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King Trump: He can stay as long as he wants

I personally wouldn’t mind if Trump ran again in 2028.  This past week, he officially put out merchandise that promoted the idea, but I think he’s just having a little fun with the radical left, who are afraid that they will never get rid of Trump again.  And that, like FDR, he might try to stick around beyond two terms, and that he’ll declare himself king.  I would be okay with Trump sticking around as long as he wants to.  I sleep better at night knowing Trump is in the White House and someone like him is making good decisions for our country.  But I don’t think Trump is all that serious about it.  I think he’d like to retire and play golf.  We are lucky to get what we have out of him, which in the end will be 12 years of a Trump presidency.  Two of those terms officially.  One of them unofficially.  But regardless of the measure, it will be a significant part of his life.  Democrats have much bigger problems besides Trump; they have made a hard turn toward open socialism, and that will hinder them from now on.  There is no longer a blurring of the lines as to where they stand, which is evident in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign swing these days.  She is the future of the Democrat Party, and she is a hard left person who won’t play well to a national audience, so Democrats have more trouble than just Trump.  But they fear that he just won’t ever go away, exacerbated by the Trump campaign merch indicating that he was already campaigning for 2028.  It will take a long time to fix the many parts of America that are broken, on purpose, by radicals we used to trust.  So I’m in no hurry to see Trump go anywhere.  If he wants to stay president for another twenty years, I’m perfectly fine with that.  I’m sure we could establish some legislative modification to accommodate him. 

But logically, we still have the unsettled matter of his stolen second term, and everything the government did to him to try to destroy him.  We’re not just talking about what he has done to offer himself to the office of the presidency, but the over-the-top attempts to kill him that took from all of us that critical second term, and inserted the loser Joe Biden in an obvious attempt to destroy our country.   People go to war over much less than what happened to Trump, where they clearly stole the election from him, put him on a plane, and exiled him from politics.  At least they tried to.  So I think everyone owes Trump some exceptional consideration.  No matter what anybody thinks about him politically, I think of him more as a reformed Democrat than a traditional Republican, but he’s a great executive.  He knows how to put the right people in place to get things done and to cheerlead things along with the power of positive thinking.  And the White House is a much better place with him in it.  I was just there a few weeks ago and can say that everything around the White House is better with Trump.  There is no way that Democrats are ever going to get the world back that they once ruled over.  Trump or not.  People picked Trump.  Trump is far from a king.  The American people wanted him, now for three elections, and they will want him as long as they can get him.  Trump can stay as long as he wants. 

Election fraud is serious business, and it has to be punished.  It’s not enough to have people sheepishly apologetic now that Trump won the election with so much support, even after all they tried to do to him, including the former VP, Mike Pence.  On that terrible day of January 6th, when the government certified that election, knowingly committing fraud, most of the key players who were involved were erased from the political landscape. People like Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Mitt Romney, and some of Trump’s most prominent critics are no longer relevant, politically.  That is something that nobody is really talking about.  It’s not so much about what Trump intends to do or can’t do as radical judges try to stall his administration out, hoping to outlast him in Washington, D.C., to ride out the election cycles.  But what matters most is that the opposition to Trump is much weaker than it has ever been, and it had its back broken on that day of the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 2024.  And I don’t see it ever recovering.  Rather, the Marxist insurgency, which Bernie Sanders and AOC have always been, was smoked out and exposed.  And if they are going to win elections ever again, as Democrats, it will be under much different circumstances.  In that case, it will be the Marxist and communist crowd rather than hiding those attributes behind progressive causes that define the future of politics.  And communism isn’t something they pick for themselves.  It is something that is taken, and Democrats have already blown that.  Their coup attempt was in 2020, and we lasted through it to get Trump back.  And they have no plan B.  Trump is redefining the presidency in America, which should have been happening for several centuries now.  Nobody has quite been able to make the Executive Branch as effective as Trump has made it; we are now in completely uncharted territory.

When Trump is done, all people will want to return to the kind of president Trump has been. His media engagements.  His tireless work ethic.  He has even been involved in the NFL draft this year.  Trump is everything to everybody, and he never stops doing the job.  And people, even his political enemies, will not want to return to the purely figurehead president who sat in the White House disengaged and only there for the photo op, while the lawyers ran the world.  However, there is a big difference between a king and what Trump is.  He is a successful guy who offered himself to do a job for America.  He’s even paying for the new flag poles at the White House out of his own pocket.  A king rules through power.  Trump is a representative of the American people, picked by them to do work on their behalf.  Trump is not now, nor will he ever be, a king.  We are lucky to have him.  We are fortunate to have Melania, too.  We are lucky to have the American system produce good people who can afford to represent us in the White House.  And I want Trump to do that job as long as he wants, forget about the norms.  Forget about the political theater of the media rat race, where they perpetually talk up candidates and make money off the advertising for new political offices.  I want someone to do the job, and Trump has set a new standard that Democrats will never be able to live up to.  Even Republicans will struggle to find someone as charismatic and practical as Trump.  And we are a much better country with Trump in the White House, which I would like to see extend well beyond 2028.   But I don’t think it will, by Trump’s own choice.

Rich Hoffman

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The Great Serpent Mound in Ohio Needs Money: One of the great sites in the world has fallen into disrepair

The thing about the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio is that it’s our version of Stonehenge, and that it has fallen into a state of ridiculous disrepair, and it shouldn’t be.  When you look at the great historic sites around the world, like the Pyramids, Göbekli Tepe, and Stonehenge, they all have significant commitments to tourism dollars that inspire people to visit, instead of trying to frustrate them from doing so.  I have talked about it before. I like what they did to Stonehenge to make it a positive visitor experience, and at least that level of investment should be applied to the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio because, in many ways, it’s more mysterious.  It may not be as technical in its construction, but the mathematical logic that went into the Great Serpent Mound, just an hour or so east of Cincinnati, is equally impressive.  Given what we do know about it, I would say that Serpent Mound is one of the most mysterious sites in the world, and Ohio should be showing it off a lot more than they do.   I recently made it part of a grand paranormal tour that I took with my family, and we made a point to stop by and see it.  It was good to see again, I’ve seen it a lot over the years.  But each time it has fallen into disrepair more and more, instead of anybody giving it a fresh coat of paint and advancing it.  The Great Serpent Mound has recently received much attention because of Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse show on Netflix, which deserves a lot of respect.  Graham also discusses the site in the opening chapters of his popular and well-researched book, Before America.  I read it and think that Graham is onto something about ancient cultures in North America, way before dates proposed by modern archaeology.  And sadly, they have dug in on their previous assumptions because they don’t want to admit that what they put forth regarding the history of Serpent Mound was lazy and needed significant updates. 

