Donald Trump must be celebrating tonight. He dare not ask for a better opponent during the 2020 election that Joseph “Hands” Biden. Odds are this will totally suck the oxygen out of the room for anyone not named Sanders and Biden. In many ways this is remarkably similar to the 2016 election where Hillary Clinton also sucked all the oxygen out of the room. The result was that Democrats chose a horrible candidate who managed to lose to someone they considered to be the worst possible Republican candidate. Democrats, who never seem to learn, are about to repeat the mistake.

Biden has run for President on several occasions and failed miserably. Technically this is his third real attempt. The first time was in 1988. You probably don’t remember this because few people noticed in 1988 either. Then he ran again in 2008 only to withdrawn almost immediately. He never got any significant percentage of the vote. His opponents were Hillary “Loser” Clinton and Barack Obama who had zero executive experience. Neither paid any attention to him as a candidate and Obama chose him as VP because he knew Biden would never come close to escaping his shadow.

There are numerous reports that Obama talked Biden out of running in 2016, probably because he foolishly though Hillary would be a better candidate. He pointedly has not endorsed Biden, or anyone else, this time.

With this field, odds are pretty high that Biden and Sanders will each both draw about 15% of the primary vote, not enough to win outright, but more than enough to leave the rest of the candidates in the dust. This could easily result in either of them winning the nomination while simultaneously turning off at least 40% of the Democratic base. The only other option is for Biden to move even farther left than Sanders, if that is even possible. That would turn off everyone else. This is clearly the worst case for Democrats, unless Hillary decides to run again. It is hard to suppress the giggle factor even saying that, but this is 2020 and it is your new and great Democratic Party.

Remember when John McCain won the Republican nomination in 2008? Remember that sick feeling in your gut when you realized that Republicans had chosen the candidate most likely to lose? Barack Obama was a terrible candidate and ten minutes of opposition research would have destroyed him. Yet, the only reason this was even close was that McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. He went to his grave thinking that was his worst mistake. He wanted Joe Lieberman. If McCain had run with Lieberman they just might have lost all 50 states. I think Democrats are likely to be equally thrilled with their selection in 2020.

While the MSM considers Biden a strong candidate they are missing the part where people prefer someone with a personality. Even a bad personality would be preferable to Biden. In addition, he is just plain creepy. There is a reason he failed miserably in 1988 and even more miserably in 2008. He sucks big time on the campaign trail. In addition they have so much crap on him that the big dilemma is when to start using it.  My hunch is that they are so unimpressed they won’t bother, unless he actually gets the nomination.

In the meantime, if Trump is not thrilled, he is not paying attention.

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There was a major decision by the California Supreme Court on Friday April 19^th, 2019 that will change everything. The decision was to issue a stay for the case “The people of the State of California v. David Robert Daleiden and Sandra Susan Merritt. “ This couple was charged with fifteen felony counts by Attorney General Xavier Becerra for anti-eavesdropping and conspiracy. The stay was to grant the defendants the opportunity to have an evidentiary hearing to prove that the charges against them were politically biased. The couple had videotaped Planned ParentHood employees for allegedly arranging to sell body parts from aborted fetuses. The original lawsuit was filed by Kamala Harris who chose to file criminal charges against these whistle blowers rather investigate the real criminals at Planned ParentHood. What makes this case so dangerous is that this is beyond obvious.

On April 1, the Supreme Court refused to consider a lower court decision by a federal judge and, gasp, the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding this case. At the time, Planned Parenthood thought they had won a great victory. Instead this case is more properly being handled under California law since they are being prosecuted under California law.

All seven California Supreme Court justices will look at this case.

One reason this really matters is that for the first time in a long time it is the prosecutors under scrutiny. This is a truly disgusting case where vile and inhuman criminal allegations that should shock the conscience of everyone against Planned ParentHood were totally ignored while prosecutors punished those who dared reveal the truth. It is like having someone film the Holocaust and have a prosecutor charge them with invading Hitler’s privacy. The very last thing the liberal left needs is full disclosure on what is going on here.

