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WATCH: Liz Cheney Dumps on Trump Over Executive Privilege Claim, Marjorie Taylor Greene Buries Her

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In an awesome “shot and chaser” moment on Wednesday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) blasted Donald Trump for claiming executive privilege in an attempt to block the release of White House documents archived from his presidency, prompting House Republican colleague — though hardly a friend — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) to fire back at Cheney. I’d say the claws came out but that would be sexist.

As I reported on Monday, Trump filed a lawsuit to block the release of documents from his administration to Nancy Pelosi’s select congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol. The lawsuit claims in part that Trump retains the right to executive privilege as a former president.

Cheney was having none of Trump’s claim, saying the former president’s lawsuit suggests he was “personally involved” in the planning and the execution of the Capitol “riot.”

“Mr. Bannon’s and Mr. Trump’s privilege arguments do however appear to reveal one thing. They suggest that President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of January 6th. And this committee will get to the bottom of that.”

Jumping to a conclusion, jumping the shark, or both?

Marjorie Taylor Greene being Majorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia congresswoman fired back at Cheney with both barrels. After first blasting Speaker Nancy Pelosi over a proposed $200 million allotment for improvements to a national park in Pelosi’s San Francisco district, Green took several shots at Cheney, in response to a reporter’s question about Cheney’s accusations against Trump:

“Oh, she’s just jealous and she hates Trump. Who cares? Nobody cares about Liz Cheney. I mean, I think that’s the biggest story. No cares about Liz Cheney or their stupid committee.”

Greene then walked away, mumbling under her breath.

OK, then. ‘Nuff said.

As to Trump’s lawsuit, here’s a segment from my Wednesday report.

Trump had previously requested that the Biden administration assert executive privilege over the documents. (The chances of that happening were somewhere between zero and minus-ten.)

As even CNN noted, similar requests from past presidents are traditionally honored by their successors, but Biden being Biden, he denied Trump’s request, citing “special circumstances.” (Perhaps when Biden becomes a former president he’ll regret his refusal of Trump’s request. Just a thought.)

Trump’s lawsuit also asserts that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional if it is “read so broadly as to allow an incumbent President unfettered discretion to waive the previous President’s executive privilege, mere months following an administration change.”

And, as transcribed by CNN, the lawsuit claims Biden’s refusal to protect some of the documents was “a political ploy to accommodate his partisan allies.”

Check out the report for more details.

In a separate article on Monday, I reported on an excellent recent column by investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald in which he argued that the real intent of Pelosi’s Jan. 6 kangaroo court is unbridled power — in place of constitutionality, legality, and morality.

In order to gain that power, argued Greenwald, Democrat exploitation of Jan. 6 continues, with the intent of continuing to instill fear and anger in the majority of Americans — it is not working — and a continuing perceived threat from Trump and his fellow “insurrectionists” — that’s not working, either.

Meanwhile, I’d do pay-per-view to watch a knock-down-drag-out fight between Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor in the Capitol cafeteria. Claws and all. No, really.

Blind Squirrel Finds Acorn: Blinken Calls Packing Courts 'Anti-Democratic'

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OK, who is this guy, and what did he do with Antony Blinken?

In a flying-pigs moment, Joe Biden’s out-of-touch Secretary of State, Antony Blinken now says he believes packing the United States Supreme Court is an “anti-democratic” idea. Blinken laid out several red flags, saying they exist in “our hemisphere.”

“Consider a country where a leader is elected in a free and fair election, and then sets about chipping away, slowly but surely, at the pillars of democracy. Attacking the free press; undermining the independence of the courts; threatening political opponents.

“Now, imagine that leader then seeks to use the levers of democracy to pass anti-democratic reforms: eliminating term limits; packing courts; firing legislators.

“That’s the story of more than one democracy in our hemisphere. And it’s one of the ways that democracies can come undone.”

Not to be overly suspicious, but what the hell did Blinken mean by that?

As I began to watch the below video, my first thought was Biden’s inept Secretary of State was going to parrot the ridiculous claim by several Democrat lawmakers that it was actually Donald Trump who unfairly “packed the Supreme Court” and that therefore it was the Democrat Party’s patriotic duty to increase the number of justices to 12 and “restore the balance” envisioned by the Founding Fathers.

But Blinken didn’t go there, raising the question, what was his point? Could he possibly have found that acorn, as I suggested in the title? Stranger things have happened over the last nine months, I suppose.

But, damn.

Let’s assume, for lack of a better explanation, that Blinken actually meant what he said — a rare feat for a member of the Biden administration, including Clueless Joe™ himself. He wouldn’t be the Lone Ranger.

As I reported in April after news broke that the Democrats planned to introduce court-packing legislation, Georgetown University law professor Jonathan Turley — hardly a conservative —  weighed in on Twitter with a reasonable, masterful takedown of the notion of packing the Supreme Court.

BTW, “you know who” shared the same view in October 2020, in reference to “the other” “you know who.”

Who knew?

