The Vindication of Donald Trump
For the past year, the Democrats have been busy demonizing President Trump, accusing him of committing treason by colluding with the Russians to win the election.
For the past year, the Democrats have been busy demonizing President Trump, accusing him of committing treason by colluding with the Russians to win the election.
Speaking of which, I wish I had copyrighted “colluding.” It has been used so often and by so many people over the past 12 months that even if I only received a nickel every time some jackass in the media intentionally misused it, I would be a very wealthy man today.
What has made the accusation so bizarre is that for the prior eight years, the Obama administration behaved like a lovesick teenager trying to woo a high school cheerleader. First, we had President Obama assuring Vladimir Putin he’d be more flexible after defeating Mitt Romney in the 2012 election. Next, we had Obama ridiculing Romney during a presidential debate for daring to suggest that Russia was a major menace to our national security.
Then we had Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handing over a fifth of our uranium deposits to the Kremlin.
When it came to our foreign policy, the Obama administration did everything but get down on one knee and ask for Russia’s hand in marriage.
To suddenly hear that it was an act of treason for a member of the Trump campaign to have even split a blini with the Russian ambassador struck me as bizarre at best and hyper-hypocritical at worst. How is it that we could go straight from the honeymoon suite to the divorce court without passing Go or collecting the standard $200?
Clearly, the Democrats were so desperate to explain how they could possibly lose an election that appeared to be a slam-dunk, it drove them to behave even more stupidly than usual.
Surely, it must have occurred to someone in Mrs. Clinton’s camp that it made more sense to tie the Trump campaign to China. Why make Russia the boogeyman? Wouldn’t you think that when the candidate herself had pushed the reset button with Russia and later accepted a $135 million bribe to hand over America’s uranium, and when the head of her campaign team, John Podesta, had collected millions of dollars in lobbying fees from the Russkies, it was risky business to shine a spotlight on that very same country?
Was it arrogance on their part? Sheer hubris? Did they all sit around, sipping vodka and noshing on caviar, all the while laughing as they watched their pet poodles in the media run around in circles, yapping about collusion and chasing their own tails?
Speaking of collusion, I keep wondering if Russia paid anything for all that American uranium. I mean beyond the $135,000,000 to Mrs. Clinton and $500,000 to her husband for delivering a 20-minute speech in Moscow. Did the U.S. Treasury make even a dime on the deal?
It seems that just about everyone except for Donald Trump and I have been colluding with the Russians, and, thanks to my last name, even I’m not entirely above suspicion.
Unfortunately, the FBI has placed itself right dab in the middle of the scandal. To begin with, the agency apparently made a financial contribution to the creation of the notorious Russian dossier. Not since the Czar created the Protocols of Zion in order to slander the Jews has there been a more blatant attempt to use a phony document to libel innocent people.
Whipped up by an English spy and a few Russian collaborators, it apparently accused Donald Trump of consorting with Polish prostitutes, Russian gangsters and Scottish sheep.
The next step was for James Comey, then director of the FBI, to meet with Trump and discuss the dossier. Then, when Trump belatedly fired Comey, Jeff Sessions recused himself. That, in turn, allowed Sessions’ deputy, Rod Rosenstein, to appoint Comey’s best friend, Bob Mueller, to lead the witch-hunt into Trump’s alleged ties to the Russians.
Although the word is that the FBI is finally deigning to appear before a couple of congressional committees and answer a few questions, how is it the agency’s been able to stonewall Congress for the past several months? What is the point of our elected representatives holding hearings if they lack the power to indict and prosecute those who simply ignore subpoenas or refuse to testify by taking the Fifth? Wouldn’t you have thought someone would have reminded the arrogant bureaucrats that Barack Obama was no longer in the White House?
Ah, for the good old days, when the only question swirling around the FBI was whether J. Edgar Hoover was a homosexual or merely a transvestite.
It seems like just yesterday that I was railing at all the Hollywood movies dealing with conspiracy fantasies in which the villains were ultimately disclosed to be high level members of the FBI, the CIA and other national security entities.
Until Trump was elected, and the curtain was lifted, how could I have ever guessed those movies were, strictly speaking, documentaries; and that in real life, those seemingly fictional characters were based on actual people named Comey, Mueller, Rosenstein, McCabe, Clapper, Holder and Lynch?
Some days, I swear, you might get the idea that the Constitution isn’t worth the parchment it’s written on.
Charley Schmitz, of the St. Louis Schmitz’s, has come up with seven items proving that not everything in America is going to the dogs.
(1) The Stock Market broke through the 23,000 mark, setting a record high.
(2) Unemployment is 4.2%, its lowest number since 2001.
(3) Unemployment claims are at their lowest level since 1973.
(4) There are 13,000 fewer federal bureaucrats than there were on the day President Trump was inaugurated.
(5) There are now 127,240,000 Americans who are employed full-time (35+ hours a week), an increase of 4,220,000 since last January.
(6) The trade deficit in the U.S. has declined by $6.4 billion in the past 10 months.
(7) ISIS has been defeated in Raqqa, Iraq, and the caliphate is now a distant memory.
I would add that, thanks to Trump’s victory, we now have a conservative majority on the Supreme Court; the EPA has been successfully neutered; we are on the verge of a financial boon, thanks to the first major tax cut in 30 years; we have a military that is no longer being micromanaged by a couple of dopes like G.W. Bush and Barack Obama; and we have a commander in chief who recognizes Islam, North Korea and the mainstream media as existential threats to our national security.
All of this leads me to suspect that a poll indicating that a scant 38% of Americans approve of the job that President Trump is doing, while 57% disapprove, was concocted by the same folks who came up with the Russian dossier.
I’m also wondering why the House vote on the budget narrowly squeaked by on a vote of 216-212, thanks to 20 Republicans colluding (I’m beginning to love that word) with the Democrats. Who would have ever guessed that you could get that many Republicans to sign a political suicide pact?
Am I the only person who is wondering if the reason that MGM, the parent company of the Mandalay Hotel, is handling security guard Jesus Campos as if he had entered the Federal Witness Program is because he’s an illegal alien who should never been hired in the first place?
In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, I think most people would agree that sexual harassment is disgusting. Even if it only consists of telling smutty jokes in the workplace in order to embarrass female colleagues, those who engage in it are adolescent bullies and creeps.
Still, I worry that in the present environment, where women are being pressed to join the “Me Too” crowd, they might start making dishonest charges, assuming that any unfounded claims will be accepted as gospel. Just as no woman who has been victimized should be silenced, it should require more than an accusation to besmirch a man’s reputation and destroy his career.
The charge, if true, is too serious to be used for either blackmail or revenge.
In situations that come down to “he said/she said,” we should all keep in mind the very real possibility that he, not she, could be telling the truth.
