Rep.  Doug Collins released a 370-page transcript of the deposition of former FBI Agent Lisa Page when she testified before congress last July. Here is the link to that transcript directly from his official House website:

https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/Lisa%20Page%20interview%20Day%202.pdf

Mr. Collins will go down as a hero of the Republic. A lot of people did not want you to know what was in this transcript. Democrats certainly didn’t want you to know, for reasons which will be beyond obvious. The FBI and the DOJ didn’t want you to know, at least partly because this is beyond embarrassing. The MSM doesn’t want you to know because it details obstruction of justice regarding Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Loretta Lynch. That totally destroys the liberal narrative

Warning this is a typical interview by congressional committee. That means it is blatantly partisan and unbelievably incompetent. If anyone really thinks congressional hearings are designed to provide oversight and disclose the truth, this transcript destroys that illusion.

But in spite of the best efforts to confuse the issue, this transcript still provides some very big bombshells. They should result in demands by the MSM to go into full Watergate mode. However, since the targets would be Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Loretta Lynch, there is zero chance of that happening. Other people like those working for John Huber and the Inspector General will read this and act. So will Judicial Watch. This story is not going to go away anytime soon.

Page said that the Department of Justice was heavily involved in the Clinton e-mail investigation, including in the decision whether or not to even seek to do discovery. She specifically said that the DOJ made the decision not to use the gross negligence standard over the objections of the FBI. That includes over the objections of people like Peter Strzok who is virulently anti-Trump. This is what obstruction of justice looks like and it was done on Obama’s watch, by his DOJ. In addition, Page testified that the White House was directly briefed on the investigation, which begs the question: “What did the President know and when did he know it.” Remember that Nixon was removed from office because he helped cover-up a third-rate burglary. Hillary Clinton was guilty of literally threatening National Security.

What makes this testimony so compelling is that Lisa Page clearly hates Donald Trump and Democrats on the committee tried so desperately to confuse the issue and protect her. She really believed that the potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia was a serious threat to national security. She just didn’t have any actual evidence of that. In some ways this is mindboggling, because she also admits that Donald Trump was never legitimately the subject of an investigation. It is stunningly inconsistent and intellectually dishonest at a level that is almost unbelievable.

The MSM will try desperately to downplay this story. But just this week Judicial Watch is deposing key witnesses with regard to both the Benghazi scandal and the Email server scandal. Those depositions, unlike this fiasco, will be done by highly skilled attorneys and the results are likely to be beyond explosive. Many people are going to have a choice between lying under oath or continuing to protect everything Clinton. It is unlikely that all of them will pull a Susan McDougal and go to jail to avoid answering questions that could incriminate Bill or Hillary Clinton.

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/10/us/susan-mcdougal-goes-to-jail-for-not-testifying-on-clinton.html

Bill Clinton is no longer president, no one really thinks Hillary Clinton will ever be president and testifying against them is now a legitimate option. This is particularly true when one considers that going to prison for lying under oath may result in one still being in prison after both Bill & Hillary are gone from this earth.

There is always a difference between speculation of what someone said and reading it in hard print. The fact that this transcript was published is literally turning the page on history and things will NEVER be the same.

TDM.

At least some people in the MSM have figured it out. If Robert Mueller reports that there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, a lot of people are in serious trouble. The leader of the pack is Adam Schiff, who loudly complained that Mueller must be allowed to investigate without interference. Now he is criticizing Mueller for not doing a thorough investigation No one is buying this.

https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=422

The problem is that Mueller isn’t finding what Schiff wanted him to find. Instead there are reports that Mueller is not even investigating Trump. In spite of what you hear on CNN and the rest of the delusional MSM, the reality is that Mueller has not indicted anyone for collusion with Russia.  He did indict some obscure Russians, who are unlikely to ever show up for trial, but he did not accuse them of colluding with the Trump campaign. In fact, he did the exact opposite. He said that NO AMERICAN was involved.

The other, potentially bigger problem for Democrats, is that we now know exactly what Joe Huber has been investigating. Sessions set a letter to Huber asking him to investigate the request made by Bob Goodlatte. This was not exactly a secret, he wrote a letter to congress on March 8, 2018 explaining exactly what he did. Once again, the MSM is willfully blind. They start by pretending that the DOJ lied about the letter. This is an obvious attempt to discredit Huber. It is a strong signal they are terrified by this investigation.

While the MSM wants to pretend this was an unauthorized witch hunt, the opposite is clearly true. Read the document for yourself:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5764382-AO-DOJ-HuberDirective.html#document/p3/a485908

Session gave Huber the choice of even opening an investigation or assigning additional resources and whether or not to request the appointment of a special counsel.

There is zero chance the attempt to discredit Sessions and/or Huber has any merit.

