Posted on 03/18/2018 5:17:34 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
While the fake news media outlets like CNN and MSNBC spent all day Saturday trying to brainwash the public into believing Andrew McCabe is pretty much as pure as the Virgin Mary, and that he was fired for purely political reasons, it’s important to remember the facts we do know about him:
This is a man who has spent his entire career making a government salary, and yet somehow has managed to accumulate a reported net worth in excess of $11 million;
- McCabe’s firing was brought about via a recommendation from the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which is populated mostly by people left over from the Obama Administration;
- The OPR’s firing recommendation was based on a finding from an investigation conducted by the DOJ Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, who was originally hired for his job by…wait for it…Barack Hussein Obama;
- That finding by the IG – that he lied to the IG’s inspectors about leaking to the media – is just one of multiple examples of improper behavior we know McCabe has been involved in over the last few years;
- McCabe was also up to his ears in the efforts by the DOJ/FBI anti-Trump cabal to mislead the FISA court in seeking warrants to spy on the Trump Campaign during 2016;
- We know that McCabe, after receiving information in September 2016 that Huma Abedin had been forwarding classified emails from Hillary Clinton’s illegal server to her pervert husband, Anthony Weiner, so he could print them out, sat on that information for a full month before being forced to do something with it;
- We know that McCabe probably ordered Peter Strzok to alter his official 302 report related to his January 24, 2017 interview with General Mike Flynn, in an effort to entrap Flynn in a perjury charge;
- And we know that McCabe probably perjured himself before congress when testifying about his role in all these things last year.
Despite the professionally-written talking points that McCabe and the deep state fake news media are reciting in unison, President Trump played literally no role whatsoever in McCabe’s firing. McCabe was relieved of his duties thanks to the result of a 14-month-long investigation conducted by Obama appointees that led to a firing recommendation that came from Obama holdovers within the Department of Justice.
The truth is that the process that led to McCabe’s ultimate firing is a sadly rare example of the government processes working exactly as they are set up to work, a purely bureaucratic process from beginning to end with basically no political interference at all. Trust me, if President Trump had had his way, Andrew McCabe would have been looking for new employment about 9 months ago.
Meanwhile, the flood of outrage coming from the Obama-era deep state actors who will also most likely find themselves in personal jeopardy as all these investigations come to a head in the next few months was as hyperbolic as it was predictable.
Fired FBI Director and aspiring future Dancing With the Stars participant James Comey started the hit parade with:
James Comey ✔ @Comey Mr. President, the American people will hear my story very soon. And they can judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not.
Obama CIA Director and noted drama queen John Brennan, emboldened by Comey’s act of deep state Twitter heroics, chimed in with this outright seditious screed:
John O. Brennan ✔ @JohnBrennan When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you.
After Brennan’s outburst – which should serve as the basis for a Secret Service investigation – famous serial felonious un-masker and Obama-era UN Ambassador Samantha Power couldn’t resist tossing out a clear threat to a sitting POTUS of her own:
Samantha Power ✔ @SamanthaJPower Not a good idea to piss off John Brennan. https://twitter.com/johnbrennan/status/974978856997224448 …
There were others, but you get the picture. Somehow, Obama-era Director of National Intelligence and admitted perjurer James Clapper, who is normally all over CNN whenever anything like this comes up, managed to remain silent in the wake of the McCabe firing. Perhaps he was trying to send a signal to his deep state cabal compatriots: If so, the signal was studiously ignored.
What this well-coordinated reaction from the deep state skunks and snakes and their willing conspirators in the fake news media gave us on Saturday is just a preview of things to come. If anyone had thought that the inhabitants of the DC Swamp were just going to go quietly, well, it’s time to think again. If anything, the reactions we will see from all these bad actors will only become more hyperbolic and intense with each succeeding action against their fellow conspirators.
This is why all of this is taking so long to come to fruition. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and IG Horowitz must make absolutely sure that every action they bring against these cabal conspirators is completely supported by all bureaucratic requirements, painstakingly documented by findings of unarguable fact and buttoned down in a way that even a Washington, DC jury filled with Obama and Hillary Clinton voters will have no choice but to render guilty verdicts. And they are going to have to accomplish all of that in an atmosphere in which 98% of the national news media will be doing everything it can to deceive the public and paint them as the bad guys.
No one ever said draining the DC Swamp would be easy.
Just another day in draining the DC Swamp America.
That is all.
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Thanks for posting!
and it bears mentioning that all of this “buttoning down” needs to be accomplished prior to the midterms, at which point, if the House is lost, only the Executive Branch will be able to run with the ball.
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Clinton money, no doubt. There is one characteristic of liberals that is not often talked about. Greedy SOB's.
wow, this McCabe firing has really struck a nerve. So Samantha Power is certain that Brennan will commit more crimes to exact revenge on Trump. Sounds like they are dropping any last pretense of professionalism and going into a road rage
Yepper!
