Dem Rep. Torres: ‘I Am Afraid That Vladimir Putin May Have Something on the President’
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On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Right Now,” Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA) said she is afraid Russian President Vladimir Putin has negative information he is leveraging to control President Donald Trump.
Torres said, “I am afraid that Vladimir Putin may have something on the president. And it is the reason why the president has continued to play the handmaid to Vladimir Putin, inviting him to the White House and opening the doors and not having any advisers present, taking the notes from the interpreter and continuing to talk to him and continuing to parrot everything that he tells him.”
She added, “Russia is no friend of the U.S. They ever never been a friend to us. They continue to compromise us internationally. They continue to attack our friends and our allies overseas. So we have to be very careful, we have to keep a close eye on how this continues to evolve.”
Keilar said, “You said you think that Putin may have something, meaning compromising information, compromat, as it’s said in Russia, on President Trump? Do you have proof of that? Is there something specific that you’re thinking of when you say that.”
Torre said, “There is no other reason why President Trump continues to capitulate to what Putin is telling him. He doesn’t do that with anyone else. He doesn’t do that with his advisers. He doesn’t do that with his American Ambassadors, who are providing him time and time and time again. National security advisers that tell him that this is nothing but Russia propaganda that he continues to not believe our own intelligence over Putin.”
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The list of predicate crimes is extensive and includes bribery,
embezzlement, fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
Secretary Hillary Clinton and the Deep State: A RICO Criminal
Conspiracy
We who elected President Trump
understood our elected officials and the Deep State were sandbagging Trump and self-dealing public funds.
It was no secret that President Trump is no angel, unpresidential, blunt, and
crude, and a disruptor. Trump was hired to drain the swamp.
I watched this kabuki theater unfold over the last several
years. Through my eyes as a shopworn gumshoe, I will explain what is happening.
My investigative curiosity was first piqued by the ATF Fast and Furious scandal
and continues through the recent House impeachment show trial. There is a
common element running through all of these cons — the
actions of an organized crime conspiracy. A group of people either acting
alone or in concert with others committed crimes with a common purpose -
a criminal enterprise as described in "CRIMINAL RICO: 18 USC. §§1961-1968 A
Manual For Federal Prosecutors."
The players acted together – in the
usurpation of power, the abuse of power by public officials, bribery, thefts by
fraud including federal funds, money laundering, perjury and the obstruction of
justice, the violations of fundamental of civil rights, aided and abetted in
the commission of these crimes and or to conceal these crimes. Criminals will
lie and can't keep their lies straight. Their methods and behaviors are the
same, whether engaging in street crimes or elaborate white-collar financial
schemes. The only difference is when more money is involved, the perps are more
adept in concealing, covering up their sins, and hiding where the money went.
Many of these scandals are well known to the American Thinker readers.
I will focus my comments on Hillary's home brew sever and the Clinton
Foundation as an example of how RICO can be used to prosecute the players.
FBI Director James Comey indicted
Hillary Clinton for her home brew server at his press conference. Comey then
egregiously concluded that there was no evidence of criminal intent purportedly
“required” to prosecute. Comey bastardized the Federal Espionage Act in absolving Hillary Clinton.
FBI's investigation of Clinton's emails was low-balled. There was never a real
search for the truth. The outcome was preordained. My jaw dropped wide open. I
knew the fix was in. FBI Director Comey lied to the people with a straight
face. Why?
The chance meeting of Bill Clinton
and AG Loretta Lynch on the airport tarmac was no mere coincidence. This chat
was not about the grandkids. Bill Clinton was there to convey a specific
message to Lynch that there would be no indictment of Hillary. Hillary
Clinton's email case must tank. This would have constituted bribery, if AG Lynch was
assured she would continue as AG in Clinton Administration. This meeting
took place only weeks before Comey's press conference dumping Hillary Clinton's
email case.
The Deep State needed Hillary Clinton
to win the 2016 presidential election, or the dike holding back the truth would
burst. Trump, the disruptor, was an immediate threat to both the Republicans,
Democrats, and the Deep State. If the truth
were laid bare, it would expose the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, the
Senate and House, and many executive departments for these abuses of power,
corruption, bribery, frauds, and thefts of public funds.
High-level government officials and
the Deep State committed many serious felonies either in furtherance of or to
conceal the crimes committed in the pay to play scam. In
exchange for favorable consideration by Secretary Clinton, those who benefited
would donate to the Clinton Foundation. The FBI started and
stopped investigations into the Clinton Foundation at least twice as reported
by the Washington Post. Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is the most damning. Dinesh D'Souza slammed the Foundation
in the National Review, as did The Federalist.
