Pardon Arctic Frost scapegoats, Cuomo deserved humiliation and other commentary

Injustice beat: Pardon ‘Arctic Frost’ Scapegoats“The Biden administration presided over an unimaginably aggressive political witch hunt,” notes Cleta Mitchell at The Federalist, and turned the FBI into “the Stasi of the Democratic Party” to “vanquish their political opponents, not at the ballot box, but through lawyers, courts, and jail cells.” Operation Arctic Frost “was initiated to criminalize the Trump 2020 presidential electors’ actions in signing elector certificates for President Trump,” at the state level, though the “state proceedings are simply proxies” for federal action.“The state law violations” are “wholly fabricated by the Biden administration” to “punish and prosecute President Trump and his electors, lawyers, and supporters.” Thus, “President Trump should immediately pardon every person indicted” in this effort to “criminally charge” political loyalists.Libertarian: Cuomo Deserved HumiliationAndrew Cuomo was never “able to get beyond the idea that all he had to do to win was point at the other candidates and say, ‘you’re really going to vote for them?,’ ” smirks Reason’s Christian Britschgi.

Cuomo couldn’t “emphasize” his “own record of achievement and administrative acumen,” partly because he spent the latter part of his governorship “stumbling from one incompetence scandal after another.” He had “seemingly no positive agenda for New York City,” and his “housing policy platform was a bunch of AI-generated pablum.” He fell back on “aristocratic entitlement.” Ultimately “It’s not good to see Mamdani win.But, as a consolation prize, it is good to see Cuomo lose.”Putin beat: Kremlin Out To Con ConservativesVladmir Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev “is trying to do an end-run around Team Trump to court his conservative base,” warn Mark Toth & Jonathan Sweet at The Hill.

After Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s “maximalist negotiating appro...