By Mike Huckabee
In banana republics, it's usual for an incoming administration to put a target on the back of the outgoing President and his associates, to punish them and make sure they stay gone. That is clearly what is being done to former President Trump, and, by extension, to those who support or defend him. Today, I have a couple of examples of this that I never thought I'd see in America.
First, Rudy Giuliani, the distinguished former U.S. attorney and transformative New York mayor –- and currently the personal attorney for President Trump –- has had his law license temporarily suspended in New York State. Rudy has been practicing law in New York since 1969. The reason for the suspension: According to a five-judge panel of New York State Supreme Court's Appellate Division, Giuliani "made false and misleading statements" related to voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Rudy has 20 days to request a post-suspension hearing.
Here's the story as told by the NEW YORK POST.
https://nypost.com/2021/06/24/rudy-giulianis-law-license-suspended-in-new-york/
The judges said Rudy had made false allegations of voter fraud while serving as Trump's legal counsel after the election, on radio programs and in other public statements. They claimed there is "uncontroverted evidence" of this. According to the ruling, "These false statements were made to improperly bolster respondent's narrative that due to widespread voter fraud, victory in the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen from his client. We conclude that respondent's conduct immediately threatens the public interest and warrants interim suspension from the practice of law, pending further proceedings before the Attorney Grievance Committee."
That the election was stolen from his client is exactly what his client contends.
Keep in mind, this ruling comes right at the time when a full audit of the election in Maricopa County, Arizona, is going on, with results expected in a few weeks. Tabulation procedures, the use of outside money, widespread mail-in and absentee voting, and fraud-facilitating changes in election law are under scrutiny in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan as well, with pressure building for similar audits and forensic analyses in those states. In key counties, we've seen huge statistical anomalies, highly suspicious vote-counting procedures, and affidavits from election workers that stacks of absentee ballots marked for Biden were unfolded and looked like copies. That's without even getting into unresolved questions about the hack-ability of voting machines. We don't have hard proof that the election was stolen, but we don't know for a fact that it wasn't, either. In some places that happen to have razor-thin margins, the election appears to have been an outright mess.
All five judges who gave Rudy the thumbs-down are Democrats, with three of them, if Giuliani's son Andrew is correct, having been appointed by Andrew Cuomo. And the judges are wrong about this. It does not "threaten the public interest" to raise legitimate questions; in fact, it could be argued that doing so is very much IN the public interest. Long-term, it's impossible to maintain trust in a system by ignoring obvious problems and preventing a transparent examination of results. But the new administration and its media minions have christened this sincere questioning "The Big Lie" and must severely punish any skeptic who dares cast even the slightest doubt on Biden's legitimacy. That's what they do in banana republics.
Just wondering, how many members of the New York State Bar Association have participated in the spread of the one really egregious lie –- the proven lie –- that dominated headlines for years: the Russia hoax, the lie that Donald Trump, before and after his election, was actually an agent of Vladimir Putin? How much did THAT "threaten the public interest"? And how many of those attorneys have had their licenses to practice law suspended?
These judges accused Giuliani of leveling false claims about the number of absentee ballots counted in Pennsylvania after Biden carried the state. (Trump had won Pennsylvania in 2016.) The forums were a radio show called "Uncovering the Truth" with Dr. Maria Ryan on November 8, 2020; a meeting of the Republican State Senate Majority Policy Committee in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 25; and an episode of "Steve Bannon's The War Room" on December 24.
Andrew Giuliani, in a video he posted on Twitter, said he was "infuriated" and that this was a political ploy.
Rudy's son is extremely well-spoken and passionate here about what was done to his dad. The left, however, had to try somehow to dismiss his rant and keep him from being taken seriously, so they mocked the framing of the video and the fact that he was standing in a parking lot. The hateful and stunningly unfunny comedian Kathy Griffin questioned whether or not he was wearing pants. This actually became the story, to take attention off the real issue.
Recall that in April, Giuliani was served with an FBI search warrant, and agents combed through his Manhattan apartment, taking all his electronic devices. (Except, of course, for his copies of Hunter Biden's hard drives. How interesting that the FBI wouldn't take those, even when they were offered.)
Trump released a statement about what was done to Rudy:
Our second example of "not in America" also involves the FBI. On Thursday, they showed up unannounced at the home of Casey Cusick and arrested and handcuffed him in front of his wife and 3-year-old daughter, who asked her mom at one point, "Why are they locking daddy's hands?" Also arrested and handcuffed was his 73-year-old father, James, who is founder and pastor of a church in Melbourne, Florida.
What was their crime? They attended Trump's January 6 rally, and they peaceably entered the Capitol Building. Yes, the feds are still tracking down people and arresting them for that. In fact, 32 more "criminals" have been arrested this month.
Oh, and the 73-year-old pastor is a veteran who volunteered to fight for his country in Vietnam. According to his daughter, Staci, he was "shocked" to find out why they were arresting him. He had told her he was friendly with officers inside the Capitol, who even directed him to a bathroom, and that they had never told him to leave. He apparently had no idea he had done anything wrong.
We'll have more details on this story. In the meantime, you can read how this went down at THE GATEWAY PUNDIT. Be sure and read what Staci has to say about her patriotic, law-abiding, Constitution-loving father being taken away in handcuffs.
This is what we're up against, folks. We've had some successes in recent days, with parents realizing they have to stop schools from indoctrinating their children in toxic Critical Race Theory (or, as I like to call it, Commie Racist Theory). But our fight is on other fronts as well, as the double standard of "justice" becomes more obvious every day. Good people are harassed and even jailed while rioters and attackers go free to commit more crimes.
None of this is acceptable in the United States of America.