Then again, that same month, noted legal scholar Sunny Hostin of “The View” said Democrats pushing the number of SCOTUS justices to twelve would actually be unpacking the Supreme Court, so there’s that.

Is it any wonder that a growing percentage of Americans appear to want Joe Biden the hell out of the White House? Then reality smacks us in the face yet again as we realize who’s waiting in the wings.

Ok, I’ve had enough. Time for a cold draft. Or two. And an Aurelio’s pizza.

Incidentally, here’s a bit of good news that no doubt irritated the hell of liberals.

WATCH: Good Guy With Gun Takes Down Bad Guy With Gun After Mall Shooting Leaves Several Injured

Democrat Counter to Glenn Youngkin Enthusiasm Enters Into the Pathetic

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With less than two weeks from election day, you can expect the reporting on the Virginia gubernatorial race to heat up. As RedState shared yesterday, Democrat Terry McAuliffe snapped and stormed out of an interview because he didn’t like the questions he was asked. That was just the latest in a series of blunders that have hobbled a campaign that should be cruising to a comfortable victory.

By contrast, Republican Glenn Youngkin is seeing signs of building enthusiasm. Last night, he held a rally in Loudoun County in front of an overflow crowd. While speaking, he pressed the issue of the local school board covering up child sexual assaults and offered support to the parents who are fighting back.

Youngkin has been doing the groundwork over the last several months and it appears to be paying off. Whether it will be enough to beat McAuliffe, who is favored due to Virginia’s electoral realities, is a chapter not yet written. Still, Youngkin has to feel good about how far he’s come.

Meanwhile, the Democrat response enters into the pathetic. A group of McAuliffe supporters showed up with an inflatable chicken. Yes, that’s the best they could come up with.

I’m not sure what that’s even supposed to represent. McAuliffe is the one abruptly ending interview because he’s scared of tough questions while hiding behind non-Virginian politicians like Stacey Abrams and Kamala Harris. By contrast, Youngkin is holding big events, facing voters, and doing the leg work on the local level.

But trying to find a good reason for the chicken is giving these people too much credit. It’s there simply as a way to snark about Donald Trump because the Democrats have absolutely nothing left to justify voting for them. McAuliffe’s campaign can’t compete on the issues so it’s devolved into trying to accuse Youngkin of being Trump while at the same time asking him why he doesn’t campaign with Trump.

I find it hard to believe most Virginian voters care about this nonsense. And frankly, if they elect McAuliffe because of silly attacks on Youngkin involving Donald Trump, it’ll be really hard to feel sorry for them. At some point, you either accept the opportunity for change staring you in the face or you suffer the consequences. Virginia is at that precipice, and the choice is clear, in my view.

Joe Biden Jetting Planeloads of Cabinet, Aides to Europe to Combat Climate Change

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Joe Biden will demonstrate his determination to fight climate change by flying more than a dozen Cabinet members across the Atlantic next week — in several passenger jets consuming tons of fossil fuels at high altitudes.

Plus, of course, Biden’s own customized 747 Air Force One with remote-control window shades. Biden will take the four-engine goliath another 2,450 miles to Rome and back for what seems like yet another monthly G-20 meeting. And then, of course, when in Rome, the ardent abortion advocate will flaunt his Roman Catholic faith in an audience with Pope Francis, trying to snuff simmering rumors of his impending excommunication.

All this for the Democrat to show participants in the U.N.’s Climate Change Conference in Glasgow how all-in he is to save the global environment from the terrible things that other wanton humans are doing to cause and worsen global warming for their own ends. As one site called it, “a meaningless meeting of useless people.”

And, as usual, to contrast himself after the four-year presidency of you-know-who, who withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Accords of 2015 because he said they were a waste of time and crippled the U.S. economy without forcing worse polluters like China and India to do much.

These regular U.N. conferences all over the world are single-handedly responsible not only for bloated expense accounts but also for deforesting countless acres for the paper to print their reports, addendums, appendices, and reports on the reports.

Climate change (f/k/a global warming) has been a longtime fetish of Joe Biden and his mentor Barack Obama. In June, we wrote about Joe Biden betraying our military by telling them that the greatest threat to national security was climate change, not what they spend every waking hour training for, protecting the country.

Plus the charter and government passenger jets and then limos to ferry their VIPs to and from such important events to save the planet and protect participants from TSA lines and little people with their cars.

The Paris Accords were constructed over several months and signed in, well, Paris six years ago with a much smaller U.S. delegation because the Obama crowd did not yet feel the need to top the uppity billionaire showman.

John Kerry, the failed 2004 Democrat presidential nominee, ex-senator, ex-Secretary of State, and accident-prone bicyclist, will lead the U.S, delegation in Scotland for the weeks-long conference starting Nov. 1. He is now Joe Biden’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate after leading Obama’s talks with Iran on a nuclear pact that you-know-who also abandoned as worthless.

Additionally, flying across the Atlantic are squadrons of other retread big shots who Joe Biden found jobs for:

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who used to be an aide to John Kerry, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who used to be head of the Federal Reserve, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who used to be in the House of Representatives and head of the New Mexico Democratic Party.

