I cannot believe I am hearing so many
pundits say that people are confused about Russia's interference in our elections and about the investigation being
conducted by Robert Mueller, who was lauded by members of both
political parties for his integrity and competence when he was first
appointed as special counsel. So has Mr. Mueller, a life long
Republican, somehow changed and turned into a raging, partisan Democrat or is he just coming very close to
finding out facts Donald Trump does not want us to know? It should not
take a genius to come up with the correct answer to that question!
Here you have a conflict between a
proven lier, Donald J. Trump, who by last count has told
2,000 lies during the last twelve months, and reputable news outlets that
have a reputation for trying to get the facts right. Trump the lier
refers to those news outlets as “fake news.” Making matters
worse is the effort of Trump and his party to besmirch Mr. Mueller as
well as the FBI and the Justice Department, both of which are lead by people Trump appointed. Those departments have
a tradition of serving this country without regard to which party is
in power. They see it as their duty to serve the nation rather than
the President regardless of the fact that the people heading those
departments are appointed by the President with the advice and
consent of the Senate. None of that matters to Trump; objectivity
and the security of the country be damned, those people in the FBI
and Justice Department are there at
Trump's pleasure and they damn well better serve him! As former FBI director James
Comey testified, Donald Trump asked for Comey's personal loyalty to
Trump. Now we have evidence that Trump has
asked Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein (who oversees Special
Counsel Mueller) to pledge his loyalty to Trump, and Trump has
complained many times about Attorney General Sessions being disloyal
enough to recuse himself from any investigation of Russia's
interference in our elections.
And how has the Republican Party
reacted to this? Well, Devin Nunez has already disgraced himself
with his infamous
midnight run to the white house to deliver intelligence reports showing that President
Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign
surveillance by American spy agencies. Mr. Numes later had to recuse
himself from the Russia investigation conducted by the House
Intelligence Committee, which Nunes chairs, because this ruse
perpetrated by Nunes was exposed by a responsible press. It turns
out that a pair of
White House officials helped provide Representative Devin Nunez with the very documents Mr.
Nunes claims he “rushed to warn the white house” about. Now we
know Mr. Nunes recusal from the Russia investigation is also an
obvious sham. We know this because Diaper Devin is making another
despicable effort to discredit the FBI and cover Trump's filthy ass.
He is aided and abetted in doing this by House Speaker, Paul Ryan,
who helped Nunes obtain classified documents over the objections of
the FBI, and now supports the release of a spurious and dangerous
report in which Mr. Nunes attacks the FBI investigation of Carter
Page's interactions with Russian spies. This report or memo
allegedly shows that the FBI has a bias against Trump even though the
investigation that eventually resulted in the FISA warrant started
well before Page went to work for the Trump campaign. The FBI and
Justice Department object to making Mr. Nunes' dishonest and
incomplete hack job public because the hack job reveals classified
information that could tip the Russians off as to our
counter intelligence efforts.
But the security concerns of the FBI and Justice Department do not
concern lyin' Paul Ryan, Donald Trump, and/or the Republican Party.
The only thing that concerns Republicans today is keeping their
nihilistic base supporters happy and staying in power.
What we are seeing from Trump and the
Republican Party is a disparagement of the FBI, the Justice
department, and all the dedicated public servants who work to keep
this country safe from threats foreign and domestic. To put it
quite simply, Trump and his party, the Republican Party, are willing
to compromise the security of this country and forsake its highly
prized political traditions in order to further their partisan
political ends! This is despicable. It is how fascists, communists,
and would be tyrants act.
Anyone who accepts the word of proven
liars, such as Trump and his defenders, over the word of dedicated
public servants and honest news people are fools! The willful
ignorance of the people who say they do not know who to believe is
downright stupid. Why do you think the Republicans oppose the
release of a Report by Adam Schiff that shows the deceptions
perpetrated by Devin Nunes? Is the Nunes Report a prelude to Trump
replacing Rod Rosenstein with someone who will place unreasonable
restraints on Mr. Mueller's investigation! Are we looking at another
Saturday night massecre? Why do we no longer hear Republicans supporting a bill to protect
Mueller and/or the investigation? Why are we not hearing any Republicans
warning Trump not to fire Mueller?
The only thing that stands between us
and tyranny is an informed electorate. The investigation of Trump
and Russia must continue until the facts are uncovered and revealed.
If we let Trump and the Republicans kill the investigations and
destroy the very agencies and departments that protect us our
democracy will die from terminal stupidity!
