A lot of people are hyperventilating about Trump’s apparent decision to withdraw troops from Syria. One thing is certain; there are a lot of people in the establishment who have very strong feelings about this. But, we have learned, the hard way, that the establishment is not necessarily very good at handling these kinds of things.

I really don’t have an opinion on this, either way, because I don’t know the facts. I do know that this is much more complicated than what is being reported and sometimes it looks like we create more problems than we solve.

In order to understand this, it is important to look back at history. To make a long story short, this area was controlled by the Ottoman Empire until World War I. The British and the French won World War I, so they punished the Ottoman Empire for siding with Germany. Then Britain and France developed a plan to fix the Middle East. They literally created countries by just drawing lines on the map with little or no regard to the wishes or desires of the people living there. Actually, many of the people living there were nomads with little if any loyalty to a physical location at all.

The easiest way to understand this is to look at a map of the Middle East in 1914, before World War I.

When Turkey, France and Britain developed their plans to make sense of this, they came up with this map. One could argue that if there were countries at all, this is what they would have looked like.

This map shows the Turkey, French and British Mandates for the period 1920 to 1935.

Now we look at the plan developed by the French and British in 1920

As you can clearly see, countries were created out of whole cloth with little regard to actual political alliances. Most of the affiliations were tribal and those relationships date back hundreds of years. Drawing some lines on a map doesn’t change that.

And finally a map showing current borders as of 2002.

So, when Trump says we need to stop sending troops into the Middle East to fight unnecessary wars, he has a point. To a large extent, a lot of the problems in the Middle East are the result of the Western World trying to reshape things in their own image. Now, we are faced with serious threats from places like Iraq and Iran. As far as I can tell the Kurds and the Turks haven’t got along for centuries. But this is a lot more complicated than that. I doubt that anyone in the UN or anywhere else really understands the reality of the Middle East. This explains why every country there, with the exception of Israel, is run by a dictatorship.That may be the only option to maintain control when dealing with so many people who feel little, if any loyalty to the artificial borders created by Britain and France.

Sometimes I fear we have done nothing more than take a region that was chaotic but of no real threat to us and created an out of control monster. While I am sure this area was always one of considerable violence and unrest, it probably was not a threat to world peace. ISIS was a threat, largely because we created an environment where they could thrive and allowed them access to modern weapons. The same could be said for Iraq, although Syria and Iran did actually exist, to some extent, for a long time.

The Kurds have been our allies in the fight against ISIS. They were also allies in the first Gulf War. They have also been engaged in an insurgency in Turkey for years and are listed by both Turkey and the United States as a terrorist organization. That dates back to at least 2007, long before Trump became President.

The following quote is from an article written by Greg Bruno, Council On Foreign Relations in 2007:

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/inside-kurdistan-workers-party-pkk

“Some observers blame the United States for emboldening the separatists. “The de facto autonomy enjoyed by Iraqi Kurds [following the fall of Saddam Hussein] has encouraged the PKK,” notes the Economist. “The Turks have held back from retaliation, largely because they hoped that America would deal with the PKK itself.” So far, that hasn’t happened.”   

The point is that, once again, the MSM has chimed in with loud arrogance without any attempt to actually put this in perspective. Both Republicans and Democrats have seized the day to slam Trump. Yet, I doubt that any of them has anything close to a real solution. They say the best definition of insanity is doing the same thing, in the same way and expecting different results. Perhaps just asking: “what are we trying to accomplish here,” is actually a very good question.

I do not know the right solution here. I just know it is a lot more complicated than what is reported in the press. My only thought is we should all pray that God grants Trump the wisdom to make these kind of very difficult decisions.Unfortunately, more people will choose to just slam him while offering little is the way of a realistic alternative.

TDM

PG&E cut the power to about a million homes. There was a forecast of high wind, so they just pulled the plug. We are not personally affected by this because our electricity comes from SMUD. However, people who live very near us were definitely affected.

In some ways this bordered on hysterical. The horrific winds that caused this crisis were sometimes as high as 10 mph in these neighborhoods. However, the powerlines for the people who were in the high risk areas ran though these neighborhoods, so they lost power too.

It should be obvious that even PG&E which has a well-earned reputation for self-inflicted losses would not do something this drastic on their own. We have sources telling us that it was ISO and the PG&E Bankruptcy judge that were demanding this. We can also assume that there was a lot of pressure from the Governor’s office.

To make this worse, this didn’t actually solve the problem, because we still have a massive wild fire north of Los Angeles. It should be obvious to most people that not all wild-fires are caused by downed power lines. Wild fires in California are not exactly new. One of my first jobs in the insurance industry, decades ago, was as a California wild-fire underwriter. There have always been wild fires here, the only thing different is that now the places that burn have lots of buildings there.

