Posted on 04/10/2018 4:51:57 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Yesterday, I wrote about the fascists coming out into full view over in London. A few hours after I posted that piece, the fascists came out into full view in America, too, as the FBI raided the home, office and even hotel room of long-time Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen, based on a referral from – guess who? – Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his band of merry Clinton/Obama sycophants.
The fake news media of course immediately knee-jerked to the assumption that the raid was solely designed to seize any documents related to porn star Stormy Daniels, so that they would all have an excuse to show more photos and tapes of porn star Stormy Daniels. Because that’s what the fake news media does.
Cohen, after all, is the Trump lawyer who executed the non-disclosure agreement with the porn star and wrote her a personal check for $130,000 as a part of that. Allegedly as a part of that transaction, he reportedly took out a second loan on his house, and supposedly Mueller and the New York U.S. attorney who is also involved are looking at possible bank fraud related to that loan, i.e., did Cohen misrepresent the reasons for taking the loan to the bank that loaned him the money.
However, as the afternoon and evening progressed, it eventually became clear through the fake news fog that the raids were more about Cohen’s interactions early in the 2016 campaign with an anti-Russian Ukrainian businessman named Victor Pinchuk. Pinchuk apparently contributed $150,000 to the Trump Foundation after Trump had delivered a 20-minute speech condemning Russia’s actions towards Ukraine in 2015, and Mueller is investigating whether or not Cohen violated any campaign laws in soliciting that contribution.
Ironically, of course, the Special Counsel whose ostensible job was to investigate whether the Trump campaign had coordinated with Russia to influence the election is now focused on the campaign’s supposed interactions with a Ukranian who hates Russia. Even more ironically, Mr. Pinchuk’s foundation gave more than $8 million to the Clinton Crime Family Fake Foundation while the Pantsuit Princess was Secretary of State, a situation that Mr. Mueller is spending exactly zero time looking into.
So once again we see Mr. Mueller ranging wildly outside the supposed reason for his appointment, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who made the appointment, exercising absolutely no oversight whatsoever to rein his attack dog in. Worse, Rosenstein signed off on the conduct of yesterday’s raids in advance.
Making matters even more repugnant, many of the seized documents would normally fall under the attorney/client privilege, but the FBI/DOJ thugs have a way around even that now-dead stricture of law. Supposedly, there will be a “separate team” of FBI agents who will review all the documents for potential privilege, and who will only turn over the non-privileged documents to the prosecutors. If any of you really believe that such a process protecting the client (the sitting President of the United States) is actually going to take place, I have some wonderful lake front property in the Mojave Desert I’d like talk with you about.
The FBI has clearly demonstrated over the last half-decade that it simply cannot be trusted, and that it is willing to engage in any abuse of law or citizens’ rights in order to protect itself. The timing of this raid could not be more blatant in that regard, coming as it does just one day after Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Chicago U.S. Attorney John Lausch to oversee the FBI’s document production to various congressional committees that the agency has been stonewalling.
For Mueller, yesterday was all about regaining control of the narrative, which has gotten away from him as his “Russia Collusion” fantasy play has fallen apart. What better way to do that than to send the FBI in to very publicly abuse a high profile witness who has been completely cooperating with his investigation for months?
Early this morning, President Trump issued the following pair of tweets:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Attorney–client privilege is dead!
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!
After yesterday’s sad events, it’s pretty hard to argue with either sentiment.
With nothing real to show for his “Russia Collusion” fantasy after almost a year, and facing the real possibility of going down in history as a failure, some are theorizing that Mueller actually wants the President to fire him in order to produce a constitutional crisis that might convince the establishment Republicans in congress to impeach Mr. Trump.
If that’s Mr. Mueller’s game plan, perhaps the time has come for President Trump to accommodate him and let the chips fall where they may. Rosenstein needs to go as well, and if Sessions and Inspector General Michael Horowitz don’t produce the long-long-long- delayed IG report in the coming days, the President might as well go full-on Saturday Night Massacre and can them all.
Because the fact is that the DOJ and FBI are completely out of control at this point, and have become active enemies of the rights of all Americans. That is a situation that cannot be allowed to continue.
Just another day in the Justice Department is a danger to all of us America.
That is all.
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If he fires either of them he’ll be impeached regardless of who controls the House.
Republicans will impeach Trump.
He doesn’t need to fire him. He needs to give him a “put up or shut up” date.
Mueller is out to destroy the United States.
Mueller has been endorsed by Democrats......and republicans.
Time for the well regulated militias to swing into action.
Trump gets Sessions to resign and run for his old senate seat. All nice and friendly.
Trump had his chance to get ride of this bunch up front but he blew it. Now he’s got to either figure out exactly how and to what extent he’s in charge or live with them and complain.
Trump should pardon Flynn and everyone else Mueller has indicted. Then he should pull a Gerald Ford and pardon EVERYONE Mueller has spoken to for all crimes they MAY have committed.
Fire them? No.
ARREST THEM!
Sessions, Rosenstein, Wray, and Mueller will do for a start.
Then everyone at the DOJ and FBI down to G-10.
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This is a witch Hunt.
That villege witch is still walking around free.
And occasionally falling down.
This ISN’T IT a witch Hunt.
That villege witch is still walking around free.
And occasionally falling down.
This ISN’T a witch Hunt.
That villege witch is still walking around free.
And occasionally falling down.
He is going to be impeached anyway IMO. Mueller has endless resources and time and is also moving to destroy Trump's supporters. The lesson here is to make sure that the unwashed understand that they will never again be allowed to challenge the Uniparty corrupt state. Trump needs to pick his poison because all of his options are bad. Go out fighting or win. Fire the coup plotters and raid their offices with military investigative agents. Who knows what treasonous documents might be found?
Mueller’s operation is now just a political espionage racket. He has long departed from anything resembling a criminal probe. He is now just dredging through Trump’s people and their papers looking for dirt that he can leak to Trump’s opponents, both ‘Rat and eGOP. He’s just using the force of government to bank up opposition research.
I have changed my mind.
Even though Mueller is begging to be fired. Even though, as Napoleon said, you should “never do what your enemy desires, for this reason alone, that he desires it”.
Even though I believe Ryan (Romney) and McConnell (Bush) are in on the coup, and are just waiting for Trump to do this.
All that is still true.
But I believe there is a (small) chance Trump survives in the Senate if the only charge is firing Mueller, and that, like with Clinton, that surviving a Senate trial will make him stronger for November, while if he waits for the false charges to be presented in detail with 24/7 media assistance up until November he will be convicted.
Of course, he has to fire Rosenstein and Sessions as well, and probably Wray, and probably Kelly, and live with the chaos - but allowing himself to be broken by Mueller is not something that the nation can survive.
President Trump is an extremely loyal guy who is more than willing to give those that help him a chance. The only problem is, that as a businessman he could call these people in and say "You're Fired" at any time when they didn't produce. In the cesspool that is DC, this is not as easy, and in the case of our DO NOTHING Attorney General, almost impossible.
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