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On his Newsmax program, Greg Kelly ran an excerpt tied to Eric Trump’s recently released memoir and forced viewers to face a reminder many in the mainstream media would rather forget: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s January 3, 2017 warning about the intelligence community. Kelly’s point was blunt and unapologetic — that moment deserved a national reckoning, not the shrug and spin we got from the legacy press.
Schumer’s line — “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you” — was not a throwaway soundbite but an explicit admission on national television about the clout and mindset inside our spy apparatus. He said it on Rachel Maddow’s program as incoming administration tensions were peaking, and the clip still makes it clear he believed the intelligence world could and would retaliate.
Conservatives have long pointed to that January 2017 timeline as the start of a dangerous campaign to neutralize a political opponent by weaponizing intelligence and leaks, and subsequent events — from the infamous dossier rollouts to the counterintelligence probes that followed — fit an ugly pattern. Members of Congress and commentators have traced those three critical early-January dates and warned they amounted to a coordinated effort to undermine an incoming president. Those aren’t wild conspiracy theories; they’re a chronology that deserves sober inquiry.
Eric Trump’s memoir, which Newsmax has been promoting and discussing, frames those early days as part of a broader assault on his family and on the popular will of voters who chose change in 2016. Whether or not readers agree with every anecdote in the book, the fact that mainstream outlets reflexively dismiss these episodes while acting shocked by later revelations shows double standards in real time. The memoir has put new focus on what many Americans already suspect: powerful institutions sometimes act with political bias and impunity.
Greg Kelly’s call — that “we should’ve had a national conversation after January 3rd, 2017” — is not mere cable theatrics; it’s an indictment of a media and political class that chose to bury inconvenient facts instead of policing dangerous concentrations of power. Conservatives aren’t asking for vendettas; we’re demanding transparency, reforms, and accountability so no future administration faces clandestine, politicized sabotage from the very institutions sworn to protect the republic.
The lesson here is painfully clear: when the guardians of the state start acting like partisan actors, the remedy is public oversight, not secrecy and shrugging denials. Voices across the right have been raising alarm about alleged misuses of intelligence for years, and those concerns have only been bolstered by subsequent disclosures suggesting groupthink and politicization at senior levels. If America is to remain a self-governing nation, Congress must hold real hearings, subpoena documents, and ensure those who abused their trust are held accountable.
This is about more than partisan scoring; it’s about preserving the rule of law and the integrity of American institutions for future generations. The clip Greg Kelly played is a reminder that the press and politicians have an obligation to examine power, not protect it when it is misused — and that duty still belongs to the people and to their representatives. If we value liberty and honest government, we cannot allow that January day to fade into the fog of convenient amnesia.
