Russia – Skunk Politics

June 14, 2018July 3, 2018

Journalist Laughs Off Spygate as Evidence Mounts

Spygate will never be proven, never ever, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. The perpetrators of the greatest American abuse of power since J. Edgar Hoover were not aware of how far off the rails they went and many are honestly still unaware today. How is this possible? Although Spygate is real we must understand that there was no secret meeting in a hidden cave where Comey and Clapper and Brennan concocted a plan to take down Trump. Instead we had people with critically impaired judgement believing they were running a legitimate operation.

There are no specific laws governing when the FBI can send informants into a campaign, or when they can initiate sting operations, or when they can levy surveillance on Americans. A law can’t cover every possible situation. Instead we have various criteria and checks that are always a version of determining what is “probable cause.” In other words, it is always a judgement call.

Professionals in the department of Justice surely have unparalleled judgement. Surely.

Maybe you believe that what has become known as ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ (TDS) is a silly thing that Trump loyalists ascribe to people they disagree with. It isn’t, and it clouds the judgment to the tenth degree. Let’s talk about the syndrome.

A Nobel winning economist, named Paul Krugamn, said the economy would collapse and never recover once Trump was elected. A ridiculous statement for even a first year undergrad. Thousands of psychiatrists have publicly pronounced Trump mentally incapacitated without examining their virtual patient, which violates a major tenant of their profession. They literally diagnosed a paitent based on MSNBC coverage. Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates felt that General Flynn was a blackmail risk to the White House because he lied, as if he was the first person to lie in Washington D.C.

It is clear to many that TDS can affect anyone, educated or not. But why would anyone assume that the heralded heads of our intelligence community suffer from this malady? Glad you asked, before ever meeting the POTUS, the FBI director, James Comey, expressed his concern about Trump, “I feel great pressure to stay to try and protect the institution I lead.” And James Clapper, former DNI, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he thought Trump was a threat to democracy, this was affirmed by General Hayden the very next day. Below is a newly released excerpt of a high level FBI agent’s opinion of Trump supporters.

It is clear the people running our country’s intelligence agencies were either extremely biased or clinically deranged against Trump. Sadly, this bias was solely based on what they saw on television. This is our elite intelligence community.

Next we must accept the fact that the FBI was investigating Trump and his campaign. This is not contested. Anytime a presidential candidate is under investigation by an FBI subordinate to the opposition party, there is reason for skepticism in even the most pristine circumstance. This is true from 1789 until the republic ends.

So we have clear evidence that the leaders of our intelligence community, who have un-tethered power, didn’t like candidate Trump. (Read all their newly released books for corroboration) We also know that many educated people carrying extreme bias towards Trump have deluded judgement. And we also know that some of these people have initiated or ok’d investigations into Trump. The next step is to examine the investigation while giving the professional law enforcement people the benefit of the doubt.

The intelligence community’s judgement was that Carter Page was suspicious enough to have his fourth amendment rights surrendered and a Fisa Warrant issued yet he was not charged.

The same is true of George Papadopolous, the subject of a FISA warrant because he was approached by a Russian. No charge relating to the reason for the Warant.

What did three star General Michael Flynn do to permit surveillance? No one really knows. No charges of working with Russians here either.

Why were informants placed in or around the campaign? Um

Why did the FBI allegedly send an informant to entice Roger Stone and Michael Caputo to pay for dirt on Hillary?

What was the impetus to investigate the president?

Why were Manafort and Michael Cohen investigated and (will be) indicted on unrelated crimes for the sole purpose of trying to coerce them to flip on the POTUS. Was there any reason to treat Trump like Pablo Escobar?

Each one of these steps should have required a preponderance of evidence before getting the go-ahead. How could all of them been granted and all of them turn up empty? Bad judgement. In all of these instances the intelligence community felt there was enough there to violate the fourth amendment of US citizens and in every case there was no crime. This behavior is common in Uganda not America.

January 30, 2018February 14, 2018

Is the Obstruction of Justice charge as ridiculous as the collusion charge?

We will stipulate at the outset of this analysis that if Putin and Trump colluded, then Trump would be guilty of obstructing justice in addition to whatever crime “collusion” entails. However, the serious Democrats and even CNN know collusion is a fantasy so they are now betting on a Nixon-like obstruction charge sticking where collusion failed. One must note a crucial difference between Watergate and Russiagate. Nixon had an underlying crime to conceal, the break-in, whereas the Russia investigation of Trump will yield no such crime.

We are basing the analysis herein on our assumption that Vladimir Putin does not actually have the power to pick who becomes the President of the United States. We are also assuming that Putin would not take the risk of getting caught by CIA, NSA, and FBI having open discussions where he offered to publicly leverage this imaginary power to bet on a heavy underdog in a presidential race, in exchange for… something. We will even assume that neither sitting US Senator Jeff Sessions, nor *Carter Page , nor **George Papadopoulos, engineered this fantastical plot. Furthermore, we assume the story that Donald Trump Jr took a failed meeting with a Russian claiming to have dirt on Hillary Clinton, was in fact a failed meeting with a Russian, claiming to have dirt on Hillary Clinton, and that’s all folks!

Onward; person obstructs justice when they have a specific intent to obstruct or interfere with a judicial proceeding. However, a President makes decisions about what to investigate all the time. A POTUS can tell the DOJ “don’t waste staff on marijuana cases instead go after hard-core drugs,” or “round-up some white-collar crimes” or give whatever instructions he thinks are important. This is not obstruction, it’s his job. So if Trump believes there was no collusion then how can he intend to obstruct justice? This is the crucial point, believing no crime occurred precludes the element of intent. Trump clearly thinks the investigation is a hoax and a witch hunt so when he tries to hurry the investigation along, is he obstructing justice or just attempting to end the hoax? Remember, his intentions matter.

