Foreign diplomats are still feeling burned after assuming Donald Trump would lose in 2016 — and they don’t want to be fooled again. So many of them are quietly preparing for and predicting a Trump victory in 2020. Some are even trying to game out who will be on the president’s team in a second term. The belief that Trump will win reelection — gleaned from conversations with around 20 foreign diplomats, international officials and analysts who deal with them — appears widespread.
“In 2016, nobody believed he was going to be elected. People don’t want to be stupid twice,” said Gérard Araud, a former French ambassador to the United States. ....... none who talked to POLITICO was willing to say Trump will lose. Instead, they pointed to three key advantages for Trump: He’s the incumbent, the U.S. economy is strong and the Democrats have no definitive front-runner to challenge him. (Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
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How's about that? .....Dems actually did Collude with foreign countries to generate propaganda to affect a Presidential Election.
They forced a bogus investigation.....and in typical Dem fashion, they accused Trump of doing what they did......
.......there are dozens of memos that make up an actual diary of moment-by-moment events, during the FBI
investigation of Donald Trump (as candidate and as president), documented by Obama's FBI Director Comey......
SOURCE: CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE | 4/9/2019 | SUNDANCE / FR Posted by bitt
A late day submission to DC Circuit Court in a FOIA case reveals the content of previously
unknown James Comey memos. Obama's entire anti-Trump operation is memorialized in writing:
<><> how Obama’s FBI Director James Comey wrote down the sources and code-names assigned;
<><> how confidential sources engaged with FISA coverage initiated by Obama's FBI;
<><> naming foreign governments assisting Obama and Hillary with their vile efforts;
<><> and the rollout plans for Obama's phony investigation....."by the book."
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During her ill-fated campaign Hillary bragged about “foreign governments” supporting her election.
Are these the same “foreign governments” Comey had assisting their efforts to frame Trump? (smirk)
Hmmmmmmmm.......that would mean Obama, Comey and Hillary were colluding with foreign governments.
As the Trump Justice Department's review into the now-debunked Russia collusion probe becomes more public, one issue likely to dominate debate is whether the FBI treated Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump differently during the 2015-16 presidential election. Exhibit One in that debate may involve a December 2015 event that has been kept from public view for most of the last three years. A half dozen sources with direct knowledge tell me that Clinton's presidential campaign was given a defensive briefing from U.S. intelligence that month about a possible foreign threat.
Government officials have known for months about the briefing but were forbidden from talking about it because it was classified. But in recent weeks congressional investigators and others were allowed to see a document where a reference to the briefing was left in an unclassified section of the memo.
My sources say the Obama-corrupted FBI was a participant in the briefing but they cannot tell me which foreign power was raised with Clinton's team because it remains classified. Several said the threat did not involve Russia, Ukraine or China though. FBI and Justice Department officials declined comment, and former Clinton campaign chairman and longtime Clinton crony John Podesta did not respond to phone and email requests for comment.
Whatever country was raised with Clinton's campaign, the existence of the briefing itself is likely to revive concerns, at least among Republicans, that political bias caused the FBI to treat Trump and Clinton differently during the last presidential election.
While the Obama FBI provided a generic briefing to candidate Trump about foreign threats, the bureau never gave Trump a defensive briefing during the election about its concerns that Russia was trying to compromise some of his campaign aides. Instead, the bureau opened a counterintelligence investigation and secured a secret FISA warrant to spy on some of the campaign's activities, including former adviser Carter Page.
The fact that the Clinton campaign was given the sort of defensive briefing Trump never received is certain to set off new alarm bells.
Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., have been pressing recently to force more transparency into the question of defensive briefings for public officials being targeted by foreign powers.
"The Department of Homeland Security has made clear that '[a] secure and resilient electoral process is a vital national interest.' An essential part of that process is ensuring that all candidates for office are treated fairly and are fully and equally prepared to address any potential security and counterintelligence concerns," the senators wrote in a letter to the FBI. "The apparent absence of any policy, procedure, or practice for conducting defensive briefings undermines that process by risking the appearance of bias or, at worst, causing actual prejudice to a candidate for office."
Expect defensive briefings to remain an issue well into the 2020 election.
Hopefully Trump’s team will be a lot more loyal to him and his policies if (praying for “when “) he wins in 2020. All that he has accomplished so far is even more amazing considering what he has had to contend with from the swamp, the deep state and the illegal attacks by the US intelligence organizations.
Hopefully Trump’s team will be a lot more loyal to him and his policies if (praying for “when “) he wins in 2020. All that he has accomplished so far is even more amazing considering what he has had to contend with from the swamp, the deep state and the illegal attacks by the US intelligence organizations.