The status of the investigation of the Foundation by US
Attorney John Huber's is unknown. Rudy Giuliani said there was enough to
pursue "Clinton Inc" as
racketeering under RICO. The Foundation and its affiliated nonprofits require a real
investigation with an in-depth forensic audit to determine where the money
went. In financial crimes investigation, the prime rule is "follow the
money, honey." Illicit nonprofits have many ways to divert funds by
inflating salaries, expenses, and money laundering.
Illegal nonprofit schemes are
difficult to prosecute without hard evidence and the testimony of insiders. The
motive of Hillary Clinton's use of the home brew server was to conceal emails
from FOIA requests that would provide the hard evidence. Hillary Clinton
destroyed the data on her server and cell phones with the knowledge of the FBI.
It took years for Judicial Watch and others to pry and recover
some of these damning emails from the foot-dragging executive departments that
were complicit and knew what was going on.
RICO initially was used to target mob
families. RICO is also a useful tool to fight white collar conspiracies. They
both have the same hierarchy of low-level crooks led by the top players, linked
together with a common purpose. RICO has tools to squeeze the low-level
operatives to gather evidence to prosecute, jail, and seize assets of the
conspirators. The critical element required is a pattern of criminal
or racketeering activity. This pattern is proved by showing two predicate
crimes were committed within ten years. The list of predicate crimes is extensive and includes
bribery, embezzlement, fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction of
justice. The typical five-year statute of limitations for most federal
felonies is extended to ten years from the last criminal act or acts committed
to conceal the conspiracy, i.e., lying under oath and similar actions to
obstruct justice. The prison sentences are steep. The effect is to cut off the
head of the organization and not just the low-level players.
The criminal activity extends back to
the ATF's Fast and Furious program through the House impeachment show trial to
cover up the illegal acts of the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, the
Department of State, the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA. A telltale sign that
the DOJ under US Attorney General Barr is willing to play hardball and may use
RICO, came when he spoke to the Federalist Society: "Barr accuses liberal 'resistance' of
trying to 'sabotage' Trump." AG Barr said this, "shows FBI launched Trump campaign
investigation on the 'thinnest of suspicions." AG Barr is the new sheriff in town, he wears a
badge, has guns and will travel, can impanel grand juries, indict and arrest
people, and is not limited in his jurisdiction, like DOJ IG Horowitz.
The collective actions of the Deep
State are and were a silent coup to delegitimize a Presidential candidate. Once
elected to impede and resist the duly elected President. The President's law
enforcement and intel agencies were corrupted at the highest level and went
rogue.
Organized crime can't exist without
corrupt law enforcement. As I wrote in a letter to President Trump earlier this
year:
.
. . I believe you understand the gravity of the situation and of its importance
to the very survival of our Country as we know it. If the people involved are
not held accountable for their actions, we will be no different than some Third
World Banana Republic.
Failure
to act will destroy our founding principle of the Rule of Law as stated by
President John Adams, "We Are a Nation of Laws, Not of Men" and we
cannot allow a two-tiered justice system to prevail.
Ron Wright is a retired detective from Riverside PD, CA. BA in
political science CSUF, M. Adm. University of Cal, Riverside. Facebook at Ron
T. Cop.
Obama or Trump: Who's the Real Russian Stooge?
A sobering -- and telling -- look at the historical record.
December 12, 2019
Ari
Lieberman
Democrats and their socialist allies have been quick to portray
President Donald Trump as a tool of the Russians. Pejoratives like
"Putin's puppet" and "Russian asset" are terms routinely
employed by Trump's shrillest critics with banal regularity.
The Mueller Report, compiled by a team largely composed of Trump
antagonists, conclusively established that neither Trump nor members of his
campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election. That fact,
established after wasting $32 million in taxpayer funds, has not stopped
Democrats and their echo-chamber puppets in the establishment media, from
regurgitating tired tropes and talking points steeped in Alice in
Wonderland-like fantasy.
Democrats and elements within the leftist media have absurdly
attempted to portray Trump’s efforts to establish good, working relations with
Russia as an attempt to undermine the republic. However, no such criticism
was ever leveled against Barack Obama when he attempted his farcical Russia
re-set, which ended in disaster. It’s a tired double
standard that Trump and his supporters have become accustomed to.
