Posted on 03/04/2017 7:00:02 AM PST by LS
Over the past week the hysteria on the right and among some weak-kneed Trumpers has been over the top. Even Rush Limbaugh began to wiggle uncomfortably, fearing Trump did know what he was up against, and hadn't moved fast enough to deal with the "silent coup" against him.
Jeff Sessions' recusal supposedly showed that Trump, like all the rest of the Republicans, didn't know how to play hardball.
Ooops.
I can always tell when something big is about to happen at Team Trump when my contact messages aren't returned. And I'm always pleasantly surprised that Team Trump is one to a dozen steps ahead of anything I'm thinking.
Case in point: yesterday I drafted a memo urging Trump to go on offense against the Democrats, specifically the Congressional rats. And as usual, I'm thinking of building a bowling alley while Trump is envisioning a gleaming skyscraper.
Today Trump's offensive began. But only after cleverly baiting the hook, luring the enemy Cannae-style into an envelope from which there is no escape.
He didn't fight back against the guys in the ring. He went after their manager, their coach, and their funder-in-chief. Trump went after the head of the snake.
By Tweeting that Trump Tower and his personal residence were bugged---and apparently the evidence of such a wiretap approval exists---Trump again shows why he plays 3D chess and his enemies are playing Parcheesi. The Bible says it this way: "They will come at you one way and go away fleeing seven."
Other than the fact that this is OBAMA he is going after, the juciest part is that Sessions did NOT recuse himself from a wiretap investigation of Obama. Get it?
Trump just leapfrogged the whole Russia thing with an "It ends today." Now Team Trump has leverage to force a full and total standdown of all opposition to Trump inside Congress, all end to the disruptions, and meek and timid confirmation of all appointees. Or Zero goes to jail. That simple.
Many here will want blood. But I'm reminded of Sam Houston after he defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Instead of hanging the dictator, he merely took all of the American Southwest. Santa Anna was out soon anyway, but we still have Phoenix, Denver, and (unfortunately) California. It will be a negotiation from strength, and the Dems will have no choice but to comply. They won't completely give up---there will be surreptitious acts with enough deniability---but this was a perfectly baited hook that all of Trump's enemies just walked into.
“He should indict Hillary now and leave Obama hanging.”
Agree in principle, but then that leaves Obama -—who still has a significant following; Hillary does not-—free to continue to sabotage from the sidelines.
He needs to neuter all of them, all of their networks. Jail the leaders-—Hillary AND Obama-—and go after the money. Soros and the shakedowns of the banks, where the money was GIVEN to the BLM and other “non-profits.”
Seize the cash and return it to the US Treasury.
Larry, A PATRIOT’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES was a Christmas gift. I finally started it. Great book.
From top to bottom, Trump must remove all the Obama operatives or this nonsense will never end.
Praying you are right Connyankee. I have frankly been afraid for our President since his speech to the Congress. Your words have calmed me down.
What arrests?
A president has the authority to legally release anything classified he wants. He merely has to un-classify it by his orders. It is legal and Obama also used this on occasions.
You have to get the enemy into the trap. On Jan 11 when McCarthy revealed this, the enemy was not in the trap. Get them to go full out on Sessions’ recusal from the RUSSIAN case.
Now, he’s not recused himself from the wiretapping case. Too late. Trap sprung.
Couldn’t the DOJ just quietly go about their business going after those who committed crimes while Trump pushes forward with MAGA?
It isn’t right for those such as Cankles, 0bola et al to just go scott free. Justice does not get served.
It’s a way to keep Ds and RINOs on the “agenda” side for 8 years.
i am trying to understand how that is not somehow racist in some sense of the word.
I think of Trump as Ponga Jim Mayo in L’Amour short stories
I would have personally taken off Santa Anna’s head and played soccer with it, maybe that’s just me.
Yes, there is a much larger, multilevel game afoot. With each move Trump proves that he is so far indide the OODA loop of his opponents that they can scarecely understand what’s happening to them, even while it’s happening.
Easy. Either Obama makes his minions stand down-—including House & Senate obstructionists (and remember Cankles is part of this, so she will be exerting pressure too)-—or Trump has Justice go ahead and indict.
Who got arrested last night?
Yaelle there is NOTHING bigger than the hand of God and OUR POTUS has the hand of God on him!!! He WILL BEAT these BASTARDS!!! This IS also a WARNING shot to our OWN side that he WILL NOT LAY DOWN without a fight and HE WILL WIN!!!!!
It’s why she moved into Obama’s lair, needs SS protection.
“Superficial” is precisely the right word. This is Nixonian and they know it. It’s huge, and they are back on defense.
I’m pretty much only satisfied by a hanging. Or, more to the point, a federal grand jury and a lot of orange jumpsuits.
“Other than that, this IS about wiretap after FISA denial.”
There was a second, narrower FISA request that was granted.
I posted the question on another thread, but am wondering if they used the meeting arranged by Valerie Jarrett between the Russian Ambassador and Jeff Sessions as the justification for the second request?
Yes! That struck me as odd at the time.
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