This could also greatly impact the real result of the Mueller investigation. The same question applies there. Why did the Obama administration choose to ignore blatant crimes by Hillary Clinton and direct evidence of collusion with Russia regarding the sale of our uranium and then choose to try and “find” some crime to pin on Donald Trump? The answer, as in the Planned ParentHood case is selective prosecution based on political bias. If the California Supreme Court hears this case and rules that this was selective prosecution, it will stun the political world. Kamala Harris’s rapidly fading Presidential Campaign will come to a sudden and crashing halt.

It will do more than that. It will give full legal voice to the obvious. The real question is not what Mueller found, but rather why he was authorized to investigate a President of the United States with zero evidence in the first place. For years the liberal left has used selective prosecution to punish opponents. That error (era) may be over. Nothing should frighten the liberal left more than a return to common sense and attention to the rule of law and the Constitution of the United States. That is one reason they fought so hard to prevent someone like Justice Kavanaugh being on the Supreme Court. If selective prosecution and bias is removed from our legal system it will deliver a devastating blow to the self-righteous, arrogant liberal left. This could be a bigger deal than you can even imagine.

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Rep. John Ratcliffe R-Texas is a former federal prosecutor and one of the few people who has seen the Mueller report, without the redactions,  He has also seen the unredacted testimonies of all the people who started the Russian Investigation. He was U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas and had over 100 federal prosecutors and support staff reporting to him. This is a very serious individual.

This is not someone who casually drops uninformed opinions, particularly about other people. Yet he said that Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell were not being truthful when they said they had evidence of collusion. The Mueller report proved that such evidence did not and does not exist. He also said that Donald Trump was telling the truth when he said that Jim Clapper and John Brennan were accusing him of treason. He said the response to the Mueller report by the liberal left is borderline absurd.

Perhaps he said it best in the following:

https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/rep-ratcliffe-mueller-report-proves-donald-trump-was-telling-the-truth-about-collusion

RATCLIFFE: The bottom line is that Bob Mueller, a guy who charged anyone with everything along the way — people were charged with everything short of spitting on the sidewalk — where he could charge, he did charge.

In this case, Bob Mueller didn’t charge because he could not charge. He could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was any criminal conduct, whether it was collusion-related or obstruction-related or anything related.

Then Ratcliff dropped a real bombshell, totally unnoticed by the MSM.

I — as you know, Maria, I have had the opportunity to see the underlying documents, to see the FISA applications in unredacted form. As a former federal prosecutor, I had concerns that there may not be probable cause there, and that some of the evidence that would be exculpatory to the Trump campaign wasn’t presented.

Those concerns have not gone away. I would expect that Bill Barr has those same concerns. And I would expect him to take appropriate action. Again, these are questions that Bill Barr can answer, hopefully will answer in two weeks when he’s on Capitol Hill.

When a former U.S. attorney says he had seen the FISA applications, unredacted and they lack probably cause and omitted exculpatory evidence that is a huge problem.

Many people are justifiably frustrated by the response to the Mueller report. These people seem to never learn. They are doubling down in the theatre of the absurd. At times like this it is important to pay more attention to people who are actually qualified to have an opinion. John Ratcliffe is one such person.

Ultimately the opinion of those who are either hopelessly biased or merely incompetent does not and will not matter. The cold hard fact is that Democrats don’t even have the votes to start impeachment hearings in the House. They don’t have close to enough votes in the Senate to convict. That means all of this noise coming from the liberal left is just that, noise. It is designed to distract and annoy. It is also designed to deceive the true KoolAid drinkers into continuing to dream the dream. It is destined to failure.

In the meantime, the really serious people, like William Barr are on it. These are the kind of people who focus on putting people behind bars; not on putting themselves on page one. These are the people who matter and we will soon hear from a lot of them.

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The Mueller report ultimately establishes two things for certain. One is that there is and never has been any evidence of the Trump campaign or any other American colluding with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. The only complaint against Trump is that he was outraged at the outrageous. It is increasingly clear that there was a plot to either remove him as President of the United States or at least distract him with an investigation designed to obstruct him from doing his job.

