I don’t believe it.
Otherwise DJT would be guilty of misleading us with his comments about it being the greatest political scandal in history.
“I don’t believe it. Otherwise DJT would be guilty of misleading us with his comments about it being the greatest political scandal in history.”
Not necessarily. The Horowitz report could easily be a dud, and yet the President’s words justified.
First of all, regardless of Horowitz’s report, we know that Spygate IS the greatest political scandal in history. Secondly, POTUS has every reason to hype the report at this moment in time - while the Democrats are trying to decide whether to force a Senate trial vs. take the coward’s way out via censure:
By spooking them with comments about “what he knows”, and “what is coming down the pike”, and “the greatest political scandal in history” he is forcing their hand. Either they fold and opt for a censure - which he can spin as a victory and which will reveal that they are afraid of Spygate evidence coming out in Senate trial -
OR, they do vote to impeach and proceed to a Senate trial - where damaging Spygate evidence will surely come out - making top coup perpetrators like Brennan, Comey, McCabe and the rest fair game.
What people aren’t grasping is the fact that a Senate trial over conviction and removal of the President is the PERFECT opportunity for laying the groundwork for prosecuting the Spygate case.
If it was introduced in any other context, the media could easily spin it as a political witch hunt by the right wing conspiracy. As perverse as that may sound to those of us who know the truth - the fake news can and will do this and they will succeed.
This is exactly why, after three years, nothing has happened - the white hats needed to find a way to introduce Spygate evidence in a way that preserves the optics of the President being the victim (which is true), and the Democrats the aggressors.
Along comes the Senate impeachment/removal trail. Perfect. For the first time in three years, the President’s defense team will be able to present witnesses and evidence, and guess what? The witnesses and evidence that prove the President innocent of an impeachable offense are the exact same witnesses and evidence that prove the Democrats guilty of Spygate.
Why? Because the President’s entire defense will be based on the argument that the Democrats’ impeachment case was built on false evidence, gathered illegally, AKA Spygate!
The two cases are two sides of the same coin - except now President Trump has the best of both worlds: he can introduce his evidence against the Spygate coup perpetrators as part of his defense - thus capturing the moral high ground.
Since Watergate, the American people are hypersensitive to the idea of an overreaching executive branch. For this reason, President Trump would have had a very difficult time selling the optics of ordering his DOJ to indict and possibly jail ex Obama officials from the opposition party, without it being spun as a heavy handed partisan attack.
Add to that the fact that the fake news would have easily spun it that way, and you can see why President Trump would need to look for a better way.
A Senate impeachment/removal trial is that better way, and it is what the President has been angling for all along.
I HOPE the Democrats are dumb enough to impeach and send this to trial in the Senate. Then we really might see some justice served.
Otherwise, it will be eight years of back to back witch hunts, impeachment threats, “bombshell” leaks to the fake news, and total political deadlock between Democrats and Republicans.