(The HISTORY by Victor
Davis Hanson)
The LIBS will go crazy
over this - the TRUTH gives them fits.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
---great source of truth
The illegal effort to
destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign's use of funds to
create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama
administration officials, a fabricated, opposition
smear dossier failed.
So has the second
special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump presidency failed.
There are many elements to what in time likely will become recognized as the
greatest scandal in American political history, marking the first occasion in
which U.S. government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and
to remove a sitting U.S. president.
Preparing the
Battlefield - No palace coup can take place without the perception of popular
anger at a president.
The deep state is by
nature cowardly. It does not move unless it feels it can disguise its
subterranean efforts or that, if revealed, those efforts will be seen as
popular and necessary-as expressed in tell-all book titles such as fired FBI
Directors James Comey's "Higher Loyalty" or in disgraced Deputy FBI
Director Andrew McCabe's psychodramatic "The Threat".
In candidate and President
Trump's case that prepping of the battlefield translated into a coordinated
effort among the media, political progressives and celebrities to so demonize
Trump that his imminent removal likely would appear a relief to the people.
Anything was justified that led to that end.
All through the 2016
campaign and during the first two years of the Trump presidency the media's
treatment, according to liberal adjudicators of press coverage, ran about 90
percent negative toward Trump-a landmark bias that continues today.
Journalists themselves
consulted with the Clinton campaign to coordinate attacks. From the Wikileaks
trove, journalistic grandees such as John Harwood, Mark Leibovich, Dana
Milbank, and Glenn Thrush often communicated (and even post factum were unapologetic
about doing so) with John Podesta's staff to construct various anti-Trump themes
and have the Clinton campaign review or even audit them in advance.
Some contract
"journalists" apparently were paid directly by Fusion GPS-created by
former reporters Glen Simpson of the Wall Street Journal and Susan Schmidt of
the Washington Post-to spread lurid stories from the dossier. Others more
refined like Christiane Amanpour and James Rutenberg had argued for a new
journalistic ethos that partisan coverage was certainly justified in the age of
Trump, given his assumed existential threat to The Truth.
Or as Rutenberg put it
in 2016: "If you view a Trump presidency as something that's potentially
dangerous, then your reporting is going to reflect that. You would move closer
than you've ever been to being oppositional. That's uncomfortable and uncharted
territory for every mainstream, non-opinion journalist I've ever known, and by
normal standards, untenable. But the question that everyone is grappling with
is: Do normal standards apply? And if they don't, what should take their
place?"
I suppose Rutenberg
never considered that half the country might have considered the Hillary
Clinton presidency "potentially dangerous," and yet did not expect
the evening news, in 90 percent of its coverage, to reflect such suspicions.
The Democratic National
Committee's appendages often helped to massage CNN news coverage-such as Donna
Brazile's primary debate tip-off to the Clinton campaign or CNN's consultation
with the DNC about forming talking points for a scheduled Trump interview.
So-called
"bombshell," "watershed," "turning-point," and
"walls closing in" fake news aired in 24-hour news bulletin cycles.
The media went from fabrications about Trump's supposed removal of the bust of
Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office, to the mythologies in the Steele
dossier, to lies about the Trump
Tower meeting, to assurances that Michael Cohen would testify to Trump's
suborning perjury, and on and on.
CNN soon proved that it
is no longer a news organization at all-as reporters like Gloria Borger, Chris
Cuomo, Eric Lichtblau, Manu Raju, Brian Rokus, Jake Tapper, Jeff Zeleny, and
teams such as Jim Sciutto, Carl Bernstein, and Marshall Cohen as well
as Thomas Frank, and Lex Harris all trafficked in false rumors and unproven
gossip detrimental to Trump, while hosts and guest hosts such as Reza Aslan,
the late Anthony Bourdain, and Anderson Cooper stooped to obscenity and
grossness to attack Trump.
Both politicos and
celebrities tried to drive Trump's numbers down to facilitate some sort of
popular ratification for his removal. Hollywood and the coastal corridor
punditry exhausted public expressions of assassinating or injuring the
president, as the likes of Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Robert de Niro, Peter Fonda,
Kathy Griffin, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, and a host of others vied rhetorically to
slice apart, shoot, beat up, cage, behead, and blow up the president.
Left wing social media
and mainstream journalism spread sensational lies about supposed maniacal Trump
supporters in MAGA hats. They constructed fantasies that veritable white
racists were now liberated to run amuck
insulting and beating up
people of color as they taunted the poor and victimized minorities with vicious
Trump sloganeering-even as the Covington farce and now the even more
embarrassing Jussie Smollett charade evaporated without apologies from
the media and progressive merchants of such hate.