This should be no surprise. The MSM melted down when he was elected. Democrats promised to obstruct him in every way possible.  That is one of the few promises they have kept. They never considered just accepting the results of the election.

They were outraged that someone like Trump was elected President of the United States. They could not accept the obvious fact that he beat Hillary Clinton. They could not believe that most of the country chose him over her. The only explanation for that, in their deluded world, was if someone or something stole the election. That is why they jumped on the Russian collusion theory. Anything was better than the reality that Trump simply won. They will never consider Trump up to the job. They consider him a clown accidentally elected to office. The only person they despise more that Trump is Hillary Clinton, primary because she lost to someone like Trump.

Now, that the Mueller Report has totally destroyed the Russia collusion narrative. The liberal left is left with blaming Trump because he was outraged by the outrageous. Of course he was angry. He should have been angry. We all should be angry. This must never happen again. A President of the United States was distracted from performing his duty solely because of a partisan witch-hunt based on zero evidence. What made this worse was the fawning support of the MSM that trashed Trump 24/7 with fake news stories pretending the legal noose was closing in on his presidency. In reality the only noose was the one they, like Jusse Smollett tied around their own necks to try and distract from their own culpability.

I think they have made a major mistake. Anyone who reads the Mueller Report with an ounce of objectivity knows what happened. They recognize a plot by the people who should have been loyal to the office of President of the United States even if they despised the man holding that office. Instead, they literally bragged about their disloyalty and wore their bias as a red badge of courage. I think Democrats and the MSM are about to be shocked at how well the average American understands this. They may learn that all of us are outraged. We are outraged at those who continually put self-interest above the country. We are outraged that after 240 years we still have a political party that cannot bring itself to accept the outcome of an election. We are outraged at arrogant self-righteous jerks who consider themselves above the law, above the constitution and above the will of the people. These jerks still believe the American people made a huge mistake and we should have trust them, the few, the proud, the elite to save the day.

Only one other President faced this kind of opposition. That was Abraham Lincoln, who was despised by the establishment in both parties. They considered him to be the most unqualified man to ever accidentally become President, but history teaches us he just may have been the best President of all.

Few men would have had the courage, the strength, the wisdom and the raw character to survive this kind of assault on the presidency. There clearly was a conspiracy between Democrats, the DOJ, the FBI, our Intelligence Agencies and their supporters in the MSM. How on earth did Trump or any other president survive something like that? None of them ever considered the possibility that they were the ones who got this wrong. They were oblivious to the fact that they were ones guilty of committing crimes.

Trump, incredibly, weathered the storm. He did not play their game. He did not fire Mueller. He did not even fire Sessions until after the mid-terms. Instead he cooperated with Mueller leaving him with nothing to find other than outrage that Trump was outraged. This may play in Washington DC and the New York times. It will definitely play in the Democratic corridors of congress. I don’t think it will play nearly as well in Peoria or anywhere else. The American people are on to this, they are sick of this and they are increasingly outraged by this.

Now, the President has his own team. He has an Attorney General who actually does have his back and a man clearly capable of doing the job. He is gathering unprecedented support from former RINOs like Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell. Lindsey Graham still has his concerns about Trump, but he no longer has the slightest illusion about Democrats. The Kavanaugh hearings proved to Graham that Democrats will do anything and everything to gain power. Republicans are finally united behind this president. They may not respect him, but they respect the office. The tide has turned and this time there is one major difference. This time the accusations won’t be based on fake stories leaked to the New York Times. There is no need for that. Trump has more than enough well documented facts to supply all the ammunition required. Those who opposed him ending up doing nothing more than pointing the finger at themselves.

I believe that when Trump was elected, he just wanted to be a good president. But, he was never given the chance to do that. While he talked about draining the swamp, he probably didn’t really mean it. He would have been fine if Democrats has just accepted the reality of his election. But, that is one thing they did not and cannot do. As a result, Trump is fully informed that if he does not destroy them, they will not only destroy him they will destroy our democracy. When he says this must never happen again to a U.S. President, BELIEVE HIM! Democrats took their best shot at Trump and they missed by a mile. I believe they just made him stronger and more dangerous. I am reminded of the words of Admiral Yamamoto, after he learned Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor before declaring war.

