The Patriot Post® · Trump Orders Declassification

By Gary Bauer ·
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/74005-trump-orders-declassification-2020-10-08

President Trump tweeted that he has ordered the declassification of “any & all” documents related to the “Russia Hoax” and “the Hillary Clinton email scandal.” The president also expressed his frustration that the declassification process is moving slowly, and some suspect CIA Director Gina Haspel may be responsible for that.

One important piece of information we have learned in recent days is that former CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama, and presumably Vice President Joe Biden, about Hillary Clinton’s plot to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent “as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”

We also learned that the CIA forwarded this information to the FBI so it could investigate the Clinton campaign. Of course, we know that the FBI targeted the Trump campaign instead.

What this shows is that the only 2016 candidate plotting with foreign interests to interfere in the election was Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden and Barack Obama knew it.

Clinton hired a former British intelligence agent who then called on his Russian assets to contrive the now-infamous debunked dossier.

Of course, not one of the Big Three networks devoted even one second to this important story, but that’s exactly what you would expect from the media arm of the Democrat Party.

Michelle’s Message

Former First Lady Michelle Obama jumped into the political fray by releasing a video in which she lied about the riots and smeared the president. It was character assassination against the president, but it was worse than that. It was character assassination against the entire country.

The left has been playing the race card for years in ways that only serve to deepen racial divides. This country is so decent and so good that the worst possible thing you can say about an individual is that they are a racist. That’s why they keep saying it.

The left can’t win the argument over America’s role in the world, the size of government, religious liberty, or the sanctity of life. So it always falls back to the last sign of how evil they are.

It tells the country, including children of this increasingly diverse country, that a particular president, a particular party, and conservatives in general are racists. You can’t say anything worse than that.

And for the first woman of color to be the First Lady of the United States to engage in this sort of race baiting is outrageous.

Don’t get me wrong: I know racism still exists. It is a sin and should be confronted. But how is it that this “horribly evil and systemically racist nation” twice elected a black man as president?

And show me the black prime minister of Canada. Show me the black prime minister of Great Britain. Show me the black president of France. Show me the black chancellor of Germany. I could go on, but you get the point.

In his first four years, Donald Trump did more for black Americans than Barack, Michelle, and Joe Biden did in eight years, and more than the Democrat Party, with its history of segregation and Jim Crow, has done in decades.

Anytime you hear Michelle Obama speak, just remember that she once said she had never been proud of America until her husband won the 2008 Democrat Party nomination.