Yesterday, Scott Johnson at Powerline posted a nice summary of my recent article titled Flight of the Drama Queens.  Here’s what he wrote:

The Roger Stone sentencing kerfuffle is now playing among the Democrats and their mainstream media adjunct. Based on what we have learned so far, former prosecutor George Parry’s account of the matter is the one that is most to my taste. Parry addresses it in the American Spectator column “Flight of the drama queens” (the link goes to the column as posted at Parry’s site). Parry puts the affair in the context of Team Mueller:

[T]he fact remains that Team Mueller existed — in Weissmann’s words — to “get rid of” Donald Trump. Given that goal, the filing of this surprise and overblown sentencing memorandum by the Team Mueller holdovers and their prompt, unnecessary, and dramatic resignations should be understood as a last, desperate effort by the rear guard of the defunct Special Counsel’s Office to bring the president, Attorney General William Barr, and the Justice Department into disrepute.

Put another way, this whole stunt is nothing more than a choreographed two-act political melodrama in which the Team Mueller holdovers filed their overhyped, unauthorized sentencing memorandum and then followed up with a grand jeté exit stage left to a shower of bouquets and bravos from an adoring Democrat and mainstream media audience.

Attorney General William Barr has been summoned to testify before Congress about these matters, and, unsurprisingly, there have even been calls for his impeachment. The apparent premise for Barr’s removal is that the Justice Department, acting under his direction, may not make a sentencing recommendation that contradicts to any degree that of the Team Mueller holdovers even though the entirely reasonable contradictory memorandum recommends incarceration and explicitly leaves the sentence entirely up to the judge. And, as for Trump, even though he is the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, apparently he isn’t allowed to criticize either the fishy-smelling Stone prosecution or the work of the sacrosanct Team Mueller.

All of this is just the kind of fake pretextual material that the deranged Democrats and their mainstream media amen corner may use to gin up yet another feverish round of impeachment.

Team Mueller was of course the team for which the press was rooting, or playing for. The  mission survives the team.

Read the whole thing here.

In the past, Powerline has many times and most generously posted links to my articles in The American Spectator and, on occasion, mentioned them in posts. This was the first time that Powerline has published an article directly linking to this blog.

To put it mildly, Scott’s very kind article has produced an avalanche of new subscribers and galvanized KIG’s online presence. Take, for example, this tweet by Boston Herald columnist and talk show legend Howie Carr:

Flight of the Drama Queens https://t.co/S6itsSFt6J via @lgparry

— Howie Carr (@HowieCarrShow) February 15, 2020

Carr’s tweet has been retweeted by his many followers and generated a great deal of interest. This is all heady stuff and a tribute to the well-deserved influence of Powerline.

In the meantime, the Drama Queens’ antics have resulted in new and – for them – unwelcome developments in Roger Stone’s case. When they resigned from the Justice Department, one Tomeka Hart, foreperson of the Stone jury, came forward to speak out in their support. Prior to this her identity had been a secret.

But, once she went public, Fox News, Mike Cernovich and other conservative commentators began reviewing her social media posts. The results have been astounding, and I summarized them in the article as follows:

 But it is now reported that one Tomeka Hart, the jury foreperson, is a Democrat party activist who ran for Congress in 2012 and has participated in anti-Trump rallies and protests. And, despite the fact in jury voir dire she testified under oath that she had only a slight passing knowledge of Stone, it has now been revealed that, on social media prior to trial, she mocked Stone’s arrest and labeled Trump and his supporters as racists. When the jury convicted Stone, Hart posted emojis of hearts and fist pumps.

The same reports indicate that the trial judge denied a defense request to strike a potential juror who was an Obama-era press officer who admitted to holding anti-Trump views and that another juror donated to presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke and other progressive causes.

The question of whether or not Stone received a fair trial before an unbiased jury will have to be resolved another time.

Well, it appears that “another time” has come. Here’s a screenshot of the court docket in Stone’s case as of yesterday.

Translated into ordinary English, less than 48 hours after Tomeka Hart went public in support of the Drama Queens,  Stone’s lawyers filed under seal a motion for a new trial. Since the motion is under seal, we don’t know its basis, but I’m willing to bet that it has something to do with alleged juror misconduct by Ms. Hart.

If that’s the case, then it would appear that the Drama Queens’ maneuvering has produced an unforeseen and unintended result in the outing of Tomeka Hart’s previously covert bias against Roger Stone. Or, as Homer Simpson would say, “DOH!”

So watch this space for further developments. I hope to have more to report and analyze soon.

This is getting good!