There is a lot of mystery going on these days with archeoastronomy that dates Serpent Mound to the Draco constellation between 3000 and 5000 BC, similar to what we see with the Great Boar at Fortified Hill just outside of Hamilton, Ohio.  Or Fort Hill, just to the north of Serpent Mound.  As well as the many other ancient sites built all over Ohio.  None have survived as well as Serpent Mound, but they are much more complicated than we have assumed of Native American cultures.  We are looking at the remains of a very ancient and sophisticated culture and it is more likely that the Adena and Hopewell Indians lived in these locations more as squatters than as architects, following a well-known Vico Cycle that is inconvenient to historic knowledge that has already broadcast to the world a lazy explanation that is now very much refuted. Ross Hamilton has done a lot of good work at Serpent Mound that offers much older dates and sophistication for the building and use of the mound complex, and the archaeology community has only dug in deeper, almost wishing the site would just go away so they could stop answering questions.  There is now a policy that drones can’t be flown over the site because the caretakers of Serpent Mound don’t want their complex to be shown all over the world, as it has been, so they are frustrating efforts to do research in the area rather than embracing a continued understanding.  I understand why, but it’s not a good reason.   

My interest in these kinds of things is the next level of political discussion for me, which is the root cause behind many of the troubles in our world.  I am personally tired of the lazy approach to everything that has permeated all our institutions, this little shell game where it is said, “there is no evidence to support wild accusations,” but at the same time being too lazy to look for the evidence because you are afraid of what you’ll find.  To call such an approach a massive conspiracy is an understatement.  I do not hate archaeologists by any stretch of the imagination.  It takes a lot of hard work to dig in the dirt, discover things long buried, and figure out what they mean.  Serpent Mound is well known to have had reports of giant skeletons of people seven to eight feet tall coming out of the mounds at that site, and like the other sites I have pointed out, the reaction to this news has been to dig less. They excavated at the site when I was a kid to understand it better.   But over the years, like the Miamisburg Mound they have stopped looking for evidence so that they could then say that any proposal of giants in those burial mounds is not proof because they don’t want to find it and what they have discovered is shoved into the corners of museums and private collections, not released to the public for all kinds of political reasons.  If these are wild theories, well then, let’s prove it.  Let’s dig and learn the truth.  However, keeping away from the questions is not a good strategy.

I remember in 2003 when a crop circle of great sophistication was made into a soybean field across the street from the Serpent Mound complex.  It was far too complicated to be a hoax by some deranged teenage kids, and it was very similar to the kind of designs that are common outside of Stonehenge in England, which has many of the same types of sites there as well.  We are looking at a global culture of Mound Builders who were not just surviving hunters and gatherers.  I think that the growing understanding points to the remnants of the Atlantean culture that had migrants fleeing the well-known island that was overcome by water somewhere off the coast of Britain and north of the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.  Former island dwellers dedicated to the God Poseidon, who ruled Atlantis, took with them their knowledge of astronomy and duplicated it all over the earth, as well as many of the ancient sites we talk about today.  A lot was going on from the time of Göbekli Tepe to the proposed construction dates of the Great Serpent Mound, or the Great Pyramids and archaeologists, being a young science, got it wrong from the start and its time to revise our previous assumptions with the many new facts that have been discovered over recent years.  And why Poseidon?  Well, he had an attraction to Medusa and her hair of snakes, which makes a lot more sense for the snake worship of the constellation Draco than the explanations we have received so far.  And while that may sound wild and unbelievable, it makes more sense than saying that a bunch of hunters and gatherers had all this advanced mathematics and built all these mounds, but they struggled to catch a rabbit for food.  We need a lot more research and understanding, and all that starts with the preservation of that historic site with fresh funding, and I would even propose a tourist model to pay for it, similar to what they do at Stonehenge under the care of English Heritage.  We should be making Serpent Mound a big part of our state identity, because people worldwide fly to Ohio to visit Serpent Mound.  We need to treat it with that level of care because it is incredibly unique and requires much more research and debate.

I’m prepared to stake my claim with what I think is significant evidence, that a culture, like Atlantis, and even cultures older than that but have been lost because there wasn’t a Plato to record it in a way that survived, populated the entire world and that they were very tall people obsessed with worship of planets and their power, which still exists to this day in cults of magic and occult astrology attached to many secret societies who wish to rule mankind from the shadows gaining control of our political, educational, and financial institutions so they could set policies that would maintain their concealment.  And from 9000 BC to around 3000 AD, they ruled the world until a rebellion of ideas came along and toppled their empire, for which Yahweh played his part.  I propose that Serpent Mound is the remains of this very ancient cult that was preserved and restored by many generations of inhabitants, of which the Adena and Hopewell Indians did just as Egyptian society did and that was to build their empires around the structures that were already there for many thousands of years.  Not much remains of this ancient culture because time tends to wipe them all out if something is over 3000 years old.  But Göbekli Tepi and other sites around the world dating back to 10,000 years ago show that there were already very advanced cultures on Earth with a high understanding of mathematics.  And Ohio has a big piece of that puzzle, which should be preserved.  As I explained to my kids on this trip, there should be nice, paved trails, a nice restaurant, and an admission price to raise money for the preservation at the Serpent Mound complex.  But this whole native American sacred site stuff needs to go.  Science needs more evidence and a bigger picture to consider in the schemes of the universe as captured in sites like the Great Serpent Mound.  And I dare everyone who snickers at this claim to prove me wrong.  Because I don’t think they can.

Rich Hoffman

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I Missed the Lincoln Day Dinner for a Ghost Hunt: Strange creatures from beyond time and space

I didn’t make the Lincoln Day Dinner for the Butler County GOP this year because my family and I have been traveling all over the place, particularly in Eastern Ohio and West Virginia going to paranormal sites in a research project for my new book, The Politics of Heaven, and it’s all coming along very well.  I wanted to go to the dinner and do appreciate the offers to attend with people I know.  But almost to the moment, I was on a ghost hunt with my kids and grandkids that turned out to be pretty interesting, so I’m sharing it here for more than a bit of fun.  Both of my daughters are tuned in to ghostly encounters, and one is so interested in it that she makes a living painting about it, for which she travels all over the country, appearing at conventions, selling her art.  And my wife has had contact with all kinds of paranormal activity all her life; they chase her around like hungry cats looking to be fed after a hard night outside in the rain.  She’s kind, and disembodied spirits in whatever form they exist look for her, and she never fails to attract their attention.  So for my birthday this year, as research for the new book, I thought it might be fun to go to one of the most haunted places on planet Earth, the Moonville Tunnel in Vinton County, and do a ghost hunt.  The kids would get a kick out of it, and I was curious about several things that worked exactly as I thought they would.  So we went there during the day to warm the kids up to it.  Then we went back at night.  And while we were filming, we didn’t get much.  But after I turned off all the equipment, a green orb appeared, which was more than a little strange.  Made even more that way by the very remote location that Moonville is.