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

Pay close attention to some of the reporting in the MSM. A lot of people have known the truth, but they lacked the courage and strength to swim against the current of corruption in the D.C. swamp. That has now changed and at least some people will actually enjoy taking on the establishment. Once the crack in their armor becomes too obvious, there are always people ready, willing and able to exploit the breech. The day of reckoning is at hand and some of you will be surprised at some of the people who join this crusade.

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The world is breathlessly waiting for the Mueller report. Democrats are hoping and praying there is something they can bitch about. The MSM is poised to take action. If there is nothing damaging about Trump, they will claim a cover-up. If there is anything remotely critical of Trump, they will celebrate the crime of the century and ignore everything else. The one thing they will never consider is reporting on this fairly and objectively. That won’t even be considered.

We already know what is in the Mueller report. This is beyond obvious. Mueller is going to explain all the indictments resulting from his investigation. None of those indictments have any connection with the Trump campaign and/or collusion with Russia. There may be some complaints about Trump and his public comments, but by all accounts the White House fully cooperated with this investigation.

If there is anything shocking in this report it is likely to affect Democrats more than Republicans. Rudy Giuliani has already prepared a rebuttal to the report. Since the White House has not asked for a copy of the report, this means someone has at least given Giuliani enough information to prepare a response. Actually, if anyone was paying attention, Barr already told us what is in the report.

Barr said that the Trump campaign was spied on by intelligence agencies. His only question was whether there was justification for this. The fact that he said he didn’t know if there was justification is in and of itself a serious problem. This shouldn’t even be a close call. Barr also said that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia, although they were given several opportunities to do that.

The media is hopelessly naive or willfully oblivious. They still dream that somehow this will boomerang back on Trump. That is likely misplaced hope. While there may be some things that are embarrassing for Trump, keep in mind that he survived paying off a porn star for a one night stand. The threat of embarrassment has been a hugely ineffective weapon against Donald Trump.

There is also the Lori Loughlin syndrome at play. There are reports that Loughlin and Giannulli can’t grasp the concept that what they did was a crime. They view this more as cheating, yes, but a crime, not so much. The most they expected was a fine and a slap on the wrist.

In much the same way the people who plotted to obstruct a presidential campaign and then a President do not think they did anything wrong. They hate Trump so they cannot understand why the actions they took could be considered to be a crime. It is incredible to realize that high ranking officials in the DOJ and the FBI could be so oblivious to the legal consequences of their actions. I am beginning to suspect that Rod Rosenstein shared their contempt of Donald Trump, but he also realized the legal line he could not cross in performing his duties.  The same may be true of Robert Mueller. The result is that a lot of people should be very concerned about what is in that Mueller report tomorrow. The only person who doesn’t need to lose sleep about this is Donald Trump.

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William Barr dropped the hammer on Democrats, and they know it. When he said there was spying on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, things literally exploded. When he said it was a really big deal, Democrats lost their mind. Then when he said he would not prejudge motive but rather rely on the facts, he smashed their last remaining delusions. It is simply OVER.

We very seldom see moments like this play out in real life. Sometimes the closest portray of such an event is in a movie. In this case it is a scene from “A Few Good Men.” It is the scene where Colonel Jessup is arrested. Colonel Jessup, throughout the movie has been the epitome of arrogance. Unfortunately for him that led to him admitting he had committed a crime. At first, he could not believe it. Then, he became even more arrogant and angry. But by the end of the scene, he was read his rights and was arrested.

To anyone paying attention, it has been obvious for a very long time that the DOJ and the FBI were spying on the Trump campaign. When Trump said that Trump Tower was wire tapped, this was met with derision. It couldn’t possibly be true and was evidence only of Trump’s self-delusion. In July 2018 when Trump said it was looking more and more like his campaign for the 2016 presidential election was being spied on, the MSM erupted with distain.

http://time.com/5288607/donald-trump-fbi-spygate/

This couldn’t be true they said and if it was true, he deserved it.

