Posted on 05/23/2019 3:42:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible.
One, the Washington swamp of fixers such as Paul Manafort and John and Tony Podesta was mostly bipartisan and predated Trump.
Two, the Trump administration's Russia policies were far tougher on Vladimir Putin than were those of Barack Obama. Trump confronted Russia in Syria, upped defense spending, increased sanctions and kept the price of oil down through massive new U.S. energy production. He did not engineer a Russian "reset" or get caught on a hot mic offering a self-interested hiatus in tensions with Russia in order to help his own re-election bid.
Three, Russia has a long history of trying to warp U.S. elections that both predated Trump and earned only prior lukewarm pushback from the Obama administration.
It's also worth remembering that President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation had been recipients of Russian and Russian-related largesse -- ostensibly because Hillary Clinton had used her influence as Secretary of State under Obama to ease resistance to Russian acquisitions of North American uranium holdings.
As far as alleged Russian collusion goes, Hillary Clinton used three firewalls -- the Democratic National Committee, the Perkins Coie law firm and the Fusion GPS strategic intelligence firm -- to hide her campaign's payments to British national Christopher Steele to find dirt on Trump and his campaign; in other words, to collude. Steele in turn collected his purchased Russian sources to aggregate unverified allegations against Trump. He then spread the gossip within government agencies to ensure that the smears were leaked to the media -- and with a government seal of approval.
No wonder that special counsel Robert Mueller's partisan team spent 22 months and $34 million only to conclude the obvious: that Trump did not collude with Russia.
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The only thing the rats are fleeing is jail time and by golly I believe they are winning the race.
I think you don’t quite understand what is going on. You are 10% informed and making statements like you did prove it.
The Mueller report says that a businessman in Russia with “close ties” to the government funded some ads to help Trump (and thus “the Russians” interfered with our elections). It states this as fact.
The Mueller report is silent on any Russia-related efforts to help Hillary. Did those exist too?
I have yet to figure out why the Russians would help Trump get elected.
Why wouldn’t they prefer Hillary? Especially if she can be bought.
Justice takes time - unless one approves of a Federal Junta for every day proceedings...that would make one a socialist dem.......
Or it just might be that he has learned to recognize Modified, Limited Hangout for what it is.
Victor Davis Hanson is always on point......
They don’t need no steenkin’ collusion. They have obstruction. Any attempt at legal self defense by Trump is obstruction of the inquistion.
For example, take two recent examples. Trump will fight the release of his tax returns, and having had enough of being smacked around after cooperating for two and a half years, will block further testimony by executive employees, such as McGahn.
In a criminal trial... especially of a favored defendant, whether an illegal or a popular rich guy lik OJ... the defense is entitled to fight the production and validity of evidence as long and hard as it can. Here, with no charge in sight, Trump is called guilty of collusion if he makes the investigation in search of a crime more difficult.
What you are saying is right …. and it is amazing. The president has been bludgeoned for 2-1/2 years, even going back to being president-elect and earlier. The media has been +90% against him, accusing him of racism, misogyny, being Hitler, corrupt, colluding with Russians and on and on ad infinitum.
Yet any defense at all, on his part, is “Obstruction of Justice!”. If he talks about firing Mueller, but DOESN’T DO IT, they still call it obstruction! This is unbelievable!
By the way, if these bozos go through with their impeachment threat, I believe there will be a 10 Million Man March on Washington and I intend to be there.
Hillary can’t be bought.
But she can be rented.
Be warned, she isn’t cheap.
It must just burn the Democrats that they couldn’t find anything on Trump when they believed he must be corrupt and in the meantime they were stuck with Hillary in 2016.Democrats are the party of destroy, ban and corruption.
Mueller did not look at Cankles on purpose.
I think the first person other than Trump in DC to be concerned with justice is Barr (PrisonBarrs). “Bull” Durham has been looking at UNrelated cases in CT, that nevertheless have the same legal components, which is why he was hired.
Contrary to some claims, Durham has not been on the DC cases for “weeks.
That said, PrisonBarrs appears to be serious about seeing justice done. If that’s the case, he should persuade President Trump to fire Wray, the smarmy FBI director who yukked it up with Jeff Sessions when the first OIG report came out. Instead of using that to fire or indict anyone, Sessions/Wray at a press conference said what a great job the FBI is doing.
I don’t know how much PrisonBarrs can accomplish while Wray is in the director’s seat. But, as always, the proof will be in the pudding.
It has now been 2.5 years and not one Deep Stater has yet been indicted for anything other than “leaking.”
Keep hearing this but don’t believe until charges and jail time are pronounced on them! We’ve been burned too many times!
No there is only one struggle of significance going on in this country now and everything else is a distraction to preoccupy the unengaged.
The entire point of Limited Hangout is to make the rubes think “something is being done” when NOTHING is being done.
There has been a change in the last 3 years where there are new players in this game who are driving things who expect results and who will take matters into their own hands should not the right thing be done. They have the power both legally and logistically.
His guitar riff at the end of that song just went through my head when I read you tagline. I miss his genius, I saw him once live in Seattle, it was raining.
I did a series of unpublished short pieces called “Profound Wisdom from Unexpected Places,” tracing the (usually) Biblical origins of a lot of these pop song lyrics. “Castles made of sand” is Jesus’s teaching about the man who built his house on a rock.
Michael Jackson’s “Don’t have da baby if ya can’t feed da baby” is from the Bible’s injunction to first care for your own family. And so on.
I saw Hendrix twice, but I don’t recall him playing that song either time.
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