The Moonville Tunnel, one of the most haunted places on Earth

I tend to approach these subjects from the point of view of disproving paranormal activity.  We had gone to several locations during the past week, but I knew that the Moonville Tunnel was a prime location since something always happened every time we went over the years.  And that was the case when we walked back to the car after a reasonably detailed investigation.  When we turned off our ghost hunting equipment, my wife felt something next to her and told my grandson about it.  He took several flash photos with an iPhone, and sure enough, he was pretty freaked out by the green orb that appeared and was headed away from us back down a hill to Raccoon Creek.  I saw the image from the screen as I looked at those spots in real time, and there was nothing we could see there physically.  And I was ensuring there was no lens flair with our flashlights causing problems on the camera lens, or that light was bouncing off some bug.  It was as black as black night with no other light sources but our flashlights for many miles.  There were no homes nearby and indeed no porch lights.  The Moonville Tunnel is as far from other people as possible in Zeleski National Forest.  These kinds of woods are so remote that they have frequent bigfoot sightings, and other things, just because of the area’s nature.  The spirit world always spooked the Indians from the region.  The place feels haunted because of its lack of other human beings.  It stays that way because there is a single-lane gravel road that provides the only access to the area for miles and miles that runs deep into the hills. 

Green orbs are supposed to indicate a healing nature of the ghostly encounter, so who knows what kind of lifeform it was trying to emerge and interact with us?  I have seen this kind of thing before, so I wasn’t surprised as much as I was a little shocked at the repeatability of it.  Almost the same thing has happened to us several times over the years we have been to Moonville.  We do a ghost hunt, thinking that nothing happened.  We might have felt uncomfortable feeling that other people were around us, but we could see nothing we could physically see.  Sometimes, shadow people appear in the corners of our eyes, but disappear when we focus hard on them.  But later, especially when using cameras with a flash, because digital cameras mess up the color palette of the visual spectrum, things appear just outside the visual range of human eyes, and the cameras pick it up.  Because of this, I avoid flying bugs and light tricks while we are filming.  Or even moisture from breathing, so they don’t taint our experiments.  I would have been happy to do that ghost hunt with my kids and grandkids for my birthday and family time.  But what showed up in our photos was pretty good, especially since I was trying not to have anything like that happen.  But sure enough, my wife could feel something next to her.  We took a picture.  And something was there and leaving, which, given that area, was more than a little spooky and made for a long walk back to the car, knowing that these things were all around us but we couldn’t see them with our physical eyes.

Needless to say, I did get good material for my book.  I explained to everyone that the spirit, whatever it was, should be looked at as a stray cat that once you pet it, it won’t go away.  If you think about the nature of spirits living in such a place, lost in time and space, having us there was an extraordinary occurrence.  We were talking to it and giving it attention, which was probably the highlight of its existence, and you can start to feel sorry for these things when viewed that way.  I don’t think ghosts like that can do any harm; likely, they are stuck and probably aren’t very smart.  What makes them interesting is that they exist, but not in a way we understand, and the need to communicate with elements outside our perceived reality cuts through the limitations.  And I was happy that something like that happened while introducing my grandchildren to ghosts and the spirit world.  They see and hear so much on television and the internet, it was good for them to have their own experience and to approach the subject logically.  It was a long way to go to come back with nothing, and like I said, I gave up a chance to go to the Lincoln Day Dinner for the Republican Party of Butler County because of it.  And I was glad that something happened that deserved a lot of talk after.  I thought overcoming the fear of such a scary place would be good for my family, and I would have been happy if nothing happened.  But it did, leaving me scratching my head even more, but in a good way.  The spirit world is real; some creatures live in it, want to interact with us, and do much more than we’d like to admit.  But that doesn’t mean they have more power because they exist in a way that hides them from our knowing eyes.  They only have the power of concealment.  They don’t have the power of superior intelligence. 

Rich Hoffman

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Women Are Flying the Planes: What we have learned about the pilot who crashed the plane in Toronto

It’s not that women can’t fly airplanes.  I’m sure many can fly better than men.  But like the joke that women can’t drive cars, the assumption comes from somewhere, and it’s for a reason.  Men and women are different and have different priorities in how they live life.  Remember the experiment when NASCAR tried to make a driver out of Danica Patrick to satisfy some woke perception about the world?  She was a good driver, but there is a reason that more women aren’t in NASCAR.  There is a reason that girls play with Barbie dolls and boys play with cars and army men.  They are wired differently, and Danica never cracked into the championship column for sustained periods.  These days, she is an excellent conservative podcaster.  But even though NASCAR tried to make her into a star by following some ridiculous woke agenda, it was never successful. And she didn’t create a glass ceiling in NASCAR where suddenly there were a bunch of women driving in the sport.  We don’t have women quarterbacks for similar reasons.  The NFL has tried to find a role for women in the rough and tumble-NFL for all the wrong reasons.  But it has never worked out, and fans of football would never put up with it, including many women.  The attempts on most employment frontiers to defy biology and insist that there was no difference between men and women regarding social roles have been a disaster, and people aren’t happy with it.  So why would Delta make a decision to staff one of their airline divisions with mostly, if not all, women?  What evidence do they have that such a thing would work under any conditions? 

We should always seek to hire the best people for our positions, especially positions as important as flying airplanes.  We want pilots flying planes who have wanted to be pilots since they were fetuses, not going from an Easy Bake Oven and buying dresses for prom to flying people around in airplanes if you can provide a choice for yourself. Now we know from people close to the situation that the Delta pilot who crashed the plane in Toronto was Kendal Swanson, a 26-year-old without much experience.  Delta has been reluctant to release the names of the crew in that plane that day when a hard landing in Toronto busted the landing gear, shearing off a wing and sending the airplane over on its back in a flaming mess.  Luckily, nobody on the flight was killed.  They had a rough ride, but they made it to Toronto anyway, which says a lot about the planes’ safety.  The flight, operated by Endeavor Air (a Delta subsidiary), flipped upside down during a landing attempt at Toronto Pearson International Airport amid snowy conditions and strong winds. All 80 people on board survived, with 21 injured. Social media and some news outlets have linked the 26-year-old pilot named Kendal Swanson to the incident, alleging she was the first officer (co-pilot) to fly the plane. She reportedly joined Endeavor Air in January 2024, completed training in April, and received her Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certification on January 9, 2025. Claims suggest she had around 1,500 flight hours—meeting the federal minimum for an ATP—but her relative inexperience has sparked debate, with some speculating she struggled with the challenging landing conditions.  Delta and Endeavor have not officially confirmed her identity or role. Delta has stated that the pilots were experienced, with the captain hired in 2007 and the first officer exceeding federal flight experience requirements. The captain, said to be named James Henneman, was reportedly handling communications while the first officer flew the aircraft, though this remains unverified by the airline. Delta has also pushed back against what it calls “false and misleading” social media claims, insisting both pilots were fully qualified and that no training failures occurred.