Everyone assumes this is about Uranium One, but if you read the supporting documents it seems likely that this investigation has looked at several things done by the Clinton Foundation. It may stun people to realize that selling our uranium to Russia is far from the most serious allegation. There are reports that the Clinton Foundation provided access to some of our most important national defense secrets.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5764382-AO-DOJ-HuberDirective.html#document/p3/a485908

This article cites a lot of things that look like facts, including links to source documents. Compare that to the Russia Collusion allegations against Trump that have no source documents, no eye witness statements and no documented evidence. No one, other than Adam Schiff who considers Tea Leaves to be hard evidence and has produced nothing, has even said they have seen such evidence. Certainly, after two years of investigation, no one has been charged with this.

Now we learn that there is a mountain of evidence regarding the Clinton Foundation, it includes millions of dollars changing hands and it is a lot more serious than just influencing a Presidential election. If true, this is nothing short of a conspiracy to commit treason. While the Hillary Clinton campaign did collude with Russia during the 2016 election, it was limited in scope probably because they believed the MSM and thought this was in the bag. They suspected Trump of colluding with Russia because that is exactly what they were doing.

Recently John Huber released the following statement: “Bill Barr and I will hold offenders accountable and advance the rule of law.”

Perhaps Huber refused to testify before congress and answer their questions because he did not want anything to jeopardize his investigation. Think about how the MSM mischaracterized his initial appointment and just imagine what they would do if they thought Republicans in congress were exerting any direction or control over this investigation. If the Gateway Pundit has all these documents, then it is safe to assume that Huber has much, much more. His statement is what one would expect from a skilled prosecutor getting ready to announce indictments. He just met with his new boss and it sure looks like he was not only given the green light, he was given enthusiastic support.

Now imagine Bill and Hillary Clinton indicted with corruption and conspiracy to commit treason. The case against them is more obvious than the Jusse Smollett hoax. The FBI and the DOJ knew this, but they covered it up. The cover-up extends at least to Loretta Lynch and possibly to President Barack Obama.  Keep in mind that the same FBI pillars of virtue went nutzo investigating Trump for non-existent Russian Collusion based on information purchased from Russian intelligence by Hillary Clinton.

Now add in the disgusting case of  Ilhan Omar, who makes blatantly anti-Semitic remarks. Democrats in congress so terrified that they won’t even condemn her by name and they certainly won’t consider removing her from any committee assignments. At the same time everyone is literally freezing because of a brutal winter breaking cold temperature records, Democrats are trying to fight “global warming” by taking away our cars, asking us to give up airplanes and any form of meat. They, of course, give up nothing. By the way, they see nothing wrong with killing babies born alive.

Imagine this all breaks loose in the summer of 2019. The trials take place in the spring of 2020. It is even worse if the trials are delayed. Even CNN is forced to admit this looks bad. Now imagine your self-running for congress or any other office as a Democrat. There isn’t enough alcohol. Now take a moment and smile. Remember the words Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote in 1863:

“God is not dead, nor doth he sleep. The wrong shall fail, the right prevail.” Sometimes it seems to take too long, but the end is still inevitable.

TDM

It is important for everyone to understand that really secret things are really secret. That means if you know about something it probably isn’t real. If CNN reports on something, it almost certainly is not real. That is the whole point. The stuff that really matters is never willingly disclosed to the public. It is certainly never disclosed to someone as irresponsible as CNN.

The most recent issue is the alleged secret photograph of a North Korea Missile Base. This, according to the breathless anchors at CNN, means Trump is being snookered by Kim Jong-un. That is what they want to believe. It is what they desperately want you to believe. The only thing we can know for sure is that there are only two possibilities here. One is that someone committed treason and released highly classified information. The other is that these pictures reflect what the Trump administration wants you and possibly North Korea to know. In addition, if North Korea didn’t want us to know about this, do you think they would do this on an open site they know can be easily photographed. Please! Does anyone not working for CNN really believe this?

A smart person in North Korea will look at those pictures and recognize a stark warning. We know what you have and we can destroy it without notice. Frankly I have seen far higher quality satellite pictures decades ago. This can’t possible represent the best we can do. CNN, in their rush to be irresponsible, may actually be doing exactly what Trump wants them to do.

There are other things going on that are very secret. One is the investigation by John Huber. Even Republicans in congress are upset because he has not bothered to interview the usual suspects. Some have even speculated that Huber is doing nothing and investigating nothing. That seems to be the least likely outcome. In reality the most dangerous investigations are the ones you don’t read about. When the FBI was after Robert Hanssen they used a top secret unit. Only people directly involved with the unit even knew it existed. Robert Hanssen learned about this when he was arrested. The rest of us and the rest of the FBI learned about this when the FBI issued a press release on February 18, 2001 announcing the arrest of Robert Hanssen.

