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Trump Derangement Syndrome Persists

by Tom McLaughlin

The dud that will blow up Washington

by Andrew C. McCarthy

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s final report is said to be close to completion and ready for submission to the Justice Department... There is even conjecture that it is already finished, but dirty cop-Mueller decided, or was perhaps persuaded by newly confirmed Attorney General William Barr, to delay submission until President Trump returns from the Southeast Asia talks with North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un. In a perfect world, the final report would be a nonevent. Alas, that is not our world, so dirty cop-Mueller’s conclusion will be only the beginning of a free-for-all, featuring Washington hypocrisy at its worst. The special counsel has conducted a legal probe, but the Trump-Russia narrative has always been political, more about ramifications for 2020 than accountability for 2016. In that imaginary, perfect world, the dirty cop-Mueller report would be a nonevent for three reasons. First and foremost, the report should not tell us much that we do not already know. Of course, there are fascinating facts to be learned. What was the precise nature of “collusion” between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign? What exactly happened at the Trump Tower meeting between top campaign officials and a lawyer connected to the Putin regime — the meeting at which Donald Trump Jr. expected to receive information that might devastate scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, but that we’ve been led to believe was a dud? Did the president obstruct the Russia investigation by firing FBI Director scumbag-James Comey? Did he obstruct justice by earlier leaning on scumbag-Comey to drop the investigation of retired Gen. Michael Flynn, the national security adviser Trump had just fired for allegedly misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.? All interesting questions. But they’re not supposed to be answered publicly unless charges are filed. The media-Democrat complex has been extremely supportive of dirty cop-Mueller in hopes that he would transcend what, in the end, is his modest role: that of prosecutor. Democrats prefer to see him as counsel to a congressional impeachment committee, on the hunt for high crimes and misdemeanors, unconstrained by the federal penal code. Or even better, as an investigative journalist in the Bob Woodward mold, preparing a mini-bio on the thousand reasons Trump is unfit for the duties of his high office. Or at the very least, be a special prosecutor modeled on Democrats’ scumbag/liar-Clinton-era bete noire, independent counsel Kenneth Starr. To be sure, Democrats and their punditocracy had no use for Starr back in the day, vilifying his every move, ridiculing his inflation of “lies about sex” into a “constitutional crisis.” But that was then. For present purposes, Starr is an exemplary historical figure because he produced a mammoth narrative that served as the road map to impeachment. What they loathed at the time, they will demand now...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-dud-that-will-blow-up-washington?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_03/05/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief

Explosive New Documents Reveal

Andrew Weissmann’s Misconduct In Enron Case

by Margot Cleveland
{thefederalist.com} ~ Nearly four months ago, Houston-based attorney Kevin Fulton filed, on my behalf, a motion to unseal records in a case headed by Andrew Weissmann... who is now a member of Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s team. Late Thursday, a federal district court judge in Texas granted with one exception, the motion to unseal, making some of those documents publicly available for the first time. The sealed records involved the Enron case Weissmann oversaw prior to his abrupt departure from the Enron Task Force in the middle of jury deliberations. Given Weissmann’s current role as dirty cop-Mueller’s “pit bull,” revisiting the allegations of misconduct leveled against the prosecutor—with the benefit of the entire unsealed record—promotes transparency and the public’s interest in trusting the integrity of the special counsel’s team. The now unsealed records expose efforts by Weissmann, and the Enron Task Force he led, to intimidate witnesses and to interfere in the attorney-client relationship of a cooperating witness. Several affidavits unsealed last week catalogued veiled threats made to witnesses the Enron defendants sought to interview. However, because many of the attorneys would speak only off the record to Enron’s attorneys, the courts refused to consider the affidavits sufficient to prove prosecutorial misconduct. Two attorneys, however, were willing to testify. In a just-unsealed affidavit, one lawyer stated that an FBI agent working for the Enron Task Force overseen by Weissmann warned his client against talking to the Enron defense team because “those are bad guys.” The second attorney stated that an FBI agent had made veiled threats against his client in a separate Enron trial... Why does it take so long to expose the corruptions of this lawyer, Weissmann? http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/05/explosive-new-documents-reveal-andrew-weissmanns-misconduct-enron-case/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=ca4a74c5f3-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-ca4a74c5f3-83771801