The Swamp must be drained for the sake of our Republic. Personally, I have no delusions at all that the process will be a long one and it is going to get very ugly before it gets better. That said, it is time to take whatever actions are required to do exactly that. The Swamp Rats deserve to be taken down and nothing less.
Let’s get it done, America!
That’s right.
No, the swamp does not need draining, justice needs to be served.
Until PDJT does not really and truly take his big stick out and fire Sessions, put in place a DOJ that will PROSECUTE 100s if not 1000s of people who have conspired against the US and his presidency, justice will not be served.
When he said he would not prosecute HRC, it was all down hill for him. He needs to reverse course NOW or face the consequences and America needs to prepare itself for WAR
....... when bigmouth Samantha Power indicated to Trump, "you don't want p!ss off John Brennan,"
.....the airhead pretty much tipped-off Trump that Brennan's got an agenda......
MEMO TO BRENNAN: "If I were you, I would cease issuing threats against Trump."
"It's not going to help when you need a good legal defense."
Just a guess, but methinks Blackmon is a FReeper.
5.56mm
Though as a young lad I never really partook of the Politics and Politicians, never really took firm notice till J Carter, was ‘happy and complacent’ through R Reagan but when the main charge against GHW was he was a wimp and a do nothing, my dander rose as I knew that at 18 he was flying airplanes for the USN so, I started paying attention etc.
Oh the Kennedy years were remembered, the mess LBJ made of ‘family stability’ were all noted but not acted against.
The ONE memory that really remains though is the assumption that ANY/EVERYTHING rich was a do nothing, no good R while ALL Ds were just hard working common folks - interested in YOU THE PUBLIC not in financial gain. Guess HST was the cause of that.
That idea is still flaunted by the Ds but the #s speak for themselves.
My Grandfather-who carried mail for 40+ years-was an Irish Catholic raised in the Southern Tier of NYS, raised a family of 8 etc was- as well as the rest of my family - a D...
(he raised ‘concern’ when I went in the Navy while that SOB R was in office and no war going on - the R was Ike and he could have went EITHER way as far as party)
Also - in the hypocricy dept - even in modern times the Ds - supposedly the voice of the little guy, ran RICH OLD WHITE MEN after the GOPE ‘destroyed’ some female and Black candidates, one being a Black Female, of course any FEMALE or BLACK that decides to be an R is immediately cast aside by the ‘forces that push/cajole the Blacks & Women in this country as not being either ‘Black or Female enough’.
TWO Great examples...The Black Caucus in the House is basically NOT OPEN to Black Rs and when is the last time Emilys List (FOR FEMALES running) endorsed, financed or even ‘mentioned’ an R candidate?
Yet, I and MY(so called) ILK are considered the Racists and Sexists.
The supposed mock outrage for the (supposed)TRUMP led firing of McCabe (and Comey) are further proof that the swamp indeed needs draining.
Remember J Sessions was the most vile, nasty, crookedest man in America when the nominee, once voted in and after he sorta pledged disallegiance to PDT and the rumors he was going to be canned, the Ds -rose as one and backed JS, which REALLY PROVES he probably shouldn’t be there.
Remember Comey saying that PDT wanted an ‘Loyalty oath’ when I imagine ALL that was asked was ‘Or you with ME or not’ can you imagine ANY Pres/CEO/anyone in charge wanting someone on the payroll that is OPENLY against you and everything you do?
(Brilliant move on PDT part to Televise Joint meetings - guess he should have his own personal TV stream running ALL the time so ‘they’ can’t lie about meetings etc)
They aren’t referred to as ‘yes men/women’ for no reason.
At some point in time a swamp becomes a bog, it will not drain.
Then you need a backhoe.
Keep digging My President.
When dealing with politicians, and senior bureaucrats are more politician than anything else, who become extremely wealthy, any thing more than 20 times their annual salary in 20 years. (In 2017 dollars that is roughly $ 4,000,000. To do so they have to “save” 100% of their annual salary.) I refer to an extremely qualified and experienced politician from the mid-20th Century.
His political career started in 1922 when he was first elected a county official thanks to Democratic machine politics. From there he went to the US Senate for a decade. Then became Vice-President and won the Presidency, serving for more than 9 years total.
That’s right Democrat Harry S. Truman who said; “The only for a politician to get rich in office is to steal.”
In the half century since his Presidency I haven’t seen anything to contradict that political truth. Have you?
The President will not be able to even get a good start at 'Draining the Swamp' until he gets rid of Jeff Sessions.
The swamp considered itself an incarnation of Ness - and now they are getting the sense they may not be so untouchable...
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