Did Trump do anything wrong? We don’t know – that’s what trials (and the whole “innocent until proven guilty”) thing is all about.
But the firestorm of agitation that Big Left and the Media are whipping up, in the absence of any hard evidence, has nothing to do with right, wrong or justice, says Kurt Schlichter:
The blizzard of lies and distraction blowing through Washington is not just any routine stuffstorm, but a calculated attempt to bring down a president – our president, not the establishment’s president. And more than that, it’s an attempt to ensure that we never again have the ability to disrupt the bipartisan D.C. cabal’s permanent supremacy by inserting a chief executive who refuses to kiss their collective Reid.
This is a coup against us. It’s a coordinated campaign by liberals and their allies in the bureaucracy and media to once and for all ensure their perpetual rule over us. We need to fight it, here and now, so we don’t have to fight it down at the bottom of this slippery slope.
There are times I wonder if this nation shouldn’t just call it quits and split into 2-5 other nations, and let the coasts rot in their own splendid filth.
Goodness, I thought I had stumbled upon Alex Jones’ InfoWar for a moment.
It’s not normal for a candidate to lie continuously during a campaign, either. The scale of Trump’s lies was unprecedented in American politics and that’s really saying something. It kind of gives the impression one has something to hide, doesn’t it? Not a very smart strategy if your goal is to manage your relations with the fourth estate. Trump man is more dangerous to the American people and the world than North Korea, Iran, and ISIS combined
And your first response is from Mister “in the absence of any hard evidence”.
here let me fix that for ya Emery…
It’s not normal for a candidate to lie continuously during a campaign, either. The scale of Hillary’s lies was unprecedented in American politics and that’s really saying something. It kind of gives the impression one has something to hide, doesn’t it? Not a very smart strategy if your goal is to manage your relations with the fourth estate. Hillary is more dangerous to the American people and the world than North Korea, Iran, and ISIS combined
now its accurate!
The scale of Trump’s lies was unprecedented in American politics? No candidate has ever lied as much? Ever?
Wow.
What is the crime that Trump is supposed to have committed? What is the evidence that supports this accusation?
*silence*
Let the investigation play out. Trump has never had to deal with an individual with credentials as impeccable as Mueller’s. Trump is 70 years old, and has established a pattern of: intimidation, lying, including an attack offense that has worked well for him. I wish him well.
Emery confirms my 10:23.
Whether this results in any charges or not, I believe I’ll be comfortable with the result. While I’m still not sure Trump has broken laws (Unfortunately, ignorance, ineptitude, and sheer incompetence are legal), I’m happy there’s a nonpartisan investigation to verify it.
We all believe in good government. That’s the main thing.
P.S. There is no such thing.
I am happy to see that, too. Now I want to make sure that all Russian interference in American presidential politics is investigated. I’m especially intrigued by the possibilities of suborning collusion by donations to thinly veiled political vehicles operated by presumed presidential candidates, especially when they involve key components of nuclear weapons.
Honestly, there’s direct evidence of collusion between Hillary and the Russians via her foundation already known, while there’s no such information between Trump and the Russians.
Whether this results in any charges or not, I believe I’ll be comfortable with the result.
Oh, please. There’ll be something wrong; something that you can hang your tin-foil hat on that will let you continue your unhinged, but emotionally satisfying blathering.
I have a friend that is in D.C. frequently. He tells me that both Crying Chuck and Dipstick Pelosi should be very afraid of what Mueller will find. Of course, he is a friend of Comey’s and at his age, he’s not worried about chasing things down rabbit holes.
Trump has created this witch hunt himself. Since, it is widely thought that Trump is an untrustworthy, pathological liar – a master purveyor of self-serving false alternative news – no matter what he says or does, he has so damaged his reputation amongst responsible, thinking people that those in powerful positions with an ounce of integrity won’t let go. Where is his political capital? Where are the people who are supposed to be lined up in support of a new president? They are already they are lined up against him.
This may or may not be a witch hunt — but it is certainly of Trump’s own making — and well deserved. After all, if it floats it must be a witch….
She’s a Witch
https://youtu.be/zrzMhU_4m-g
The thing that strikes me, now as before, and especially as during the Bush administration, is the proportion of “reporting” that relies on anonymous sources, and in the case of Trump, nearly the whole case against him relies on this. Where are the journalists of old who would have pointed out that this is classic backstabbing on the part of the bureaucracy?
bosshoss429 on May 19, 2017 at 11:27 am said:
I have a friend that is in D.C. frequently. He tells me that both Crying Chuck and Dipstick Pelosi should be very afraid of what Mueller will find.
