Saturday, October 26, 2019

Real Characters Episode 29 Counterpunching the greatest punch


                It is April 2007, and two writers for the Wall Street Journal are sitting down to write a piece.  Later the two writers, Glenn Simpson and Mary Jacoby would marry but at the moment they are writing an article together.  Although the Wall Street Journal has a sterling reputation as being one of the, if not the, fairest newspaper in the country, Glenn Simpson and Jacoby are doing something that, if people knew the truth, would tarnish the reputation of the Journal.  John McCain is challenging Barack Obama to become the next president of the United States.  In order to make their hit piece not be blatantly partisan, they are going to accuse former presidential candidate Bob Dole of colluding with Russians.  If McCain wins, they will then pretend that the Russians did it again with McCain to undermine his presidency.  The article is filled with sinister wealthy Russians such as metals billionaire Oleg Deripaska and Ukrainian Dimitrio Firtash, who owns an investment firm named Highrock Holdings.  Although there is nothing wrong with making money, the US embassy is suspicious of Firtash given that he’s been making deals with an energy company Gazprom and the Ukrainian government.  The US Embassy has openly criticized this deal due to their secrecy and backdoor dealings. 

                In addition to the Ukrainians and Russians, Jacoby and Simpson add some Americans so as to interest their, predominantly, American readers.  They talk extensively about a man named Paul Manafort who is aiding the Russian-friendly presidential-hopeful Victor Yanukovych.

                On the Russian front, Simpson and Jacoby claim that the Russians are laundering money through a Russian bank called Alfa Bank, which has branches in Cyprus that is notorious for laundering money.  They finish the article and it is published on April 17, 2007.   At this moment, the two lovers couldn’t possibly know what this article will do to the American justice system.  What they just created is a document that will become the foundation for the greatest entrapment and hoax in American history.  The only question is, will the world realize it? 

                In 2010, Yanukovych indeed becomes President of Ukraine.  This causes a Ukraine that’s even more polarized than it already is.  The dynamic in Ukraine is that the capital, Kiev serves as an unofficial border.  Kiev and east of Kiev, Russian is heard in the streets from citizens that don’t speak Ukrainian and, therefore, consider themselves Russian.  West of Ukraine, you will find a denizen population that loathes Russians as they still haven’t forgiven Stalin for his little stunt of cutting them off from natural resources and starving them.  Many in the world called this a genocide but it is not on the radar of many in America as the Western Ukrainians that fled Ukraine settled in the Midwest as the coastal cities were littered with Russians and they were who they were trying to flee in the first place.  Yanukovych sides with the capital and East and believes that Russia is a friend to Ukraine. 

                In 2014, this chaos will come to a head as Petro Poroshenko seeks to wrestle the presidency from Yanukovych as he believes in a Ukraine independent of Russia, thus is ideologically in step with the Western Ukrainians.  Although it seems like the good guys and bad guys are clear cut as Russia has a diabolical history and it is difficult to not side with a country that wants to be independent, the truth is there is massive corruption on both sides.  Ukrainian politics is an entrepreneurial endeavor and if you’re coming to help a candidate out of allegiance to the people of Eastern or Western Ukraine, you are actually in the wrong place.  Like all corrupt entrepreneurial environments, rich people flock to get their piece of the pie.  There are many familiar faces that America will recognize, predominantly Hillary and Bill Clinton as well as George Soros, a Hungarian billionaire who emigrated to America around World War II and is normally behind any massive liberal protest.  The secular-progressive liberals may not want to extol Soros, however, because his first entrepreneurial activity was to tell the NAZI’s where the Hungarian Jews were hiding so they could round them up and send them off to work camps or death camps.  It wasn’t difficult for Soros to know this information considering he was a Jew himself and Jews tend to stick together and grow up in Yeshiva schools.  When the NAZI’s came, however, Soros’ uncle handed him a cross and he pretended to be Christian and had NAZI’s pay him for more prisoners.  Soros tells this story with admiration for his and his uncle’s business savvy.  In place of remorse, you will find arrogance. 