Naturally, our esteemed and brilliant Governor is already working on solving the real problem: climate change. Here are the things we can do that will fix this for everyone. Let’s legalize marijuana. Let’s ban plastic straws. Let’s make it legal for people to poop on the sidewalk.  Let’s develop a plan to require all electricity to be provided by renewable resources. That actually means solar and wind. We must avoid fossil fuels, at all cost, to save the planet. Don’t even consider building a power plant powered by natural gas. In fact, let’s ban new homes from getting connected to natural gas too. (This is already the law in some locations.)

We can’t build new dams. We can’t build nuclear power plants. We can’t use coal. We sure can’t use gas or oil. We can’t use natural gas. We can’t cut down dead trees. We can’t allow anyone to build roads in wilderness areas. If people want to drive cars, they must be electric cars recharged only be electricity generated by wind or solar.

This is beyond brilliant. Imagine you buy a new home in California. You pay about 50% more than the same house in most other states. Your property taxes are through the roof. You have sky high utility bills. You have among the highest personal income taxes in the country. There are homeless camps all along the bike paths. You are afraid to go there. Soon, they are replaced by nice new apartments, providing affordable housing, in your neighborhood, paid by you. By the way, this does nothing to solve the problem with the homeless camps, because other people, lured by the siren call of free housing, are moving here everyday.

But, the weather’s great and you love the environment, so you just suck it up and do your part to save the planet. You have solar, but the PG&E rules require you to have an automatic switch that will disconnect the solar power if there is a loss of power to the grid. You are required to hook into the grid, and pay a fee for not using it. You consider buying a backup generator, but you learn that this won’t work either, because you can’t have natural gas connected to your home. If you buy a gas powered generator, it doesn’t run either because the gas station doesn’t have power.

So you sit in your beautiful home, without electricity, without air conditioning, without TV, without fans and without lights. You can’t cook anything because natural gas has been banned and the electric stove doesn’t work. Even the microwave doesn’t work.

So, in desperation, you decide to get in your environmentally safe electric car and take a ride. But the car won’t run, because it is out of power. You can’t recharge it, because you don’t have electricity. You decide to drive your old gas guzzler, and risk the damage to the environment. But when you get to the gas station you can’t fill up because they don’t have power either. So, in total frustration, you drop by your favorite restaurant to at least get some cool air and a good meal. Oops, the restaurant is closed too and based on the note on the door, may never re-open.

Welcome to the left coast. Welcome to California. Welcome to paradise.

TDM

Rudy Giuliani and Joe diGenova were on Laura Ingraham last night. What they said was off the chart outrageous. We can be sure the MSM will dismiss this as wild rants by two aging clowns. There are a lot of people who would really like to convince you that Rudy Giuliani is losing it and making a fool of himself. Those people are hopelessly naïve. They fail to distinguish between Rudy Giuliani the attorney and Rudy Giuliani the celebrity who has a somewhat chaotic personal life.

Both Giuliani and diGenova are highly experienced attorneys. Giuliani was Associate Attorney General, the third highest position in the DOJ. He supervised the U.S. Attorney Offices law enforcement agencies, the Department of Corrections, the DEA and the U.S. Marshals Service. When he was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, it was actually a demotion. But Giuliani had political ambitions and this gave him the opportunity to get national prominence by prosecuting high profile cases. He has a record of 4,125 convictions and 25 reversals. If there is anyone who knows how to put together a case that results in a conviction, it is Rudy Giuliani.

Joe diGenova was the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1983 to 1988. While the MSM likes to dismiss him as a conspiracy theorist, in reality he is a highly skilled prosecutor. He also knows how to conduct an investigation that results in a conviction.

Both of these guys can be very entertaining and it is easy to underestimate them. But their legal skills should not be ignored. In addition, diGenova was hired to defend Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash with regard protecting him from being extradited to the U.S. Firtash is a very controversial figure, but without a doubt he knows where a lot of bodies are buried in the Ukraine. It is interesting to note that Robert Mueller’s lawyers allegedly reached out to Firtash offering to resolve the Firtash case in exchange for information about Donald Trump and alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. Firtash’s legal team rejected that offer.

The point is that it would be foolish to underestimate the investigation done by Giuliani and diGenova. They are both very good at building a criminal case and they definitely have insider information. When you think about it, most of the high profile corruption cases have been the result of an insider providing critical information. What if Firtash is the ultimate informant providing critical information to people like Giuliani and diGenova with regard to all the crap that went on in the Ukraine during the 2016 election?

Giuliani and diGenova said they are going to expose the Bidens, the Clintons, others in the Obama administration and ultimately Obama. They either are suffering from senility or this is about to go nuclear. It sure would explain why those opposed to Trump would go all in on a suicidal impeachment crusade let by someone like Adam Schiff. Desperate people do desperate and stupid things.

