The Mueller Report fizzled. Donald Trump is still President. The House of Representative is preparing for impeachment on possible charges of a cover-up where there is no crime. Most of the Democrat candidates running for President in 2020 support socialism, killing babies up until the moment when they are actually born, open borders, free healthcare for everyone (including those here illegally), and free college. What could possibly go wrong? Well, now is the time to get out the popcorn.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Victor Davis Hanson posted an article at The National Review<\/a> about the collapse of the Russian-collusion narrative.<\/p>\n Mr. Hanson points out a few obvious facts that made the narrative doubtful from the start:<\/p>\n One, the Washington swamp of fixers such as Paul Manafort and John and Tony Podesta was mostly bipartisan and predated Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n Two, the Trump administration\u2019s Russia policies were far tougher on Vladimir Putin than were those of Barack Obama. Trump confronted Russia in Syria, upped defense spending, increased sanctions, and kept the price of oil down through massive new U.S. energy production. He did not engineer a Russian \u201creset\u201d or get caught on a hot mic offering a self-interested hiatus in tensions with Russia in order to help his own reelection bid.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article concludes by noting that the rats are deserting the sinking ship:<\/p>\n Comey is also in a tiff with his former deputy, Andrew McCabe. Both know that the FBI under Comey illegally leaked classified information to the media. But Comey says McCabe went rogue and did it. Of course, McCabe\u2019s attorney shot back that Comey had authorized it. Comey also claims the Steele dossier was not the chief evidence for a FISA warrant. McCabe insists that it was. It\u2019s possible that one might work with prosecutors against the other to finagle a lesser charge.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n Former CIA director John Brennan has on two occasions lied under oath to Congress and gotten away with it. He may not get away with lying again if it\u2019s determined that he distorted the truth about his efforts to spread the Steele dossier smears. A former CIA official claims that Comey put the unverified Steele dossier into an intelligence community report on alleged Russian interference. Comey has contended that Brennan was the one who did.<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s possible that both did. Doing so would have been unethical if not illegal, given that neither official told President Obama (if he didn\u2019t already know) that the silly Steele dossier was a product of Hillary Clinton\u2019s amateurish efforts to subvert the 2016 Trump campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n In sum, the old leaky vessel of collusion is sinking.<\/strong><\/p>\n The rats are scampering from their once safe refuge \u2014 biting and piling on one another in vain efforts to avoid drowning.<\/strong><\/p>\n The really scary part of this is that if Hillary Clinton had been elected, we would know none of this, and using the government to spy on political opponents would have become a way of life in America. Unless the people responsible for using the government as a political weapon are brought to justice, using the government to spy on political opponents will become a way of life in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mueller Report fizzled. Donald Trump is still President. The House of Representative is preparing for impeachment on possible charges of a cover-up where there is no crime. Most of the Democrat candidates running for President in 2020 support socialism, … Continue reading