First, here’s Alan Dershowitz (a lifelong Democrat, and a law professor) on Special Counsel Mueller’s new grand jury:
I do think that they’re looking to catch Moby Dick, the Big Whale, and that’s what the Special Counsel will be after…If he doesn’t get somebody, he will be regarded as a failure who spent a lot of money investigating and came up with nothing. So, I think there is very much an incentive to try to come up with something serious…
The fact that it’s empaneled in D.C., they already had a grand jury empaneled in Virginia, and I think one of the reasons they moved this to D.C. is that’s a completely Democratic district, as distinguished from Virginia which is a swing state, and it has an ethnic and racial composition that would be somewhat less favorable to Donald Trump. And any experienced lawyer understands that both prosecutors and defense attorneys look at factors like ethnicity, race, political affiliation, when they decide what venue is best for their case.
For such remarks made earlier, Maxine Waters called Dershowitz “racist.” (No, I’m not making this up. Her word.)
This is a witch hunt, plain and simple. They will find someone in Trumpworld who bought a ham sandwich in Russia. That ham sandwich will be said to break some law or other (Deep State has so many laws, for this very purpose of selectively punishing people who inconvenience them). They will indict that person and/or intimidate him into framing Trump, despite the fact that the American people already considered the possibility of all this in 2016 and gave Trump the nod anyway. They will do all this while ignoring Hillary’s destruction of smartphones and 30,000 emails intentionally to obstruct justice.
Hey lefties and Deep Staters: Any of you who may believe all this to be wonderful for your side, are morons. If your side should happen to succeed in overturning the 2016 election: you will only remind people of why you’re enemies of law and democracy who must be stripped of all political power. Call it the Obi Wan Effect. If you do knock out Trump, you will make him symbolically “more powerful than you can possibly imagine”.
Some more signs of lefties and/or Deep Staters up to no good:
- Federal employees step up defiance of Trump. As NDT put it, “not only are these imbeciles demonstrating that they do not respect the will of the voters, they are openly bragging that they are out to sabotage and attack the will of the voters.”
- At the end of July, Obama’s failed CIA Director Brennan called for government officials to disobey orders if Trump should put an end to the Mueller investigation.
Let’s be clear: Trump has the constitutional authority to end Mueller’s investigation. Whether it’s politically wise, is another question. What Congress should or would do next, is another question. But he 100% has the authority, as the head of the Executive branch. As such, Brennan’s comments were a call to rebellion and irresponsibly wrong.
Other things wrong with Mueller.
– No “criminal predicate”. Investigations are supposed to start with a specific crime that occurred, then look for suspects and narrow the list by investigation. In the U.S., we are NOT supposed to investigate individuals for unknown or unspecified crimes. Mueller is investigating without criminal predicates.
– Yuge conflicts of interest. The law specifically excludes appointing Special Counsels to help your friends get even, which is what James Comey engineered (intentionally with his illegal leaks) in getting his close associate Mueller appointed. By his close association with Comey alone, Mueller is illegitimate. Also, by all reports, Mueller has hired nothing but Obama-Clinton partisans for his staff.
Here’s one nice Voronoi Diagram to share with our dear distraught leftists — the same who swore they’d relocate should DJT be elected:
https://howmuch.net/articles/one-diagram-that-will-change-the-way-you-look-at-the-us-economy
By the way, got an ETA update, about their one way ticket to emigrate, anyone?
@2 Hey, Bernie The-Hippie-Commune-Kickedout Sanders, both the 11 time zones Russia, and the 30 million inhabitants Venezuela sitting on the largest oil reserves, can say a Big Thank You to their giving a shot at 70 and 18 years (respectively) of your socialist experiments, I presume?
Great post.
If the leftists were smart they would have just left us cooking slowly in the lobster pot under the low, simmering heat we have been immersed in for the last 40 or so years.
But their success in the culture wars, as it always does, has bred arrogance and a born to rule attitude – so the heat has been turned way up of late and more of us have noticed just where we are and what is happening.
Tom Wolfe was so prophetic wasn’t he? In the Bonfire of the Vanities back in the 80’s he identified the ultimate prize of the progressive victim coalitions: the vaunted “great white defendant”. Trump is just the latest and most prominent incarnation.
I think it’s wonderful that the bullying left are showing their intolerance and contempt for the rest of us in ever more obvious and open ways . An openly declared opponent and his openly hostile agenda are so much easier to combat, no?
@4
“arrogance and a born to rule attitude”
How odd. Why do these 7 words alone immediately evoke their Hillary-ous Clintonyte champion as hard as I’d receive a punch from Mike Tyson’s fist in my face?
