. Those who abused the awesome powers of the DOJ and U.S. intelligence agencies for partisan purposes must be held accountable. In fact, those who used those powers to deprive Americans of their right to support Donald Trump and, in that process, destroyed thousands of decent ordinary Americans and sought to bankrupt, imprison and assassinate Trump himself. They also sought to destroy lawyers, like Giuliani (an American hero), John Eastman and Jeff Clark, for representing Trump. The individuals responsible for using the powers vested in the government to crush their opponents need to face consequences. It would be the ultimate outrage if the powerful who ruined the lives of ordinary citizens who committed no real crimes are given a pass.
Stephen, the collective meltdown over Trump nominating Kash Patel is all we need to know about how deep the rot and corruption are at the FBI. Yes, we need consequences for those who used unchecked government power to try to destroy Trump, his lawyers, his allies, and his supporters.
We need justice …period! Trump will become very unpopular among his most loyal base if he doesn’t prosecute these people. I’ve witnessed the terror imposed by the FBI on friends and I can tell you, some didn’t vote for Trump this time because they felt abandoned. No turning the other cheek. Justice must prevail!
I recall McCarthy defending James Comey, telling us he could be trusted until it was patently obvious Comey couldn’t be trusted. McCarthy had to eat some crow but apparently not enough to satiate his appetite to be part of the uniparty club, displaying his bonafides of reaching across the aisle until his arms fall off. It is this attitude by the Republicans that has put this nation in the trouble it is. From the borders / immigration problems to the budget/ debt to the problems in the Middle East (Bush’s Islam is a religion of peace) to the total leftist bent of academia to the spread of DEI, the easy capitulation of the Republicans to the pressure of the Democrats has resulted in the near death of this grand republic. Politicians such as John McCain, Mitt Romney, the GW Bushes, Mitch McConnell and their cronies have all gone along to get along while on the other side of the aisle they fight tooth and nail to get everything they want.
Julie, Please send a copy of your article to McCarthy. I’d be curious if he’d have the courage to address your points straight on. My suspicion is he’d deflect.
McCarthy, who I once considered a friend, has been wrong much more often than not.
And his errors in judgment have an impact as Fox News viewers and even some GOP lawmakers trust what he says. He has helped promote the DOJ/FBI's unconscionable abuse of the system against J6ers and now urges Trump, who he thought would lose and wanted impeached over Jan 6, to hold fire. Just reckless, boot-licking levels of thinking.
Julie, thank you for this. Anyone with a thought process has no faith or belief in our "justice" system any longer. It is a farce. And that is based on the little we know. There are consequences to acts. This is biblical. You may be forgiven if you humble yourself, repent and seek forgiveness but the consequences remain. We the people demand and deserve accountability for their actions. ALL of them. You know Trump and his family went through a huge amount of harassment no doubt but so did the American people. Especially those who stood up to the government overreach. We are NOT ready to move on. That is always what the ones who have inflicted damage, have said and accused others of when they themselves are the guilty parties. We are done. My word to the incoming president and his appointees..make good on your promises or you will see the Rath of a sovereign GOD. HE is tired of the BS as well. We have been given a 2nd chance. DONT SCREW IT UP!
Carolyn, I think his nomination of Kash as FBI director demonstrates he is very serious about exposing the corruption and holding official accountable. Let's work to make sure none of the GOP Senate weaklings get in his way.
My first reaction to the Left/Lib/Democrat/Progressive/MsM/DeepState call for a lawfare cease fire on their totally biased and inhumane bent to deep six not only Donald Trump but all of the rest of us as well...OH HELL NO!
I threw out “Willful Blindness” and "Ball of Corruption” both written by McCarthy before he developed advanced TDS. Like Morning Joe everything he now says is starting to make installed President Joe Biden seem normal by comparison. It’s absolutely stunning that he would have been satisfied if the rogue prosecutor Jack Smith, working with the rogue DC District judge Tanya Chutkan, managed to convict and incarcerate Donald Trump based on fabricated charges designed to stop Trump even if the entire Constitution had to be rewritten to serve their radical bias.
Books are yet to be written on how people such as McCarthy became as radicalized as the Blind Sheik he once successfully prosecuted. What Radical Islam did to the Twin Towers on 911 did not damage America as much as what was done, using Lawfare, since 2020. Post 911 we were still a nation that had fidelity to the Constitution and valued the Rule of Law - it was still used as intended. The American people now hunger for proof that the system can again perform as intended. Is there any amount of retribution that can give the J6 victims their time lost in the DC Gulags back? And what about so many others harmed in ways that make what Alabama did to Black people in 1932 seem less harsh by comparison? America endured Banana Republic, fascist lawlessness of a magnitude so ostentatious that it made other world dictators blush with envy.
