On March 25 I posted the thought The
Coup Attempt Will Continue. After the Mueller Report sunk Leftist-Dem dreams of enough fodder to
impeach President Trump, I knew future impeachable fabrications were in store.
Today I discovered
Mark Alexander’s similar yet more erudite thoughts concluding phase two is on
the way. Here is the cross post originally from The Patriot Post.
JRH 3/27/19
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The Coup, Phase Two: Taking Trump Down
"Time to investigate the Obama officials who
concocted and spread the Russian conspiracy hoax."
Mar. 27, 2019
Email Alert sent 3/27/2019
1:33 PM
“No compact among men … can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable,
and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of
parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of
boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted
morals on the other.” —George Washington (1798)
The special counsel’s investigation of
President Donald Trump’s alleged
collusion with Russia to influence the 2016 election has concluded. Attorney
General William Barr released to Congress his “principal conclusions”
regarding Robert Mueller’s nearly two-year probe, noting most succinctly: “The
Special Counsel’s investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone
associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to
influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”
According to Barr, “The Special Counsel issued more than
2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants, obtained more than 230
orders for communication records, issued almost 50 orders authorizing use of
pen registers, made 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence, and
interviewed approximately 500 witnesses.” All that notwithstanding, Barr says
Mueller “did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it,
conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite
multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump
campaign.”
In other words, the setup for this investigation was
designed to derail Trump’s agenda and seek evidence that would lead to his
impeachment. It has certainly been a distraction from his agenda. But while
there is no evidence — zero evidence — of collusion regarding
the 2016 election, Democrats did use the Mueller probe to influence the outcome of the 2018 midterm elections.
President Trump responded to the investigation’s conclusion,
noting, “It was a false narrative. It was a terrible thing. We can never let this
happen to another president again.” He added, “There are a lot of people out
there that have done some very, very evil things. Very bad things. I would say
treasonous things against our country. And hopefully the people that have done
such harm to our country … those people will certainly be looked at.”
Regarding Russian interference, I’ve stated previously that
Russia has been trying to influence the politics of the United States since 1917. And as noted above,
the Russians did so with great success in 2018, with the unwitting collusion of
the Democrat Party. The question
this raises is whether Vladimir Putin baited the Demos into this inquiry,
knowing it would hinder Trump’s agenda — most particularly his policy toward
Russia and China. Is he that smart, or are they that dumb?
Seeding the Mueller investigation was Phase One of the
Democrats’ attempted coup of Donald Trump. So where will they take it from
here, and how will Republicans respond?
Before answering those questions, let’s briefly review
the origins of and motives for the Mueller
investigation.
A coup d'état in a democratic republic
refers to an effort by a political faction to seize power in violation of a
government’s constitutionally prescribed electoral process for party
transition. I have previously covered such a coup by key government
officials who colluded to, in effect, overthrow the Trump administration by
setting Trump up for investigation and impeachment.
In short, the conspirators were Barack Obama (with whom
the plan originated), Hillary Clinton and her
DNC operatives, former FBI Director James Comey and his high-ranking co-conspirators, former Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein, former CIA
Director John Brennan, who repeatedly asserted Trump was guilty,
and a cast of less-corrupt characters.
Time
For Real Witch Hunt to Begin (Crooked Hillary closeup)
There are two reliable and detailed open-source timelines on
the government collusion against Trump. The first is the well-documented outline by Republican National Committee
research. A second and more concise timeline was
published by The Wall Street Journal.
So where to from here?
It appears that Republicans are going to go on the offensive.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham is reiterating his
call for the appointment of another special counsel: “I’m going to get answers
to this [government corruption]. I’d like to find somebody [who] can look into
what happened with the [Carter Page] FISA warrants, [and] the
counterintelligence investigation. … What makes no sense to me is that all of
the abuse by the Department of Justice and the FBI, the unprofessional conduct,
the shady behavior — nobody seems to think that’s [very] important. Well,
that’s gonna change. … I hope Mr. Barr will appoint somebody outside the current
system to look into these allegations, somebody we all trust, and let them do
what Mueller did.”
Referring to the abuse of the FISA warrant process, Graham
said, “Was it a ruse to get into the Trump campaign? I don’t know but I’m going
to try to find out.”
Likewise, Sen. Rand Paul declared, “Time to investigate the
Obama officials who concocted and spread the Russian conspiracy hoax! I’m very
concerned that it’s becoming more clear that the Obama administration was able
to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on our campaign based on phony opposition
research from the Clinton campaign. Having federal law enforcement spy on a
presidential campaign based on phony campaign research is really distressing
and the true untold story.”
Wall Street Journal political analyst William McGurn
is calling out Obama intelligence chiefs who
set Trump up: “In light of Mr. Mueller’s findings, there are only two ways to
interpret these actions and statements from senior members of the intelligence
community. The first is that they got played because they were incompetent… But
there’s something even worse than an intelligence community that has been
played. It’s an intelligence community that chose to play along simply because
its members hated Donald Trump.”
