2020 elections – RESOLVE

Fauci’s betrayal

By Steve Woodward

Amid the convulsive state of affairs unfolding during this consequential presidential election season there is one reality even more disturbing than the Biden regime’s destructive reign of terror, or the zealous law-fare tactics that beleaguer Donald Trump, and find two former members of his inner circle in federal prisons.

Step back and consider that none of this had to happen. No Biden presidency. No January 6, 2021. No pandemic. No economic devastation. No young adults injured by mRNA injections. No sham trials or the conviction of Trump by a tainted jury in a New York courthouse.

But it did happen because Dr. Anthony Fauci and a band of global medical traitors needed it to happen to save their reputations and unfettered access to an open spigot of funding to which they were addicted and would protect at all costs. All costs.

In his 2023 book, “Deception”, based on years of persistent examination, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s re-telling of the emergence of a laboratory spawned, hyper-contagious virus in Wuhan, China, in 2019, and its ties to Fauci and fellow “scientists”, traces the origins of a bioweapon and an ensuing cover-up.

“On January 31 (2020), all of those we might label Fauci’s “yes-men” were frantically worried that COVID-19 came from a lab — worried because they all knew Fauci’s NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) had been funding the Wuhan lab for years,” Paul writes. “They all were independently (emphasis added) reaching the same conclusions: COVID did not appear to be a product of nature. COVID appeared to be manipulated by scientists.”

Fauci was losing sleep because he feared losing everything — his reputation, his power and a veneer of unchallenged credibility.

Paul continued: “In the middle of the night, just four hours after he was informed by four trusted and, importantly, loyal scientists, that the pandemic virus from Wuhan appeared to be manipulated in a lab, Anthony Fauci made the audacious decision to cover up any information or hypothesis that might link the virus to a leak from the lab.”

The depth of Paul’s understanding of Fauci’s sinister scheme to protect an unaccountable, global multimillion-dollar research complex delivers a page-turner complete with subplots. Step by step, day by day, Fauci saw to it, whether he contemplated the ramifications or not, that the prosperous, optimistic years of 2017, 2018, and 2019 would become faded memories in 2020 and beyond.

Fauci successfully coerced his inner circle of “experts” (including epidemiologist Ralph Baric, PhD, at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) to abandon their conclusion that the virus emerged from reckless “gain of function” research. In fact, they deftly performed a 180-degree flip by publishing a paper affirming a “proximal origin” theory. It held that the virus occurred naturally in China’s arcane “wet” markets in rural outposts. Darn the luck.

But Fauci was not done. Deeply engrained arrogance and hubris seemed to inspire Fauci as cases of COVID-19 began to pop up in the United States in March 2020, beginning with the Pacific Northwest. As the American public — influenced by a media intoxicated by the prospect of tyrannical lockdowns and restrictions that could derail Trump’s re-election — began to recognize that virus cases were mounting, Fauci recognized he had an opening to put the origin of COVID-19 in the rear view mirror. He soon emerged as a wise counselor who would become the face of the Trump White House’s virus response.

This will be recorded by history as one of the colossal mistakes of the Trump presidency. It was classic fog of war misjudgment. Despite Fauci’s decades long history of fear mongering dating to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, he emerged in 2020 as a calming authoritarian with all of the answers. By the time significant numbers of Americans resistant to hysteria and tyrannical mandates figured out what Fauci was doing it was too late.

We watched with a sense of foreboding as corrupt Democrats deliberately leveraged COVID-19 hysteria to compromise the 2020 elections by accelerating mail-in and drop-box voting.

And here, in mid-2024, common sense Americans who reactively defend basic freedom have been vindicated. We were right to resist and revolt. We lived through hell at the behest of Fauci and his allies in the pharmaceutical industry, all raking in billions on production of untested mRNA serums.

“Government responses to COVID-19 are among the most globally impactful events of the 21st century,” reports authors of a study released in June 2024 and published in Science. “The extent to which responses — such as school closures — were associated with changes in COVID-19 outcomes remains unsettled.”

