It's true that many previously unthinkable things have happened since Donald Trump became president. I say “became” as opposed to “was elected,” since Donald Trump wasn’t in truth elected. Hillary Clinton is the one who was in truth elected according to the voice of the people, as it was she who won the election by 3 million votes. But due to an odd construct of our Constitution, the reason for which no one seems quite sure (ask any number of people and you’ll be given any number of reasons why the President of the United States is chosen by the Electoral College and not by the most votes received), Donald Trump, who did not by a long shot not receive the popular vote, is President while Hillary Clinton, who did, is not. And so the once-unthinkable outcome of someone like Donald Trump becoming President of this country has spawned numerous other unthinkable outcomes, some of the worst of them in recent weeks. Among them: America’s cruel and wanton abandonment of our allies the Syrian Kurds whose militia fought for five years with American troops against ISIS ; Attempts by Trump and his corrupt consiglieres to strong-arm the new Ukrainian President into manufacturing dirt on Trump’s political rival; The physical storming of the chambers of the House of Representatives by a dozen Trump loyalist Republican Senators in an effort to disrupt the House investigation into potentially impeachable offenses committed by Donald Trump. But, inured as many of us may have become to the unthinkable after two years of a Donald Trump Presidency, the headline that broke in yesterday’s news should have grabbed the attention of every American and shocked us into the danger that our country is in at this moment.
…has ordered the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation of itself; specifically, of those of its members who worked on the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, also known as the Mueller Probe, after Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. So now Robert Mueller, who led the investigation that secured the convictions or guilty pleas of half a dozen Trump associates, is now himself under criminal investigation by William Barr's specially appointed prosecutor, John Durham.
...former CIA Director James Brennan
...and anyone else who played role, or who Donald Trump perceives as having played a role, in the Russia investigation that uncovered the extent to which Russia worked to tilt our 2016 Presidential election in Trump's favor. However, although the Justice Department has begun it's criminal investigation of the Mueller Probe investigators, there's been no announcement of exactly what crime has been committed. Or even what crime is under suspicion of having been committed. Apparently Barr's investigators have so far been looking into whether the Russia investigators were guilty of political bias against Donald Trump. Which is not a crime. They are also looking into whether the CIA might have somehow tricked the FBI into opening the Russia investigation in the first place. Which is absurd. And William Barr himself went to Italy to try and run down a conspiracy theory flying around that the Italian government was somehow improperly involved in assisting the FBI with the Russia investigation. Which is ridiculous. The only thing that is clear about this darkly conceived criminal investigation of the Mueller probe investigators is that Donald Trump is using the American justice system as his personal weapon to use against those he considers his enemies. And that is beyond unthinkable. It is terrifying. References
https://www.apnews.com/156aa3e8bcdf41f28594b4cd723086e8 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/politics/john-durham-criminal-investigation.html
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Terry Magyar
10/26/2019 10:52:04 pm
Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller used a biased team of investigators, who spent two years and millions of dollars and found no connection between President Trump and any Russian. (that's a FACT) How or why did Clapper and Brennen fail to prevent or stop this Russian interference ? It happened on their watch ! What did the Russians do, besides having fake Facebook pages ?
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