Political journalist Sharyl Attkisson concurs: “If [James] Clapper,
Brennan, [Susan] Rice, [Samantha] Power, [and] Comey genuinely believed Trump
‘colluded’ with Russia and he didn’t, what does that say about the judgement of
our one-time top intel types?”
Former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy concludes: “In sum, we
have endured a two-year ordeal in which the president of the United States was
forced to govern under a cloud of suspicion — suspicion of being a traitor, of
scheming with a foreign adversary to steal an election. This happened because
the Obama administration — which opened the probe of the Trump campaign, and
which opted to use foreign counterintelligence spying powers rather than give
Trump a defensive briefing about suspected Russian infiltration of his campaign
— methodically forced its suspicions about Trump into the public domain.”
McCarthy is also calling the bluff of Trump’s Demo
antagonists clamoring for the full Mueller report. “Let’s have full
disclosure,” he says. “Mueller’s report in addition to the FISA applications;
the memoranda pertinent to the opening and continuation of the investigation;
the testimony in secret hearings; the scope memorandum Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein issued on August 2, 2017, after failing to cite a crime when he
appointed Mueller — let’s have all of it.”
In addition to calls for another special prosecutor, we soon
expect the second part of the report from
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz — the part regarding the
FBI’s abuse of FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, as well as the Clinton campaign’s collusion with
those FBI officials. The first part of the Horowitz investigation concluded
that Comey and assorted deep-state operatives provided cover for Clinton,
using their offices to undermine Trump’s campaign.
As for the Democrats … it’s on to Phase Two.
Knowing full well that the Mueller report would be a dry
well with no evidence to impeach Trump for colluding with the Russians,
Democrats have been readying Phase Two of their charade — the assertion that
Trump is impeachable for obstruction.
This will be a heavy lift, since Mueller has now concluded that there was no
crime. And why would Trump (or anyone else) attempt to obstruct an
investigation into a crime that never took place?
Comey has an “answer” for that: “The notion that obstruction
cases are somehow undermined by the absence of proof of an underlying crime —
that is not my experience in 40 years of doing this, nor is it the Department
of Justice’s tradition. Obstruction crimes matter without regard to what you
prove about the underlying crime.”
Of course he’d say that — he’s got books to sell.
But Democrats don’t actually have to undertake impeachment proceedings to continue
obstructing Trump’s agenda; they just have to keep the collusion delusion alive.
Rallying their reliable constituency of “true believer”
dunces, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
declared: “Attorney General Barr’s letter raises as many questions as it
answers. The fact that Special Counsel Mueller’s report does not exonerate the
president on a charge as serious as obstruction of justice demonstrates how
urgent it is that the full report and underlying documentation be made public
without any further delay. … The American people have a right to know.”
Schumer-Pelosi-- The
Waxed Demo Duo
They then issued a “one week” ultimatum for release of the
report by April 2nd, knowing it will take Barr several weeks to redact sections
that reveal sources and methods. This is a set-up to assert that Barr is
colluding with Trump to delay release in order to conceal evidence of
obstruction. And, once released, all of the redacted sections about sources and
methods will be fodder for the same collusion assertion.
In lockstep, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler
(D-NY) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) parroted
the Pelosi and Schumer complaint: “Your four-page summary of the Special
Counsel’s review is not sufficient for Congress, as a coequal branch of
government, to perform [its] critical work. The release of the full report and
the underlying evidence and documents is urgently needed by our committees to
perform their duties under the Constitution.”
They are also demanding that Barr testify before their
committees: “We must hear from AG Barr about his decision-making and see all
the underlying evidence for the American people to know all the facts.”
Of course, all this newfound Democrat concern that “the
American people have a right to know” and about “duties under the Constitution”
warrants endless eye rolls.
Nadler insists: “President Trump is wrong. This report does
not amount to a so-called total exoneration. … There must be full transparency
in what Special Counsel Mueller uncovered to not exonerate the president from
wrongdoing. DOJ owes the public more than just a brief synopsis and decision
not to go any further in their work.”
Recall that Nadler concluded, “It’s clear that the campaign
colluded, and there’s a lot of evidence of that.”
Schiff insisted, “The Russians offered help, the campaign
accepted help, the Russians gave help, and the president made full use of that
help, and that is pretty damning.” He concluded there was a cover-up “of a size
and scope probably beyond Watergate.”
My friend Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) is calling for Schiff to step down
as House intel chairman: “Many, many times he mentioned that there was this
credible evidence that he had seen and that he had verified, and after a
two-year, lengthy investigation by a very respected prosecutor, we have no
evidence of collusion. In fact, the only evidence of collusion has been between
the liberal media and the DNC to throw the 2020 election.”
Watch Nadler and Schiff turn on Mueller, as they will on
Barr.
