As a proud alumnus of Georgetown University, I am troubled by an emerging pattern: The relentless lawsuits and other efforts to “get Trump” too often lead back to my alma mater and, more specifically, Georgetown Law School. The same characters populate these assorted Trump-hating schemes. To “defend democracy,” those people keep crushing democracy.
This pro-Democrat/anti-Republican activity raises troubling questions about the tax-exempt status of Georgetown Law and the broader university.
Even worse, in what I call Hoyagate, this cabal’s intensely partisan actions at a non-profit university raise questions about Georgetown’s qualifications to receive federal grants and remain tax-exempt. (READ MORE from Deroy Murdock: For Democrats, ‘Illegal’ Wasn’t Always Hate Speech)
Several of these individuals joined the Transition Integrity Project. TIP engaged prominent legal, governmental, and media players in “war games” that prepared for the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
How unusual: After most elections, the vanquished go home, and the victors govern. Instead, TIP weighed other scenarios: Which populations would accept or reject wins and losses? Would tight results trigger domestic unrest? How would Washington, the press, and even the armed forces respond?
The behavior of TIP members and their colleagues during and after these simulations should terrify patriots.
Rosa Brooks was a senior advisor in Obama-Biden’s State Department and Pentagon. She has collaborated for decades with the galaxy of far-Left groups that revolve around neo-Marxist über-donor George Soros. She co-founded TIP.
Brooks confirmed her commitment to democracy just 10 days into the Trump Administration. In her Foreign Policy magazine article headlined “Three ways to get rid of Trump,” she offered another idea. “The fourth possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup.”
Does anything verify one’s faith in democracy more than recommending a coup d’etat? Remember: This was less than a fortnight into Trump’s tenure. Brooks barely let the ink dry on Trump’s stationery before demanding that the Pentagon pry him from power.
Regarding the centuries-old American norms of civilian control of the military, Brooks argued in 2016: “It’s time to toss them aside.”
Rosa Brooks is a Georgetown Professor of Law and Policy and Associate Dean for Centers and Institutes.
John Podesta was Obama’s chief of staff and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager. He portrayed Joe Biden in TIP.
Podesta reacted to a “clear Trump win” neither by conceding defeat nor requesting recounts. Instead, Podesta/Biden convinced TIP’s “governors of Michigan and Wisconsin” to send Congress alternate lists of pro-Biden Electoral College representatives.
Amazing: Biden’s stunt-double — whom the real Biden named on January 31 as his new “climate czar” — advocated a “fake electors scheme.”
This is perfectly legal. In fact, President John F. Kennedy sent his own electors from Hawaii in 1960, never mind that GOP Governor William Quinn had certified the Aloha State for Nixon. However, JFK won a late recount, and his “fake electors” became legitimate and were tabulated.
While the real Kennedy and ersatz Biden supported alternate electors without consequences, Trump faces potential prison in Georgia for precisely the same thing.
According to TIP’s final report, released August 3, 2020 — at least three months before Trump’s alleged conspiracy to “overturn the election” — Podesta/Biden melted down after Trump’s hypothetical re-election. In a “frankly ridiculous move,” as one TIPster called it, Podesta/Biden followed “advice from President Obama” and threatened that California, Oregon, and Washington State would merge as Cascadia and secede from the Union! Trump has never even joked about such sedition. This is extreme, un-American, and so 1861. Is this Team Biden’s idea of getting “back to normal?”
Podesta/Biden reportedly offered to abandon the Cascadia concept if Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico scored statehood. This would have added four members to the U.S. Senate, almost certainly Democrats. (READ MORE: Saturday Night Lies: Biden Screams Hoax About Trump and Fallen Vets)
Podesta/Biden’s next step: Slice California five ways and quintuple the Golden State’s Senate seats to 10, most likely majority-Democrat.
Podesta/Biden’s coup de grace: “eliminate the Electoral College.”
Matt Taibbi’s January 26 Racket dispatch details further norm-demolition by Podesta and TIP’s other stalwarts for “our democracy.”
John Podesta is an alumnus of and Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law School.
Peter Strzok resembles shadowy, Deep State functionary Doug Stamper in Netflix’s House of Cards. The former FBI counterintelligence agent is one of Trump’s most tireless tormentors. Strzok spied on his 2016 campaign and helped launch the Crossfire Hurricane probe that powered the three-year Russian-collusion hoax.
Strzok notoriously texted his in-house mistress, FBI attorney Lisa Page, on August 15, 2016. According to Strzok, “There’s no way Trump gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.” This “insurance policy” seems to be the FBI’s sabotage of Trump and the platform that the American people elected him to implement.
Eleven days later, Strzok notoriously texted Page: “Just went to a Southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support.”
Strzok now sniffs at Trump and his base via cable news. He complained December 27 on MSNBC: “adherents and supporters of the former president are engaging in threats of violence, and there’s a comparative absence of any sort of like behavior on the other side.”
Strzok must have missed the anti-Trump vandalism and arson on Inauguration Day January 2017, the Summer of Love riots that killed at least 19 people in 2020, sporadic ANTIFA and BLM mayhem, and today’s deadly anti-Semitic upheaval by pro-Hamas activists — all on the Left.
Peter Strzok is an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law.
Donald B. Ayer was a deputy attorney general under Daddy Bush. As a charter Never Trumper, Ayer skewers Trump in one paper after another. Ayer pens such pieces with fellow Brookings Institution scholar Norman Eisen, a TIP member. Ayer has written or co-authored “The DOJ Must Prosecute Trump,” “Don’t Let Donald Trump Take His Case to Federal Court,” “Trump on Trial: A Model Prosecution Memo for Federal Election Interference Crimes,” and more.
Donald B. Ayer is an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, where even his online biography bashes Trump: “Professor Ayer has written extensively on rule of law issues, including many articles addressing the abuses of our legal system perpetrated by the Trump administration.”
Jacob Glick was an investigative counsel on the Left-slanted, Trump-loathing January 6 Committee. This was the first House panel ever to have its designated minority members (Republicans Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio) vetoed by a House speaker (California Democrat Nancy Pelosi).
After obliterating this centuries-old bipartisan norm, the J6 Committee bolstered “our democracy” by releasing a one-sided report and then destroying its own records. Nothing screams “Democracy!” more loudly than shredded documents.
Glick assisted the House Managers’ legal team during Trump’s second impeachment trial. It unprecedentedly pursued him after he left office.
If Georgetown lets at least half a dozen law professors and staffers exhibit such blatant partisanship, should it still receive federal taxpayer subsidies?
Jacob Glick is Policy Counsel at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection. ICAP spews Trump-hating litigation. This has included a first-ever lawsuit targeting pro-Trump electors, a defense of California’s sanctuary cities against Trump’s Justice Department, a brief supporting illegal aliens in the Census for reapportionment, and more.
And then along came Mary.
“More than any other Lawfare operative within Main Justice, Mary McCord sits at the center of every table in the manufacturing of cases against Donald Trump,” The Conservative Treehouse explains. She appears like Zelig in virtually every Get Trump endeavor.
“Mary McCord submitted the original false FISA application to the court using the demonstrably false Dossier,” TCT’s summary continues. “Mary McCord participated in the framing of Michael Flynn. Mary McCord worked with ICIG Michael Atkinson to create a fraudulent whistleblower complaint against President Trump; and Mary McCord used that manipulated complaint to assemble articles of impeachment on behalf of the joint House Intel and Judiciary Committee. Mary McCord then took up a defensive position inside the FISA court to protect the DOJ and FBI from sunlight upon all the aforementioned corrupt activity.”
McCord exhibits zero interest in swaying Trump or offering him policy options. Instead, around the clock, she undermines a President Trump 2.0.
“We’re already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types of things that he [Trump] might do so that we’re ready to bring lawsuits if we have to,” McCord said.
McCord also co-hosts an MSNBC podcast that advances her anti-MAGA agenda. Its understated title? “Prosecuting Donald Trump.”
Mary McCord is a Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law and Executive Director of ICAP.
