Next week is shaping up to be an interesting week. On Tuesday we will hear President Trump’s State of the Union Address followed by a response given by failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday Townhall<\/a> posted an article about the choice of Ms. Abrams.<\/p>\n Some highlights from the article:<\/p>\n Abrams,\u00a0who believes illegal aliens<\/a> should be able to vote in elections, refused to concede to duly elected Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and repeatedly accused him of racism.<\/strong><\/p>\n Interestingly enough, in addition to scheduling President Trump’s address for the coming week, the Democrats have now scheduled February 7 as the date to vote on the confirmation of William Barr as Attorney General, and scheduled acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee for February 8. There is a method to their plan. Part of the method is that the President’s speech is quite likely to be about the amazing economic achievements of his two years in office and he will probably talk about some of the problems on our southern border. The Democrats are looking for a way to blunt any positive impact of the speech.<\/p>\n Yesterday American Greatness<\/a> posted an article about some aspects of the scheduling.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n The committee\u2019s vote is scheduled to take place one day before acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker testifies <\/a>in front of the House Judiciary Committee on a number of topics, including the Mueller probe; Trump foes claim<\/a> Whitaker should have recused himself from oversight of the investigation based on some of his past comments, even though a Justice Department ethics review<\/a> cleared him of any conflicts.<\/strong><\/p>\n This one-two punch has a purpose: To taint Barr\u2019s impartiality and discredit his office on all matters related to Trump-Russia. Why? Because during his confirmation hearing, Barr agreed\u2014at the behest of Republican senators\u2014to begin his own inquiry<\/a> into who, why, and how the FBI launched several investigations into Trump\u2019s presidential campaign and, eventually, into the president himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n As indictments unrelated to Trump-Russia collusion pile up, Republican lawmakers and Trump\u2019s base increasingly are outraged that the culprits behind perhaps the biggest political scandal in American history remain untouched. Barr signaled that the good fortune of these scoundrels could soon take a dramatic shift under his stewardship.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article notes a very interesting aspect of this whole Russian investigation:<\/p>\n A few days before Barr\u2019s hearing, the New York Times<\/i> reported<\/a> that in May 2017, the FBI opened an investigation into the sitting U.S. president<\/i> purportedly based on suspicions he was a Russian foreign agent. Then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe\u2014whom the Times<\/i> does not mention by name at any time in the 1,800 words it took to report this information\u2014initiated the probe immediately after Trump fired his predecessor, James Comey.<\/strong><\/p>\n McCabe was fired<\/a> last year and now is under criminal investigation for lying to federal agents.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article concludes:<\/p>\n Other materials of public interest include the initiating documents for Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI\u2019s investigation<\/a> into four Trump campaign aides\u2014which Comey claimed he never saw\u2014and any details about who at the FBI started the unprecedented counterintelligence and<\/i> criminal investigation into a sitting U.S. president.<\/strong><\/p>\n And while he\u2019s at it, and before Mueller\u2019s team is finished, Barr should begin a formal inquiry into why the special counsel\u2019s office scrubbed<\/a> the iPhones used by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page while they worked for Mueller for a brief time in 2017. The phones and the data contained on those devices are public property. Barr needs to find out why that information was not collected and archived since both FBI officials already were under scrutiny. Destroying potential evidence is a crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n The enormousness of Barr\u2019s task and the devastating consequences for those involved are now coming into clear view. The timing couldn\u2019t be worse for Democrats and NeverTrump Republicans who are desperate to defeat Trump and the GOP in 2020. That\u2019s why we can expect both parties to whip up more criticism of Barr over the next few months. One hopes he will resist that criticism\u2014and both Trump and Graham need to reassure the new attorney general and the American public that his investigation will receive the same amount of protection that was afforded to the Mueller team.<\/strong><\/p>\n Get out the popcorn, the show is about to begin.<\/p>\n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next week is shaping up to be an interesting week. On Tuesday we will hear President Trump’s State of the Union Address followed by a response given by failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. On Tuesday Townhall posted an article … Continue reading