Justice is Coming

It’s too soon to forecast the results of the mid-term elections. I’ll be doing that between July and November when we have a lot more information from which to make reasonable inferences about the outcome.

But it’s not too soon to forecast what will happen between now and this summer. The Republican legal response to years of Democrat lawfare is coming down the track like a runaway train. Get ready for legal and political turmoil to match the financial and geopolitical turmoil we already see. Put on your crash helmets.

As Jeff Childers and others have noted, 2025 was a year of preparation. 2026 will be a year of action. And the action has already started.

Where’s The Accountability?

MAGA supporters of President Trump have grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of prosecutions and criminal convictions for the wrongdoing during the Biden years and reaching back to the Obama administration. Why has no one gone to jail over the Russia hoax? What about the corrupt FBI officials who ran Operation Crossfire Hurricane and Operation Arctic Frost?

The January 6th “insurrection” was a carefully planned operation by Nancy Pelosi and the FBI to make sure Trump could never run for president again (and he was impeached for the second time because of it). The 2020 election was stolen by Biden. The list goes on. Where’s the accountability?

Here’s the short answer: It’s coming. And just in time for the mid-term elections. That timing is no coincidence.

Building a complex criminal case involves a lot more than just repeating rumors and accusations. It requires in-depth investigation, smoking-gun documents, credible witnesses and a friendly jurisdiction (or at least one that won’t automatically acquit Democrats like Washington DC).

In turn, those processes require armies of forensic accountants, creative lawyers, skillful prosecutors, whistleblowers and low-level targets who are willing to testify against the big shots in exchange for leniency. That kind of work can’t be rushed.

Preparation And Timing Are Key

The fact that criminal cases against corrupt figures like former FBI Director James Comey and hyper-partisan NY Attorney General Letitia James were dismissed on technical grounds shows what happens when prosecutors don’t do their homework. (Comey and James will be re-indicted once the Department of Justice gets their legal ducks in a row).

Preparation is not the only cause of the delay in bringing cases against corrupt Democrats. Political timing plays a role. If some of the cases could have been brought in 2025, those trials might be underway now and the cases decided and forgotten by next November.

Instead, the Trump White House and Department of Justice (DOJ) have timed the cases to be brought this spring so the criminal trials will dominate the headlines in the summer and fall just ahead of the mid-term elections. Convictions of prominent figures will be fresh in voters’ minds when they show up at the polls on November 3, 2026.

The DOJ Is Building Cases

With that as background, let’s take a look at some of the lawfare attacks and outright fraud Democrats have conducted in the past five years to consider what prosecutions will be coming in the next five months:

By far the most important cases will involve the 2020 election fraud. The results of the 2024 presidential election are done. Trump won in an Electoral College landslide with 312 electoral votes, exactly the amount we predicted before the election. Most forecasters had Trump winning four or five of the seven swing states. We were the only ones who predicted Trump would win all seven and we were right.

So, if the books are closed on 2024, that must mean the 2020 election results are old news. Biden won. Right? Not so fast.

It was agreed that Biden did win and he served a four-year term as president with progressive dementia from 2021 to 2025. But Biden and the Democrats cheated to achieve that result.

When you cheat in presidential elections, you don’t have to cheat everywhere. Some states such as California and New York will go for Democrats no matter what. Other states such as Texas and Florida will go for Republicans no matter what. There’s no point in cheating in a place you’re bound to win.

Instead, the cheating takes place in real swing states that could go either way. These states are Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Nevada. When you cheat in those states, you don’t have to cheat in every district. You can concentrate your efforts in a few big cities like Philadelphia, Detroit, Madison, Charlotte, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Phoenix.

And you don’t have to win 100% of the vote or 100% of the swing states. You only have to win 51%. You probably have 45% in the bag. This means it just takes 6% of the vote in four or five states to tip the entire presidential election your way. Cheating in presidential elections is more like aiming a laser beam than carpet bombing.

Cheating techniques include pre-printed ballots shipped in on election night, running the same ballot through a scanner multiple times, trashing ballots for your opponent, late mail-in ballots, fake ballots “harvested” by professionals and dumped in drop boxes, allowing illegal aliens to vote, allowing dead people to vote, and much more.

It’s an art the Democrats mastered in 2020 using COVID as an excuse to keep poll watchers at a “safe” distance – that is, too far away to see what the con artists were doing. The New York Times did their part by claiming that Trump’s concerns were “baseless” and that anyone who disagreed with the Times was an “election denier.”

Supporters of the cheat claimed that the courts supported their view. That’s not true. Courts did deny Trump’s cases, but they did so on narrow procedural grounds. No court ever looked at the merits of the claims. They did not want to get involved.

The 2020 cheat was almost the perfect crime until now. Two weeks ago, the FBI raided the elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, which includes Atlanta. They drove away with trucks full of paper ballots, machine tallies, receipts, memos, computers and all the evidence needed to prove fraud.

Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, was on the scene when the FBI raid on the Georgia ballots took place. Why was the head of intelligence present for a domestic FBI raid on a warehouse? Tulsi spoke directly with President Trump while the raid was taking place and put some of the FBI agents on the phone. This certainly adds a note of international intrigue to the whole operation.

The timing of the Georgia raid is not a coincidence. You can expect similar raids coming in Arizona and Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Criminal charges against Democrat operatives can be expected in the months ahead. Many prominent officials including sitting governors, secretaries of state and election commissioners will be targets of the criminal probes.

Another scandal about to break wide open involves the Arctic Frost investigation. This was another rogue FBI operation conducted by Joe Biden in an effort to prosecute Trump for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election by using “fake electors” who would cast electoral votes for Trump in states where Biden was certified as the winner.

In fact, there were no fake electors. Trump and his associates prepared alternate electors in case the voting results were found to favor Trump after litigation that was pending. This is a well-established practice in U.S. politics. In fact, the Democrats did the same thing in the 2004 election between George W. Bush and John Kerry.

There have been many disputed U.S. presidential elections. In 1800, the election was decided in favor of Thomas Jefferson in the House of Representatives after 35 ballots. In 1824, the election was also decided in the House of Representatives in favor of John Quincy Adams.

In 1876, neither candidate received enough electoral votes to win, but 20 votes (from Florida, Oregon, Louisiana and South Carolina) were disputed. A special commission awarded those votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, supposedly in exchange for a promise to end Reconstruction in the South. The 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore was decided by a Supreme Court opinion.

In short, U.S. history is full of close and contested elections with uncertainty and contingent outcomes. The idea that Trump would prepare alternative electors just in case makes perfect sense. Only in the age of extreme lawfare and Trump Derangement Syndrome would the government try to criminalize that behavior, but that’s what Biden did.

The Arctic Frost prosecutor Jack Smith then spied on numerous Republican senators including Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson and Marsha Blackburn. He also targeted Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA (Kirk was assassinated last year), the Republican National Committee, and the American First Policy Institute among many others.

This investigation had no valid predicate and engaged in illegal surveillance. You can expect indictments of Jack Smith and other corrupt FBI and Department of Justice officials who served under Joe Biden. This scandal is ready to blow sky high.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are back in the limelight for refusing to testify after being subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee looking into the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The House Committee then moved forward with contempt of Congress proceedings, which can result in jail time.

On February 2, 2026, the Clintons said they would testify after all. But they did not agree to specific terms or specific dates. Committee Chair James Comer said the Clinton change of heart looked like a stalling tactic.

The Clintons are boxed in. If they refuse to testify in good faith, they can be found in contempt and subject to fines or imprisonment. If they do testify, they risk perjury charges if they lie or other investigations if they tell the truth.

If they try the “I don’t recall” tactic, other witnesses may come forward to refute them. The outcome is unclear as of now, but it’s another election year scandal that will make the Clintons and Democrats look bad regardless of the outcome.

Another major scandal that will soon result in criminal charges is the looting of billions of dollars of taxpayer money by Somali immigrants in Minnesota. The fraud involved hundreds of fake daycare centers that were taking billions in federal funds for poor families and working mothers, skimming the money and then sending it back to Somalia to support terrorist groups. The frauds also included other programs such as rental assistance, pandemic payroll protection plan loans and small business loans.

It now looks like the Somali skim in Minnesota is just the tip of the iceberg. Similar scams have been identified in California and Washington. In some cases, the corruption goes up to the governor’s office where the governor knew what was going on but ordered investigations shut down and told police and program administrators to ignore what was happening. Again, you can expect indictments and arrests of prominent figures, possibly including Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in the coming months.

The list of criminal complaints aimed at those trying to disrupt lawful enforcement actions by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel is enormous. Resisting arrest, interfering with federal law enforcement, assault, destruction of federal property and related crimes are just for starters. Those charges will be aimed at the local activists and operatives.

Much more serious charges await the bigger players and financiers behind the street violence. These charges can include conspiracy, RICO, money laundering and insurrection. The DOJ is patiently building these cases even as the FBI and the intelligence community trace the funding to its source including the Chinese Communist Party.

And let’s not forget President Autopen. Joe Biden is too mentally incompetent to stand trial but his staff and family members who ran the White House while Joe was wandering around in the bushes are definite targets. They used the autopen without Biden’s knowledge to sign executive orders, pardons, appointments and even pieces of legislation.

This scandal will feature low level operatives testifying against former senior officials in exchange for leniency. The higher ups will then begin to turn on each other. That’s how these conspiracies unfold.

Watch for the tsunami of criminal charges to begin this spring and for the trials and convictions to spread like damage from the tidal wave as we draw closer to the election. Stock up on popcorn. The show’s about to begin.

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