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The Political Castration of Joni Ernst
Unfortunately, there’s a disease endemic to D.C. called “turning native.” For whatever reason, it seems to infect conservatives more than liberals. There’s no known cure. (Symptoms include the sudden abandonment of traditional beliefs; invitations to “trendy” house parties; and oodles of donations from cabals of liberal bigwigs. Consult your doctor for more information.)
Over the past few days, Joni Ernst has emerged as the face of the Republican opposition to President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth. She stood in judgment of his candidacy and (according to media reports) found him lacking. As her hometown paper noted, she strongly suggested that Hegseth is unworthy of being secretary of defense.
This is the same Joni Ernst who voted in favor of Lloyd Austin, President Biden’s selection for secretary of defense.
And now, her hometown paper has detected an Iowa backlash. She’s in danger of being primaried:
This is a novel development. In fact, it’s unprecedented.
For generations, “conservative” Republicans would talk a big game back home, but then “go native” when they were elected to congress. During election years, they’d put on their overalls back on and pose by a pickup truck, but all those years in between? They’re dressed to the nines, hitting all the trendiest cocktail parties, cutting backdoor deals with Democrats.
D.C. is a wonderful town for a squishy Republican. You’re seen as one of the few “good ones,” and you get the “John McCain treatment”: fawning, adoring, positive press… just as long as you never threaten their power base.
During the 2024 campaign, MAGA activists changed the rules. Now, there’s a very high cost to “going native.”
And the mainstream media can’t cover for you anymore.
Joni Ernst assumed she could leverage her “concerns” about Pete Hegseth to earn herself a higher profile, win liberal accolades, and perhaps even snag the secretary of defense job herself. It’s the oldest game in the House of Cards.
In the past, nobody would’ve pointed out the blatant hypocrisy of hedging her support for Hegseth, yet enthusiastically backing Lloyd Austin — or how she’s increasingly out of step with her base on key military issues, including trans people in active service.
Instead, Ernst would simply weaken the incoming GOP administration, elevate herself, score a few media points, and hope that her constituents would forget about it when the next election rolled around. Under the old rules, they usually would.
But today, MAGA is making sure they won’t forget. Check out the comments under Sen. Ernst’s tweet; they’re absolutely brutal:
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I've been out for quite some time, but things waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay bigger than this got swept under the rug in country...I can't imagine in this age of insanity how anyone would even bat an eye at this kinda stuff.
I agree saw many infractions in my 24 years that were ignored or covered up (a few were my own!) but when she has the audacity to question whether Hegseth's past makes him unfit for secDef it screams double standard.
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The Political Castration of Joni Ernst
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Unfortunately, there’s a disease endemic to D.C. called “turning native.” For whatever reason, it seems to infect conservatives more than liberals. There’s no known cure. (Symptoms include the sudden abandonment of traditional beliefs; invitations to “trendy” house parties; and oodles of donations from cabals of liberal bigwigs. Consult your doctor for more information.)
Over the past few days, Joni Ernst has emerged as the face of the Republican opposition to President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth. She stood in judgment of his candidacy and (according to media reports) found him lacking. As her hometown paper noted, she strongly suggested that Hegseth is unworthy of being secretary of defense.
This is the same Joni Ernst who voted in favor of Lloyd Austin, President Biden’s selection for secretary of defense.
‘I Support Pete’: Ernst Changes Tune Following Second Hegseth Meeting
The statement was issued following Ernst’s Monday afternoon meeting with Hegseth on Capitol Hill. The Iowa senator previously met the Army veteran to discuss his nomination to lead the Pentagon last week.
When asked about his most recent talk with Ernst, Hegseth told reporters it “was a very good meeting,” and expressed appreciation for “her commitment to the process.”
“We look forward to working together,” Hegseth said.
Ernst has faced immense backlash throughout the past several days for refusing to support Hegseth’s nomination.
Multiple sources within Trump world with direct knowledge of her efforts told The Federalist last week that Ernst has been waging an “aggressive” personal jihad against the former Fox News host. Her reported actions have included making personal calls to Trump to urge him to dump Hegseth ahead of her meeting with the Army veteran last week, and enlisting Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to lobby Trump to replace Hegseth with Ernst.
Christopher Wray Is Reportedly Preparing a Nasty Surprise for Donald Trump and Kash Patel
Now for the bad news: Reports are emerging that although Wray may be leaving his post of his own accord, he does not plan to go quietly. In true deep state fashion, Wray is busy promoting loyalists at the FBI in order to "burrow" them into the agency's establishment. The goal? To disrupt Kash Patel's plans to seriously reorganize the federal government's chief law enforcement agency.
