Posted on 10/22/2020 5:01:21 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Just one more reason to thank John Ratcliffe. – The FBI did everything it could to influence both the 2016 and 2018 election cycles in favor of the Democrats with largely exaggerated claims about Russian interference, and completely fabricated claims that they made those efforts in coordination with the 2016 Trump Campaign and 2018 Trump Administration. That is a matter of historical fact.
Given that history, can anyone doubt that Christopher Wray, who led the raging dumpster fire agency’s 2018 Russia collusion smear effort, was about to do it all over again yesterday, just 12 days prior to Election Day? Unfortunately for Wray, though, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe is not on board with the program. He’s what the DC Swamp denizens like to call an outlier, a wholly inconvenient person of power who isn’t going along with the program.
When news circulated late Wednesday afternoon that the FBI was going to hold an important press event to discuss election interference by foreign enemies, those of us who have followed this stuff for the past four years had a single expectation: Wray was about to scream Russia collusion all over again.
But when we tuned into the event, the first guy we saw was not Wray but DNI Ratcliffe, who calmly laid out the case that, yes, Russians were interfering in the election as they have done in every cycle for the last 100 years, but Iran was also doing it and was in fact taking the most blatant actions of the two. There was no claim that either country was doing this on behalf of the Trump campaign, and in fact the Iranian scheme was designed to smear a right-wing group called the Proud Boys.
From a report at NPR:
Iranian influence specialists are behind threatening emails sent to voters in Alaska and Florida, U.S. officials said on Wednesday evening and suggested that more such interference could be in store from Russia.
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said the U.S. intelligence community believes Iranian and Russian operatives obtained voter-record information, which enabled Iran to target some people with intimidating emails based on party registration about how they’d better vote for President Trump “or else.”
The senders posed as members of the white supremacist Proud Boys and claimed they had voter data that revealed for whom their targets voted — but that was a false flag, the U.S. says.
Ratcliffe sought to reassure Americans about the integrity of their votes and the processes by which elections are run.
“These actions are desperate attempts by desperate adversaries,” Ratcliffe said, but pledged confidence in American elections and said, “You can be confident your votes are secured.”
Notice follows months of warnings
Russian influence specialists don’t appear to have used their voter data in a similar scheme, Ratcliffe said, but they may.
[End]
History tells us that were it not for the intervention by DNI Ratcliffe, Wray most certainly would have made every effort to pretend this was all a plot to help the Trump campaign in order to try to influence the outcome, in which he and his dumpster fire agency have a very vested interest in seeing Joe Biden win.
We know Wray came into possession of the Hunter Biden laptop right in the middle of the Democrats’ impeachment hoax late last Fall and decided to withhold it from the public. We know he did that despite the fact that it apparently contains all sorts of exculpatory evidence that proves it was Biden, not Trump, who engaged in “quid pro quo” efforts related to the Ukrainian government.
We know Wray allowed his dumpster fire agency to be used as Robert Mueller’s de facto American Gestapo, knocking down doors in middle-of-the-night raids, ransacking homes and offices and generally abusing the rights of American citizens during the Special Counsel coup d’etat attempt. We know that Wray allowed his agents to continue with the outright framing of an American hero, General Mike Flynn, that had begun under the watch of his predecessor James Comey. We know that Wray has steadfastly roadblocked efforts by congress, the President and the DNI to declassify hundreds of pages of key documents related to his dumpster fire agency’s actions over the past four years, roadblocks that continue to this day.
In fact, all you need to know about Wray is that bug-eyed Adam Schiff was all over CNN Wednesday night endorsing his credibility and slamming Ratcliffe. Talk about the kiss of death.
Due to all of his malfeasance in office and his utter failure to improve the agency’s dismal performance in other areas, it is very likely that Wray stands to be fired shortly after President Trump is re-elected on November 3. In fact, the Washington Post ran another story based on rumors flying around the DC Swamp yesterday indicating exactly that.
Wray knows that a Biden win is job security for him. After all, why would Biden or any Democrat fire a guy who has done so much to destroy the nation’s “premier law enforcement agency”?
Be thankful for John Ratcliffe, and for President Trump.
That is all.
Hunter was involved with FIB money laundering
and FIB-protected sex trafficking and child murder.
The FIB is without accountability or morals.
NONE.
ZERO.
Wray is going to be fired on November 4 no matter what. And I think he knows it.
If only there be ten righteous whistleblowers. Praying for PT and our country. The swamp is bottomless.
Wray is nothing but a lefty progressive FBI doxing director whose time has run out.
Barr will be glad to see the POS go.
The FBI had this laptop for nearly a year and did absolutely nothing. Yet if, as alleged, it contains child pornography, they could have verified this a day after they got it. But, instead, they gave Hunter Biden another year to do whatever scurrilous things he was doing, and mark my words, the FBI would never have raised a word in objection. It took a brave store owner and an ex-federal prosecutor to reveal this. So Hunter had a full year whereby he may have endangered children and this lousy garbage Gestapo did nothing. And don’t tell me the bulk of the agents are fine people - if you are a father, a mom or an uncle or aunt and you know this is happening to kids, you don’t sit there with one thumb in your mouth and the other in your rear and let it continue for a year. You speak up - and they were quiet as church mice.
