Guest Post by The Zman
Since it appears we are going to have lots of political news break over the next few weeks, I thought it might be a good idea to do some more political posting, which I have not been doing much of lately. The IG report on how the FBI handled the Clinton e-mail crimes is due out this week or next. Trump is laying the groundwork to fire Mueller and possibly behead his own Justice Department. It’s midterm season and there will be a summer battle over the next round of government budgets. Lots on tap this summer.
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The first item is what we see happening with the FBI spying scandal. I must admit that I followed initially it because I liked boasting about having predicted it. Then I moved into cynical mode, assuming it would be swept under the rug like all of the crimes perpetrated by our rulers. I may have been wrong on that score. The people slowly unearthing the details and revealing them to the public appear to be extremely savvy political operators. I see now why the Democrats tried to assassinate Devin Nunes. He is a dangerous man.
One of the rare things in American politics these days is the smart politician who is not desperate to ham it up for the cameras. Nunes, Grassley, Goodlatte and their staffers have carried out this probe in a way we just never see. They took turns nibbling away at bits of the story, working with IG Horowitz, while quietly confronting the FBI and DOJ each step of the way. The level of coordination is what I find intriguing. It feels like maybe there is an inside player making sure everyone in on the same page and working their role.
On the other side of the ledger, the insane things coming from the Brennan camp are jaw-dropping. For the former CIA head to not-so-subtly threaten the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader on social media is incredible. Either the guy is insane or he really feels he is bullet proof. That would be an incredibly ballsy move to do behind closed doors with no witnesses. This guy is basically telling the political class they better remove the sitting president or else. It is not the sort of thing I ever expected to see in my lifetime.
What it could mean, is that off-camera, there’s a change in opinion. This assault on Trump was led by a well known group of people, the same people who ran the phony-baloney NeverTrump campaign. Brennan’s nutty public statements may reflect his sense that the tide is now running against him and his cronies. He’s not taking twitter because people are taking his calls. You have to think that the leaders of both parties would like to get away from this whole thing and the easy way to do that is turn on the conspirators.
The other aspect to this is Trump has played his hand about as well as possible. The press will focus on his handling of the Mueller stuff, but what Trump has managed to do is much more strategic. Look at his polling. Normally, even saints lose support after waves of bad press. Trump has managed to bob along around 50%, slowly creating an image of himself as David fighting Goliath. The Mueller problem, in light of the spying scandal, now looks like part of the elaborate scheme to thwart the will of the people by Washington.
That’s going to give him enormous amounts of political capital in the coming months. You don’t want to be on the wrong side of a popular president. The Ryan faction, which is bottling up all reform efforts in the House, has to be wondering if they picked the wrong team at this point. With their leader quitting to cash in as a lobbyist, we may see that coalition within the GOP start to fracture this summer. The tell will be if Ryan steps down early and we get a new Speaker. My guess is he is gone by Labor Day.
A long forgotten element of the intrigue in Washington is the Clinton e-mail scandal. That’s supposedly the next item IG Horowitz will report on and it is the reason he is has been digging around in all of this stuff. Many of the characters involved in the spying scandal were involved in the cover-up of the Clinton e-mail scandal. The main target is Andrew McCabe, so we probably learn just how much jeopardy he is in over this. Whatever caused Mr. Magoo to fire him, despite not wanting to do it, is in that reports.
Something Chuck Schumer said two years ago should be revisited. He publicly warned Trump that “Intel officials ‘have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you’” meaning Trump should not take on the FBI. Maybe it was just Schumer flapping his gums, but maybe there’s more to it. It is safe to assume that guys like Brennan were abusing their power for a long time. There may be another game afoot, behind the scenes, to rein in an intel community that has been out of control for longer than the public currently knows.
Finally, I used to compare Trump to the Asimov character “The Mule” because I saw him as the destroyer of the current order. I still think that is largely true. The one thing common in all of these scandals is the participants operated on the assumption that Trump can never win. It is not just that he could not get elected. They have been playing the game assuming that he had to fail eventually. The body of official Washington would expel him like a foreign object. Instead, everything is falling to pieces and Trump keeps winning.
