Posted on 05/24/2018 4:53:54 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Tired of all this Winning yet? – Don’t look now, but Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, after running up the cost of his infamous Model 3 from $36,000 to as much as $100,000, is threatening to actually do something good for a change:
Elon Musk ✔ @elonmusk 16h Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …
Elon Musk ✔ @elonmusk Create a media credibility rating site (that also flags propaganda botnets)
2:41 PM - May 23, 2018 - Yes, this would be good - No, media are awesome Vote 559,521 votes • 7 hours left
As of early this morning, 88% of the vote in that poll was in the “yes” category. Hilariously, the “yes” vote actually went up throughout the day, even as the fake news media was filing a raft of negative stories about Musk’s threat to create a site that would monitor media credibility. Thus, Musk has already been proven correct in his assertion that the fake mainstream news media has no credibility at all outside of the tiny, shrinking echo chamber all the fake journalists and the Democrat politicians they support inhabit.
Go for it, Elon – it would be a great public service, and you wouldn’t have to worry about cost overruns for once.
But, but, but…Obama told us that wasn’t going to …oh, hell, nevermind. – Speaking of a fake news outlet whose reporters desperately need to be monitored by Elon Musk, the New York Times is reporting this morning that it turns out that the Mullahs over in Iran have been developing inter-continental ballistic missiles throughout the entire time they were negotiating the most one-sided “deal” in world history with Barack Obama and John Kerry, and have continued their development program during all the time since the deal supposedly ensured that would not happen.
So, it turns out that what Obama really told the Mullahs is that “if you like your ICBM program, you can keep your ICBM program.” [rimshot!] I got a million of ’em, folks, I’ll be here all week.
Documents? What documents? Wait, you asked for documents? Sorry, we don’t got no stinking documents… – Well, it’s another episode of Rod Rosenstein Sandbags Congress over at the Justice Department today. The oily Deputy Attorney General will hold not one, but two meetings with congressional leaders today to discuss long-outstanding congressional demands for documents related to the whole Russia Collusion fantasy play.
The first meeting will be with only Republicans Devin Nunes and Trey Gowdy because, well, Nunes and Gowdy don’t want this stuff being leaked to CNN, the NYTimes and the Washington Post in real time. That meeting will be held at noon, ET.
The second meeting takes place at 2:00 ET, and will include the entire congressional “Gang of 8”, which includes four Republican leaders and chairmen and four senior Democrats. This will include California Democrat Adam Schiff, so you can expect the confidential discussions that take place in this meeting – or at least the Democrat spin on them – to be all over CNN by about 3:00 ET.
Democrats had spent much of the day on Wednesday demanding they be included in the first meeting, but Nunes refused to allow that because he knew if he let Schiff and the other Democrats in that meeting, it would all be leaked and the dishonest media would attempt to blame it all on Nunes. Because that’s what the Democrats and their media enablers do.
Both meetings were set up by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, after the principles had met at the White House on Monday with President Trump. Kelly will reportedly attend both meetings, as will FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
Two key documents in play here are the two memos that Rosenstein wrote last year first authorizing the appointment of Robert Mueller to be Special Counsel, and then expanding the scope of Mueller’s investigative authority. Nunes, Gowdy and other congressional GOP committee chairmen have long sought these documents so that they can understand exactly what in the hell it was that Rosenstein authorized Mueller to do. It’s important to note that similar authorization memos for previous special counsels were readily made public by DOJ within days of their being issued.
But Rosenstein is desperate to prevent any Republican member of congress from seeing these memos in an un-redacted state. At this point, we don’t know why that is, but his desperation is palpable and certainly seems suspicious under the circumstances. FBI Director Wray has also been a willing facilitator of the stonewalling on these and other documents, so no one should expect him to be an advocate for transparency.
We can hope the presence of Coats and Kelly – neither of whom have participated in previous meetings on this subject – might lead to some sort of breakthrough in today’s meetings. Barring such an outcome, it is getting to the point at which the President is literally obligated to fire Rosenstein for his obvious obstruction efforts.
Yes, that would create a firestorm in the fake news media, but as I’ve said many times before, so what? That happens every day to this President.
The American people deserve to know why Mueller was appointed and exactly what he was authorized to do, and most importantly, under which U.S. laws that authorization was made. Rod Rosenstein has a big high-powered title, but at the end of the day he is just another bureaucrat. Bureaucrats do not get to deny the public’s right to know unless elected officials empower them to do so. We can’t count on elected representatives like Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell to do anything about this, so the decision will ultimately fall to Donald Trump to make.
If the Rosenstein stonewall turns today’s meetings into just more Kabuki Theatre, it’s time for the President to make that call.
Just another day in the Rosenstein act is really tiresome America.
That is all.
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Sessions gave a big hint to Congress about what's going on a while back when he revealed that U.S. Attorney Huber (Utah) is overseeing a team of DOJ officials looking into these matters, but if he comes right out and says A, B and C are all the subject of a criminal investigation then he runs the risk of jeopardizing any cases that are later prosecuted.
I'm not sitting here and claiming the DOJ leadership is a group of honest and upstanding people (I don't know for sure what the case is, either way). I'm simply pointing out that the approach they've taken may very well be the most prudent and reasonable one, depending on the circumstances.
What's the hold up?
All that needs be said is that there is, or are as the case may be, Grand Juries empaneled. He need not, and should not, divulge exactlywho or what is being examined.
“I’m sorry, Congressman, but there’s a Grand Jury looking into that matter right now. Therefore I’m unable to provide any more details at this time.”
That would be sufficient I think.
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Democrats start leaking stories to the media -- even fabricated ones that aren't even close to being true -- that allegedly come from grand jury testimony. Then they start accusing the DOJ, Trump and the GOP leadership in Congress of leaking these proceedings to the media. The GOP then spends the next six months dealing with endless accusations like this right in the middle of the 2018 campaign season.
Better to just leave everything simmering at a low boil until circumstances change.
This is serious stuff. Trump needs to speak from the Oval Office right after the Horowitz Report is released and explain the key points of the report to nation. And then, lay out the steps he will take to cleanse our federal agencies of the layers of corrosive corruption that has infected them.
The cabal must be exposed and removed from their positions of trust.
Nothing could be more important than restoring confidence in our government and protecting our democracy. This should be one of Trump’s highest priorities at this time.
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