The Incalculable Cost of Insurance

Sam Clovis for CFP: I am that guy.  Yes, I am the individual who put together the Trump Campaign national advisory committee on national security and foreign policy.  Yes, I am the one who recruited Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.  Yes, I have given countless hours of testimony to a four-pack of investigations.  And most important of all—not a single shred of evidence has presented itself that would indicate that anyone in the Trump campaign had anything to do with colluding with the Russians.  Not one scintilla of credible information, testimony or documentation points in that direction—zero, zip, nada.  What has been revealed, however, is that there was a deliberate attempt to spy on the campaign, that there likely efforts to create probable cause for further FISA warrants and the clear indication of gathering—and then leaking of—information that has underpinned classic progressive politics of personal destruction.

Obama’s acolytes

I normally don’t buy into conspiracy theories, but I think in the case of the Obama administration actively working to undermine and destroy the Trump candidacy as insurance against an unlikely Trump victory is starting to take shape.  If one is to examine the players involved and the thousands of text messages, memos and emails associated with the probable aggressive attempt to sabotage the Trump campaign, then one may find it easier to believe in this conspiracy ahead of many others.  Perhaps the most troubling piece of evidence against the Obama acolytes is the text from the FBI’s director of counterintelligence Peter Strzok to his paramour Lisa Page.  He seems convinced that action must be taken to take out “insurance” against any possibility of a Trump victory.  Therein lies the mentality of a broad array of actors who violated every precept of decency and duty by blatantly violating their oaths of office and putting power and ideology above the rule of law and deliberate republican governance.

What price was this group willing to pay for this insurance?  The ultimate price of their despicable behavior is yet to be tallied, but one can rest assured that the price will be high and the damage done decades in the mending.  Along the way, the FBI, the Department of Justice, our intelligence community and the White House apparatus have been tainted—all because of the actions of individuals who lack a moral compass and who do not believe in their obligations to the Constitution of the United States.