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The Lincoln Day Dinner of 2022: Battles coming, going, and brewing

It’s always good to talk about nice things, and the Lincoln Day Dinner for 2022 for the Butler County Republican Party was undoubtedly something good to talk about. Like I say all the time, politics is a blood sport. People aren’t always supposed to get along. So it’s not the function of a prominent Republican gathering at the Savanah Center in West Chester to just have everyone get along, even though they did. The goal of politics is to get the best people into public offices that can be obtained. Often the best management of any resource involves pressure applied to individual vision to draw it out for the public’s benefit. In Butler County, with Todd Hall as the party’s Chairman, it has undoubtedly been a success story. Butler County is a large, wealthy county in Ohio; it has over 400,000 people and a major national university. And every officeholder position in the county is held by a Republican. That is something to say and provides a good indication of what the people of Butler County are really like. But it’s not easy to manage all the ‘A type” personalities who get into politics for their communities. The people who run for office don’t tend to be the shy types, so managing all those personalities, especially when they sometimes get cross with each other, is quite a challenge, and Todd Hall does the job well, which culminated in the evening at that dinner which was nothing short of magnificent. 

Mike Pompeo came in to speak at this Lincoln Day event, along with the nationally bestselling author Vivek Ramaswamy, who managed to find time between Fox News media appearances to give a rousing speech to a hungry room of freedom fighters. Warren Davidson, of course, was there and was instrumental in bringing Mike Pompeo in, fresh from the Trump administration, where we all had the feeling of reloading for the next round of political battles that were coming next. I had a chance to talk to Jim Renacci a lot as he came down from his campaign for governor of Ohio, which is going well. There were many people from all over the state of Ohio who came to this Butler County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner, which filled the Savannah Center into every crevasse. It was great to see so many friends in one place simultaneously. The battles that everyone fights for are worth it, especially on evenings like that one. During primary season, like the one we have this year where there are so many contentious races, such as the governor race where Mike DeWine is running for re-election, and Jim Renacci was challenging him, it would be easy to have factions of discontent which wouldn’t even be able to shake hands. But the event’s mood, led by Todd Hall and guided by the diligent hands of hundreds of volunteers who worked behind the scenes for the party’s best interests, provided an atmosphere that felt more like Mar-a-Lago from Trump’s Florida home than just another political gathering. Every last touch had behind it a love of country and an intention to do good in the world. Different people, of course, have different ideas about what good is, but the pursuit of it was apparent for all to see. 

It’s not like the Butler County Republican Party was playing things easy; they recently endorsed Jim Renacci for governor over the incumbent. In the audience was Justice Pat DeWine, the son of the governor.  Jane Timken was in the audience, and Mike Gibbons, who are both running for the hotly contested Senate seat soon to be vacated by Rob Portman. There were literally hundreds of contentious side stories that could fill novels that interacted in the halls of that grand event, but what impressed me was the candor with which it was all presented. Todd Hall’s management style with all these unique personalities allows for hotly contested debate and personal battles that still celebrates the achievement voters get in the end, and that is something special. Politics is tricky under the best of circumstances, but routinely pulling off successes like what Butler County enjoys is quite an accomplishment. Of course, behind the scenes come the unifying elements of Ann Becker, whom I’ve known for many years now, going back to the Cincinnati Tea Party, which she led. Debbie Lang who always brings energy to everything she’s around. Joe Statzer and Mark Murphy work on all the details. There is a long list of people behind the scenes who make the Republican Party of Butler County, such a great organization. I single out Todd Hall because it takes a unique person to give all these diverse personalities autonomy and to trust that people will find common ground and build from that position rather than break out in fistfights from the many different perspectives that so many officeholders have. Guided by a less skilled hand, everything could turn out to be a disaster rather than the success story that it continues to be. 

Ultimately, the Lincoln Day event is a good team builder, and they are always nice to go to when the people putting them on so much love what they do. But what the public gets is a strong party that represents them where it matters most. Contention in politics is good; it forces the best people and best ideas to the surface to manage on behalf of the voters, and Butler County is an example of how it should be done everywhere in the country. The Butler County Republican Party is the example that everyone should be following, especially in the newly Trump-led Republican party. The management style it takes to unify so many diverse personalities is the stuff success seminars are built on. To have an evening in the height of election season just to take a breath of fresh air is nice. But the reminder of why so many people get into public office and how an army of volunteers behind the scenes contribute their time and energy without ever thinking about pay tells a story that is worth recognizing. If not for them and the tireless hours of work that go on behind the scenes, there would not be a great Republican Party of Butler County. There would not be a Republican in every Butler County political office. The strength of the party is because of all the effort that countless people put into it, and by the leadership of Todd Hall to have just enough guiding force to keep people together just enough but not to impose on them any dictates which might threaten their unique gifts for which voters could then select as representatives. The whole evening was just as impressive as the Butler County Republican Party is itself. It reflected many thousands of hours of hard work and an ambitious eye toward tomorrow; whereas bad as things look on the national horizon, in Butler County, Ohio, all is great and getting better. If such a formula could project itself nationwide under the next Trump presidency, there is a lot to be excited about in the years to come. Because ultimately, politics is there to serve the Republic for which we all fight to make a stand, and the voters are in charge and respected by the guiding light of hard-working people who genuinely understand how to do it right.

