A month before his inauguration, and shortly after he had finished a round of golf with Tiger Woods, Donald Trump was introduced to an adviser of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the chief advocacy group for American corporations. Stanton Anderson stood in the clubhouse of Mr. Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Fla., and extended his hand to the president-elect. Mr. Trump refused it.“You guys did everything to stop me,” Mr. Trump said, his face reddening, according to two people who were there. “I haven’t forgotten.”
In the two years since, relations between Mr. Trump and Washington’s biggest lobbying organization haven’t much improved.
The chill has hurt the U.S. Chamber, which for decades was the unmatched voice of industry. Its revenue has dipped, spending on lobbying and elections has fallen, and its large-donor pool has shrunk.
And some people think Trump will forget all about the enemies who tried to bury him in the Russia Collusion, and attacked his family, etc! Ha!
On the Warpath: Emmet Flood’s Letter Signals a New Phase
……… RUSH: Now, this Emmet Flood letter to William Barr I just excerpted to you, I think indicates that the White House now on the warpath. I think that’s why Comey had his op-ed a couple days ago, and the honeypot story in the New York Times about Papadopoulos, admitting the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign. It’s all starting to come together now.…
The Flood letter is important for three reasons. A, it will be seen. The country is going to see this at some point. The Drive-Bys are gonna try to ignore it and say, “It’s just nothing but, you know, typical lawyer letter to another lawyer.” But it was intentionally put out now to rebut the Mueller report.
The second thing I think is happening, the reason the Flood memo is important, this letter, it lays the groundwork for Trump to assert executive privilege by pointing out how they could have at any stage in the Mueller investigation, but that they didn’t. They cooperated. They turned over everything that was asked of them.
So here is now the absolute bottom line. Democrats want McGahn. They want McGahn because they think Don McGahn, former White House counsel, will be able to nail Trump on witness tampering. The White House will exert and declare executive privilege after the Democrats subpoena McGahn to come up and testify. Now, they know that Trump is going to invoke executive privilege. The Flood letter makes it clear that they’re gonna invoke executive privilege from this day going forward.
So I think, since the Trump team knows full well what’s gonna happen (they’ve got it all gamed out), I think you can expect (we can expect) rapid-fire disclosure of the inspector general report. I think we’re gonna get rapid declassification of the origination documents for the FISA warrants, this stuff that Trump’s gonna declassify. Barr’s investigation into the origination of the investigation… I think this stuff is going to happen rapid fire.
Excellent. That is very cheering. (I need to post on the Graphics thread, been lax.)