So here we have a case where Delta, as an airline, got caught trying to put a square peg in a round hole and create job fulfillment for people who should not be flying people around due to her lack of experience.  The passengers were made to do a social experiment to fulfill some DEI worldview, which made that flight much more dangerous than it needed to be.  They dug in and denied the reports when they were caught, hoping they could contain the story.  But the flying public needs to know how many pilots are out there who are just like this young girl, Kendal Swanson.  It’s not just because Kendal is a woman. This has been a problem worldwide, and airlines are trying to make pilots out of people who have not spent all their lives as pilots.  In the United States, we have had a good military program where post-retirement pilots could make a pretty good living flying for airlines after they spent decades flying planes in the military.  And countries that don’t have the kind of military that we do struggle to find pilots for their airlines because they don’t have cultures that produce many pilots.  They go from Uber drivers to airline pilots because manufacturers try to make the planes as easy to fly as possible.  So, it’s hard enough to satisfy the market need under optimal conditions.  Putting 26-year-old girls in the cockpit to tell the world that the employer hired females becomes a big problem.  And that Endeavor Airlines themselves were seeking to hire women over men because they wanted it to be known that they were putting women in planes purely over gender politics. 

I always tell people that airplane pilots are the best examples of stress management.  When flying in a plane and bouncing around in turbulence, you don’t want a panicky pilot who shows panic on the intercom.  You want an incredible, calm voice even when the world is burning around you.  And that level of stress management comes from experience.  Inexperienced people panic, and as passengers on airplanes, we never want to hear panic in the voice of the person flying us around.  We like when we leave the plane to see an older man sitting in the seat that looks like he has landed on aircraft carriers in bumpy seas thousands of times.  Not a kid that looks like they are in a hurry to cash in a Target gift card.  And crashes like this, even though Delta has tried to cover it up, come when we lower the standards of employment to satisfy some ridiculous DEI political movement.  The result is many of the crashes of airplanes that we have been seeing, and they are happening now because, under Joe Biden, DEI was a priority.  They were undoubtedly mistakes, but now that there is pressure from an economy wanting to thrive under Trump, people are flying and doing things again.  The airlines weren’t prepared for it, and they are putting people like Kendal Swanson in the cockpits of their planes when, in truth, she probably needs another ten years of hard flying to qualify to fly other passengers.  And that hiring policy is blowing up in their face, and they tried to hide it. 

Rich Hoffman

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Steve Bannon Pleads Guilty to Fraud: Why people like outlaws, but not criminals

It can get pretty murky whenever money is involved as to the final outcome, which to me was the case with Steve Bannon, the popular WarRoom podcaster and former strategic advisor to President Trump.  He recently pleaded guilty to defrauding investors on a private effort to fund the southern border wall in the U.S.  The hitching point for prosecutors was that the investors believed that 100% of the money was to go to construct the wall, so if some of that money goes to buying a pack of gum for instance, or some administrative cost such as buying paper for a copier, then that could and would be considered fraudulent behavior and a political enemy could then use that technicality to call the behavior fraudulent.  It can get pretty wild and scary with all the emails that start dealing with money.  I have a standard policy of keeping any money out of it when I do something with others to avoid the pitfalls Bannon found himself in.  When you find yourself a prominent national figure, some people will always seek to sink you on any technicality.  So, of course, the radical leftists think this admission of guilt from Bannon is going to hurt him in the eyes of his very vast podcasting public, and I hate to break it to everyone, but America likes bandits and outlaws, so long as they are not bad guys themselves and are seen as fighting against a corrupt system.  In that case, people will find the criminal behavior to be good and will punish the bad guys who attempt to get control of the law so they can define good and bad behavior.  People still have a sense of justice that extends beyond what some central authority tries to impose, which is exactly how President Trump ended up back in the White House and where the mug shot he received from the Fulton County Jail over the case there regarding overturning the election of 2020 is now seen hanging outside the Oval Office in the White House.  People are pretty smart and not just compliant followers, and they could smell a rat in that case; the more Trump’s political enemies dug in, the more they supported Trump and, of course, people like Steve Bannon.

A good soundboard on this strange mystery can be seen in my favorite steak house in Cincinnati.  I think it’s the best steak house in the Midwest, and it is certainly on par with any restaurant, wherever they are, in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, London, or anywhere else.  It’s called Son of a Butcher in Liberty Township, Ohio.  Growing up in Liberty Township, I never imagined in my wildest fantasy that something like Son of a Butcher would be located where it would be and that some of what went on in that location would be some of the most essential things in the business and political world.  But we’re talking about bad guys here and can’t stray too far off the mark.  If you have ever been to Son of a Butcher, it is known for its very wild interior decorating with lots of art painted all over the walls and crazy chandeliers hanging from the ceiling everywhere.  Every room in the restaurant has a kind of artistic expression reflecting contemporary pop culture.  For instance, in one room looming over what they call the Godfather table, indicated so from the popular movie series, is a painting of the Joker from the Batman movies.  Another room is filled with paintings of books from popular literature.  It’s a wild place artistically and looks more like a kind of dive bar in New York than something you’d find anywhere in Cincinnati, let alone Liberty Township, Ohio. 

Of course, the food is even better than the decorations, as they know how to pack a punch for food preparation.  They have some very expensive steaks at the S.O.B., as it’s known, and a couple of people eating there could very easily spend 1K per couple.  Some of the food items are moderately priced, but they are on the high end of the menu offerings and is often one of the most interesting places I find myself in routinely. It’s the perfect place to meet people for complicated conversations, to say things appropriately.  When I am there, I am usually put into a back room, which is my favorite place, that seats about 8 to 10 people, has crystal skulls all over the place and is pretty wild in a place of wild rooms.  They call this place the Criminal Room, and it has pictures of famous outlaws popularly known.  Painted on those walls is a large mural of Bonnie and Clyde.  Around the circumference of the room are two large paintings of very well-known pop culture icons, Marylin Monroe and the other Snoop Dogg.  Marylin Monroe was arrested several times for driving without a license and driving too slow in one instance.  Another time, it was for a peaceful protest.  The room paints her with a mug shot, illustrating that just about anybody can be seen as an outlaw if people dig far enough. Then there is Snoop Dogg, who lately has been trying to change his image into something more kid-friendly and popular rather than the thug gangster rapper who advocated for lots of recreational pot use.  Snoop Dogg was arrested for his role in a murder investigation, the details of which have just been sealed from public record in 2024, about the time that the popular rap star and Corona beer commercial spokesman started to change his image to a broader audience.  The murder was a 1993 case that didn’t quite get to prosecute him for extended jail time, but the charges were severe.