Despite cautious efforts to foster good relations, the Trump
administration’s foreign and domestic policies have adversely impacted Russia
and its imperialistic designs. In fact, even a cursory review of Trump's record
on Russia reveals that he is anything but Russia's stooge and can more
accurately be characterized as its worst nightmare. I’ve compiled a list of
seven significant actions undertaken during the Trump administration, which
unequivocally supports this assertion.
Energy: In September 2019 the United States
exported more crude oil and petroleum products than it imported, marking the first time that the U.S. was a
net petroleum exporter since monthly records were initiated in 1973. This
startling development occurred under Trump’s watch. Trump reversed his
predecessor’s deleterious energy policies, which were viewed by the energy
industry as hostile. In fact, Obama, who nixed Dakota Access Pipeline and
Keystone XL pipeline, banned offshore drilling in the Arctic and enacted harsh
regulations on the fossil fuel industry, developed a reputation of being
anti-energy. Instead of shoring up U.S. energy interests, Obama did everything
he could to thwart the fossil fuel industry while providing taxpayer subsidies
to failed solar energy companies like Solyndra. By contrast, U.S.
fossil fuel development and production under Trump is now surging. This not
only strengthens America’s national security, it harms Russian economic
interests.
Ukraine: Despite the Democratic narrative, it was
the Trump administration and not the Obama administration that provided lethal
aid to the Ukrainian army to repel Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine.
Russia’s invasion of Crimea and the Russian-backed proxy takeover of two
provinces in eastern Ukraine was met by tepid action by the Obama
administration. Ukraine had asked the United States for lethal military
assistance, but that request was rebuffed by Obama. Trump reversed Obama’s
pro-Russian policy and authorized the release of military assistance to
Ukraine, which included delivery of highly effective Javelin anti-tank guided
missiles.
Poland: Shortly after taking office, the Obama
administration announced that it would be scrapping a missile defense agreement
that the Bush administration had negotiated with Poland and the Czech Republic.
By 2013, Obama had completely dismantled the concept of a Europe-based missile
defense system, leaving the Poles and Czechs embittered. By contrast, the
Kremlin was ecstatic. Putin had to concede nothing and received a windfall. In
2012, Obama was infamously caught on hot mic telling Russian president Dmitri
Medvedev that he would have “more flexibility” to capitulate on missile defense
after the November presidential election. In 2017, Trump partially reversed
Obama’s Russia cave-in by signing a memorandum of
understanding with Polish president Andrzej Duda in which the U.S. agreed
to sell Poland Patriot missile defense systems. The MoU signals to both
America’s friends and foes that America does not abandon allies.
Rebuilding the military: It is no secret
that the U.S. military – which endured severe budget slashings under Obama –
was compromised during the Obama years. U.S. overseas military obligations
coupled with sequestrations put an enormous strain on the military and its
ability to perform its mission. Military personnel did not have a favorable
view of Obama, who saw climate change and not Russia as America’s main threat.
A joint poll conducted by the Military Times and the Institute for Veterans and
Military Families found that more than 50% of those polled maintained an
unfavorable view of Obama while only 36% registered approval. But the toxic
situation existing under Obama was reversed under Trump. The latest version of
the National Defense
Authorization Act, signed by Trump, ensures that the US. Military maintains its
qualitative and quantitative edge over its adversaries, which include Russia
and China. Equally important, morale among America’s military personnel
has surged under Trump.
Syria: When Bashar Assad used poison gas against
his own citizens in 2013, killing nearly 1,500 people including 400 children,
Obama declared that such use of chemical weapons crossed all red lines and
warranted a severe military response. Within a month, Obama reversed course and
allowed Putin to orchestrate a scheme compelling Assad to give up his WMDs.
Despite the deal, Assad was still able to retain some of his chemical weapons
and the means of manufacturing them. Worse yet, Obama permitted Putin, as
interlocutor, to gain a substantial foothold in Syria. Under Trump, Assad’s use
of chemical weapons was met with an overwhelming U.S. military response
signaling to both friend and foe that the U.S. would not tolerate the use of
WMDs by rogue regimes. Trump also ensured that Putin did not extend his reach
beyond the so-called de-confliction zone. In February 2018, a Syrian army
column backed by Russian mercenaries from CHVK Wagner attempted to seize an oil refinery
near the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor. They were stopped cold in their tracks by
U.S. military personnel who called in air and artillery strikes. The entire
enemy force was wiped out and the Russians lost an estimated 200 to 300
men. The action signaled to Russia that the U.S. would not tolerate violations
of prior understandings.