The Trump Administration has a Constitutional obligation not to use Lawfare but to use the Law, as written, to prosecute those who used the law in ways it was never intended to be used. Lawfare is illegal. Prosecuting those that used it is legal, necessary and, hopefully, with a lot of prayer and some luck, will allow American jurisprudence to occupy the prominent place it once occupied which the rest of the world once praised. Only by prosecuting the guilty, during America's darkest of Administrations, will the citizenry move forward. I doubt the victims, themselves, ever will.
McCarthy may, himself, not have broken any law but he is as guilty as is most of the media in one very significant respect. He also suborned lawlessness.
Well done! You remembered the Blind Sheik. The Muslim Brotherhood was bad news exhibited when they assassinated Sadat. Huge screw up treating the matter as a local NYC criminal matter instead of harbinger of worldwide terrorism.
McCarthy is like so many conservatives who want to play both sides but end up with TDS. Cancelled him last year. Afraid to hurt his paying costumers. Corrupted ?
He is an institutionalist. These DOJ types never change--they still think the department is honorable and fair, all evidence to the contrary. I just posted results from a recent Gallup poll that shows how underwater the DOJ and FBI are in terms of public approval especially among Republicans. We won now it's time for major reforms.
Republicans don't have the donors or corrupt prosecutors to wage lawfare against Democrats, but Republicans need to make corrupt Democrats pay dearly for their fascism and seditious conspiracy.
This is not difficult. Investigate all aspects. Based on the facts, prosecute according to standing law. Not on politics or inventing new jurisprudence. Just do the right thing. The rest will take care of itself.
Prove to the world that we are better than them.
First pardon and release the J 6 martyrs. First things first.
I so agree! Those who lost the most in the political prosecutions are first in line to regain their losses. And the purpose of investigation or prosecution is that the American Jurisprudence has an ugly scar that will not heal without accountability for actions that have the veneer of criminality, but not necessarily evidence that would prove such. I don’t think retribution is a worthy goal, but accountability heals the land.
Andrew McCarthy has really stepped into a massive pile of horse-Garland with that editorial.
I will note that he has always been in the Never-Trump category of political thought. That's fine; but he was also cheering on various Fox News programs that Trump was going to be successfully prosecuted in at least one of those cases. I surmise that he maintains his prosecutor mentality in his editorial observations on all his case commentary. He has reached the point of Peak Prosecution, where everything has to be turned favorable for the prosecution of these cases.
I have some simple questions to direct toward Mr McCarthy: How would YOU prefer those who were wronged by our "justice" system have their lives restored? Do you think any of those who were convicted committed crimes worthy of their punishment, or were they just violating some rules that resulted in no actual harm to their targets? Do you believe "the law is the law," and that every violation is a crime that merits punishment? Do you believe there should be limits on the use of force against United States Citizens?
I have a suspicion of how Mr McCarthy would answer every one of those questions, but I don't want to take a guess, because even I can't imagine the sickness of a mind that sees things like this so different from the way I do.
One thing I have noticed over the years in covering NRO NeverTrumpers.
They say one thing on NRO and another in interviews or segments on Fox. Do you really think McCarthy will go on Fox News and repeat this blather about turning the other cheek? Doubtful.
If pressed to guess, I would speculate that he wouldn't. Unless he appears on Neil Cavuto's program. No disrespect for Neil' I've known him for 30+ years, but sometimes he just doesn't get it.
Sometimes he doesn't get it? He is one of the idiots on FOX that made me switch to NEWSMAX. I was especially miffed because he carries a lot of clout. You have to wonder how these people miss what the rest of America sees and hears. He should be embarrassed but he isn't. A lot of people have been outed and because of J6 and the work done by Julie Kelly it has become impossible to ever again take them seriously.
Why should never Trumpism degenerate into allowing Stasi type treatment of people who broke no laws? I’m not counting the BS made up nonsense they have deployed to do it.
Ernie, people like McCarthy really think Trump had it coming. Look at his comment--it is "absurd" for Trump to declare his innocence. No, what's absurd is a former prosecutor criticizing a long time target of the DOJ/FBI for saying he did nothing wrong. I would LOVE for McCarthy to make his case that Trump obstructed the documents investigation because he has no idea what he's talking about.