Over in the Senate, Richard “Stolen Valor” Blumenthal (D-CT)
led the charge: “The evidence is pretty clear that there was collusion between
the Trump campaign and the Russians.” Days ahead of the Mueller report, he
asserted, “There are indictments in this president’s future. They’re coming.”
The Senate 2020 Demo presidential candidates also got the Pelosi/Schumer memo,
all echoing similar accusations of guilt — much the same assumption of guilt
members like Kamala Harris and Cory Booker applied in their effort to defeat Brett Kavanaugh.
And predictably, a freshman Democrat, Rep. Katie Hill
(D-CA), who was among the 2018 herd that was elected on the collusion lie,
insists, “We have the evidence over the last two years that the Mueller
investigation was not covering that is highly, highly suspicious.” I can’t wait
to hear all about it!
All this, of course, amounts to a continuation of the
Democrats’ “Hate Trump” platform. They have
nothing else to offer beyond their insistence that Trump stole the 2016
election, that he’s an illegitimate president, and that our nation’s very
survival hinges on their retaking the White House in 2020.
But will Democrats outside the Beltway develop
chronic collusion fatigue? Apparently some Demos are concerned about that.
Signaling a partial pivot from collusion to the so-called “Affordable Care Act,” Pelosi says the House will return to
the health-care debate. “We’ve never taken our focus off the ‘For the People’ agenda,” she
declared. “Never,” except for always. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC)
actually dismissed Mueller: “I believe that the Mueller report has been done.
It’s a chapter that’s closed. This administration opened a new chapter when it
moved to completely invalidate the Affordable Care Act.”
Beyond the Demo damage, the best collateral damage to come
out of the Mueller report is that of the Leftmedia propagandists, who’ve taken a huge hit for their
brazenly biased reporting during this whole affair. As The Hill notes, “The breathless coverage
amplified the sense that Trump and some of his family members would go down for
crimes, yet in the end, Mueller reported that he found no evidence of a
conspiracy.”
The Wall Street Journal called it “A Catastrophic Media Failure,”
noting, “America’s blue-chip journalists botched the entire story, from its
birth during the presidential campaign to its final breath Sunday — and they
never stopped congratulating themselves for it.”
As National Review’s Rich Lowry correctly notes: “The 3
biggest losers from the Mueller report in order — the media, the media, the
media.”
Since May of 2017, The New York Times, The Washington Post,
CNN, and MSNBC posted a combined 8,507 articles and reports citing Mueller’s
investigation. That’s an average of about 13 articles every day.
Recall that the Times and WaPo shared the 2018 Pulitzer
Prize for “award winning” journalism,
specifically “for deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public
interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian
interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump
campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual
administration.”
The Pulitzer Prize long ago lost its luster, however, just
as has the Nobel Peace Prize. Both of these once-esteemed awards are now
grossly tarnished partisan trophies for leftist political hacks.
Of the Leftmedia cable talkinghead platforms, the most
aggressively biased has been CNN. It repeatedly trotted out “experts” like
Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, who said with great authority, “We do know
that Donald Trump Sr. has lied throughout the investigation, that many, many
things he has said turn out to be untrue.”
Except he didn’t.
After the Mueller report dropped (and CNN’s viewership with
it), Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani confronted CNN’s Chris Cuomo about his
network’s bias: “You guys on this network have tortured this man for two years
with collusion and nobody has apologized for it. Before we talk about
obstruction, apologize for the overreaction of collusion… I’m outraged by the
behavior of these networks. Collusion, collusion, collusion, collusion,
collusion, collusion. No collusion, Chris. No collusion. Apologize!”
Good luck with that, Rudy.
Leftist Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz also called
out CNN: “I have been right from day one… It’s time for them to fess up. It’s
time for CNN to issue an apology. CNN banned me from their air because I was
being too fair. I was trying to assess what the essential issue was, and I
wasn’t being partisan. They didn’t want that.”
Good luck with that, Alan.
According to revered journalist Brit Hume: “We in this
business need to look back and say how in the world did several major news
organs, networks, newspapers and so on, devote so much time to what turned out
to be utterly baseless speculation about the most serious crime you can
imagine, mounting in some cases in the accusations we heard in some
conversations to treason? It is the worst journalistic debacle in my lifetime.
I’ve been in this business for about 50 years. I’ve never seen anything quite
this bad last this long. It was a terrible thing. It needs to be investigated.
There needs to be a lot of soul-searching among many members of the media today
and going forward.”
I couldn’t agree more. But it won’t happen.
As to how a handful of high-ranking government officials,
the Democrats in Congress, and the Leftmedia were able to perpetuate this
bald-faced collusion lie for the past two years: All Americans of every
political stripe should be gravely concerned about what happened here. And, as
President Trump said, “We can never let this happen to another president
again.”
Semper Vigilans Fortis
Paratus et Fidelis
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776
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