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Russiagate’s Damage To The Country Will Take Years To Realize
The media and Democrat Party have dug themselves so deeply in a hole, they must keep on digging. That’s absolutely terrible for this country, as has been this entire endeavor.By Willis L. Krumholz, The Federalist, March 25, 2019
The probe of Special Counsel Robert Mueller—appointed to investigate conspiracy theories that said President Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election—officially ended on Friday, March 22, 2019.“I don’t think it looks good… no further indictments,” said Bill Maher on his Saturday night HBO show. Maher tried to console himself. He repeated the brand-new incantation of the progressive faith: “I don’t need the Mueller report to know he’s a traitor, I have a T.V.”
Story continues below advertisementCalifornia Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell quickly promised Maher that the Democrat chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Adam Schiff, would haul Mueller in front of Congress with a subpoena.
Then, on Sunday, the contents of the report were released: No evidence of collusion was found between the Trump campaign and Russia. Leftwing media that had spent years pumping the conspiracy theory of Trump-Russia collusion made sure to add that the report “stops short of exonerating [Trump] for obstruction of justice.” Ergo, the report stays away from the patently ridiculous charge of obstruction, which would seek to politicize and decimate a president’s Article II powers.
But Democrats are making sure to stress that investigations into Trump are ongoing—in Congress, and in the federal prosecutor’s office in the Southern District of New York. And CNN promised the “Mueller report is just the start of a new Russia showdown.”
Millions of Americans have been led to believe that President Trump committed treason, and any day he could be led out of the White House in chains. They wake up every day thinking this could be the day that Mueller gets Trump. These poor souls should be facing a tough reality this weekend. But hold the Xanax, at least for now. The media and Democrat Party have dug themselves so deeply in a hole, they must keep on digging. That’s absolutely terrible for this country, as has been this entire endeavor.
Remember How We Got Here
If our country is ever to recover from this mess, we can’t forget how we got here. Russians were attempting to hack both the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee in late 2015. Whether the DNC was ultimately hacked or suffered an internal leak, the truth remains that the DNC documents and emails obtained by WikiLeaks showed the entire country that Hillary Clinton, and those around her, were corrupt and would bend the rules (or worse) for power. There was never a real and fair contest between her and Bernie Sanders.
As soon as the Clinton campaign realized its misdeeds toward Bernie had been made public, they blamed Russia. They immediately began putting out a narrative that attempted to say Russia had acted to favor Trump, which included paying Fusion GPS—a notorious propaganda outfit with ties to loads of so-called journalists—to create ties between Trump and Russia.
Fusion GPS then hired a former British spy, Chris Steele, to boost their credibility. He used a different British guy with ties to the Kremlin, Edward Baumgartner, who employed unknown Russians to write a series of Word documents that alleged Trump-Russia collusion.
Meanwhile, Clinton stooge Cody Shearer wrote other documents that alleged Trump-Russia collusion, and Clinton stooge Sidney Blumenthal disseminated those documents into the Obama State Department with the help of would-be Clinton administration secretary of state Victoria Nuland. The State Department people then gave those documents to the FBI.
In short, the Hillary campaign peppered the Obama executive branch with allegations of Trump-Russia collusion. The Obama intelligence apparatus, pushed on by Obama’s Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan, was only too happy to run with it. Jim Comey’s FBI then used those Word documents to get a warrant from a secret court to spy on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign aide, which allowed the FBI to spy on the rival political party’s presidential campaign.
Coordinated with a Media Influence Operation
The FBI’s involvement allowed Fusion GPS and the journalists it was working with to put out all sorts of stories before the election, meant to damage Trump’s candidacy. These stories alleged that the ties between Trump and Russia were so serious, the FBI was investigating them. For example, CNN and others ran stories about the FBI looking into Trump because there was supposedly a computer in Trump Tower that was communicating with a Russian bank.
When the FBI figured out that Steele and his boss at Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, were planting stories in the media, rules forced the FBI to discontinue ties with Steele. But they didn’t tell these things to the court used to get a secret warrant on the Trump campaign, and they continued to talk to Steele via Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department (DOJ) official whose wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS.
Fusion GPS didn’t just use the Word docs it had created to push the narrative of Trump-Russia collusion. Before and after the election, there were all sorts of set-ups. In but one example, the Russians who met with Don Jr. in Trump tower, a meeting often cited as a supposed example of collusion, were working with Fusion GPS. Fusion’s Simpson met with the Russians present both before and after that meeting, and even supplied the materials that the Russians handed out at the meeting.
In another example, Joseph Mifsud, the supposedly Kremlin-linked European who supposedly told Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton, likely has ties to Western intelligence agencies. And the Aussie ambassador who relayed to “U.S. officials” what Papadopoulos said that Mifsud said, has ties to the Clinton foundation. Then there’s Stefan Halper—a sketchy man who was for some reason on the Pentagon payroll, and highly paid at that—who approached multiple Trump campaign people in 2016.