He clearly has a bad case of TDS, though he may be soft spoken in his expression. It is another thing entirely to support what is being done to J6ers, let alone turn a blind eye to it.
I agree; it's like the Federales can just laugh this off and say, "Just kidding!" to all those who have been negatively impacted by this BS. And that's part of why those in the government can continue to fail upwards.
McCarthy's position is akin to telling a woman who was gang-raped to "just move on" and not pursue prosecution because she happened to not become impregnated.
I hope that the Trump administration taps you to help sort through all the J6 documents. Thank you, Julie, for your vigilance in reporting the truth about J6 and all the lawfare. Your reporting should be published far and wide.
The corrupt deep state needs to know there are consequences for their actions. Would McCarthy give a bank robber a pass just because there is a new administration in place? Are all crimes committed prior to November 5 subject to amnesty? Laws were clearly broken and they were broken with the expectation that the perpetrators were above the law. How can you possibly ignore that?
The suggestion the DOJ IG should handle this given his track record is laughable. The FBI investigates crimes including those committed by their own agents and the DOJ prosecutes. Period. Whether the criminals are outside or inside the department should have no bearing.
McCarthy is all about making himself relevant and growing his bank account. He is one of the Deep Staters, more of a democrat than a republican. Very few people who have and still are actually reporting on the J6 injustice , Julie has been way out in front of all of them. I anxiously await her bombshells after January 20 when Trump releases all the internal J6 committee documents showing how corrupt all of them were. The next four years will be earth shattering as all the scandals will be exposed. One of the biggest scandals will be exposed, the pipe bomber and why Kamala nor any democrat ever mentioned this.
I have even more hope this morning with the news that Kash Patel will be the next FBI director. He will uncover scandals we don't even know about--of course I believe one of his top priorities will be releasing all the files related to Jan 6.
Thank you Julie! It will be interesting to finally hear the truth and all the scandals we do not know about, I’m sure there will be punishable felonies our new AG will pursue aggressively!
There needs to be a special committee authorized to look into Jan 6-the real truth, and why was the Fraud Broad, Kommie-la, at the DNC on that day etc., headed up by Julie Kelly.
Equally, there needs to be another such committee to look into Phony Tony the little Devil in short pants for all of the covid lies.
Amen sister! Megyn Kelly once said- and I would think you would agree- that this won’t stop until we make it stop. Trump does not seem to be vengeful, but I sure am.
It would be nice if Megyn Kelly would stop having Andy McCarthy on her show--and all the NRO hacks!
Agree. I’ve been thinking to email Megyn’s show and ask her to have you on her show. She should!
The last time that I heard Rich Lowry on the MK podcast was before the election and he was bragging about his NeverTrumpery, yet said that his vote wouldn't hurt the Trump election effort because he lived in State where his vote was inconsequential. Once again, proving the post William BUckley, Jr NR to be spineless cucks.
The issue is very simple. Those who abused the awesome powers of the DOJ and U.S. intelligence agencies for partisan purposes must be held accountable. In fact, those who used those powers to deprive Americans of their right to support Donald Trump and, in that process, destroyed thousands of decent ordinary Americans and sought to bankrupt, imprison and assassinate Trump himself. They also sought to destroy lawyers, like Giuliani (an American hero), John Eastman and Jeff Clark, for representing Trump. The individuals responsible for using the powers vested in the government to crush their opponents need to face consequences. It would be the ultimate outrage if the powerful who ruined the lives of ordinary citizens who committed no real crimes are given a pass.
Stephen, the collective meltdown over Trump nominating Kash Patel is all we need to know about how deep the rot and corruption are at the FBI. Yes, we need consequences for those who used unchecked government power to try to destroy Trump, his lawyers, his allies, and his supporters.
If justice ultimately is done, your reporting will be a big reason why.
We need justice …period! Trump will become very unpopular among his most loyal base if he doesn’t prosecute these people. I’ve witnessed the terror imposed by the FBI on friends and I can tell you, some didn’t vote for Trump this time because they felt abandoned. No turning the other cheek. Justice must prevail!
Absolutely, Joan.
Justice includes pardons for the J6ers, who are props for the Democrats made up insurrection.