Well, yes. Since there is no requirement that any crime needs to have been committed before we investigate, by all means we need special counsels to investigate Pelosi and Schumer.
Pelosi comes from a wealthy, politically connected family in Maryland. She is married to a politically connected building contractor. Schumer was Anthony Weiner’s political mentor.
We’ll find something if we keep digging.
The proper word to describe your 11:37, Emery, is “twaddle.”
This is not the way adults discuss political issues. It is the way a clique of teenagers discuss an unpopular kid.
The thing that strikes me […] is the proportion of “reporting” that relies on anonymous sources,
I think they’ve gotten away with this in the past, but that now, in no small part from Trump himself, we are seeing push-back (it was, as I recall, one of the things that many had hoped Bush would do as well).
I also have the impression that the push-back is disconcerting enough that the response has been to double-down. As if more anonymous sources would make it better – wasn’t there something like 23? 33? in some recent WP story?
This has also resulted, from what I can tell, with a(nother) polarization in that many who were suspicious of the MSM, now simply don’t believe them at all, regardless, and those who do, including the MSM themselves, believe everything without question.
Say, it’s not too late to investigate Obama, is it?
Obama was a known associate of convicted felon Tony Rezko. The deal ran like this: Jarrett got Chicago government money to build low cost housing. Rezko got the building contract. He cut corners. When the tenants sued over the shoddy construction, Rezko was represented by Obama’s law firm — Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. It is surprising how few people know how tight the connections were between Rezko, Blagojevich, and Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Davis was appointed to to the board that oversees Illinois state employees retirement funds by Blago at Rezko’s request. That, as they say, will make a “comfortable retirement” for Davis. No jail for him yet, unlike Blago and Rezko.
Imagine what an independent counsel would make out of all that. Actual crimes! Actual convictions! Actual money changing hands!
The fact that Pelosi has so much power tells you everything you need to know about why government is almost totally worthless in reality. Marin County billionaire.
Marin County billionaire
Way worse. Rich, bored housewife of a Marin County billionaire.
Emery, you are confusing the parliamentary system with the presidential system. In the parliamentary system the Prime Minister must constantly have his finger in the wind because at any moment, a vote of no confidence could bring down the government. That’s why the PM must always be lining up supporters. But in the presidential system, Trump only had to line up supporters once – in the election. He won and nothing can change that. He doesn’t need ass-kissers and hangers-on dependent on him for their well-being and devoted to him in return, to keep him in office. Yes, it’s possible the establishment Republicans could team up with Democrats to attempt a coup by some dubious technicality; they’ll live to regret it when the voters learn of their perfidy.
There are a lot of self-styled conservatives who hate the establishment R’s. Trump gets pissed off at the lackadaisical support of the GOP. Trump resigns or holds on, and runs in 2020 as 3rd party, costing the GOP the presidency, the house and the senate by splitting the vote. Could happen.
Trump’s problem isn’t that he’s in bed with Putin; it’s that he doesn’t understand why being in bed with Putin is bad.
I think this was already fixed once in one of Emery’s early comments, but every description he uses to describe Trump’s dishonesty sounds as if it applies to Hillary, and in spades. After all, there was only one presidential candidate in the last election that was under FBI investigation – as cursory as it was. Back then, of course, we were told that being under FBI investigation was really no big deal and just political – not like now, when an FBI investigation is a serious indication of a problem and not political at all.
Finally, I have to shake my head at the state of journalism. Back when I was at the Mizzou Journalism School one of our professors was an old school zealot of technicality and the high-calling of our trade. There would be no anonymous sources under his rule (he was also the editor of the daily newspaper the school put out in the community) unless corroborated by at least two people, and no “composite” characters. A couple of weeks ago I read an op-Ed from him that sounded as if he’d gone full tinfoil moon-bat in his dotage. (Hey, remember the scenes in All The President’s Men where Ben Bradlee (Jason Robards) kept making Woodward (Robert Redford) and Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) go back and get more corroboration?)
The media loves to hint that Trump was in bed with the Russians over Wikileaks release of the DNC emails (no evidence offered). What they never seem to mention is what was in the leaked emails. Chris Cuomo of CNN (and the Democrat party — how does that work?) even said it was ILLEGAL for ordinary citizens to read the leaked emails.
What the leaked emails revealed was the officers of the Democrat party conspiring to rig the Democrat primaries so Hillary Clinton would prevail over Bernard Sanders.
Hillary went on to lose against possibly the worst Republican candidate in living memory.
Chris Cuomo says shockingly stupid things amazingly frequently given his education and background. It’s unreal.
Can you imagine trying to have a conversation with Pelosi? Her Dad was a political whore, too.