“Accusations that the FBI was ‘spying’ on the Trump campaign — rather than spying on foreign spies, which is its job — erase the important distinctions between counterintelligence and criminal investigations,” Asha Rangpur, a former FBI agent who now teaches at Yale Law School, wrote in an op-ed last Sunday in the Washington Post.

The pattern by Democrats and its supporters in the MSM was always consistent. Start by denying it happened at all. If there was some “incidental” monitoring of people in the Trump campaign it was just standard technique. In the meantime, what about the mounting evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia? What about the legal noose closing in on Trump? Mueller, Mueller, Mueller. Those of us not blinded by Trump Derangement Syndrome realized the obvious. Yes, there was abuse of power, but it was by the Obama administration colluding with the Hillary Clinton campaign with the help of the DOJ and the FBI to influence a presidential election. The mere hint of that should have terrified the MSM. It would have terrified them if they retained an ounce of objectivity. Instead they chose to pretend that the ridiculous was obvious and that the obvious was irrelevant.

William Barr changed that in a few well-chosen words. What makes this more significant is that he is the top Law enforcement person in the country. Unlike James Comey, he is a man of integrity. Predictably Democrats are fighting back, by trying to discredit Barr. That is an effort doomed to failure. Soon and very soon a day of reckoning is coming. Like it or not, Barr has moved the needle on the narrative in a whole new direction. The few wise men and women left in the Democratic Party already know this. Unfortunately for the DNC few of them have any impact on the current leadership. The result is likely to be Democrats handling this in the worst way possible. If they continue to deny, continue to ignore and continue to promote hysteria based on already discredited sources, they will pay a terrible price.

At least those people who are trying to attack Barr are smart enough to realize the magnitude of the problem. If they do not destroy him, he will destroy them. So far, William Barr looks to be fully up to the task.

They also have two really big problems. One is a total lack of evidence supporting their position. The other is that they never learned the real lesson of the 2016 election. The American people just aren’t stupid enough to believe this crap. But they are willing to believe the accusations about you, because they are so obviously true.

There is a reason so many people in the Trump campaign stops were chanting “Lock her up.” This was red-neck group speak for “Lock Her Up.” It was thousands of people telling the establishment they just aren’t buying it anymore.  Trump didn’t invent that expression; he didn’t need to. All he really did was listen.

There are very few times in our nation’s history when major change happens in the blink of an eye. This week may be just such an event. Unless we are wrong about everything, unless all the actual facts showing up in the testimony by FBI agents under oath is wrong, then The Day of Wreckoning Is at Hand. Unless people like Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon and Rachel Maddox truly can see facts invisible to us, then The Day of Wreckoning is at Hand.

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President Trump threatened to shut down the border. The MSM screamed with outrage. Numerous brilliant people from all sides of the political spectrum considered this to be a huge mistake. None of them had any solutions for what is clearly a national security crisis. They are only certain that Trump is wrong. The problem is that people are pouring across our southern border and not only are we doing nothing to stop the surge, Democrats are literally cheering them on.

Anyone who does not recognize the crisis here has simply not been paying attention. Europe is a real mess, because they let in a lot of people who have zero intention of assimilating. Politicians in Europe are just as oblivious as politicians in America, so they were the last to notice. But the people noticed and their voices are starting to be heard. This is one of the reasons Britain voted for Brexit.

Once again, it looks like everyone underestimated Trump. In some ways this reminds me of George W. Bush. That probably would offend Trump. But Bush faced a similar problem in Iraq. Everyone was telling him the war was over and we lost. Democrats were demanding he just withdraw all troops and quit. Few remembered that they were the ones encouraging him to invade Iraq in the first place. He had a similar problem with his generals. He had numerous highly respected military professionals who explained why the situation was hopeless. He had a congress that wanted to quit. But Bush kept looking for one general who didn’t propose how to lose gracefully, but rather one who proposed a strategy for winning. He found General David Petraeus. He was brilliant. He developed the plan that literally saved the day.