The point of the matter is that even with the murder charge hanging over Snoop Dogg’s head, the public didn’t care.  They bought his records anyway, turning him into one of the world’s superstars in music.  And I probably wouldn’t know much of that story if he wasn’t painted on the Son of the Butcher walls that I see at least once a month.  That is certainly the case with Steve Bannon and even President Trump.  Republicans have been harming themselves with their brand by trying to push out the bad boys that all the women like and put in place all the embarrassing stiff pencil necks that they think adhere to the law, but when they get pushed around by the political left, they end up being seen as George McFly from the Back to the Future movies.  Steve Bannon sees himself more like John Paul Jones, the popular pirate from the Revolution, so he understood all this well before others did in the GOP.  But the lesson is, if you want to win people over to your point of view, a background as an outlaw only helps you.  Being a criminal, however, hurts you, so there is a very fine line to walk. The difference is public judgment; if the public sees lawfare occurring, they will support the victim if they stick up for themselves, which is why having those celebrities in that room at the S.O.B. is so artistically revealing. We love people who challenge the law that corrupt people use to hold back our society.  But people do not love criminals who unfairly seek to exploit people in a weakened position.  And the more that the bad guys have tried to prosecute Steve Bannon, who just stepped out of a jail term right before the election of 2024.  The more popular and influential they have made him.

Rich Hoffman

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Vivek Ramaswamy is Coming to West Chester to Announce He’s Running for Governor: ‘Truths’ are that Ohio can have the greatest economy

You might have heard that Vivek Ramaswamy will announce his run for governor in Cincinnati on February 24th, which I think is fantastic.  There is a long story to that, but needless to say, I’m happy to see that Vivek intends to bring to Ohio an economy that would rival the country of Taiwan.  When I first learned that Vivek was planning to run for governor with President Trump’s complete blessing, I was just a little excited by the prospect that the author of Woke Inc and three other similar books that have come out over the last few years was going to be the governor of a state I care about quite a lot.  I have never liked that Ohio was called a Rust Belt state, as if it were some washed-up carcass of years gone by.  I know Vivek a bit, as I’ve met him several times.  And I know many people who work closely with him, as very good friends.  From the first time I met him at the Middletown Republican Party headquarters at a small event where we could all talk to each other, I knew there was a lot very special about Vivek Ramaswamy.   I know what he wants to do and am very excited to see it.  Remember in December of 2024 when I told everyone about the Hyperloop in Monroe, Ohio, and longevity clinics to challenge traditional healthcare strategies? I said all those things knowing that Vivek intended to run for governor as a direct extension of the Trump administration.  That he was turning away from working with Elon Musk and D.O.G.E. to do this vital thing.  And now it’s going to be announced officially that he’s coming to his hometown to do something that I can only say could be spectacular for the State of Ohio. 

Knowing I would be a part of this announcement, I figured I’d catch up on his books, especially the last one, Truths.  I love Vivek’s books, but I didn’t read this last one as I usually would on the first day of publication or upon receiving an advanced copy because it came out in September of 2024, just a few weeks away from the biggest election of our lives.  It did a good job setting up what Trump’s next term should look like.  But I didn’t want to put the cart before the horse.  I had already read Peter Navarro’s book, which I thought would be similar to Vivek’s book at that point in the campaign, I was not nervous, but I was only thinking about getting Trump into the White House.  Then I’d catch up and think about how great it would be to do the many things Vivek outlined in his new book.  So, knowing that I would see him at his announcement, I wanted to tell him at least honestly what I thought of his book, so I picked it up and read it, and I absolutely loved it.  It was more refreshing to read a book like that, which essentially is about everything that Trump is doing in the White House at a feverish pace, in hindsight.  But I can’t say that I have enjoyed a book this much in recent memory because reading it before the election would have seemed like a remote fantasy.  But reading it after the election and seeing Trump do everything he’s doing, Vivek would know as he has been in and around the President for quite a while now, has been astonishing.  It was a pleasure to read Vivek’s Truths, knowing that we have a chance to make everything happen and then some.  Most of the time, books about politics complain about what is being portrayed to describe what could be.  But Vivek’s Truths is about what things are, Truths that are unshakable realities, and articulates the necessity to return to a more common sense world. 

Oddly enough, or maybe not so odd, I first met Vivek Ramaswamy through an introduction by Nancy Nix, the great auditor of Butler County.  And I wasn’t sure what to think of the very vivacious young man.  I sat in the front of the room just three or four feet from the future presidential candidate and now future governor and listened to his marvelous speech.  I think he’s probably the best orator in the world right now; there isn’t anybody like him.  He has a sound mind, and I instantly liked him.  I suggested a few years later that I’d like to see him be Trump’s vice president once Vivek endorsed Trump.  I thought that would be a dream team.  But Vivek is running for governor; after reading all his books, I think having him be the guy in Ohio is the best thing that could happen.  I believe that under Vivek’s leadership as governor, Ohio could become one of the world’s top economies, knocking off California.  What he’s poised to do is remarkably optimistic but not unreasonably difficult, for him.  So I get where he’s going with all this and why he’s coming to West Chester, Ohio, to make his big announcement.  Ohio can be the tech capital of the world, and with Vivek Ramaswamy as the governor and another good friend of mine, Senator George Lang, with his pro-business caucus in Columbus, the foundations for excessive greatness is a seed already planted that will grow rapidly. 

Most of all, it is by the support of President Trump that this window of opportunity most presents itself.  If Trump’s goal is to make America Great Again, Vivek’s role in all that is worthy of someone of his talents is to show that Ohio is the torch everyone else should follow.  I have been to Columbus a lot over the last several years, and at some of those momentous events, there is a pent-up energy just waiting to spring forward.  We said in those times that if only Trump were in the White House, many good things could happen.  But then there was the following question: we’d need a governor who got it and would sign things that could make great things happen that all people in Ohio would enjoy and thrive from.  And with Vivek in the governor’s chair, there isn’t anybody else in the world at this time like him.  I am very excited for Ohio to have this opportunity.  Once Vivek announces there won’t be any other candidates worth looking at, that’s not a knock against any of them personally.  This is a chance of a lifetime, and there isn’t anybody for second place.  I’m looking forward to seeing Vivek again and to hearing his official announcement.  But more than that, I am excited to see Ohio lead the country and the world in tech innovations and economic stimulation.  There is so much that only Vivek will be able to do in Ohio, and the structure is in place for him to do it behind the scenes and on the checkered floor of the Ohio Statehouse.  It just takes someone with the guts to do it, and Vivek has those guts.  And, as he said in his book Truths, he knows the truths and how to get to them in a thriving economy as a state leader and many great things to come thereafter.  These are very exciting times indeed.

