Posted on 09/22/2019 5:06:31 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
How fake is the “whistleblower” scandal? The “whistleblower” in question doesn’t even possess first-hand information. – At least, if you believe the Washington Post’s reporting on the matter. This little nugget was buried deep within the bowels of a Saturday WaPo report on the subject:
“The whistleblower didn’t have direct knowledge of the communications, an official briefed on the matter told CNN. Instead, the whistleblower’s concerns came in part from learning information that was not obtained during the course of their work, and those details have played a role in the administration’s determination that the complaint didn’t fit the reporting requirements under the intelligence whistleblower law, the official said.”
Oh. Helps to know facts, doesn’t it? Too bad our fake news media refuses to focus on those facts, preferring instead to harp on the bullsh*t being spread by the Democrat Party.
Here’s another fact: The intelligence whistleblower law everyone keeps referring to doesn’t even apply to the President of the United States in any event. That law applies to people within the intelligence community and their conduct during the course of their jobs. The POTUS is not a part of the “intelligence community.” Attempting to apply it to the President would have huge separation of powers issues, given that the law is designed to give congress oversight related to the intelligence community.
The POTUS is the POTUS. Period. The POTUS has unique constitutional authority to conduct the foreign policy of the United States of America. The conduct of foreign policy includes phone calls with foreign leaders like the one in question in this fake news fake scandal.
Such calls are attended by an array of senior intelligence, State Department and other officials who listen as a matter of course. None of the officials who were actually on the call and actually listened to the conversation lodged any complaint or concern about it. The supposed “whistleblower” – almost certainly a holdover from the Obama administration – has no standing at all here.
This is a fake new fake scandal. Period. It is simply one more in a long line of unending efforts by the Democrats and their media toadies to harm this President and his ability to conduct the nation’s foreign policy. These are subversive, seditious actions by disloyal people who don’t give a damn about the health and survival of this country.
These are Democrats. This is who they are, and what they do.
That is all.
EPIC FAIL: the law, congress, the intelligence community
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Is it really a FAILURE, or is it corruption? More likely a combo of both.
I believe the dems are worried that if Biden’s corruption were exposed after he had the nomination then they would have no way to recover.
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Hillary would love to see Joe’s departure, sooner rather than later. Just saying.
The “whistleblower” in question doesn’t even possess first-hand information. – At least, if you believe the Washington Post’s reporting on the matter.
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This could be disinformation intended to shield the source from exposure. Whoever it is, there can be no question that they want to protect their inside source who could generate more useful anti-Trump stories in the future.
Hillaryous Rotten Criminal? No bueno. It takes some criminals to raze a republic,
It looks like Mike has lost about 30-50 pounds.
How low will the 'rats and leftists go? Perhaps we shouldn't ask that, they seem to be taking it as a challenge to one-up (or would that be one-down?) each other in coming up with ever more stupid ideas and lies.
I predict by the election there will be claims that President Trump is actually an alien, and that is what the intrepid "storm Area 51" people were going to uncover... Yes, I expect it to get that silly, that unrealistic, that obviously fabricated. Heck, we're almost there now.
Oh, come on! More that half of the Republicans in DC, and even in high positions in the Executive Branch, are actively resisting the President and trying to bring him down.
If you think this is a "Dems vs. GOP" battle, you can't possibly understand what is going on.
Things are shaping up quite nicely for Hillary if you look at it objectively. Biden won’t be the nominee because he’s clearly ‘slowing down’ and is a problematic gaffe machine. Bernie is angry and humorless and Warren is a raging lunatic.
I hate to say it but HRC is right where she wants to be, standing in the wings waiting to step in to save the party. All without having to drag her sorry butt through the exhausting primary process.
I agree. The Republicans are in on it too. They have back stabbed us for decades. Make no mistake, they have it in for us because we dared to elect an outsider.
Just an observation, but don’t you think Trump is throwing the Alinsky book right back at them? Read the steps you posted...I see Trump doing most, if not all of them...to a great deal of success. Not a judgement, just an interesting observation (IMHO).
Interesting analysis. Although it seems unlikely to me, it is possible...especially if she jumps in and Bill suddenly dies. Thanks.
especially if she jumps in and Bill suddenly dies
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Imagine the sympathy vote if Bill were to suddenly die. Not to mention they would probably turn his funeral into a political rally, which is not unprecedented.
That said, she does have to deal with a couple of negatives, most notably her own declining health and having blown the past two elections. And I don’t think she’d get much support from Bernie’s people if she were to enter the race.
As unlikely as it may seem, the fire still burns inside her and I have no doubt that she would eagerly come forth in the role of the party’s savior if events turn in her favor.
“... Trump is throwing the Alinsky book right back at them?”
Trump is retaliating, not attacking as they are. Alinsky’s whole premise is to attack, and continue from every direction possible. The libs for 50 plus years have lived on the thought that they can wear out people by a continuance of doom. The GOP, so far, has let them.
When Trump first came into the slot, I mentioned that the politicians on both sides hadn’t seen anything like him. He had no affiliation to anyone except the voters and those that played by the rules of conservatism. He couldn’t be threatened, punished, or embarrassed. And try as they might, they haven’t slowed him up one iota. He is repairing the economy, building the wall, and slapping the foreign nations that wish to give us trouble back in line without firing a shot (yet), and we are growing back into the strongest nation ever even with the little dogies biting at his heels that he continues to put in the kennel each time so they won’t get in his way.
His only problem is the lack of support from his own party. The GOP is in a position to hammer the socialists into oblivion. And both parties know it. But one won’t and the other is fighting for its very life. This is why the libs are running out of candidates every day. They never had any viable ones to begin with. Trump has set the bar too high for them to get over it. And it gets higher every day.
rwood
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