The point is that if Huber is doing serious work, odds are high that no one outside of his team has a clue. He definitely would not make the mistake of interviewing high profile individuals who have already testified under oath before congress. That does not mean there is no monitoring or surveillance of these individuals. In fact, the opposite may be true. The lack of public information may be more indicative of the seriousness of the process.

Ask yourself a question. Suppose you were Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions. You inherited an FBI where some if not most of the senior people at the FBI were engaged in a conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government. What would you do? You certainly would not ignore this. That would not be an option. Odds are you would try to isolate these people, stop the plot and investigate them without alerting them to what was really happening. If the goal was to stop the plot, the appointment of Robert Mueller may have achieved that goal. Then you might have let the conspirators continue to meet and plot, because your ultimate goal was to totally destroy them.

On April 4, 1605 Guy Fawkes was caught guarding a cache of explosives placed under the House of Lords. The goal was to destroy the House of Lords, to assassinate King James 1 and replace him with a catholic monarch. There was a recent documentary about this proposing that the plot was actually discovered quite a while before April 4^th. It was allowed to grow and expand until the arrest was even more dramatic.  That is probably true, because an October 26 letter alerted authorities to the plot and there are indications they may have known about it before that letter was even written. The plot was not made public until after Guy Fawkes was caught carrying matches with 36 barrels of gunpowder stacked next to him. All of the conspirators were arrested. They were executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.

A Puritan Member of Parliament suggested that the King was spared by divine intervention. The result was that Parliament passed the Observance of November 5^th as a day of thanksgiving that the plot was not successful. This was the beginning of the Guy Fawkes Day celebrations, which were at least originally designed to celebrate the failure of the plot. More recently there have been attempts to portray Guy Fawkes as some kind of revolutionary and hero. Guy Fawkes masks have even showed up at Occupy Wall Street protests. This is consistent with the recent elevation of people like Che Guevara to revolutionary saint status. Both were in fact extremely brutal and largely unsuccessful criminals.

I have a sense that there is a secret storm brewing and that most of what you see and hear is just noise produced by the naïve, biased and ill informed. The real battle is likely being fought in secret, behind closed doors. When and only when, this is done, will we learn the full scope of what happened. The results are likely to be beyond explosive.

TDM

Leaders in the Democratic Party have a huge problem. They have been pretending that up is down and right is wrong for so long that a significant percentage of their base totally believes in this utter nonsense. The result is that anything resembling a moderate Democrat has zero chance in winning the Democratic nomination and may even have problems winning a local primary. While most of us watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with astonishment at her incredible ignorance and the pure stupidity of all she proposes, much of the Democrat base is too busy worshiping to notice.

The result is that even though the crisis at our border is beyond dispute, Democrats tried to pretend there was no problem at all. Their fawning buddies in the New York Times chimed right in with incredibly stupid reports based on ridiculous assumptions. But the facts are so obvious that even the New York Times has published an article admitting there is a crisis:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/us/border-crossing-increase.html

Today there was jaw dropping testimony before congress proving that the crisis on our borders is all too real. If the following report in the Daily Caller is accurate, the problem is worse than anyone imagined:

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/03/06/whats-happening-border-illegal-immigrant-arrivals/

So, while Democrats and their even dumber RINO Republican soul mates are trying to stop Donald Trump from declaring an emergency, our lying eyes still see the obvious emergency.

We have the bizarre situation where Democrats in the House cannot even bring themselves to protest blatant anti-Semitic remarks by Ilhan Omar. The reasoning is that the House has not condemned racist and bigoted remarks by Donald Trump. The problem is that Donald Trump hasn’t actually made any racist or bigoted remarks. While the MSM and liberal Democrats routinely take his comments wildly out of context and then claim he is the one creating all the hate speech, the opposite is true. Most of the hate speech is coming from the liberal left, not conservatives. It is not people with MAGA hats beating up on gay people; it is rather liberals beating up on people wearing MAGA hats.

This is becoming increasingly obvious. So obvious that at some point even CNN may notice.  A lot of the alleged racism and support of white supremacy came from Trump’s comments following the Charlottesville protest. Trump said there were fine people on both sides. So the NYT sent a reporter down there to try and find some of these find people. They did, wrote a story about it, then buried the lead.No one else in the MSM noticed that Trump was telling the truth.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/08/17/new-york-times-charlottesville-protesters-not-white-supremacists-nazis/

Good people can go to Charlottesville,” said Michelle Piercy, a night shift worker at a Wichita, Kan., retirement home, who drove all night with a conservative group that opposed the planned removal of a statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

After listening to Mr. Trump on Tuesday, she said it was as if he had channeled her and her friends — all gun-loving defenders of free speech, she said, who had no interest in standing with Nazis or white supremacists: ”It’s almost like he talked to one of our people.”

