Putin got his wish
The contention that Donald J. Trump and his campaign attempted to undermine our election process – and our political institutions – by colluding with Russians and Vladimir Putin has been totally debunked. The Mueller Report to Attorney General William Barr stated emphatically no member of the Trump campaign, in fact, no American took part in any such operation.
What the Russians and Putin wanted to do was sow distrust and contempt for our institutions. While they were unsuccessful in that regard, it would seem the Hillary Clinton Campaign and upper-echelon of the FBI and Department of Justice did it for them. There is no doubt the two-year investigation into the allegations of “collusion” have damaged our institutions, polarized even further our citizenry, and torn at the fabric of the nation.
We can say without question that the allegations of collusion comprise a hoax of monumental proportion that originated for two reasons: to secure a Clinton presidency, and when that didn’t happen destabilize the Trump presidency. Clinton was supposed to win in a walk-away, our “betters” in the political establishment and in those aforementioned halls of power demanded it. It didn’t happen. The American people had other ideas.
What followed was a series of events that culminated in the empaneling of a special counsel in the person of Robert Mueller III to investigate the collusion. But we now know the investigation was to protect those people in the FBI and DOJ that attempted at coup, an operation solely desirous of toppling the Trump presidency. It failed in that. Many of those individuals have been exposed, and their plans put out in public.
Given that Mueller could not find collusion, he did the next best thing. Armed with a cadre of Democratic operative lawyers – 18 of 19 were Democratic donors or former Clinton staffers – the investigation quickly found there was no collusion, and moved to obstruction of justice.
The report last week gave 10 instances of events where the President talked of or asked staffers to shut down the investigation or he himself characterized it as a “witch hunt.” Given the President could Constitutionally shut down the investigation, and was an innocent man accused of an unjust allegation, one questions the basis for the obstruction narrative in Volume II of the Mueller Report. Is an accused man obstructing justice when he says he didn’t do something?
No, this was a final attempt by a partisan group to pin something on a president and an administration that they loathed. This was the making our system of justice a political weapon.
What remains is now investigating the investigators and those up the chain of command who knew of this. We would not be surprised to find out that former members of the cabinet of Barack Obama were involved, nor if Obama himself directed or tacitly approved the operation. He politicized the Justice Dept. during his eight years, and was enough of a control freak to know what was going on each and every step of the way.
In the final analysis, it was not Obama’s buddy Putin who sowed distrust in our institutions, but operatives from the administration and some members of Congress. Democrats now are in the process of determining whether impeachment should occur in the House of Representatives. A move toward impeachment on such a flimsy narrative would complete the work that Putin failed in completing. If the Democratic Party wants to further erode – and possibly completely destroy – the trust in our Constitutional Republic, they should continue on this course.
In the process of destroying the nation, they will attain their power to dictate to us how to live our lives. When one sees what has been going on over the last two years, it was power, not collusion, that was at stake.
Vladimir will thank them.