Trump has homies all across the 3,084 of America’s 3,141 counties which he carried. Why shouldn’t he hold a series of rallies in which he pastes Mueller and his henchmen with all the particulars concerning conflicts of interest, stacking the deck, witch hunting, trolling for evidence of a tort, etc.?
The purpose of this would be to totally undermine the credibility of Mueller and the special counsel process. If seems to me, that the “rule of law” does not apply when it is manipulated by corrupt actors subverting the rule of law.
Why should Trump stand by while the tar is being boiled and the feathers are being stockpiled? The dirty little not-so-secret fact is that the lawyers and judges cover for one another in myriad ways that are out of reach of a realistic redress of grievance. So, when it is clear that the process of being railroaded has begun, why bow obediently to the “rule of law?”
Let them keep talking and behaving this way, it’s wonderful. They are losing the country and don’t even know it. It’s the old “They would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven”.
Oh yeah, Maxine just doesn’t get it, the moment she isn’t needed anymore she’ll be dropped and forgotten in an instant.
Except that the investigations hither & thither are still evidence-free & the “authorities” have already admitted several times that any meddling by Russia did not change or cause a vote to be changed in the 2016 election. There is no chance of overturning an election & everything else is a delusion because the entire Left was humiliated, the Democrat Media Complex was humiliated & the Republican Establishment was humiliated.
So, even dire warnings by Left & Right pundits about what would happen were Pres Trump to be unseated, are unnecessary &, frankly, a joke. Again, allowing the Left to dictate the conversation & national dialogue.
I think you give the stupid party too much credit. There is a blueprint for what’s happening. In 2009 Sarah Palin was bombarded with ethics complaints. They did not have merit, but government in Alaska halted as each had to be dealt with. Palin amassed nearly a million dollars in legal fees and was barred from taking donations. Lawfare drove out a governor with an 82 percent approval rating, and what do most big conservatives states say now? Most call her a quitter and don’t even bother with the facts.
Trump Jr confirmed that he knew the Russian government was supporting his dads campaign.
He confirmed that he brought multiple Trump campaign officials to a meeting where they were to discuss info on how the Russian government was going to help his campaign.
Then President Trump tried to lie and say it was about adoption…
That is all 100% indisputable fact confirmed by Trump Jr himself.
Then post election one Trumps first official act was to lift sanctions on Russian intelligence agencies who ran propaganda to support his campaign.
Yet you refuse to think for yourself here…..the Conald calls it a witch hunt and you buy it. Hook. Line. And Sinker.
Sad.
mike,
Yet you refuse to think for yourself here…..Waters calls for impeachment and you buy it. Hook. Line. And Sinker.
Sad.
But we like it. More sadness coming your way.
Hire a professional cuddler. I hear they are all the rage for you and your kind.
My statement, #9, stands as is. Perhaps if of these Leftist parrots actually analyzed their own words they’d shut up in embarrassment. An admission that opposition research was being done by Trump Jr, does not consist of collusion whether the info is expected to come from TMZ or a Russian. I’m only repeating this as a courtesy to mike. My description & what happened are absolute at this point.
I do know that it’s difficult for Liberals nowadays. Especially when they try to vomit out the nonsense from their Democrat Media, without regard for what’s possible, what happened, why something happened & at which point (context) did something happen.
Hillary Clinton lost her bid for the presidency because of the baggage she’s carried around for decades, because of her stupidity with digital security, because of her abandonment of commonsense campaign rules, because of her laziness on the trail, because of her arrogance in thinking everyone was going to vote for her despite losing in ’08 with the same mindset to someone that had his skin color & ability to parrot his masters’ party line & take direction as his only pluses.
It’s a shame, that the Democrat Media & the DNC let their civilians go out into the world with a coherent argument.
[correction to my #13: without a coherent argument] Liberals are much better at repeating things over & over again like good little Nazis.
mike, where did you get that information, because not one single thing I have read or heard has said any of that…and I don’t watch Fox News OR CNN
Milo and Alex Jones discuss how today’s book-banning, book-burning, street-trashing, bikelock-hitting (etc) “liberals” wear the most improper qualifier as they’ve become the fiercest enemies of liberalism and individual freedoms:
Aug. 3, 2017
https://youtu.be/dGFob8tC3oQ
TAD
This info comes from the Trump’s son email release
See the original here
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/11/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-email-text.html
He was told their meeting was part of the Russian gov support of Trump. He was told the Russian gov want to help the campaign. He admidted he went to a meeting where representatives from a foreign and historically hostile foreign government where going to help him win a campaign.