There is another precedent for this. In March 1864 President Abraham Lincoln appointed Ulysses S. Grant to rank of lieutenant general of the U.S. Army. The establishment generals, who had suffered defeat after defeat, were outraged. At one point Lincoln was told that Grant was a drunk. His response was to say that if he could find out what brand of whiskey Grant drank, he would send a barrel of it to his other commanders. (That was probably not a true quote, but still interesting) But in Grant, Lincoln finally found his general who was totally focused on what could be done to achieve victory. He then set out to do exactly that. There was also something else very different about General Grant. Grant knew Robert E. Lee. He had served with him in Mexico. He wrote about it in his memoirs. He liked and respected Robert E. Lee, but he also know him to be another mere mortal, not a deity. He also knew he could be defeated.

Both Petraeus and Grant snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. In both cases, there was increasing opposition from members of congress all too willing to embrace such defeat. In both cases the thin line between victory and disaster was held firmly in the hands of one man. A President of the United States who said: “NOT ON MY WATCH!.” Congress was less than worthless.

We do not know if this is a similar moment. We do not know if the people now being chosen by Trump are up to the job either. What we do know is that if nothing is changed, nothing will change. What we are doing now is not working.

All these recent apprehensions have one thing in common. We are arresting people AFTER they cross the border. All of those laws, passed by congress, that make it close to impossible to handle this situation have one thing in common. They are U.S. laws. That means if people cannot get into the country in the first place, they do not apply. I believe Trump is seeking his own general. One who will find a way to do exactly what Trump said needs to be done, to shut down that border. He is not talking about stopping trucks hauling tomatoes. He is talking about stopping people from coming here illegally and then immediately demanding special treatment. When Trump says he intends to shut down the border, believe him.

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It is increasingly clear that there are at least three different Donald Trumps. The father, the entertainer and the executive. Most of us have only see Trump playing the role of the entertainer. This is the person you see on TV. This is the man who was the star of Celebrity Apprentice. This is the man who knows how to drive the news cycle. Sometimes he says things that are inflammatory, sometimes he says things that are flat out funny and sometimes he is just rude. This person appears to be close to the edge at times. If that was the only Trump, one would be right in questioning his qualifications to be President of the United States. But that is only one side of this man. Few people have actually seen Trump in his role as father, but it is quite obvious that all of his children have turned out pretty well and they all clearly adore him. This is the very private Trump. Trump the executive is a very serious individual. This should be obvious. While he definitely got a leg up from his father, Trump created a very successful business empire and by any measures is a billionaire. He is probably the only person in history who downgraded his lifestyle to become President of the United States.

The following article by Byron York interviewing one of Trump’s former attorneys gives us a glimpse into this version of Donald Trump.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-from-former-trump-lawyer-candid-talk-about-mueller-manafort-sessions-rosenstein-collusion-tweets-privilege-and-the-press

This confirms some of the things I have always suspected. While Trump was publicly trashing Mueller, secretly he was providing Mueller with almost unlimited access. This demonstrates that Trump knew there was no collusion with Russia and he also knew that if Mueller acknowledged that, Trump would score a major political victory. The length of time of the Mueller investigation and the public bitching about it by Trump makes it very difficult for Democrats to discount the findings. Granted, they will try, but they are destined for failure. This is also clear evidence that while Trump the entertainer appears to be rash, Trump the executive is the exact opposite.

I read the New York Times report and it is poorly sourced garbage. They talked to someone who may have talked to someone. The fact that they ran with this story is proof of nothing more than absolute desperation on their part.

Trump’s enemies have two serious problems. One is that they not only conspired against Trump the individual, they conspired against the office of President of the United States. Trump, the individual, might have let them off the hook with nothing more than embarrassment. But Trump, the executive is determined to protect the office of President of the United States. When he says this must never happen again to another president, believe him. Unlike his detractors, Trump the executive is a very serious individual. He plays the long game and he is extremely focused on what really matters. He is also absolutely ruthless. That is why he put up with the Mueller investigation and all the nonsense reported every night on the MSM. Trump knew what was really going on and he has the patience and the strength necessary to stay the course. People like this are very rare and extremely dangerous. Those people who conspired to overthrow the government of the United States should be very afraid.

