Posted on 06/09/2017 11:06:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
Pressed by Megyn Kelly on his ties to President Trump, an exasperated Vladimir Putin blurted out, "We had no relationship at all. ... I never met him. ... Have you all lost your senses over there?"
Yes, Vlad, we have.
Consider the questions that have convulsed this city since the Trump triumph, and raised talk of impeachment.
Did Trump collude with Russians to hack the DNC emails and move the goods to WikiLeaks, thus revealing the state secret that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was putting the screws to poor Bernie Sanders?
If not Trump himself, did campaign aides collude with the KGB?
Now, given that our NSA and CIA seemingly intercept everything Russians say to Americans, why is our fabled FBI, having investigated for a year, unable to give us a definitive yes or no?
The snail's pace of the FBI investigation explains Trump's frustration. What explains the FBI's torpor? If J. Edgar Hoover had moved at this pace, John Dillinger would have died of old age.
We hear daily on cable TV of the "Trump-Russia" scandal. Yet, no one has been charged with collusion, and every intelligence official, past or prevent, who has spoken out has echoed ex-acting CIA Director Mike Morrell:
"On the question of the Trump campaign conspiring with the Russians here, there is smoke, but there is no fire, at all. ... There's no little campfire, there's no little candle, there's no spark."
Where are the criminals? Where is the crime?
As for the meetings between Gen. Mike Flynn, Jared Kushner, Sen. Jeff Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, it appears that Trump wanted a "back channel" to Putin so he could honor his commitment to seek better relations with Russia.
Given the Russophobia rampant here, that makes sense. And while it appears amateurish that Flynn would use Russian channels of communication, what is criminal about this?
Putin is not Stalin. Soviet divisions are not sitting on the Elbe. The Cold War is over. And many presidents have used back channels. Woodrow Wilson sent Col. Edward House to talk to the Kaiser and the Brits. FDR ran messages to Churchill through Harry Hopkins.
As for Trump asking Director James Comey to cut some slack for Flynn, it is understandable in human terms. Flynn had been a loyal aide and friend and Trump had to feel rotten about having to fire the man.
So, what is really going on here?
All the synthetic shock over what Kushner or Sessions said to Kislyak aside, this city's hatred for President Trump, and its fanatic determination to bring him down in disgrace, predates his presidency.
For Trump ran in 2016 not simply as the Republican alternative. He presented his candidacy as a rejection, a repudiation of the failed elites, political and media, of both parties. Americans voted in 2016 not just for a change in leaders but for a revolution to overthrow a ruling regime.
Thus this city has never reconciled itself to Trump's victory, and the president daily rubs their noses in their defeat with his tweets.
Seeking a rationale for its rejection, this city has seized upon that old standby. We didn't lose! The election was stolen in a vast conspiracy, an "act of war" against America, an assault upon "our democracy," criminal collusion between the Kremlin and the Trumpites.
Hence, Trump is an illegitimate president, and it is the duty of brave citizens of both parties to work to remove the usurper.
The city seized upon a similar argument in 1968, when Richard Nixon won, because it was said he had colluded to have South Vietnam's president abort Lyndon Johnson's new plan to bring peace to Southeast Asia in the final hours of that election.
Then, as now, the "t" word, treason, was trotted out.
Attempts to overturn elections where elites are repudiated are not uncommon in U.S. history. Both Nixon and Reagan, after 49-state landslides, were faced with attempts to overturn the election results.
With Nixon in Watergate, the elites succeeded. With Reagan in Iran-Contra, they almost succeeded in destroying that great president as he was ending the Cold War in a bloodless victory for the West.
After Lincoln's assassination, President Andrew Johnson sought to prevent Radical Republicans from imposing a ruthless Reconstruction on a defeated and devastated South.
The Radicals enacted the Tenure of Office Act, stripping Johnson of his authority to remove any member of the Cabinet without Senate permission. Johnson defied the Radicals and fired their agent in the Cabinet, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.
"Tennessee" Johnson was impeached, and missed conviction by one vote. John F. Kennedy, in his 1956 book, called the senator who had voted to save Johnson a "Profile in Courage."
If Trump is brought down on the basis of what Putin correctly labels "nonsense," this city will have executed a nonviolent coup against a constitutionally elected president. Such an act would drop us into the company of those Third World nations where such means are the customary ways that corrupt elites retain their hold on power.
Democrats are basically idiots.
If Trump is somehow brought up on impeachment from this sickening witch hunt, the Oakland riots will look like a kiddie parade.
If Trump is impeached just because the Democrats don’t like him then that’s the day we need to start shooting.
Period.
About time we start calling this a consparicy!!!!!
It’s a mass media coup d’etat.
It is not about dems not liking Trump.....it is about dems being in control of the deep state and losing power. We have an unelected shadow government that dems and rinos have colluded with and they are showing their hand openly trying to take out a sitting US President because one of their own is not in the White House. People are just realizing they are a power and it has no overbite.
Oversight
Great article by Pat. Honestly though, who cares, let them keep it up. Trump is getting stuff done, lots of stuff. Even if by some miracle Nanzi Pelosi is swept back into power in 2018, they don’t have the senate votes and will simply invite blowback, the likes of which will not only drain but disinfect and deodorize what is left of the swamp by then.
And that is factual.
Dislike is no reason for impeachment. Don’t worry they will be laughed out of court if they try.
Dislike is no reason for impeachment. Don’t worry they will be laughed out of court if they try.
Of course it’s a conspiracy, but a losing one by them.
Post of the year.
Let Trump be Trump and rub their noses in the dirt.
Democrats have declared nuclear war to ascertain their dictatorship.
Of course this has been going on since the Lincoln assassination and their staying strangely silent after Kennedy’s, and thus to these days the stupid party still acts like it was a war against the South, not against Democrats, and the GOP will keep receiving the proverbial democrat assassination bullet every time.
Never! 'Rats are losing more ground at every turn. Comey's testimony backfired on them. Trump probably has eight more years to further renovate SCOTUS and his one appointment to that body has already left leftists reeling in shock and awe. Imagine what another appointment, or maybe two, will do. Meantime he has plenty of time to send illegals, a big chunk of illegal democrap votes, packing. Trump is going to bury the democrap party.
Vlad can chuckle at us if he wants, but certainly he must realize we are just a few votes away from the inmates running the asylum here in the US.
The election od Trump was the final stand of patriots ready to bring down the government for its corruption and elitist globalism. The destruction of Trump, if it succeeds, will bring on a revolution of blood in the halls of power.
The Democrats neither care nor are they fear the Hell they will have unleashed. Remember “Never let a crisis go to waste”. The Hell they will have unleashed will indeed make the Oakland riots will look like a kiddie parade.
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