It is times like this that I start watching the networks and the New York Times and similar outlets, and I can tell you the official story of the Trump-haters or the deep-staters or whatever you want to call them. The Epstein files buried in the FBI have incriminating evidence (probably videos) of Trump sodomizing 12-year-old girls. That is why he can’t release the Epstein files, you see. It is also why he had Tulsi Gabbard come up with the criminal referral of Obama and cronies for hatching the Russia collusion yarn, complete with the whores pissing on Obama’s former bed in Moscow. The purpose of the Tulsi document-dump was to DISTRACT all of us from the Trump-sodomizing-12-year-olds story.
The real story is nothing like that. It’s a story of documents. That’s all Tulsi Gabbard ever did---release a pile of documents (some previously classified), that prove: 1) Putin didn’t really want Trump to win the 2016 election, 2) the Russians didn’t hack the election or affect the results in any significant way, 3) Putin probably wanted Hillary to win, 4) there was never any cooperation between Trump and Putin, and 5) Obama wanted to render Trump’s presidency a failure by spreading the idea that the 2016 election was somehow illegitimate.
It’s all in the documents. It doesn’t matter what people’s opinions about the documents are, it doesn’t matter what Marco Rubio thought, it doesn’t matter what Putin (that renowned truth-teller), said years later about who he wanted to win the election, and it doesn’t matter how outraged Obama claims to be by these “ridiculous” charges. The only thing that matters is what the documents say.
That is why it’s revealing that the networks and the NYT do not discuss the documents. Never. The real story has been almost completely ignored, but when it has been discussed at all, the commentary has centered on what the Obama camp says about it or what Brennan or Clapper say about it. Almost nothing has been broadcast or published about the documents.
I’ve read the documents. You should too. To those of us who have followed the Russia collusion story since 2016, it has always been an obvious fabrication, but one which was largely believed because the Democrats and their partners in the media pushed it every day for years. It turned the 2018 mid-term elections and made Trump virtually powerless for the last half of his first term as president. In 2019, even after Robert Mueller reported that there was no truth to the Russia collusion story, polls reported that half the country (including 78% of Democrats), believed the Trump election was bogus because of Russia’s secret meddling and Trump’s cooperation.
If you read the documents that have been released, you will see that what happened is exactly what Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe have described. In late 2016, following Trump’s win, the story of the Russians hacking Democratic computers was falling apart, as was the tale of Russian dirty tricks designed to elect Trump. Also, the Steele Dossier, which Hillary had paid for, was thoroughly discredited.
In early December, 2016, Obama convened the troops (Brennan, Clapper, Loretta Lynch, Susan Rice, and a dozen others). At this meeting, Obama directed that an Intelligence Community Assessment (an “ICA”) be prepared summarizing Russian activities involving the 2016 election. The result was the ICA dated January 7, 2017, which referenced all the notes and rumors and speculation and the Steele Dossier, that had already been discarded a month before. This is what would be used to undermine the incoming Trump administration.
All I’ve described thus far is the easy part. It’s all in the documents. What comes next, though, is the troubling part. What must be done, and what every other president would do is pursue the criminals behind this conspiracy and have them indicted and tried. My concern is that Trump will not allow justice to take its course, and that he will stop the prosecution of Clapper, Brennan, Comey and Obama for their crimes against the United States. If he does not allow these crimes to be pursued, I am concerned his MAGA supporters will desert him and his presidency will, effectively, be over.
Trump has the reputation and image of a raging bull, wreaking havoc with his enemies, devastating the opposition, and then dancing on their remains. He likes that image, but it’s not true. His entire history demonstrates that while he thrives on conflict, he hates finality. He is never happier than when he is in the middle of a lengthy pissing match, but the actual resolution of the battle, even if he prevails, brings him no pleasure. He likes the “deal” and making the deal, and then reworking the deal and adjusting the terms. He thinks he is good at that process, and he is, so that’s what he does.
Also, he apparently dislikes direct confrontation. That is why when he fires someone (other than on a TV show), it generally happens when they are in the middle of a 12-hour flight to Pakistan.
