I was thinking the other day – if it turns out that, after almost two years of Democrats claiming that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians it turns out that the Democrats were the ones who actually colluded with Putin?
It’d mean that Berg’s Seventh Law is not only an inviolable law of human political behavior, but in fact one of the core truths about the American political system today.
MBerg: Is the front page of the WaPo the correct link for your post? I suspect you’re referring to the so-called FBI informant?
My instinct is there is no connection between this and the Russia investigation. But now the lead story in is no longer Trump Jr.
Trump uses his old trick, which is to push a narrative out first. Which is all part of the disinformation campaign to discredit the Russia investigation.
The ignorance of those whom believe the far right fever swamp conspiracy theories is astounding.
“It’s just a conspiracy!”
Under normal circumstances?
Perhaps.
But when it interacts with a Berg’s Law, it’s another whole thing.
There is a very simple explanation: megalomania and paranoia go together. In the case of Trump Jr (and possibly Trump Sr) there is also the presence of an impaired IQ. Then look at the same ol’, same ol’ names peddling this latest concoction. There are no credible voices pushing this patent medicine.
The guy’s down to Rudy Gulliani. Sad
Time will tell.
Yet again.
The only thing that could every make me accept Donald Trump…
…is his opponents and detractors.
Must be humiliating to be outsmarted by people with imapaired IQ’s, Emery.
And Halper wasn’t an “informant”, the word to use is “spy.”
If the word ‘spy’ is inappropriate, I’d love to hear why.
On the other hand, “Obama’s Justice Department placed an informant in the Trump campaign” sounds like Nixonian abuse of power anyway.
Obama derangement syndrome lives on 😳
How can you tell an intelligence source is choosing to leak information now, so he can get ahead of the narrative, do damage control, and shape the narrative?
The New York Times will spell it out in a story’s headline! For example: “F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims.”
That headline is probably a direct quote from the leaker.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/us/politics/trump-fbi-informant-russia-investigation.html
On the other hand, “Obama’s Justice Department placed an informant in the Trump campaign” sounds like Nixonian abuse of power anyway.
If this isn’t true, you better tell the New York times about it, Jimmy Olson.
The FBI asked an informant to look into the situation because they suspected that foreign agents were embedded in the campaign and they wanted to protect then Candidate Trump from being compromised.
Only the truly delusional would think that this is a bad thing.
Obama will go down in history as worse than Nixon. Hillary was a slightly more competent G. Gordon Liddy.
On the other hand, “Obama’s Justice Department placed an informant in the Trump campaign” sounds like Nixonian abuse of power anyway. = “Obama Derangement Syndrome”.
…megalomania and paranoia go together. In the case of Trump Jr (and possibly Trump Sr) there is also the presence of an impaired IQ.= Rational, reasoned debate.
Got it.
other people are waking up now too. This from that right-wing rag, The Boston Herald. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/adriana_cohen/2018/05/democrats_russia_truth_coming_out
The final 2 sentences sum up mine, and nearly all of Trumps supporters opinion about this.
The Democrats have overplayed their hand and karma is now nipping at their heels.
It’s hard to feel sorry for them.
Put more bluntly, Karma is a bitch.
We need a House investigation of how Obama lured so many of Trump’s closest associates and subordinates into lives of crime.
its called money and political favor/cover Emery. Its politics 101 on how DC really operates. It doesnt take a genius to figure that out.
And I fully support a House investigation, it would be the death of the Democratic party, or at least them not being able to take back the House for 40+ years and 20+ for the Senate.
That would really will come down to who gets to do the cleaning up.
Emery on May 23, 2018 at 2:31 pm said:
We need a House investigation of how Obama lured so many of Trump’s closest associates and subordinates into lives of crime.