Rich Hoffman

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Mike Pompeo is a Great Person: The 51 CIA and other intelligence officers who committed voter fraud during the 2020 election

I had an excellent opportunity to meet Mike Pompeo recently at the Lincoln Day 2022 Dinner at the Savannah Center in Butler County, Ohio. Often when you do these things, the people you end up meeting turn out to be less than what you thought they were, but in the case of Mike Pompeo, he was much more than what we learned about him on television.   He has been the best Secretary of State the United States has had without debate. President Trump picked him because, as an executive, he valued the punctual nature of Pompeo’s briefings as the Director of the CIA from 2017 to 2018. So when Trump needed a Secretary of State, he promoted Mike Pompeo, and the rest was history. In just a few years, Pompeo went from running a machine shop to running and winning congress. Then under Trump, he skyrocketed in political relevance. Pompeo was successful well before he ever entered politics, and it showed in how he approached the jobs he did. The CIA was probably the best it had ever been during his two years, and that was clear when you got to talk to Mike Pompeo. He was very proud of the people who worked there and the job he did. But, my meeting with him occurred just as we learned about the 51 former intelligence officials, most from the CIA, who purposely misidentified the Hunter Biden laptop from Hell as Russian disinformation deliberately lying to the American public during a hot election. Then during the meeting with Pompeo, I received a text from some of my contacts in Michigan who were reporting that a jury had not found militia groups guilty of plotting the kidnapping and murder of Gretchen Whitmer, the radical governor there. The jury found that the FBI was baiting them into committing an act of terror, something that also has their fingerprints all over the January 6th investigations. So I had to ask Mike about his thoughts, and the pain was evident on his face.

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Mike Pompeo will be around for a while, so his answer isn’t essential, especially in the media world we live in today. As far as I’m concerned, it was a private meeting in an intimate setting, and it will always stay private. I only bring it up relevant to this case of trust in our intelligence agencies and understanding just how bad they are. Mike Pompeo was very proud of the men and women in the CIA, and I believe him that there are lots of them who do great work and are keeping America safe. But, there are also a lot of them, in the CIA, the FBI, and other intelligence agencies who have let the power of toppling governments through subtle measures go to their heads, and they certainly do apply their methods to our modern elections. The bold letter from the 51 intelligence agents was undoubtedly a lie, and they knew it at the time. They openly worked to tamper with the 2020 elections, just as we learned Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, along with Jim Comey, had in 2016 to protect Hillary Clinton from the challenges of Donald Trump, which she lost anyway. The FBI then performed a coup during that election for most of Trump’s first term. And since they were the law, they had no fear of breaking it. Now we learn this, and in the presence of a man in charge of the CIA, Mike Pompeo was just as angry about it as the rest of us are. He’s beyond the tapestries of Trump Administration adornment, a man from Kansas. He is a loving father, husband, and man of his community. And it pained him terribly to realize just how corrupt some of those people he wanted to think of as good, have turned out to be. 

When we talk about the obvious election fraud in the 2020 election that gave us Joe Biden, the responsibility for the crime ultimately falls on our intelligence agencies. They knew it was going on, but they helped perpetuate the activity, consistent with the many alarming accusations that people have about them. And the evidence is in the Whitmer case in Michigan, and especially with these 51 mostly CIA agents who decided for the American people that the contents on the laptop, which indicate many terrible crimes that connect directly to Joe Biden and show compromise with other nations, that the CIA agents decided for us who we would elect. And they likely helped in other forms of fraud as well. It wasn’t just these two incidents. They knew what Mark Zuckerberg was doing. They knew China’s role in the matter and what the Desecrators of Davos were doing. And they knew the truth about Russia. And they aligned themselves with the powers that were working against America because they were attracted to the power of those attackers. This has been a problem for many decades, not just recently. We learned they do not respect the Constitution; instead, they favor a liberalized New World Order as its being presented because in that world, they will gain power as an administrative state, and that’s why they didn’t like President Trump or Mike Pompeo. They were outsiders, just as they see all of us as outsiders to the kind of administrative state they desperately want to serve. And they don’t see their actions as breaking the law because those laws are there to protect the people from the government. Not the government from the people, which was what Mike Pompeo and President Trump represented, a threat they had to get rid of. 

To say that Mike Pompeo was a wonderful person in flesh and blood would be an understatement.   He is precisely the kind of person we want in our government, and it’s no wonder that the Trump administration, with people like Pompeo leading it, was the best that America had ever seen. Pompeo is the best that America could produce for such a position. But what was clear from what we learned during the Trump administration is that just voting for figureheads to run these agencies isn’t enough. To drain the swamp, we have to sift out all the bad characters who are career deep staters and understand they can’t be universally trusted. They have ill intent in mind to work against the Constitution, no matter who is voted into the Executive Branch. Blind patriotism won’t be enough; we have to do the work of scrutiny and punish those who break our trust even if it hurts us too. And as optimistic as Mike Pompeo is as a person, that pain on his face over that question I asked said it all. It showed just what a great person he truly is, but he also knew the truth. We can’t just put Trump back in the White House because they will still work to topple the elected vote for their own preservation. Instead, we must punish them unsympathetically when we catch them doing wrong. All 51 of the names on that list lying about Russian disinformation regarding the evidence of the Biden laptop, broke the law. They should at least be fired and lose their security clearance. Perhaps they should face much worse than all that as well for their crimes. Other people out there can do the work, just as Mike Pompeo proved. And we can’t sacrifice the work that needs to be done to protect America and the people in it from ill intention just to preserve the seniority levels of the members of the Administrative State who will do anything to protect their seniority, including breaking the foundational laws of our nation and to overthrow the pick of the people in elections without remorse. Until such people are dealt with, who we elect won’t matter because the underlings will always laugh at their authority and await the next election for which they will control as they have all the nations of the world where they have performed similar tasks for much lesser reasons. 

Rich Hoffman

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