Who would you bet on, Giuliani and diGenova or Schiff and Nadler? Silly question.

That’s the thing about some clowns. They make you smile.

TDM

Donald Trump is a liar. We all know that. The MSM reports this all the time. In September, the Washington Post said it had identified 22,000 lies by Trump. Wow. So many. There must be some very bad stuff here. So, I did a little research and According to MSNBC here are the biggest lies told by Trump during 2018.

We’ve gotten more done than any other administration.

Steel and automaker investments are skyrocketing.

Tariffs are making American rich.

We passed the biggest tax cut and reform in American history.

Democrats are “radical socialists” who want to turn American into Venezuela.

We pulled off an economic turnaround of historic proportions.

Obama separated children from their families at the border.

The Russia probe is witch hunt.

Republicans support protections for people with pre-existing conditions.

We’re building the wall.

And that was just 2018. According to Politifact, Trump told five big lies during just one rally in Michigan held in March 2019.

The Democratic Party has been aggressively pushing extreme late-term abortion.

Drug prices saw their first decline in 46 years.

Patients with pre-existing conditions will be protected.

We’ve created since my election 5.5 million new jobs.

The Russia witch hunt was a plan by those who lost the election to try and illegally regain power by framing innocent Americans.

Until I read this, I never understood why Democrats and the MSM were so upset. No wonder they are demanding impeachment. It is these kinds of monstrous and dangerous lies that demands liberals attack Republicans. These types of lies are why it was so important to ban Sean Spicer from Dancing with the Stars. These types of lies are why Sarah Sanders is so despised. Would someone like Elizabeth Warren ever lie? Would Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris ever lie? Would Joe Biden ever exaggerate?

Then, I realized something important. This is like looking at one of those trick pictures. You know, where you stare at it for a minute, then close your eyes.  Suddenly you see a very different picture, like perhaps one of Christ. That picture is there, all the time, but one can be blinded to the obvious by the noise.

The real pictures is if these are the worst lies Trump ever told, he may be the most honest President ever. He is also one of the most focused. Trump has known that Democrats colluded with Ukraine during the 2016 election for a long time. That is beyond obvious, it was the Ukraine that released Paul Manafort’s black ledger, which resulted in his resignation from the Trump campaign. That ledger, by the way, has never been verified.

Rudy Giuliani undisputedly met with Paul Manafort before he started his investigation into the Ukraine. The Washington Post described this as a “quest to rewrite the history of the 2016 election.” But the Washington Examiner said Giuliani was looking for evidence that it was the DNC and the Clinton campaign that had a close connection to Ukrainian officials. Since that actually happened, this wasn’t a difficult task. According to Giuliani he only asked Manafort one question: “Is the black ledger legitimate.” Manafort told him no.

Suddenly a lot of things come into focus. Democrats are trying to impeach Trump specifically for asking Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election. Democrats and their supporters in the MSM are treating this as the crime of the century that demands Trump’s removal from office. But they missed two things that are about to become obvious.

Trump knew that anything he said in that call to the President of the Ukraine would be leaked. So, odds are high what he said was scripted and deliberate. It certainly was enough to troll Democrats in the MSM, but he was very careful not to say anything that crossed the line. In the end, Democrats are left trying to equate asking for an investigation of an obviously guilty Joe Biden with asking Ukraine to interfere in an election.

But it did something else too. It caused the MSM to start reporting on the Ukraine and they started reporting on what Giuliani was doing in the Ukraine. They also started pontificating about the evil of asking a foreign government to interfere in our election. Trap sprung.

Giuliani was building a case to prove that the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign actually did collude with Ukraine and did interfere in the 2016 election. He says he has a lot of such evidence, so does John Solomon.

As a result, Trump’s opponents have hoisted themselves on the horns of a dilemma. If they keep preaching that asking a foreign government to interfere in an election is a serious crime, they cannot ignore what the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign did in 2016. But, if they decide this isn’t actually a crime, they expose the impeachment campaign as a total fraud. Even Van Jones realizes this, which is why he calls it a lose-lose situation.

This week we are all going for a roller coaster ride. Trump and his supporters knows what’s at the end of that ride. His opponents are in for a rocky landing.

TDM

A few years ago a young boy went missing at a State Fair. The police had no clues, so they asked everyone who was at the fair, with a video camera, to contact them with the video. They were soon inundated.Ultimately the video did not help, because the boy wasn’t even any of the pictures. But, the good news is that the boy was not actually kidnapped and he showed up safe later in the day.

But, that is not the end of the story. While the police were scouring those videos they were horrified at what they saw. They literally saw dozens of known dangerous sexual predators roaming around the State Fair. Prior to seeing the videos the police had no idea this was happening. The people taking those pictures were also oblivious as to who or what was in the background.