First photos from Israeli spacecraft

by israelnationalnews.com: At a distance of 37,600 k”m from Earth, Beresheet’s selfie camera took a picture of Earth. Australia can be clearly seen in the picture... The photo was taken during a slow spin of the spacecraft. In it, one can see for the first time the plaque installed on the spacecraft with the Israeli flag and the inscriptions "Am Israel Hai" the nation of Israel lives - ed. and "Small country Big dreams." Science Minister Ofir Akunis commented, "Despite the small size of the Beresheet spacecraft, it brings us great pride." "The spacecraft is a testament to Israel's strength and technological power, and its successes also convey an important educational message for the children of Israel: You may and must dream big. "I am proud of my office's decision to be a partner in the spacecraft project, a project whose fruits we are beginning to witness." http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/259930

Democrats Need To Bounce Rep. Ilhan Omar

Off The Foreign Affairs Committee, Stat

by Melissa Langsam
{thefederalist.com} ~ Democrats wanted to shake things up in Washington, and they have. This new Congress has raised all sorts of questions I never knew I needed to be answered... such as: How many blatantly anti-Semitic comments can a Democratic rising star make before members of her own party criticize her? And how many such statements can she make before Democrats take any action? Minnesota’s Rep. Ilhan Omar has helped answer that first question. Apparently, a member of Congress must find herself at the center of not one, but two anti-Semitic tweet controversies in the course of three weeks. It wasn’t Omar’s 2012 tweet charging that Israel had hypnotized the world, but her alleging that members of Congress support a strong U.S.-Israel relationship because they’ve been bribed that summoned a strong response. The House Democratic leadership issued a statement denouncing the relevant tweets the following day. Notably, however, there was no mention of Omar resigning her seat on the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) in that text. Nor did any Democrat on HFAC choose to respond on the record after those incidents, when I sought comment. Top Jewish groups just this morning demanded that Omar be removed from the committee. When CNN’s Manu Raju queried House Speaker Nancy Pulosi, she responded, “A newcomer member of Congress has apologized for her remarks. It took them what, 13 years to notice Steve King?” Now, Republicans could have moved faster in removing King from his committee positions, but they did finally act... Then how fast will they remove Omar?

http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/04/democrats-need-bounce-rep-ilhan-omar-off-foreign-affairs-committee-stat/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=ca4a74c5f3-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-ca4a74c5f3-83771801

A Project to Transform France

by Guy Millière

{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ After sixteen Saturday demonstrations by the "yellow vests," who began in November by protesting French President Emmanuel Macron's increase in fuel prices, the controversy seems to have taken a darker turn... That seems to have come to light on February 13, when a small group of demonstrators started hurling insults at a French Jewish philosopher, Alain Finkielkraut -- who was born in and lives in Paris -- after they spotted him on a sidewalk. One man, shouted, "Shut up, dirty Zionist sh*t," "Go home to Tel Aviv," "France is ours," "God will punish you." A cameraman filmed the incident, then shared the video on social networks. A scandal ensued. The "yellow vests" movement as a whole was immediately accused by the French government of anti-Semitism and "fascism". Finkielkraut claimed that he had not been attacked as a Jew, but as a supporter of the State of Israel. He then added that the man who had insulted him did not speak like a "yellow vest" and that the words "God will punish you" is an expression from "Islamic rhetoric". Police who watched the video identified the man as a radicalized Muslim, and the next day arrested him. In the days leading up to that incident, several anti-Semitic acts had taken place in and near Paris. The German word "juden" [Jews] was painted on the front of a Jewish bakery; swastikas were drawn with a black marker on portraits of former Jewish minister Simone Veil; trees that had been planted in memory of Ilan Halimi, a young Jew who had been kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 2006, were destroyed. Investigations have begun but nothing so far has shown any relationship between the "yellow vests" movement and any of these anti-Semitic acts. The French government nevertheless continues accusing the "yellow vests" of being at least partly to blame...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13826/france-project-transform

VIDEO: http://newsvideo.su/video/10291752

Trump Derangement Syndrome Persists

by Tom McLaughlin

{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Platform or personality? When deciding for whom to vote, how much weight does each carry in voters’ minds? Is it more important to agree with candidates than to like them? What if you like them but you don’t concur on the issues? As I’ve listened to people in the four years since Donald Trump first announced his candidacy for president it has become evident among his detractors that hatred for him as a man far outweighs whatever his performance has been as president. Trump’s supporters, however, care more about what he does than about what he says or tweets.

