Daily Freeman (Kingston, NY)

America’s biggest threat was not Jan. 6, 2021

- Michael Reagan’s column is distribute­d by the Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate. Send comments to reagan@ caglecarto­ons.com.

What was the biggest threat to America in the last seven years?

If you have swallowed the party line of the Democrats, it was the storming of the Capitol by dangerous Trump “insurrecti­onists” on Jan. 6, 2021.

For more than two years, Democrats and their parrots in the liberal media touted 1/6 as the worst thing that has happened to the United States since 9/11.

President Biden went even farther, repeatedly claiming that 1/6 was the “greatest threat” to American democracy since the Civil War.

But sorry. I don’t buy Biden’s BS for a nanosecond.

Jan. 6, 2021 was definitely not a good day for America.

There were violent skirmishes with police outside the Capitol and a lot of window breaking and trespassin­g inside. Some police were hurt and their attackers have been charged accordingl­y.

But the unarmed mob — mostly middle-aged men and women in their finest MAGA gear, a few dozen rightwing nutjobs and a sprinkling of undercover government informants — killed no one and was hardly an existentia­l threat to America.

Jan. 6 was a big deal, but it will never happen again. It was a one-off, a one-day national embarrassm­ent that played out in front of the whole world. It’s over. Done.

But what is not over and done is actually the greatest threat to America since 2015 — the weaponizat­ion of the FBI and the CIA by Democrats to help the 2016 presidenti­al campaign of Hillary Clinton and hurt Donald Trump.

The details of that weaponizat­ion were reported this week in the long-awaited Durham Report.

In its 305 pages, special counsel John Durham confirms what we have known all along — that the FBI’s upper management was a corrupt gang of Obama/ Hillary partisans who abused their powers to harm Trump politicall­y.

They broke the law, lied to federal judges, hid informatio­n and did whatever it took to ensure that the FBI helped Hillary and hurt Trump before and after he was elected president.

The FBI bosses hated President Trump so much that they were willing to continue pushing an investigat­ion into his supposed collusion with Russia for four years.

They kept the Russian collusion hoax alive — with the enthusiast­ic help of the dishonest or dumb Trump-deranged liberal media — even though they knew that the “Steele Dossier” was a pack of lies made up by the Clinton campaign.

Hillary knew what the FBI was doing, of course, but so did President Obama.

What the FBI did on the inside of government was far more harmful to the country than anything the “insurrecti­onist” Republican­s did from the outside on 1/6.

Not only that, to this day the FBI is still a threat to the country because of its obvious partisansh­ip.

It’s hiding informatio­n, ignoring or slow-walking its investigat­ions of Hunter Biden’s laptop — which it’s had since 2019 — and the Joe Biden Family payfor-play racket.

It’s also doing other un-American stuff for purely political reasons — infiltrati­ng conservati­ve Catholic churches that hold Latin Masses and treating some conservati­ve parents as terrorists after they demanded informatio­n about what public schools were teaching their kids.

The Durham Report is four years too late to do the country any good. You can bet no one will be held accountabl­e and the major media have already moved on to other more important topics like pronoun abuse and transgende­rism.

The report was immediatel­y dismissed by the liberal media as another “nothing burger” that proved the FBI did nothing wrong and nothing bad really happened.

Yeah, MSNBC, CNN and the New York Times, nothing wrong has happened inside our government.

Except that thanks in large part to your dishonest journalism, the FBI, the CIA, Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton and their Democratic pals were able to get away with underminin­g the foundation­s of the country.

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