                Soros is now an old man but he didn’t become a billionaire by resting on his laurels.  He is a fighter and now he’s in Ukraine for a fight.  He sets up a company called “Open Society Foundation,” which is set up to root out corruption in Ukraine.  Since Porochenko did end up beating Yanukovych with his help, he knows Porochenko owes him a favor and he’s going to cash in.  Soros has one specific target in mind.  The most profitable business in Ukraine is energy and Dimitrio Firtash is one of biggest energy guys in Ukraine.  Naturally, that’s the person Soros goes after to conquer some of Firtash’s share of the market.  He immediately investigates him and calls on his allies in Ukraine, the Clintons, to help him.  As the Clintons have turned the United States Justice system into their own personal mafia, they call their contacts at the DOJ and Soros’ capital along with the awesome power of the United States government attacks Firtash in the only way Soros knows how; complete and utter ruthlessness.  The Open Society Foundation is successful and the Ukrainian government indicts Firtash.  After which, Soros gives a billion dollars to Ukraine. 

                Another American prevalent in Ukraine is Vice President Joe Biden.  He is Barak Obama’s point man in Ukraine.  His son, Hunter, has also cashed in on Ukrainian chaos as he is named on the board of Ukraine’s largest energy company, Burisma despite having no prior energy experience.  It is unclear just how much Hunter Biden is making but some estimates suggest it is close to $70,000 a month.  Seeing that something may be suspicious with Burisma, the prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin opens an investigation into Burisma.  What Shokin doesn’t know is that the United States DOJ and State Department is very interested in a competitor of Burisma, Firtash.  Any attack on Burisma would help Firtash and they can’t have that.  Around this time, United States President Barack Obama has just approved an aid package to Ukraine.  Joe Biden is in Ukraine set to announce the deal to the public alongside President Porochenko.  Just before going on stage, however, Biden turns to Poroshenko and remarks, “You know, I told you I wanted your prosecutor general Shokin fired.”

                “I know, and we said we’d look into it and make an assessment on if he is corrupt.”

                “You don’t understand, you’re not getting the money.”

                “What are you talking about?  You have no authority to say this, your president…”

                “Call him.” Biden interrupts, “I’m telling you he’s with me on this.  I’m leaving here in about six hours if the prosecutor general isn’t fired, then you’re not getting the billion dollars. “

                Porochenko is left with no choice.  Despite the billion dollars he got from Soros, he needs this billion dollars.  It appears that the going rate for indictments and or firings of government officials in Ukraine is a billion dollars because Shokin is fired just like Firtash was indicted for the same price. 

                As there is a vacancy for the Ukrainian Prosecutor General, Ukraine nominated a man named Lutsenko.  Lutsenko is not stupid.  He knows what happened to his predecessor so he needs to be real cautious on not angering American Democrat politicians.  Luckily for him, they will help him with this endeavor as they send him a list of people not to prosecute.  On the list is AntAC, which is a company cofounded by the Obama Campaign and George Soros in collaboration with the FBI.  Apparently Soros isn’t done with Firtash and Yanukovych’s American helper Manafort.  They make sure that the new prosecutor general steps on their throats and lets them know that their reign in Ukraine is over.  When it comes to business, there aren’t many more ruthless than Soros.  Winning isn’t enough for him; complete and utter humiliation, destruction and annihilation of his opponent is the only acceptable outcome. 

Two years later, Manafort has given up in Ukraine and is back in America.  He endears himself to Presidential Republican nominee Donald Trump.  Manafort sells himself as a former Reagan aid and knowledgeable in politics.  He, however, won’t come with any baggage or problems as he has been away from American politics for years.  Unfortunately for Donald Trump, the key word was American politics and given that Donald Trump’s opponent in the election is the same opponent Manafort had in Ukraine, Hillary Clinton, his assertion that he came with no baggage is an outright lie. 