An All-Out Effort to Pre-Empt, then Undo, 2016
Once Trump won, all hell broke loose. There was talk of stopping him with the Electoral College, and protestors wrecked parts of DC. Obama’s deputy attorney general Sally Yates sent FBI agents to entrap Mike Flynn, at the time Trump’s national security advisor, using a 200-year-old law that is never enforced, unconstitutional, and routinely violated by every incoming presidential administration.
The mainstream media was just as deranged. For the entire year of 2017, anything that could damage Trump, no matter how outlandish, was published. Journalistic standards collapsed.
Much of the special counsel appointment was based on the false claim that Trump fired Comey to end the Russia investigation, when Trump in fact said the opposite.To MSNBC and CNN, every spurious and anonymously sourced report, which was always called a “bombshell,” was a sign that the “walls were closing in” on the Trump presidency. CNN famously reported on a Trump Jr. email, which could have shown collusion, until they realized they got the date of the email wrong. ABC News anchor Brian Ross produced a false report that caused the stock market to drop, and was eventually let go by ABC over the issue. These are but a few examples.
It was in this Beltway hysteria that the Mueller investigation started. Trump fired Comey, because Comey was involved in the abuses of power that were occurring at the FBI. Among the things that were known to Trump at the time, this included a set-up of Reince Priebus, and appearing to threaten to investigate the president. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein—who recommended Comey be fired—then appointed a special counsel to investigate Trump-Russia collusion.
Much of the special counsel appointment was based on the false claim that Trump told NBC’s Lester Holt that he fired Comey to end the Russia investigation, when Trump in fact said the opposite. At the time, even many Republicans, especially in the Senate, supported Mueller’s appointment—which speaks volumes about who used to run the Republican Party.
The only reason Rosenstein was in charge of the probe, and not former attorney general Jeff Sessions, is that Sessions was forced to recuse himself, supposedly because he met with the Russian ambassador in his capacity as a senator, and briefly at an event full of ambassadors. At least one of the DOJ lawyers who told Sessions he should recuse himself was involved in the effort to spy on Page and the Trump campaign.
It would later be learned that FBI number two Andrew McCabe officially launched an investigation into Trump in retaliation for the firing of Comey, and because of foreign policy differences. There was no evidence whatsoever, aside from what was being peddled by Fusion GPS and which the FBI could not confirm, of any Trump-Russia collusion.
Even the instructions Rosenstein gave Mueller, when Rosenstein launched the special counsel’s probe, were improper and did not meet Department of Justice regulations.We also learned that Rosenstein likely discussed ousting Trump with McCabe, and wearing a wire to get Trump on obstruction of justice. Even the instructions Rosenstein gave Mueller, when Rosenstein launched the special counsel’s probe, were improper and did not meet Department of Justice regulations. In the words of Federalist writer Adam Mill, they appeared to say, “here’s a list of people involved in the Trump campaign—go find something on them.”
So Mueller’s probe was tainted from the get-go. Mueller, the FBI director before Comey, was the ultimate insider. He was friends with, or had worked with, many of the people in the Obama administration who used the Fusion GPS allegations to spy on the Trump campaign. Too many of the people Mueller hired were outright involved in coordinating with Fusion GPS in 2016, and thus had an interest in pushing the collusion hoax.
A Witch Hunt that Caught Many
Some people surrounding Trump were smarmy, and Mueller got convictions involving misreporting wealth to receive a loan, or failure to pay taxes. But one wonders what the results would be if all Americans had someone scrutinizing their financial documents. Al Sharpton, for example, owes millions in unpaid taxes.
In other words, if you were ever tied to Trump, you were treated differently. Flynn, for example, faces financial ruin. He was charged with lying to the FBI, even though the agents Yates had sent to trap him didn’t think he was lying. He only capitulated after Mueller began to go after his son.
If you were ever tied to Trump, you were treated differently.George Papadopoulos was charged with lying to investigators, because he said he hadn’t joined the Trump campaign on a certain date when, really, he hadn’t officially joined, but was aware that he would be added. Other witnesses, little known to the public, spent thousands of dollars in legal fees just to avoid getting rung up on perjury charges such as these.
Meanwhile, in just a few examples of abuse that have gone yet unpunished, Fusion GPS’s Simpson lied to Congress under oath, and Steele lied to the FBI. Comey and McCabe engaged in criminal leaks, as did other intelligence officials. Anti-Trump FBI guy Peter Strzok, who was added to the Mueller team, had his texts magically disappear between the day of the last Steele memo and the day Mueller was appointed special counsel. Other texts disappeared too. And oversight attempts by congressional Republicans routinely met excuses that information was classified, when it really just was damaging or embarrassing to the FBI.
To this day, Fusion GPS is being funded by Democrats, led by a former Sen. Dianne Feinstein staffer, to continue to push a collusion narrative. Court documents even show that Fusion GPS has paid, and may continue to be paying, journalists such as NBC’s Ken Dilanian who participate in spinning their narrative.