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Rich Hoffman

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I’m Very Proud of J.D. Vance: Why he’s the best pick for 2028

It’s fair to say that I am very proud of J.D. Vance.  Now that he’s the Vice President in the White House, I can’t help but think of the various interactions I’ve had with him leading up to this opportunity, and I can’t help but think of it all in some divinely inspired way. It’s one of those things that you knew in the back of your mind, but conscious reality had no clue, and when those things come together, it’s just nice to look at, such as the Grand Canyon, Mt Rushmore, or the Washington Monument.  I like thinking about Washington, D.C. more these days since Trump is back in the White House. I think my wife and I are actually going to visit it soon and enjoy it with a fresh perspective.  But what’s different this time, and when I first met him, J.D. Vance already had celebrity status because of his book and Netflix movie, The Hillbilly Elegy, but to watch J.D. move up through obscurity and into the White House the way I remember it was quite a story and I have been reflecting a lot, almost as though I witnessed the hand of God move him as a chess piece through a wild and dark time.  And it took a lot of good people to make that chess move happen, and it’s a miracle.  But also an important lesson.  As I said well before Trump was re-elected, and back in July, a few days after being shot in the head from an assassination attempt, I said that people were going to be so happy with Trump that when his term was up in four years that nobody would want him to leave.  But J.D. Vance was a promising young man who would best be able to pick up the administration and continue it for another 8 years.  There will be many good people in the Republican Party who will run and offer themselves for the job.  But as J.D. Vance said to Maria Bartiromo on the first Sunday of February 2025, nobody has a front-row seat on how to be Trump in the White House other than this current Vice President.  He’ll be the best and most apparent pick to carry on what Trump started, and I’m just proud of him.

I first met J.D. Vance in the back of Nancy Nix’s yard, by her pool.  During the primaries, I was most supportive of that new senate seat for Josh Mandel because I knew he was a Tea Party kind of guy, and I was tired of RINOs in the Republican Party and didn’t want to support one more.  J.D. Vance back then had said bad things about Trump, and I wasn’t about to forget about them.  But Nancy was lobbying me to support the young man because, in a tight primary, I could have some critical things to say that might get people to vote one way or another.  So she called me and told me she would have J.D. Vance over at her house, and I should meet him.  I wasn’t excited because my wife and I were swamped then.  However, I always give Nancy time when she brings something up because she has excellent political instincts, so I went to her house to hear out J.D. Vance.  By her pool, I had a chance to talk to the future Vice President and communicated my reluctance to him and why.  I asked him why he thought he could be a good senator and withstand the temptations of all the corruption that goes on in Washington, D.C., for which he explained to me that he just wasn’t that kind of guy and that he would fight hard to represent us all well in that high office.  My first thought was that everyone says that.  But with J.D. Vance, it took on a bit more meaning, and I believed him and decided to support him.  It’s more for Nancy Nix than anything else.  But that would soon change into a life of its own.

Once J.D. Vance won, I saw him many times and always treated those times without much shock.  He was just another politician doing the work we needed him to do in Ohio, and I was happy with him.  But he was very accessible.  I was involved in a side event that involved many people for J.D. Vance to tour as part of his role as senator to bring attention to some crucial topics.  While I was talking to these people, we were talking about shared interests in the upcoming Lincoln Day Dinner, where Ron DeSantis would be the featured speaker.  I thought it might be a good idea to talk to J.D. Vance personally about other off-site things, but his people told me that Vance wouldn’t be going to the popular Butler County dinner because he didn’t want Trump to think he was endorsing the Florida Governor for President.  At that time, many people were pushing DeSantis to replace Trump in the 2024 election.  I admired that J.D. Vance was that much loyal to Trump when just about nobody else was.  And, of course, it would pay off later, down the stretch.  When it mattered most, Trump picked J.D. Vance as his VP because, under tremendous pressure, the future VP showed what he was made of when just about everyone, except for Nancy Nix, thought otherwise.

I’ve seen J.D. Vance quite a lot with Don Jr. and Bernie Moreno and had a nice front-row seat to see his political capital rise.  Looking back at all the hard work and the people who helped him along the way, with the best of intentions, he seemed pretty crazy at times to be so loyal to Trump and not appear at a very popular Butler County event to make sure his support was evident.  Nobody, except for me, thought Trump had a chance of returning to office.  But now that he has, I am pretty sure nobody will ever want to go back to the stuffy politics of a Republican in the White House again in the ways they were before Trump came along.  They will wish for Trump II, and right now, J.D. Vance is being personally trained to do that job.  And he has been doing it all the right way.  He’s from my area, there was always something special about him, even when everyone talked in their shorts under the hot summer sun in the back of Nancy Nix’s house by her pool.  And when I watch Vance on TV now and think of all the steps it took to get there because I was able to see many of them up close, it does display the hand of God reaching in and molding politics to build on earth the intentions of Heaven and to grant upon America the best that God can give to people he has picked to represent him.  So, it’s not too early to discuss J.D. Vance for 2028.  As we do, I have to say that I am proud of J.D. Vance for having the courage to accept God’s hand and not waiver when it would have been easy to do so.  He never did; he is as true to our cause as anyone on Earth.  I am proud to see him as a direct member of the Trump White House.  And the future looks very bright, and for all those reasons that he arrived there and more.

Rich Hoffman

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I Tried to Tell Everyone: The Democrats are destroyed, and they are never coming back

So how did we get here, with Trump in the White House, to answer the question that Democrats have been asking of themselves lately?  Some are just going crazy because they don’t understand what happened.  But I warned everyone back in the 90s that if they went down this path with leadership, then they would choke on it.  Bill Clinton got caught up in all kinds of things, and this is after we had 8 years of Ronald Reagan, so people had pretty high expectations of what a president should be.  Bill Clinton was a disaster.  His womanizing and references to drugs were embarrassing, and when we showed outrage about the behavior, people like James Carville would come out and say, “It’s the economy stupid,” meaning things were working under Clinton, so don’t worry about the other stuff.  Saul Alinsky purposefully exploited this good nature with Republicans openly in his book Rules for Radicals, where they do something wrong and then blame the people they are working against for actually doing it.  And they got away with it perpetually because Republicans were too friendly to call them out on what they were doing wrong, giving them unearned merit in political existence.  Obama was even worse; once the “Democrats” realized what they could get away with, they overloaded the insults on Republicans and their expectations of morality in political leaders with defacing results, with Obama rumors of being gay, doing drugs, and not being even born in the United States, with him being given unwarranted respect just because of his skin color, with his communist background with a wide range of father figures who were troubled people.   He launched his political career in the living room of Bill Ayers, the convicted domestic terrorist from the Weather Underground.  They insulted us with open support for the Castro communists just off the coast of Cuba, and whenever we pointed things out, we were told to sit down, shut up, and be happy with the job they were doing.  Don’t judge.  (We need to turn Cuba into another American state)

Well, people steamed on this kind of thing for several decades, and I have been waiting for Republicans to crack the code and figure out the game.  Cracking that morality code is why I write these articles every day: to help people, conservatives or people thinking about becoming conservatives, with the confidence they need to fight true evil, and these people are exactly that.  They took over our public offices and desecrated them, then told us not to have an opinion about it.  So, I have been hoping for someone like Trump to come along for a long time.  As a reminder, four years after Reagan, I campaigned hard for Ross Perot.  I told the story this past week of when Perot’s daughters gave me a very nice tie from that campaign in Dallas, Texas, the night before the election in 1992.  I liked Perot over Bush because he knew how to defend America with warranted merit, whereas Bush did not.  And Clinton was just a sleazy con artist.  Many people blamed me for Ross Perot pulling votes away from Bush over the years in political circles.  But Bush was only accelerating the problem of the kind of evil coming out of the Democrat Party, and we were going to go down the tube one way or another.  I wasn’t about to put my name next to failure to keep a party together, hoping that Bush would give us a few pieces of lent from Reagan and that we should be happy about it.  I have been on a moral crusade in politics since then.  Naturally, I was among the first to sign up when the Tea Party movement came around. 