Also, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, a multi-millionaire who runs two homes in California and used to be governor of Michigan, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg who used to be mayor of South Bend, Indiana and will interrupt his paternity leave for the junket, which he wouldn’t do for the crippling supply chain crisis.

Also, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who had the same job for Barack Obama and used to be governor of Iowa, and Gina McCarthy, who used to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency but now is in the new job of White House science advisor that Joe Biden made up for her.

Also, Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power, who used to be Obama’s U.N. representative, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Rick Spinrad, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, and White House Office of Science and Technology policy director Eric Lander, who is still another multi-millionaire.

The titles alone would fill the cargo holds of many planes.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who did her fossil-fueled international flying to Southeast Asia in August, will remain stateside.

Of course, each of these Joe Biden VIPs has a bevy of aides and some spouses who will also be flying over to see the nearly 700-year-old Scottish city of Glasgow which, appropriately, enough means “Dear Green Place” in Celtic.

Joe Biden has been a big United Nations fan. Last summer, he even invited the U.N. to come investigate racism in the United States.

As Obama’s vice president and a former senator, Joe Biden also perfected these regular international junkets at taxpayer expense. He took son Hunter with him on Air Force Two for an official VP trip to China.

Other times Joe Biden took along grandchildren and enough aides and bodyguards to run up a $500,000 hotel bill for one night in Paris and nearly $600,000 the next night in London. That’s a lot of mini-bar, in-room movies, or something.

A White House spokesman explained:

In Glasgow, the United States will showcase President Biden’s whole-of-government approach to tackling the climate crisis.

They will demonstrate the strength of the entire US government working in lock-step to reduce emissions and achieve our international climate commitments — and that the countries who take decisive action on climate will reap the economic and jobs benefits of the clean energy future.

The question remains, however, whether Congress, which is controlled by Joe Biden’s own Democrat Party, will get its climate of petty squabbles under control in time for Biden to deliver concrete U.S. climate commitments as well as thousands of words and planeloads of Cabinet members. And, of course, the new taxes to go with them.

Trump Sues to Block Biden's Release of White House Documents to Jan. 6 Kangaroo Court

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I suggested in an earlier article, titled REPORT: State Dept. IG Launches ‘Series of Investigations’ Into Biden Afghanistan Debacle, grab the popcorn and pull up a chair.

And in an article before that — both on Monday — I reported on investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald’s latest Substack column in which he lays out the “real” purpose of the Jan. 6 Committee show trial.

In a word, we’re gonna need more popcorn. A lot more popcorn.

Former President Donald Trump has now filed a lawsuit to block the release of White House documents from his administration to Nancy Pelosi’s select congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol. As reported by CNN, the lawsuit claims Trump still has the right to executive privilege.

Trump had previously requested that the Biden administration assert executive privilege over the documents. (The chances of that happening were somewhere between zero and minus-ten.)

As even CNN noted, similar requests from past presidents are traditionally honored by their successors, but Biden being Biden, he denied Trump’s request, citing “special circumstances.” (Perhaps when Biden becomes a former president he’ll regret his refusal of Trump’s request. Just a thought.)

Trump’s lawsuit also asserts that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional if it is “read so broadly as to allow an incumbent President unfettered discretion to waive the previous President’s executive privilege, mere months following an administration change.”

And, as transcribed by CNN, the lawsuit claims Biden’s refusal to protect some of the documents was “a political ploy to accommodate his partisan allies.”

Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich amplified the argument in a statement, as transcribed by The Blaze:

“The January 6th Committee is a partisan sham to distract Americans from the Democrats’ policies that are killing and robbing Americans. The media is complicit in advancing the Committee’s unconstitutionally flawed request.

“The Committee isn’t seeking the truth. It’s seeking Communist-style political persecution of President Trump and the America First patriots who served their country honorably.”

White House spokesman Mike Gwin begs to differ, as noted by CNN, also in a statement:

“The former president’s actions represented a unique — and existential — threat [Democrats do love that term, don’t they?] to our democracy that can’t be swept under the rug.

“As President Biden determined, the constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the Constitution itself.”

Paul Rosenzweig, a professorial lecturer in law at The George Washington University Law School, shared Gwin’s views, as CNN reported:

“Trump has demonstrated an ability to pressure the delay point. He’s always been good at using litigation as a weapon, and this is another one of those.”

So where does it stand? Trump has just weeks to convince the court to block the release of the documents, which appears to be an uphill battle. Via CNN:

The National Archives told Trump that it would turn over records to Congress that he wants to keep secret on November 12 — unless a court steps in, according to the former President’s lawsuit fighting the release of those documents.

The Archives said it consulted with the Justice Department and the White House, and determined the committee should receive the documents it has requested […] according to a letter from Archivist David Ferriero last week.

A copy of that letter is included as an exhibit in Trump’s lawsuit on Monday.

Meanwhile, hapless Joe Biden continues to stumble and mumble his way through self-created crisis after self-created crisis, which even he must be somewhat embarrassed about by now. Yeah, probably not.