As the 2016 American election is nearing, Glenn Simpson is contacted by a law firm Perkins Coie.  They inform him that they represent Hillary Clinton and would like him to find oppositional research against Donald Trump on her behalf.  The price is around a million dollars and Glenn Simpson accepts it.  Simpson no longer works for the Wall Street Journal as he started his own firm known as Fusion GPS.  This money from Hillary Clinton through Perkins Coie is going to end up being the easiest million dollar payday he has ever had.  Rather than investigate Donald Trump to find dirt, he figures that he already did this in 2007.  McCain lost to Barack Obama in 2008 and Simpson figures if his article was successful then, then why reinvent the wheel?  Just change Bob Dole’s name to “Donald Trump” and hand it over to the Clinton and Obama’s DOJ.  It works even better since Paul Manafort has just been named Donald Trump’s campaign manager and he’s in the article.  Fortunately for Simpson, the price for this article he wrote 12 years ago is about to go up. 

George Soros calls Glenn Simpson and he answers the phone.  Simpson figures that Soros wants some help investigating something and he knows Soros has big pockets so he listens.  By the end of the phone call, Simpson’s jaw drops as Soros just made Hillary Clinton look like a cheapskate.  Soros offered 3.8 Million dollars for the exact same thing Hillary Clinton asked him.  Naturally, he agrees and instead of it being the easiest million dollars he ever made, it’s now the easiest 4.8 million dollars he’s ever made. 

With the higher price tag, however, Simpson believes that the article isn’t enough.  He needs the FBI and DOJ to take him seriously.  They can’t bother to verify the information in it because none of it is true.  That’s when Simpson looks across the pond to a man named Christopher Steele.  He offers Steele some of Soros’ money to put his name on the dossier and pass it off as his own.  Steele is a former MI6 agent and is now a confidential informant for the FBI and CIA.  Laughably, the FBI doesn’t know that he’s not only a FBI confidential informant. The emphasis on secrecy and protecting of sources forces the FBI to use code names for confidential informants.  The CIA does the same and, by nature, you don’t realize that one guy could have multiple nicknames from multiple organizations.  This ignorance by the FBI is going to cause a big problem in a few short months. 

Christopher Steele does what he’s paid to do and gives the FBI Simpson’s dossier passing it off as his own.  As planned, the FBI thinks it’s credible since Steele had proven himself by exposing the FIFA corruption.  Unfortunately for justice, the FBI doesn’t even bother to verify the information.  Steele knows that when there’s an investigation in the justice department, there is a not-to-creative piece of jargon called, ‘paragraph one.’  As the name suggests, it’s the first paragraph of the accusation that you would like to be investigated.  The first paragraph must clearly state what is being investigated.  The DOJ is about to investigate the Republican nominee Donald Trump so procedure should be crucial to make sure nothing falls through the cracks on a technicality.  This, however, is not what happens as Crossfire Hurricane, the investigation into whether or not Russia colluded with Trump to influence the 2016 election, never gets a clear answer as to what ‘paragraph one’ is. 

                Steele advises the DOJ as he is pretending that it’s his dossier.  He has found out that there is a ping from a server in Trump Tower to Alfa Bank.  If anyone bothered to look into this, they would realize that it’s spam advertisement for the bank that every American is familiar with as credit card companies constantly send out mailing and take out ads trying to get people to get one more credit card.  Steele writes a memo to the State department suggesting that they start with Alfa Bank.  When writing the memo, however, Steele writes ‘Alfa’ as “Alpha.”  If it was only one time, it may be forgiven as just a typo and an oversight.  To what should have been Steele’s detriment, he misspells ‘Alfa’ several times.  In fact, he never spelled it right.  This probably helps explain that Steele isn’t actually the author of the dossier.  If this was the only piece of evidence, one may forgive the FBI, CIA and DOJ but it’s not.  \

                Glenn Simpson finds out that the FBI believes that the Alfa Bank pin was spam so he decides to call the FBI and tells them not to be fooled; it’s not spam.  A FBI staffer working on the case wonders how Simpson could possibly know this.  They got the information about the Alfa Bank ping from Steele so how would a private oppositional research company know about Steele’s information?  It didn’t occur to her that it is because Simpson is the real author of the dossier.   

