For Hillary, there were no real interrogations, just get-out-of-jail-free cards. Only in Third World countries do they run make-believe investigations like Comey did here. Comey was an evil actor in this situation, looking to protect Hillary, who had a lot of connections with Russia, and destroy Donald Trump, who had no connections with Russia.
Where is Christopher Steele? Maybe I missed it, but I don’t think he was interviewed. I don’t remember him being hauled up before Congress. Of course not. Steele has been hiding out in the UK since all this began. It was his phony dossier from which a phony warrant and phony extensions of that warrant were derived, and they used an innocent American, Carter Page, as a basis to infiltrate the Trump campaign. Don’t forget, Carter Page is still walking around. Why? Because he didn’t do anything.
When Russians look for assets, they don’t look for political candidates; they look for people with military or cybersecurity backgrounds whom they can use to their advantage. They typically try to get dirt on both sides, not help one and hurt the other. They’re not looking to be friends with anybody. Friendship is not in the Kremlin’s DNA. But since when is the truth relevant to politics? They needed Russia to be specifically interested in co-opting Donald Trump.
Just like a classic cheater, projection is always the Swamp’s argument. If a guy is caught cheating on his wife, the first thing he says is “No, you’re the cheater.” Well that’s what happened here. It was classic projection. Their projection was Donald Trump colluding with Russia, not the Clinton-Obama presidency with its “reset button” and everything else. This is how these corrupt individuals in the Department of Justice rationalize their corruption.
When the Mueller report was released, I actually heard some people talking about how the president should be grateful to the DOJ because they finished their investigation. Mueller concluded his investigation, but not, in my opinion, out of any sense of justice. He wasn’t about to do the president any favors. Rather, I think he knew that if he recommended charging President Trump or any of his children, he would have to put his evidence where his mouth was. He would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt they committed a crime, and he couldn’t prove the hoax was real.
An Attempted Coup
So, where do we go from here? I want to know: why isn’t the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts, reviewing what is painfully obvious to the nation—that a make-believe story paid for by Hillary Clinton and laundered through a law firm, written by a foreign operative, became the basis of a warrant to spy on a U.S. citizen in order to spy on the Trump campaign?
I want John Brennan—who tried to get out of this mess he’s in by saying, “Oh, I got bad information.” I want him investigated by a grand jury. And McCabe. And Strzok. And FBI lawyer Lisa Page, his girlfriend. And Loretta Lynch. And that pious, condescending, sanctimonious, holier-than-thou Cardinal Jim Comey.
When someone lies to you, do you just say, “Don’t worry about it; I’ll get over it?” Well, that’s not how our system works. There must be accountability. There must be consequences, because as the president himself said, this should never happen again. And I can guarantee you it will happen again, unless we make an example of the traitorous, treasonous group that accused Donald Trump of being an agent of the Russian government.
Here are some more things I want to know: Who did the unmasking? Who did the leaking? If we don’t have consequences, if people at the highest levels of government are not held responsible for this, it is a blueprint for future efforts to overturn election results with congressional hearings. And enough with the congressional hearings and inspector general reports. A well-focused prosecutor doesn’t need either of them. A well-focused prosecutor only needs a grand jury and subpoena power. Although I am not saying congressional hearings are never needed, it’s just that after a while they are nothing but a show for whichever side holds positive information to spin to its advantage. It is rare that these dog and pony shows are searches for the truth. They seem to be nothing more than political theater interrupting the work that should be done in the people’s House.
So, should we all just move on? We cannot. There were people at the highest levels of our government, possibly going as high as the White House, who chose to change the rules, violate the law, leak information, unmask innocents, and seek warrants based upon unverified political opposition papers. America cannot afford to simply forget the crimes that were committed in order to frame the president of the United States.
The lies, the dishonesty, the perjury, the fraud, and the intimidation were weapons used by individuals who blatantly and openly hated the outsider. The Jim Comeys, Andrew McCabes, Peter Strzoks, and Loretta Lynches of the world need to feel the justice they tried to impose on an innocent man. They created the blueprint for a presidential coup. Lady Justice doesn’t care about party affiliation, color, or gender. Lady Justice cares about corruption. She cares about law and order. Our forefathers did, too. That’s why our Constitution must be respected.
For their own selfish purposes, these people worked to prevent Donald Trump from gaining the presidency and then, once he succeeded despite their efforts, worked tirelessly as a cabal to try to get him impeached. We cannot afford to let them walk away unscathed. You can laugh at us. You can laugh at opposing parties, but you cannot laugh at Lady Justice.
Bill Barr is a serious guy. He’s a no-nonsense straight shooter who doesn’t care what anyone says or thinks about him. He’s a true warrior and I believe he will follow through on his mission as attorney general and at long last bring justice to the people who so deserve it.
Don’t be satisfied with the Mueller report. What happened to Donald Trump is bound to happen again, because the arrogant, lying, condescending, leaking haters—and make no mistake, it’s you and me they hate—are going to do it again, unless we stop them. And the only way to do that is with justice, true justice. And that’s behind-bars justice.