“Opposition Research”
See a quote from Bush II’ s ethics lawyer Richard Painter:
“This was an effort to get opposition research on an opponent in an American political campaign from the Russians who are known to be engaged in spying inside the United States,” he said. “We do not get our opposition research from spies, we do not collaborate with Russians unless we want to be accused of treason.”
Also dont forget this also 100% indisputable fact:
One of the first official acts by Trump was to lift sanctions on Russian intelligence agencies. The same groups accuses of running propaganda campaigns like “pizzagate” and the groups he was accused of colluding with.
Witch Hunt???…..Nope. Needed and crucial and the Conald is afraid.
Hey mikey, little puppet, you don’t like collusion with foreign governments?
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446
Now mikey, if you were truly principled, you’d be demanding investigations of Democrats, especially since there is also absolute proof that Hillary and the DNC spoke and worked directly with the Russian government to prepare your “pee pee dossier”.
Turns out Trump not only won, but flipped the tables on you in the process.
And that drives you nuts, doesn’t it, mikey?
Now remember — no response means you admit that we are right and that you are lying.
It’s so easy to drive you away with facts, troll. Just like your Hillary, you’re an ignorant and incompetent failure and a criminal.
@ #11:
Call me @ 1-800-BUY-THE-SPAN. Shares are going fast, but I can give you a “3 for the price of 1” deal if you if you can name who was president during the Obama administration.
When will this woman with half a brain retire from Congress? Can you believe she was once a school teacher? With her low 75 IQ, she certainly didn’t pass on any intelligence to her students.
Yes, davinci38, I can believe Maxine was once a school teacher. Where do you think SJW’s and progressives learned to be comrades in stoopid.
Whether mike understands it or not; everyone, right, left & in betwist engage in opposition research, the hunt for cash & position from those offering it in the capital of the world’s greatest power. That includes seeking it from gatekeeper to the oligarchs of Russia. I do mean everyone, including those precious McCain(ish) Cold War warriors who sing a pretty battle hymn when they’re not looking for Waldo.
Sorry to burst your bubble, mike. Anything that says or indicates otherwise, is a lie. A good indicator (& it is important to use an indicator when dealing with Washington) is the hysteria barometer. The greater the mercury in the device, the better chance the sharks have smelled blood. Unfortunately for the Democrats, there was no blood in the Russian lawyer’s office. Sorry, mikey, oh boo hoo! Except that this has been old news a month ago. But, I’ve said before that you & “Cas” only vomit out the old stuff. Nothing new, nothing refurbished or anything polished with an oily cloth. What else you got? Any more stale bread in that old purse you got there?
Heliotrope, et al. I’m seeing a trap being set for Mueller, his sycophants and his “bosses”. What say you?
Little letter mike, even if TRUMP had a GRU agent as a campaign volunteer, it is not illegal. The Russians would have to be writing him checks for it to be illegal. RUSSIA is not at war with the UNITED STATES!!!! What amazes me is how many good peace loving liberals have found common ground with neocons, war with Russia.
Lobogris: These emails concerning the Loretta Lynch/Clinton tarmac “matter” have the potential to blow up Comey and Acting Attorney General Sally Yates along with Lynch and drag both Clintoons into a bloodbath.
The potential trap for Mueller is that he is so heavily invested in ties with Comey, the Clintoons and “the witch hunt” that he has subjected his reputation to “the death by a thousand cuts.” I would be surprised if there is a smoking gun, but Mueller is having the ground cut out from under him.
One of the key players will be Rod J. Rosenstein who is the DOJ Deputy AG managing Mueller. Rosenstein has been criticized as being possibly in league with Mueller. However, Jay Sekulow, Trump’s attorney, has gone out of his way to praise Rosenstein amidst charges that he is biased. I read Sekulow’s praise as a message to Rosensten to stay focused on the law for his own best interests.
At the least, the Trump team is fighting fire with fire and those Lynch emails and the tarmac “coinkydink” have a lot more meat on the bone than sniffing around for TrumpRussia collusion. I hope Sessions sees this Lynch thing through. He may already have a grand jury on it. There is no way to know. But if he does, the cross-over between the Mueller list of players and the list of players for the Lynch grand jury would be huge. Image Sally Yates, for instance, saying one thing to the Mueller grand jury and being caught saying another version in the Lynch grand jury. That would be a trap of epic proportions. And Comey is as good as trapped in his testimony about the Lynch emails even existing. I would not be surprised if he is tied to helping cover them up.