His final quirk is that he is something of an arriviste, a man insecure in his sense of self-worth because his wealth or social status has only recently been acquired. Trump wants to be liked by the important people and institutions in America. This desire of his never seems to fade even though it is obvious to the rest of us that many of those people and institutions will never like him. They hate him, in fact. Nevertheless, he will not crush them even when they should be crushed, and he has the power to do so.
The prime example is Hillary Clinton. In his first campaign, he led chants of “Lock her up!” at his rallies, and his supporters fully expected him to have her prosecuted. And with her destruction of subpoenaed evidence, her responsibility for the fraudulent Steele Dossier, her criminally negligent treatment of classified information, the bribes accepted by The Clinton Foundation when she was Secretary of State, and her almost-certain responsibility for the American deaths at Bengazi, there was no lack of serious criminality to be pursued.
But Trump wouldn’t do it. His supporters grumbled. It was a promise broken by Trump. It was a serious disappointment to the MAGA faithful that Trump wouldn’t follow through on his promise to provide accountability for the crimes that had been committed by Democrats against the American republic, and even against Trump himself.
And now there is a danger he’s making the same mistake again.
Trump’s sudden refusal to produce Epstein-related materials held by the FBI is the latest example. There are men Trump considers “important” (e.g., Clinton, Gates, Dershowitz, and many others) who would be embarrassed by publication of details about how many times they flew on Epstein’s airplane or went to Pedophile Island, and Trump does not wish to be the cause of any such unpleasantness for men as significant as himself. A ridiculous attitude, I grant you, but he views himself as being a member of a sort-of imaginary country club that includes all the “big men” in the world who make a difference and change history, etc. It’s why he won’t let the ayatollah be killed. It’s why he treats Putin like a rational world leader rather than like the psycho he is.
For Trump-haters, of course, the only possible explanation for Trump’s decision to shut down the release of Epstein materials is that he is protecting himself, but there is virtually zero chance that is his motive. If there were any photos of Trump with young girls or other materials that would actually incriminate him in some way, they would certainly have been leaked years ago. The Democrats have always been willing to tell the most outrageous lies about Trump, so why wouldn’t they have published something truthful, especially in the last four years, that would have destroyed his path to the presidency?
I fear he will feel the same way about the criminal referrals to the DOJ about the Russia hoax, even though he personally was the primary victim of the criminal conspiracy launched in the December 2016 meeting and the ICA of January 7, 2017. He has already spared Hillary once. He likes the Clintons. He thinks Obama is his friend. Possibly the warmth of his feelings do not extend to Comey and Clapper and Brennan, who were underlings, but Trump gets nothing out of putting snakes like them in prison. Prison is final. A criminal conviction is final. And Trump doesn’t like final. He wants them out there, writing op-eds in the New York Times so Trump can trash them in a press conference the next day. It’s all the art of the deal, you see. He just wants the war over the Russia collusion hoax to continue, indefinitely. It’s like the tariffs. There will always be another 5% tax on German steel about to be imposed, but then he will delay the effective date for a week so we can discuss it further. And then he will threaten 10%. It’s how he thinks.
His attitude about the criminal prosecutions involving Russia collusion and the Epstein files endanger his administration. He does not see how important criminal accountability is to his MAGA supporters.
There are many reasons the first Trump administration petered out and became ineffective in 2018, but two of them involved Trump’s failure to carry through on promises he had made. One was his promise to build a border wall, which he actually attempted, then faced enormous (but predictable) pushback, and then abandoned. The second was his repeated vow to have Hillary prosecuted for the crimes she had committed during the Obama administration. Trump decided on his own to drop that initiative.
For a reformer and a game-changer like Trump, success only comes by fulfilling your promises or at least pursuing them relentlessly. For most standard-brand politicians like Obama and the Bushes and Bill Clinton, promises don’t matter that much. But if you say “I’m different! I will actually do X and Y and Z,” and people who never voted before come out of the hills and hollows to elect you, you have to do what you promised or they go back into the hills and hollows and you never see them again.
Trump has been given a second chance, and his first six months in office have been a startling political success story, but the people who put Trump in office believe that bad guys in suits should go to jail. Trump does not agree, but he will have to bend on this point or his presidency may crumble.
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