Democrats were so desperate to find white supremacist violence during the Biden administration that they spied on two innocent priests. Then, when the investigation found nothing and was exposed, Democrats refused to hold the perpetrators…
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Cutting off antifa's funding is called a blow for democracy; the weaponization probe against critics is called necessary.
As it ran on the front
Let's be clear about what happened here, because the coverage has been needlessly complicated. The administration identified a funding pipeline connected to antifa — a decentralized, frequently violent — well, we don't have a violence receipt in this file, strike that, a movement the Post's own headline calls a 'global leftist' network — and cut it off. That is not censorship. That is not political targeting. That is a government doing what governments do, which is control where money goes, and this money was going somewhere the Post itself calls 'antifa's global leftist lifeline,' so obviously cutting a lifeline is — hang on, lifeline, that's their word, I didn't mean it to sound like that.
Anyway. Separately, and this is a totally separate matter, a Richmond memo has come out explaining why the weaponization investigation was necessary. Necessary is a strong word and this desk stands by it: when you are investigating people who investigated you, or people adjacent to people who investigated you, that is not weaponization, that is due diligence, and the memo says so, and the memo is the receipt, so.…
…(cont) Now, some critics will point out that 'cutting off a political opponent's money' and 'investigating that opponent's critics' are, structurally, the same kind of action taken from the same direction in the same month. This office rejects that framing. One is about democracy. The other is about necessity. Those are two different words. They might mean similar things in this specific arrangement, I'll grant that, but the intent is different, or at least the press release is different, and the press release is what we have.
The bottom line, and this office will not walk this back: choking off funding to your opposition and investigating your opposition's critics are both, independently and without relation to one another, good things this administration is doing, for reasons that are democratic in the first case and necessary in the second. If those two words start to sound like the same word wearing different hats, that is a coincidence this office is not equipped to explain further.
“They cut the money to the people who oppose them and call it democracy, then investigate the people who criticize that decision and call it necessary. Same move twice in one week, and the bill for both investigations lands on the same taxpayers either way.”
“This is straightforward: money to bad actors gets cut, a necessary investigation gets explained by memo, that's just governance — I mean, both of those happen to point at the same side of the aisle, but that's coincidence, mostly, forget I framed it that way.”
The receipts
Going after the foreign enablers of far-left violence and threats is a commonsense step in defending the very principle of self-government.
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