I was doing work in Hollywood when Barack Obama came along after 8 years of whitewashing George Bush’s very unsatisfying behavior.  I hated Obama tremendously, and I saw the way he was seducing all the Hollywood types out in California in 2008.  I could have kept quiet and made a lot of money, like everyone else.  But I stepped away to contribute myself to the rebellion against the demons of the world, and I’m glad I did.  And a few years into that movement, we started taking out all the RINOs in politics who had been helping this vile evil along.  And when Trump began to get serious about running for president, which I knew about because of the Ross Perot Reform Party that formed in the wake of his efforts, Trump was getting serious at the end of the 1990s.  I saw him at a few events and thought he would be great.  The only drawback, I thought, was his womanizing.  He had been married too much and was associated with gambling casinos.  But after a few years of Obama, I started to think that Trump would be the perfect undoing of the massive destruction that the Democrats had done to the world.  By the time 2015 came around, I had been supportive of Trump before he went down the escalator.  I was a fan of the Bill O’Reilly interview where he proposed a “why not” scenario for Trump.  And the rest has been history.  Trump has been for Republicans the exorcism against demons that has been desperately needed for several decades now. 

The Democrat game of “ignoring what we do, but we’ll use everything against you” method, which was exposed fully during that first Trump term, and people could see just how bad everything was, was falling apart.  Then the way that Bret Kavanaugh was put through the wringer and, most recently, Pete Hegseth over silly things like drinking or womanizing, after what the Democrats had given us—homosexuals having sodomized sex in our government buildings on camera for all to see, then being told not to judge, was too much for people to endure anymore.  Trump had morality problems, but after what we had become used to, people were willing to overlook those things and vote for someone who could do the job.  People no longer wanted a moral leader from an elected representative.  They gave up on that a long time ago, thanks to Democrat behavior.  So they moved toward merit; they just wanted someone who could do the job they needed best.   And in that world, Democrats aren’t very good at anything but complaining, so they can’t compete.  And Trump is running them all down, and people are happy about it.  But how did it happen?  Well, Democrats lowered the bar so much that they never seemed to consider that it would lower for Republicans, too.  I don’t think Trump is a low bar by any measure.  It allowed excellence as an executive to move into public office even if it took three marriages and kids by all different women to be overcome so he would get a chance among voters.  People thought, “Why not? After all, the Democrats gave us.”  And now they can’t compete with Trump.  They destroyed themselves with this Saul Alinsky game.  They put themselves out of business, and given that little history I presented, they will never return.  They will never gain any political footing ever again.  And while they were looking around, trying to figure out what happened, I tried to tell everyone, especially them.  But they didn’t listen, and here they are.

Rich Hoffman

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Trump is Back: When they can’t kill you, everyone wants to be your friend

It’s a statement I always make and live by: if people aren’t trying to kill you, you aren’t doing a good enough job.  The goal in life isn’t to make friends with everyone; they should want rather to kill you instead, and when they fail, as we are seeing with Trump, then they’ll want to be your friend.  And when everyone is wondering where the resistance is to Trump this time, in 2025 as opposed to 2017 at this same time of year, at the Inauguration for another four years as president, my old gunfighter analysis of the bar and the room certainly applies.  And I know that Trump doesn’t want to send the wrong signal and let the bad guys out there know he had to take measures to protect himself.  Even as risky as I am, I would never advise someone like Trump to give a speech from the steps of the Capitol, where for miles around there are thousands of places within a mile or so that could take a shot at him out in the open or for a drone to lock on his position and do its menace.  It’s always a good idea to move locations and schedule times when you have a lot of bad guys out there who want to kill you; it is just as good practice. 

Just because they want to do something doesn’t mean you let them do it.  After the last eight years, they have thrown everything they could at the President, and Trump is still doing what I have wanted to see for many years now: return to the White House.  His enemies were reduced to a whimper, certainly not a roar like last time.  This time was very different, and Trump played it all right.  When you conquer your enemies, keep them close and let them serve you, as was the obvious case with Jeff Bezos, Snoop Dogg, and Mark Zuckerberg, along with many others who made sure they were making friends with this new power, rather than fighting against it, as they had in the past. 

But even with all that said, moving the Inauguration into the Capitol Rotunda was brilliant because of the bitter cold.  As if Trump needed a reason to say it, the cold weather was setting up a no-win situation for the crowd that traveled all over the country to share in the Inauguration experience.  Having a million people in the mall would look great for the cameras, but there are always people who would freeze, even if the percentage was less than 1%.  Once everyone starts using porta potties outside in temperatures below zero, you will have big problems, and it was better to avoid all those for obvious reasons.  The crowd would either be huge, but you would lose some people in the cold, or it would be smaller than usual because of the cold, and Trump would be criticized for a smaller crowd.  When you take all that and consider that there are people from all over the world who do want to kill Trump so he doesn’t change things in a way they can’t deal with, it was best just to move everything inside.  All that matters is that Trump gets sworn in, and we start to fix the mess that a lot of flawed characters put forward to destroy our country.  Trump’s swearing-in makes everything official and corrects a course that should have never been disrupted in the first place. 

But let’s answer the question that everyone who was an enemy is now asking: where is the resistance to Trump?  Well, I said all this initially, the first time around in January of 2021, when Trump won clearly and decisively, and we witnessed a coup in America, but a lot of evil people who stole the election, sent Trump packing, then inserted Joe Biden into the office.  And they never let him make the decisions. Instead, the White House was run by a globalist committee, and a lot of bad stuff was started, like canceling the Keystone Pipeline, undoing all the patriotic events Trump had planned, disgracing our offices with transgender radicals, Marxist kingpins, and an energy policy that robbed money right out of our wallets. 

I understand Melania. And yes, she has great taste in fashion. She gets it.

It was a war against us all by a few very manipulative soothsayers who were committed to globalism and a China-first policy.  And it was raw and malicious.  They never dreamed there would be a day that Trump would return to the White House with the full support of a country that came together for the effort.  But here we are.  I said it all along and am very proud to see it all come together exactly as I said.  Yes, I was invited to several VIP events in Washington, D.C.  I did other events but decided not to go to Washington because I didn’t think I’d get close to Trump this time.  It’s much more complicated than it used to be.  And I’m not the second fiddle type.  So, knowing it was going to be so cold, I stayed regional so I could enjoy all the festivities from relative comfort because I had been waiting for this for a long time.  I never just liked to be a face in the crowd; that is essentially what traveling to Washington, D.C., would have been like. 