Lesson learned. At future State Fairs, undercover police officers were in position to identify and conduct surveillance on known sexual predators. They did not necessarily make any arrests, but they did make the fair safer.

One would think that known sexual predators would be smart enough to avoid places like a State Fair. But, the opportunity to find victims was obviously too strong for them to resist.

The same appears to be true with regard to Democrats and the Ukraine. The opportunity to gain money from corruption is a siren call that just may have attracted a lot of people, in addition to Hunter and Joe Biden. Don’t be surprised if a lot of them turn out to be prominent Democrats:

https://nationalfile.com/breaking-nancy-pelosis-son-was-exec-at-gas-company-that-did-business-in-ukraine/

We already know that Joe is not the only Democratic politician in a position of power who has a son with somewhat of a checkered past. One prominent female Democratic politician literally made a video promoting Natural Gas production in the Ukraine. You may have heard of her, because Nancy Pelosi is currently the Speaker of the House trying to impeach Trump for asking the Ukraine to investigate corruption. Perhaps she was more worried about her own son than she was Hunter Biden. But no, that would be unthinkable.

Here is the text of a video produced by Paul Pelosi, Jr. As a pure coincidence, this followed the video made by Nancy Pelosi.

“My name’s Paul Pelosi. Of course I’m on the board of Viscoil. And Viscoil is here today to talk about accelerating the future. It’s about using cars in a more efficient manner. It’s about utilizing natural resources, whether it be electricity, or gas, or fossil fuels in a more efficient way. And Viscoil is a part of that solution,”

What a remarkable coincidence. Of course we understand why you’re on the board of Viscoil.

Unlike Hunter Biden, Paul Pelosi had experience beneficial to the way things were done in the Ukraine. He co-founded Natural Blue Resources, which was charged by the SEC with securities fraud in 2014. This is exactly the skill set sought by oligarchs in the Ukraine. Getting yourself booted from the Navy for drug abuse is nice, but this, well this is just outstanding!

Of course, any hint that Nancy Pelosi or her son did anything wrong or that this would in any way hint of corruption or even a shadow regarding potential conflict of interest would be unfair. It would be like assuming that just because Joe Biden threatened to cut of $1 billion in aid to the Ukraine that this was somehow connected to Burisma appointing Hunter Biden to its board at a salary of $50,000 per month.

Thank God this has already been thoroughly investigated by CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and MSNBC and they found no evidence of any wrong doing. This is just must more evidence of the vast right-wing conspiracy that continues to make false and unsubstantiated charges against political opponents. Impeach, I say Impeach. Save the Country!

TDM

Democrats were over the moon. The State Department watchdog requested a closed door briefing on Wednesday regarding urgent information about the Ukraine. They thought they had Mike Pompeo on the ropes. Instead, the IG confronted them with documents they would have preferred to ignore.  Here is the MSNBC report on that meeting:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dems-say-state-watchdog-turned-over-packet-of-propaganda/ar-AAIcu1n?ocid=spartandhp

I knew something went off the rails because there were zero leaks about this meeting. If there had been something damaging to Trump it would have been leaked immediately. Instead, there was silence. Now we know why. The State Department IG delivered a packet of documents regarding Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, U.S. Ambassador Yovanovich and crowd strike. According to Bob Menendez, this:

“appear to contain long-debunked theories and false statements about the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and one of President Trump’s political opponents.” “These documents provide further evidence of a concerted, external effort to conduct a disinformation campaign against a career U.S. ambassador who had been the subject of baseless attacks, including by the President himself.” Eliot Engel, Adam Schiff and Elijah Cummings released a joint statement saying the briefing and documents “raise troubling questions about apparent efforts inside and outside the Trump Administration to target specific individuals.”

They tried to dismiss these as an “irrelevant distraction from the matter at hand.”

The truth, actually quite obvious, is that Democrats came into this meeting expecting dirt on Trump and were confronted with documentation of misdeeds by Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Ambassador Yovanovich.  Even as recently as yesterday, some in the MSM reported that the IG was disclosing an attempt by Pompeo to intimidate staffers from providing information. Instead, the IG delivered documents gathered by Rudy Giuliani. It would have taken months for Giuliani to get congress to accept these documents. This was the ultimate sting. They stupidly sat on their high chairs like the fools they are and had no choice but to accept the documents they were terrified to receive. There was no attempt to validate or even investigate these documents, they were just immediately dismissed as irrelevant. Congressional representatives managed the impossible. They have lowered their personal credibility to a point below unbelievable.

