Posted on 05/22/2019 9:29:27 AM PDT by billorites
Democrats and their complicit media wildly overpromised on how damaging the Mueller report would be to President Trump. They paid a huge price when Mueller did not deliver. Collusion diehards like Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler look delusional with their ongoing search for something that never existed.
The Deep State coup attempt stands busted cold, its perpetrators caught red-handed in unbelievable and un-American actions aimed at covering up Hillary Clinton’s inarguable illegalities and overturning an election whose result they could not abide.
For Trumpservatives the schadenfreude was sweet. But now, those vindicated supporters of the president must caution against being overpromised to themselves. To what extent, if any, will Russia-Gate actors like Lynch, Simpson, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Strzok, Page and the rest be held accountable for their alleged criminality?
Fox News host Sean Hannity has led the charge against the Russian hoaxers and their plot to thwart the will of the national electorate. In a sane media landscape, he would win the Pulitzer Prize. As a regular aspect of his reportage, Hannity asks of his truth-seekers a question inquiring minds want definitively answered. To paraphrase, “Will Deep State bad actors be held accountable for what they have done?”
The answer, from Fourth Estate constitutionalists like Gregg Jarrett and Sara Carter, is always couched in a context of cautionary advisement: “They should,” or, “If justice still exists in America, yes,” or, the best conditional condemnation of all, “Put it this way, if you or I had done what (Hillary, Comey, Strzok, etc.) had done, yes, we would likely be looking at serious jail time.”
Lying to a FISA court, destroying evidence, leaking classified information. These are but a minimal sampling of the alleged crimes and malefactions committed in the name of electing Clinton and usurping Trump’s ascendancy.
But even given all we now know, and are learning from Hannity’s “boomerang” extravaganza each day, it would be irresponsible to categorically state that yes, this person, those people, will ever be charged or brought to trial, let alone hear the clank of a cell door closing behind them. Due to the labyrinthine depths, interconnectivity, and power inherent in a Deep State that has shocked a nation aghast at the reach of rogue bureaucracies, no one can say for certain whether any of those who concocted this conspiracy will ever be brought to justice.
The Fox News straight news cohort, committed to remaining as balanced as possible, have their work cut out walking a fine line between ostensible objectivity and incontrovertible truths about Deep State malfeasance now playing out in evermore excruciating detail. Across the cable news aisle, the partisan “legacy” media are scrambling to maintain on life support a narrative that pragmatic Democrats like Doug Schoen and Mark Penn are imploring them to abandon. CNN’s ratings have officially bottomed out. At MSNBC, Rachel Maddow and other conspiracy theorists still talk the talk, but the emptiness behind their rhetoric is apparent to anyone with five minutes of viewing time to waste.
As has been shown beyond a reasonable doubt by multiple investigations into Trump and Russian collusion, and bulwarked by the indefatigable counter-efforts of Republican lawmakers like Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan, investigations can be inequitably conducted and laws selectively enforced. Activist political partisanship can be weaponized at the highest levels of government.
The worm has turned with Mueller’s muddle and the appointment of new Attorney General William Barr, but make no mistake: as Barr’s probe into the genesis of the Russian collusion hoax gets underway, his targets are rearranging deck chairs in their own defense, lock-and-loading for circular firing squads, and, if they have any sense of self-preservation, lawyering up, big league.
The pursuit of justice will be obfuscated in the chaos of multiple investigations. Appeals will compound while the malefactors walk around as free men and women. Cover-ups will cover cover-ups, favors will be called in, and pleas made for leniency. Legal maneuvering will carry this sordid circus over for years as those responsible for the hoax claim they were acting in what they thought was the best interest of the republic.
The great turning of the tables post-Mueller proceeds apace, with Inspector General David Horowitz's report in the pipeline, AG Barr getting his prosecutorial chess pieces arrayed, and Senator Lindsey Graham adding his congressional heft to the investigative effort. Who actually broke laws that may have undermined our nation’s process for choosing a leader? Whose actions threatened America’s foundational tenets of equal justice and application of the law?
Will there be substantive accountability and real consequences for certain individuals in the highest echelons of the law enforcement arms of the administrative state?
Trumpservatives will keep their fingers crossed and process every alarming development as it surfaces, demanding from the rooftops that the Deep State be held accountable. Hannity: “We’ve got to get this right.” American citizens of all political persuasions should want to get this right.
But there is so much that has gone wrong. There is a crisis of faith within the body politic about whether justice will be served, about whether we will be able to prevent something like this from happening again.
Will any of these plotters experience the legal jeopardy they’ve so reprehensibly promised for President Donald Trump?
Fingers crossed, but don’t be susceptible to overpromises about who will pay, and how.
No, they will not. There are two sets of laws in America: One for the Deep State Political Elites, and one for the rest of us.
PRAY!! I pray for this to happen EVETY DAY...TWICE....and I pray for Trump also!
What huge price? How did they lose anything at all? What in the wide world of sports is the author referring to here?
Odds are greater Trump will be removed from office than the DEMs and the deep state ever being held accountable for their actions. Far greater.
Not anymore the military is resetting the Constitution. This is the last straw.
NO, they are trying to run out the clock for the statute of limitations.
No, they will not. The rule of law is long dead and buried. In a just society, a gallows with thirteen nooses would have already been built on the Wash DC mall.
Trump will not release documents until after his England trip. The Brits are up to their eye lashes in this conspiracy and he does not want to offend or embarrass our ally.
The CIA and others are authorized to act above the law. Their actions may be exposed but they will never be held accountable.
“the military is resetting the Constitution”
You should explain that.
Nancy Pelosi and her fellow democrats, are now engaged in a huge coverup about what their deep-state agents were up to.
She accuses Trump of doing exactly what she and democrats are doing, in attempts to deflect from the ongoing and upcoming investigations against high-ranking democrats, including Obama and his complicit cabinet members.
Nancy knows that there is nothing to get Trump on, so, she’s engaging in changing the direction of what’s she’s afraid of, which is the huge damage coming the way of the democratic party regarding the phony investigations against Trump.
Yes. Immediately following the French admitting who burned down Notre Dame.
The GOP is in a box of their own making.
They can’t go after the crimes of the Kenytanesian Usurpation without exposing their own complicity in violating the Constitution.
President Trump is NOT your father’s Republican. He can and will surprise you.
I believe he was willing to give Obama and Hillary a break after the election. But their Coup attempt changes everything.
The wheels of justice are already in motion. I don’t think the President can stop them now (if he wanted to, especially since that would be considered OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE and we can’t have that can we)
Will ‘Deep State’ ever be excised from
the political vocabulary? It’s about
as useful as ‘anonymous sources.’
If we fall into civil war, I suspect not one of them will survive.
Not this go round.
There will be a mutual stand-down and things will go on like it never happened. That’s how D.C. rolls.
Perhaps at some future date when lampposts present a realistic option.
The Brits it would embarrass are remainers.
I reject your assumption that Trump won’t help Brexit along by tossing the remainers into an international scandal.
It’s been two weeks since the investigation of the investigators began. Why aren’t they imprisoned for ever already?
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