Theo the Trump Employee Episode 2 The Attorney General Lets it Rip

                Annette used to work for the department of Justice.  Now she is working at the White House as she was fired by the DOJ for asking too many questions about the Russia probe into Donald Trump.  Even though she’s a lifelong Democrat, she is beginning to feel the push to the right.  She describes it that the Democrats darted so far to the left that she was blown right.  Annette was smart and rose through the ranks in every place she worked and in school before that.  The White House was no different but now she was being called into a senior member’s office.  This is exactly when she got in trouble with the DOJ.  She thought about if she had any conversations that may get her in trouble but couldn’t really think of any.  She was opinionated and not shy about voicing her opinion but there hadn’t been any heated discussions lately.  She went into the office a little shyly but also ready to pounce if she was disrespected.  The superior told her to close the door. Annette did so knowing that that was a bad sign.  He said, “Annette, you were terminated from the DOJ before working here correct?”

                “Yes, I was”

                “What for?”

                Annette became uncomfortable and squirmed.  “Well, I was confused about how Crossfire Hurricane opened and when I tried to get clarification, I think people thought I was making accusations rather than just asking questions.”

                “Yea, well when people are lying they don’t like being asked many questions.” Annette just nodded.  The guy continued, “Well, now that the Mueller probe is over, the DOJ is engaging in investigations into how the investigation was open, FISA abuses and Stefan Halper’s role.”

                There was a brief silence as the man wanted to see if Annette responded.  Her eye widened and her posture was much more focused but she said nothing.  The man continued, “You’re doing really well here.  We like you but with new Attorney General Bill Barr investigating the FBI conduct personally, I was wondering if you wanted to join his team to investigate what you were terminated for.”

                Annette’s jaw dropped and she squirmed a little more not sure how to respond.  She said, “I don’t want to sound ungrateful that you guys picked me up when I was disgraced and, what I feel to be, unfairly terminated but I did have more of an interest in the legal aspect and the Department of Justice so if it’s okay with the AG, I would accept that position.”

                “I wouldn’t have made the offer if I hadn’t already talked to the AG.  The job is yours, you just have to say yes.”

                “Yes”

                “Alright done, you get your chance for revenge.” The aide said with a smile

                “Isn’t that a conflict of interest?”

                “Every single member of the Mueller probe had a bigger conflict of interest.  You’re not the only one out for revenge but I can assure you that the AG is not.  If you overstep, the AG will reign you in.  He is tough but he’s fair.  This is not a witch hunt.  You don’t have free range.  Speak up if you need to and voice your opinion loud but not all your ideas are going to be taken and if you make your bias obvious and do shady things, you will be reprimanded.  We are doing this by the book.”

                “I understand.  In fact, I’d have it no other way.”

                “Perfect, you start next week. Finish up whatever you’re working on now, brief someone on it and then pass it off.”

                “Will do, thank you sir.”

                “Thank me by doing a good job and not making me regret recommending you.”

                “Will do.”

                When Annette came out, she looked up at the TV and saw Bernie Sanders railing against millionaires.  Annette said to the TV, “You’re a millionaire”

                As if Bernie heard her, Sanders said, “I’m a millionaire because I wrote a best-selling book.  If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire too.”

                Annette shook her head and said, “First of all, a lot of Best-selling authors are not millionaires.  Second of all, so it’s okay to make money writing a book but not in the countless of other ways people have made millions?  Do people believe this shit?”

                A man looked up from his desk and said, “He’s the ultimate hypocrite.  I don’t know why people still support him.”

                Annette turned to him, “Yea me neither.”

                Annette transitioned all her work to her co-workers and briefed them on her progress for the rest of the week.  The following Monday she was back at the DOJ with Bill Barr.  Barr asked her in his calm even-keeled way, “So, what were you told?”

                “That you’re investigating how Crossfire Hurricane was open.”

                “Yes, do you have any questions?”

                “Is this like the inspector general Harrowitz investigation?  Are you looking at bias of prioritizing this over Clinton or….”

                “This is deeper than the IG report.  Unlike the IG, we can have subpoena power so we can dig deeper and I expect to.  There will be long hours.  Is that going to be a problem for you?”

                “No sir, I’m single with no kids at home.  I have no problem working late.”