The America Hillary Clinton Hath Wrought
This chain of events has damaged the country in ways we don’t even fully understand yet. This thing won’t go away in a couple of years.
Real people—and loyal Americans—were harmed, like Carter Page. The harm to the country has been immense. Americans have lost faith in elections. Henceforth, every presidential election for two decades will be subject to wild and mainstream claims of vote-rigging.
Whoever loses in 2020 will claim the other side cheated or worse. That has always existed in politics, but now it is fully mainstream.Already, an astonishing near-70 percent of Democrats believe Russia manipulated vote tallies to get Trump elected. Almost half of all American voters believe there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Whoever loses in 2020 will claim the other side cheated or worse. That has always existed in politics, but now it is fully mainstream. Stacey Abrams, a Democrat running for governor in Georgia, has refused to concede. Democrat Andrew Gillum, running for governor in Florida, conceded then walked it back, only to concede again.
Regular American families who used to agree to disagree about politics are now at each other’s throats. After all, the media has been telling people that Trump is a traitor. How could any decent person support a traitor?
The Russia fiasco, aside from dividing Americans, has also furthered the divide between the Beltway and the rest of the country. Middle America realized how bad Washington DC is, if we didn’t know already. Things in DC are less top-secret than they are seedy. The nexus between Fusion GPS, the Obama administration, and Hillary’s campaign is astonishing, but it also isn’t. Americans now don’t trust any of their institutions, including federal law enforcement and the media.
The damage to America’s interests, and a rational foreign policy discourse, has also been far-reaching and yet to be realized. We shouldn’t be friends with Russia, but there are areas where cooperation with Russia—based on hard-nosed realism—is in America’s interest. But diplomacy with Russia is now taboo, which is helping China by strengthening and cementing a growing Beijing-Moscow alliance.
Americans also realized that the country was more complicated than Republicans versus Democrats. True liberals stood out, like Michael Tracey, Glenn Greenwald, and Matt Taibbi. We can disagree vehemently over certain issues, but these men, and those like them, are honorable and principled. If Michael Hastings were with us today—another liberal who asked tough questions about unelected people in power—he’d be proud.
Liberalism Is Dead
But aside from this remnant, liberalism is dead. It has been replaced by an insane, corporatist, identity-politics-fueled, and, yes, pagan mob that would only be possible in a country sliding towards post-Christianity. The new left is power-hungry, wants nothing to do with the traditional working class, and the ends always justify the means.
They are desperate to blame any atrocity or act of violence on conservatives, while ignoring or even excusing the acts of violence perpetrated by those on their own side. They are literally pining for the day that they can throw Trump and his entire family in jail. Maybe even as an old man, after he leaves office. Let that sink in.
Conservative voters are having a gradual epiphany. They are starting to realize what they are up against.That’s the America that Rod Rosenstein, Bob Mueller, and Hillary Clinton created. Yet there is a silver lining. Conservative voters are having a gradual epiphany. They are starting to realize what they are up against.
The epiphany is not limited to the left. Conservatives (some barely so) like Bill Kristol, Max Boot, Jonah Goldberg, and David French, also emerged as misguided has-beens at best. Kristol famously said he prefers “the deep state” over democracy because voters picked Trump. These men refused to let go of hopes of collusion, for which there was no evidence, due to their personal vendettas and distaste for Trump. The conservative movement is better off without people like Kristol and Boot.
Worse, constitutionalists like Sen. Ben Sasse, who might have legitimate ideological differences with Trump, refused to see the “Russia investigation” and the constant anonymous leaks as the abuse of bureaucratic power that they were. Too many elected Republican officials in D.C. share this problem. The sooner voters realize this, the better.
The leftwing media and our vast bureaucracy are an enemy to constitutional governance. Again, the sooner we realize this the better.The leftwing media in the country—which many conservatives used to take at face value—has lost all credibility. But this too has a silver lining. The leftwing media and our vast bureaucracy are an enemy to constitutional governance. Again, the sooner we realize this the better.
Democrats have dug themselves so deeply in this hole that they have no choice but to double-down. That may help ensure Trump’s reelection in 2020. And therein lies the answer to all of this. We should certainly reform the intelligence agencies, which are desperately in need of greater oversight, and seek to end selective enforcement of federal law. Trump should run in 2020 talking about this, instead of making the issue solely about his own experience.
But the ultimate solution is deterrence: make those involved in this hoax, especially those in government jobs who hold the public trust, accountable to our laws. Make every unelected official, Democrat or Republican, think twice about abusing his or her power in the future.
A pejorative description has been narrowed in application in this article postpublication.
Willis L. Krumholz is a fellow at Defense Priorities. He holds a JD and MBA degree from the University of St. Thomas, and works in the financial services industry. The views expressed are those of the author only. You can follow Willis on Twitter @WillKrumholz.
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79 Comments
5 years ago
what else would you expect when a crackhead is elected to the highest office in the country?
5 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
Can you believe this? She’s up at the Beacon Theater in NYC with Bill!
