Sunday, August 26, 2018

op ed review 8/26


THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Bad week for President Trump.  Manafort convicted of tax issues, Cohen forced to plead guilty to a campaign violation that may not even be a crime.  Pat Buchanan sums it up: “we are in for a hellish year.”

Giddy CNN and MSNBC say the word ‘Impeachment’ 222 Times in One Day!  Watch the funny video.

What they think of you:  NYT columnist: “Donald Trump's 'beastly base' is 'enemy of the Republic.'”
For some reason The Hill thought this was a good headline for their readers:  “Voters must eradicate the Trump plague from American politics.”
Democrat congressman jokes about President Trump drowning in the Potomac River.

MSNBC, CNN ignore bombshell development in Mollie Tibbetts case on day of bad news for Trump: Tibbets murdered by illegal alien.
Elizabeth Warren To Tibbetts’ Family: You Need To Focus On ‘Real Problems’ Like Immigrant Family Separations
“How Many Dead Americans Will Make Liberals Care?”

In a blow to Obamacare, a five-state coalition won an $839 million judgment against the federal government.
But this is not good:  “Fox poll finds Obamacare more popular than tax cuts”  ???

Turns out the FBI never examined vast majority of emails on Weiner's laptop, despite Comey's assurances……"There was no real investigation and no real search."
Guess who was in charge of the email examination:  Clinton fixer and Trump hater, Peter Strzok.

Trump administration cuts aid to Palestinians by more than $200 million after they refused to stop the “martyr’s fund”:  rewards to families of suicide bombers.
Target CEO raves about the state of the economy: “This is the best consumer environment 'I've seen in my career'”
“Trump's policies could enable America's economy to outpace China's”
U.S. Steel to Invest $750M at Indiana Plant Thanks to Trump Tariffs: ‘We Are Experiencing a Renaissance’
New study shows the U.S. is leading the world in reducing CO2 Emissions, while Paris Accord nations break promises.

Obama appointed federal court judge who just turned a room full of foreigners into American citizens tells them to “take a knee.”  First piece of advice to them is boycott the American flag they have just been handed.

Parents fight back after school drops Pledge of Allegiance for student-authored oath to ‘global society’

3 weeks after 75 people were shot in Chicago's most violent weekend in 2018, only one alleged shooter has been charged..  Reasons:  failure of witnesses and victims to cooperate, distrust of the police, and the challenges of entrenched gang warfare.

Welfare generation:  52.1% of Kids Live in Households Getting Means-Tested Government Assistance.

“Democrats seek to make Republican scandals an election issue” with help from the mainstream media.

44% of all Federal criminal convictions are to “non-citizens.”
More Than 700,000 Overstayed Visas in 2017

Muslims Hold Massive Rally at Vikings USBank Stadium — Chanting “Allahu Akbar”
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Was Hillary The Real Colluder?

It's beginning to look as if claims of monstrous collusion between Russian officials and U.S. political operatives were true. But it wasn't Donald Trump who was guilty of Russian collusion. It was Hillary Clinton and U.S. intelligence officials who worked with Russians and others to entrap Trump. That's the stunning conclusion of a RealClear Investigations report by Lee Smith, who looked in-depth at the controversial June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between officials of then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign staff and a Russian lawyer known to have ties with high-level officials in Vladimir Putin's government.

The media have spun a tale of Trump selling his soul to the Russians for campaign dirt to use against Hillary, beginning with the now-infamous Trump Tower meeting. But "a growing body of evidence ... indicates that the meeting may have been a setup — part of a broad effort to tarnish the Trump campaign involving Hillary Clinton operatives employed by Kremlin-linked figures and Department of Justice officials," wrote Smith.

Smith painstakingly weaves together the evidence that's already out there but has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, which have become so seized with Trump-hatred that their reporting even on routine matters can no longer be trusted. But he adds in more evidence that the Justice Department only recently handed over to Congress. And It's damning.

Memos, emails and texts now in Congress' possession show that the Justice Department and the FBI worked together both before and after the election with Fusion GPS and their main link to the scandal, former British spy and longtime FBI informant Chris Steele. As a former British spook in Moscow, Steele had extensive ties to Russia. That's why he was picked as the primary researcher to compile the "unverified and salacious" Trump dossier, as former FBI Director James Comey once described it.

