The Presidential Punisher

We can’t say we weren’t warned.

In 2009, the president of the United States “joked” about auditing his political enemies.

Also in 2009, a senior White House official told the president’s supporters, “If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard.”

In 2010 President Obama exhorted supporters to “punish our enemies.”

In my lifetime I have not seen such malicious public rhetoric from a sitting president directed against his political opposition.

And, sadly, the federal bureaucracy—overloaded with leftists with better job security than your average tenured college professor—heard the president’s punitive and vengeful message and acted on it.

Read how in my most recent American Spectator article here.