Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
At Mar-a-Lago this weekend President Donald Trump was filled “with fury” says The Washington Post, “mad — steaming, raging, mad.”
Early Saturday the fuming president exploded with this tweet: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
The president has reason to be enraged. For what is afoot is a loose but broad conspiracy to break and bring him down, abort his populist agenda, and overturn the results of the 2016 election.
At its heart is the “deep state” — agents of the intel community, their media collaborators, and their amen corner in a Democratic party whose control of our permanent government is all but total.
At the heart of the case against Trump is what appears to be a Big Lie.
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It is that Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence hacked the DNC and John Podesta’s email account, then colluded with Trump’s friends or associates to systematically sabotage Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Therefore, Trump stole the election and is an illegitimate president. In this city, Trump is looked upon as a border-jumper, an illegal alien.
Yet let us consider the constituent components of the charge.
For months, we have heard that U.S. intel agencies agree that the Russians hacked the DNC and Clinton campaign, and gave the fruits of their cybertheft to WikiLeaks, because Putin wanted Trump to win.
For months, this storyline has been investigated by the FBI and the intelligence committees of both houses of Congress.
Yet where is the body of evidence that the Russians did this?
More critically, where is the evidence Trump’s people played an active role in the operation? Why is it taking the FBI the better part of a year to come up with a single indictment in this Trump-Putin plot?
Is this all smoke and mirrors?
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In late February, The New York Times reported that Trump officials had been in regular touch with Russian intelligence officers.
The smoking gun had been found!
Yet, almost immediately after that report, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told Fox News “the top levels of the intelligence community” had assured him that the allegations of campaign contacts with Russia were “not only grossly overstated, but also wrong.”
If what Reince says is true, the real crime here is U.S. security officials enlisting their Fourth Estate collaborators, who enjoy First Amendment privileges against having to testify under oath or being prosecuted, to undermine the elected commander in chief.
Now we expect Russia to seek to steal our secrets as we steal theirs. After all, our NSA wiretapped Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Our National Endowment for Democracy pushes “color revolutions” to bring about regime change in the near abroad of Putin’s Russian Federation.
Our NGOs are being restricted, shut down, expelled from Russia, China, Israel and Egypt, because they have been caught interfering in the internal affairs of those countries.
There is talk that Putin use the pilfered emails as payback for Clinton’s urging demonstrators to take to the streets of Moscow to protest a narrow victory by his United Russia party in 2011.
As for the alleged wiretapping of Trump Tower, President Obama has denied ordering any such thing and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper assures us nothing of the sort was ever done.
Yet, there are other reports that intelligence officials got a warrant to surveil Trump campaign officials or the Trump Tower, and, though failing to succeed in the FISA court that authorizes such surveillance in June, they did succeed in October.
If true, this is a far more explosive matter than whether a Trump aide may have told the Russians, “You’re doing a great job!” when WikiLeaks blew DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz out of her job for tilting the playing field against Bernie Sanders in the primaries.
What needs to be done now?
The White House should tell the Justice Department to tell the FBI to expedite its investigation and file a report on what was done by the Russians. And if any Trump campaign official criminally colluded with the Russians, send the recommendation to indict to Justice.
The acting attorney general should instruct Director James Comey to run down, remove and recommend for prosecution any FBI or intel agent who has leaked the fruits of their investigation, or fake news, to the media. If Comey cannot find the source of the leaks, or lies, coming out of this investigation, a housecleaning may be needed at the bureau.
While President Obama may not have ordered any surveillance of Trump or his advisors, the real question is whether he or Attorney General Loretta Lynch were aware of or approved of any surveillance of Trump and his staff during the campaign.
Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal. The scandal is this: Who inside the government of the United States is trying to discredit, damage or destroy the President of the United States?
For these are the real subversives.