At the same time,
liberal attorneys, foundations, Democratic politicians,and progressive
activists variously sued to overturn the election on false charges of rigged
voting machines. They sought to subvert the Electoral College. They introduced
articles of impeachment. They sued to remove Trump under the Emoluments Clause.
They attempted to invoke the 25th Amendment. And they even resurrected the
ossified Logan Act-before focusing on the appointment of a special
counsel to discredit the Trump presidency. Waiting for the 2020 election was
seen as too quaint.
Weaponizing the Deep
State - During the 2016 election, the Obama Department of Justice warped the
Clinton email scandal investigation, from Bill Clinton's secret meeting on an airport
tarmac with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, to unethical immunity given to the
unveracious Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, to James Comey's
convoluted predetermined treatment of "likely winner" Clinton, and to
DOJ's Bruce Ohr's flagrant conflict of interests in relation to Fusion GPS.
About a dozen FBI and
DOJ grandees have now resigned, retired, been fired, or reassigned for
unethical and likely illegal behavior-and yet have not faced criminal
indictments. The reputation of the FBI as venerable agency is all but wrecked.
Its administrators variously have libeled the Trump voters, expressed hatred
for Trump, talked of "insurance policies" in ending the Trump
candidacy, and inserted informants into the Trump campaign.
The former Obama
directors of the CIA and National Intelligence, with security clearances intact,
hit the television airways as paid "consultants" and almost daily
accused the sitting president of Russian collusion and treason-without
cross-examination or notice that both previously had lied under oath to Congress
(and did so without subsequent legal exposure), and both were likely knee-deep
in the dissemination of the Steele dossier among Obama administration
officials.
John Brennan's CIA
likely helped to spread the Fusion GPS dossier among elected and administrative
state officials. Some in the NSC in massive and unprecedented fashion requested
the unmasking of surveilled names of Trump
subordinates, and then
illegally leaked them to the press.
The FISA courts, fairly
or not, are now mostly discredited, given they either were willingly or naively
hoodwinked by FBI and DOJ officials who submitted as chief evidence for surveillance
on American citizens, an unverified dossier-without disclosure that the bought
campaign hit-piece was paid for by Hillary
Clinton, authored by a discredited has-been British agent, relied on murky
purchased Russian sources, and used in circular fashion to seed news accounts
of supposed Trump misbehavior.
The Mueller
Investigation - The Crown Jewel in the coup was the appointment of special
counsel Robert Muller to discover supposed 2016 Trump-Russian election
collusion. Never has any special investigation been so ill-starred from its
conception.
Mueller's appointment
was a result of his own friend James Comey's bitter stunt of releasing secret,
confidential and even classified memos of presidential conversations. Acting
DOJ Attorney Rod Rosenstein appointed a former colleague Mueller-although as a
veteran himself of the Clinton email scandal investigations
and the FISA fraudulent writ requests, Rosenstein was far more conflicted than
was the recused Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Mueller then packed his
investigative team with lots of Clinton donors and partisans, some of whom had
legally represented Clinton subordinates and even the Clinton Foundation or
voiced support for anti-Trump movements.
Mueller himself and
Andrew Weissmann have had a long record of investigatory and prosecutorial
overreach that had on occasion resulted in government liability and court
mandated federal restitution. In such polarized times, neither should have
involved in such an investigation. Two subordinate FBI investigators were
caught earlier on conducting an affair over their FBI-issued cell phones, and
during the election cycle they slurred the object of their subsequent
investigation, ridiculed Trump voters, and bragged that Trump would
never be elected. Mueller later staggered, and then hid for weeks the reasons
for, their respective firings.
The team soon discovered
there was no Trump-Russian 2016 election collusion-and yet went ahead to leverage
Trump campaign subordinates on process crimes in hopes of finding some culpability
in Trump's past 50-year business, legal, and tax records.
The point was not to
find who colluded with whom (if it had been, then Hillary Clinton would be now
indicted for illegally hiring with campaign funds a foreign national to buy
foreign fabrications to discredit her opponent), but to find the proper
mechanism to destroy the presumed guilty Donald Trump.
The Mueller probe has
now failed in that gambit of proving "collusion" (as even progressive
investigative reporters and some FBI investigators had predicted), but
succeeded brilliantly in two ways.
The
"counterintelligence" investigation subverted two years of the Trump presidency
by constant leaks that Trump soon would be indicted, jailed, disgraced, or
impeached. As a result, Trump's stellar economic and foreign policy record
would never earn fifty percent of public support.