It gets worse. In addition to lying on national TV, Adam Schiff may have put himself and the whistle blower in legal jeopardy. It is really quite simple. Few things in this government are more classified than a private conversation between a President of the United States and a Foreign chief of state. It was illegal for that whistle blower to release that information to congress or anyone else, other than through very carefully defined channels. It is also illegal for a member of congress to accept classified information that is obtained outside of those channels. That is why Adam Schiff said he didn’t know about this until he got notice from the IG. Now that it has been verified that the whistle blower contacted the intelligence committee directly, outside of approved channels, and they referred him to an attorney to assist in getting this filed properly. This is clear evidence of a very serious crime.

There are signs that even the fawning MSM is sick of this stuff. They still want to destroy Trump, but they are tired of eating crow. It is bad enough when Trump calls them fake news and the corrupt media. It is even worse when Democrats, through stupidity and incompetence, help him make the case. It seems inevitable that while the MSM will still avoid reporting honestly on Trump, they will be equally hesitant to trust anything said by these Democratic congressional representatives. Since the whole plan was to try this in the media, it looks more and more like the entire impeachment boat is blowing up before it was even launched.

There are few things worse than waiting there with bated breath, only to discover that it was actually baited breath and all you get is a whiff of your own bad breath.

TDM

Donald Trump recently said we are at war. He wasn’t talking about a foreign country; he was talking about the “deep state” establishment desperate to remove him from office. Colonel Ralph Peters was famously a Fox News expert commentator. His reason for resigning is significant:

“Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers. Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed.”

He actually was  Lieutenant Colonel. He clearly hates Trump, but he also hated Rumsfeld and Obama. Yesterday on CNN he said the following:

https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/30/ralph-peters-donald-trump-sedition/

“One word, sedition. Trump is inciting violence against the legitimate government of the United States and the constitutional order. And, Anderson, that is a grave crime. You can argue about the meaning of treason, what constitutes it, what doesn’t. Sedition is very clear cut, and you can ask your lawyers. To me this is as bald and plain as it could be.”

“You see Republicans on Capitol Hill just covering, just covering, afraid of Donald Trump, this bloated old charlatan who never served this country in any capacity and these Republican Patriots who served. They’re running to make excuses for him, cringing.”

Ironically, Peters did great harm to his own cause. This is an admission that the deep state, the entrenched establishment, believes it is “the legitimate government of the United States and the constitutional order.”

They are out to destroy Trump, because they fear, correctly, that he is out to destroy them. It must be pointed out that this war was started by Democrats. MSNBC host Donny Deutsch admitted this on Friday, July 26, 2019.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/msnbc-host-says-democrats-are-at-war-with-trump-and-wont-necessarily-play-fair

“Democrats are at war with President Trump and won’t necessarily play fair to make sure he winds up in prison.”

Trump responded by telling a private event that “We’re at War” “These people are sick.”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-trump-tells-private-event-were-at-war-over-impeachment-jokes-about-staying-past-2024-to-drive-liberals-fricking-crazy/

Democrats fired the latest shot by leaking the whistle blower complaint. Now the IG for the State Department is apparently going to testify before congress. He is allegedly bringing documents and one would suspect that they are all negative about Trump and Pompeo’s activities in the Ukraine.

Democrats are convinced that they have a winning hand here, because Trump is asking for foreign assistance to investigate corruption. They are oblivious to the consequences if he finds exactly that. They believe that he has no right to fight back against the legitimate government, the unelected establishment elite.

We all better hope and pray they fail, or we will simply lose our democracy. Regardless of one’s personal feelings about Donald Trump, he is the duly elected President of the United States. That is what the establishment simply cannot accept. They can’t accept the reality that yes, our constitution, puts full executive power in an elected official, a civilian. Combine that with someone who ran with a pledge to drain the swamp and the results are predictable.

They have been fighting back from day one. Trying to destroy him with constant leaks to their liberal supporters in the MSM. This president has been under attack from the day he was elected. They have never expressed any interest in accepting his election and have never even considered trying to work with him.

But now we are in a very different place. Many of the players in the conspiracy are out of power. Trump has assembled his own team, with people who are highly skilled and loyal to him. The Ralph Peters of this world have self-identified and removed themselves from positions of influence. Trump’s team, which has incredible resources, is on this. Those who weren’t up to the task are gone. He now knows that he must destroy them, or they will not stop until they destroy him. He is not fighting just for himself, he is fighting for the office of President of the United States. Trump is a man clearly hesitant to go to war. He knows that any war has casualties on both sides. But he is also a man ready, willing and able to defend this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The problem with the liberal left is that they failed to understand the consequences of being an enemy of our constitution and our way of government.

This is going to get very ugly. The attacks on Donald Trump will escalate rapidly. His enemies will move fast and viciously to destroy him. They are likely to strike some blows and do some damage. But in doing this, they have self-identified. They are exposing themselves as the real enemies of this country and like all other such enemies, they will be destroyed. Ironically, their hatred of Donald Trump is the only thing that made it possible for him to destroy them. It is almost impossible to get rid of the establishment. It is hard to fire them, and it is even hard to know who they are or what they are doing. As recently as this spring, The U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine appears to have been deliberately sabotaging our efforts to investigate the obvious interference in the 2016 election. She is now gone.