It is going to be a fun summer.
Pretty much the way I see it too. One other wild card is the big IF. IF Sessions has been faithfully wearing the brown helmet for Trump while conducting a mostly secret investigation headquartered far from DC as has been claimed. If accurate, one can imagine how much they have found based on the amount of crap Sessions has been willing to take for the rule of law team.
Astute observations. For the first time, I think these audacious criminals–at least those not named Obama or Clinton, may eventually be indicted. I think this because the MSM has finally been forced to air an uncomfortable truth. The Wall Street Journal is demanding the FBI come clean about the spy the Deep State inserted into the Trump campaign, and both the New York Times and Washington Post–the two main conduits for Deep State propaganda–felt the need to front-run the story, instead of ignoring it as they have all the other outrageous crimes that’ve come to light. It can’t be that Trump really is playing 4D chess, can it?
Top it all off with the some 18,000 sealed indictments to be released against the pedophiles (including many elites) soon, and it makes for quite a circus.
Yes it is going to be an interesting summer especially when the trail reaches to the oval office and Barry. If and I stress if Hill or Barry get indicted or hopefully arrested the civil war will be ignited and boy wont that be tons of fun.
When a portly 73 year old political hack like Stefan Halper is paid $1M by the Obama regime as an off the books spy…….its a constitutional crisis. Does the DeepState, the Permanent State, The Swamp, etc. run America or do the America people run this country through their elected representatives.
Pretty clear the American people have NOT been in charge for some time, take your pick, 1963 with the assassination of JFK, 1965 LBJ Great Society/Vietnam, the removal of Nixon, the assassination attempt on Reagan (he was a good boy after that) and then the election of CIA operatives Daddy Bush and BJ Clinton. The intrigue/false flag of 9/11, the war for oil in Iraq. We have not been running America for quite some time.
The Marxist Obama was the final straw. With absolute power always come absolute corruption, the monstrous crimes of Clinton, weaponization of Government, Lois Lerner denying Tea Party tax exemptions to a Muslim Communist running the CIA! The massive cash component in the Iran nuclear deal is obvious bribes in action.
So will Trump break the Deep State? Seems like he is making great progress and the next couple of weeks will show whether he is truly serious about prosecutions and restoring the rule of law. When Rosie O’Donnell is casually committing election fraud felonies with no fear of repercussions……Houston we have a problem.
Did you see China folding like a cheap suit on Trade? None of this stuff is that complicated. Trump is smart but no smarter than the folks here (except for the Jew haters) we all have the same general policies: free markets, free expression, low taxes and less government intrusion via regulation. Leave our inalienable rights alone (guns, speech, religion, asset forfeiture!)
I am becoming cautiously optimistic, I even hear we may break 4% on quarterly GDP!
Sessions I hear has a KKK problem but let’s hope its because he has been playing possum.
I am curious who protects Nunes, Grassley, Goodlatte and IG Horowitz (and their families).
In politics, everything is possible.
I’ll believe “justice is served” after a bunch of these people have been in the joint for 10 years.
Until then it will be obfuscation, lies, retirements, resignations, sacrificial lambs, promotions, transfers to other agencies, and golden parachutes into private companies.
Should anyone be indicted, they will “admit no wrong doing”, pay a fine, get probation, get a pardon, or (see sacrificial lambs) a short stay at Club Fed.
1) brennan is reminding ryan and mcconnell who’s in charge and that he’s still got their dirty secrets.
2) schumer should choose his words carefully. if anything happens (God forbid) to trump, dimocrats might not be able to leave that bunker they have right outside dc
It could be a long hot summer. When these types of people get cornered and desperate, they will try anything. That probably includes cartel-sponsored mass shootings, riots, freeway blockages like the BLM idiots were doing, and whatever other bolshevik-bullshit tactics the Soros/NWO team has in their playbook.