Surprise the lies half truths by half wits continue ! Any statement made by any Obama staff still in place or not must be considered false ! As it turns out every leftist supporter scurried about like cats covering up shit to make Obama and his policies look good ! None of it is true ! Health care “FAILURE” , Foreign Policies “FAILURE” , Domestic Policies “FAILURE” , Economlc Policies “FAILURE” !
Can’t say anything critical of the first black president because your a racist , no just a realist ! The man is a narcissistic snowflake that has been convinced by all around him he deserves the trophy . Well he got the bigones and our nation lost 8 years of precious time to fix the true national problem Total Lies And Deciet in every corner of government from both republican and democrat !
Here. Reload. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DHS Secretary–Trump has convincing evidence of wiretapping–
http://www.speroforum.com/a/DSMGMBXYPI20/80307-DHS-Sec-Kelly-Trump-has-convincing-evidence-of-wiretapping?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=LWVTINGNET44&utm_content=DSMGMBXYPI20&utm_source=news&utm_term=DHS+Sec+Kelly+Trump+has+convincing+evidence+of+wiretapping#.WL6nG28rIdV
Also,yesterday I was on the Blacklisted News site.They had a headline that stated that this operation was run thru British intel agencies to circumvent the law.Unfortunately their link was broken but in the past I have found their stories to be accurate.
Can you imagine if the deep state is successful in deposing Trump just how utterly fucked up this country would be? So Pense becomes president and the deep state is happy. What about Trump supporters? How do they react? How about the ten’s of millions of Info Wars fans? What about the leftys already in the street and disrupting town hall meetings? Think they’ll be satisfied with one scalp? Think those dipshits in colleges go back to quietly sucking their thumbs? Not likely. Seems to me “they” will have to implement martial law along with the coup d’etat. Then the focus will be on the military. Will they all be loyal to the deep state? What if a sizable portion of them rebel? Talk about a world of shit sport fans.
They’ll do the same thing the Tea Party people did when all those candidates they elected to represent them turned coat and went Republican establishment.
Gripe and complain, then just accept and go along with it.
People repeat themselves, they repeat their history.
The leftists are the only ones that fully stand up for their cause, the right is too busy fighting among themselves and capitulating to do anything of any significance.
You’re correct.We tell ourselves that we’re lawabiding but in reality we’re cowards.
“It is that Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence hacked the DNC and John Podesta’s email account, then colluded with Trump’s friends or associates to systematically sabotage Hillary Clinton’s campaign. ”
So, if I understand this right, the Hillary campaign was hijacked by the truth being made known.
We were given freedom from Hillary by the truth.
John 8:32 “and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” -LEB
This is what your up against.
CNN claims far right wing commentators are conflating evidence and ignoring contradictory evidence.
Just like Pizzagate they never actually tell you what the evidence is or their claim of countervailing evidence.
The left plays to an authoritarian crowd. Thats why they love top down central planners. It doesnt matter to them what bag of shit theve been sold as long as it comes from above.
Trump has to be under extreme strain and needs our prayers. He is in a fight with leftist everywhere; the Swamp is still full of filthy predators serving their evil Master but by God’s power, we will see all of them exposed and many charged, arrested, tried, convicted, and incarcerated. If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31). The evil Oligarchs and their Useful Idiots will launch attack after attack only to be ‘Hoisted by their own petards.
Talk about a beltway conspiracy-John Podesta was paid six figures to lobby for an end to sanctions on a Russian bank.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/06/exclusive-dem-super-lobbyist-podesta-got-170k-to-end-us-sanctions-on-russian-bank/
This looks like a big ole smokescreen, wag the dawg! To me. If the left can keep up the sleight of hand, we will be still defending against the idiocy, instead of attacking the problem like a bulldog, and not letting go till the end and not quitting over the taste of a little blood. I for one got no satisfaction over: fast and furious Libya, benghazi uranium one Vince foster, etc. etc. If we are busy blocking and ducking, we aren’t attacking!! If we see the strike missing, that is our cue to strike and push forward, and not stop to regroup unless we miss. We need to be asking for satisfaction, demanding it.