Last night on Greg Kelly Reports, Kelly played an excerpt Eric Trump highlights in his new memoir and demanded the national conversation that should have happened after January 3, 2017. The interview clip Kelly aired — and the book’s central argument — centers on a chilling warning Senator Chuck Schumer gave on Rachel Maddow about the raw power of the intelligence community.
Schumer’s line — “You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you” — wasn’t idle political theater; it was an admission from a senior Democrat that unelected agencies wield influence far beyond public scrutiny. Conservatives have long warned that when agencies answer to insiders and not voters, the foundation of self-government is at risk.
That warning was followed almost immediately by a cascade of events that should have sparked oversight and a sober, bipartisan debate about limits and accountability. The record shows the Comey briefings and intense investigative moves in early January 2017 happened within days of Schumer’s comment — events Congress later chronicled when it documented the origins of the investigations. Americans deserved a national reckoning then, not the cascade of coverups and partisan double standards we watched unfold.
From a conservative point of view, what followed looked less like objective law enforcement and more like institutionally organized pushback against a democratically elected president. Even congressional Republicans pointed to actions by FBI officials that radically extended probes into the Trump circle in those early January days, a sequence that raises real questions about motives and methods. The story of Michael Flynn’s interview, and the internal decisions that kept the case open, is part of that troubling early timeline.
Eric Trump’s book calls the family’s experience a siege, cataloguing raids, subpoenas, and what he describes as Democrat-and-agency-driven political warfare; Greg Kelly’s decision to air the Schumer clip was a timely reminder that these grievances have roots and witnesses. Conservatives see in this not victimhood but proof that a conversation about restoring accountability — to elected officials, to the Constitution, and to the American people — is urgently overdue.
Hardworking Americans deserve to know whether career bureaucrats are operating within the rule of law or above it, and they deserve leaders willing to ask the hard questions. We should demand transparency, reforms to ensure whistleblowers are protected from politicized retaliation, and congressional hearings that get to the bottom of how and why the intelligence community became a political cudgel. If patriots of all parties value our republic, there is no more important national conversation than reclaiming the people’s institutions from becoming instruments of partisan power.
