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Some Democrats still working in leadership positions at FBI, CIA, DOJ, NSA and other powerful federal agencies cannot be pleased that Donald J. Trump was reelected president. These are all behind-the-scenes players, who are not sharp enough to be known for their politics. They’re likely thinking about how they can impact or even subvert whatever orders are going to come from their new Republican leadership. In my humble opinion, they should resign – immediately – or face massive losses. 

Trump is coming. It won’t be pretty for anyone who stands in his way or tries to thwart his plans. 

Here’s a quick look at what he should do: 

More than 1,100 Americans from all 50 states have been charged with federal crimes related to the January 6, 2021, uprising at the U.S. Capitol. More than 650 have already pleaded guilty. Seven individuals took off and cannot be located. They will face charges if caught. 

Every single one of the Jan. 6 defendants should receive a pardon. Any still in custody should be let go. The January Sixers need some restorative justice. Those who were responsible have paid more than enough. It is time to close this segment of American history and move on. 

The only possible Jan. 6 defendant left in the country is Liz Cheney, who allegedly destroyed some serious evidence that came before her while she was a member of the Jan. 6 board. This should be investigated promptly, and if true Cheney should be thrown in prison.

Also, anyone who is currently working to send Ukraine billions of dollars before Trump is sworn in deserves a cell next to Liz, too. 

New York Attorney General Letitia James needs to better understand the Supremacy Clause, which puts any potential state charges against a sitting president on hold until he leaves the White House. Trump will be 83 when he leaves office. James is nothing but a typical politician anyway. She’s got nothing, anyway. James was a member of the New York City Council from 2004 to 2013, and before that served five years as the New York City Public Advocate. 

No one is going to take her poorly veiled threats seriously. 

Guns and Ammo 

Every gun store in the country should start ordering more guns, ammunition and accessories and selling them as fast as they can. They should hire more staff; maintain a sufficient inventory and make sure they have trainers who can teach first-time gun owners safety, in addition to how to operate their new firearms. And they should be allowed to do that.

Owning a firearm should never be treated like a crime. Unfortunately, it is in at least 20 states. This needs to stop immediately. Americans have had enough of state firearm laws that are not even constitutional, which treat gun ownership as though it’s something criminal in nature.   

Many blue states do not even allow a legal gun owner to store a loaded firearm. It’s actually hard to believe, especially for those of us who live in free states. 

The ATF has not offered any help on this. In fact, they are the ones who want a confused customer base. The ATF wants us to believe they’re the firearms authority, even though their leadership can’t disassemble a Glock or answer simple questions.

This too has to stop. 

Firearm manufacturer Brandon Herrera has announced he wants to be named ATF Director. 

“The ATF hasn’t had a director that actually understood the firearms industry or been a part of the community it’s responsible for regulating since its founding. We have the power to change that,” Herrera said in a Tweet.

“If I were to be considered for Director of the ATF, in my first 100 days I have a plan to hack, slash and cripple that agency in ways it could never recover from. And when I’m done, I will ask President Trump to disband the agency entirely,” he said in another.

ATF’s current director Steve Dettelbach showcased his complete firearm ignorance in March on CBS’ Face the Nation. Dettelbach was also the first ATF director to say how harmful “assault weapons” were to his mission. He wasn’t able to define an assault weapon, however, telling lawmakers he was “not a firearms expert.” 

Perhaps Herrera is right. 

Perhaps it’s time for Dettelbach and the ATF to just go. 

This op-ed is courtesy of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project.

40 COMMENTS

  1. “Every single one of the Jan. 6 defendants should receive a pardon.”

    No, there are a number of S-bags at the Capitol on January 6th that need some quality time behind bars, those that destroyed property and those that dressed up in Kevlar and brought flex cuffs come to mind. But also the government characters that testi-lied before Congress.

    • ” … AND those that dressed up in Kevlar and brought flex cuffs …”

      So people dressing in kevlar and having flex cuffs is a crime for which they deserve “some quality time behind bars”?