                The memo has the desired effect as a Democrat Senator convinces Dan Jones to look into Alfa Bank.  Dan Jones works for one of Soros’ many companies that is funding Fusion GPS.  A lawyer for the DNC, Michael Sussman calls an FBI lawyer named James Baker about the Trump Tower ping to Alfa Bank, which is how the FBI came to run with the information as part of their investigation. 

                As the FBI continues to look into the allegations made against Alfa Bank, representatives of Alfa Bank are furious.  They retaliate by suing Steele for lying about them.  They know they have nothing to do with Donald Trump.  Someone points out that he didn’t even spell the name of the bank correctly in his memo to Kathleeen Kavalec of the State Department.  Still, the FBI doesn’t think this means that Steele didn’t write the dossier.  Instead, 10 days after Steele talks to Kavelec, despite Kavalec alerting them of various holes in Steele’s story and discrepancies she found, they use it to open a FISA warrant on Carter Page so they could spy on him in the most invasive way legal in America.  Alfa Bank ended up losing the lawsuit so the first counter to what the deep state was doing had failed. 

                Nobody could have foreseen how great a job Steele would do in disseminating the dossier.  In addition to sending it to the FBI, he has leaked it to various news organizations.  Ironically, he finds a staffer in John McCain’s office to walk it over to the DOJ making McCain complicit in the very same thing that Simpson did to him 12 years ago.  2016 would prove to be such an amazing distribution of a document that the FBI will believe that all these people sending them the same information is corroboration.  In reality, it may be the largest game of ‘telephone’ ever created.  With this knowledge, it seems unlikely that the President of the United States Barack Obama isn’t one of the people that have seen it.  As with the theory that Steele didn’t actually write the dossier, there will be more actual corroborating evidence to back up this claim.

 

                Against all odds, Donald Trump wins the 2016 election and is the new President of the United States.  This causes a ripple effect all across Washington D.C.  The lead investigator of the ongoing investigation into Donald Trump on whether he colluded with Russia, Peter Strzok has figured something out.  He has been in constant correspondence with the CIA with information aiding in his investigation.  Months ago, the FBI had to fire Christopher Steele because he wasn’t supposed to talk to anyone other than the FBI about his information but instead he leaked it to the press.  Given that Steele was paid millions to violate his CI (Confidential informant) agreement, the 55-year-old Steele isn’t concerned about his loss of employment.  Strzok figures out that if Steele was willing to violate the agreement in the worst way possible, to the media, then it isn’t far-fetched to think that the press wasn’t the only person he told.  He takes out his cell phone and texts his mistress and FBI lawyer Lisa Page that they have to scrub the list of all the CIs.  Strzok puts the word ‘all’ in caps for emphasis purposes.  He needs to find out if Steele was also a CI for the CIA.  If he is, it proves that the information they believed to be corroborating was actually the same information from the same source they had. 

                Strzok’s fears are realized and Lisa Page ends up editing a 302 on a conversation with President Trump’s former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn.  Flynn was arrested for not properly registering himself as working on behalf of a foreign person along with lying to the FBI since he couldn’t remember a conversation he had with the Russian Ambassador verbatim six months after he had it.  Under pressure both financially and the DOJ threatening to indict his kid, Flynn pleads guilty.  Luckily for him, he got a new lawyer named Sidney Powell who is challenging the guilty plea and is relentlessly going after the government for malfeasance during their investigation.  A 302 is a summary of a conversation that the DOJ has with someone.  The Mike Flynn 302 contains the information that Director of Intelligence James Clapper told Washington Post reporter David Ignatius to ‘take the kill shot on Flynn.’  This part is what Page deletes from the memo hoping nobody ever finds out about this order from Clapper.