Conservatives like Ms. Piercy, who have grown only more emboldened after Charlottesville, believe that the political and media elite hold them and Mr. Trump to a harsh double standard that demands they answer for the sins of a radical, racist fringe. They largely accept Mr. Trump’s contention that these same forces are using Charlottesville as an excuse to undermine his presidency, and by extension, their vote.

The pattern has been repeated ad infinitum.  If Trump says some of the people crossing the border are bad people, which is clearly a fact, he is accused of insulting all Hispanics. If he bans people emigrating from Muslim countries, where there actually are Muslim extremists and vetting is impossible, he is portrayed as insulting all Muslims. The real reason congress cannot condemn Trump for all his racist bigoted remarks is they he hasn’t actually done that.

On the other hand, the remarks by Ms. Omar are most definitely anti-Semitic and she still bristles at the thought that this country should support Israel. There are two problems with the pot calling the kettle black. First, the traditional problem of the pot being equally back. Second, the more severe problem when the kettle isn’t actually black at all.

This is what happens when the inmates take over the institution. The insane liberal left wing has now seized total control of the Democratic Party. Since they only listen to each other, they believe this is brilliant. It is not brilliant. It is actually insane. Some of you wonder if the American people are really this stupid. The answer is no, they think a lot like you. The majority of Americans, including Democrats, are not this stupid. Only the far left fringe buys this crap. Democrats are likely to learn this the hard way in the 2020 election.

TDM

Democrats and their puppets in the MSM will never get over the 2016 election. Their plan is solely to resist and obstruct Donald Trump from being successful. They are blinded by hatred. We have had other Presidents who were despised by the media, almost every Republican President has experienced some level of this. But, previously there was still respect for the office and particularly for the duty of the President to protect us. That has all changed. Neither Democrats nor the MSM care about national security. They don’t care if Trump is obstructed from defending us, in fact they would probably welcome such failure. They are willing to pay any price, or I should say willing to let the nation pay any price, to destroy Donald Trump.

This, sadly, is not the first time Democrats have deliberately sabatoged national security. When Richard Nixon was elected in 1968, Democrats responded by cutting off all funds for continuing the air war over North Vietnam. In spite of this restriction, Nixon beat the North Vietnamese in Vietnam. The final blow was when Nixon defied congress and sent B52s over North Vietnam. Our POWs describe hearing the B52 raids and cheering because they knew the war would be OVER. The North Vietnamese quickly folded and signed a peace treaty.

Democrats hounded Nixon out of office. When he was replaced by Gerald R. Ford, Democrats refused to fund the war at all. They even refused to provide funds so South Vietnam could defend itself. They tossed all the sacrifices by those who fought and died in Vietnam onto the scrap heap of history. Then, they literally celebrated our humiliating defeat as if this was some great accomplishment.

They clearly have not learned a thing. Consider the absurdity of this. Donald Trump was standing there next to Kim Jong-un. They were meeting to try and negotiate a settlement that could prevent nuclear war. Jim Acosta, was a White House reporter privileged to travel to Hanoi to report on this event. But he was standing there with his panties all in a wad because Trump did not allow him to ask a question. The question Acosta had prepared was not about North Korea, it was not about preventing nuclear war. Those subjects did not matter to Acosta. He was there to ask Trump an embarrassing question about the idiotic Michael Cohen hearings. He was waiting breathlessly for the chance to obstruct Trump from literally saving the world. He must be very proud.

It finally looks like Trump is preparing to fight back. His tweet yesterday was a shot across the bow of the Democratic ship of state:

“For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar & fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with North Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed to the ‘walk,’ ” he tweeted. “Never done when a president is overseas. Shame!”

Trump has said that he has classified documents that will be very embarrassing for Democrats. He chose not to declassify them because he wanted to save them for later when their release could have more of an impact. Always remember Trump knows things you don’t know and he also knows things Democrats don’t know.

None of us know all the facts. We do know some things. All of the known facts point more toward collusion with Russia by the Hillary Clinton campaign than to collusion with Russia by the Trump campaign. The allegations of collusion with Russia by the Trump campaign border on absurd. As for allegations of corruption, the Clinton’s invented that game.

It is absurd to think that Donald Trump only won because of Russia. It is far from certain that it was Russian who hacked the DNC servers. Even if that was true, the DNC knew their servers had been hacked, by someone, and they did nothing. This was a self-inflicted wound. It is not a question of who hacked the DNC servers but rather who didn’t hack them. The security was so pathetic that anyone who tried to hack those servers almost certainly succeeded. At least some people think it was an inside job, primarily because of the speed at which the data was downloaded.

