The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are gleefully rubbing their hands at the prospect of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony which is scheduled for next week. They apparently think that he will support their claim that the president obstructed Team Mueller’s Russian collusion investigation. Here is my article which was just published on line by The American Spectator in which I outline how the Committee Republicans should cross-examine Mueller. If you want to read the article with reader comments on The American Spectator website click on this link. John Dowd’s Indispensable Work for President Trump | The American...
Pictured above is the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in Philadelphia which was the subject of my most recent post (“A Philadelphia Hate Crime”). The center was the scene of last month’s Ummah Day celebration during which, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, children wearing Palestinian scarves sang a song calling on martyrs to “crush the treacherous” Jews and recited poetry promising to “chop off [Jewish] heads” and “subject [Jews] to eternal torture.” I submitted a slightly edited version of the post to the Philadelphia Inquirer which published it on line (link here) and will run it in tomorrow’s...
Over the years, my friends at the Philadelphia Inquirer have been kind enough to publish my op-eds regarding Mayor James Kenney. Some of you may have seen this video of him and one of his assistants doing the happy dance as they celebrate Philadelphia’s status as a sanctuary city. When Kenney was a city councilman, he pandered to Philadelphia’s gay community by attacking Dan Cathy, the president of the Chik-fil-A restaurant chain. Why? Because Cathy, a devout Baptist septuagenarian, had been quoted in an obscure church newsletter saying that he supported “the biblical definition of the family.” This caused Councilman...
Historians tell us that in the final days of the Third Reich, as the Red Army surrounded the Berlin Fuhrerbunker, a crazed Adolf Hitler ranted, raved and issued increasingly irrational orders for non-existent Wehrmacht divisions to counterattack and repel the invaders. Even as Germany was being laid waste by the British and American armies advancing from the west and the Russians from the east, Hitler still appeared to believe that victory was within reach. After all, when he had started World War II, world domination by the Nazis had been all but certain. It had to have been inconceivable to...
Now that the Russian collusion hoax has been debunked, and not even the Hillary Clinton acolytes who comprised Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office saw fit to charge the president with obstruction of justice, the party is about to get very rough for the FBI, Justice Department and CIA leaders who concocted the hoax and who illegally spied on American citizens. On April 10, 2019, Attorney General William Barr testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had been spied upon by U.S. intelligence agencies. According to Barr, the “question was whether it [the spying] was adequately predicated.”...
The Mueller Report is a 448 page-long primal scream of rage by the frustrated Hillary Clinton acolytes who wrote it and who utterly failed in their anointed mission to (a) lure President Trump into a General Flynn-style perjury trap and/or (b) goad him into obstructing their faux investigation of non-existent Trump campaign collusion with Russia. Unable to find any evidence of actual criminality by the president, Team Mueller resorted to dirtying him up as much as possible for the benefit of their mainstream media and Democrat party fan clubs. This extra-prosecutorial exercise in character assassination was undoubtedly good group therapy...
Last week my friends at The American Spectator asked for my reaction to Attorney General Barr’s testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee in which he said that our federal government had spied on the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. I sent them my last blog post (“Justice is Coming”) which I thought was pretty funny but not suitable for such a serious publication as TAS. The editors said that they would be interested in running an enlarged, more analytical version of “Justice is Coming”. So I wrote and submitted an expanded piece. TAS ran the result, set forth below, on...
I’m sure Wile E. Coyote represents the reaction of Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans everywhere when they received word of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. What great fun watching CNN and the rest of the hate-Trump media stammer and try to explain their two years of predicting the arrest of the president, his family, his campaign associates, and family pets for colluding with the Russians and obstructing justice. While the end of Mueller’s witch hunt is good news, I have a few questions about its failure to take to task the fabricators and exploiters of the Russian collusion hoax. Those questions...
From 1958 to 1962, I attended an all male Catholic military school in Atlanta. It was run by the Marist fathers, a missionary order that preached the Gospel primarily to the inhabitants of Micronesia, Melanesia, Fiji, Tonga and…Georgia. So the poor priests had a choice between ministering to primitive natives armed with spears and living in thatched huts or us. Looking back, if I had been one of my teachers, I would have opted for Pacific duty just to avoid having to have daily contact with the likes of me and my classmates. Don’t get me wrong. Compared to today’s...
I have been fully occupied reading and digesting the recently unsealed transcripts of congressional testimony by Bruce Ohr, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. Every time I think I’m ready to publish an analysis, another transcript gets released and its back to the drawing board. In the meantime, the college cheating scandal has made the news. It hits close to home since Georgetown University, where I graduated college and law school, has been named but not charged in the indictments. Georgetown wasn’t criminally charged, but, as you will see, it has hardly covered itself with glory. So take a look at...
Today The American Spectator published my analysis of the mainstream media’s canonization of disgraced and discredited former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who this week began hawking his new book in which he is the hero. According to Andy, under his intrepid leadership, your FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation of President Trump who, despite his many moves to thwart Vladmir Putin’s ambitions, may still be a secret Russian agent. Watching McCabe do the fawning, powder puff CBS and NBC interviews moved me to pose a few inconvenient questions along the lines of why should anyone believe anything that this guy...
Tomorrow the print edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer will feature my op-ed regarding the latest gun control legislation being considered by the House of Representatives. If you want to see the reader comments (anguished or otherwise), it can accessed online today at Philly.com. Spoiler alert: the proposed requirement for universal background checks for the transfer of firearms won’t materially reduce gun deaths or keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Anyhow, here’s the piece: BACKGROUND CHECKS WILL NOT PREVENT GUN DEATHS Last week, the House Judiciary Committee began to consider legislation that would require a universal background check for all transfers...
In the early 1970s, when I was a freshly minted Special Attorney with the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the U.S. Justice Department, my fellow newly hired colleagues and I attended a lecture at Main Justice given by John Dowd, a well-regarded veteran prosecutor. His topic was the then little known and almost never used Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Dowd explained in detail the vast sweep of the statute and described the mind-boggling powers that Congress had conferred on us. In those long gone days of limited federal jurisdiction, we had a hard time processing what...