The first night of the January 6 Committee hearing was a dud, in that it produced no new evidence, while showing just how far Democrats will go to abuse their power. The credibility of the whole investigation was diminished.
That does not mean it was a failure, if one assumes that the only real goal was to hurt Donald Trump. Any reminder of January 6 is a reminder of his worst moment, regardless of whether he actually did anything illegal or wrong.
Part of the goal may be to make Trump more toxic to his own voters, perhaps by showing testimony from his own aides. (Did those who cooperated with the committee know that they were going to be spliced into propaganda videos?)
But as I argued on this morning's Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM 125, the only person really hurting Trump's support right now is Trump himself, because he is talking about the 2020 election, rather than issues on voters' minds.
So the committee can't hurt him more than he has hurt himself. Meanwhile, they are not only destroying the spirit of the Constitution, but their own ratings. It turns out that show trials, while slick, are also deadly boring.
This week's show will be slightly different from the norm: we'll focus on clips and topics, rather than guests -- and that, hopefully, will mean more input from the callers (unless you are all watching football on opening weekend).
Topics:
- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
