THE WAY I SEE IT by Don Polson Red Bluff Daily News 4/09/2019
Two
years of collusion delusion
Today
is about the last day you can reserve a seat at the 2019 Red, White and Blue Republican
Dinner honoring the Second Amendment, this Saturday, April 13, at the Veterans
Memorial Hall, 735 Oak Street. The caterer, The Snack Box, needs a meal count
to prepare. The meet and greet starts at 5:30 PM, dinner at 6:30. Call 865-2666
or 200-0091. Hope to see you there.
I’ll
share nearly 2-year old quotes, now proven accurate, on the Trump/Russia
collusion hoax, from “California Democrats offend propriety,” May 23, 2017.
First, a brief fact check and correction: “All of the Trump National Security
heads say Russia meddled in that election to benefit Donald Trump” is a partial
truth. “All” was actually FBI’s Comey, DNI’s Clapper and CIA’s Brennan, all
anti-Trump partisans, all Hillary Clinton supporters, all part of the cabal
that we now know were misusing and manipulating their positions and assets to
undo the 2016 election of Donald Trump.
Russia’s
so-called “meddling” amounted to utterly ineffectual social media postings that
didn’t change any votes in Trump’s favor. Pre- and post-election protests promoted
on the Internet were alternately pro- and anti-Trump. Not one iota of proof has
surfaced that “Russians” thought Trump would beat Clinton any more than
American polling experts. Hence, Russian meddling could be seen as tarnishing
Hillary, not helping Trump win.
Yes,
Putin’s goals have been advanced but not by the Trump side. Look up: “Putin Got
What He Wanted,” by Jerry Bowyer at Townhall Review. “No, I’m not talking about
installing a Russian puppet in the White House. I’m talking about Putin’s
actual goal: undermining faith in American democracy…Russia was seeking to delegitimize
the expected Clinton victory. Facebook ads targeting Hillary Clinton in broken
English didn’t undermine anything without the help of Putin’s unwitting partner:
the mainstream media.
“For
over two years, guest after guest speculated about Russian agents ‘hacking our
election.’ Partisan pundits blamed Russian interference for the results of
every single race that turned out poorly for Democrats. Putin got what he
wanted, not from Mr. Trump but from his irresponsible critics.” I would ask of
local Trump-haters, “Can’t we all accept the facts showing no Trump/Russia
collusion?” Please move on.
And
yet, “NY Times, Washington Post are still disgracefully enabling ‘Collusion
Delusion,’” by the NY Post, shows the deep level of commitment to a
now-disproven conspiracy theory among the “thought leaders” on the left. Call
it “pandering to folks who can’t let go of the Collusion Delusion” by “suggesting
that Attorney General William Barr spun special counsel Robert Mueller’s report
to make President Trump look good.” Cling to your rapidly fading hopes and
theories, Democrats, and prepare for Trump’s 2020 win.
Do—with
Rachel Maddow, Brennan, Clapper et al—what I did with non-credible sources like
Alex Jones or the late UFO-logist Art Bell: quit listening and watching. There’s
a reason that Rasmussen Reports finds more voters (47 percent) believe “Clinton’s
2016 campaign is more likely than President Trump’s (45 percent) to have
illegally colluded with foreign operatives.” Hillary’s campaign, the DNC,
Fusion GPS, British spy Christopher Steele and actual Russian sources made the
bogus “Dossier.” The 45 percent are die-hard Dems unable to let go of their anti-Trump
obsessions.
For
help deprogramming, read “How Rachel Maddow Turned Into Infowars; She’s still
spinning Russiagate conspiracy tales, even as her ratings come crashing down,”
by Peter Van Buren. “Why isn’t Rachel Maddow Treated Like Other Crazy
Conspiracy Theorists?” by Mike LaChance, also compares her “pernicious and
false” nightly diatribes to the “deplatforming” of Alex Jones for his unhinged
rants.
On
the other hand, Mollie Hemingway explains how she initially gave credence to
the rumors and reports of Trump/Russia election meddling collusion; she began
doubting the narrative as various supporting elements fell apart into
uncorroborated, refutable falsehoods. Look up: “Here’s Why I Didn’t Fall For
The Russia-Trump Conspiracy,” subtitled “Media outlets regurgitated leaks from
politicized intelligence officials. They should have been far more skeptical.”
Finally:
“Anti-Trump press has less credibility than Jussie Smollett right now,” by Rex
Murphy. “In their coverage of the so-called Russian collusion case, they abandoned
principle, journalistic ethics, and in some cases, rationality.” It’s time for
Trump’s critics to admit Russia collusion never happened.
A
major unsung, unacclaimed hero is California’s Rep. Devin Nunes, who is now
referring numerous names to the FBI for prosecution, based on his investigation
of the duplicitous genesis of spying on Trump’s campaign, FISA warrants, “wiretapping,”
etc. He was spot on in his statements. Remember, Rep. Adam Schiff has been so
false in his assertions of “evidence” that he should resign his committee chair,
if not his seat in Congress. 22 FBI/DOJ people have been fired, demoted, transferred,
resigned or retired over their roles in the scandal. That’s a good start.
In
my May 23, 2017 column, I wrote that Democrats Feinstein, Clapper, Brennan,
Schiff, Lewis and Comey (under oath) all denied seeing any “evidence” of
Trump/Russia collusion. While Comey’s firing (a presidential right) provoked
outrage among the Democrat lawyers on Mueller’s staff, Comey denied under oath
that Trump tried to “halt the FBI investigation.”
“It
is (as of May 2017) politically bizarre that Democrats cling to ephemeral hopes
that they can impeach President Trump based on some shred of proof of perfidy…Will
Democrats accept the eventual finding by Robert Mueller that neither Trump, nor
his campaign, colluded criminally with the Russians?” Trick question. “Collusion”
isn’t a crime—only “conspiracy to commit a crime.” There is no crime so far.
“Are
any Democratic lawmakers starting to fear that they’re not going to find that evidence?
Suppose an underling has committed a crime not involving collusion, or Trump.
Will Democrats accept that?” Two years later, here we are. “Dear Citizen
Collusion Truther—You Own This, Too,” by Julie Kelly, makes the point that even
those in the trenches of citizen activism share blame for the hoax we’ve endured.
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