                At this point, the FBI has a decision to make.  Given that they now know that Crossfire Hurricane is a hoax and the CIA misled them so they would open an investigation into Donald Trump, they could end it now and reveal what they know.  Since Hillary Clinton is not the president of the United States, there is a lesser chance that all their misconduct will be covered up.  Without the help of the most powerful person in the world, it’s harder to bury your skeletons.  Strzok and Page have been texting each other a lot talking about how much they hate Donald Trump and want to stop him from becoming president. 

Strzok isn’t the only one horrified by this revelation. FBI director Jim Comey is now aware that his counterpart at the CIA used him.  The CIA doesn’t have prosecutorial power so Brennan tricked Comey into using his FBI’s prosecutorial power to do the CIA’s dirty work for them.  Comey feels slighted.  Didn’t Brennan realize that they were on the same team?  They wanted the same thing; to make sure Donald Trump never becomes president.  Why trick him?  Just come clean.  He knows that the decision that Strzok came to him with falls on him.  Comey contemplates whether the FBI takes a bath and admits that all their work over the last five months has been for nothing.  They were scammed and fell for a hoax and misinformation campaign bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton paid to Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS.  It is unclear what Comey’s thought process is or his reasons.  It could be that pride has convinced him that he’s gone too far to not see it through.  It would be very embarrassing to admit he was wrong.  That, however, is a logical result of an investigation.  If you investigate something, you may find there was nothing to it.  There should be no shame in that.  Another explanation for what he’s about to do is simply spite as he hates Donald Trump with a burning passion.  He can’t give up now; he needs to take him down.  Who cares that it’s a hoax; the ends justifies the means.  Whether it is pride, spite or faulty clichés, Comey decides he’s not going to tell anybody that it’s a hoax.  He’s going to continue with the narrative and tells his subordinates the same.  With this decision, he has lost the ability to claim plausible deniability and is now culpable. 

Around the same time as Comey is contemplating what to do now that he knows Crossfire Hurricane is based on a hoax, Mary Jacoby is irate.  She sees the mainstream media constantly talking about her work in 2007.  She has had constant fights with her husband Glenn Simpson about coming out that they are the real authors of the dossier.  Simpson has remained adamant that they can’t say that.  Jacoby decides that her name is on the Wall Street Journal article that became the dossier too.  Why should it be Simpson’s decision?  She wrote it too.  Just how it’s not the Steele dossier, it’s not the Simpson dossier either.  The most accurate name is that Simpson-Jacoby dossier since they co-wrote the article.  Satisfied with this logic, she has no trepidation to let people know the truth.  As the now president Trump loves using social media to perpetuate his views without the media’s help, she knows that she doesn’t need the media to alert the masses.  The media, undoubtedly, will help the deep state and the Democrats so she may be overridden by a government official.  The media doesn’t do anything unless a Democrat in power tells them; especially when it comes to anti-Trump material.  She goes onto her Facebook account and smiles.  The media be damned; she has social media.  She hesitates knowing that this may cause problems with her marriage.  If there’s one thing men like, however, is people stroking their ego.  She starts typing that Glenn, not Steele, should be credited for the dossier.  She drives the point home saying that Glenn conducted the investigation, Glenn hired Christopher Steele and Steele worked for Glenn not the other way around. 