If you want to see how this works, watch “Gunpowder, Treason & Plot” on Netflix. It is the story of Mary Queen of Scots and her son, King James. I do not know how accurate this is from a historical perspective, but it is an excellent example of how people can totally underestimate someone. In this case a lot of people thought King James was not up to the job. In the end, they learned that he was actually more focused and ruthless than all the rest of them combined. We seldom encounter someone like that in real life, but they do exist and underestimating such people is usually a fatal mistake.

A lot of people who greatly underestimated this president are about to find this out the hard way.

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Once again, the New York Times is reporting, again, based on unnamed sources allegedly connected with prosecutors on the Mueller team. We can be certain of several things. These leaks will all be negative about Trump. When is the last time you ever saw the MSM report on a positive leak about Trump? If these leaks are genuine, then the person leaking this information is committing a crime. It is illegal to leak classified information, information obtained during a Grand Jury investigation, or negative information about someone who has not been charged with a crime. If these leaks are not genuine, then they are lies. If there really are all those prosecutors on this investigation upset that the report doesn’t slam Donald Trump, it says more about them than him.  Their duty was to find the facts, period. Now they are upset that they don’t get to set the narrative?  Talk about bias.

The MSM cannot bring itself to ever report objectively on Donald Trump. They despise him and they cannot bring themselves to say anything good about him. Actually, it is much worse than that. They cannot bring themselves to say anything about him that is not extremely negative. That is why the New York Times accused Trump of supporting White Supremacy in the very same article where their investigation proved he didn’t support White Supremacy. If one reads the entire article it is easy to see what happened. They started out investigating whether or not there were people at the Charlottesville demonstration, as Trump pointed out, who were both opposed to removing the statutes and opposed to White Supremacy. They found them. They interviewed them. They reported the results of that interview. Then they just ignored the results and concluded that Trump still supported the traditional Republican racism without providing a hint of evidence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/politics/trump-republicans-race.html?smid=tw-share&mtrref=undefined&gwh=5EFC7C2072B7A9EFBF30691D07E11340&gwt=pay

What made this more pathetic is that it assumed that the reason Trump is racist is that he is a member of the Republican Party that has a long history of racism. They believe he is racist because that appeals to the racist Republican base. Actually, it is the Democratic Party that has a history of racism and while there are no racist Republicans with prominent buildings named after them there are numerous buildings named after racist Southern Senators. Bill and Hillary Clinton both praised their mentor, J William Fulbright who was an radical racist for his entire life. Hillary Clinton was proud to join with J. William Fulbright in the Fulbright-Clinton fellowship. But facts don’t matter because the reporters at the New York Times “feel” that Trump is a racist which makes any facts unnecessary.

Once again, they are over their skis and about to be embarrassed. If there was truly negative information about Trump, Mueller would have included it in his executive summary. He didn’t. He knew he couldn’t find evidence of obstruction of justice, so he punted that decision to William Barr. Barr called his bluff and made Rod Rosenstein stay on long enough to sign off on a finding of no obstruction.

Barr will turn in a redacted report to congress. Democratic attempts to get the redactions removed are destined to failure. However, they know that. In fact, I suspect they are counting on it, because releasing the full report may do more harm to Democrats than Republicans. The plan is to keep demanding release of the entire report while hoping and praying Barr refuses to do just that.

They have already asked William Barr to testify and he is guaranteed to eat their lunch. They are way over their heads here and he will not put up with this. Democrats are making an enormous mistake which will virtually guarantee the re-election of Donald Trump. Even people who hate Trump are sick and tired of the Democratic histrionics and theatrics with zero results. If Trump is half as bad as Democrats have been claiming than it is unforgiveable that Democrats can do nothing about this. How can they claim this man is a clear and present danger to the nation, the most corrupt president in history, but they are powerless to take any action?  They are trying to substitute louder weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth as a substitute for actual evidence. Even the hard-core liberals are sick of this. They believe the lies about Trump, they just can’t believe the incompetence of Democrats in congress.