Previous speaking tours have been cancelled and ticket prices are as low as $6.00.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/clintons-speaking-tour-ticket-prices/
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
He has his wild years behind him, and she ends up holding him in her hand. Although this clown is
only junk, and she is of course (as a Scorpio) not interested in him, but in power in general. Scorpio
is the snake that skins and transforms itself. Her powerlessness (the worst for a Scorpio) has transfor-med her into the fundamental will to power. She makes this monkey appear for what he is, but strives
for a power he never possessed to put him (Lion) in the shade. Scorpios must not underestimate any-one, for they can wait like the snakes as they are under a stone until their chance to bite has come.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Leo and Scorpio, it doesn’t fit from the beginning.
Leo needs an audience, Scorpio absolute loyalty.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
While this gigolo takes life easy (and the ladies as they fall), she will never forgive him
for this inconsistency. It’s now her part of the game, she will throw flowers on his grave.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
I’d even bet she’s slowly poisoning him. Not quickly, but very very slowly. Until he
sits in front of her like a living corpse. And then she’ll say: “Not with ME, buddy!”
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
One must not forget that their humiliation was public, worldwide, and forever written down in
his-tory books. This means that she will humiliate him and leave the field as the winner. He
knew what he was getting into, but this high-grade fool chose the wrong one for his games.
One could almost feel sorry for him now, because he is not really a malicious person, only
simply incomprehensibly naive and in love with himself. So everything fits into its just balance.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Actually, the photo should say, “This woman is go-
ing to put me underground, and it’s my own fault.”
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
Psychologically speaking, it’s fascinating to see how once deeply humiliated people
can reinstate themselves on the moral weakness of their former “partners”, of course
at their expense. He had once a lot of energy, but she sucks it off of him like a vampire.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
All her striving is due to a “personal triumph”, so
she will march over corpses to achieve this goal.
5 years ago
Reply to
Marc
The first and most important corpse is of course her main enemy Billy. If he were to die
suddenly, as she had hoped, her whole drive would be at first gone. She would hypo-
crite sorrow, but then realize that this is more than just her revenge on Billy the clown.
5 years ago
Can’t wait to see the Clinton’s behind bars. I’m starting to lose count of the people they’ve had murdered.
5 years ago
Ea.crime committed by Shrillary ought to be investigated individually. Don’t lump them together.
5 years ago
Reply to
robert v g
Agree. Its far worse.
If Trump is smart enough , he should pass E.O to ban all terror/crime/drug linked persons from coming to America and those who advocate for them should lose their assets/citizenship and deported/jailed as terror agents.
Unless this is done there will be never ending cases . And America will become like canada/EU
Like this Left/Liberal Loons Run Country has been turned into ISIS/jihadi base https://tinyurl.com/y74v5327
But corrupt MSM will not talk about it
5 years ago
I’d bet Barr told Mueller, it’s time to wind this farce down and since Mueller hit a brick wall readily agreed.
Mueller was perfect for this hoax. He’s a dirty guy. Mueller did his best trying to break and destroy people.
Mueller’s task was never to investigate. He knew there was nothing there but hoped he could squeeze someone into lying and creating a crime. His task was to obfuscate. His job was to distract to deflect and divert American’s attention away from the actual criminals and criminality of not just the last eight years, but for the previous generation and made allot of money doing it. He probably destroyed evidence too. Now he will probably drift off into oblivion. I am not convinced Barr will want to appoint a special prosecutor for what needs to be done and Mueller refused to do.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
While this article does support the notion that people named
therein should be called on to “pay” for their conduct that precipitated, at
least from my perspective, the most divisive time in recent American history, I
doubt that will occur. On the other hand, I would rather see the Congress step
back and decide that governing this great country requires them to move away
from this divisiveness that has caused our nation so much turmoil, and begin
again to legislate for an on behalf of the best interests of the people. The
Democrats have got to accept that they lost, not because Trump stole the
election by some divisive manner, but probably because the many states that
voted for Trump saw Clinton as both an incompetent and a fraud. The
Congressional reps can privately come to that recognition, and, hopefully they
can all conclude that they now need to accept compromise and start behaving
appropriately. All issues can be resolved by reasonably intelligent discussion,
compromise or rejection. Furthermore, I have long believed that the problem we
face now is that the politicians view their positions as permanent jobs, which
was never the intention of our founding fathers; they knew that retaining
office would result in a constant grab for power, which would invariably lead
to greed. We must all get our states to convene a Constitutional convention,
where the states can limit the terms of all politicians, preclude elected
officials and high up administrative officials from being allowed to lobby,
require all laws to apply equally to all citizens including elected officials,
balance our budget, and return our government to wholesome governing for the
people and by the people.
5 years ago
Reply to
James Jones
Maybe…. I used to be an idealist on some issues too… not any more….
