HANNITY: Constitutional republic or banana republic? It's time for America to choose

Almost every member of the state media mafia, and every Democrat now acting shocked by Joe Biden's cognitive state, is simply full of it. They are liars, through and through.

Many claim to be arbiters of truth and legitimate journalists. Yet they have repeatedly and corruptly covered up and blatantly lied to the American people about the economy, Biden’s disaster at our borders, his family’s corruption, and so far, his clear and unequivocal cognitive decline. They have dutifully done the bidding of this corrupt administration and lawless deep state to hide what was going on. As an institution, the media is corrupt and has failed the American people time and time again.

If Biden is replaced on the 2024 presidential ticket, Democrats and the media will immediately praise and crown whoever takes his place as if he were the second coming of Jesus. In truth, he will be just another radical Marxist promoting the same agenda as the modern radical socialist party. Remember, Joe Lieberman wasn't radical enough for them.

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Biden's cognitive decline has been plain to see for at least four years. The “cheapfake” videos showing him wandering around stiff and confused were always real. They all knew it, but they lied to hold on to power and because of his psychotic hatred of everything to do with Donald Trump and the people who support him. Didn't it seem strange to anyone with eyes to see Biden resign on the stairs of Air Force One? That he had to be surrounded while he walked to and from Marine One? For him to pass up a Super Bowl interview and not even be able to hold a real press conference? They didn't fully report these things because, in their little minds, the ends justify the means when it comes to preventing Trump from returning to the White House.

Did any Democrat or state media person ever care that an abusively biased New York judge valued Mar-a-Lago at $18 million, even though a rudimentary reading of real estate prices in Palm Beach would show the property is worth much closer to $1 billion?

Did any Democrat or state media figure care that New York's attorney general was running on a platform of going after a man, a family, and an organization? None that come to mind. Americans must ask themselves why Democrats and the state media mafia are perfectly fine with weaponizing justice. They must reflect on what it means for our future if a system hell-bent on conquering Trump by any means necessary can sacrifice all sense of fairness and equal justice, destroying the Constitution in the process. If they can do it to Trump, they can do it to any of us.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 7: Former US President Donald Trump walks to speak to the press at the end of the day during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 7 May 2024 in New York City.

Did any Democrats care that the Manhattan district attorney was also elected on a “get Trump” platform? Did they object when a politically compromised judge allowed a perfectly legal eight-year-old confidentiality agreement to be turned into a 34-felony conviction by twisting the law to the point of absurdity? The statute of limitations was waived by a dubious and novel legal theory that only a manifestly hostile jury could accept. Trump and his lawyers were not even fully informed of the charges against him until after the defense’s closing arguments, in what was a clear constitutional violation.

More than 15 years ago I declared journalism dead, and today all decency and all sense of justice are buried alongside it. Americans are now abandoned to a Soviet-style Pravda State that distributes disinformation and propaganda through a captured media.

Former FBI Director James Comey cleared Hillary Clinton of having classified documents, but the FBI later searched Trump's home. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

America needs to finally wake up to this corrupt and unholy alliance of Democrats, big state media, and extremely powerful deep state institutions. We are at a tipping point and America as we know it will simply cease to exist if this continues. Political opponents will be routinely persecuted and imprisoned while those in control celebrate their own betrayal. At that point, our constitutional republic will be dead. Now we are on the edge of the precipice.

Ben Franklin was asked if the newly created United States was a republic or a monarchy. He replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.” The odds of losing what the framers gave us have never been greater than now.

Those who wonder how much more corruption our constitutional republic can endure know that the same dark alliance was already at work long before it launched the ongoing legal war against Trump. Consider these events:

• In 2016, the deep state and its media accomplices spread the now-debunked Trump dossier, which was funded by Hillary Clinton. For the next three years, the media congratulated itself with Pulitzer Prizes, even though the extensive investigation that crippled Trump's first term turned up no evidence that he had colluded with Russia. Any apology, retraction or correction from any of the liars and conspiracy theorists involved? None.
• The same dossier was used as the basis for four FISA warrants, allowing the intelligence community and the FBI to spy on Trump before and after he assumed the presidency. Was anyone held accountable? The best we got was an admission that those who signed the warrants would not sign them again “knowing what we know now.” They lied in a court of law and spied on innocent people and the best we get is… it doesn’t matter?
• The same FBI that doggedly pursued Trump for years, including ransacking his home in 2022, found classified and top-secret material all over Hillary Clinton's illegal home computer server years earlier. But the self-righteous “Mr. Superior Honor” FBI director at the time, James Comey, unilaterally decided that “no reasonable prosecutor” would prosecute Clinton, so he did not indict her. It didn't matter that Clinton and her cronies deleted requested emails, destroyed devices, and blatantly lied about it. Did Donald Trump receive that same consideration? Not while they were so busy rummaging through Melania Trump's closet.
• In 2020, some 51 current and former intelligence officials, including five former CIA directors, approved a Biden campaign initiative to blatantly lie to the American people about the very real laptop that Hunter Biden abandoned in a Delaware.
• While Biden, his “border czar” vice president, and his hapless Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have insisted for more than three years that the border is secure and closed, his equally ineffective FBI director Christopher Wray has testified before Congress that the threat has never been greater since 9/11. So why are they allowing this to continue? Why did they allow it in the first place?

Let me be clear: When the United States is again attacked by terrorists like 9/11 or worse, not if, Biden, the media, and the deep state will have blood on their hands. Until then, every rape and every murder perpetrated by Biden's unauthorized illegals will fall on him and those who have enabled this policy of illegal self-destruction. And that includes a large part of the media.

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Biden’s corruption and ineptitude have infected every aspect of his administration. Has inflation been “transitory,” as his economic policy wonks promised? Did the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline help cash-strapped Americans fill their gas tanks? Why was China allowed to unleash a global pandemic, send spy balloons over our soil, harass our Navy in international waters and our Air Force in international airspace, threaten our ally Taiwan, and steal our intellectual property, all with impunity? Was that all the “10% for the Big Guy” that paid for it?

Why is Biden obsessed with a new Iran deal? Iran, the main state sponsor of global terrorism. He turned a blind eye to Tehran as the mullahs enriched themselves by evading sanctions to sell oil on the world market. And when that money funded a proxy war against Israel, Biden took on our ally, not our enemy. In doing so, Biden seemingly gave up on the war against radical Islamic terrorists.

Why have Democrats, the media, and our intelligence experts allowed all of this to happen?

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I could go on, but I want you to know this: Whatever the Democrats are planning to do with Biden after his disastrous debate performance won’t matter if they win in November. Even if Big Bird is called upon to replace Biden on the 2024 ticket, the Democrats, the deep state, and the dishonest media will cling to the same failed radical socialist agenda that Biden promoted.

United States, it's time to choose. In 2020 I wrote “Live Free or Die: America (and the World) on the Brink.” This is the edge I feared. Will we remain a constitutional republic or are we destined to become a banana republic? That is what is at stake at the polls in 126 days.

May God bless America and help us return to the principles that made us the “shining city on a hill.”

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