INF Treaty: Under Obama, the Russians flagrantly
developed and deployed ground-based missiles with ranges of between 500 to
5,500 kilometers. Obama likely ignored the transgressions in a misguided effort
to get the Russians on board with the JCPOA, colloquially known as the Iran deal.
In 2019 the Trump administration formally withdrew from the
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) citing blatant Russian
violations of the accord.
Venezuela: In 2009, Obama warmly greeted Venezuela’s
authoritarian leader Hugo Chavez at the opening ceremony of the Summit of the
Americas in Trinidad. A smiling Nicholas Maduro, Chavez’s successor, was
standing nearby and appeared amused by the encounter. Obama later defended his warm embrace of
one of America’s top enemies by claiming that the U.S. must engage other
countries through humanitarian gestures. During Obama’s tenure, Venezuela
became a center for nefarious Russian, Chinese, Iranian and Hezbollah activity.
Despite the presence of such pernicious actors right on America’s doorstep,
Obama actively opposed sanctions against the
Venezuelan regime even when there was wide bipartisan support for such
measures. Russia maintains a large economic stake in Venezuela to the tune of
over $15 billion. In an effort to prop up
the regime and secure its investments, it dispatched troops to Venezuela
several times this year. When Trump took office, he reversed the pusillanimous
policies of his predecessor by immediately imposing sanctions on Venezuela and
key Venezuelan officials. Trump continues to ratchet up the pressure against
Venezuela by initiating a relentless economic and diplomatic offensive against
its ruling junta. The Trump administration also sternly warned the Kremlin not to
deploy military assets in the region referring to such deployments as a direct
threat to international peace and security in the region. Thanks to Trump’s
relentless pressure campaign, Maduro’s days are almost certainly numbered and
when he inevitably falls, Moscow stands to lose a bundle.
During his tenure, Obama pandered to the Russians. He allowed them
to violate missile treaties, gave them a twenty percent interest in America’s
uranium mining capacity in the now infamous Uranium One deal,
transferred sensitive technology to Russian
companies that would later end up in the hands of the Russian military,
dismantled missile defense shields in eastern Europe, eroded the U.S. military,
prevented lethal aid from reaching Ukraine and stifled the fossil fuel
industry. If the Democrats want to find a Russian stooge, they need look no
further than Barack Obama.
Victorious Democrats would
also end congressional investigations into the Hillary-Deep
State-DNC-Russian-Clinton Foundation collusion and corruption. All the players
in these massive, sordid affairs will be deemed “too big to jail” – and too
closely tied to the Democratic Party to be investigated further. Paul Driessen
Hillary Clinton's Russia collusion IOU: The answers she owes
America
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/446736-hillary-clintons-russia-collusion-iou-the-answers-she-owes-america
BY
JOHN SOLOMON, OPINION
During the
combined two decades she served as a U.S. senator and secretary of State, Hillary Clinton’s patrons regularly donated to her family charity when they had
official business pending before America’s most powerful political woman.
The pattern of
political IOUs paid to the Clinton Foundation was so pernicious that the State
Department even tried to execute a special agreement with the charity to avoid the overt appearance of “pay-to-play” policy.
Still, the
money continued to flow by the millions of dollars, from foreigners and
Americans alike who were perceived to be indebted to the Clinton machine or in
need of its help.
It’s time for
the American public to call in their own IOU on political transparency.
The reason?
Never before — until 2016 — had the apparatus of a U.S. presidential candidate
managed to sic the weight of the FBI and U.S. intelligence community on a rival
nominee during an election, and by using a foreign-fed, uncorroborated
political opposition research document.
But Clinton’s
campaign, in concert with the Democratic Party and through their shared law
firm, funded Christopher Steele’s unverified dossierwhich, it turns out, falsely portrayed Republican Donald Trump as a treasonous asset colluding with Russian President
Vladimir Putin to hijack the U.S. election.
Steele went to
the FBI to get an investigation started and then leaked the existence of the
investigation, with the hope of sinking Trump’s presidential aspirations.
On its face, it
is arguably the most devious political dirty trick in American history and one
of the most overt intrusions of a foreigner into a U.S. election.
It appears the
Clinton machine knew that what it was doing was controversial. That’s why it
did backflips to disguise the operation from Congress and the public, and in
its Federal Election Commission (FEC) spending reports.