Democrats just issued 81 subpoenas. That means at least 81 attorneys are already working on a response. At least some, if not most of them, will challenge congress with regard to the justification for the subpoena. Here is the easiest prediction on the planet. There is zero chance all or even a high percentage of these people will testify before the summer of 2020. That will be in the heart of the Presidential election. Those who do testify, will only exonerate Trump. If there is actually anything to hide, it will stay hidden. Probably the worse case for Trump is people refusing to testify and taking the 5^th. If the goal is actually to remove Trump from office, this definitely won’t work. It appears to be solely designed to influence the 2020 election.

Unless the majority of Americans are as blind, dumb and stupid as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a lot of people have to be thoroughly disgusted with this charade. I am beyond disgusted. It frankly is so bad that it influences my opinion of people who admit to being Democrats. Seriously? A difference of opinion, always. Deliberately sabotaging National Security, not so much.

It is increasingly clear that the leaders in the Democratic Party stand for nothing, believe in nothing and are willing to embrace the absurd in a desperate lust to remove Donald Trump from office. They only want raw power, at any price. They don’t even have a clue with regard to what they would do with such power. That is why so many jumped on the Green Deal bandwagon, it was the only bandwagon in sight.

What they are missing is that everything they do only makes Donald Trump seem larger than life. Every conversation starts and ends with Donald Trump. Not one single Democratic candidate for President can begin to measure up to Trump. Earth to liberals, if every conversation starts and ends with Donald Trump, he is the one dominating the conversation. Duh! If this continues, they will only succeed in guaranteeing his re-election.

I for one am interested in someone organizing a nationwide protest. This would be similar to the Tea Party protests. Little was said, but a lot of people showed up to show their disgust. In 1860, the Wide Awakes organized protests where absolutely nothing was said. Yet these protests spoke volumes Ultimately, they were an important factor in the election of Abraham Lincoln.

The truth is nothing need be said. Democrats and their puppets in the MSM are shredding their credibility on a daily basis. The best response to them is stony silence. That would be sending a really clear message: “When you have something to say, let us know. Until then, nothing you say matters to us.”

TDM

The Michael Cohen testimony was clearly designed solely to embarrass Donald Trump. It was unthinkable that Democrats would put on this charade while President Trump was literally negotiating nuclear disarmament with North Korea. It shows that the hatred for Donald Trump far exceeds their love of country. It was beyond belief that Cohen met with both Adam Schiff and Elijah Cumming, prior to this testimony so they could discuss potential questions. But what makes this even worse is that in spite of their best efforts, the hearing was an unmitigated disaster, for Democrats, for the Mueller investigation and particularly for Michael Cohen.

This is so bad that even Chris Cillizza, who never misses an opportunity to trash Trump and anyone who dares support him, noticed. The problem is that Cohen not only lied under oath, he repeated a patently obvious lie on several occasions. Cillizza pointed out, correctly for possibly the first time ever, that this discredited Cohen’s entire testimony.

This hearing was nothing more than proof positive that Democrats are absolutely desperate to find something, anything, to damage Trump. There is no chance they would call someone like Cohen to testify, if they had anything else. Yesterday I accidentally tuned in my Sirius radio to CNN. I listened for about 5 minutes and was absolutely shocked at how bad this was, even for CNN. On the day after Trump had broken off negotiations with Kim Jong-un, Wolf Blitzer was talking to a Democratic congresswoman who was gushing over her plans to call Allen Weisselberg. Certainly, she opined, if Trump ever did something wrong, Weisselberg would be in a position to know that. This is all based on testimony by the thoroughly discredited Michael Cohen. It is clear that the Democrats now want to investigate every single financial transaction by anyone remotely connected with Donald Trump in a desperate search for tomorrow, or I should say, yesterday.

I expect Weisselberg to politely decline and I doubt there is enough time left in Trump’s first term to compel him to testify about anything. You can’t subpoena someone because you hope he might know something about something that could possibly be a crime. You can’t do that to anyone and you certainly can’t do that to the President of the United States.  This is just absurd. What makes is more absurd is that someone like Wolf Blitzer was too biased to even notice.

Democrats are way out over their skies on this. The only people in a worse position are those who call themselves news reporters at CNN. The problem is that Mueller is about to release his report and there won’t even be a hint of Russian collusion and the Trump campaign. Neither will there be any accusations of criminal conduct by Donald Trump. We already know that, because Mueller already said Trump was not even a subject of the investigation. Rob Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller, has said the same thing. But CNN refused to believe that. This means when the Mueller report is released, CNN will immediately demand to know what’s missing. What’s missing is their failure to consider the obvious. Devin Nunes, who knows all the facts, is the one demanding Mueller release all documents.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/devin-nunes-everything-that-mueller-did-should-be-made-public/

“I want everything that Mueller did made public. I want every email, everybody that they wiretapped, every warrant that they got,”

Democrats and their worshipers at CNN only want Mueller to release anything that has the potential to damage Trump. There is a reason Nunes wants everything released and Adam Schiff does not. It is because both of them know what everything means.

