In what can only be described as a modern-day witch hunt, the Establishment’s point man against Trump – ex-FBI Director, now-special-prosecutor George Mueller – scored a conviction against a low level campaign official for lying to the FBI regarding his conversations with Russians who weren’t even government officials. And what exactly did he discuss? He was pursuing “dirt related to emails” concerning Hillary Clinton:

In court records unsealed on Monday, the FBI said George Papadopoulos “falsely described his interactions with a certain foreign contact who discussed ‘dirt’ related to emails” concerning Hillary Clinton. Records also describe an email between Trump campaign officials suggesting they were considering acting on Russian invitations to go to Russia.

How terrible. But unlike Hillary’s Russian Trump dossier, Papdopoulos apparently didn’t get what he was looking for. But he did lie to a federal agency, one with a sterling reputation for honesty and integrity itself. I mean, why would anyone ever think of lying to the FBI, given its transparency in the JFK, TWA 800, Ruby Ridge, LaVoy Finicum, Las Vegas and other investigations?

And then there’s the indictments of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and staffer Rick Gates. They allegedly committed a combined total of 12 federal felonies including

conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.

Of course, none of the alleged crimes occurred during the Trump campaign. Some believe this is all payback for their involvement in Trump’s successful presidential run. Others are asking why heads haven’t rolled with respect to real damage to U.S. national security, such as the Democrat-riddled Uranium One deal or Clinton’s missile technology transfers to China.

Of course, that would make sense to patriotic Americans. Regrettably, patriots apparently are no longer in charge of this great nation.