Clinton and the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) used the law firm of Perkins Coie to hire Glenn Simpson’s research firm, Fusion GPS, which
then hired Steele — several layers that obfuscated transparency, kept the
operation off the campaign’s public FEC reports and gave the Clintons plausible
deniability.
But Steele’s
first overture on July 5, 2016, failed to capture the FBI’s imagination. So the
Clinton machine escalated. Steele, a British national, went to senior
Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr — whose wife, Nellie, also worked for
Fusion — to push his Trump dirt to the top of the FBI.
Nellie Ohr
likewise sent some of her own anti-Trump research augmenting Steele’s dossier
to the FBI through her husband. Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann used his connection to former FBI general counsel James Baker to dump Trump
dirt at the FBI, too.
Then Steele
and, separately, longtime Clinton protégé Cody Shearer went to the
State Department to get the story out,
increasing pressure on the FBI.
In short, the
Clinton machine flooded the FBI with pressure — and bad intel — until an
investigation of Trump was started. The bureau and its hapless sheriff at the
time, James Comey, eventually acquiesced with the help of such Clinton fans as
then-FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
To finish the
mission, Simpson and Steele leaked the existence of the FBI investigation to
the news media to ensure it would hurt Trump politically. Simpson even called the leaks a “hail Mary” that failed.
Trump won,
however. And now, thanks to special counsel Robert Mueller, we know the
Russia-collusion allegations relentlessly peddled by Team Clinton were bogus.
But not before the FBI used the Clinton-funded, foreign-created research to get
a total of four warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, transition and presidency from October 2016 through the
following autumn.
The Clinton
team’s dirty trick was as diabolical as it was brilliant. It literally used
house money and a large part of the U.S. intelligence apparatus to carry out
its political hit job on Trump.
After two years
of American discomfort, and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars spent, it’s
time for the house to call in its IOU.
Hillary Clinton
owes us answers — lots of them. So far, she has ducked them, even while doing
many high-profile media interviews.
I’m not the
only one who thinks this way. Longtime Clinton adviser Douglas Schoen said
Friday night on Fox News that it’s time for Clinton to answer what she knew and
when she knew it.
Here are 10
essential questions:
1.
In January 2018, the Senate
Judiciary Committee sent a formal investigative request for documents and
written answers from your campaign. Do you plan to comply?
2.
Please identify each person in
your campaign who was involved with, or aware of, hiring Fusion GPS, Glenn
Simpson and Christopher Steele.
3.
Please identify each person in
your campaign, including Perkins Coie lawyers, who were aware that Steele
provided information to the FBI or State Department, and when they learned it.
4.
Describe any information you and
your campaign staff received, or were briefed on, before Election Day that was
derived from the work of Simpson, Steele, Fusion GPS, Nellie Ohr or Perkins
Coie and that tried to connect Trump, his campaign or his business empire with
Russia.
5.
Please describe all contacts
your campaign had before Election Day with or about the following individuals:
Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele, former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, former foreign policy scholar Stefan Halper and Maltese academic Joseph
Mifsud.
6.
Did you or any senior members of
your campaign, including lawyers such as Michael Sussmann, have any contact
with the CIA, its former Director John Brennan, current Director Gina Haspel,
James Baker, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page or former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe?
7.
Describe all contacts your campaign had with Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal concerning Trump,
Russia and Ukraine.
8.
Describe all contacts you and
your campaign had with DNC contractorAlexandra
Chalupa, the Ukraine government, the Ukraine Embassy in the United States or
the U.S. Embassy in Kiev concerning Trump, Russia or former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort.
9.
Why did your campaign and the
Democratic Party make a concerted effort to portray Trump as a Russian asset?
10.
Given that investigations by a
House committee, a Senate committee and a special prosecutor all have concluded
there isn’t evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, do you regret the actions by
your campaign and by Steele, Simpson and Sussmann to inject these unfounded
allegations into the FBI, the U.S. intelligence community and the news media?
Hillary Clinton
owes us answers to each of these questions. She should skip the lawyer-speak
and answer them with the candor worthy of an elder American stateswoman.
John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose
work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the
Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists’ misuse of foster children and veterans in
drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption. He serves as an
investigative columnist and executive vice president for video at The Hill.
Follow him on Twitter @jsolomonReports.
ALL
REVOLUTIONS START OUT MESSY AND UNFOCUSED. THE BEST IS YET TO COME!
The
Party of Antifa Fascists?
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/10/20/the-party-of-antifa-fascists-n2530342?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky2
Who are
the “Antifa” mobs? What are they doing to our country? How long will we
tolerate them?