The reality is that after two years of constant harping, those people harping about the evil Donald Trump have come up with Buptkis. They have less than nothing. They have only uncovered things that do more harm to Trump’s enemies than to Trump himself.

The reminds me of Gary Hart. Hart graduated from Bethany Nazarene College and Yale Divinity School. He apparently switched from preaching to politics. A lot of people knew about Gary Hart. He had a reputation for seducing female campaign workers and then ignoring them. He was even accused of sexually harrassing a female reporter by greeting her wearing a bath robe. The rumors were always there, but when a reporter asked him if he had ever committed adultery, he denied it and stupidly challenged them to prove it. “Follow me around. I don’t care. I’m serious. If anyone wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They’d be bored.” They did follow him, with disastrous results for Gary Hart.

https://www.history.com/news/gary-hart-scandal-front-runner

Democrats did not ask anyone to investigate Hillary Clinton, the FBI and the DOJ, but when they asked Mueller to investigate Trump, they forgot who and what else was hiding behind closed doors. That is becoming increasingly obvious. It is also obvious that Trump, who did not ask anyone to investigate him, is the only one who actually had nothing to hide.

TDM

A lot of self-righteous politicians are horrified that Donald Trump has praised Kim Jong-un. They consider Kim Yong-un to be a brutal dictator. They are right about that. He is a brutal dictator. What they fail to acknowledge is that if he wasn’t, he would be dead. North Korea is a brutal place where there is no democratic opposition. The people opposed to Kim would likely be even more brutal if they assumed power. They would also likely be something else. They would likely border on suicidal. They have convinced themselves that the U.S. is weak, that we would never attack them and that if they obtain a nuclear weapon, they will rule the world.

There are numerous reports that Kim Jong-un is heading back to North Korea to deliver a reality check to his generals. If they do not denuclearize, they face destruction. If they do agree to denuclearize, they have the potential for a bright future. At least some of them will not care. They will refuse to even consider shutting down their nuclear program. Kim is likely to have two choices. Destroy the opposition, or let the opposition destroy him.

There were already reports that he was purging military leaders opposed to nuclear disarmament prior to the trip to Hanoi. Odds are high he is returning to the ultimate hostile environment. He will have at least some of his leaders, usually generals, who will seek only kill him. These people will never negotiate, they will never compromise. They will either destroy him, or he will destroy them.

It is clear that at least some people in North Korea thought they were dealing with another weak president, like Clinton or Obama. They thought they could snooker Trump into removing all the sanctions, while they would just continue to develop nuclear weapons. That worked with Jimmy Carter. That worked with Bill Clinton. It did not work with George W. Bush, which is why there was a lull in nuclear testing. They just ignored Barack Obama since they considered him to be no threat at all.

But, Trump has shown North Korea and the world that he will not be intimidated into a bad deal. One should note that North Korea agreed to not test nuclear weapons or launch missiles. In addition, Kim said he would not have gone to Hanoi if he was not willing to denuclearize.

I suspect Trump did more than praise Kim. I think he offered him support in removing his opposition in North Korea. That does not mean we will send in troops, which is not on the table. It does mean that we will ask China and North Vietnam to support Kim. It also means that the U.S. realizes Kim will have to take some extremely brutal action with regard to his own opposition. President Trump will not accuse Kim of committing war crimes nor focus on his human rights violations, which will be all too real. That is because Trump, like Roosevelt and Churchill realizes something very important. The most unethical thing they could have done is let Hitler win. The most unethical thing Trump could do is to allow the opposition to Kim take over in North Korea. That outcome would most definitely result in the risk of a nuclear war.

In many ways this is similar to the reason Trump has not condemned the Saudi Crown Prince. Yes, Mohammed bin Salman is a brutal man. But the people opposed to him are hardly saints. They are instead some of the most violent people on this planet. They practice Wahhabism, the most extreme sect of Islam. Osama bin Laden came from Saudi Arabia, but more importantly he came from Wahhabism. Wahhabism has zero interest in compromising with anyone. They are widely considered to be the main source of global terrorism. For decades, there was a working relationship between Wahhabism and the Saudi Royal Family. The Royal family would allow Wahhabism to dominate the culture of Saudi Arabia. They would provide financing to Wahhabism that was often used to conduct terrorist acts. This is probably how the 911 attack on the U.S. was financed. In exchange, Wahhabism would allow the Saudi royal family to rule and to retain its wealth. The new crown prince is the first member of the Saudi Royal Family willing to challenge Wahhabism. That is why women are allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, for the first time. He is being met with violent opposition from those who will never consider compromise. He clearly viewed Khashoggi as a threat to him. Khashoggi is now dead and the action taken against him was beyond brutal. But few are considering the consequences if someone like Khashoggi had managed to achieve his goal of the replacing the Crown Prince. The replacement would have almost certainly been someone willing to fully embraced the extremism of Wahhabism.

