Monday, December 11, 2017

Russian Collusion: A Big Fat Nothing Burger

Since November of last year, Democrats and Washington insiders have thirsted for revenge against voters who dared to elect outsider Donald Trump the President of the United States.  Their mission, aided by news media saboteurs, is to oust Mr. Trump from office and overturn the election results.

The instrument they have chosen for this subterfuge is Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is leading a fishing expedition to uncover evidence the Trump campaign colluded with Russians to influence the election outcome.  The usurpers hope the witch hunt will trigger an impeachment.

Mueller, who was anointed on May 17, and his army of 16 lawyers and dozens of FBI agents have produced zero proof of any collusion.  The FBI along with House and Senate Committees have reviewed the allegations and have not a shred of evidence that Russia altered the election result.

After spending millions of dollars in taxpayer funds, Mueller's minions have charged a couple of former Trump campaign officials with lying to the FBI.  The indictments have nothing to do with Russian collusion, but the coup masters claim the president is in mortal danger of being toppled.

There is no denying the Mueller investigation has strayed far from its original mandate, an indication the empty suits are desperate to justify their jobs.  It also is clear Democrats concocted a Russia boogieman as an excuse for Hillary Clinton's defeat and as a way to delegitimatize President Trump.

Ironically, Mr. Obama knew in 2016 that the Russians were planning to interfere in the election.  However, he did nothing.  Why?  The answer is he believed Ms. Clinton would win and thought Russian intervention would have no material impact.  The tune changed after Mr. Trump's victory.

The impetus Democrats needed to launch the investigation came after Mr. Trump fired bungling FBI Director James Comey. In retaliation, Comey engineered a behind-the-scenes plot to appoint a special prosecutor.  His choice was Robert Mueller, who has close professional ties with Comey

Mueller stacked his "independent" team with many attorneys with professional conflicts because of their ties to Democrats.  (One conflict that has never been mentioned is that Mueller's former legal firm also employed lawyers for both Jared Kushner and ex-campaign chair Paul Manafort.)

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller, looked the other way as the special counsel built a jaundiced gang of prosecutors and lawyers.  His hit squad included members of the FBI and Justice Department who had worked on the Hillary Clinton email probe.

Constitutional legal scholar and Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz remains appalled. "In a partisan atmosphere like this, you have to be so careful not to give the other side the ability to claim prejudice. And I think they have given the other side the ability to claim prejudice."

As if to underscore Dershowitz's point, Mueller had to part ways with a member of his team who once oversaw the FBI probe of the Clinton email scandal. Peter Strzok, formerly the FBI chief of Counterespionage, was caught texting thousands of anti-Trump rants to his FBI paramour.

Although he knew about the texts in June, Mueller waited months before he jettisoned Strzok.  He hid the existence of the obvious bias from Congress, including the House Intelligence Committee.  The Justice Department also failed to disclose the information.  Doesn't that smell like collusion?

On the heels of that disclosure, it was learned that one of the attorneys on Team Mueller was a personal lawyer for a top Obama official and also represented the Clinton Foundation. The attorney, Jeannie Rhee, like others was recruited for her Democratic Party loyalty, not legal credentials.

Despite rules that require the special counsel to operate in secrecy, Mueller and his legal squad have leaked stories about progress of the probe to the news media.  Rep. Trey Gowdy, a former prosecutor, has scolded Mueller for acting unethically by disclosing confidential information.

With the clock ticking on his probe, a vindictive Mueller has let it be known that his lawyerly mob is now trying to pin a charge of obstruction of justice on the president.  When Dershowitz heard about that strategy, he had some choice words of warning for Mueller.

"If Congress were ever to charge him (Mr. Trump) with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional authority under Article II, we'd have a constitutional crisis," Dershowitz opined.   He added that an obstruction case against Mr. Trump was a matter of "hope over reality."

According to Dershowitz, as president Mr. Trump had the constitutional authority to fire Comey and was within the law to ask the FBI director to refrain from investigating members of his own campaign.  There is nothing illegal about either action, Dershowitz points out.

Mueller was given the specific mandate to investigate Russian collusion.  Unless he can present evidence to substantiate the Democrats' homegrown conspiracy theory, then Rosenstein needs to pull the plug by February. An endless inquiry will produce nothing but more media hysterics.

America's constitution does not sanction a coup d'etat.  Democrats had their opportunity to win the White House and failed miserably.  They should stop acting like spoiled children while endangering the world's oldest democracy. 

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