By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — Attention grew on various developments in mid-June, including Arizona’s nationally watched 2020 Maricopa County election audit, Joe Biden’s status in both politics and religion, and Eucharistic coherence being reviewed by U.S. Catholic bishops.
The audit at a coliseum to investigate election accuracy here had been visited by legislators from more than a dozen other states, who learned how it was done and weighed using a similar process back home for voting integrity.
The Wanderer asked conservative Republican political consultant Constantin Querard about comments citing the Maricopa County audit as an example to follow.
Querard replied: “There are a handful of states — Texas, Arizona, and Florida most notably — who have been consistent in fighting against left-wing lunacy coming from the federal government or states like California and New York, and they deserve to be celebrated for their role.
“All three states value the individual and individual rights, and all three states are pushing back against policies that can fairly be called socialist in most cases,” he said.
Arizona State GOP Sen. Wendy Rogers told a reporter for Gateway Pundit, “Now I realize that the nation is looking to Arizona,” and she had hosted visiting counterparts herself.
Another visitor was former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who said he was impressed. On June 15 he posted at Newsmax: “I’ve spent decades working in security and law enforcement at the highest levels, and this is exactly the level of conscientiousness and attention to detail that I would demand for a sensitive or high-profile investigation. . . .
“Now that I’ve seen the process for myself, I finally understand why it has the Democrats so hot and bothered,” Kerik continued. “They know that if anything improper happened in the 2020 election, this audit will catch it — and they also know that they have no hope of refuting any improprieties this audit reveals.”
Democrat Biden’s politicized U.S. attorney general, Merrick Garland, threatened states like Arizona that dared review election accuracy, but Garland didn’t scare Grand Canyon State officials.
Rogers, the Arizona senator and former fighter pilot, tweeted: “You will not touch Arizona ballots or machines unless you want to spend time in an Arizona prison. Maybe you should focus on stopping terrorism. The Justice Department is one of the most corrupt institutions in the USA.”
In a June 14 letter, Arizona’s Republican attorney general, Mark Brnovich, warned Garland against his “troubling comments” and “alarming disdain” for election integrity.
Brnovich, a first-generation American whose parents fled Communist dictatorship, warned: “My office is not amused by the DOJ’s posturing and will not tolerate any effort to undermine or interfere with our State Senate’s audit to reassure Arizonans of the accuracy of our elections. We stand ready to defend federalism and state sovereignty against any partisan attacks or federal overreach.”
Noting mistrust in elections these days by Americans on all sides of the spectrum, Brnovich wrote, “As I have demonstrated several times…Arizona will not sit back and let the Biden administration abuse its authority, refuse to uphold laws, or attempt to commandeer our state’s sovereignty.”
Might a person sense an appropriate tone of contempt by Brnovich toward a Democrat administration led by the impaired, frequently confused, corrupt old Biden, who pretends to be a new FDR?
The Arizona Senate’s liaison to the audit, Ken Bennett, told Phoenix-based KFYI Radio (550 AM) on June 16 that the hand count of the ballots was drawing to a close, which would be followed by further evaluation then preparation of the report on the results.
Bennett, a former GOP Arizona secretary of state, thought that report would be completed by August.
On June 11 the hosts of KFYI’s Russell & Hunter talk program said it’s such a stretch that it pulls a muscle for Garland to claim the minority vote somehow is at risk by the county audit checking for accuracy.
Another key concern in Arizona, the international border being overrun by criminal drug and sex-traffickers thanks to decrepit Biden welcoming them into the U.S., also drew attention around the nation.
While visiting the audit, former Georgia state legislator Vernon Jones, who plans to challenge Peach State Gov. Brian Kemp in the 2022 GOP primary, also made a video in Arizona’s Pinal County to point out that drugs coming through this territory are transported long distances and end up hurting Georgians.
Standing next to an official sign near a busy highway warning travelers that smuggling and illegal immigration might be encountered here, Jones expressed amazement that an alert of such chaos was necessary right on American soil.
“I see why there’s a crisis at the border, signs like this on American soil where we’ve literally given up our borders, we’ve literally given up to drug cartels, we have literally given up on providing these local law-enforcement officers…the ability to enforce the law,” he said.
Jones also mentioned seeing women’s clothing hanging from trees that border rapists display as proof of their conquests — a fact that journalists from dominant media, who supposedly are so concerned about “women’s rights,” usually ignore.
When Donald Trump mentioned this documented fact as he announced his presidential candidacy in 2015, he was roundly condemned by dominant media for doing so.
Also taking note of how illegal drugs crossing the border are transported far and wide, conservative Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, of Florida, said he was sending Florida law officers to assist Arizona and Texas with their border problems.
The Washington Examiner posted on June 16 that DeSantis said “we’re proud to lead, yet again, on issues that matter to Floridians” by responding to the crisis.
The Examiner reported: “DeSantis said the northern region of Florida has been hit hard by a methamphetamine crisis that has grown worse over the past six months due to the Biden administration’s rescinding of Trump-era border policies.”
The story also quoted Sunshine State Attorney General Ashley Moody as saying: “In these short few months that this administration has been in charge, we have seen a 230 percent increase in fentanyl seizures, enough to kill almost half of the American population. We have seen over a 3,000 percent increase in sexual offenders being detained at the border.
“As a mother, as a former prosecutor and judge, that infuriates me and terrifies me,” Moody said.
Meanwhile, Biden staggered through one embarrassment after another on his mid-June European tour including the G7 meeting of national leaders. He apparently thought he’d impress people but merely exposed himself and his nation to derision.
Along with his tacky wife, Dr. Jill, Biden would have left people laughing at them except for the frightening fact these inept pretenders actually occupy the White House.
Among his gaffes, Biden told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to introduce the president of South Africa at a roundtable after Johnson already had. Johnson twice waved away Biden’s interruptions.
Biden once again admitted that his staff tells him which reporters to call on for questions, and the staff doesn’t want him to talk too much. He blanked out when he was trying to comment on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Weirdly, Biden wore his aviator sunglasses when meeting Queen Elizabeth in England, renewing speculation those glasses serve some additional purpose for the bleary old man.
When a female reporter on June 16 asked him about Putin changing his behavior, Biden, sunglasses in hand, walked over toward her, shaking his finger and hectoring her about her question and being in the wrong business.
Trump as president was said to show disrespect for journalists when he pointed out their bias. But Biden, who has dominant media on his side like lapdogs, still shows his same bursts of inexplicable anger as when he was on the campaign trail, such as last August when he questioned whether one black reporter was a drug user.
Even CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny on the European tour commented on Biden’s “aides screaming at him to stop” answering questions. “I have never seen a president, covering the last four of them, who is so protected by his aides in terms of not wanting him to answer some questions.”
Also remarkable was a photo that Dr. Jill herself tweeted out, apparently showing her at Joe’s desk on Air Force One as it flew to Europe. The photo, captioned “Prepping for the G7,” designated her as “United States government official” — which she is not — pictured her going through a briefing book.
If that was Joe’s chair Dr. Jill was in, the question isn’t whether she’s the power behind the throne. She’d be the power ON the throne.
Greatest Lies
Acerbic commentator James Howard Kunstler didn’t think the Biden clown show would last much longer. Kunstler posted on June 14, putting Biden’s name in quotation marks, as if he’s somewhat less than a real person.
“Here is why the ‘Joe Biden’ regime only has a few months to live: it is caught in a squeeze between some of the greatest lies in world history, and they’re all unraveling now,” Kunstler said.
“Anyway, ‘Joe Biden’ is not really functioning as president of the U.S.; he’s just the doddering, photo-op front-man for a kind of politburo centered around Barack Obama, and that group lives in terror of being found out, which it will be, despite its capture of the traditional news and social media,” he said.
Noting the Arizona audit and other states’ legislators’ interest in how it works, Kunstler said, “The Democrats know this is possibly lethal to their control of national affairs. Any way they move now, the result will lead to a desperate loss of legitimacy, especially at the top, where ‘Joe Biden’ dwells.”
Kunstler speculated this government will have its sunset probably this fall, whether through a military caretaker administration, a redo of the 2020 election, maybe “dictators and despots. Or maybe we’ll get through this very dangerous defile of history and land in a much lower-key but more coherent disposition of things recognizably American.”
Whatever further loss of image Biden suffered with this trip, he suffered a much greater political loss if, in fact, the Vatican had rejected the Biden staff’s request that Joe join Pope Francis for a Mass on the peninsula known as the Big Boot. Francis, after all, is seen as having a fondness for left-wing politicians.
There’s no way the White House would have kept that a private affair. There would have been photos all over the place of the radically pro-abortion phony “devout Catholic” Joe in front of the tabernacle with the Pope.
Better yet, maybe Francis would even personally give him the Eucharist. Just the thing to publicize fast back in the United States, where Biden was in trouble with some of the Catholic bishops at their June meeting (he should have been in trouble with all of them), with Eucharistic coherence an important topic.
Did the Vatican originally accept the idea for Mass then realized the dangerous implications for U.S. Catholicism and backed away? It seemed unlikely that the proposal never actually had been made but Catholic News Agency just had a mistaken source for a story.
On a closely related topic, a senior editor at The Federalist, Christopher Bedford, noted how The New York Times tried to play U.S. bishops on this Communion issue.
Just as the fanatically pro-abortion Times has gotten away with dictating to the Church a lot on what She should do and even what She should believe.
Bedford posted on June 16: “A desire to curry favor with power has indeed driven the bishops’ past reluctance to chastise public leaders, with Church leaders fearing that if they stand up for themselves, they will lose the little remaining influence they maintain in American public life.
“Serial abuse, laxity in teachings, and closed doors have pockmarked a massive decline in church attendance worldwide, with little course-change from most succeeding bishops,” Bedford wrote.
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