Five Minutes of Homework Would Spare Dems a Day of Grief

If shooting fish in a barrel is unfair, exposing Democrat failures is like shooting fish after they have been filleted. It would be more sporting if Democrats made it tougher to detect their blunders. Instead, they are so desperate to “get Trump” that they don’t spend five minutes to see if their flimsy arguments can withstand five seconds of scrutiny.

The so-called Seditious Six—two Democrat U.S. senators and four House members—released an instantly notorious video in which they urged American GIs to resist unlawful commands. “We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community,” the lawmakers said. “Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home,” they continued. “You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.”

None of these six spent five minutes to craft an answer to the most obvious question: Which of President Donald Trump’s orders is illegal?

Margaret Brennan, host of CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” asked Congressman Jason Crow, D-Colo., on Sunday, “Specifically what” illegal commands have Trump made?

“Send troops into polling stations,” Crow squawked. “Kill terrorists’ families. Arrest and execute members of Congress.”

Wrong!

Trump has issued no such orders.

Fox News’ Martha MacCallum asked Crow on Nov. 19: “What specific order from the Commander-in-Chief, that we are asking our military to carry out, are you objecting to?”

“Martha,” Crow replied, “Donald Trump has made a series of very disturbing comments and suggestions that would violate U.S. law and put our military in a terrible position.”

Trump often thinks aloud. But musings are not mandates, and comments are not commands.

“Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal orders?” ABC’s “This Week” host Martha Raddatz asked Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.

“To my knowledge, I am not aware of things that are illegal,” Slotnick conceded. Flailing miserably, Slotnick then blamed Hollywood: “If you look at popular culture—you watch, you know, ‘A Few Good Men’—like, we have plenty of examples since World War II, in Vietnam, where people were told to follow illegal orders and they did it, and they were prosecuted for it.”

So, the menace is not Trump. It’s a 33-year-old Tom Cruise film.

Since the Seditious Six cannot identify even one illegal national security order from Trump, they should find a new hobby.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, on Nov. 18 exhibited severe symptoms of Ready, Fire, Aim. “Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein,” she listed for her House colleagues. “As I had my team dig in very quickly: Mitt Romney, the NRCC, Lee Zeldin, George Bush, WinRed, McCain-Palin, Rick Lazio.”

Sounding cockier than ever, Crockett finally got those pesky Republicans!

Not so fast, Jasmine. Zeldin quickly resembled the Road Runner as Crockett recalled Wile E. Coyote, seconds after the cigar exploded in her mouth.

EPA Administrator Zeldin, a former Republican congressman, blasted her via X: “Yes Crockett, a physician named Dr. Jeffrey Epstein (who is a totally different person than the other Jeffrey Epstein) donated to a prior campaign of mine. NO FREAKIN RELATION YOU GENIUS!!!”

Rather than admit error and apologize, Crockett charged forward.

“I never said it was that Jeffrey Epstein,” she told CNN. “Unlike Republicans, I at least don’t go out and just tell lies.” She added with breathtaking chutzpah: “I wasn’t trying to mislead people.”

You heard it here first: Jasmine Crockett is a tax-cheating, bank-robbing, bomb-making, top-secret member of Hamas. And she never makes her bed.

Oh, I don’t mean the profane and reckless House member. I meant another Jasmine Crockett. I wasn’t trying to mislead people.

Crockett could have avoided this fiasco if she had spent five minutes on the Federal Election Commission’s website and noticed that these donations to Zeldin were dated Feb. 7, April 24, and Aug. 31, 2020. As luck would have it, the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died on Aug. 10, 2019. Dead men tell no tales. And they don’t write checks, either.

During the 43-day Schumer Shutdown, Democrats soiled themselves by claiming that Trump’s most-desired goal was to build the new White House ballroom. House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York moaned, “The Trump administration just declared that erecting a ballroom is the President’s main priority. Meanwhile, the cost of living is way too high, and the Republican health care crisis threatens millions of Americans.”

The House Democratic Caucus complained: “So, Trump’s MAIN priority is a $300 MILLION ballroom? Not lowering costs. Not saving health care. Not reopening the government. Got it.” A Democrat National Committee press release stated, “Leavitt Admits Trump’s ‘Main Priority’ Is Building His $300 Million Gold Ballroom.”

Again, a five-minute review of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s Oct. 23 briefing would have found her answering a journalist’s question about whether Trump envisioned, beyond the ballroom, “any other renovations” at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Leavitt replied that Trump ponders “how to improve things here on the White House grounds.” But, for now, “the ballroom is really the president’s main priority.”

PolitiFact ruled Jeffries’ remarks False, determined that he “twists Leavitt’s words” and incorrectly presented “Trump’s top priorities for renovating” as “Trump’s top priority among every policy.”

At best, Democrats routinely blow off their homework. At worst, they recklessly disregard the truth and harbor actual malice toward Trump, Republican officials, and the 74 million Americans who elected them.

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