The Brett
Kavanaugh confirmation hearings were their latest excuse for tantrums and
intolerance. Dismissing fairness, propriety and due process, they screamed that
mere allegations of misconduct were enough to bar him from the Supreme Court,
despite no corroborating evidence or witnesses.
Vicious
harassment of senators and White House officials in restaurants, streets,
grocery stores, and Senate offices and elevators was matched by ambush tactics
and despicable behavior by Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats. If Justice
Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings were “an electronic lynching,” those hearings were an electronic
assault on a respected jurist, his wife and young daughters.
When
Kavanaugh fought back, the same Senators and their media friends said he
“lacked the proper temperament” to be on the Court. (Apparently, he should have
just tried to enjoy the experience.)
The fact
is, Democrats and their allies had said in lockstep and from the outset that
they intended to keep any Trump nominee off our highest
court. The Women’s March mistakenly released a statement saying it opposed the
“nomination of XX” to the Court. (They forgot to fill
in the blank.) They view the Court as their supreme state and national
legislature: it’s far easier to get 5 votes than 5 million or 50 million.
In
reality, this ongoing attempted rule by mob (with Portland, Oregon a prime example) goes back to
the 2016 elections that put Donald Trump in the White House. The mobs weren’t
just disappointed that Hillary Clinton had not won. They were enraged. And they’ve remained so ever
since.
In fact,
their furor goes back even further – to mounds of excrement they left behind in
North Dakota, for instance, where they tried to block the Dakota Access Pipeline, by burning and bombing bridges,
threatening local residents and killing cattle. One “peaceful protester” tried
to shoot a deputy sheriff.
In
another example, they enlisted state attorneys general, universities, wealthy
leftwing foundations and private law firms (on a contingency fee basis) to
bring RICO and other actions against scientists and think
tanks that voice skepticism about “cataclysmic manmade climate change.” On
college campuses they have banned, disinvited, mobbed, harassed or just plain
screamed over 300 conservative
speakers into
silence. Being a Republican or wearing a Trump MAGA hat can get you beaten, or
worse.
They
forget President Obama’s dictum: “Elections have consequences.” One is the
President’s right to nominate Federal judges. But from their perspective,
“consequences” must never apply when they lose – and the Electoral College must be abolished when it works
as our Founding Fathers intended: to keep populous urban areas from dominating
presidential elections and imposing a tyranny of the majority. (The fact that
85% of all US counties voted for Donald Trump illustrates this principle in
action.)
In most
of these cases, “they” are the Antifa mobs. Antifa being short for
“anti-fascist.” Don’t be conned.
The
Antifa mobs are fascists! And they have become the
ski-masked thug wing of the Democratic Party.
They (and
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kyrsten Sinema, Andrew Gillum, Bernie Sanders and
other favored candidates) certainly espouse socialism as
their vehicle for wealth redistribution. However, in almost every other
respect, their philosophies and actions reflect fascism, which
is generally defined as:
A
political system in which an authoritarian government does not own businesses
and industries, but strictly regulates and controls their actions, output and
rights – while forcibly controlling and suppressing citizens and their thought
and speech via stringent laws, intimidation and even violence.
Sadly,
the Democratic Party is slipping further into these tendencies, becoming ever
more closely aligned with these radicals. It relies on Antifa thugs to “rally
the base,” intimidate and abuse Republican voters and
candidates, and get Democrat (and “undocumented”) voters to the polls. Like too
many in the “mainstream” news media, Democrats refuse to condemn the mob
behavior – and say it’s wrong to even call them
mobs. They’re just
concerned citizens, peaceably assembling and seeking redress of their
grievances. Right. (Hint: You don’t like being called fascist mobs? Stop
behaving like fascist mobs.)
“You
cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand
for, what you care about,” Hillary Clinton said recently. So instead of civil
debates we’re to have civil war over whose vision and agenda will rule? Is
there something wrong, antiquated or “threatening” about debating issues?
Former
Attorney General Eric Holder said, when Republicans “go low” with their
rhetoric, “we kick them.” Rep. Maxine Waters (R-CA) incites
Antifa mobs by ranting, “If you see anybody from the Trump Administration in a
restaurant, in a department store, tell them they’re not welcome anymore,
anywhere.”
Now on
top of the speech codes, trigger warnings, boycotts, censorship, groupthink and
identity politics, Google, Facebook and Twitter control and restrict access to
conservative views; crowd funding sites prevent conservative groups from
raising money; and the Obama IRS prevented Tea Party groups from getting the
tax status needed to operate. When all that fails, we’re supposed to tolerate
mobs and riots.