He puts heart into his replies. He’ll get there….Ignoring justice is destroying our rule of law and keeps the two tier justice system in place and may make it a precedent.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You’re probably right and maybe I could ease up on the bluntness. You believe in God, I believe in God, but IF neither of us did, tell me honestly in as coded language as you can, would you think that NZ was that far off his nut. The window from anyone’s perspective, is closing, and political action is dragging its’ feet about as much as it can. Time favors them not us.
You already know what I believe is coming, so NZ matters not, but surely many nonbelievers are bordering on what will become desperation. I don’t advocate for anyone’s blood, but a sober review of things leaves a bleak sense of the near future. I am losing track of the number of enemies the West has from both within and from without, and their successes are the result of a lot of planning. The opposition (us) is a ragtag, unorganized bunch of upset tweeters with one ray of sunshine who’s up for reelection in a year and a half, and fighting a homegrown enemy with one hand tied behind his back. The WH without Trump, is curtains for America and all others as well.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
For me it is about justice and ending this two tier system we have in place. If Hillary isn’t investigated and charged as well as others that broke the law, most people will continue to have no confidence in our justice system.It’s not about “revenge”. It’s about everyone being equal in the eyes of the law. Right now that is not the case.
Term limits won’t solve the problem imo. I used to think it would. Electing Trump has proven that an informed populace does solve the problem. Let’s say you get term limits, people still have to vote and be informed if they want to vote the person in again or not. I like Jim Jordan. He’s a good guy. As long as he is a good guy, I don’t care how many years he serves. He doesn’t represent my state but I wouldn’t want to see him punished with term limits because others are corrupt. Vote the corrupt ones out! Even if you get term limits you still need an active and informed voting base to choose the next one. I don’t think we will agree on this issue.
Seriously, if you have term limits and lets say it is a GOP situation. The GOP politician leaving will hand the baton to the next GOP winner and they could be as corrupt as the one leaving. No matter how you cut it, the political machine will be in place for the next one. At this point Pelosi is right, it’s not making much of a difference who gets voted in and that is because voters don’t pay attention and hold them accountable. Term limits won’t change voter apathy. There was a Tea Party candidate, forget the name… it took less than two weeks for her to flip and be an establishment candidate. The bigger problem I see is lack of character and integrity – not term limits.
For me it comes down to an informed voter. This is where I see allot of politicians screw up. They don’t keep their base informed as they are serving. It’s probably because they are saying one thing and doing another. That problem will still happen with term limits. If you have a good representative this is what they should be doing. We had a Congressman that did do this but LIED about what he did. I loved calling him and I’d get a staffer and truth challenge him. He was finally voted out and we got DEM. Our GOP representative was no better than a DEM so there really is no difference. NJ is hopelessly corrupt.
I think all lobbying should end. Lobbyists circumvent the voter all the time in importance. No money should be allowed from lobbyists and especially foreign money and no straw men. What representative will pass legislation on that? It is frustrating.
I like the idea of a balanced budget but you are asking legislators to put that in place and they won’t. I have no answer for that except to say we need it. That also needs legislation. I’d also like to see line item veto for the President. Again, legislation is needed for that. All I can say is we desperately need people with integrity, good character to serve as our representatives and they are in short supply. Maybe if it wasn’t so profitable to be a politician,we could get quality people?
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Believe me that I understand every thought stated by you and
those above, but, as you know, I fear for future generations of the citizens of
this great country. It is mortifying to me to hear comments from many among the
youth of America that they are ignorant about history, or are unable to make
what I believe are otherwise reasonable and right thinking decisions on what is
best for this country, and I too are concerned that our youth have lost their
ability to make appropriate choices and are being sucked in by others out there
who are speaking evil and hate by fallaciously taking liberties with the truth.
We are in a bad way. Nevertheless, maybe I am a dreamer, but I truly believe
that if the political parties can return to governing under fair rules like the
Roberts Rules of Order, and they put aside the adverse inertia being generated
by their constant overblown claims that the 2016 election was tainted, just
maybe we can begin to turn around the heavy divisiveness that is poisoning this
country. I remain a firm believer that term limits and what I suggested above
are a start in that direction for a permanent solution to what is causing great
suffering within our society.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
“The Democrats have got to accept that they lost…” No they don’t. And they won’t. NEVER will. And that’s the problem.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
Individuals cannot do what they have done without paying a price. The left – delusionals who regard themselves ‘progressives’ – need to pay a heavy price or the circus they caused will continue, even if on another tack. The likes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, James Comey, John Brennan and a whole host in the FBI, CIA and DOJ are garbage humans bent on destruction and need to be stopped. Collectively Congress is now so corrupt that it’s members will not ‘step back’ and act in the best interest of the people. Most of them are rubbish human beings, devoid of integrity, moral impulse or subject to a moral code. The treachery of RINOs will not go away until voters kick them out of office. The Democrats are now just pure garbage, the likes of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi just liars and lowlife. That they would tolerate trash Muslims among them says it all. No true Muslim’s allegiance is first and foremost to the United States, it is to Islam, just as with communists allegiance is first and foremost to Marxism. Yet these traitors are in congress and working toward the downfall of the United States.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
No, Dennis, these people have to be held accountable. If they are not & allowed to get off scot-free, our country is still at risk. They have to be held accountable.
