I mean, let's consider what we have here: the most powerful office on earth held by a street fighter from Queens.
So, yeah, admittedly Trump got surprised when the deep state pulled their classic bait & switch that launched the SC. But only a slow witted dunce would fail to react and formulate an effective counter strategy once brought up to speed on DC legal games.
We might even admire the swamp's tenacious resistance; perhaps like the last Nazis holed up in their bunker(s). There only possible way out for them was to continue full offense, hoping for a political miracle. A defensive posture is a loser from the git-go - once they are fully boxed in, the dominoes will rapidly fall into place.
My only real concern is whether Trump has the historical awareness & prescience to fully prosecute the treason by all conspirators. He needs to go all in, making sure people literally hang for their crimes. If he doesn't, then all his successes will be buried under future swamp administrations which will censor & re-write this historical period as one of chaos and (economic) depression.
Thank you for your thoughtful post.
I doubt he was surprised by the appointment. He might be surprised by how long and how deep and how dishonest the process has become - but I doubt that too.
There would have been no way "Trump is cleared" would be accepted if it came from Sessions' DOJ, or from Rosenstein personally. Rosenstein is a co-conspirator in the (cough cough) obstruction flowing from firing Comey.
-- My only real concern is whether Trump has the historical awareness & prescience to fully prosecute the treason by all conspirators. He needs to go all in, making sure people literally hang for their crimes. --
The eventual punishment will be a political calculation. I totally agree with your thought about swamp resurgence. The only way to hold the swamp at bay is to awaken the public.
He's going to hang all the historians (e.g. leftist professors)? I don't think so. There's a common meme that Hillary, Comey, Brennan, etc are running the deep state and need to be taken down. The first problem is that the deep state is amorphous and doesn't need to be run by anyone. The second problem is this is war and like any war the peace is kept through strength and deterrence. We need to prosecute perjurers like Clapper, leakers like Brennan and Comey, mishandlers like HIllary for the crimes that they actually did commit.
We also need deterrence. That is harder and certainly some harsh punishment will help deter future deep state criminals. But part of the deterrence is to make the American public fullly aware of the leftist poltical nature of the deep state and get their representatives to root it out. Otherwise it will remain.
“...making sure people literally hang for their crimes”
Many democrats (and even some Republicans) should have been executed a long time ago. They know it as well.
This is why you see Brennan, Clapper, Kerry, Holder, Rice, Powers all tweeting smack on Twitter.
They know that they are only months away from being snuffed out if their evil crimes are exposed.
I left out Hillary Clinton and Barry Soetoro who should be at the top of the list of co-conspirators. When the time comes, they will flee the USA and go into hiding in the Middle East.
“My only real concern is whether Trump has the historical awareness & prescience to fully prosecute the treason by all conspirators. He needs to go all in, making sure people literally hang for their crimes. If he doesn’t, then all his successes will be buried under future swamp administrations which will censor & re-write this historical period as one of chaos and (economic) depression.”
ABSOLUTELY. And I’ve been noting that George W. Bush, in his stupid effort to set a ‘new tone’ in DC, let all of the Clinton criminals off the hook. So what did the Deep State do in response? Did they thank Bush profusely? Nope, they figured that they could get away with ANYTHING and not be punished - so they upped the game an order of magnitude under Obama, and then under Trump - figuring that they were above the law. So far, other than a few people losing their jobs and a couple more being demoted, they’ve been right.
If Trump is able to held these monsters ACCOUNTABLE, then it will be decades before the next Deep State cabal tries any crap like this - they’ll simply be too scared. But if they’re not held accountable, it will only get worse, much worse.
“...He needs to go all in, making sure people literally hang for their crimes. If he doesn’t, then all his successes will be buried under future swamp administrations ...”
You are EXACTLY right on this!
These folks are out to kill DJT(and our country). You cant mess around and let things slide; catch them, scold them and turn them loose... they will only learn from their mistakes of how to come back at you 10X harder next time and with their bases more covered.
Take them DOWN, President Trump!