Steele's dossier, for which Fusion reportedly received $1 million, was largely based on interviews with Russian officials. And who paid that $1 million? As we and others have reported, it was Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee, then under Hillary's control. The media knew all this, of course, but largely ignored it.

The great irony here is that, after more than two years of investigating, the only real evidence of collusion with Russians at all points to Hillary Clinton. It was she who hired Steele to dig up dirt on Trump using Russian sources. But now, it turns out, it goes even deeper than that.

Events surrounding that now-famous June 2016 Trump meeting suggest it, too, was a concoction of Hillary Clinton and her deep-state allies. And that meeting was the basis for much of the later Russian collusion "investigation," if it can even be called that.

Bruce Ohr, the No. 4-ranking official at the Justice Department, "coordinated before, during and after the election" with both Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson and with Steele, notes Smith.
This shouldn't come as a surprise, given that Ohr's wife Nellie, a sometime employee of the CIA, was also working for Fusion GPS.

The FBI fired Steele in October 2016 after it discovered that he leaked information to the press. But that meant nothing. Bruce Ohr merely continued as the conduit from Fusion GPS for information related to Steele's bogus Trump dossier. The FBI and Justice used information from that 35-page document as the pretense for the FISA wiretap on Trump aide Carter Page. Far from being limited in scope, those wiretaps in essence provided a backdoor key to the entire Trump campaign — and the basis for the Russian investigation.
But an earlier investigation by RealClearPolitics showed that as early as March 2016, the FBI, other Western intelligence sources and Clinton campaign operatives contacted the Trump campaign about potentially damaging information about Clinton. They were in effect live-trolling the campaign. This is significant. Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Putin-connected lawyer who contacted the Trump campaign about having dirt on Hillary Clinton, was a client of Fusion GPS when she met with Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump campaign.

And she was accompanied by a former Soviet military counterintelligence official, now working as a lobbyist, named Rinat Akhmetshin. Let that sink in for a moment. What's especially curious is that Fusion GPS' Glenn Simpson admits he had dinner with Veselnitskaya both the night before and the night after the Trump Tower meeting.

Any possibility there was no discussion of the meeting between the two? Seems highly unlikely. Veselnitskaya herself subsequently claimed that the talking points for her meeting with the Trump people were provided to her by Simpson. Once in the meeting, she quickly dropped the promises of having dirt on Hillary Clinton and instead brought up Russia's long-standing desire to get rid of the Magnitsky Act, under which the U.S. imposed sanctions on a number of Russian moguls and government officials. In short, they were baiting a trap for the Trump campaign to make it appear as if they were colluding with Russian officials.

Given the nonstop media coverage following leaks by the FBI and Justice, it seems the meeting served its purpose: It sowed the seeds of suspicion about the Trump campaign's supposed Russian collusion. The evidence goes even deeper than what we have summarized here. We suggest you read Smith's piece, linked above.

Congress, using the documents it pried out of the Justice Department after repeated requests, is busy getting at what might turn out to be the scandal of the century. And Congress is now doing the work the Justice Department and FBI won't. "So here you have information flowing from the Clinton campaign from the Russians," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes told Fox News on Sunday.

Nunes, who heads Congress' investigation into the matter, said it was likely that information "was handed directly from Russian propaganda arms to the Clinton campaign, fed into the top levels of the FBI and Department of Justice to open up a counterintelligence investigation into a political campaign that has now colluded (with) nearly every top official at the DOJ and FBI over the course of the last couple years. Absolutely amazing."

We have to agree. If all that is true, it is absolutely amazing. After all, these are serious felonies, using the federal agencies to spy on a political opponent in league with a hostile foreign power.

As we said, the only real collusion appears to be on the part of the Clinton campaign — aided by the Obama administration, CIA chief John Brennan and a handful of high-level officials at the Department of Justice and FBI.

What's next? It's possible the collusion investigation soon will turn from Trump to Clinton. If so, it could lead to more resignations and possibly jail time for those involved. That includes perhaps even Hillary Clinton, who sits at the political epicenter of all this illegality.