On
campuses, LGBTQ diversity is virtuous. Diversity of viewpoints or political
affiliation is intolerable. Some say Republicans want to control what you do in
your bedroom. But Democrats want to control everything you do anywhere outside
your bedroom. And Antifa mobs will keep you quiet and in line.
Antifa
thugs fire-bombed a North Carolina Republican office and trashed another one in
New York City, where they left a note that said, “This is just the beginning.”Others knocked a 71-year-old female
congressional staffer unconscious! It even reached the point where a rabid
Bernie Sanders supporter tried to gun down Republican
legislatorsand
staffers who were practicing for a charity baseball event.
Indeed,
death on a large scale, to serve state or other “higher interests,” is another
aspect of fascism. We see that with millions of people dying every year in
Africa and Asia, because pressure groups deny them access to energy, insect control, water
purification, agricultural and other modern technologies,
in the name of protecting the environment from dangerous climate change,
chemicals and biotechnology.
There are
crazy ironies, too. Google helps the
Chinese Communist
Government prevent its citizens from accessing “forbidden” knowledge and ideas
– but then claims helping the US Defense Department with Cloud computing or
artificial intelligence surveillance would “violate its principles.”
Around
many neighborhoods, signs proclaim “Hate has no home here,” in multiple
languages, with an American flag heart logo reminiscent of the Obama campaign
logo – in liberals’ yards. The signs are part of a project that “promotes just
and inclusive communities.” Trump supporters need not apply.
Democrats
appear to be depending on all of this to counter a possible “red wave” – and
regain control of the House of Representatives and maybe even the Senate. If
they succeed even with just the House, Democrat congressional committees will
investigate, interrogate and try to impeach Trump, Kavanaugh and other
officials. They will impede and obstruct everything the Trump Administration
tries to do.
They’ll
also try to abolish ICE, block the Wall, pack the Supreme Court, take our guns,
bash Israel – and replace the fossil fuels that provide 80% of our energy with
“100% renewable energy” that is so expensive and unreliable
it will bring our industries, economy and nation to its knees, while blanketing
rural and habitat land, damaging
people’s health and property rights, and butchering birds and bats by the
millions.
Our
rebounding energy, employment, economy, markets and living standards would get
rolled back.
Victorious Democrats would
also end congressional investigations into the Hillary-Deep
State-DNC-Russian-Clinton Foundation collusion and corruption. All the players
in these massive, sordid affairs will be deemed “too big to jail” – and too
closely tied to the Democratic Party to be investigated further.
Some say
the Antifa-Schumer-Pelosi-Clinton-Holder-Waters strategy will backfire. I hope
that happens, because it would be disastrous if these people run Congress,
America and our lives. But I won’t bank on it.
If you’re
worried too (and you should be), get inspired and involved. Above all, VOTE!
Vote to preserve our democratic Republic, our freedoms, our booming economy, reliable and affordable energy for all Americans – and
equal justice for all, based on the presumption of innocence until proven
guilty.
Paul
Driessen writes books and articles on energy, environmental, human rights and
political issues.
Corrupt Democrats Pushing America toward the Abyss
When Lord Acton observed in the 19th century that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," he was referring to absolute monarchies and dictatorships. But he could have just as easily been referring to the modern Democrat party. The rabid rogues who spat out this incomplete impeachment effort are corrupt to the core, all sense of sanity and restraint long gone.
The roots of this outrage were planted in 2008, when Democrats achieved near absolute power with the election of President Barack Obama. For the first two years of Obama's administration, Democrats controlled Congress, to include having enough seats in the Senate to override a filibuster. Democrats and their supporters ultimately had control of the Executive Branch, Congress, the vast majority of the federal courts, the media, academia, the entertainment industry, the federal bureaucracy, and the babbling women of The View.
They had a stranglehold on almost every lever of power and influence the likes of which had not been seen in generations. Not only were Democrats not shy about using these levers, but under President Obama, they turned them into weapons. They believed themselves to be ascendant, and they expected it to last forever.
Just as Francis Fukayama's The End of History and the Last Man once prematurely posited that Western liberal democracy had won, many Democrats believed we had reached a political end of history in America, where they would forever rule the little people from on high. They transcended the laws that were meant for those they ruled.
But those dreams were smashed, at least temporarily, when Americans committed the ultimate outrage by electing outsider and disrupter Donald Trump.
