The most important thing to remember is that the 2016 election took place when Barack Obama was President of the United States and Loretta Lynch was Attorney General. Whatever it was that the Russians were doing – the Obama administration did not make an issue of it. The probable reason is that there was no “Russian interference” in the election at all – at least no more than there has been in the past. Think about it – if a Democrat administration, term-limited and not seeking reelection but wanting to be succeeded by a fellow Democrat, had evidence that a Republican challenger was working with the Russians to subvert the electoral process – would they not publicize it? Would they not shout warnings? Would they not call out that candidate? They did none of those things. They had no problem with throwing all sorts of charges and accusations at Donald Trump, but doesn’t one find it interesting that the only accusation that has lasted a year after the election is one that was never mentioned during the election? In fact – President Obama, his National Security Advisor, his Director of National Intelligence, his CIA Director, his Vice President, all publicly denied that there was interference in the election. But what did not exist in reality has been concocted to exist through a rigged investigation; and the four-page memo is likely to explicitly outline that rigging, and thus the departure of Mr. McCabe and the negative reaction to the Democrats who have staked everything on “Russia, Russia, Russia.” They have staked everything on challenging the legitimacy of the election – and "Russia" did not become a theme until. all the other themes failed (the popular vote, the electoral college, recounts, etc. Only then did they latch onto the Russia notion.
BY JOHN SHAFFER The House Intelligence Committee has voted to release a four-page summary of various documents relating to the FISA investigation of President Trump (and, perhaps, of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well). The Democrats on the committee voted against releasing the report. Why, in this era of “transparency” would they not want it released? There are several possibilities, but let’s go with the most logical one: there is something in it that would be damaging to them. The fact that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has been “removed” from his position may provide some hints in that direction. The most important thing to remember is that the 2016 election took place when Barack Obama was President of the United States and Loretta Lynch was Attorney General. Whatever it was that the Russians were doing – the Obama administration did not make an issue of it. The probable reason is that there was no “Russian interference” in the election at all – at least no more than there has been in the past. Think about it – if a Democrat administration, term-limited and not seeking reelection but wanting to be succeeded by a fellow Democrat, had evidence that a Republican challenger was working with the Russians to subvert the electoral process – would they not publicize it? Would they not shout warnings? Would they not call out that candidate? They did none of those things. They had no problem with throwing all sorts of charges and accusations at Donald Trump, but doesn’t one find it interesting that the only accusation that has lasted a year after the election is one that was never mentioned during the election? In fact – President Obama, his National Security Advisor, his Director of National Intelligence, his CIA Director, his Vice President, all publicly denied that there was interference in the election. But what did not exist in reality has been concocted to exist through a rigged investigation; and the four-page memo is likely to explicitly outline that rigging, and thus the departure of Mr. McCabe and the negative reaction to the Democrats who have staked everything on “Russia, Russia, Russia.” They have staked everything on challenging the legitimacy of the election – and "Russia" did not become a theme until. all the other themes failed (the popular vote, the electoral college, recounts, etc. Only then did they latch onto the Russia notion. Remember this: all those people named above believed that Hillary Clinton had the election in the bag, and had she won, there would have been nothing said about “Russian interference." Remember also the Clinton administration would have continued the policies of the Obama administration – and one thing the Obama Administration did not do was “stand up to Putin.” Just the opposite – on energy, on the Ukraine, on conflicts, on many other issues, the Obama administration downplayed Russia as a rival and ridiculed those who thought Russia was a potential danger. In contrast, the Trump administration has called Russia out, is working to rebuild America’s military, is standing strong for energy independence, and doing plenty of things that Putin objects to. And thus we have more evidence that the notion of Donald Trump as a Russian puppet is a fiction, and the “Steele Dossier” - the basis for the Special Counsel’s investigation into Trump and Russia, is also a fiction. And that is probably proven in that memo that the Democrats do not want released.
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