      How about if they just dressed in kevlar but didn’t have flex cuffs, is that also a crime for which they deserve “some quality time behind bars”?

      How about Kamala, her pants suits, the jacket is kevlar lined as are Bidens suit coats…they definitely deserve “some quality time behind bars” but does the kevlar qualify them for that?

        • well, If pro-2A – gun owner people say that dress in kevlar was a crime on Jan 6th then we are doing basically the same thing anti-gun politicians do to us by treating gun ownership as criminal in nature.

        • Rick, I agree wholeheartedly that dressing for a crime has consequences… in my case, anyone approaching me dressed for a crime will probably be surprised at how quick and serious those consequences will be.

    • Treat them the way the Floyd rioters and CHAZ occupiers were treated. NGOs can pay their fines, cases if brought can get tossed and millions of people can call them heroes of democracy.

      Floyd was a felon with a questionable history toward women and he’s a saint. Even Steven.

    • Need to ask who were contracting all those unmarked buses with young men all wearing ‘blackblock’ outfits all changed to ‘MAGA’ outfits to blend in with the crowd? Who were the provocateurs that removed all the erected barriers? Who ordered all the ‘magnetic’ lock doors open? Why were the 10,000 National Guard request denied? Who could forget Ray Eps; megaphone man encouraging everyone to push towards the capital? There were hundreds of paid ‘contractors’ probably hired by a three letter. Us plebs will never be allowed to know what the democrats schemed on that day, they were framing ‘Orange man bad’ ever since 2015.

    • No. But to improve America we need to face some hard truths. The dems are the enemy of freedom. hillary just said that ‘we need to regulate all social media or we lose total control’.

      The dems fought a civil war to keep slavery. They founded the kkk. They fought the civil rights movement.

      fdr, a dem, put Americans into camps based solely on race.

      The democratic party needs to go. It needs to be dissolved and all its office holders removed.

      Nation wide the dems need to be banned from office or .gov employment.

    • The ones who violated the civil rights of private citizen Trump, should all be prosecuted.
      And the ones who violated the civil rights of Trump supporters, because of their political affiliation.They need to be prosecuted too.

    • Of course not, NOR should all of Biden’s political opponents have faced that in kangaroo court “prosecutions”, either. Trump has already telegraphed that he’d likely pardon Hunter the Crackhead Whoremonger. But ANY government official who abuses their office or power to persecute a rival or political opponent should face consequences – that power is ON LOAN to them, from “we the People”, and they SHOULD be accountable for how they exercise it. If you think the alphabet soup management class is blameless for their totes patriotic conduct in “the Resistance” (hint: They ain’t – that’s. NOT. their. freakin’. job!!) then you should be happy to see them get their “day in court” to tell their story and justify their efforts to undermine the Constitution, amirite???

    • No but government workers should leave their politics at the door when working. What they support privately can stay private. Unfortunately the Democrat party has infiltrated a lot of government agencies to the point they are shadow government.

    • As one that was living in a state looking to put people in camps for not participating in experimental gene modification I find your question to be disingenuous at best.

    • There’s been a few of these over the last couple years where no proof of wrong doing was found. Everyone of them needs investigated. The dems have done so much wrong its a mountain to chew.

  2. Senator John Thune, South Dakota has just been elected as Speaker of the Senate. He is a staunch supporter of the 2nd Amendment and has an A rating from the NRA and NSSF.

    • Just glad it was not Cornyn, no friend of the 2A IMO.
      Here is an ‘Ammoland’ link
      h ttps://www.ammoland.com/2024/11/why-john-cornyn-is-the-wrong-choice-to-lead-the-senate/

  3. Sorry, you lost me with your comment about Ukraine. In our history, the USA has never done a Pontius Pilate number and abandoned a friendly country to an aggressor. Admittedly, any Biden policy is suspect, but under the broken clock analogy it’s easy to argue that he got this one right. You want to say that Ukraine isn’t our problem? After you feed them to Putin, do you really believe he’ll be satisfied? Then what – the Baltics, Poland or Finland?
    Maybe if we had taken more interest in Czechoslovakia in 1938 there would have been fewer dead Americans in Normandy in 1944.
    “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”

    • Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, the Ukrainians are willing to fight for their freedom and broke the myth of Russian military capability. It’s been the cheapest war against Russia that could be imagined.

