While the Trump administration is firing on all cylinders, there is still unfinished business.
After World War II, one of the most pressing activities for the Allies was to find and take care of German and Japanese leaders. Denazification stretched from the Nuremberg trials down to the identification and removal of any local party officials. No one was supposed to be overlooked. In my father’s town of Forchheim, the local teacher was arrested as he never stopped spouting Nazi propaganda during class. General Patton was heavily criticized for employing Nazis in his administration of Bavaria as he did not believe in “this denazification thing.” Before his removal from this position, he said that the subject was like a “Democratic and Republican election fight.”
Removal of the people who brought destruction to the world was considered a necessary step to moving forward. Japan, Germany and their smaller allies could not make the transition to modern democracies if they were still run by or infested with people who had been active in the massive bloodletting that was the second world war. Rebuilding of Japan and Germany went hand in hand with rooting out war criminals, SS, and the like.
The relative stability and economic success of Germany and Japan in the post-war decades would suggest that the process of identifying and punishing fascist leaders was important. Sometimes there needs to be a catharsis for an individual or a society. Even allied France identified and punished German collaborators. Some were killed, others were jailed, while still others were socially ostracized, with women having their heads shaved. The one thing that did not happen was to simply just move on and forget about past bad behavior.
Donald Trump and his people are moving so fast that the spiteful media cannot keep up with all of the administration’s activities. There is a serious effort to right wrongs like DEI and a fully open border. There are additional efforts to improve the future such as fixing unfair trading relationships and getting military recruitment up by focusing on war-making and not box-checking. Most of what the administration is doing is both necessary and praiseworthy. With all that said, there still needs to be a reckoning with criminal activity of Democrats and their supporters in the past. I am not talking about an empty political vendetta, like the one visited upon Donald Trump and his associates. The Biden administration and its allies had to invent charges never before filed or selectively prosecute the president (like for the presidential papers) and not others (like Joe Biden). What the U.S. needs is for politicians and officials to be held accountable for any illegality. If they are not investigated and prosecuted, then people will continue to believe that there are two paths to justice: one for the regulars and another for the connected.
So who should be investigated and, where relevant, prosecuted?
*Dr. Tony Fauci and his associates. They appear to have played a role in creating the Covid virus that destroyed much of what we had built up in the 80 years since the end of the war. They also lied about the performance of the vaccines and invented rules (masks, six foot separation) that had no basis in science but destroyed social activities, school learning, and businesses large and small.
*The pharmaceutical companies. While they may have been given protection from the damage created by their product, they should be fully investigated for lying and/or hiding results of their early testing. Knowing about higher rates of miscarriages or greater heart damage to young men needs to be investigated. These companies cannot be above the law.
*Hillary Clinton and the FBI. Hilary Clinton intentionally moved her email to a non-secure “homebrew” server. She (like Fauci) avoided FOIA requests and exposed sensitive information to potential foreign capture. If Hillary violated the law for the improper treatment of secret or sensitive material, then she needs to be fully investigated. The FBI chose not to prosecute her and worked with an agenda to help her and damage Trump. We need to know what was going on in the Hoover Building when political decisions were driving investigative activity. The FBI became a personal Stasi for Joe Biden (whose business activities as vice president need investigation), and we need to know who made political decisions disguised as police work. Who authorized work with Twitter and Facebook to throttle free speech?
*The border cabal. Those who ignored enforcement of border laws when they swore to uphold the Constitution must be held accountable for millions of illegal entries. The laws and resources existed to keep the border controlled; individuals in Washington chose to let unvetted individuals into the country and, as Tom Homan has pointed out, intentionally moved them throughout the country so as to make their removal all but impossible.
*Budget Fraud. While much of the DOGE discoveries may seem like waste, not all of it is actual fraud. If the Congress approved money for elephant manicures in the Congo, then there may be no fraud in the $2 million sent for such activities. Still, there are fraudulent uses of money and those involved must be investigated and, where relevant, indicted. If DOGE has $160 billion in savings, let’s assume that 10 percent of that money was pure fraud, where the money was sent to individuals, groups or companies not for the intended purposes. We need details and we need to see those involved held responsible.
*Congress. The Peoples’ House is filled with millionaires far beyond their salaries. If any of them, from either party, enriched themselves through kickbacks or NGO-style favors, then they must be identified and held accountable. I do not begrudge them their wealth; I am concerned that much of it comes from sources that are either illegal or affect their ability to do their jobs properly.
*The Epstein clients. This will be a political earthquake. Well-known names will be on flight manifests and will be known guests at the deceased’s island. The U.S. cannot have two tracks of justice. Those who were involved in illegal activity with abused minors must be identified, investigated, and where enough evidence exists, prosecuted. One can warble all day long that nobody is above the law. It’s one thing to say it; it’s something completely different to mean it.
This list is by no way comprehensive. Just as the allies had to clean house in order to move the defeated Axis countries forward, the U.S. cannot just simply turn the page and move on from blatant illegality. I know that the Department of Justice (DoJ) is busy, but there is unfinished business. One often hears people say, “I voted for this” when President Trump puts America’s interests before those of other nations or Tom Homan unabashedly ejects people illegally in the U.S. There are a lot of people who want to see justice served in regards to those who trampled the core values of the United States and tried to change it from a republic to another government-centric socialist state. This is not revenge; this is justice required so as to make sure that others do not try the same things in the future.