More than one thousand communists, socialists, and fellow travelers rallied on March 18 in Lafayette Square, next to the White House, and then marched across town in support of Russia, China, Cuba, and causes such as reparations for blacks and massive defense cuts. I was there covering the rally, taking dozens of pictures, in order to prove to my fellow Americans that communism is not dead but very much alive.

Similar events were scheduled to take place in more than a dozen U.S. cities.

Noting the reports of only a few thousand communists in America, the late Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky wrote in his book Judgment in Moscow, “One should not forget that back in 1917, Lenin also started out with only forty thousand comrades.”

At the March 18 event, I counted not one or two, but almost a dozen socialist and communist groups. Brian Becker, the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, singled me out in the crowd and denounced me as the “right-wing media” for taking pictures of him and his comrades. I have covered his role in the “anti-war” movement for years and was evicted from one of his events.

There are several major themes of communist disinformation which permeate parts of the “conservative” movement. One is that because former President Trump was falsely accused of being a Russian agent, all allegations of Russian influence in the American political system are without merit. The second is that a U.S. alliance with Russia is possible and that American support for Ukraine is driving Russia into the arms of the Communist Chinese.  A subsidiary is that the Jewish president of Ukraine is a Nazi.

In the first place, the Russians originated the idea that Trump was a Russian agent. The Steele dossier which drove the FBI investigation contained Russian disinformation from Russian sources about Trump. All of this has been firmly established.

It’s a fact that the Democratic Party utilized that disinformation for the purpose of destroying Trump. But the Russians were behind it from the beginning.

What this tells us about the current Russian regime, led by former KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin, is that not much has changed from the days when Russia was Soviet Russia. Russia is as anti-American as the old Soviet Union. The invasion of Ukraine, first under Obama and then under Biden, reflects the old Soviet ambition of expanding territory and in fact conquering the world. It is noteworthy that Putin, who wants to re-establish the old Soviet Union, didn’t launch his second invasion of Ukraine under Trump. Putin feared Trump’s response. For his part, Trump had consistently advised the Europeans to do more for their own energy needs and defense through NATO.

When anti-communist analysts and security experts examined Barack Hussein Obama’s history of associations with unsavory characters and communist figures, they had to wonder if Obama is a Marxist mole or a communist collaborator. In one sense, it didn’t matter. As a candidate, Obama didn’t have to undergo a background security check. As president, however, he had instant access to our most closely guarded and classified state secrets. His fingerprints are all over the “Obama-Biden” documents discovered in various places under the control of Joe.

Obama’s 30-year history of associating with unsavory characters, beginning with communist Frank Marshall Davis and continuing with Jeremiah Wright and communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, should have disqualified him from getting a security clearance in the government that he wanted to run. But no official vetting of Obama was ever done and he didn’t require or even need a security clearance.

This is truly a major loophole in our constitutional system. It resulted in the election of our first Marxist president.

As we have noted on numerous occasions, candidates for federal office, in contrast to federal employment, do not undergo any background checks at all.

So while more secret documents are being discovered in the possession of Joe Biden, they originate with the Obama Administration. That fact tells us all that we need to know.

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) is suspicious, and so am I.

“Alleged classified documents showing up allegedly in the possession of Joseph Biden… I’m suspicious of the timing of it,” Rep. Johnson told Fox News’ Hillary Vaughn on Thursday after a second batch of documents was found in the president’s garage in Wilmington, Delaware, next to his Corvette. “I’m also aware of the fact that things can be planted on people…things can be planted in places and then discovered conveniently. That may be what has occurred here. I’m not ruling that out. But I’m open in terms of the investigation needs to be investigated.”

Planted by whom? More importantly, discovered by whom?

The question of discovery, or timing, is more important than who planted them, since they were discovered as Biden was about to launch a 2024 election bid and was already the subject of a “progressive” push to step down from the race. This is just too coincidental.

In early December, the “progressive” group Roots Action had unveiled a “Don’t Run Joe” campaign and proclaimed “…his prospects for winning re-election appear to be bleak. With so much at stake, making him the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer in 2024 would be a tragic mistake.”