      But nukes? Mad Vlad keeps rattling the nuclear saber to scare the west, although a lot probably won’t work or work properly. The US spends $50 billion annually on maintaining the stockpile of about 5000 warheads. Russia who has a stockpile of about 5600 warheads has a TOTAL military budget of $60 billion, less what is siphoned off with endemic corruption. The bombs use tritium which has to be replenished or replaced every 5-10 years. I doubt many were maintained since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

      Russia is so desperate for manpower they are using North Korean “volunteers” as well as nork munitions. The “volunteers” have been known to desert at any opportunity and the munitions are considered to be well below Soviet era quality.

  4. I’m expecting a 3rd assassination attempt.
    More then likely one choreographed by the same entity that terminated JFK.

    • We should have taken the hint back then when our guys were doing the heavy lifting in the place of the locals. The Ukrainians aren’t asking for troops, just the tools to beat off the orcs trying to steal their country. Can you seriously suggest that sending aid to Britain in 1939-40 was a mistake?

      • I believe the comparison is not applicable. Ukraine will need to accept some form of peace or demographically they will cease to be relevant in their own country. Russia sucks but prior to the invasion we knew Ukraine was a corrupt shithole as well. Up end we did get to test a lot of unknowns in weapon systems and tactics and largely confirmed we could have held the fulda gap.

        • I agree; the majority in Donetsk and Luhansk are Russian sympathizers and are never going to become loyal Ukrainians. It’s better to cut them loose than hang on to them and wait for them to stab you in the back.

          • The tricky part for any peace will be ensuring border and immigration security to ensure Ukrainians inhabit whatever ends up being Ukraine and Russia doesn’t sneak in a bunch of ethnic Russians to allow another Crimea. Also goes for other countries that may opportunistically colonize the region for future exploitation.

            • Forced Russification has been practiced going all the way back to the tsars. It was their way of suppressing/eliminating all the non-Russian ethnicities. All those Russians in locales adjacent to Russia didn’t settle there spontaneously.

      • Have to agree…every Russian tank, every Russian soldier, every Russian plane or ship that is destroyed or killed is one less that Comrade Putin will not be able to throw at NATO, and trust me, he will attackNATO, as soon as he feels able to. Right now, it is Ukrainian blood that is being spilt, not ours. If, and when, he attacks NATO, it will be American!

    • Xdduly elected official,

      Of course any meaningful comment, such as my first attempt to reply to you, goes to moderation jail or disappears altogether.

      Short version: the U.S. has already sent an obscene amount of money to Ukraine–more than enough money to buy more than enough shoulder-fired missiles to destroy every single Russian tank, armored transport, artillery battery, and even simple supply/troop transport vehicles. And with the left-over cash there was more than enough to buy enough stinger missiles to take out every Russian helicopter and several of their fighter jets. The war continues because the upper echelon of the Ruling Class wants it to continue.

  5. The democrat party under the leadership of President Obama created this mess in Ukraine back in 2014. Just like Vietnam War was created by the democrats.

    Nixon ended that war. And Trump will ended this one.

  6. Trump should pardon the silkroad guy. And the J6 protesters. Except for the under cover FBI agents. Who were smashing windows. Send them to prison.

    Send Hunter Biden to prison. Just because you are the son of the president, doesn’t excuse you from punishment when you rape children.

    Also pardon anyone who broke the NFA law on making their own suppressor.

  7. “New York Attorney General Lecretia James needs” understand the LAW. DEI bimbo needs to be sweep the streets not playing shyster.

  8. Loyal Ukrainian.
    that’s funny
    Russias first Capitol city was where?
    As our patriotic Kamala Harris would say, “Remember the Alamo.”

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