For the first time in over 100 years, the Union Leader has endorsed a Democrat for president. "Our choice is Joe Biden*" Note the asterisk. I cancelled my subscription and sent in an op-ed piece which the editor accepted. He emailed back asking me for a "headshot" (picture) in case they decide to publish it. Since a week has gone by and they still haven't published it, I've concluded that they don't intend to. Tomorrow is election day, and I've decided to publish my op-ed here at Libertarian Leanings. Here it is:
To The Editors:
The Union Leader's endorsement of Joe Biden for president is nothing short of shocking. Choosing a man whose 47-year record includes no notable positive accomplishments, over a president with four years of solid, even unprecedented achievements, is mind boggling.
In 2016 there was no one in America, with the exception of Donald Trump, who could have foreseen our nation becoming energy independent, and that he might build off of that to broker Middle East peace agreements that included recognition of Israel by several Arab nations. Trump inherited a situation in the Middle East leftover from the Obama/Biden administration where ISIS occupied an area the size of Pennsylvania, but then with help from Arab states he drove them out of it, destroying the ISIS caliphate in a matter of months.
On the domestic side historically low levels of unemployment and a booming economy, pre-Covid, are outweighed in your view by deficits, which you fail to lay where they belong -- at the feet of Democrats. The fault, you say, lies with Trump for flashing "dollar signs in the eyes of Capitol Hill Democrats."
Trump's election has revealed an astonishing level of corruption in our government. We, who get our news outside of the legacy media, have watched as the Obama/Biden administration was caught spying upon a rival political campaign. It is well documented that the FBI hid exculpatory evidence and falsified documents in order to get the FISA warrants necessary to continue their spying. Specifically, the FBI falsified an email, to hide the fact that Trump campaign advisor Carter Page had actually worked for the CIA -- not Russia.
Having failed to prevent his election, the DOJ appointed Special Counsel Mueller, who after two years could find no evidence of improper contacts between the Trump administration and Russia. There weren't any. The sad fact is the FBI knew it all along. Recall that Agent Peter Strzok texted his lover and colleague Lisa Page that he hesitated to join the Mueller investigation because there was nothing to it: "My gut sense and concern there's no big there there." That was May 19, 2017.
But Mueller dragged it out with the renewed purpose of contriving an obstruction of justice charge for which Trump could be impeached. It failed. No one, not even those indicted and convicted by the Mueller team, were guilty of "collusion" with Russia. Those convicted were caught in perjury traps, or indicted for crimes unrelated to Russia and Trump. But Mueller kept the investigation open long enough to affect the outcome of the 2018 midterm elections.
When Trump's inevitable impeachment came, it depended upon finding meaning that was not present in a conversation between President Trump and Ukraine President Zelensky. Trump thwarted partisan Democrats by releasing the full transcript. Additionally, impeachment depended upon an Intelligence Community Inspector General making last minute changes to whistle blower rules to allow for hearsay. Previously, a whistle blower had to have first hand, eye witness knowledge. Finally, the impeachment farce went on behind the closed doors of the House Intelligence Committee, controlled by Adam Schiff who routinely lied on cable news that he had solid evidence of crime, while at the same time claiming that witness testimony was classified, and that he couldn't reveal it. In fact, there was no such evidence.
And then there's Hunter Biden. It was a clear quid pro quo when Joe Biden threatened to withhold a billion dollars in loan guarantees from Ukraine unless its government fired the prosecutor that was investigating Burisma, the company that was paying Hunter millions to sit on its board. Joe bragged about it on video: "Well, son of a bitch, he got fired." And the Union Leader? "We are not satisfied with his responses about his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings."
That can't be true. If the Union Leader editorial board were truly unsatisfied, it wouldn't have endorsed him. Instead, it ignores the can of worms that Hunter's dealings opened up. Worse, the Union Leader is unable or unwilling to acknowledge the danger to our democracy from career FBI and DOJ officials using their positions for the benefit of one political party over another. It used to be that even the appearance of such impropriety was grounds for firing or demanding the resignations of everybody involved. But by endorsing Joe Biden, the Union Leader favors sweeping this corruption under the rug -- all of it. Not only do you avert your own eyes from it, you hide the worst public corruption in our lifetimes from your readers.
The best that can be said of your endorsement of Joe Biden is that it is the product of willful blindness. The Union Leader does a much better job of covering up corruption than investigating and reporting on it.
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