Tom Fitton - A Republic Under Assault : The Lefts Ongoing Attack on American Freedom

ALSO BY TOM FITTON

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Names: Fitton, Thomas, author.

Title: A republic under assault : the lefts ongoing attack on American freedom / Tom Fitton.

Description: First Threshold Editions hardcover edition. | New York : Threshold Editions, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references. |

Summary: In this explosive new book, New York Times bestselling author and president of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton explains how the Radical Left and the Deep State are trying to destroy the Trump presidencyProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020033164 (print) | LCCN 2020033165 (ebook) | ISBN 9781982163655 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781982163662 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781982163679 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: United StatesPolitics and government2017 | Right and left (Political science)United States. | Political cultureUnited States. | Trump, Donald, 1946

Classification: LCC E912 .F494 2020 (print) | LCC E912 (ebook) | DDC 306.20973dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020033164

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020033165

ISBN 978-1-9821-6365-5

ISBN 978-1-9821-6367-9 (ebook)

A s this book goes to print, our nations cities are being burned by radical, violent leftists seeking to overthrow our republic. This follows unprecedented restrictions on our constitutional freedoms, our ability to work and other God-given rights by mostly left-wing governors and local officials under the guise of controlling the coronavirus. Many leftist governors and mayors were quick to suspend constitutional rights and destroy businesses of the law-abiding but slow to protect citizens from rioters.

In one way or another, for good, and sometimes unfortunately, for bad, a crisis always reveals who we are as individuals and as a people. Always.

During the late winter and spring of 2020, the multiple individual, governmental, health-care, and private sector responses to the Wuhan COVID-19 crisis serve as a timely case studyone that should and will be examined in great detail over the course of the coming months and years.

A crisis, of course, should and does bring out the very best in a majority of us. We have seen that time and again in the past, and time and again at the height of the Wuhan COVID-19 pandemic. Neighbors helping neighbors; major-league sports teams and professionals paying laid-off employees or providing other financial support; a grocery store chain donating at least 6 million meals to those hit hardest by the crisis; grocery store employees going way above and beyond the call of duty to stock shelves, ring up our orders, and keep their stores open; Americas truck drivers working endless hours and driving past the point of exhaustion to fill those stores and pharmacies with the supplies and medications our nation so desperately needed; and most important of all, our doctors, nurses, and their support staff who heroically manned the front lines of that pandemic to help and save as many infected as humanly possible.

Unfortunately, a crisis can also quickly or instantly reveal some troubling proclivities of those hoping to use it as a means to an end. Even, quite alarmingly and tragically, the Wuhan COVID-19 crisis.

There are a number of ways our republic can beand isunder assault. One of the most unsettling, and truly vile, would be to attempt to weaken its freedoms, its laws, its borders, and the accountability of its government by exploiting a global pandemic for partisan or personal gain.

And yet, as we now know, there was a great deal of evidence that points exactly to that tactic. It was as if some politicians and activists were using the confusion, the trillions of dollars, and tragedy surrounding the Wuhan COVID-19 crisis to achieve political objectives, such as imposing long-sought changes to election integrity measuressuch as ending voter ID, while pushing massive vote-by-mail schemes and ballot harvesting. Judicial Watch called for a rollback of the calling to Liberate America from the draconian dictates of the cure.

This pandemic cure was destroying millions of American jobs, the very economy of our nation, and our freedoms in the process.

There is no doubt that the Wuhan COVID-19 virus was quite serious and especially dangerous to the elderly and other susceptible populations.

The doubts and the questions surfaced over, first, how best to treat the virus without destroying our nation and the economic, mental, and physical well-being of tens of millions of Americans in the process. And second was the real concern regarding the World Health Organizations (WHO) seemingly corrupt relationship with the Peoples Republic of China and its leadership, and how that corrupt relationship might negatively impact the American people. For instance, based on rather obvious China lies, the WHO minimized the threat of coronavirus by suggesting the risk of human-to-human transmissibility was low. President Trump was so livid about WHOs coddling of China that he withdrew the United States from the international organization.

Be it in our nation, or around the world, too many on the left and their allies in the mainstream media had no intention of letting the paralyzing fear and uncertainty over the Wuhan COVID-19 pandemic go to waste.

It was the intention of the Left to exploit the crisis from day one.

As reported in March 2020 during a conference call held between House Democrats, House Majority Whip James Clyburnthird in line among House Democratic leadership and a strong ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosispelled out their selfish, biased, and truly anti-American strategy with one sentence.

Said Clyburn: This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.

Clearly meaning to use the panic and fear over the virus as a means to advance their leftist policy agenda.

President Barack Obamas former chief of staff Rahm Emanuelwho, after leaving the White House, went on to become mayor of Chicagomust have been quite proud of Clyburn. For it was Emanuel who, as White House chief of staff, infamously said: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.