What is thoroughly settled is the economic toll of the Faucian mandates. A new report by the Heritage Foundation’s Nonpartisan Commission on China and COVID-19 found that the COVID pandemic caused $18 trillion in economic losses to the U.S. and placed blame for the outbreak on the Chinese government, reported Fox Business on July 8, 2024.

The comprehensive study authored by Harvard and Stanford researchers published in Science examined four outcomes — cases, infections, COVID-19 deaths, and all-cause excess deaths, writes Ian Miller in his subscription-based Unmasked blog on Substack.com. “That data was then incorporated into nearly 100,000 analytic models to attempt to find a comprehensive, conclusive answer to the all-important question: did all those covid measures actually make a difference?”

The answer: Absolutely not. “In summary, we find no patterns in the overall set of models that suggests a clear relationship between COVID-19 government responses and outcomes,” the authors conclude. “Strong claims about government responses’ impacts on COVID-19 may lack empirical support.”

Perhaps the only positive takeaway from this dark era in our history is that we will be ready when the next pandemic is created and unleashed by China or another global adversary. Government tyrants and their surrogates on local boards of health and school boards will be crushed by the weight of our historical perspective.

Meanwhile, Fauci remains defiant, enabled by a lucrative book deal with publisher Viking. “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service” was released in June 2024. In a Wall Street Journal review of Fauci’s very own Mein Kampf he laments that we live in an era in which untruth becomes “part of our everyday dialogue and starts to sound true.”

Reviewer John Tierney (Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2024) must have salivated as he read Fauci’s whining. “He’s right about (spreading lies),” Tierney writes, “and he has inadvertently produced a 480-page master class in how to get away with it.”

As a reminder that Americans who welcome tyranny continue to dwell among us, the book is No. 1 on the New York Times’ vaunted bestseller list. Perhaps that’s merely a reflection of the book’s hardcover price already having been cut 37% on Amazon to $22.59.

The price we paid for Fauci’s bioterrorism is incalculable.

Turned to ashes

By Steve Woodward

“Progressives think that hating not only (Donald) Trump but all conservatives settles their debts and cleanses them of sin,” writes Lance Morrow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. “It gives them a certain moral luster.”

But Morrow does not go so far as to dismiss their hatred as off-the-rails hysteria. Like many who never became comfortable with Trump’s ascendency to the White House, who were quick to cringe over a Rosie O’Donnell tweet but slow to celebrate a policy triumph, he gives progressives something of the benefit of the doubt.

“Whatever else one may say about Jan. 6, it was one of the stupidest afternoons in American history,” Morrow writes. “(Four centuries ago) Russia’s new (religious) orthodoxy eventually burned the archpriest (patron of the ‘old believers’) at the stake. The 21st-century left would do the same to Mr. Trump if it could. It may not be necessary. He’s a burnt-out case, an exhausted volcano, in Disraeli’s phrase. Let Palm Beach have him.”

This is where Morrow misses the source of the anger that sent thousands to Washington two months after the curious developments surrounding the Nov. 3, 2020, election. Their swarming of our Nation’s Capital never was driven by Trump’s “rhetoric”, the central talking point of the Left serving media. These were patriots, not zombies. It was fueled entirely by the many cases of voter fraud that were mounting ahead of and during Georgia’s Jan. 5 special elections for U.S. Senate seats (cases which in Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania are being fortified by audits and investigations).

Nevertheless, the stupidity to which Mr. Morrow eludes in his June 18 Wall Street Journal op-ed, “America’s Old Believers Need to Move Past Donald Trump”, I would acknowledge could be properly assigned to those massive throngs gathered on and near The Ellipse on January 6.

Why might I agree with Mr. Morrow’s harsh criticism? Because many – including myself — did not layer adequately to protect themselves from bone-chilling, gusty winds as President Trump spoke. Quite stupid, for sure. Thus, plans to parade to the U.S. Capitol were scrapped in the name of practical concerns such as warmth and restrooms. It is a shame. Had thousands more trekked to the Capitol to assemble and hear from speakers – as was the intent by organizers – the contrast between militants assigned to “storm” the building and the rest of the assembled would have been even more stark. It would have been quite obvious that the vast majority had come to rally peacefully and to display unity.