That’s the crux of the issue, isn’t it (hyperbole aside)? Why was this “investigation” begun? This is America, the feds aren’t allowed to say “we want to investigate these fellows” and begin surveilling them. There has to be a crime, you aren’t allowed to investigate to find a crime. I think that it is telling that this seems to have begun as a counter intelligence operation, which has a much lower threshold of evidence than a criminal investigation.
My God, suppose in 2008 Bush had turned the FBI and CIA loose on the Obama campaign, with orders to investigate until they found a crime? Obama was closely associated with known corrupt politicians and political operators in Illinois (Blago, Rezko, known terrorist Bill Ayres). Valerie Jarrett is Iranian born and was a paid member of the notoriously corrupt Daly machine in Chicago.
Trump seems to be firmly in “throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks” mode before the midterms.
Really, Emery?!
You REALLY need to stop watching the View and CNN for your news.
If you think that a spy planted within the Trump campaign to “watch for Russians” as that lying traitor Jimmy Clapper claims, why wasn’t there one placed in Shillary’s campaign? After all, you freaking hypocrite, the Dems had proof that their servers had been compromised.
I think that you have it backwards. Mueller and his inept investigation team, as well as the usual morons in the Democrap party, are the ones throwing things at walls and chasing down rabbit holes.
All sorts of people think the US gave billions to Iran as part of the nuclear deal.
As opposed to:
1. Unfreezing seized Iranian assets
2. Repaying Iranian cash for weapons sales (from US) that never occurred.
It’s a strategy: Say something enough, folks believe it.
and “squirrel!”
Here’s another far right fever swamp legend: “The Deep State”
Consider what a small world it is, not only does Hannity advise Trump, not only does Trump promote Hannity’s show, not only does Hannity attack Trump’s critics — Hannity and Trump even share legal counsel. So cozy, which is nice. It’s what you want in a state propaganda apparatus.
What I find interesting was the revelation that Hannity has been using his perch at Fox News to rail against the investigation into someone who he didn’t disclose was his own lawyer. It’s almost as if they don’t seem to have ethics in journalism at Fox News.
There’s your deep state. All working together to manipulate the public.
Woolly wrote: “And Halper wasn’t an “informant”, the word to use is “spy.”
If the word ‘spy’ is inappropriate, I’d love to hear why.”
Agent 1: Director Comey, the Australians say the Trump campaign is bragging about getting dirt in Clinton from the Russians!
Agent 2: Director Comey, remember the guy Carter Page who’s been talking to Russian Intelligence for years? He joined the Trump campaign!
Agent 3: Director Comey, I’ve gotten a dossier from some guy named Steele that multiple members of the Trump campaign have been meeting with the Russians!
Comey: What a shame we can’t investigate any of this; can’t “spy” on a campaign.
Emery, just admit that you think, like most of the elite left, there is nothing wrong with spying on your political opponents. While I might think thats what 3rd world dictators do, you seem to be fine with it.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/05/24/can-we-hope-to-keep-our-republic-when-one-of-the-parties-supports-tyranny-n2483027
The optimist in me hopes that future historians will see Trump as having been good for US democracy — and democracy in general — in that he has put the US system to the test of how it copes with a ‘rogue’ President, possibly elected as a result of the intervention of a hostile power. Not unlike retail outlets which use trial purchasers to identify defects in their system. One hopes that the existing checks and balances can cope with the Trump and his subordinates and that when he is gone the holes in the system can be plugged, leaving a more watertight system in the future.
As for Trump himself, he has provided copious material for psychologists and social scientists. Is he still trying to please his father? Is he an example of a narcissistic personality? Is narcissism a disorder? Are his actions motivated by an exaggerated self-belief or an inner lack of self-belief which causes him to shout loud to try to drown out the inner voices of inadequacy? Neurologists would no doubt be delighted if he donated his brain to science, so that it could be examined in the same way as Einstein’s was.
As an engineer, I have seen engineers who have such huge self-belief that they think they can succeed in any other field. They go off to become bankers, businessmen and the like and wonder why they fail. Trump is a businessman who thought that he could become President.