CHAPTER THREE
Revenge Off the Rails The Resistance Attacks Barr
After the Mueller report was released confirming there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the Washington, DC, Swamp officially entered surreal territory. The Democrats became the kind of angry, unreasonable mob one usually sees only in the movies; a real-life bunch of crazies, so desperate to hang on to a narrative dispelled by their own team that they’re running around like chickens with their own heads cut off.
Their one mantra: impeach anyone who gets in their way.
Attorney General Bill Barr isn’t just in their way. He’s on their trails with an investigation into the origins of this attempted presidential coup. The Democrats were already concerned about how Barr would handle the Mueller report before he was even confirmed.1 But once the Mueller report was released and Barr wrote his four-page memo describing the report’s conclusions, the Democrats completely left the mother ship. Their hysteria over Bill Barr was so intense that for a while it seemed like they forgot Donald Trump was the man they hated. It was like a mini-Resistance within the main Resistance. They became desperate because they understood what Bill Barr is capable of.
Not Trump’s Attorney General?
The Left continues to accuse anyone associated with Trump of being in the Trump camp and incapable of objectivity. Apparently, within the alternate reality they’ve created for themselves since Donald Trump was sworn in as president, no one who works in the executive branch is supposed to follow the direction of the president. Suddenly, they’re all supposed to be “independent” of the elected president for whom they work.
Folks, that sounds an awful lot like a “Deep State.”
It’s no surprise this cockeyed principle has been applied to the attorney general since the Democrats now want to undermine Barr. Apparently, they want the American public to believe—contrary to 230 years of American history—that an appointed attorney general should have no political affiliation at all to the president he serves. Any sign of loyalty to his elec
ted superior supposedly renders the attorney general unable to faithfully execute his office.
Writing for The Nation, John Nichols went so far as to say, “The United States does not currently, in any practical or realistic sense, have an attorney general.”2 Say, what? As if we had one with Jeff Sessions, who hid under his desk during his entire tenure. That’s not just fake news. That’s batshit crazy news.
You don’t have to go back to George Washington’s attorney general, Edmund Randolph, to debunk this novel claim. You need only go back to the Obama years, when Eric Holder said he was President Obama’s “wingman.”3 Does anyone believe Loretta Lynch, who stayed quiet while Jim Comey let Obama’s secretary of state off the hook, wasn’t also a political ally of Obama’s? John F. Kennedy appointed his own brother, Robert Kennedy, as AG. Would the Democrats try to argue Bobby Kennedy had no loyalty to his brother’s administration?
AGs defend their bosses. It’s what they have done historically. Jeff Sessions was atypical in this regard. In him, Trump appointed an attorney general who not only didn’t defend the president but also wasn’t terribly interested in doing the job at all, based on his self-recusal from the most important investigation his office would undertake during the first two years of Trump’s term. President Trump was saddled with a guy who not only didn’t like him, but who enabled the other side.
It’s hard to tell what happened with Sessions, who was such a strong supporter during the campaign. He was the first senator to endorse candidate Trump. But something happened once he got into office and the Trump-Russia collusion narrative became public. He either had some skeletons in the closet the Left knew about or he just turned lazy after ten years in the Senate doing nothing. Think about how hard the Senate works on what they’re elected to do. Fundraising is the “number one job of any member of Congress,” according to former Congressman David Jolly.4 Over $33 million has already been raised just for U.S. senators seeking reelection in 2020.5 Meanwhile, our borders remain in crisis, healthcare remains broken, and infrastructure unfunded.
Or maybe Sessions just didn’t have the balls, certainly not the prosecutorial balls, to be attorney general. Being a prosecutor isn’t always a glamorous job. Quite the opposite. A prosecutor does his or her job without fear or favor. A prosecutor puts a stake in the ground and keeps it there no matter the public outcry.
So, they were either threatening Sessions or he was such a simpleton that they convinced him he had to recuse himself. Every time he issued a press release it was about drugs. Thank you, Jeff, but local prosecutors investigate and prosecute drug dealers every day. Donald Trump, for all intents and purposes, was without an AG for the first two years of his presidency because the guy who begged him—and these are the president’s words, begged him—to appoint him attorney general decided not to do the job.
The president offered Sessions other positions, but he wasn’t interested. He said, “Please, this is what I want! I was a US attorney 150 years ago!” Many believe Sessions knew at the time he was taking it that he was going to recuse himself from the most controversial investigation of the Trump presidency.
So, President Trump’s attorney general was more like an enemy in his own camp, while Obama had a wingman, Holder, followed by Loretta Lynch who met with Bill Clinton on the tarmac of an airport just before Lynch and Comey let Clinton off the hook for her crimes. And then, within a few days, Hillary announced that if elected, she would appoint Loretta Lynch to be her attorney general. But I’m sure she and Bill didn’t talk about that.