The dimms will never accept anything. They have refused to work for our gov’t . They do not believe in the U.S. Constitution. They want it gone.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Agreed, it was two pronged. It should be investigated but there’s an even bet that “putting it behind us” is probably the way it’s going to go, although the forces motivating this garbage go deeper than simple corruption and will not just go away. The damage this has done in combination with so much more, is no small thing. That light at the end of the tunnel…it’s a freight train.
5 years ago
Reply to
James Jones
This what they did after the assassination of JFK “putting behind us” or as Gerald Dord said to the french president Giscard d’Estaing,the American people wanted a closure.This is why we are where are today.The time was then.the plotters,conspirators were never tried,or sent to jail.
5 years ago
Reply to
John
I wonder how many of us realize the immensity of what we are up against. This was/is way more than just a bunch of whining sore-losers. Yes they wanted power, they wanted the WH, but not to constitute a functioning government from their slant. As far back as Bush sr., their push was for the US to fall in line with the new order, and had the murderess made it in, America would be a shadow of itself today.
We are at the abyss and Trump’s presidency is holding us back. JFK saw them back then and referenced it in a speech he gave. When he tried to wrest their position from them and back to the republic, they had him shot, and even then, they had enough influence to conceal it and avoid prosecution.
They are much closer now to the fruition of their goals, but their attempts to oust Trump have so far failed miserably. We are too close now to 2020 for them to try anything desperate, and while they operate best in the midst of chaos, civil war may be a little too uncontrollable for their purposes (China has become more of a threat, and as they are not yet onboard with the “world agenda”, it is too risky). However, a second victory for Trump may be more than they are willing to tolerate.
Anyways, these are just speculations on the mechanics of these things, God is clearly in charge and has His agenda too. His though is right on schedule and flawless ; prophecy and world events are aligned like never before.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I agree. I believe when Mr. Barr entered his office as our new AG. He asked ‘mule-face’ to show him exactly what evidence he had. When he saw there was none, he told him to wrap it up.
This entire farce started with dirty old Joe & his son, Hunter, with Ukraine.. Then spread to the Russians, who were trying to undermine our 2016 election from both SIDES. The Mueller report proved they tried (unsuccessful on the Trump side, at least twice). Hillary’s was willing, since she was sure she would be president & could sweep it under the rug.
This total hoax is about to unwind & it’s going to get dirty. Why else would the dimms be fighting this so much? As they are a crazed dense brunch. People like Mueller, Schiff, Swalwell, Comey, Hillary, Obama, Brennan, & Clapper, who is about to spill his guts, orchestrated the entire hoax.
Barr doesn’t have to appoint a special prosecutor: he needs to simply prosecute these bad actors. Devin Nunes has all the proof’ that’s needed. He has been working on this proof for over 2 years, he has it all.
5 years ago
Our government will do nothing to those who conspired to have a soft coup against a duly elected President. It may be up to the people to bring justice to them.
5 years ago
Reply to
Navy_Vet
The government will do exactly what it did after the assassination of JFK.Cover everything up.Too many corrupt officials.
5 years ago
Reply to
John
– speaking of the vanguards of the OSS – CIA and other major leaders of the deep state. The foto of George H. W. Bush standing at the entrance of the book depository during the murder of JFK Sr reflects the scenario. The summary of CIA destruction, 1950-1980, by former CIA station manager, John Stockwell, provides some detail. Search on the phrase, 3rd World War Stockwell .
5 years ago
Russia-Biden Collusion …
Is a resume enhancement for Creepy Uncle Joe.
Much as I would love to ‘Lock her up’ … and all the Queen’s men and all of her horses …
It’s more likely Michael Rennie will step off a flying saucer on to the WH lawn.
We’ll be lucky if they rope in McCabe, Comey, Brennan, and a couple of others …
and get Mueller’s victims out of jail before we lose the WH and they get extradited to Cuba.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Everything is going great! Thank you!
Hope everything is well with you and yours!
Have a great evening Ziggy! 😉
5 years ago
The USA is a first world nation with the corruption of a third world nation. All because democrats and most republicans (“uniparty” and “rinos”) support themselves and not their country.
5 years ago
Reply to
Lise Meitner
This has been going on for years.Interestingly,Americans are now saying that America is a mafia state.
5 years ago
Reply to
Lise Meitner
I don’t see it as much different in Canada. Anyone watching the SNC-Lavalin scandal with the country’s leader, Justine Trudeau, lying, punishing the decent and supporting the guilty, endeavouring to cover for this corrupt company and always serving the interests of Quebec Province and failed companies like Bombardier that could not for any length survive without government handouts – at he taxpayer’s expense – sees festering corruption. Meanwhile the dimwitted media assures Canadians that theirs’ is an ethical country, so much more pure than most others – and most believe such nonsense! It’s bollocks, but don’t spoil the delusion. Long forgotten is the Bre-X mining scandal and Michael de Guszman, companies coming in with the best tender offers to the federal government – and then being handed only half the contract while the other half goes to a Quebec-bases company!!