MP: Seems rather odd, how WikiLeaks never posts anything from the Russian or Chinese Intelligence Services on their website.
NW: Everyone in the Trump administration is a victim. They are being attacked by scientists, teachers, engineers, health care professionals, experts of all types, by the OMB, by professional protesters, by non-right wing media. I give the president credit. Pushing back against reality is no easy thing.
Trump’s voters saw it. They didn’t care. If I can quote from a commenter (DXM) on another blog I frequent:
They don’t care because by electing Trump “…the spell of the Kenyan Muslim usurper, and his designated successor, the castrating lesbian bitch-goddess, will finally be broken.”
It’s hard to believe, but I still read on economic and libertarian blogs wild tales about Clinton and satanic rituals. It’s completely crazy.
I describe well known instances where Obama had close connections with people who have been tried and convicted of political corruption. You respond by paraphrasing anonymous commenters on blog posts.
You are not being rational, Emery.
Do you or do you not, find odd how WikiLeaks never posts anything from the Russian or Chinese Intelligence Services on their website?
Angelo Coddevilla is, like me, right about everything: http://tinyurl.com/h4wtbkq
Over the past half century, the Reagan years notwithstanding, our ruling class’s changing preferences and habits have transformed public and private life in America. As John Marini shows in his essay, “Donald Trump and the American Crisis,” this has resulted in citizens morphing into either this class’s “stakeholders” or its subjects. And, as Publius Decius Mus argues, “America and the West” now are so firmly “on a trajectory toward something very bad” that it is no longer reasonable to hope that “all human outcomes are still possible,” by which he means restoration of the public and private practices that made the American republic. In fact, the 2016 election is sealing the United States’s transition from that republic to some kind of empire.
Electing either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump cannot change that trajectory. Because each candidate represents constituencies hostile to republicanism, each in its own way, these individuals are not what this election is about. This election is about whether the Democratic Party, the ruling class’s enforcer, will impose its tastes more strongly and arbitrarily than ever, or whether constituencies opposed to that rule will get some ill-defined chance to strike back. Regardless of the election’s outcome, the republic established by America’s Founders is probably gone. But since the Democratic Party’s constituencies differ radically from their opponents’, and since the character of imperial governance depends inherently on the emperor, the election’s result will make a big difference in our lives.
oops another auto-correct failure Emery, let me fix it for ya…
Hillary’s problem isn’t that she’s in bed with Putin; it’s that Hillary doesn’t understand why being in bed with Putin is bad.
now thats accurate
Emery on May 19, 2017 at 2:25 pm said:
Do you or do you not, find odd how WikiLeaks never posts anything from the Russian or Chinese Intelligence Services on their website?
Wikileaks has materials on the Chinese oppression of Tibetans and on corruption in Russia.
This is insane conspiracy stuff, Emery. Where do you get it from? It is poison.
I don’t find it odd that we don’t see many leaks from the Russians and Chinese. Over there, if you do what Ed Snowden, Sandy Berger, or Hilliary Clinton did, you generally end up jailed for life or dead. We used to do that as well–just ask Jonathan Pollard, Christopher Boyce, or Andrew Daulton Lee. The Democrats are simply getting the just deserts of their lack of confidentiality. They reward leaking, and people have noticed.
I noticed the anonymous sources thing and remember thinking “do any of these vaguely positioned people have names?”.
I have been assured that, whoever they are, Emery will believe every utterance that falls from their blessed lips (as long as they’re badmouthing Trump). He must have ammunition to fight against those immutably minded Trump supporters, no matter the source, real or imagined.
Dunning_Kruger on May 19, 2017 at 2:25 pm said:
Do you or do you not, find odd how WikiLeaks never posts anything from the Russian or Chinese Intelligence Services on their website?
There are holes in the rice paddies and Siberian permafrost filled with people sporting big mouths.
Another thought; unlike John Podesta, the Russians and Chinese know not to use “password” as their password.
Emery, you’ve said some mind-bogglingly idiotic things, but you are really outdoing yourself today.
To be fair, Emery is mostly just repeating mind-bogglingly idiotic things that other people have said.
Which just proves that he is a mind-boggling idiot.
No one seems to think it is weird that Mueller’s investigation will end with a report that recommends or does not recommend prosecution for a crime that has not been identified yet.
It isn’t Trump that has put in bizzaro-world, it the Democrats and their allies in the media.
NW: to be mean, there is no (expletive) excuse for anyone who claims to be educated not to know why it is exceedingly dangerous to cross a guy who used to work for the KGB, or the guys in Beijing trained by guys working for the KGB.
Emery, if you are in reality so dense on this point, it’s time to drag out some Solzhenitsyn, Valladares, or any number of other authors who lived through it. Sorry, but this is NOT an excusable mistake on your part.