I voted for Trump for justice mainly
I recall McCarthy defending James Comey, telling us he could be trusted until it was patently obvious Comey couldn’t be trusted. McCarthy had to eat some crow but apparently not enough to satiate his appetite to be part of the uniparty club, displaying his bonafides of reaching across the aisle until his arms fall off. It is this attitude by the Republicans that has put this nation in the trouble it is. From the borders / immigration problems to the budget/ debt to the problems in the Middle East (Bush’s Islam is a religion of peace) to the total leftist bent of academia to the spread of DEI, the easy capitulation of the Republicans to the pressure of the Democrats has resulted in the near death of this grand republic. Politicians such as John McCain, Mitt Romney, the GW Bushes, Mitch McConnell and their cronies have all gone along to get along while on the other side of the aisle they fight tooth and nail to get everything they want.
Julie, Please send a copy of your article to McCarthy. I’d be curious if he’d have the courage to address your points straight on. My suspicion is he’d deflect.
McCarthy, who I once considered a friend, has been wrong much more often than not.
And his errors in judgment have an impact as Fox News viewers and even some GOP lawmakers trust what he says. He has helped promote the DOJ/FBI's unconscionable abuse of the system against J6ers and now urges Trump, who he thought would lose and wanted impeached over Jan 6, to hold fire. Just reckless, boot-licking levels of thinking.
Julie, thank you for this. Anyone with a thought process has no faith or belief in our "justice" system any longer. It is a farce. And that is based on the little we know. There are consequences to acts. This is biblical. You may be forgiven if you humble yourself, repent and seek forgiveness but the consequences remain. We the people demand and deserve accountability for their actions. ALL of them. You know Trump and his family went through a huge amount of harassment no doubt but so did the American people. Especially those who stood up to the government overreach. We are NOT ready to move on. That is always what the ones who have inflicted damage, have said and accused others of when they themselves are the guilty parties. We are done. My word to the incoming president and his appointees..make good on your promises or you will see the Rath of a sovereign GOD. HE is tired of the BS as well. We have been given a 2nd chance. DONT SCREW IT UP!
Carolyn, I think his nomination of Kash as FBI director demonstrates he is very serious about exposing the corruption and holding official accountable. Let's work to make sure none of the GOP Senate weaklings get in his way.
My first reaction to the Left/Lib/Democrat/Progressive/MsM/DeepState call for a lawfare cease fire on their totally biased and inhumane bent to deep six not only Donald Trump but all of the rest of us as well...OH HELL NO!
F$&k them. Give them what they gave us.
I'm right there with ya!
I threw out “Willful Blindness” and "Ball of Corruption” both written by McCarthy before he developed advanced TDS. Like Morning Joe everything he now says is starting to make installed President Joe Biden seem normal by comparison. It’s absolutely stunning that he would have been satisfied if the rogue prosecutor Jack Smith, working with the rogue DC District judge Tanya Chutkan, managed to convict and incarcerate Donald Trump based on fabricated charges designed to stop Trump even if the entire Constitution had to be rewritten to serve their radical bias.
Books are yet to be written on how people such as McCarthy became as radicalized as the Blind Sheik he once successfully prosecuted. What Radical Islam did to the Twin Towers on 911 did not damage America as much as what was done, using Lawfare, since 2020. Post 911 we were still a nation that had fidelity to the Constitution and valued the Rule of Law - it was still used as intended. The American people now hunger for proof that the system can again perform as intended. Is there any amount of retribution that can give the J6 victims their time lost in the DC Gulags back? And what about so many others harmed in ways that make what Alabama did to Black people in 1932 seem less harsh by comparison? America endured Banana Republic, fascist lawlessness of a magnitude so ostentatious that it made other world dictators blush with envy.
The Trump Administration has a Constitutional obligation not to use Lawfare but to use the Law, as written, to prosecute those who used the law in ways it was never intended to be used. Lawfare is illegal. Prosecuting those that used it is legal, necessary and, hopefully, with a lot of prayer and some luck, will allow American jurisprudence to occupy the prominent place it once occupied which the rest of the world once praised. Only by prosecuting the guilty, during America's darkest of Administrations, will the citizenry move forward. I doubt the victims, themselves, ever will.
McCarthy may, himself, not have broken any law but he is as guilty as is most of the media in one very significant respect. He also suborned lawlessness.
Well said!
Well done! You remembered the Blind Sheik. The Muslim Brotherhood was bad news exhibited when they assassinated Sadat. Huge screw up treating the matter as a local NYC criminal matter instead of harbinger of worldwide terrorism.
McCarthy is like so many conservatives who want to play both sides but end up with TDS. Cancelled him last year. Afraid to hurt his paying costumers. Corrupted ?
He is an institutionalist. These DOJ types never change--they still think the department is honorable and fair, all evidence to the contrary. I just posted results from a recent Gallup poll that shows how underwater the DOJ and FBI are in terms of public approval especially among Republicans. We won now it's time for major reforms.