Once Wray officially departs his post, his deputy director, Paul Abbate, will apparently be promoted to acting director and, in turn, name a new acting deputy director. It's unlikely that this power structure, clearly intended to disrupt the new Trump administration's plan to gut the FBI, will hold once Patel is confirmed, but there's no mistaking that Wray intends to keep his tentacles in the agency for as long as possible.
As RedState's Joe Cunningham reported earlier this week of Wray's pending resignation, the move "highlights the tense relationship between the FBI and Trump-era Republicans, who have long expressed dissatisfaction with the bureau’s leadership."
More from Joe:
Joe noted in his piece that Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the incoming chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a scathing letter demanding Wray resign before his 10-year "tenure" was up, stating it was "time for you and your deputy to move on to the next chapter in your lives."
This no-confidence vote in Wray and Abbate signals that Republicans have had it with the destructive, anti-Trump and establishment mindset that has infested the FBI, and they're ready for all-out war. Wray, for his part, seemed to be giving a pep talk to the "troops" he'll leave behind, telling them:
Hegseth's Lawyer Drops the Hammer on West Point Over False Story, Academy Issues Statement
The latest story against Pete Hegseth just went south and was shown to be false.
ProPublica said they were pursuing a story about whether Hegseth had been admitted to West Point as he claimed. They said they had contacted West Point and been told on the record, twice that they had no record of Hegseth being accepted. They then said they didn't run with the story when Hegseth produced a letter showing he had been accepted.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is now demanding answers about how West Point could have given false information about Pete Hegseth's acceptance to the Academy and whether they violated the Privacy Act in commenting on the question.
On top of that Hegseth's lawyer Tim Parlatore is now on the case too. He also dropped the hammer on West Point in a letter for sharing "false information" about Hegseth.
“The use of false statements to influence or damage a political nominee’s reputation is particularly concerning, as it may interfere with the democratic process and the fair consideration of candidate for public office,” he added.
Parlatore called for an investigation and echoed Cotten saying it may have violated the Privacy Act of 1974, which prohibits West Point from sharing records without the individual's consent.
Parlatore wasn't finished there.
West Point has now also issued a statement trying to explain themselves.
Why were they making any comment at all, much less not checking the "archived database" before answering?
So West Point's answer leaves a lot of questions.
Plus it isn't exactly the same as what ProPublica is saying.
ProPublica's Secret Talks Reveal Hegseth Fake News Was Deliberately Manufactured
ProPublica really hoped to prove Pete Hegseth lied about acceptance to West Point. They were full steam ahead with the story until Hegseth's team went ahead and outed the scheme to the public. Today, we learned how the plot unfolded.
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President Trump called it a “Great Day for America.” But the New York Times ran a tear-stained love-letter-disguised-as-a-news-article headlined, “Christopher Wray Says He’ll Step Down as F.B.I. Director.” Buh bye.
“Bowing to the reality that President-Elect Donald J. Trump had publicly declared his desire to replace him,” the Times sobbed, “the director spoke wistfully about his time at the F.B.I.”
The news shocked the Times and other partisan Democrats, who’d clung to a life raft of hope that FBI Director Chris Wray would somehow defy President Trump and insist on completing what the mockingbird media called “his full ten-year term.” That Orwellian distortion surely ranks among the media’s dumbest takes. The FBI’s Director serves at the President’s pleasure. The fanciful notion of a ‘ten-year term’ was filched from the ‘Ethics in Government Act of 1978,’ which term limited the FBI Director to one term not to exceed 10 years.
Nor did the hypocritical harridans in the corporate media complain when Bill Clinton fired FBI Director Bill Sessions. So.
In yesterday’s address to the entire agency, Mr. Wray mouthed expected platitudes about doing the right thing for the FBI and so on, and so forth. Although far-left Democrats found his speech inspirational, Wray’s voluntary resignation was founded more in self-interest than selflessness. His stepping down was no miracle, not even in the Die Hard sense.
Wray is arguably the most destructive and deplorable FBI Director in history. He will be remembered for setting the nation ablaze with his multiple unjust investigations of a sitting and then former president, his targeting of orthodox Catholics as domestic terrorists, his political persecutions of January 6th rally attendees, his rounding up of peaceful pro-life protestors, his involvement in the Russia-Gate scandal, his harassment of stay-at-home moms for complaining to school boards, his election interference by bullying social media to conceal the Hunter Biden laptop story, and his bonkers, off-the-charts, poorly considered campaign to bully social media into censoring Americans’ legal speech.
Meanwhile, under Wray’s watch, fentanyl traffic increased exponentially, and thousands of American lives were and are being ruined through addiction. Chinese spying is off the charts. Human trafficking inside the U.S. reached all-time highs. Venezuelan gangs are occupying entire apartment complexes. And that is just getting started.