When societies that once at least nominally believed in a moral code based upon Judeo-Christian standards abandon those standards, they degenerate in the way we are witnessing. Any decent, civilized society and it’s government would be repulsed and angered by the vileness of barbaric Islam, yet what are we seeing? Instead we are seeing Britain and European leaders not repulsed, disgusted and angry, no, instead they do their best to cater to the savages of Islam and punish those who protest against the savagery. Murder, grooming of young girls who are gang-raped, or young girls suffering female genital mutilation enrages any decent human being, but no longer do these include the Theresa Mays, Macrons and Jacinda Arderns of this world. Morally they are destitute and dead, and for it their societies suffer.
5 years ago
Yes.
We know all this. In fact most of us could have written this article ourselves. We are tired of reading about it, and want action.
So now that the Mueller report is done……
WHEN WILL THE REAL SPECIAL COUNSEL BE APPOINTED
??????
5 years ago
“I have a TV” OMG that defines his “knowledge” source: the MSM. Scary isn’t it? he defines himself as an MSM moron and thinks that it is knowledge of the truth. A leftist entrapped by the left’s own lies. Ironic!
5 years ago
God please send † General Flynn † back to Free Your People.
5 years ago
You know what that white stuff is on top of chicken sh*t? Just more chicken sh*t.
5 years ago
Excellent digest of the attempted coup d’etat against the Trump Administration and it is ongoing. The rot is so deep it has become necessary for Trump to declare a national emergency,suspend habeas corpus, and have these conspirators arrested and prosecuted without delay.
5 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
Again…good idea but it won’t happen. I go back to my original post on this matter:
“Looks like an ‘air-tight’ case to me. Problem is, who has the power, authority, integrity and guts to prosecute it?
Names please.”
5 years ago
You’re right Pam, I hope you can persuade the GOP to change course and fight before it is too late…how did Nazism take over Germany or Communism so many countries in the past, or Islamic Fundamentalism today? People didn’t fight back soon enough…leadership failed…our hour is very late already, due to Bush administration mishandling of 9/11 and aftermath with “Islam means Peace” delusions and Obama support for Muslim Brotherhood…public trials needed ASAP to change course…painful confrontations are sometimes necessary, can’t always “move on.”
5 years ago
Reply to
Laurence Jarvik
“…our hour is very late…” Much later than most people are willing to admit. Much too late. We’re done.
5 years ago
Reply to
WM1
If Mayor Giuliani could turn NYC around, then President Trump could turn the USA around, in my opinion.
5 years ago
Reply to
Laurence Jarvik
What I read, in this article, describes ‘the fundamental transformation of the United States of America’ by evil and malignant forces and elements hell-bent on bringing an entire nation to her knees.
With all due respect, I see no one capable of reversing that destruction except God Himself. And He has no reason to do so.
We’ve, long ago, abandoned Him. So He has abandoned us-which is, precisely, why we see all we are witnessing now. And it did not just begin with the election of President Trump.
This nation has been on a suicidal ‘death march’ for more than a century. God’s judgment will not be reversed by Donald Trump or anyone else for that matter.
The nation must repent and turn back to God. Unless, and until, that happens expect the worst. It’s coming sooner than later.
5 years ago
Reply to
Laurence Jarvik
It was easier to turn NYC around.Trump got no backing at all.By now it is obvious that all the politicains are in the pay of foreign entities.
5 years ago
Reply to
John
Nothing new. Read Henry Adams’ “Democracy” which is about Senators in the pay of foreign ambassadors…(also has an anti-semitic theme much like anti-AIPAC sentiment today). If you can fix NYC, you can do anything, IMHO.
5 years ago
NAIL THEM! All the way to their Negro Mouslem sodomite and Hillaryous & Bull.
The cackle left of Hillaryous and the Negro sodomite grinning ear-to-ear while looking at x-rated videos of Bull & Monica..
Surely a camera was running somewhere inside in the Oral Office.
5 years ago
Wow…..just, wow.
5 years ago
Looks like an ‘air-tight’ case to me. Problem is, who has the power, authority, integrity and guts to prosecute it?
Names please.
5 years ago
Reply to
WM1
This is not about power,authority but about integrety.Who is not corrupt?The FBI,the CIA,the DOJ… are all corrupt.They are the one who participated in the assassination of JFK.First coup.They like today were pointing the finger a the Russians through the Cubans.
5 years ago
Reply to
John
John, you and I have the integrity to see and understand that many wrongs have been committed and need correction, punishment and resolution. We deplore lawlessness.
But what we don’t have is the power or authority to prosecute it. That is why I mentioned it.