And Kash Patel is exactly the MAN to rearrange the protocols for the FBI!
McCarthy seems always to have one foot trapped in the swamp.
Can't teach an old fed new tricks!
Republicans don't have the donors or corrupt prosecutors to wage lawfare against Democrats, but Republicans need to make corrupt Democrats pay dearly for their fascism and seditious conspiracy.
Obama said that elections have consequences.
Absolutely, Lynette!
This is not difficult. Investigate all aspects. Based on the facts, prosecute according to standing law. Not on politics or inventing new jurisprudence. Just do the right thing. The rest will take care of itself.
Prove to the world that we are better than them.
First pardon and release the J 6 martyrs. First things first.
I so agree! Those who lost the most in the political prosecutions are first in line to regain their losses. And the purpose of investigation or prosecution is that the American Jurisprudence has an ugly scar that will not heal without accountability for actions that have the veneer of criminality, but not necessarily evidence that would prove such. I don’t think retribution is a worthy goal, but accountability heals the land.
Andrew McCarthy has really stepped into a massive pile of horse-Garland with that editorial.
I will note that he has always been in the Never-Trump category of political thought. That's fine; but he was also cheering on various Fox News programs that Trump was going to be successfully prosecuted in at least one of those cases. I surmise that he maintains his prosecutor mentality in his editorial observations on all his case commentary. He has reached the point of Peak Prosecution, where everything has to be turned favorable for the prosecution of these cases.
I have some simple questions to direct toward Mr McCarthy: How would YOU prefer those who were wronged by our "justice" system have their lives restored? Do you think any of those who were convicted committed crimes worthy of their punishment, or were they just violating some rules that resulted in no actual harm to their targets? Do you believe "the law is the law," and that every violation is a crime that merits punishment? Do you believe there should be limits on the use of force against United States Citizens?
I have a suspicion of how Mr McCarthy would answer every one of those questions, but I don't want to take a guess, because even I can't imagine the sickness of a mind that sees things like this so different from the way I do.
One thing I have noticed over the years in covering NRO NeverTrumpers.
They say one thing on NRO and another in interviews or segments on Fox. Do you really think McCarthy will go on Fox News and repeat this blather about turning the other cheek? Doubtful.
If pressed to guess, I would speculate that he wouldn't. Unless he appears on Neil Cavuto's program. No disrespect for Neil' I've known him for 30+ years, but sometimes he just doesn't get it.
Sometimes he doesn't get it? He is one of the idiots on FOX that made me switch to NEWSMAX. I was especially miffed because he carries a lot of clout. You have to wonder how these people miss what the rest of America sees and hears. He should be embarrassed but he isn't. A lot of people have been outed and because of J6 and the work done by Julie Kelly it has become impossible to ever again take them seriously.
Why should never Trumpism degenerate into allowing Stasi type treatment of people who broke no laws? I’m not counting the BS made up nonsense they have deployed to do it.
Ernie, people like McCarthy really think Trump had it coming. Look at his comment--it is "absurd" for Trump to declare his innocence. No, what's absurd is a former prosecutor criticizing a long time target of the DOJ/FBI for saying he did nothing wrong. I would LOVE for McCarthy to make his case that Trump obstructed the documents investigation because he has no idea what he's talking about.
He clearly has a bad case of TDS, though he may be soft spoken in his expression. It is another thing entirely to support what is being done to J6ers, let alone turn a blind eye to it.
I agree; it's like the Federales can just laugh this off and say, "Just kidding!" to all those who have been negatively impacted by this BS. And that's part of why those in the government can continue to fail upwards.
McCarthy's position is akin to telling a woman who was gang-raped to "just move on" and not pursue prosecution because she happened to not become impregnated.
Good point, Tom.
I hope that the Trump administration taps you to help sort through all the J6 documents. Thank you, Julie, for your vigilance in reporting the truth about J6 and all the lawfare. Your reporting should be published far and wide.
Thank you! And I will do what I can to help the administration expose the truth.
The corrupt deep state needs to know there are consequences for their actions. Would McCarthy give a bank robber a pass just because there is a new administration in place? Are all crimes committed prior to November 5 subject to amnesty? Laws were clearly broken and they were broken with the expectation that the perpetrators were above the law. How can you possibly ignore that?
The suggestion the DOJ IG should handle this given his track record is laughable. The FBI investigates crimes including those committed by their own agents and the DOJ prosecutes. Period. Whether the criminals are outside or inside the department should have no bearing.