But if we give credence to Mr. Morrow’s conclusion, that some of these acted stupidly, how then do we characterize the Marxist rioters, looters, arsonists and murderers who devastated American cities across a long violent summer of 2020? Are theirs the actions of merely stupid, misguided youth? While the Trump era certainly is not reduced, as Mr. Morrow contends, to smoldering embers; the burnt-out small businesses, restaurants and public squares of urban America are today boarded-up, vandalized memories, ashes scattered to the winds.

Betrayal

By Steve Woodward

North Carolina Republican Party chairman Michael Whatley described Sen. Richard Burr’s vote to convict President Donald Trump after his Senate impeachment trial as “shocking and disappointing”.

Allow me to respectfully disagree. Burr’s track record during the Trump era strongly suggested he would, ultimately, join six other Republicans in voting against Trump’s certain acquittal. Nothing shocking about it. Disappointing? How about revolting? Or, vile. And, perhaps worst of all, calculated.

Who can doubt that a career swamp creature such as Burr would be tempted by a deal with the Devil? Consider this sheer coincidence: an investigation of Burr’s trading of 33 stocks timed around Wuhan Virus vaccine development was dropped by the Department of Justice the moment the Biden administration seized power. Or, perhaps, no coincidence. Wink, wink.

While the media and the Left conveniently forget about events of a week, or a month, or even years ago, as if they never happened (Ukraine’s extortion of $1 billion through then-Vice President Biden), even Republicans seem to not recall the manner in which the Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Burr before his forced resignation amid insider trading allegations, aided and abetted the Russian hoax.

The Federalist’s Tristan Justice, writing in May 2020, referred to the revelations about the committee’s conduct in an early 2018 column put forth by a Federalist colleague.

Federalist Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway wrote in March that the recent (stock trading) scandal is only the latest reason Burr should be stripped of his powerful chairmanship after perpetuating the grand Russian collusion conspiracy theory implicating President Donald Trump was an agent of the Kremlin.

“The only notable thing to have happened in that committee over the course of the Russia collusion hoax was the arrest of one of its staffers for lying regarding his leaks of information to reporters he was intimate with,” Hemingway wrote.

But Burr assured Americans in an April 2020 statement that the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) of Russian “collusion” was solid and indisputable.

Burr: “In reviewing the ICA, the Senate Intelligence Committee looked at two key questions: first, did the final product meet the initial task given by the President, and second, was the analysis supported by the intelligence presented? We found the ICA met both criteria. The ICA reflects strong tradecraft, sound analytical reasoning, and proper justification of disagreement in the one analytical line where it occurred.”

The fatal flaw in this assessment is that the ICA was informed from the outset by an infamous document known as the Steele Dossier. The genesis of the Steele Dossier discredited it from day one.

“The Clinton campaign and the (Democrat National Committee) paid 12 million dollars to an American company called Fusion GPS for the purpose of digging up dirt on then candidate, Donald Trump,” writes former CIA station chief Brad Johnson, founder of Americans for Intelligence Reform. “It was Fusion GPS that then hired Steele. In so doing GPS would have obviously kept much of that $12 million for themselves. Neither the Clinton campaign, nor the DNC directly hired Steele.

“There has never been any announcement, or evidence presented, as to how much of the $12 million GPS kept for itself, and how much it paid Steele to further the ‘opposition research project’.”

Here is the bottom line on Richard Burr. Career politician. Complicit in advancing the Russia collusion hoax to bring down President Trump. Although not alone on Capitol Hill, not opposed to “selling off up to $1.7 million in stocks following classified congressional briefings on the coming pandemic from the novel Wuhan coronavirus” (The Federalist, May 14 2020). One of seven Senate Republicans whom history will record as voting to impeach a private citizen in defiance of the Constitution.

Just be glad you are not his book agent.

Channeling C.S. Lewis

By Steve Woodward

Following Nazi Germany’s relentless bombing campaign in 1940 and 1941, Londoners would face many more years of hardship until World War II ended in 1945. There was fear of occupation. There was rationing. And, everywhere, there was destruction.

