Posted on 05/08/2018 9:42:57 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
After the 2016 election, the so-called deep state was confident that it had the power easily to either stop, remove, or delegitimize the outlier Donald Trump and his presidency.
...the Washington apparat quite imaginatively pulled out all the stops: implanting Obama holdover appointees all over the Trump executive branch; filing lawsuits and judge shopping; organizing the Resistance; pursuing impeachment writs; warping the FISA courts; weaponizing the DOJ and FBI; attempting to disrupt the Electoral College; angling for enactment of the 25th Amendment or the emoluments clause; and unleashing Hollywood celebrities, Silicon Valley, and many in Wall Street to suffocate the Trump presidency in its infancy.
But now the administrative state’s multifaceted efforts are starting to unwind, and perhaps even boomerang, on the perpetrators. If a federal judge should end up throwing out most of the indictments of Paul Manafort on the rationale that they have nothing much to do with the original mandate of the special counsel’s office, or if Michael Flynn’s confession to giving false statements is withdrawn successfully because the FBI politicized its investigation and FISA courts were misled in approving the surveillance of Flynn, then the Mueller investigation will implode.
Indeed, the Mueller investigation would likely lose so much public support that the Department of Justice could probably dismiss it with impunity. So, in an ironic sense, Mueller’s overreach might well end once and for all the absurdities of the special counsel/prosecutor law that for nearly half a century has plagued the nation.
Until recently, deep-state apparatchiks such as John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe seemed immune from accountability after lying either to Congress or to federal authorities.
Donald Trump proved to be a catalyst for much of the implosion of the deep state.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
There were many bleating for the Electors to “vote their conscience to save us from the horrors of a Trump administration”.
Thanks. LongWayHome pointed that out, too. The old “faithless elector” gambit. One of their 10 or 20 dirty, filthy, slimy, unlawful tricks.
Link?
McCarthy was harrumphing about how he's known Comey forever, that he was a paragon of virtue and integrity, etc etc...and it obviously wasn't the case.
I remember that every time I see a McCarthy article about the current dumpster fire. I think of Comey as McCarthy's 'lil buddy Jim.
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