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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Let’s recall that the unfairness that blacks had to deal with in America’s history was unequal treatment under the law. This is what needed to be fixed, and this is what was fixed in the Civil Rights Act in 1964. The problem was that liberals wanted to use their agenda not to fix the law but to change the country. And in the name of racial fairness, the era of big activist government, financed with oceans of taxpayer funds, was born. But government can’t fix anybody’s life. It can only make sure that the law protecting life, liberty and property is applied fairly and equally. The beginning of big activist government fostered the demise of personal responsibility. … Making a child is not hard to do. Raising a child and conveying the values and rules that make for a successful life and responsible adulthood is. Particularly now that popular culture largely dismisses these truths. And in black communities, politics and media is dominated by the left, whose message for them is that life is unfair because of racism and the answer is big government. … Black leaders need to start doing their job and convey that marriage, work, education and personal responsibility are the only things that will fix black America.”
            Star Parker
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BOOKS, FILM
New book details how former FBI Director James Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller both “made millions” by selling insider expertise to the highest bidder. Comey worked at Lockheed Martin and was given stock and stock options worth “upwards of $30 million” on top of making $6 million in one year.

Exclusive Excerpt from Ann Coulter’s new book “Resistance is Futile!  How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind”
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LEFTIST WATCH
The minions of the Left will never stop in their efforts to undermine the Republic. They will try everything -- historical revisionism, bald-face lies, blatant slander, racial discord, judicial usurpation of presidential authority, political witch hunts, voter fraud, illegal immigration, climate change, green energy, media disinformation, open borders, transnational globalism -- to impose a vision on the world that in every attempt, without exception, has led inexorably to tyranny, state-sanctioned murder, economic collapse and human misery. The lessons of history have no meaning for them. They regard themselves as uniquely exempt from the past, as if they will triumph where their predecessors have miscarried and aborted. This is why the Left cannot be treated with or engaged in reasonable discourse. No counter-argument, no matter how factual, how meticulously researched, how rational or sensible, can ever hope to gain purchase on minds steeped in ideological prejudice or influence hearts shadowed by moral darkness….

Leftie billionaire Tom Steyer surges in 2020 presidential election odds.

Conservative David Horowitz reports Visa and Mastercard cut off payments to his think tank based on Southern Poverty Law Center labeling it a ‘Hate Group’.

Memo reveals Soros-funded social-media censorship plan.  Plotted with Google, Facebook to eliminate 'right wing propaganda'

“China Assigns Every Citizen A ‘Social Credit Score’ To Identify Who Is And Isn’t Trustworthy.  Country Determines Your Standing Through Use Of Surveillance Video, Plans To Have 600 Million Cameras By 2020”

Venezuela´s economy in complete collapse – and the mother of all human waves outward begins
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ISLAM
French police in the heavily migrant suburbs of Paris have seized 32 sheep that were found in the garage of a pizzeria ahead of the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival in which Muslims sacrifice animals.
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ARTICLES
David Horowitz:  “A few days ago, I had a dust-up on Twitter with National Review’s Jonah Goldberg. Our conflict was about Trump’s fitness to be president…..The posture of these NeverTrumpers is transparently self-serving. It preserves their intellectual credentials as “conservatives,” and simultaneously takes them out of the line of fire from an increasingly vicious Left whose goal is to destroy Trump and his presidency, and—incidentally—conservative America. Sitting on the fence affords them new career opportunities—appearances on CNN and MSNBC and columns in the New York Times. All that’s required is that they avoid taking sides in the political war that is engulfing the country.”

“Ignore the Noise, Mueller Still Has Nothing”

Fox’s Liz Peek: “Republican candidates in 2018 should be talking about one thing, and one thing alone.”

Mueller and the Media Represent the Ancien Régime

“A Perfect Storm Threatens America's Survival”: 10. Radical Islam 9. Lying, Evil, Greedy Politicians with Questionable Loyalties. 8. Diversity/Identity Politics. 7. Fake News, and Now Google. 6. Assault on the Second Amendment. 5. The Drug Crisis. 4. The Military as a Reflection of Our Society 3. Illegals, Homeless and Violence Overwhelming Our Cities.  2. The Education Disaster  1. Does Anyone Care? 

Manafort's Purge Trial
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INTERESTING
13 times courts said Trump must continue Obama’s lawless policies
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WISE WORDS
“A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
         -Thomas Jefferson

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