5 years ago
I wonder if anyone in the United States has worked how stupid and corrupt the United States looks after this disgusting and absurd left-wing created circus. If the idiotic CBC, BBC, and other networks overseas weren’t themselves so dishonest and longing for a conservative U.S. president to fall, they’d now be laughing their heads off over the idiocy that has taken place and disgusted by the dishonesty, slander and character assassination. Instead they, like the disgusting CNN and MSNBC with fools like Joe Scarborough, are already dreaming up chapter two of this destructive nonsense – with BBC and CBC and Australian Broadcasting Corporation salivating at the thought. BBC inviting on a fool like Ron Christie to add his two cents worth of stupidity says it all about BBC! The Russians and Putin must be howling with laughter over such American idiocy. This is what intolerance, irrational hatred and lack of truth does to people. It makes them collectively stupid! The guilty for this fiasco, not least Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, James Comey, John Brennan, Rod Rosenstein, Sally Yates, Bruce Ohr, and others must not be allowed to escape punishment, not least for destroying lives such as that of Michael Flynn.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
Well I did itmany years ago.People used to laugh at me.Keep telling them that the US was the most corrupt country in the universe.The Russians,Chinese, Iranians etc etc are all laughing.Americans have the best politicians money can buy.Now is the time to clean the Augean stables.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
Maybe Bill Maher is right, Americans are stupid. Just look at the POTUS.
5 years ago
Bolten is an old war hawk who’s fed off The Swamp all his life….
5 years ago
Bolten is an old war hawk who’s fed off The Swamp all his life….
5 years ago
This is one of your best columns, Pam. I’ll pass it around. You helped me get a solid take on the whole matter, which I often could not grasp. The mountain of clutter which Mueller’s “investigation” produced practically dissolved my ability to comprehend things and keep track of the conniving conspirators. Too many noisy clowns in the circus clown car. And now we have Nadler who doesn’t believe the contents of the Mueller report, and wants to subpoena everyone, even though Mueller badly wanted to find “collusion.” And couldn’t. It amounted to finding evidence of a wind storm on the moon. The “collusion,” however, if it existed, existed between the Russians and the DNC and Clinton and the MSM harpies.Thank you.
5 years ago
Reply to
Edward Cline
I remember seeing Geller on a MSM news channel pointing out how Obaam’s birth certificate was a forgery.. she’s not the brightest bulb in the box.
5 years ago
Hey Republicans, why don’t you investigate Benghazi and pizzagate!
Oh,and let’s not forget Uranium One. Lock her up! lol
5 years ago
When the truth comes out, there will be many many in Congress and the Senate incarcerated in addition, to the F.B.I. and D.O.J. Officials. The country will be shocked.
5 years ago
When the truth comes out, there will be many many in Congress and the Senate incarcerated in addition, to the F.B.I. and D.O.J. Officials. The country will be shocked.
5 years ago
“Millions of Americans have been led to believe that President Trump committed treason, and any day he could be led out of the White House in chains.”
And yet while Obama committed so many acts of treason I’ve lost count – at least 14 during his FIRST term in office – not only has he never been arrested and charged, but those in our government act like they’re afraid to even mention it! 
5 years ago
Russiagate’s Damage To The Country Will Take Years To Realize
The media and Democrat Party have dug themselves so deeply in a hole, they must keep on digging. That’s absolutely terrible for this country, as has been this entire endeavor.
By Willis L. Krumholz, The Federalist, March 25, 2019
5 years ago
Yes I think Obama, Hillary Clinton, Robert Mueller, James Comey, Rod Rosenstein,Jeff Session,Adam Schiff & More Should Go To Prison For The Russiagate
5 years ago
The main backer of this group of traitors needs to be held accountable as well. His name never seem to be talked about.
5 years ago
Let me ask you this??? Are there any HONEST politicians???? President Trump is the closest we have . The mole from Kenya was the worse. The Clinton clan is just plain corrupt. Clean house you say!!! It can’t be done. Unless President Trump declares martial law.
5 years ago
Nibiru, the 10th planet that circles the our sun about every 5,250 years came last year closest to us in Nov. and is circling the sun now, and will be coming close to us around July 4, and causing asteroid impacts, it is bigger that Jupiter, as stated in Revelations, a lot of destruction here, keep an eye out for it, and prepare to survive.
5 years ago
everyone involved with the HOAX should be Held responsible for what they did to America !!! including Hillary ^ Obama
5 years ago
President Donald J. Trump
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS AN AFFRONT TO HUMAN DIGNITY: With millions affected worldwide, human trafficking is a global atrocity that deprives millions of their universal human rights.
Human trafficking, also known as modern slavery, affects people from all backgrounds at home and abroad, placing millions into a sickening form of exploitation.
Per the International Labor Organization, there may be as many as 24.9 million victims of forced labor across the world, with millions going unidentified and unseen.
Children are especially vulnerable to this evil practice, as they account for 25 percent of modern slaves.
Victims are compelled to perform labor or commercial sex acts through the use of fraud, force, or coercion, reducing the value of human lives to that of mere commodities.