Jacoby smiles as she posts it.  She then turns her head to the side and realizes that she’s not finished yet.  All she hears in the media is how Trump is finished.  They got him now.  There’s no way that Trump could survive this scandal.  Apparently Jacoby hasn’t learned from his unlikely defeat of Hillary Clinton; you can’t really count out Donald Trump.  She is calling victory way too early as he just was inaugurated.  He’s the most powerful man in the world now.  Claiming victory is premature but Jacoby believes the media.  As she has gone after Steele, she needs to attack other people who are claiming credit for her and Glenn’s work.  She remembers an article she read in yesterday’s Washington Post that CIA director John Brennan delivered a secret document to the White House.  She is almost positive the ‘secret document’ is her and Glenn’s dossier.  That is why she types, “CIA was supposed to immediately work to verify it.  By August 2016, the CIA verified the key findings of the dossier to the point that the Washington Post brought it to the White House stamped with “eyes only” in a top meeting with four people and four people only; President Barack Obama and three of his top aides.  What Jacoby has just done is let the world know that President Obama knew about the dossier in August 2016 because the CIA showed it to him.  Unbeknownst to Jacoby, this is going to put CIA director John Brennan in a tough spot.

John Brennan has been fired as CIA Director.  He, in turn, goes to the media to continue to harass and attack President Trump as a private citizen.  As conservative media has picked up on a lot of holes in the dossier, Brennan knows he has to distance himself from the document that he gave to President Obama.  He says in an interview with the media that the FISA warrant and the investigation was based on a corpus of information; not just the dossier.  Luckily for him, nobody is going to ask, ‘like what?” as an answer to that will never be found even after three years of a special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller.

John Brennan is appalled by Jacoby’s text messages and he makes some phone calls.  He’s not the only one outraged and it doesn’t take long for Jacoby to delete her Facebook posts.  As almost any millennial can tell you, however, there is no such thing as ‘deleted from the internet.’  The internet is forever and those who support the president or just believe in blind justice and fairness for all people easily find Jacoby’s texts.  Brennan is contemplating what has transpired and realizes that he needs to have more media presence.   There needs to be more distance between him and the dossier.  He arranges an interview on CNN as he wants to answer the question how it is possible that the dossier wasn’t part of the corpus of information.   There is some speculation on whether this interview is an outright lie or a play on words.  Brennan tells CNN that he didn’t see the dossier until December 2016 so it couldn’t possibly have been an impetus to start the July 2016 investigation into Trump.  Those who claim Brennan technically didn’t lie know that since he was in constant contact with Simpson and Steele, he didn’t need to read the dossier because he had the authors who could just tell them what was in it.  Others claim that although this is possible, the fact that he gave the dossier to President Obama and three other top presidential aides in August 2016, he did, in fact, lie. 

When he finishes the interview, someone close to Brennan who knows the whole story asks, “John, I don’t really understand why you’re lying or stretching the truth.  People hate this president; you can tell them the truth.  The media will back you.  Who cares if you saw the dossier; the media will gas light the masses that the dossier is authentic.  You’re distancing yourself for nothing.”

“You don’t understand”

“So explain it to me.”

“I had to lie because if the FBI knew I got my information from the dossier, then they wouldn’t have thought my information was corroborating the dossier or vice versa depending which they got first.  If they don’t think the two corroborate each other, then they don’t open an investigation into Donald Trump.  Steele is then exposed for violating his CI agreement with the FBI and Trump gets off scot-free.”

“Steele was fired as a CI anyway and Comey hates Trump just as much as you do.  If you would have just come clean with him, then you could have worked together on this.  Comey is furious.”

“I couldn’t take that risk.  This isn’t going to be the first time that the FBI has a problem with the CIA and it won’t be the last.  They may be responsible for America but America is one of most stable countries in the world.  I’m responsible for the world.”

“When you all went to the White House to coordinate and speak with one voice to the president, it showed that you were all on the same side.  You weren’t in one voice because you were withholding things from your partners.”

“The CIA and the FBI may be sister organizations, but sisters fight.”

“Alright, I’m sorry you feel that way.”

Brennan hangs up the phone.  He isn’t too annoyed by the call as he has no regrets.  Those who haven’t run an intelligence organization don’t understand what methods and strategies need to be enacted.  Not everyone had the stomach for doing what needed to be done. 

