Washington, DC, is a high school with paychecks. The money is real, and there is a lot of it. However, the people running much of the show are still very much the same angry nerds, unlikeable geeks, aggressive jocks, and teacher suck-ups; everyone else thought people would outgrow after they graduated. Maybe there’s something in the water, I don’t know, but far too often, people near power revert to their worst instincts in a game of “pay attention to me,” either desperate to get credit for something good or avoid blame for something bad. What doesn’t get done is their jobs.
There’s an old saying in Washington, which I’ve seen attributed to everyone from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan, that goes, “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” It probably is true, or at least I’d imagine it to be, but we don’t live in a world like that. I don’t know if one ever existed, but it sure doesn’t exist now.
We now live in a world where Democrats are doing all they can to inspire the murder of federal agents, and the Department of Justice and FBI are scrambling to do damage control and blame-shifting on over-promising and under-delivering on a dead pedophile.
Yes, I want to know if anyone else is implicated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sick world, but I’d prefer to prevent the murder of ICE and border patrol agents as they do their jobs. I want the authorities to focus on infiltrating, tracking and dismantling the left-wing machine that exists for the express purpose of damaging this country’s law enforcement institutions. And I really want them to throw the book – hell, the whole damn library – at those who fund these goon squads who, only for lack of aim, would have stepped up to murder by now.
Instead of doing that, we have leadership scrambling to make sure their social media followers remain loyal to them, not the President’s agenda or any cause. We have people who’ve not been impressive in their jobs already – whoever decided to bring Kilmar back to try an old case they’re likely to lose, instead of keeping his ass out of the country (I mean, we’d already won, why backtrack?) should be fired – running around, leaking to the media that they can’t work with this one, or won’t work with that one because their integrity won’t allow for it.
Real integrity doesn’t leak to the press, especially when you’ve made a lot of money complaining about the press.
No one looks good here, as no one is doing anything beyond a game of CYA.
President Donald Trump and his agenda are not being served. The attempts by all involved are not to make sure he knows what is really happening, they’re for public consumption – they are to serve a career after government work; to keep media bookings flowing and audiences on the hook. If it were about the President’s agenda the conversations would be taking place with the President, not “reporters” at CNN and Axios.
Honestly, President Trump should clean house. If these people won’t put their egos aside (and they all have big egos) and do their damn jobs, replace them with people who will. There are people trying to murder federal officers enforcing the laws of the United States and one political party is leading that bloodthirsty charge while federal law enforcement makes sure they don’t get hit with social media backlash from an unforced error. It’s pathetic.
Everyone involved dropped the ball. They all spent years declaring things to be true that they had zero proof actually was, they sold tales from sources giving them information about alleged perverts they repeated as fact, but when they found themselves in a position to do something about it either discovered they’d been lied to and remained quiet about it or ignored it. The Attorney General was so misleading in her public statements while in office that you have to wonder if she understands basic definitions of words.
In all of that, someone decided to make up binders and give “social media influencers” already publicly available information in them and pretend it was A) new and B) just the first release of information.
I don’t know who is to blame, or who is more to blame, and it doesn't matter because none of this has been anything but clownish, and none of it has been helpful to the America First agenda.
Meanwhile, somewhere out there, the radical left is plotting more ambushes, illegal aliens are committing crimes and victimizing Americans, and the 300,000 children the Biden administration “lost” are being trafficked into slavery, either labor or sexual. And the people charged with bringing it all to justice are playing PR games.
President Trump needs to summon them all to the Oval Office, chew them all out, tell them to grow the hell up and do their damn jobs or clean out their desks so he can put someone in those offices who will. Those jobs are too damn important to be occupied by people who have priorities other than doing them.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.