Secret Service's Catastrophic Failures Prove Trump's Critique of Deep State Right
Plus: My reaction to Judge Aileen Cannon's smackdown of the DOJ and Special Counsel Jack Smith, and dismissal of the Trump-documents case
Secret Service’s Incompetence Is Exactly Why We Need Trump To Dismantle The Deep State
The failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, one of the worst security fiascoes in American history, reflects a core truth that fuels the MAGA movement and makes the case for reelecting its leader to the Oval Office: Our leading institutions are so corrupted and incompetent that the purported experts who run them cannot or will not execute their most basic functions.
I lay out the Secret Service’s cascading failures — failures so vast and egregious as to defy believability — and question the dubious effort of the government to investigate itself regarding those cascading failures, in a new piece at The Federalist.
As I conclude:
[T]he security state is going to have to explain how it could have failed so badly and in so many respects, and why we should believe it.
Whether driven by gross incompetence or corruption, the deep state that has for years targeted Trump and millions of dissenting Americans failed to protect the former president’s life last Saturday.
Were it not for a last-second turn of the head and the hand of G-d, he would be dead because of its failings. Those failings proved Trump’s critique of the administrative state fundamentally correct.
The question now is whether the American people will see fit to reelect the man who has warred with those institutions for nearly a decade, as the best and only corrective to the institutional rot that threatened his survival and threatens the very survival of our country.
Read the whole thing here.
Judge Cannon Rules Jack Smith’s Office Unconstitutional, Dismisses Documents Case
The Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity this term included a concurrence from Justice Thomas, on which I reported, suggesting that the lower courts consider whether Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office is legitimate.
On Monday, Judge Aileen Cannon concluded her analysis of that question, ruling in fact that the office is unconstitutional — that Special Counsel Smith has been operating in violation of the Appointments clause — and that the funds for it have been unlawfully appropriated.
I went on former Rep. Doug Collins’ eponymous podcast to give my instant reaction to Judge Cannon’s ruling that morning.
Watch below: