Jack Cashill’s WorldNetDaily columns have become more intermittent since he ceased being a regular columnist and WND has to resort to copy-and-pasting it from his Substack. The last entry as of this writing is an Aug. 22 column cheering the federal raid on John Bolton’s house as payback for his failing to be a sufficiently loyal Trump suck-up:
Early Friday morning, FBI agents searched the Maryland home of former national security adviser John Bolton. Said the New York Times, they were “conducting court-authorized activity in the area.” Specifically, the FBI had reopened an investigation launched under the Biden DoJ to determine whether Bolton “illegally shared or possessed classified information.”
Two weeks prior Bolton was cheerfully spouting off on CNN that Trump’s Alaska meeting to hash out a Ukraine deal was “a great victory for Putin.” Promptly after the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago three years ago, Bolton went on MSNBC to share the the Biden-era bromide that “no one was above the law.” Bolton was that kind of Republican.
“RINO” does not do his class justice. RINO implies ideological fakery, passing oneself off as a conservative to win elections in Republican areas. No, the phrase “Banana Republican” better captures the essence of a plantation denizen like Bolton, whose treachery apparently was not limited to appearances on CNN. Ideology is not the relevant variable here.
Loyalty is. BRs are the kind of intriguers, schemers, back-stabbers you would find in any “developing nation.” They would rather watch the nation devolve into the chaotic ooze of a banana republic than stand up and fight the obvious injustice around them.
Yes, Cashill thinks Bolton is guilty of “treachery” simply because he dares to criticize Trump. He went on to be really angry that the Trump-instigated Capitol riot was criticized:
The high water mark for Banana Republicans came on Jan. 6, 2021. Following the lead of the Democrats and the media – as they often do – the BRs rushed to the mics to denounce the man they had back stabbed. Said U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, “What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States.”
On that same Jan. 6, before the OC gas had yet to settle at the Capitol, George Bush used the imprimatur of the “George W. Bush Presidential Center” to affirm his and wife Laura’s membership in Club Banana.
“The violent assault on the Capitol – and disruption of a constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress – was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes,” said Bush mindlessly.
On that day at least, Jan. 6 would seem to have vindicated the Banana Republican’s passivity in the face of evil.
Of course, normal people would say that Trump was the “face of evil” for inspiring the riot then pardoning its participants, no matter how much violence they committed. Still, Cashill has his conspiracy theories to perpetuate:
As the evidence has shown, Jan. 6 represented the first fully unarmed insurrection in world history. No officers were killed, none seriously injured. Those were all lies. The damage done to the Capitol was negligible. The only people killed that day were protesters.
The truth did not stop Biden from treating J6 protesters to the greatest mass injustice against American citizens since Japanese internment. More than 1,600 were rounded up, nearly half of those incarcerated, including at least one great grandma.
As we documented, the “great grandma” in question, Rebecca Lavrenz, committed a crime — which even Cashill has conceded — and was found guilty by a court of doing so. Cashill refused to admit that some rioters committed violence, and that several law enforement officers died in the wake of the riot, at least some of which could be blamed on the riot itself.
Cashill closed by cheering Trump’s revenge campaign:
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality,” so said either Dante or Yogi Berra or some other wise soul. John Bolton will not be the last of the Banana Republicans to feel the heat.
One could argue that, because of his mindless fealty to Trump, Cashill may feel the heat at some point as well.