When it comes to pass that Mueller declares that there was no collusion and the investigation was a wild goose chase, will we really prosecute the lone member of our government trying to stop the monumental fraud? Will we really follow one circus with another? Was P.T. Barnum the greatest showman or was it Adam Schiff and cast of CNN?

(*) who did not feel the need to bring a lawyer to his FBI hearing

(**) a man whose girlfriend was more upset people called him “coffee boy” than worried about him being hung for treason

June 9, 2017June 23, 2017

CNN and the Democrats Preparing Strategy for Trump Exoneration

Most democrats, of even limited intellect, are confronting the reality that there was no collusion between President Trump and the evil Russian government. The allegation that Putin conspired with a bunch of Americans, that included a sitting US senator, to concoct an unholy alliance to manipulate an election, is looking more and more like a fiction. Although Putin does revel in making a mockery of democracy, he could not risk getting caught. Making alliances with Americans is a tad too risky. This beckons the question: What will CNN do when they are left standing naked with their false accusations?

CNN and the democrats have limited options:

(1) They can pretend the stories they’ve been pushing for the past six months were about Russia interfering in the election and not about Trump colluding with the Kremlin.

(2) They can say there wasn’t evidence of collusion but steadfastly imply that the Trump campaign was an ally of Russia.

(3) They can move on to new conspiracies involving conflicts of interest or discuss Trump’s tax returns.

A more in-depth look into the three options:

(1) Option one: There has been a litany of stories lasting one news cycle then dying, centered on the Trump-Russia narrative: The Trump computer server, Trump golf courses and Russian money, Kushner meetings with Russians, the secret dossier, the unknown derogatory information, Flynn taking money from RT, Carter Page, Jeff Sessions’ undisclosed meetings, possible back channel communications, and so on, and so on. One Russia story after the other has surfaced without any follow-up. The media devoted thousands of hours to possible Trump wrongdoings, but the entire narrative will be swept under he rug as they announce: see we told you the Russians tried to interfere in the election and pretend the Trump angle never existed.

(2) The second option is a more difficult magicians trick to pull off. At its core, it is simply double talk. The cable news networks will basically blather on about innocuous nothings, and banal coincidences as they simultaneously imply collusion. In the video below you can see how a typical CNN pundit demonstrates the maneuver.

Even Hillary Clinton knows how to feed this drivel to a salivating public.

“So within one hour, one hour of the Access Hollywood tapes being leaked, within one hour, the Russians — let’s say WikiLeaks, something — dumped the John Podesta emails”

Above she implies that after the infamous Trump video emerged, Donald called on Russia to create a distraction. No evidence needed when you own the minds of the media.

(3) The third and final option is the scenario I consider most likely. This option requires a belief that the vast public consists of morons. A belief widely adhered to by the brass and anchors at CNN. These people feel no obligation to back up or apologize for endless time wasted on the Trump-Russia shenanigans and will instead move on to new nonsense. Trump is a rich man with global business associates and international ties. The Trump empire is three degrees of separation away from everyone. It is the business version of Kevin Bacon. Conflict of Interest stories require no investigation to manufacture daily, and they can all culminate with the democrats rallying cry; “we want your tax returns.”

Are you ready to rumble?

May 28, 2017May 30, 2017

Debunking the Press Lies About Back Channel Communications

The practice of maintaining back channel communications with adversarial nations goes back a long way, and a short way. These bridges serve as important and necessary tools of our nations diplomacy. The United States and the U.S.S.R. were on the brink of a nuclear holocaust in 1962 until cooler heads prevailed via back channels. (See photo above) If that crisis took place today with Trump as president, our media would have preferred a few hundred thousand crispy corpses.

President Obama’s administration negotiated the timing of a four hundred million dollar cash payment to Iran, in exchange for American prisoners. The deal was entirely concocted via a back channel. Iran does not have diplomatic relations with the U.S. and like most adversaries requires these alternate means of communiqué.

The generic response to this rebuttal of the back-channel-scandal, entails acquiescence to the need for communications such as these but an unwillingness to stretch that need to cover an incumbent President. This is not the original thesis of the critique but it is a more credible criticism. Unfortunately, it’s based on speculation. All agree there can only be one President at a time and only one policy. However, nothing indicates that Kushner violated this doctrine. No evidence exists to suggest he engaged in any direct negotiations or policy discussion with the Russians. It is plausible that the Trump team was establishing a relationship to deal with Syria and other pressing matters in preparation for when they took office.

The tragedy once again lies within our press corp that is oozing Trump-hate from their pores. Their continuing mission is to fool the public, on a daily basis, into believing something unprecedented is happening under this President. The reporters wrote these headlines with full knowledge of how back channels work. In fact, buried many paragraphs into the propaganda, the authors of the fairy tale inspired articles admit the truth about how communications with adversaries are conducted. But the goal is to hoodwink the public, and a headline is clearly enough to get the fake narrative across.

May 10, 2017May 10, 2017

Diplomacy Akin To Spying Per CNN

In connection with the Trump-Russia con-job on the American people, CNN may have lost its mind. Leaving all sanity behind, a CNN reporter proclaims that Russian diplomats conversing with Americans and then reporting back to Russia (AKA their job) is “Spying.”