Trump supporters cringed when he said he got the most electoral votes since Ronald Reagan because a quick search reveals that he didn’t. His egotism is so enormous that the presidency with its all its ego-stroking perks cannot satisfy it, but his favorability ratings climb nonetheless. Trump’s base is satisfied because he’s doing what he said he would do, like appointing conservative judges to the courts, cracking down on illegal immigration, and reining in China’s illegal trade practices.

That drives the left and the media — which Trump supporters see as conjoined twins — absolutely bonkers because they not only hate Trump, they also disagree with him on the issues. Rather than criticize his policy positions though, they fire ad hominem salvos — continuously. Trump is racist, sexist, xenophobic, they insist, and so are those who voted for him. Leftist politicians and media have done little else throughout Trump’s presidency, but the effect has been the opposite of what they intend. Rather than drive them apart, relentless criticism of both the president and his base drives them closer together.

Some Trump supporters wish he would consult with staff before talking or tweeting. If he didn’t trip over his own tongue so much he could have implemented more of his agenda by now, they believe, and who could argue? Others say they held their nose voting for him in 2016 but have since grown to like him in spite of the dumb things he says. As Senator and former opponent, Lindsay Graham said last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC): “We have a lot in common; I like him and he likes him.”

The dirty cop-Mueller report is due any time now but many are beginning to realize that it will have no evidence of Trump collusion with Russia in the 2016 election. However, Democrats won a majority in the US House last November and with that comes control of key committees, so Democrat chairmen are using subpoena power to scrutinize Trump on many fronts. Will they find anything with which to impeach the president?

It’s hard to believe they will considering that media coverage of Trump has been more than 90% negative and they’ve been looking everywhere for negative things to report. The two-year dirty cop-Mueller investigation has probed so many areas far afield from its original charge of investigating Russian collusion that we have to wonder what’s left to investigate. It seems clear now that removing Trump from office is the goal for Democrats and if there’s no Russian collusion, they’ll look for something else.

Meanwhile, Democrats who want to run against him are voluminous and more announce almost every day. They’re promising the moon: free tuition, free medical care, government jobs for everyone, money for those unwilling to work, reparations for descendants of slaves and Indians, and rebuilding every single structure in the whole country. When asked how to pay for all that, they say they’ll tax the rich and print money.

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Meanwhile, the national debt has reached $22 trillion, eclipsing annual GDP — Gross Domestic Product — the sum total of all economic activity in the country. Some of us remember that twenty years ago President scumbag/liar-Clinton and a Republican Congress worked together to balance the federal budget and even talked about spending the surplus to actually pay down the national debt rather than keep adding to it every year.

Trump’s tax cuts have stimulated the economy and government revenues are rising, but government is expanding even faster and so is the annual deficit. It’s growing at about $1 trillion a year again. This used to used to be a big issue for Republicans though doesn’t seem to be anymore ever since Trump took office. Americans paid $523 billion interest on the debt in 2018 and that will keep rising. How long can this go on?

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All of us know how much we make and how much we spend — what happens when we spend more than we make. There’s a limit to how much debt we can sustain before it seriously cramps our lifestyle. We don’t need degrees in political science or economics to understand the same is true for our country no matter what part of the political spectrum we occupy.

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2019/03/trump-derangement-syndrome-persists.html

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Rudy Tirre March 6, 2019 at 8:37am

Bonnie

Boy you did cover and expose it all, great job.
Bonnie Somer March 6, 2019 at 8:29am

AS TO MUELLER; HE IS DISGRACEFUL. HE , COMEY, ROSENSTEIN WEISSMAN ALL FRIENDS OF THE CLINTONS. HE KNEW OF THE URANIUM ONE SCANDAL, HE AND COMEY WERE INVOLVED IN THE HSBC BANK SCAM; HE KNEW ROSENSTEIN AND HAS KEPT THE CAREER OF WEISSMAN ALIVE AND WELL SINCE ENRON. SIDNEY POWELL WAS ON LIFE LIBERTY & LEVIN AND CAME UP AGAINST WEISSMAN SHE SAID "HE CAN MAKE GIVING YOUR MOTHER A GIFT ON CHRISTMAS A CRIME", SHE KNOWS HIM. HE IS DIRTY. HE DESTROYED THE FIRM OF ARTHUR ANDERSON AND IS A DISPICABLE MAN.

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