Obama Trump to replace U.S. Attorneys
"I expect that we’ll have an announcement in the next couple of weeks with regard to our first batch of U.S attorneys," Holder Attorney General Giuliani said Thursday. "One of the things that we didn’t want to do was to disrupt the continuity of the offices and pull people out of positions where we thought there might be a danger that that might have on the continuity--the effectiveness of the offices. But...elections matter--it is our intention to have the U.S. Attorneys that are selected by President Obama Trump in place as quickly as they can."
Originally published by Politico By JOSH GERSTEIN 05/15/2009 08:34 AM EDT
Wray is dead man walking.
While I agree with the edit, I want to point out something that a lot of us don’t realize. The pool of people from which President Trump has and trusts is very very very very very small. The swamp is huge we all know that but I think a lot of us assume that he can just find somebody to fill the spot and that isn’t necessarily true. I think he puts people in these positions temporarily after doing all of the due diligence and all of the background check even though he knows some of them are corrupt. But he watches them like a hawk and he like investors in a stock market, know exactly what he is getting with no surprises. By that he can use as a springboard of decision-making knowing exactly the decisions they will make with no surprises, even if those decisions that they make are horrible and against the country at least he knows what they are in advance. During the tenure of the swamp person, like Wray, perhaps President Trump already has the real person picked out and they are studying how the swamp person does it and learning how to not do it...that’s just my take.
Him and the other Chris(Wallace the weasel).
CincyRichieRich to EyesOfTX
While I agree with the edit, I want to point out something that a lot of us don’t realize. The pool of people from which President Trump has and trusts is very very very very very small. The swamp is huge we all know that but I think a lot of us assume that he can just find somebody to fill the spot and that isn’t necessarily true. I think he puts people in these positions temporarily after doing all of the due diligence and all of the background check even though he knows some of them are corrupt. But he watches them like a hawk and he like investors in a stock market, know exactly what he is getting with no surprises. By that he can use as a springboard of decision-making knowing exactly the decisions they will make with no surprises, even if those decisions that they make are horrible and against the country at least he knows what they are in advance. During the tenure of the swamp person, like Wray, perhaps President Trump already has the real person picked out and they are studying how the swamp person does it and learning how to not do it...that’s just my take.
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Has a part two of my answer, this allows President Trump to have ready his answers and his next moves before the swamp creature has made his decision. This is a huge advantage of knowing the person you have put in place 100% And you know how they will act in every single circumstance.in a Sun Tzu sense, the swamp creature does not know this.
Where are the leaks for the past year while the FBI has been investigating Biden? We saw and heard leaks every day, from the day Trump took office. Before and during the Mueller probe, we were drowning in leaks and it seems we are now in a drought. (global warming?
This is absolutely right. When Trump sought to replace Comey (Scrotumtoter) he looked OUTSIDE the agency and was assured Wray was not a “Swamp” guy. Well, Wray was outside but was Deep Swamp all the way.
Even among people Trump trusts-—Don Jr., Ivanka, Jared, previously Bannon-—their personal knowledge pool of even remotely qualified people for the FBI director is limited. Sidney Powell? She’s a defense atty, not a prosecutor. BIG difference in attitude. Tom Fitton? Not even a lawyer. He would have instant credibility issues with a building full of lawyers. Rudy or DiGenova would never get confirmed.
So that poll from which Trump picks is very, very small indeed. Reagan lucked out in that he brought many of his key staff, including Meese, from CA. This is one of the drawbacks of being an “outsider.”
It looked like Ratcliff had a gun to Wray’s head when he was at the podium last night. Wray did not look thrilled about being up there.
Send it to Tucker Carlson...QUICK!!!!!!
Tucker Carlson last night found it curious that they talked only about Russia and Iran, and not a word about China.
We all hear how the vast majority of FBI folks are great and do their jobs in a fine manner.
Crappola! Too often the FBI has been found to be dirty. Just look at what they’ve been doing to The Donald.
The FBI has had Hunters computer since last December?
Reportedly has Hunter diddeling underage girls and doing drugs and the once vaunted FBI today is garbage.
Look at the pass the FBI has for decades given the Clinton crime syndicate!
The FBI used 20-something agents outfitted in full tactical gear to raid Roger Stone’s home before daylight. Stone is in his 70s and his wife is deaf. Christopher Wray was director of the FBI when this fiasco happened. This was not a judicial use of FBI resources. It was similar to killing an ant with a sledge hammer. Wray should be fired for this waste of resources alone. We can all wonder how much more waste exists in his agency.
The Roger Stone raid was political show time and CNN was invited to tape it. President Trump should summon Wray to the Oval Office and with live tv cameras present, demand that Wray explain to the American people what he did with the Hunter Biden laptop for the past nine months and why.
Then he should fire him on the spot and tell him that his personal items have been removed from his office and are already waiting for him at his home. He should require Wray to leave his FBI phone on the Resolute Desk and then be escorted to the White House fence. Wray can get home the best way he knows how, but not at taxpayer expense.
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