There are signs the story is starting to turn. MSM ratings are tanking. Even SNL is starting to laugh at liberals. The Democratic class of 2020 is an obvious joke. The leading candidate is the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana which has a population of just over 100,000 people. He is also openly gay, and liberals are glowing about the magnetism of the potential “first husband.” A some point even liberal women are likely to notice that gender equality ends up with transgender males competing and winning against biological women. Not only are they winning athletic competitions one won a beauty contest. You can call that a lot of things, but equality for women is not actually on the list.

TDM

There is increasing evidence that William Barr is on a mission to fix things at the FBI. So far, he seems focused solely on the facts and proper process. His comments on that are very similar to the position taken by Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI. One will note that although Rod Rosenstein said he was leaving, he stayed on long enough to support Barr’s decision that there was no obstruction of the Mueller investigation. That does not seem to be a coincidence. Barr pushed back very hard on those who attempted to distort his summary of the Mueller report. He specifically mentioned Chairman Nadler. According to Lindsey Graham, Barr is very upset over the way the FBI handled the Hillary Clinton e-mails.

Most of us have watched the Clintons consistently do horrible things which were just ignored by the MSM. Just imagine if it had been Donald Trump who allowed Russia to purchase our uranium. We would already be in the middle of an impeachment trial. But Hillary obviously did that and the MSM just yawned. Today the MSM is hyperventilating about people who got security clearances over the objections of intelligence officials. They ignore two significant factors. One is that those intelligence officials are hold-overs from the Obama administration and based on what we know, their opinions are not necessarily beyond reproach. No one has hinted that any of these people constitute a real threat to national security. On the other hand, when Michelle Bachmann suggested someone investigate Huma Abedin, who should never have obtained a security clearance, she was shouted down by a chorus of people led by John McCain. Huma is a wonderful person and it was ridiculous to even hint there might be a problem. The facts about her are well documented.  I wrote several articles about her starting in June 2011. https://scotshonor.com/?p=825  I was shocked at what was already well documented. I was even more shocked that no one cared.

The result is that we have come to expect that the Clintons will continue to get away with everything with zero consequences. It is easy to assume that this is a permanent situation that can never change. Sometimes it just seems like the truly guilty get away with it and other people are punished to the hilt for seemingly minor offenses. But the world moves in cycles and that includes the Clintons. No one, in either party, considers her to have any chance at being President or attaining any other high political office in the future. Bill Clinton has even less chance of achieving any level of power. If any of the stories about these two are true there are a lot of people who tolerated them, because of the access to power, but they did not actually like them. In the past there were rumors that anyone who criticized the Clintons had a good chance of ending up dead. Whether there was any merit to those stories or not, it is certain that at least some people believed them. That also would have prevented people from cooperating.

But the protective shield has been permanently shattered. While the MSM still shows little or no interest in investigating Hillary, they also show little or no interest in protecting her anymore. In most cases, they choose to ignore her. Bill Clinton is rarely mentioned at all. The MSM will still refuse to report on this, but that will not deter William Barr. Barr isn’t intimidated by anyone and he certainly won’t be intimidated by a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary committee. Imagine this ending up at the Supreme Court. Barr explains why it would be illegal for him to comply. The Judiciary committee argues that they have a right to everything, regardless of the law. Who do you think wins that argument?

I believe we are going to start seeing indictments, sooner rather than later. Some of those indictments will be of people very close to Bill and Hillary Clinton. They could even be personally indicted. At some point people will be given the opportunity to spill the beans on the Clinton’s or schedule vacation time in federal prison. At least some of them are likely to make a different choice than would have been made just a couple of years ago.

It is far too early to plan a celebration regarding the end of an error, but it is equally wrong to assume the Clintons will continue to walk scot free. By the way, the original meaning of Scot Free came from Scandinavia and it means getting away without paying taxes. Few people bother to research that. Today it typically means obviously guilty people who are never punished. Sounds about right, but not necessarily the final verdict.

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