The actions authorized by Churchill and Roosevelt to destroy Germany and Japan were among the most brutal in world history. They were also absolutely necessary. Donald Trump, fortunately, is not confronted with those kinds of decisions. He is however, unlike the rest of us, often required to choose between the lesser of evils. Self-righteousness, with no consequences is easy for those of us who do not have to confront reality. A president of the United States does not have that luxury. If you doubt that, go back and reflect on those decisions made by Churchill, Roosevelt and Truman. Harry Truman literally ordered a nuclear bomb to be dropped on a civilian population. That is unthinkable, unless the alternative is even more unthinkable.

It is nice to pretend that Donald Trump being nice to Kim shows a lack of character, until one is confronted with the potential cost of not doing that.

TDM

Democrats are voting today to reject Trump’s declaration of an emergency on our Southern Border. The real emergency, for Democrats, is the need to embarrass Donald Trump. This is in spite of the fact that many of them admitted there was an emergency, when Obama was President. It is in spite of the fact that many of them voted to fund a border wall, when Obama was President. The only thing that changed was the election of Donald Trump. They hate him and are willing to do anything to embarrass him and to obstruct him from being an effective President. This includes obstructing him from doing something they know is critical to our national security.

In the meantime, Michael Cohen is testifying in public about the Stormy Daniels affair. At worst, this was a one night stand between a civilian, Donald Trump, and a porn star. Trump is accused of paying for her silence. The same Democrats, who used public funds to silence people accusing high ranking Democrats of sexual assault, consider this to be the crime of the century. By the way, the person they are calling to testify has been CONVICTED of lying to congress. He has less credibility than Jusse Smollett.

Top Democrats are also arrogantly giving advice to Donald Trump on how to deal with Kim Jong-un, while explaining why he is not up to the job. Everything they suggest has been tried in the past, with zero positive results. It is clear that the only thing they really want is for Trump to fail. They would rather have North Korea testing nuclear weapons and launching intercontinental ballistic missiles than risk giving Donald Trump a political victory. .

Is there no Democrat concerned about the undeniable fact that Trump is negotiating on our behalf. That if he fails, the results are likely to be catastrophic. That if he succeeds, the world will be a safer place for everyone. They don’t appear to care at all. Neither does the MSM. If they can embarrass Trump, if they can somehow regain power, nothing else matters.

In the meantime Donald Trump is meeting with the President of Vietnam, preparing for dinner tonight with Kim Jong-un. Tomorrow he is meeting with Kim Jong-un to try and negotiate an agreement to end the Korean War and to develop a plan forward for nuclear disarmament.

To be blunt, while the President of the United States is literally trying to save the world, Democrats are doing everything possible to obstruct him from succeeding. No one in the MSM seems to even notice or care. If you are a Democrat, you must be very proud. But consider this: If you succeed, we all fail.

In your moment of glory, reflect on this. While George W. Bush was President and he had Assad very afraid, Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry flew to Syria to undermine Bush. Nancy, met with Assad and assured us all that Assad was a good man. We could trust him. That obviously worked really well.

Just imagine how effective this type of talent would be with Kim Jong-un. The only chance for success would be if he laughed so hard he became physically incapacitated. Trump is not perfect, but the Democrats who are trying to obstruct him are perfectly awful.

TDM

CNN has one standard for a Democratic President and a completely different standard when a Republican is in office.  Five years ago, while on a humanitarian visit to Guatemala, Rand Paul dared criticize Obama administration immigration policies. CNN was OUTRAGED. They quoted Michael Czin, the DNC press secretary saying: “American has a proud tradition of letting politics stop at the water’s edge, but Paul doesn’t think that tradition applies to him. Regardless of political party, we do not go abroad and slam our own because of policy differences.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/22/democrats-attack-rand-paul-for-criticizing-obama-abroad/

Now we have President Trump visiting Kim Jong-un in North Vietnam and the stakes simply could not be higher. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, should be praying that Trump negotiates a settlement that results in North Korea shutting down its nuclear arms program without having to use our military in a bloody high risk military conflict. Even if you hate Trump, as liberals clearly do, he is still our President and if he succeeds we all benefit. Does anyone really want to go back to the situation during the last year of the Obama presidency when North Korea was testing nuclear weapons and launching intercontinental ballistic missiles? It was so dangerous that when some guy in Hawaii accidentally sent out a warning about an incoming missile from North Korea, a lot of people literally panicked because it was so believable.

