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The Obama Coup: A Time for Justice

By John Zmirak Published on July 22, 2025

As Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard unfolds the treasonous conspiracy between the Deep State and the Obama White House (with the cooperation of swamp Republicans like Lindsay Graham and John McCain) to nullify the 2016 election, many questions continue to arise. The first and most important is: Will anyone go to jail for this?

The statute of limitations on many of the crimes attributable to figures including James Clapper, Jim Comey, and John Brennan expires in just a few weeks. If somehow the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi runs out the clock on filing those indictments, that will constitute a profound betrayal of the American people — and a sleazy wink to future conspirators that they will never pay for their crimes.

Such a failure will guarantee that similar crimes happen again, and that our elites continue to feel that they are above the law and therefore weaponize it to persecute their political opponents — as the Deep State did to Trump supporters, the January 6 protestors, PTA moms, and other “domestic extremists.”

Arrogant men in power wielded our government’s vast mechanism of coercion to falsify intelligence, manufacture crimes, prosecute the innocent, and try to overturn an election. If the prospect of them getting frog-marched in orange jump suits to prison cells doesn’t make you feel something like what the hobbits did when the Black Tower collapsed around Sauron, I would tend to think there’s something missing inside you — perhaps carved out or eaten away by bad theology. And you need to grow it back.

The Lake of Fire

If Tolkien’s words don’t do it for you, then try God’s. Read this passage slowly and imaginatively. Try to use all your senses to see, hear, feel, smell, and even taste what it will entail when God Himself brings about the following chain of events:

Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat upon it; from his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire; and if any one’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:11-15)

Are we meant to think that the Blessed will be heartbroken when this happens? Will they be questioning God’s goodness, maybe trotting out little verses they picked up from rainbow pastors using them out of context like, “Judge not, lest you be judged”? No, because the kind of people who’d do that will already be down in the lake of fire. Those whose names are in the Book of Life will be rejoicing, with no mixed emotions at all. They will be beneficiaries of Mercy witnessing the triumph of Justice.

Why Hang the Nazis?

What was the point of trying the Nazi war criminals at Nuremburg? The war was already over. The death camps had all been closed (apart from Stalin’s gulags). There was zero chance that Hermann Goering or Hans Frank would ever again be able to launch aggressive wars, persecute ethnic minorities, or otherwise reoffend. So why subject the worst of them to the ultimate punishment, death?

Shouldn’t we have imprisoned them all humanely, tried to rehabilitate them, let them answer fan letters from prison, and write self-serving memoirs? Pope Pius XII didn’t think so. He urged that the war criminals be executed swiftly. He agreed with St. Paul that Caesar does not wield the sword in vain, that the State should serve as God’s minister of justice in our fallen world. He would even cite the Council of Trent’s eloquent exposition of classical Christian teaching:

Another kind of lawful slaying belongs to the civil authorities, to whom is entrusted power of life and death, by the legal and judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent. The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment which prohibits murder. The end of the Commandment is the preservation and security of human life. Now the punishments inflicted by the civil authority, which is the legitimate avenger of crime, naturally tend to this end, since they give security to life by repressing outrage and violence. Hence these words of David: “In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land, that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.”

Chew on that phrase: “the legitimate avenger of crime.”

The State Owes Us Justice

In our day-to-day lives we are called to forgive (but not forget). We must even let go of anger toward the unrepentant — though God won’t. The State has no such luxury. It owes us public order and the rule of law. To the innocent it owes justice and to the guilty punishment. Whenever it fails to deliver those goods, the State is sinning, just as Israel sinned when it worshiped false gods. Such sin has consequences, as God sent one prophet after another to warn us.

Of course, my historical comparison is unfair in one crucial respect: In bombed-out, defeated Germany there was almost no prospect of a Nazi restoration. In the U.S., as we battle to come to grips with the national crimes committed against the people by our elites, the criminals are still in control of our most powerful institutions. They were millimeters away from imposing a one-party state indefinitely when President Donald Trump dodged that bullet in Butler. Our media, universities, and many of our pastors still repeat our elites’ poisonous propaganda. Our intelligence agencies are still honeycombed with their loyalists, and our courts are packed with fanatics who will torture the law to cripple an elected president, defy the people who voted for him, and keep millions of foreign invaders inside our borders.

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So the real historical analogue for our moment isn’t the Nuremburg Trials at all. When we rejected Kamala Harris as our elites’ appointed puppet president, I compared that near-miss to the Dunkirk evacuation: We avoided total defeat and national surrender. Now with the exposure of the Deep State’s coup, we’re on the morning of June 6, 1944, as the Allies fought their way onto the beaches at Normandy. This is no time to let up, negotiate, or leave the tyrants in peace. It’s time for the slow, bloody slog all the way to Berlin. President Trump seems to know that, if his latest social media postings are any indication.

If the chief conspirators in the attempted coup of 2016-17 walk off scot-free to polish up their resumes for the next Democratic administration, next time they won’t be so sloppy. They’ll take away the lesson that their next coup must be more ruthless, their next lockdowns more suffocating. Next time, their guy won’t miss.

What God Accomplishes

I’m not arguing for the death penalty in any of the Russiagate offenses, of course. (I doubt that literal treason charges would stick.) But we must overcome a false, post-Christian squeamishness about the centrality of Justice — whether it’s applied to illegal immigrants, their corrupt U.S. employers, or Deep State conspirators against our democratic system.

It is altogether right and wholesome to wish to see the wicked punished, not just as a deterrent to future criminals, but to right the cosmic balance. That’s what God accomplishes in the last book of the Bible.

If you don’t find it a happy ending, you’re rooting for the wrong side.

 

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.