For McCord and the Georgetown Trump haters, it’s not about a presidential honeymoon, better ideas, or compromise. It’s about girding Democrats to pounce, the moment Trump says, “So help me God” next January 20. This would parallel the Washington Post headline, “The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun,” published at 12:27 p.m. on January 20, 2017 — precisely 27 minutes into Trump’s first term.
The same Leftist Democrats who praise “our democracy” plotted Trump’s ouster literally during his swearing-in ceremony, before he had signed one bill or commenced his inaugural parade.
McCord’s comment appeared in a January 14 NBC News story headlined, “Fears grow that Trump will use the military in ‘dictatorial ways’ if he returns to the White House.” This heaping helping of paranoia typifies the feverish thinking that guides Georgetown’s Hate Trump, Inc.
This horror thriller by Peter Nicholas et al. speculated that a re-elected Trump might use the Insurrection Act of 1807 to inject the Armed Forces “in the face of domestic protests or if the midterm elections don’t go his way.”
In their desperation to smear Trump as a Nazi dream come true — Hitler, with blond hair — NBC’s writers concealed multiple inconvenient truths:
First, as president, Trump discussed the Insurrection Act in early June 2020, when the George Floyd riots came to Washington, D.C. ANTIFA and BLM radicals there yanked down statues, wounded at least 60 Secret Service agents outside the White House, and set ablaze historical St. John’s Episcopal Church on Lafayette Park. (READ MORE: How Do You Kill Democracy? Vote Democrat)
President Trump never invoked the Insurrection Act, although some of America’s most admired chief executives did just that. And yet Trump threatens democracy.
Huh?
Second, the 2018 midterm elections did not go quite Trump’s way. Republicans gained two seats and held the U.S. Senate. However, amid Democrats’ Russia! Russia! Russia! lies, Republicans lost 41 seats in and control of the House. And yet, Trump never deployed the Insurrection Act.
Third, while Trump never unleashed the Insurrection Act, 12 presidents have done so, 19 times. Republican Ulysses S. Grant used it to suppress the Democrat-founded Ku Klux Klan, and Democrats FDR, JFK and LBJ invoked it to quell riots in, respectively, Detroit; Oxford, Mississippi; and Washington, D.C. Trump merely mentioned in 2020 doing what Lyndon Baines Johnson actually did in 1968. Trump’s critics accused him of imposing a veritable Third Reich measure. He took no such action.
Such breathless, baseless lies typify the panic that Georgetown-based Trump haters foment among voters. This crowd cannot merely oppose Trump’s policies or propose alternatives. So, they hallucinate pitch-black fantasies of life under an American Führer.
If these hyper-partisan lies oozed from a privately funded pressure group, like Media Matters, so what? But the fact that Georgetown Law hosts this boiling cauldron of anti-Trump venom should anger taxpayers. This pro-Democrat/anti-Republican activity raises troubling questions about the tax-exempt status of Georgetown Law and the broader university.
Does an institution poisoning one party’s presumptive nominee violate the IRS’ requirement that 501(c)(3) organizations remain politically neutral? Georgetown and donations thereto have been tax-exempt since 1973.
In return, the IRS expects Georgetown to remain non-partisan, or at least even-handed. IRS regulations state: “activities with evidence of bias that (a) would favor one candidate over another; (b) oppose a candidate in some manner; or (c) have the effect of favoring a candidate or group of candidates, will constitute prohibited participation or intervention.”
Another vital question:
If Georgetown lets at least half a dozen law professors and staffers exhibit such blatant partisanship, should it still receive federal taxpayer subsidies, including Pell Grants, student loans, and research fees?
Between Fiscal Years 2017 and ’20, under Trump, Georgetown scored $540,132,354. In FY ’21 and ’22, under Biden, Georgetown secured yet another $430,227,567.
Should a university that has collected $970,359,921 from federal taxpayers in just six fiscal years enjoy even more such largesse and serve as the Vatican of Trump Hatred? Or should it choose between these conflicting objectives?
Congressional investigators should answer these questions and give Georgetown University the tough love it needs to become, once again, the center of balanced intellectual inquiry that I recall so fondly.
Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor Deroy Murdock graduated cum laude from Georgetown University’s College of Arts and Sciences in 1986.