The Director’s “selfless” resignation announcement came one day after the release of an Investigator General report revealing the FBI’s illegal spying on Kash Patel, who ironically is Trump’s nominee to replace Wray, along with many other political targets. Wray is also the target of multiple Congressional investigations. Maybe he’d hoped for a helpful change in political control in January. If so, he was disappointed.
The war was just beginning. Three days ago, Senator Chuck Grassley sent Wray a stinker of a “no confidence” letter; an 11-page detailed accounting of Wray’s multitudinous failures as FBI Director.
In other words, a pressure campaign was already underway to encourage Wray to resign before the Inauguration. It was clear that, if he did try to cling on, as leftists were hoping, Director Wray would soon experience the political equivalent of being struck by lightning right after slamming the car door on a sensitive body part.
How far we have come, in such a short time.
Think back, to just a couple of years ago in 2022, when the hits kept coming and all of us wondered when we’d get our own FBI visit. I’ll always remember my speech at the Moms for Liberty National Conference in Tampa, when I taught the moms how to handle agents that unexpectedly arrive at the door in the middle of the day during laundry folding.
But now, that once-terrifying FBI Director, who made so many honest citizens so anxious and miserable for so long, has resigned in pathetic disgrace.
It took less than 36 months. This is why you don’t weaponize law enforcement in such an obvious way. They’re learning that old lesson the hard way.
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“Bowing to the reality that President-Elect Donald J. Trump had publicly declared his desire to replace him,” the Times sobbed, “the director spoke wistfully about his time at the F.B.I.”
The news shocked the Times and other partisan Democrats, who’d clung to a life raft of hope that FBI Director Chris Wray would somehow defy President Trump and insist on completing what the mockingbird media called “his full ten-year term.” That Orwellian distortion surely ranks among the media’s dumbest takes. The FBI’s Director serves at the President’s pleasure. The fanciful notion of a ‘ten-year term’ was filched from the ‘Ethics in Government Act of 1978,’ which term limited the FBI Director to one term not to exceed 10 years.
Nor did the hypocritical harridans in the corporate media complain when Bill Clinton fired FBI Director Bill Sessions. So.
In yesterday’s address to the entire agency, Mr. Wray mouthed expected platitudes about doing the right thing for the FBI and so on, and so forth. Although far-left Democrats found his speech inspirational, Wray’s voluntary resignation was founded more in self-interest than selflessness. His stepping down was no miracle, not even in the Die Hard sense.
Wray is arguably the most destructive and deplorable FBI Director in history. He will be remembered for setting the nation ablaze with his multiple unjust investigations of a sitting and then former president, his targeting of orthodox Catholics as domestic terrorists, his political persecutions of January 6th rally attendees, his rounding up of peaceful pro-life protestors, his involvement in the Russia-Gate scandal, his harassment of stay-at-home moms for complaining to school boards, his election interference by bullying social media to conceal the Hunter Biden laptop story, and his bonkers, off-the-charts, poorly considered campaign to bully social media into censoring Americans’ legal speech.
Meanwhile, under Wray’s watch, fentanyl traffic increased exponentially, and thousands of American lives were and are being ruined through addiction. Chinese spying is off the charts. Human trafficking inside the U.S. reached all-time highs. Venezuelan gangs are occupying entire apartment complexes. And that is just getting started.
The Director’s “selfless” resignation announcement came one day after the release of an Investigator General report revealing the FBI’s illegal spying on Kash Patel, who ironically is Trump’s nominee to replace Wray, along with many other political targets. Wray is also the target of multiple Congressional investigations. Maybe he’d hoped for a helpful change in political control in January. If so, he was disappointed.
The war was just beginning. Three days ago, Senator Chuck Grassley sent Wray a stinker of a “no confidence” letter; an 11-page detailed accounting of Wray’s multitudinous failures as FBI Director.
In other words, a pressure campaign was already underway to encourage Wray to resign before the Inauguration. It was clear that, if he did try to cling on, as leftists were hoping, Director Wray would soon experience the political equivalent of being struck by lightning right after slamming the car door on a sensitive body part.
How far we have come, in such a short time.
Think back, to just a couple of years ago in 2022, when the hits kept coming and all of us wondered when we’d get our own FBI visit. I’ll always remember my speech at the Moms for Liberty National Conference in Tampa, when I taught the moms how to handle agents that unexpectedly arrive at the door in the middle of the day during laundry folding.
But now, that once-terrifying FBI Director, who made so many honest citizens so anxious and miserable for so long, has resigned in pathetic disgrace.
It took less than 36 months. This is why you don’t weaponize law enforcement in such an obvious way. They’re learning that old lesson the hard way.
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