Yet, just two years later, the Democrats have suddenly discovered the attorney general should act completely independent of the president’s wishes or direction? Preposterous!
Who Cares If It’s Legal or Ethical?
“Release the whole report!” was the first rant the Democrats went on after Barr’s conclusion.6 While it was clear early on Barr intended to release the report, it’s important to remember he was not legally obligated to do so. Mueller worked for the attorney general, Bill Barr. He was investigating on behalf of the attorney general. His job was to write a report to the attorney general—nothing more and nothing less. In fact, Barr didn’t even need to write a report. All he was required to do after the investigation was say whether or not there was sufficient evidence to go forward with criminal charges. But of course, there wasn’t. Everything Barr did with the Mueller report beyond that announcement he did at his discretion.
Then, he decided to release the report. Understand there were certain legally required redactions, such as grand jury testimony, referred to as “6E material.” Repeat. Barr was legally required to redact those parts of the report that quoted grand jury testimony. Had he not done so, he would have been subject to prosecution himself. I have actually indicted people for leaking grand jury testimony. It’s against the law for very good reasons.
Grand jury testimony is considered secret testimony. This principle has a basis in common law going back hundreds of years. There is nothing in the grand jury that can ever be released to the public unless it is used in trial or as a basis for some other legal document. A grand jury is the one place where you’re allowed to go and not fear that there will be public recriminations for what you’ve said or what you haven’t said. Grand jury minutes have always been secret. That’s a truism.
This doesn’t just protect the witnesses; it’s for everyone. Besides witnesses who may not want to testify in public, secrecy protects innocent third parties and the accused, who is legally presumed innocent until proven guilty in open court. If the grand jury doesn’t return an indictment, you don’t want pieces of what was disclosed there taken out of context and used to attack people in public, not even the accused. This is a centuries-old legal principle as basic to our system as due process itself.
Even when there is no grand jury convened, police or other law enforcement agents do not release information gathered about a target when the investigation fails to produce enough evidence to secure an indictment. It’s just not done.
Rod Rosenstein cited this principle in his letter recommending the termination of Jim Comey, based on his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Comey publicly disclosed information gathered during an investigation that did not result in an indictment. As Rosenstein wrote,
The Director ignored another longstanding principle: we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation. Derogatory information sometimes is disclosed in the course of criminal investigations and prosecutions, but we never release it gratuitously. The Director laid out his version of the facts for the news media as if it were a closing argument, but without a trial. It is a textbook example of what federal prosecutors and agents are taught not to do.7
All of these basic pillars of our justice system go right out the window where Donald Trump is concerned. Forget hundreds of years of common law, the Constitution, federal statutes, the presumption of innocence, or due process. For Donald Trump and, increasingly, any conservative, it’s mob rule and vigilante justice. Brett Kavanaugh is another shining example of how the Left strips away individuals’ rights when they engage in their revenge.
So, regardless of these longstanding legal principles, the Left is trying to convince the public there is something sinister about the Mueller report redactions, that they’re part of a cover-up.8 The want you to believe the redacted material will prove Donald Trump colluded with Russia or committed a crime. It’s just more noise. Anyone who reads the report can guess what most of the redactions are about. They’re about pending or ongoing investigations or prosecutions of “process crime” cases, like Roger Stone’s, that have been trumpeted by the media as supposed proof of the nonexistent collusion for the past two years. There isn’t anything there the public hasn’t already heard about from the media.
Some redactions also protect sources and methods used in intelligence gathering or suppress material that would “unduly infringe on the personal priv
acy and reputational interests of peripheral third parties.”9 No one would have considered these types of redactions controversial in the past and no reasonable person would expect to find information within that redacted material that would substantially change a finding of no collusion and no obstruction. But these provide fodder for hysteria, too, for the vengeful, radical Democrats.
We’re not talking about a lot of redacted information. Just to put this in perspective: only 8 percent of the publicly released version of the report and only 2 percent of the version made available to Congress is redacted. Of that 2 percent, most of the redactions are in volume one of the report, which deals with the Russia collusion materials and these are no longer at issue. Only one-tenth of 1 percent of volume two, which deals with possible obstruction of justice is redacted.10 That means 99.9 percent of the report is available to the Democrats and they haven’t even bothered to read it!
Barr gave access to this almost fully unredacted report to the Senate Judiciary Committee, comprised of six Republicans and six Democrats. No Democrats took advantage of Barr’s offer to look at it.11 They didn’t even want to see it. But when Barr voluntarily testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding his four-page conclusion of Mueller’s 448-page report, the show put on by these hysterical, hyperventilating, histrionic, frenzied Democrats, dripping with hate and venom, was must-see TV. Barr, on the other hand sat staring at them in what appeared to be disbelief, listening to their pontifications, and trying to understand what the hell they were asking him. In spite of all that, he was lucid, focused, and unflappable. I can only wonder what was going on in his mind as they attempted to harass and demean him.
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