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In reaction to disturbing polls, Joe Biden, his filters long ago evaporated, just let slip (once again) his real lawfare agenda to get Trump in a way he feels he cannot through an election.

Thus, Biden’s recent boast: “We gotta lock him up”.

This new promise was not like 2016 candidate Trump’s performance-art, rally chanting “lock her up” of Hillary Clinton’s destruction of classified emails and subpoenaed devices—given Trump then had no power to do so (and did not do so when he shortly did have such power).

Instead, the Biden eerie promise comes from a sitting president in an election year—just after his DOJ-appointed, special-counsel Jack Smith—slapped down once again by the Supreme Court—has hastily refiled indictments against Trump.

Biden, Garland, and Smith abjectly ignored their own DOJ manual of ethics and protocols stating, “Federal prosecutors and agents may never select the timing of any action, including investigative steps, criminal charges, or statements, for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party.”

So, Joe Biden’s “We gotta lock him up” is just the latest reiteration of what has been obvious for the past two years.

To understand Biden’s “we”, read on.

Do we remember on November 9, 2022, when the midterms were then just over, a boastful and liberated Biden predicted what shortly was to follow:

“Well, we just have to demonstrate that he will not take power by — if we — if he does run. I’m making sure he, under legitimate efforts of our Constitution, does not become the next President again.” (I think the Biden pause and hiatus at “he will not take power by…” referred to the possibility of Trump winning an election).

The boastful Biden was indeed shortly “making sure” that Trump would not be president again.

So, just six days later on November 15, when Trump announced his intention to run again, like clockwork, Biden’s lawfare “we” went into warp drive, “making sure” that Trump “does not become the next President again”.

Then, on a monumental date November 18, 2022—just three days after the Trump announcement—all at once the lawfare collusion was set in motion in a single day:

(1) The number third-ranking attorney at the Biden administration DOJ. Matthew Colangelo (a former consultant to the DNC) mysteriously announced his resignation on 11/18 and would shortly go to work for Alvin Bragg—to fuel Bragg’s New York State efforts to indict Trump for federal campaign violations that federal attorneys had already passed on.

(2) And also, on 11/18 Nathan Wade—Fani Willis’s paramour and her Fulton County, Georgia-appointed-lead prosecutor—met for hours with Biden’s legal counsel inside the White House, apparently to coordinate Willis’s plans to indict Trump for a purportedly illegal phone call.

(3) And still on 11/18 to complete the day’s trifecta, Biden’s AG Merrick Garland coincidentally appointed Jack Smith as Special Counsel to investigate Trump for an archival dispute and January 6.

At about the same time, we also recall that Biden super donor and billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman had begun funding E. Jean Carroll’s civil suit against Trump.

And, lest we forget, the itinerant Matthew Colangelo also had earlier worked for and with New York Attorney General Letitia James in her real-estate farcical suits against Trump.

In sum, Biden’s latest use of “we” still refers to the ongoing White House/Biden/leftwing conglomerate that coordinated the five-sided work of Alvin Bragg, E. Jean Carroll, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Fani Willis.

And that fact, along with the Harris depressing polls, once again explains why the unfiltered Biden now has again doubled down on his earlier 2022 promise to make sure Trump was never again president—albeit now voiced in the cruder boast , “We gotta lock him up”.

For the Left that is apparently preferable to an election.

Democracy really is on the ballot—and in less than two weeks.