The last three years have seen a significant decrease in Democrats' overall power, most notably in the loss of the courts. Instead of resulting in a moderating push back toward responsibility, the rejection by voters and loss of Democrat power resulted in primal rage and a further breakdown of accountability.
The contrast between the parties was on full display recently, with the Senate working to confirm twelve more judges last Wednesday, an act that represented a real and lasting shift in power, while the Democrats howled at the moon with their impotent impeachment rage.
For those keeping score, this means that the president has now appointed somewhere around 185 judges, to include two stellar Supreme Court justices. The president's current number of fifty appellate court appointments is just five shy of what President Barack Obama produced in eight years, and his appointees are averaging ten years younger.
The Democrats? They fulfilled their election-day dream by producing history's weakest impeachment farce, one that is so bad that they are in no rush to finish it by sending it to the Senate. In a serious inquiry, St. Nancy the Prayerfully Solemn would not have to inform her fellow Democrats not to spike footballs on the House floor.
But Pelosi has plenty of time to ensure that the black dress she picked out for the occasion is dry-cleaned to next be worn on November 4, 2020, especially after Joe Biden excitedly informed America that he is ready and able to sacrifice good-paying blue-collar jobs to the Green Church of Greta Signaling at the last debate.
One would think a party that saw its political power in decline would tack toward the center instead of running toward insanity. Democrats' belief in their cultural control and media support has instead resulted in the toxic byproduct of maniacal overreach.
Peggy Noonan, no fan of the president, had an article that argued that crazy won't beat Trump. True. But, blinded by her NeverTrump pedigree, she sees the Democrat problem primarily as one of public presentation. This is beyond naïve. Democrats are who they say they are at this point, which is Marxist cultural arsonists who intend to blow up the system.
The draconian political divide now threatening to swallow America is a result of the overreach of a corrupt Democrat apparatus inspired by near total power and a frenzied voting base. Because of the cultural, media, and bureaucratic power disparity, Democrats no longer fear any consequences for their corrupt actions, nor do they feel any urge to moderate.
In this sense, the media are largely at fault. If America had an even remotely responsible media establishment, preferably one that does not tweet out something like "Merry Impeachmas from the WaPo team," corrupt intelligence leaders would not have the latitude to plan a coup. Democracy truly does die in darkness, and the Washington Post and its hopelessly corrupt media colleagues are committed to bringing that darkness.
No Republican would be so bold. The media would violently and endlessly scream bloody murder if Republicans tried to impeach President Obama for any number of his very real acts of corruption and failed leadership until Republicans backed down in shame.
The two parties traditionally operated under a form of political deterrence and were able to work effectively together within that system. That ended when Democrat accountability disappeared under the corrupting influence of their rise in cultural and media power, stoked mercilessly by the Obama administration.
Nuclear deterrence prevented major world powers from directly fighting one another since World War II, which has almost certainly saved millions of lives. But deterrence breaks down when one side, through a power disparity, operates according to a completely different set of rules.
Political deterrence was shattered under Obama. This is what is largely driving the revolutionary spirit that has taken hold in this country. Democrats feel entitled to complete power and violently act out when that power is checked. At the same time, conservatives are furious when they see an America that has two sets of rules and norms, in which the best way to never be held accountable for anything is to declare yourself a Democrat.
When unelected liberal bureaucrats believe they have the right to remove an elected president, anger continues to boil. Add in a side of removing borders and favoring non-citizens over citizens, and you have the perfect recipe for this very dangerous place America is at right now.
The revolutionary divide will continue to build and will result in some form of civil war if deterrence is not restored. This is why the most important action in America right now is being undertaken by Attorney General William Barr and John Durham. There is plenty of reason for optimism that they will see justice done, as it becomes increasingly clear that thugs like John Brennan and James Comey are in the crosshairs.
The other big tell that this investigation is hitting close to the mark is the increasingly loud and shrill screaming from the Democrat-media gallery aimed at delegitimizing Barr, to include an article by Eric Holder in the "Merry Impeachmas" Post alleging that Barr is unfit to be attorney general.
High-level Democrats must be held accountable and the origins of the Russia hoax revealed. That's the only way to let the revolutionary steam out of the monster Democrats have built. It is looking increasingly as though it just might happen. This is a necessity to return a semblance of political deterrence and accountability while breaking up the tidal wave of absolute corruption Democrats sent crashing down on America.
Fletch Daniels can be found on Twitter at @fletchdaniels.
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