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Our Politics Are About To Get Much, Much Worse
The Revolutionary Act ^ | 12/13/18

Posted on 12/13/2018 8:54:19 AM PST by Liberty7732

Last week, prosecutors for the Southern District of New York and Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered their sentencing recommendations regarding former counsel for President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen. As previously reported by The Federalist Pages, their memos provided no significant evidence against the President.

Just lots of political fodder. And now newly elected New York Attorney General Letitia James says she will being using the power of law enforcement to target President Trump, his family and his associates. “We will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well,” she told NBC News.

The witch hunt using state and federal law enforcement is ratcheting up even more, and it is all political.

More evidence of this is in the Cohen sentencing recommendations did not add any information regarding claims of Russian collusion on the part of President Trump, which is the original directive to the Mueller investigation, nor do they suggest that there was any sign of obstruction of justice on the part of the President. But they abound in politics.

What the memo did mention for the first time is an allegation of possible campaign finance violations on the part of then-candidate Trump. This focus represents a whole new direction for investigators, one that was not previously contemplated. The charge of campaign financing violations, based on money paid to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, is based on the claim that Cohen was directed to make the payments that would eventually reach the two women by the President himself.

This renewed investigative direction has sent the pundits of politics ablaze regarding potential prosecutorial scenarios for President Trump. Never mind that the bar for successful prosecution is very high, or that the allegation is presently only based on statements made by Cohen (amongst the most discredited and conflicted witnesses imaginable), or even that then-candidate Trump likely had a legally defensible position for having engaged in the agreements with Daniels and McDougal during his campaign without a requirement that the money be channeled through his campaign accounts.

Those issues are immaterial because what is truly at stake is the opportunity to take down a sitting president hated and feared by Democrats, the press and the establishment.

The Democrats, who are on the eve of taking control of the House of Representatives, have made it their goal to make Trump their greatest nemesis. Like the relentless quest for the Holy Grail, Democrats would take no greater joy during the next two years than to 1) stop every one of Trump’s agenda items; and 2) get him out of power. If they can exploit any opportunity to embarrass the President and demonize him, they will. It’s all pure politics.

As evidence for this point, we have Congressman Adam Schiff, the likely incoming House Intelligence Chairman, who almost giddily said on Face The Nation, there’s a real possibility that “on the day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him.”

This is more than a mere concern on Schiff’s part; it is an agenda item.

In the face of these developments and associated chants, the road before the nation becomes distinctly clear. First, the Democrats in the House of Representatives will do everything in their power to obstruct anything of importance that President Trump wishes to accomplish. For them, Trump is an illegitimate President, one that had no right to defeat Hillary Clinton in the first place.

Second, to this day, they cannot come to grips with the harsh reality that President Trump won not because of Russian collusion, but rather because he ran a great campaign concentrating on seeking electoral college votes and because Hillary Clinton was the worst candidate the Democrats could have proffered.

Third, and even more demoralizing to Democrats, is that President Trump has accomplished more in two years than Obama accomplish in two terms. From his conservative appointments to the courts, to the scaling down of taxes, to the overt demonstration of the futility and oppressiveness of the Paris Climate Accord, to the takedown of ISIS and the jump start of the economy, Democrats have been unable to deal with Trump’s effectiveness and the furtherance of the national stability his agenda has provided.

These realities coupled with the virtual dissolution of the Russian collusion allegations have left the Democrats desperate for a talking point and no greater talking point exists than the involvement of the President in an extra-marital, immoral sex scandal with legal overtones — whether they are real or not. That’s good politics for Democrats.

All this leaves us with a recipe for a totally fruitless and unproductive two-year cycle save for the promotion of greater discord among Americans and the continuance and amplification of fractioning among countrymen.

And that is going to make for a very long and painful haul to the 2020 elections for everyone.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; jamescomey; letitiajames; lisapage; newyork; peterstrzok; robertmueller
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To: ridesthemiles
The thousands of the sealed indictments need to start dropping NOW.

Still 'trust the plan', eh?

21 posted on 12/13/2018 12:05:12 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: MileHi
CWII - Politics by other means.

It's where they're pushing us.

They smell blood in the water and do not fear us. Not even a little bit.

22 posted on 12/13/2018 12:11:15 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

New York state is now officially fascist, complete with their own Il Duce in Albany giving carte blanche to his new fascist AG to persecute those who disagree with them.


23 posted on 12/13/2018 12:36:20 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: Liberty7732

Openly proclaimed and endorsed Rule of Lawfare.


24 posted on 12/13/2018 3:15:31 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: dpetty121263

Just keep voting.


25 posted on 12/13/2018 4:19:07 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

Suspect the next stop will be the cartridge Bix..


26 posted on 12/13/2018 4:20:52 PM PST by dpetty121263
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To: kiryandil

kiryandil wrote:

They want a war - they’re going to get a war.

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What kind of war kiryandil?

Shooting?

If so....who will you shoot first?

Not trying to be a prick....just want to know what your plans are.....:)

best.


27 posted on 12/13/2018 4:24:07 PM PST by RevelationDavid (Jesus First, no matter the cost.)
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To: RevelationDavid

We’ll see what Form Of The Destructor they choose.


28 posted on 12/13/2018 7:12:41 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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