Posted on 07/31/2023 1:37:48 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
President Donald J Trump has distilled the issues, events and consequences into an op-ed published in Newsweek [Article Here]. As President Trump notes toward the end of his discussion, “there must be a reckoning.”
“The report by Special Counsel John Durham makes clear beyond a shred of doubt that the Russia Hoax was the most atrocious weaponization of our government in American history. It was a crime like no other.
Seven years ago, I ran for office taking on all the most corrupt forces and entrenched interests in our nation’s capital. My agenda was an existential threat to a Washington establishment that got rich and powerful bleeding America dry.
I vowed to stop mass illegal immigration, terminate globalist trade deals, end the sellout of our country to Communist China, stand up to the permanent bureaucracy and the corporate media, and break the neocon addiction to endless foreign wars.
In response, an unelected cabal in the senior ranks of our government, in concert with their chosen candidate, Hillary Clinton, and their allies in the media, launched the de-facto coup attempt known as the Russia Hoax.
Their goal was to prevent my election, and failing that, to throw me out of office or sabotage my presidency, undercut my agenda in Congress, block my domestic reforms, and interfere with my foreign policy.
For nearly three years, they carried out a massive disinformation campaign and lawless persecution based on the monstrous lie that I was a traitor to my country.
These Deep State plotters spied on my campaign. They forged false evidence to get illegal surveillance warrants and smear innocent people through leaks to the media. They offered $1 million for a fictitious dossier written by a foreign spy to try to frame me with treason. They shattered countless lives.
The Durham Report proves that the key figures involved knew from the start that the Russia Collusion conspiracy theory was a lie. The FBI launched their witch hunt without a scrap of legitimate evidence—and when they came upon exonerating information time after time, they covered it up and kept the hoax going forward.
The sickness was driven from the very top. FBI Director James Comey constantly pressured agents for more surveillance and warrants, demanding to know over and over “Where is the FISA, where is the FISA?”
Barack Obama and Joe Biden were in on it, too. They were briefed in August 2016 on reports that Clinton planned to “vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian Security Services.”
They knew the truth, yet they put our country through hell.
As savage and cruel as the Russia Hoax was for me, my family, my staff, and so many innocent bystanders, the real victims were the American People.
The destruction this hoax caused to America is almost incalculable. It subverted our democracy, it threatened our security, and it endangered our freedom.
At a critical moment when we should have been reducing tensions with Russia, the Russia Hoax stoked mass hysteria that helped drive Russia straight into the arms of China.
Instead of having a better relationship with Russia as I worked to build, we now have a proxy war with Russia, fueled in part by the lingering fumes of Russiagate delirium. Ukraine has been utterly devastated. Untold numbers of people have been killed. And we could very well end up in World War III.
As the Twitter Files have proven, the Radical Left establishment also used the Russia Hoax to attack freedom of speech. They built a sprawling domestic censorship regime under the guise of combatting so-called “Russian disinformation”—which they quickly defined to include any content they did not like.
The intelligence community, the media, and the Silicon Valley tech companies then deployed this very pretext, “Russian disinformation,” to censor the Biden corruption scandal in 2020—censorship orchestrated, as we now know, by the Biden campaign.
In one poll last year, 79 percent of Americans following the story about Hunter Biden’s sordid laptop said truthful coverage of that wrongly censored story would have changed the outcome of the election. Our country is now paying a very steep price.
Perhaps most dangerous of all, the Russia Hoax normalized the weaponization of law enforcement against the Left’s political enemies. The Radical Democrats and their media partners now cheer as Biden’s DOJ demands the FBI investigate parents at school board meetings, deploys heavily armed teams to arrest pro-life activists, and pursues an all-out persecution of Joe Biden’s leading opponent for the presidency.
These corrupted agencies have interfered in every election since 2016—and they are interfering in the 2024 election before our very eyes.
There must be a reckoning. Accountability now lies in the hands of the voters. The Durham Report has made the stakes abundantly clear, and now the choice is ours: either the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.”
Pretty good opinion piece. If Trump would stick to writing things like this (even if actually written by others) instead of constantly launching snide insults almost always aimed at other Republicans on his Twitter site, he might win a few of his supporters back.
But, on the Russiagate thing, Trump really deserves a lot of the blame for Mueller being appointed, himself, by way of his Sessions appointment to AG. I’m sorry if that makes people mad, but for those who don’t remember, Sessions famously recused himself, leaving another Trump appointee, Rod Rosenstein, in place to appoint Mueller.