This reminds me of the Tet offensive. The Viet Cong with support from the NVA attacked U.S. military installations all across South Vietnam. At first, it looked like a smashing success. They did manage to kill a lot of people and definitely terrified the establishment media. But they had stupidly launched an all-out assault on the most powerful military in the world, and in doing so they exposed themselves. The result was catastrophy for the Viet Cong. They killed about 1,300 U.S. military personnel. The U.S. destroyed over 25,000 of them and annihilated their chain of command. They never recovered, other than in the delusional minds of people like Walter Cronkite and liberal democrats in congress.

TDM

There was an interesting comment recently by Carl Bernstein. Bernstein was one of the Watergate reporters and he is virulently anti-Trump. He says that he is hearing reports that Barr has directed John Durham to investigate the origins of the Russia collusion hoax and the appointment of Robert Mueller. Jerry Nadler is hearing the same thing and said he considers this part of a “plot to dirty up the intelligence community, to pretend there’s something wrong with the beginning of the Mueller investigation and to persecute and bring into line the intelligence agencies.”

Washington Examiner, Sunday September 29^th, 2019. Daniel Chaitin article dated 9/26/2019.

Dan Bongino said that Democrats are terrified because “the (Democratic) Party is starting to panic as the possibility of being linked to illegal spying, as the Department of Justice inspector general prepares to release his report on the matter.” When you see people on both sides of an issue reaching the same conclusion it is time to pay attention.

This latest fiasco reeks of desperation. The person who leaked information resulting in the whistle blower complaint came very close to committing treason. There are few things more secret than the private conversations between a President and a Foreign chief of state. This secrecy was already breached in the past, when conversations between Trump and other heads of state were leaked. That is the primary reason the current practice is to store the transcripts of those conversations on a secure server with extremely limited access.

Yet, someone with access, clearly leaked details. He or she got many of them wrong, but they at least tried to leak them. We can be certain that there is a 5-alarm search for whoever leaked those details and for the CIA agent that filed the whistle blower report.

There is more. There is evidence that whistle blower requirements were changed to allow reports based on hearsay evidence just before this report was received. There are reports that Adam Schiff got this report in August and sent people over to the Ukraine to investigate. The report itself, in addition to having glaring errors, sure appears to have been written by legal counsel.

The actual transcript shows Trump asking for nothing more or nothing less than for someone to investigate Joe Biden. His justification is beyond obvious. Biden is on public record bragging about forcing Ukraine to fire a prosecutor before he would release $1 billion in aid. It is not disputed that Hunter Biden was appointed to the board of Burisma two weeks after being discharged from the Navy for drug abuse. It is not disputed that he was paid $50,000 per month. It is not disputed that Burisma was definitely under investigation. The liberal left has tried to deflect this by saying Hunter Biden could not be held responsible for things that happened before his appointment, which is why they say Hunter Biden did nothing illegal. But, if Joe Biden got a prosecutor investigating corruption fired because someone paid his son $50,000 to sit on a board, that is corruption. That is particularly true when no one has another explanation for why Hunter Biden was worth this amount of money. There are reports that Chris Heinz, stepson of John Kerry, personally warned Hunter Biden about this and split up their partnership as a result.

So, that begs the question. Why? Why go all in on something so paper thin and something guaranteed to be discredited. The answer is because the alternative was even worse. That is what Bongino is saying. He says that the IG report is going to be so devastating that they are desperate to distract from it. What, may you ask, could be that bad. Bongino told us that too. Remember that Bongino was a Secret Service agent which means he probably still has a very high security clearance. He could learn things not available to anyone else. He says the IG report will say action was taken “in collusion with foreign governments.” That would be the ultimate bombshell.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-ig-report-spying

Bongino is making a career out of publicly supporting Trump. He is as partisan as they come. But that does not mean he got this wrong. This is perilously close to a direct quote from the IG report which is on the verge of being released to the public. My hunch is that the IG report will be released almost simultaneously with indictments and arrests. In fact, the indictments and arrests could come first. That is what is done when there is a report that recommends criminal prosecution. The findings are given to the DOJ (already done) along with a referral for criminal prosecution. The most common reason for the DOJ to refuse to release information is that it is being used in a current investigation. They want the chance to interview witnesses etc. before the persons of interest even know they are being targeted. This the period of time when search warrants  are issued, and secret grand juries are impaneled. In other words, what Bongino says makes perfect sense and cannot be dismissed as partisan hype.