                “Excellent. Please review these criminal recommendations from Congressman Nunes”

Annette was bringing the documents the AG just gave her down the hall to her cubicle.  When she did, a familiar face said, “Hey Annette”

She looked up and said “Oh hey Theo”

Annette had grown up with Theo.  They weren’t close but they went to the same church.  Although they didn’t really speak when they went to college, he in New York and she in DC, they reconnected right around the Spygate scandal.  He had helped start a minute men group at the Arizona border but he did make a stint in DC and actually got Annette the job at the White House.  She returned the favor by lobbying the White House for protection for his little group.  She said, “What are you doing here?  I thought you were in Arizona.”

“They don’t really need me now.  The wheels are in motion and it’s garnered enough momentum to be difficult to stop.  I just got a job here.”

“Doing what?”

“Working with IG Harrowitz.”

“Can you tell me what the investigation is about?”

“Halper’s contacts with the Trump campaign”

“I’m here to investigate how Crossfire Hurricane was opened.”

“Oh, what you were fired for.”

“Yea, a little ironic don’t you think” Annette said with a smile

“Actually that’s not ironic at all.  It’s just interesting. It’s just how things change.  One minute your actions are a termination-worthy event the other it’s what people want.  That’s what trendsetters do.”

“I guess it’s not ironic but, yea, interesting.”

“Maybe we can help each other.”

“I’m not sure there’s much overlap between mine and yours.”

“Really?  Halper contacted Carter Page July 11, 2016 for the first time.”

Annette dropped her head and her eyes widened in shock, “Ummm, yea there may be some overlap.”

“Dinner tonight?”

“Yes, the AG says I’ll have to put in long hours so I’ll call you when I’m out.”

“Deal”

They finished the day and Annette called him and Theo picked a restaurant and they went to dinner.  “Okay, so Halper contacted Page three weeks before an official investigation was opened.”

“And they remained in contact until September 2017”

“When the final FISA ended”

“Ahh, you didn’t just forget all the things you were looking at when you got fired.”

“No, I didn’t, but do you know what this means?”

“There either was another investigation open that we don’t know about before July 11, or they had a confidential informant in use without an open investigation.  Big problem; big no-no in procedure.”

“What about Papadopoulos?”

“Ah, our countrymen” (Both Annette and Theo were Greek)

“Yes, him”

“Halper was busy with the Trump campaign members.  He met with Sam Clovis and Papadopoulos in addition to Page.”

“I haven’t heard much about Clovis”

“He was a Senior Campaign official for Trump.  You don’t know him because he was never charged with anything related to Russian collusion or obstruction.”

                “Halper is so sketchy.  He tried to take down Mike Flynn too”

                “Yes he did.”

                “So is Halper is looking into Clovis and Page, what does any of that have to do with Papadopoulos?”

                “Nothing, the only thing they have in common is that they all work for Trump”

                “So, I’m right, Crossfire Hurricane has nothing to do with Papadopoulos”

                “Yea, but you already knew that.”

                “Yea, I did, I just don’t understand how it went from collusion to obstruction.  There’s so much exculpatory evidence with obstruction.  Especially since Trump told Comey to investigate his satellite officials and Comey lied to Trump that he was under investigation”

                “Collusion is more cut and dry and requires more evidence.  Obstruction is a judgment call.  The burden of proof is much less.  It’s like racism or sexism.  I mean the media argued the word “Binder” was a chauvinistic term when Romney ran.”

                “Yea, I remember that.  Because the only time you have binders of women is in a sperm donor clinic and they’re filled with porn.  What a joke?”

                “Did you think that at the time?”

                “No, I was hoodwinked by Obama”

                “Yea, a lot of people were.”

                “I just really hope the AG is ready for this.”

                “He is”

                “How do you know?”

                “When Mueller refused to make the call on obstruction, Barr didn’t hesitate to say no to obstruction knowing that the media was going to say that he was a Trump mole and was just supporting the man who hired him.  Mueller threw the media a bone and the AG doesn’t really care that the media took it.  He took responsibility.  One of the biggest problems with most people is they refuse to take responsibility.  In fact, some argue that you can make anyone do anything if you’re willing to take the responsibility for it.  Barr wasn’t afraid.  He testified for two hours on Capitol Hill and seemed bored even though he was being interrogated.  The dude is calm and collected and doesn’t fold under pressure.”