It came out later in testimony that Trump never even asked Sessions whether he would recuse himself, before appointing him, even though the sprouts of the Russiagate investigation were already evident. He should have made absolutely sure WHOEVER he was appointing as AG, was going to be his wingman on such issues.
Even worse, according to reports, Sessions offered his resignation to Trump, immediately after he recused himself. Even turned in the resignation letter, which Trump took to review, but then told Sessions he wasn’t accepting it. Obviously, he should have, as it was years later before Mueller was ever reigned in.
I get it that Trump was probably overwhelmed at the time, and had already just canned his National Security Advisor Flynn, and didn’t want to fire his new Attorney General almost immediately afterward, but the selection of Sessions as AG, had as much to do with the Russiagate investigation getting out of control than anything.
A lot of you will also be mad that you think I’m nitpicking on Trump, when I should only be mad at the FBI. Well, to that I say, I was mad at the FBI on here for years, while Trump was President, and a lot of good that did. Basically nothing’s changed. So I’m just mad at the whole situation now. I want some new blood in DC. ANYONE who was in a position of power there the last 5 years needs to go.
You truly believe Trump is running a shadow White House from Mar-a-Lago and retains full control of the military.
This is why I love this place!
Mmmmm........not sure what you are getting at. The military are busy running in high heels races.
That's not a real position of power. He was never even a committee chair, or close to it.
- Nikki Haley was...President Trump's UN Ambassador
That IS a position of power. Don't want her anywhere near DC again.
- Mike Pence was...
VICE PRESIDENT. We shouldn't want ANY of the people who were in those types of positions back. They FAILED. And were actually even embarrassments.
I guess Vivek is your man.
That phony can't even answer the question on how many times he's voted, even at his age. He's obviously a cutout fraud.
I would follow this man to the gates of Hell and beyond.
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Wow, Lurker. That Trump opinion piece in Newsweek is a one for the history books. It clarifies in a few short sentences exactly what we’re fighting for.
Tack this one on the wall alongside Lincoln’s Gettysburg address.
While his RINO competitors are fighting for who is the most “anti-woke”, President Trump brings the focus back to the true existential fight on our hands. The very survival of our Republic and freedoms is at stake!
LOL
David Corn
@DavidCornDC
Newsweek just allowed itself to be used as a disinformation platform by a man who aided and abetted an attack by a foreign adversary on the United States. It published a piece chockfull of lies and misrepresentations. This is propaganda. Disgraceful.
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1686153598315458560
and, you may well get the opportunity. The scum sucking bottom feeders aren’t going to go down with out a fight. (and no, they never fight fair..)
Agree.
“DeSantis doesn’t need to pen whiny “woe is me” op-eds in Newsweek. He’s got actual conservative accomplishments in his resume.”
you get funnier with each passing day! thanks for the daily injection of levity ... we don’t laugh enough around here and your posts really help a lot ... please keep up the good work!
Thanks for the ping - I would not have wanted to miss this one...
GFY!!
I agree. I support him completely but do get tired of hearing him, or anyone for that matter, go on and on about how much money he has. I turned on the PA rally for about a minute the other night and that’s all he talked about. Of course, it was only a minute but if he would get off “me, me, me” and just hit the facts on the corruption, what his plans are it would be fantastic. But the 2024 is already done, the left has the votes tabulated already
Yes, the artwork, but sometimes we need to search for the spiritual meaning of things. It’s really up to Trump more than his followers to declare how much he relies on God’s help, and of course his background makes this a bit of a leap of faith to say the least, but if not Trump, then who?
Jesus Christ is not eligible to be president but that’s the sort of outcome needed to sort this mess out. A servant of God is the next best thing.
But yes, the artwork is a bit much. Even so, if you try to imagine similar art built around Joe Biden, it would be an instant fail. The eagle would be saying, “the guy’s a crook” and biting his hand.
When the abortion decision came down, Trump gave God the credit.
Now, honestly, if any of our super Christian past Republican President had been in the same position, would any of the credited the Lord in that way ?
Now I don’t claim Trump as some ultimate Christian Holy Man. He doesn’t claim that for himself.
But I’d rather have Trump than a snake like Pence, with the Bible in one hand, and a black hat in the other.
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