Many people believed that the only way to even slow down North Korea was to go to war. A war that would likely cost thousands of lives and literally risk a nuclear holocaust. It is hard to imagine any negotiation with more at stake. If there was ever a time when this country needed to united behind a President, it is now. But instead the liberal media is literally slamming Trump and telling our enemies that Trump is a fool who cannot possibly be trusted. The good news is that, so far, no one in North Korea, Russia or China pays any attention to the idiotic reporting by CNN. If they did, odds are high that we would either be attacked and forced to respond with catastrophic results, or we would be attacked and fail to respond with even more catastrophic results.

I have been disgusted with the treatment of this President by the MSM for a long time. They are clearly incapable to reporting honestly with regard to anything he does. But this goes far beyond that. This is dangerous. Let me put this squarely in perspective. Suppose you are Kim Jong-un and you are wondering whether or not to negotiate with the U.S. or threaten us with Nuclear weapons. Would you be more likely to be intimidated by Donald Trump or by Nancy Pelosi pointing at Trump with that fake hand clap and the silly smirk. Remember, your life and the life of every single American citizen is at stake.

Perhaps, better yet, send over Kamala Harris to giggle about smoking weed. Or perhaps Kirsten Gillibrand so she could lean over and grasp Kim Jong-un’s hand to show she understands his pain. Better yet, send Alexander Ocasio-Cortez. She would scare Kim Jong-un into submission. Democrats have forgotten something important. The primary duty of a President is to defend the country and if you tell the world he is not up to the job, you endanger all of us.

This isn’t funny anymore. This is downright dangerous. It borders on treason. Actually, it borders on insanity. To put this in perspective suppose you are confronted by an angry man with a gun. A police officer confronts the bad guy, draws his weapon and demands he drop his weapon. You laugh and say don’t worry about this guy, his gun isn’t even loaded and if it was, he would be afraid to shoot and by the way, he’s a lousy shot. Would that make you safer?

TDM

Sometimes the best political commentary happens when the truth is told bluntly before there is time for the traditional PC screening. That happened yesterday when Charles Barkley spouted off about Jusse Mollett. He said what everyone was thinking, but no one dared admit. This is mostly stupid. The story was stupid. Anyone who actually believed the story was stupid. The planning for the hoax was stupid. The staging was stupid. Paying for someone to commit a crime with a personal check was stupid. Whimpering so people could feel his pain was stupid. Expecting anyone to believe this was stupid.

Oh there are still some die-hards, who are still begging for due process and the presumption of innocence, but most people have moved on. The MSM is trying to forget the whole affair and report on anything else. At some point, someone was bound to pull a Barkley; to just mock the whole thing as stupid beyond belief. By the way, while Barkley was doing this, his co-hosts were laughing out loud.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/22/charles-barkleys-advice-

“Two black guys beating a black guy up.”

“Jussie (sp) “You wasted all that damn time and money. You know what you should have did? Just went up Liam Neeson’s neighborhood. He could have solved all your damn problems.”

“Get cash, man. American, do not write checks when you’re committing illegal activities.”

“I tell you what though, man. There must be some good damn sandwiches at Subway if you’ve got to go out there at three, four in the morning to get them. Shaq, what they got on them sandwiches?!”

The reason this went viral is that it is so obviously true. This story was always ridiculous. It was only taken seriously because the MSM is desperate to criticize Trump. They are even more desperate to document hate crimes, particularly ones committed by Trump supporters. They not only wanted this to be true, they needed this to be true. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris needed something to justify their demand that the Senate pass an anti-lynching bill. It was an easy vote, because the last lynching I could find was in 1981 by the KKK.

The left still pretends that Matthew Shepard was the victim of an anti-gay hate crime. This happened in 1998 and is still commonly referred to as one of the worst anti-gay hate crimes in history. Except it wasn’t a hate crime at all. Shepard was dealing crystal meth and one of his killers was a gay man who was being pimped alongside Shepard. It appears the real motive for the murder was that they thought he had access to a shipment of crystal meth worth about $10 k. The truth has been well documented, in a book, written by a gay man, but the MSM does not care because they NEED Matthew Shepard to be the victim of an anti-gay hate crime.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/the-truth-behind-americas-most-famous-gay-hate-murder-matthew-shepard

The reason they ran with this absurd Jusse Smollett story is that they have nothing close to what they want or need. When you have nothing, even the patently absurd looks good. Charles Barkley gave the perfect response. He laughed this story off the front page. It’s a beautiful thing.

TDM