WaEx: It’s not unusual to hear House Democrats vow to “get to the bottom” of the Trump-Russia matter — as if the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, with 500 witnesses, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search-and-seizure warrants, and nearly 300 records of electronic communications, was somehow unable to fully probe allegations that the Trump campaign and Russia conspired to fix the 2016 election.
What really concerns Democrats is that Mueller’s investigation, conducted with law enforcement powers that Congress does not have, failed to establish any Trump-Russia conspiracy or coordination. And in doing so, Mueller exposed the fatal flaw of the Trump-Russia matter: It was driven entirely by the conspiracy/coordination allegation, which turned out to be false.
The backdrop of conspiracy and coordination made every Trump-Russia episode, including routine political activities, look sinister. The Trump Tower meeting looked ominous in the context of conspiracy and coordination. Donald Trump’s public statements about Russia and Vladimir Putin looked incriminating. Michael Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador looked suspicious. And more.
If one believed that Trump and the Russians were conspiring or coordinating to influence the campaign, then any bit of information having anything to do with Russia and the Trump campaign looked portentous. The Russia frenzy became so intense that reputable news organizations published long stories cataloging all known “contacts with Russians” by anyone associated with the Trump campaign.
But it all depended on conspiracy or coordination. And when Mueller was unable to establish that any such conspiracy or coordination actually occurred, suspicious-seeming events could no longer be credibly cast as suspicious. The Trump-Russia bubble deflated.
That left Democrats with the allegation that the president obstructed the investigation. Some hope that will be enough to impeach Trump, but in recent weeks, they have discovered it might be a hard sell. While it is possible to pursue an obstruction allegation without an underlying crime, impeaching the president on that basis could prove politically difficult. So Democrats vow more investigation to “get to the bottom” of the Trump-Russia matter, or perhaps find something else, entirely unrelated to Russia, to pursue against the president.
The post-Mueller debate on Capitol Hill shows just how critically important the conspiracy and coordination narrative was. Without it, everything has changed. So now that Mueller has formally closed his office and left the Justice Department, it is worth looking at how conspiracy and coordination — often referred to by the widely used word “collusion” — came to dominate American politics for the last three years. Was it a hoax? Hysteria? Or simply partisanship on steroids? read more
From the very beginning I found this to be a thinly veiled and ham handed attempt to smear the incoming president. It was so clear they expected the public to swallow what was a incredulous fabrication that a child could see through. Enter the faithful press to twist and contort the mess into something to force feed the sleeping public.
At least we are seeing the extent of just how corrupt DC is. Before this started I had no idea just how bad it really was.
We are to take at face value the IC claim that the DNC server was hacked, even though the server was never examined by any Intel agency, because the DNC would not allow it. Instead, the DNC paid a private firm, Crowdstrike, to anoint their server as “hacked by Russians”. This claim was provably false; Based on data transmission rates alone, the theft of data had to have occurred locally. But to this day, nobody is challenging the Deep State line or asking why the DNC server was never properly examined.
This is just one of many screamingly false conclusions we are being asked to swallow, and it’s one of the things Mueller should be asked about in front of Congress. And don’t get me started about Mifsud and Halper. This frame-up has been exposed, and it’s time to punish the framers. Keep digging, Barr.
Anyone ever have that really fucked up sibling that starts out by ripping off their brothers and sisters; then goes on to hit mom and dad to cosign a “loan” that they happily let mom and dad pay. Then they go on to scam grandma and granddad, friends, aunts, uncles, cousins… until, eventually they’ve lied to and fucked over everyone in their close social and family circles leaving no one left who doesn’t know that they are completely untrustworthy and full of shit?
That’s where the news media is now. Only a fucking moron would believe anything they have to say anymore. They are the ones that pushed this bullshit “collusion” narrative, and they’ve completely destroyed what remaining credibility they may have had with any objective member of the public with a three digit IQ or better.
At this point, I don’t even trust the weather news nor sports scores from mainstream sources without corroboration. That’s how fucked the news media is now. They’ve dug the grave of their own fucking industry, and jumped into that grave with both feet.
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Glad you got around to taking out your wallet and paying attention.
Mueller had a history of dealings withe the KGB dating back to when he, Kennedy, and JFKerry tried to get Ronny defeated in ’84. Those of us able to take out our wallet’s then knew in ’01 when GWB made him FBI head there was something crooked in the works. A few exJarheads are America haters. Rove’s boy BOb is one such! And has been for 40 years.
The UNIPARTY had run The Swamp for most of the last 40 years. Bob is not the only example of UNIPARTY. GWB’s men”Brennan, Clapper, Comey et al are others – just as bad, but not as well known.