One of them blamed Kari Lake. The other blamed Republicans in general. But they should have blamed someone else: The man in the mirror.
Or, in this case, the woman in the mirror.
After Democrat Katie Hobbs’ Phoenix campaign offices were burglarized last Wednesday, the Arizona gubernatorial contender blamed the rhetoric of her opponent, Republican superstar Kari Lake. It turns out, however, that there’s a problem with her theory:
The main suspect in the crime is an illegal alien who was out on bail and on the run after having been arrested for multiple break-ins.
The case is somewhat reminiscent of the recent assault on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi. His attacker, David DePape, is also an illegal alien.
The Daily Mail summarizes the Hobbs affair:
- Daniel Mota Dos Reis, 36, is a homeless, illegal immigrant who originally came to the country in 2018 as a “registered student,” police say
- Mota was arrested for a string of break-ins and later identified as the man on surveillance footage from the burglary at Hobbs’ office building
- According to ICE, Mota is “at-large for administrative immigration violations for failing to maintain his status as a registered student”
- Hobbs originally blamed Republican gubernatorial opponent Kari Lake’s rhetoric for the crime
The paper also tells us that Mota has “prior convictions of assaulting an officer and shoplifting” as well.
And now he has committed an assault against Hobbs — one on her narrative — by getting caught. After leading in the polls for months in the Arizona governor’s race, Hobbs fell behind Lake weeks ago, perhaps partially as a result of her refusal to debate the Republican. So, desperate to find something — anything — to buttress her flagging election effort, she tried tying the break-in to Lake’s anti-establishment rhetoric.
“Let’s be clear: for nearly two years Kari Lake and her allies have been spreading dangerous misinformation and inciting threats against anyone they see fit,” Hobbs’ campaign wrote the day of the break-in, October 26. “The threats against Arizonans attempting to exercise their constitutional rights and their attacks on elected officials are the direct result of a concerted campaign of lies and intimidation.”
(In reality, virtually all political violence today originates with the Left.)
Once Mota was apprehended, however, Hobbs’ effort blew “up in her face,” as Lake put it in a campaign email.
“IRONY ALERT,” her campaign wrote. “The suspected illegal immigrant burglar is on the streets yet again due to the insane pro-illegal immigration, pro-crime policies pushed by Katie Hobbs.”
GOP communications strategist Andrew Clark also weighed in, tweeting:
In fact, though, Hobbs was still pandering on illegal migration just nine days before her office burglary (tweet below).
Perhaps even more ironic, however, is Pelosi’s situation. Last Friday, her husband was reportedly attacked with a hammer in their palatial San Francisco home by the aforementioned DePape, a Canadian illegal alien. The speaker, aided and abetted by other Democrats and their public-relations team (the mainstream media), sought to gain advantage in the upcoming midterms by blaming the assault on Republicans’ criticism of her. Listening to their leftist narrative, you’d think DePape was a MAGA-hatted NRA member from Texas wearing a “Don’t Tread on Me” T-shirt. Some, including Joe Biden, even tried tying the Pelosi break-in to January 6, saying that DePape asked “Where’s Nancy!? Where’s Nancy!?” during his attack, just as some Capitol protesters did.
In reality, DePape is a homeless, mentally ill, drug-abusing, pro-nudist illegal who was living in a school bus reportedly bearing a Black Lives Matter banner and “Pride” flag. Why someone with such a profile should be assumed to have MAGA passions was not explained. Also unexplained was why a Canadian illegal would not only be interested in American politics to the point of zealotry, but would support the very political movement whose members would deport him!
Of course, it must be emphasized that DePape is insane. The bottom line, however, is that our country’s Pelosis and Hobbses have long been enabling people such as him. So when Pelosi and Hobbs seek to lay blame for the crimes committed against them on someone other than the criminals, they do so from glass houses. As I wrote on social media in a post that references only one of the women but applies to both:
The reality is that if the Democrats had listened to people such as myself, Pelosi wouldn’t have been attacked Friday [because DePape wouldn’t have been in the country]. But because people such as his wife have held sway politically, he was.
Does it get more ironic than that?
But Hobbs and Pelosi can count their blessings. They’re far luckier than Nazareth Tamer-Claure, a 31-year-old mother brutally murdered last year by illegals. They’re also better off than Cynthia Goulding, Isidro Cortez, Conor Holcomb, Gretchen Gross, Corbin Wagner, Mafalda Thayer, and Cheston Edwards. These unfortunates are just seven more of the thousands of Americans who’ve been killed by illegal aliens — by the policies that Pelosi and Hobbs have advocated in defiance of most Americans’ will.
The kicker is that, contrary to the old joke about how being mugged can turn a liberal into a conservative, Pelosi and Hobbs won’t change their tune on our southern-border invasion. After all, even if the police are defunded, they can always just up their security.