We will know shortly. One thing is very clear. Donald Trump views this as an assault on the office of President of the United States and he is going to fight back with his full arsenal. He believes he is not just protecting his own political future; he is protecting the office itself. Unlike his opponents who are counting on people like Jerry Nadler, Adam Schiff and their fawning supporters in the MSM, Trump has a team of very serious professionals on his side.

Congress is now in recess. My best guess is that this will explode while they are back home patting themselves on the back. At lot of people should be afraid, very afraid.

TDM

Geraldo Rivera knows all about making foolish assumptions resulting in massive public humiliation. Gerald learned about a “secret vault” located in the Lexington Hotel once owned by Al Capone. Geraldo was desperate to resurrect a failing career. He had been fired by ABC in 1985 after he criticized the network for cancelling a report regarding the alleged affair between John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. The fact that the affair was actually true was irrelevant. Anyone who dared hint at criticizing John F. Kennedy had no future working for any network.

So Geraldo signed on to host a major TV special called “The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults”. It was a two hour special broadcast on April 21, 1986. After a massive build up, including arranging for a medical examiner in case they found bodies and agents from the IRS in case they found money, Gerald breathless reported on the opening of the Vault on live television. They didn’t find any bodies or any money. The found mostly dirt and some empty bottles. After several attempts to dig a bigger hole by trying to go further into the vault, Gerald finally admitted defeat and apologized to the viewers. Incredibly 30 million people were watching as Geraldo said: “Looks like we struck out.”

On April 20, 2016 Geraldo talked about this on “The Five” on Fox News. He admitted he went right across the street, drank himself silly, then went back to his hotel room and put a “Do not disturb” sign on the door. He described it as “tequila drunk.” He blamed this: “All because of a silly, high-concept stunt that failed to deliver on its titillating promise.”

That public humiliation will pale in comparison to what awaits the Democratic Party. The problem is that what Trump did was actually quite reasonable under the circumstances. That would be bad enough, but what makes this worse is that Democrats did far worse. In addition to the corruption of the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, Senators Robert Menendez, Dick Durbin and Patrick Leahy wrote a letter to the Ukraine.  Here is a copy of that letter:

https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/5-4-18%20Menendez%20joint%20letter%20to%20General%20Prosecutor%20of%20Ukraine%20on%20Mueller%20investigation.pdf

In other words, these Senators did the same thing they falsely accuse Trump of doing. They asked a foreign government to investigate a U.S. President. If Donald Trump should be impeached, shouldn’t a United States Senator who did this be impeached? My favorite line is: “we believe that our cooperation should extend to such legal matters, REGARDLESS OF POLITICS.” They should have added, as long as you are investigating Donald Trump and not a Democrat like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden.  They are the ones who put politics in this. We “are disappointed that some in Kjiv appear to have cast aside these principles in order to avoid the ire of President Trump.”

This time, when Democrats open the “Impeachment Vault” they will not just find an empty room. They already achieved that with the Mueller Report. No, this time when they do break through and really open that vault, they are going to be greeted with an explosion that has the potential to destroy the Democratic Party. Odds are, they will still be too distracted by pure hate to notice and will just keep on digging, ultimately finding more bodies, all directly linked to prominent Democrats.

Another difference is that this time a lot more than 30 million people will be watching and the people putting on this show will be too stupid to at least follow Geraldo’s lead, admit their mistake and apologize. They are far more likely to double down on stupidity and compound the error.

TDM

Rudy Giuliani was on fire tonight during an interview with Laura Ingraham. This was so far over the top that he is either insane, senile or he was telling the truth. If he was telling the truth, the entire DNC leadership has fallen into a major trap from which there is no escape.

We may never know all the facts but consider the following. It is well documented that Trump was extremely angry about people in his administration leaking sensitive information to the press. He even fired his personal assistant for that. Now suppose that the loyal members of the administration discovered who was spying on them and leaking information. What would they do? They could confront this person and fire him or her. That would be fun, but what if they used this person to set a trap? What if they leaked details of a conversation between Trump and the President of the Ukraine? Only this person did not get a transcript of that call and did not actually listen to that call. He or she was relying on other people telling them about it. They wanted this person to leak this information, so they made it too juicy to ignore. The whistleblower thought he or she had the information needed to destroy Trump.

When, predictably, this person leaked his story to the MSM they swallowed it hook, line and sinker.  Nancy Pelosi literally made a public call to impeach Trump and almost every candidate for the DNC nomination immediately stood up to salute. They should have smelled a trap. This fell into the category of too good to be true. They failed to see the warning signs, such the whistleblower admitting he or she had not actually heard the conversation and had not seen a transcript of the conversation. But the Trump haters were too overjoyed to take a pause. They went all in, based on a whistleblower they don’ know, regarding a story they have not seen, about  a conversation he or she did not hear. It was insane. There were other warning flags that were ignored. The fact that the foreign minister of the Ukraine immediately discredited the report. That fact that Trump said he would consider releasing a full unredacted transcript. Then the biggest red flag of all, Republicans in the Senate voted to demand release of the whistleblower report. Unlike Democrats, at least some of them know exactly what is in that report. Some of them have also seen the transcript of the conversation. The liberal left stupidly assumed that the senators had turned on Trump. What if they got that backwards.