Trump’s jet lag is going to make for some interesting tweeting, tonight. The good news for Trump: a bedroom in the Ecuadorean embassy in London will be available soon.
No, Mitch, we know beyond ANY doubt Trump did something wrong.
First, he disclosed secrets to the Russians, our adversary, which compromised a Mossad agent. Had Hilary done something similar, the Big Right would have died in apoplexy.
Second, he fired Jim Comey, per his own words, to take pressure off an investigation into whether his campaign coordinated messages with a foreign power, maybe even conspiring (after the fact) with that power to release the results from an illegal break-in.
Third, we know he lied about not knowing about Flynn being under investigation over contacts with the Turks and the Russians.
We know he can’t control his tweets, we know he has a big, bragging, gum-flapping mouth.
Do we know if he committed a crime? No, not yet. Presumption of innocence does not convey protection from critique’ about his inability to keep secrets, treat his staff with respect (someone like Comey who has a long career of public service), and most importantly about his incredible penchant for lying. Really, he seems more inclined to lie than tell the truth. Considering you all wanted Clinton impeached for lying to Congress, what do you think about Trump letting Flynn walk in front of Congress and lie when Trump’s WH counsel, and very very likely Trump himself, KNEW what Flynn was saying was a lie?
Also Mitch, if the coasts left, they’d take Minnesota and Illinois and likely Wisconsin and Michigan along. They’d take something like 65% of the population and about 70% of the wealth. If you want to live in what’s left, a land ruled by corporate plutocracy – well, that’d be your choice, but the development of the southern states in the antebellum period I think showed pretty well what happens when you have an aristocratic ruling class dedicated to enriching a small number of people while many slaved underneath them. You can say the left advocates for that same plutocracy, but the funny thing is, they, the left, keep voting to curtail the power of that plutocracy while the right keeps voting to give them more power and rights and especially, wealth. Funny thing about actions, they speak louder than words. Let me know the next time the Republicans vote against a big tax cut for the rich – for example, they cut 840Billion from health care support (mostly for the poor) and paired that with a $640 Billion dollar tax cut, mostly for the rich. 218 Repubs voted FOR that, zero Dems did.
BTW, Mitch, so, in the absence of any hard evidence, I assume the right (esp. Trump is) are granting Hillary the same presumption of innocence, correct?
My point about hard evidence is this. There is a legal term, mens rea, as I understand it. It means that Clinton had to have the INTENT to divulge secrets. There is no evidence of that or Comey and the FBI would have indicted her. Did she inadvertently forward classified details, yes. Not a crime, just so your readers know what you already know.
If careless treatment of classified details is a crime, what do we call PURPOSEFUL disclosure of Top Secret-Code Word level secrets to an adversary who is currently threatening our planes and ships on a regular basis? If that’s NOT having done anything wrong, what is having forwarded 7 emails (out of 35000) which were marked with a “C” and 100 others which were Ex Post Facto, defined as classified? You had three Congressional investigations into Clinton and Benghazi. The hysterical poo flinging over Benghazi made this look like a picnic – not a coup.
Emery, your Trump sentiments and conjectures are becoming very boring and old. “Onward Together” right pal?
The amazing part is there’s nothing happening here that watching the Trump campaign didn’t predict. Nothing.
The amazing part is there’s nothing happening here that watching the Trump campaign didn’t predict. Nothing.
Trump’s election? It caught you by surprise, Emery.
What we have here is a few reprobate leftists within Trump’s administration, colluding to leak info, most of which is classified, to their accomplises in the media in an all out campaign to oust Trump.
There is no evidence of collusion, or obstruction or anything….it’s all heresay. Only morons like Dunning_Kruger are watching any of this with anything but amusement.
Even if there was any substance, where is the downside for real Americans? We got our SCOTUS justice, and dozens of fed court justices are already in the pipeline…winning!
Personally, I like Pence better and the only dissapointment with a Trump trip and fall would be if the reprobates escaped justice themselves.
Large dose of reality, right here —-> http://tinyurl.com/kzyk4fh
As per normal I messed up the link,
In the second half of a two-part interview, Pat Buchanan sits down with Ben Domenech to discuss the his own political career, the role faith plays in politics, and how his own populism compares to what Trump offers. Buchanan’s new book is, “Nixon’s White House Wars.”
Buchanan’s speech at the 1992 RNC was a warning that American values were in jeopardy. “I really believe the West is very probably in a terminal decline,” he said. “It’s lost it’s faith. It’s lost it’s empires. It’s losing it’s unity now. It can defend it’s borders. It’s demographically dying.”