                “Yea, he basically gave the media what they were looking for when he said that Mueller declined to review the Barr report.”

                “Which just shows you the piece of shit that Mueller is.  I mean he spent 22 months investigating something.  Someone is writing a brief on it and he refuses to be a part of it?  Is he embarrassed because he didn’t do his job in finding something to impeach Trump about?  Why wouldn’t he be interested in someone describing and briefing his work?”

                “Yea, see, the Republicans aren’t innocent in this either.  Mueller is a Republican you know.”

                “The thing about the right is that we don’t collectivize.  It’s more of a fault than a vice but we are much more willing to criticize our own.  We don’t protect people just because they’re Republicans.  We hold people to a higher standard and you need to measure up.”

                Annette smiled, “Do you think I can handle it?”

                “Absolutely, you’re one of the smartest people I know.”

                Annette was expecting a sarcastic response and was surprised he didn’t get one.  This caused her to blush but she said, “Thank you”

                Theo said, “Your turn, anything juicy today?”

                “Well right off the bat, I got Nunes’ eight criminal referrals and they’re good but I can’t tell you them.”

                “What can you tell me?”

                “Well I looked into the court filings and found a case in which Comey is a witness in an investigation.”

                “Which one? The Trump probe?”

                “That’s the thing, it can’t be.  Comey wasn’t the investigator in that case, Strzok and Gaeda were.  You don’t get called as a witness for an investigation your subordinates investigated.  Remember his testimony on Capitol Hill where he basically denied knowing or remembering anything.”

                “Yea, how to not get convicted of perjury”

                “Right, so it has to be the obstruction probe because do you remember what started that”

                “Trump firing Comey”

                “Right, it turns out that Comey gave his memos to MeCabe right after he got fired.”

                “Which was before Mueller was appointed.  So MeCabe was right, if someone leaves, the people there pick up where he left off.  Comey gave MeCabe the memos so he could continue what Comey started.  No obstruction.”

                “There’s obviously no obstruction.  I mean Comey admitted under oath that the President has the power to fire him for any reason he deems fit.  The case, even with the low level of evidence needed is dead in the water.”

                Dinner ended and Annette said, “Don’t take this the wrong way but can you come home with me.  Last time I rattled the cage, people broke into my house”

                “Sure”

                Annette and Theo shared an Uber back to her place.  When they got there, Annette’s intuition was correct, there was a man on her porch.  Theo turned to Annette and said, “Do we know him?”

                “Yea, he’s MeCabe’s aide that I talked back to and led to my being fired.”

                Theo smiled and got out of the Uber but Annette stayed.  He walked up to the man and said, “So you’re trying to scare young women I see.”

                “Scare?  No, just friendly advice”

                “I got some for you too.”

                “This isn’t time to play tough guy”

                “Really?  You’re not with the DOJ anymore.  But, I’m sure you came across the name Theo Rozos.”

                “Minute Men” the former aide said knowingly and condescendingly. 

                “Yea, and we have backing from the President.”

                “Is that a threat?”

                “God no! just friendly advice.”

                The man smiled, “Well, I’ll be going.  Tell your little girlfriend that A) she’s too good for you and B) watch her back.”

                The guy walked to a car on the street and got in and drove off.  It was only then Annette got out.  She said, “Holy shit, good call on asking you to come.”

                “He wasn’t going to do anything.  He’s not stupid.  He’s just trying to scare you.”

                “Yea well, when he was my boss, he didn’t scare me.  He won’t now.”

                “Alright, it means he’s threatened by you, which means your instincts are right.  Trust them.”

                “I intend to.”

                “Good night Annette”

                “Good night”

                Theo leaned his mouth towards hers and Annette pulled back.  “I wasn’t lying when I said don’t take this the wrong way.”

                Theo nodded.  “Worth a shot” he said with a smile, “Good night, call me if you don’t want to be alone.”

                Annette’s expression went from distraught to a smile.  It seemed that Theo wasn’t upset by the rejection.  Theo got into the Uber and plugged in his address.  Both Annette and Theo were happy to be part of the offensive team against the deep state tyrants that failed to entrap and bring down a US President.  They just hope they were successful in getting real justice done.  It may be delayed but better late than never and they were thrilled to be a part of it.