Then two things happened today. One is that there is a report that the IG has information that this person was a supporter of one of the DNC candidates and was prejudiced against Trump. That has the potential to totally discredit this report. What if the report contains material allegations, that are totally unsupported by the actual transcript. The Trump administration did this before with the allegations about Donald Trump, Jr. and the WikiLeaks release. Information was leaked with the wrong date. No one bothered to verify the date and it quickly turned out that the correspondence by Donald Trump Jr was after public release of those e-mails by WikiLeaks.

Now enter Rudy. He is on the Ingraham angle and he says the Democrats have fallen into a trap. He says he has documented evidence proving criminal acts by both Hunter Biden and Joe Biden.  He says he was asked by the state department to go to the Ukraine and get the documents. He even held up his phone and told Laura he could show the text messages verifying this.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/they-have-walked-into-a-trap-rudy-giuliani-destroys-democrat-party-fbi-and-biden-crime-family-must-see-video/

We already know things that make this beyond credible. One is that there is literally a video of Joe Biden bragging about how he intimidated the Ukraine to fire their prosecutor.  The other is, well, Hunter Biden. He enlisted in the Navy when he was 44 years old. Two years later he was discharged when he tested positive for cocaine. When his brother Beau Biden died, Hunter divorced his wife and started an affair with his brother’s widow. He even admitted buying crack from homeless people. He cheated on his brother’s widow and married a South American model he only knew for a short time. Oh, he was also allegedly caught with drug paraphernalia in his car. He signed on the board of Burisma Holdings, Ukraine’s largest gas production and was paid $600 k a year. He recommended his own law firm, Boies, Schiller and Flexner to represent Burisma to protect against corruption. Right! Hunter has no experience in the energy field. He does not speak Russian and does not know the Ukraine. The least likely explaination for this appointment is that Hunter was a valuable asset.  It seems more likely that his sole value lay in his ability to ask his father for help.

The MSM made a token investigation and said there was no evidence to pursue. How convenient. But, if Rudy is telling the truth, he has that evidence. There have been numerous reports that people in the Ukraine were desperately trying to get this in the right hands. They did not trust the FBI. Who can blame them? The U.S. Ambassador delayed getting them visas. Trump fired the Ambassador and Giuliani was dispatched by the State Department to travel personally to the Ukraine to get his hands on the documentation. Last night he told Laura Ingraham he has this in spades.

If Rudy is right and he has undeniable evidence of blatant corruption by Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, that will go off like a bomb. What makes this worse is he says he has more information on the entire Obama administration, including Hillary Clinton.

With the decision by Nancy Pelosi and others to accuse Trump of a crime worthy of impeachment, Democrats now have to put up or shut up. That is bad enough, but all they may have done is make it impossible for the MSM to continue to ignore the Biden chronicles.

It is simple, if Trump was demanding that Ukraine investigate Hunter Biden for corruption, because he had hard evidence that Hunter Biden was corrupt then Democrats are about to experience the ultimate public humiliation.

We will know more tomorrow when that transcript is released. It sure looks like Democrats thought they had Trump on the ropes, and he countered with a vicious right cross.  Who knows, but we do know this. So far Democrats seem to have no facts supporting any of their theories while Trump just may have a mountain of evidence.  A lot of people, who should be smarter than this, just may have fallen into a trap from which there is no exit.

NOTE.  The transcript has been released.  CNN has already parsed this and views this as smoking gun evidence. But, the full transcript has been released and a lot of people will read it.  Certainly during an impeachment trial, the entire transcript will be introduced as evidence.  The president of Ukraine is the one who brought up corruption and said, like Trump, he was going to drain the swamp. Trump did ask him to investigate Biden, but his reason for this was Biden’s public admission that he got the Ukraine prosecutor fired.  Watch CNN try, but fail to ignore that. Trump also said that some of the inference in our 2016 election appeared to have come from Ukraine and he mentioned CrowdStrike.  CrowdStrike famously made a false report about Russia hacking Ukraine artillery.  To an objective reader, Trump wasn’t asking the Ukraine to interfere in our election, he was asking them to investigate whether or not it did that in 2016.  The MSM will spin like mad, but this is actually easy to understand for most people. That is going to be a huge problem for the liberal left.  This transcript actually does speak for itself and that will soon drown out the noise generated by the MSM. Trump’s opponents keep making the same mistake.  They are too obsessed by hatred to actually listen to him.

TDM