I have several friends who did go, and they had a good time.  But when it comes to something like this, which is truly historic, I like to see everything, and watching it on television was the best way to see the details.  And I couldn’t get enough of it.  I watched the coverage all weekend, especially on Monday, without taking my eyes away, except to shake hands with people I barely recognized because I enjoyed the Inauguration so much, every incredible detail.  After Biden was put in place in 2021 with COVID lockdowns imposed everywhere, I was so angry that I packed up my wife and my RV, and we headed out into the desert to write a book and get my mind right.  I stayed out there for weeks and returned with a fresh perspective on how to fight this battle.  And what happened at the inauguration was a dream come true.  And it was gratifying to see all of Trump’s enemies licking his shoes.  That’s what real power is, the kind of power that makes people want to kill you.  And when they fail, and only when they fail, do they want to be your friend.  But Trump isn’t a sucker.  He knows this game, and the bad guys won’t sucker him.  Instead, we will see what we deserve for sticking with Trump through tough times.  We earned the good things that are coming because we had the guts to vote for it.  But this time, we didn’t let them steal it from us as we had done in the previous election.  And the world should be concerned.  They know what they did, and now they are caught, and the shoe is on the other foot.  And justice is coming as it always should have.

Worth a celebration!

Rich Hoffman

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Judge Merchan Must Be Punished: We can’t have lawfare in our system of justice

When Judge Juan Merchan decided to sentence President Trump over the ridiculous business-related charges in New York, he was making some admissions that were uncomfortable for mass society to make.  That was only reiterated in the documents released in the final days of Jack Smith, the outgoing prosecutor for the DOJ who personally tried to lure Trump into a jury in a profoundly blue area and snag a conviction for a crime that they clearly understood could only be interpreted regionally, rather than culturally.  Marxism had become so prevalent in neighborhoods like D.C. and New York City that it was impossible to get an impartial jury of our peers in modern society, and at the heart of that was a prosecution scam that understood that they could use lawfare to destroy political rivals.  And they were willing to use it.  In both cases, the one with Jack Smith and Judge Merchan, the election of 2024 took away from them that power because people put President Trump back in office anyway.  And in so many ways, the human race grew up a bit and outpaced the regional confines of the small-minded and power-hungry.  And when Judge Merchan spoke to Trump, it was almost a plea to respect the system for which they had abused so much power so needlessly and to ask for mercy.  This resulted in a no sentencing outcome which was highly unusual.  A plea to respect the law and judgments of a jury of Trump’s peers when, in truth, the jury pool had been contaminated with Marxist movements and social tampering in a way that made Trump have nothing in common with his peers because it had become a system meant to fight against capitalism, and this was a business case against one of the world’s wealthiest people. Merchan and Jack Smith intended to pit against Trump the jealous, down-and-out, and scandal-driven to take revenge on all those who were doing better than the jury at life. They had made the legal system a retribution for the obvious laziness of that jury of peers. 

With some insider knowledge, I understand how these prosecutions can go bad.  I live in a very nice community with great police and prosecutors.  Even better, a jury of my peers in Butler County, Ohio, has more in common than in deep blue voting blocks like New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco.  When we set up our legal system, human beings were supposed to at least have enough in common to serve as a jury of their peers.  That common attribute might be a relationship with the Bible.  Or a love of a sporting event.  Family ties.  Something.  But what has often happened, and the various legal circles are very aware of this, is that people have less in common now than they ever have, and it has almost nothing to do with money.  There have been power groups who have exploited the weak and lazy toward gifts that only a government with the ability to confiscate wealth could distribute to them for unearned benefit.  And for those who might otherwise choose to be thieves in the world and rob the rich so that they don’t have to work themselves, a new kind of victimization politics has emerged.  Once the power structure had their advocates looking for easy money and to be the ground troops for their movement, they could taint these juries with left-leaning losers more concerned with taking the whole system down rather than seeking justice.  And that was what Judge Merchan and Jack Smith were caught doing, and it blew up in their faces.

In 2024, I was the foreman for a grand jury in my community, and it was a very eye-opening experience.  I got to know some of our local prosecutors very well and learned that they were not like Jack Smith or Judge Merchan as these Trump cases were in the news every day, and it wasn’t so clear what Trump’s future would be as a result.  When I served on the grand jury, the odds that Trump would win the election seemed very remote, almost like a fantasy that had no hope of ever coming true.  But I saw firsthand where opportunities to corrupt the jury and manipulate the court system could quickly have happened.  I was able to tour our local jail system and meet some inmates, and I thought about Trump a lot during all this time.  This system of justice, if it had people any less value-driven, could quickly put innocent people in jail and destroy their lives with lawfare.  Always in the background do we need to make sure we have a healthy society that can function from things they have in common, rather than specify the things they are different from each other and that power politics would use those differences to gain political power for themselves by using innocent people as the means and method.  We must always use common ground to base our society, which is a challenge at the heart of a thriving civilization.  That is not what Judge Merchan or Jack Smith was up to in prosecuting Trump, and they never thought that people would unite behind an effort to elect Trump back to the high office because they felt they had control of the system at the most fundamental level, and that they were the rulers of society.

Knowing all that, there is no choice but to turn the tables on Judge Juan Merchan and all the prosecution attempts against Trump from 2023 through 2024.  They tried to destroy our political order through lawfare, something they always knew was in their back pocket of power and gave them the smug impression that they were ultimately in charge.  And they knowingly abused their power.  I have always wondered about this, but until my personal experience on a grand jury, I wasn’t sure if the system could be so easily abused.  And the answer is that it can be.  And obviously, it is often.  What Judge Merchan did was what we can’t have legal people doing in a healthy society.  Merchan wasn’t standing for law and order.  He was using disorder to manipulate the law so that political power could use victimization politics to establish an order of overthrow against a system he didn’t like.  By exploiting the stupid, the broke, the lawless, putting them on a jury, and calling them peers of the healthy, wealthy, and wise, a knowing war of personalities was fused with purposeful intent to overthrow our entire system of government.  And we can’t forgive that.  Because they got caught, Trump’s DOJ will have no choice but to prosecute these prosecutors for their abuse of the law and the willing exploitation of people used like chess pieces to overthrow our entire established order and to call it justice mockingly.  We came very close to never having a fair election in America again, but only because we did was this escapade exploited for the crime that it was.  And we can’t forget what happened; we must send a strong message to the future that such behavior is inappropriate.  Judge Merchan and many others must be punished as much as possible so that others will never think of attempting such a thing again for fear of what might happen to them.

Rich Hoffman

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