Second, Mueller's
preemptive attacks offered an effective offensive defense for the likely
felonious behavior of John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Andrew McCabe,
Bruce Ohr, Peter Strzok, and a host of others. While the Mueller lawyers
threatened to destroy the lives of bit players like Jerome Corsi, George Papadopoulos,
and Roger Stone, they de facto provided exemption to a host of the Washington
hierarchy who had lied under oath,
obstructed justice,
illegally leaked to the press, unmasked and leaked names of surveilled
Americans, and misled federal courts under the guise of a "higher
loyalty" to the cause of destroying Donald J. Trump.
The Palace Coup - All of the above came to a head with the
firing of the chronic leaker FBI Director James Comey (who would lie to the president
about his not being a target of an FBI investigation, lie to House
investigatory committees by pleading amnesia and
ignorance on 245 occasions, and repeatedly lie to his own FBI bureaucrats).
In May 2017, acting FBI
director Andrew McCabe took over from the fired Comey. His candidate wife
recently had been a recipient of huge Clinton-related campaign PAC donations
shortly before he began investigating the Clinton email scandal. McCabe would
soon be cited by the Inspector General for lying to
federal investigators on numerous occasions-cynically stooping even to lie to
his own New York FBI subordinates to invest scarce resources to hunt for their
own nonexistent leaks as a mechanism for disguising his own quite real and
illegal leaking.
The newly promoted
McCabe apparently felt that it was his moment to become famous for taking out a
now President Trump. Thus, he assembled a FBI and DOJ cadre to open a
counterintelligence investigation of the sitting president on no other grounds
but the fumes of an evaporating Clinton opposition dossier and
perceived anger among the FBI that their director had just been fired. In
addition, apparently now posing as Andrew McCabe, MD, he informally head
counted how many of Trump's own cabinet members could be
convinced by McCabe's
own apparent medical expertise to help remove the president on grounds of
physical and mental incapacity under the 25th Amendment. This was an
attempted, albeit pathetic, coup against an elected
president and the first
really in the history of the United States.
At one point, McCabe
claims that the acting Attorney General of the United States Rod Rosenstein
volunteered to wear a wire to entrap his boss President Trump-in the manner of
Trump's own attorney Michael Cohen's entrapment of Trump, in the manner of
James Comey taking entrapment notes on confidential Trump one-on-one meetings
and leaking them to the press, and in the manner of the Department of Justice
surveilling Trump subordinates through FISA and other court authorizations.
McCabe was iconic of an
utterly corrupt FBI Washington hierarchy, which we now know from the behavior
of its disgraced and departed leadership. They posed as patriotic scouts, but
in reality proved themselves arrogant, smug,
and incompetent. They
harbored such a sense of superiority that they were convinced they could act
outside the law in reifying an "insurance policy" that would end the
Trump presidency.
The thinking of the
conspirators initially had been predicated on three assumptions thematic during
this three-year long government effort to destroy Trump:
One, during 2016,
Hillary Clinton would certainly win the election and FBI and DOJ unethical and
illegal behavior would be forgotten if not rewarded, given the Clintons' own
signature transgressions and proven indifference to the law;
Two, Trump was so
controversial and the fabricated dossier was so vile and salacious, that seeded
rumors of Trump's faked perversity gave them de facto exemptions to do whatever
they damned pleased;
Three, Trump's low
polls, his controversial reset of American policy, and the general contempt in
which he was held by the bipartisan coastal elite, celebrities, and the deep
state, meant that even illegal means to continue the campaign-era effort to
destroy Trump and now abort his presidency were felt to be moral and heroic
acts without legal consequences, and the media
would see the
conspirators as heroes.
In sum, the Left and the
administrative state, in concert with the media, after failing to stop the
Trump campaign, regrouped. They ginned up a media-induced public hysteria, with
the residue of the Hillary Clinton campaign's illegal opposition research, and
manipulated it to put in place a special counsel, stocked
with partisans.
Then, not thugs in
sunglasses and epaulettes, not oligarchs in private jets, not shaggy would-be
Marxists, but sanctimonious arrogant bureaucrats insuits and ties used their
government agencies to seek to overturn the 2016 election, abort a
presidency, and subvert the U.S. Constitution. And theydid all that and
more on the premise that they were our moral superiors and had uniquely divine
rights to destroy a presidency that they loathed.
Shame on all these
failed conspirators and their abettors, and may these immoral people finally
earn a long deserved legal and moral reckoning.
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