Through it all, Brits had come to depend on the reassuring counsel of C.S. Lewis, arguably among the most famous writers of the era, first as a novelist and by the 1940s owed to his writings on Christianity. The Irish-born, former atheist was an accidental celebrity to say the least. The Village Chapel’s Pastor John Jacobs, a Lewis expert, says he seemed to appeal to readers across the spectrum of religious allegiances because he wrote about his newfound faith as a lay person, not as a theologian.

In 1941 the British Broadcasting Corporation, through its director of religious broadcasting, asked Lewis if he would agree to deliver brief radio commentaries to its listening audience. He accepted. In the years to follow, the 15 minutes Londoners spent with Lewis on Sunday nights were viewed as sacred; an appointment not to be missed.

The gift Lewis gave to his war-weary citizens was quite the opposite of the inspiring, rhetorical flourishes delivered by Winston Churchill. Lewis made common sense out of Christianity and made it relevant to the vulnerable.

“What’s the sense of saying the enemy is in the wrong,” Lewis said, “unless right is a real thing?”

Here in 2021, do we not repeatedly ask this question, knowing that it is the central question? But I would ask another question first. Do we have a yet undiscovered C.S. Lewis in our midst in the 21st Century in America?

We have Anthony Fauci, a Swamp creature annoyed by all of us because we want to live as free citizens. We have Rush Limbaugh. We as conservatives are blessed to have Rush as our ideological voice but the other side was thrilled by Limbaugh’s lung cancer diagnosis a year ago. We have Franklin Graham, who honors his father’s legacy by delivering God’s love tangibly to the world’s suffering. We have Tucker Carlson, to whom we owe our gratitude for crushing hypocrites and exposing deception at every turn.

But what America desperately needs today is a C.S. Lewis, a scholar who dreaded the scholarly, an author who wrote not for peers but for real people, and who stepped forward as a servant of God at a moment in history when no else could have served as well. Imagine, today, fringe talk show host Bill Maher, a witty, far Left atheist, converting to Christianity. That would be a wake up call.

First, it must be said that Great Britain, in 1941, identified entirely as a Christian nation. In 2021, the U.S. is a Judeo-Christian nation teetering on the brink of becoming a Socialist nation in which religion has long been marginalized and is increasingly persecuted, even despised.

If we have in our midst a C.S. Lewis he will not be invited by the establishment media to come forward to console us. He will emerge at a considerable risk to his livelihood, his security and his reputation.

Perhaps we delude ourselves thinking there is one such person in this social media age. Perhaps the answer to our dilemma is not found in a person but in a chorus.

Why unity?

By Steve Woodward

In his inauguration speech, incoming President of the United States Joe Biden intoned that he seeks “the most elusive of things in a democracy: Unity.”

Upon which his administration took steps to support more abortion of babies, more gender reassignment rights, less energy independence and more mandates to crush the U.S. economy under the guise of “saving” us all from the Wuhan Virus.

This raises the question: What is unity? And another question: Why do we desire it?

Should we sign on for unity if it strips us of our religious liberties guaranteed under the Constitution? Should we uphold absolute unity if it empowers rogue, unemployed young Americans to rampage through cities, hurling bricks through storefronts?

Unity has to be two-sided, yet policy executive Ryan Anderson notes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that Biden has made clear that his administration will not negotiate on transgenderism.

“Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time,” Biden said. “There is no room for compromise.”

Unity is the Left’s end game because it actually equates to submission. If you want harmony, do as we say. But if Republican Conservatives are honest — there a few of us — we shine a light on the hypocrisy of this unity narrative. The Left is guided only by radicalism. The Left has no use for the Constitution. The Left can not fathom that our nation is founded “under God”. The Left seeks to overturn the First Amendment so that we no longer can expose a corrupt American media.

Unity is smoke and mirrors. The president of the Ethics and Policy Center said it best.

“While the moniker ‘cultural warrior’ seems to be applied only to those on the right,” writes Ryan Anderson in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. “We aren’t the ones who imposed abortion on demand up to and even during birth, forced Catholic nuns to pay for abortifacients, redefined marriage, harassed evangelical bakers, or declared it ‘unlawful discrimination’ to refuse to put a confused child on puberty-blocking drugs.”

Unity? How?