                It is now October 2019.  It has been almost three years since the FBI, CIA, and Mary Jacoby freaked out when Donald Trump became president and tried covering up and explaining their roles in the investigation.  US Attorney John Durham has been tasked by Attorney General Barr to look into the origins of Crossfire Hurricane.  It is very frustrating because the more answers they get to questions, the more questions arise from the answers.  After unraveling the very large onion, John Durham, known for being a bulldog of a prosecutor, pulls no punches and formally declares his investigation into a criminal investigation.  Conservatives from coast to coast breathe a sigh of relief.  They were losing hope that anyone involved in Spygate was going down and this gives them a beacon of possibility.  They know not to get their hopes up as this is just the starting phase.  Given the last three years of Democrats blatantly and obnoxiously proving and flaunting that they are above the laws and only Republicans are inhibited by rules, regulations and integrity, they’ll take what they can get.

                Durham hones in on Jim Comey, Jim Clapper, and Brennan as they seem to be the ring leaders in opening the investigation.  Brennan seems to be the biggest ring leader as Durham is starting to believe that he initiated the operation that misled the FBI to start a criminal and counter-intelligence operation into Donald Trump since he didn’t have any prosecutorial power.  After his announcement, he gets a call from the justice department asking if he’s going to be in need of a Grand Jury to see if indictments are in order. 

                Durham responds, “That is definitely on the table and the reason why I changed the classification to a criminal investigation but I need to make decisions on what cases I want to prioritize over which.”

                “Understandable, just keep us posted.”

                “Will do.”

                Other branches of the judicial system also have a reaction to Durham’s announcement.  The Southern District of New York, whose corruption is hinted at in the hit series Billions, is enraged as they hate Donald Trump.  As such, they hate anyone doing anything that may help him.  They complain to the NYC bar who issues a cease and desist to Attorney General Barr to recues himself from Ukraine issues.

                When Barr receives the threat for the NYC Bar he smiles.  Since he’s started the investigation, he’s had the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi threaten to arrest him and other attacks from established politicians.  There is only one explanation for this reaction; he’s getting close.  His predecessor, Jeff Sessions, gave in to the establishment’s pressure so he’s not surprised they are trying to bully him the way they bullied Sessions.  You, however, can’t keep going to the same well and not expect your strategies to be exposed.  Even Sessions isn’t the first time; didn’t Biden and Soros do the same thing in Ukraine to Shokin?  The equivalent of the Attorney General in Ukraine is the Prosecutor General.  This is what the deep state mafia-like DOJ does; threaten and intimidate.  They know they can’t do what they did in Ukraine and go through the president as he isn’t friendly to them so they go right to the source.  Barr knew when he took the job that he was in a dog fight.  He has to make a decision on if he’s still up for it.  Millions of Trump supporters are rooting for him but they aren’t faced with risking their entire career on Donald Trump winning against the deep state.  Barr figures that if Trump is successfully taken down, he’s probably in trouble anyway.  If history has proven anything, giving in to the pressure doesn’t buy you any brownie points with the vicious, unscrupulous Democrats.  The best course of action is to stay the course but it’s easy to see this when you’re not the one to suffer the ramifications of the decision.  There are very powerful people opposing Barr.  Then again, if you’re not willing to take on powerful people, you shouldn’t be Attorney General in the first place. 

                Barr calls Durham as Barr is the one that hired him.  He asks, “What specifically is the criminal investigation you’re pursuing?”

                “That the CIA intentionally misled the FBI to open the investigation.”

                “Does that mean that you believe the FBI is innocent in all this?”

                “Not at all.  They had abundant chances to make it right and constantly refused.  They went with the cover up.  They’re culpable just not as culpable as the CIA.”

                Barr laughs, “I guess only relative to Brennan does Comey look good.”

                “Precisely sir.”

                “Just out of curiosity, why do you think the FBI didn’t know?”

                “The claim is that the investigation was stimulated by Trump campaign employee George Papadopoulos meeting with a Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud in London.  Mifsud told Papadopoulos that the Russians had dirt on Hillary and voila you have Russian collusion since the FBI claimed that Mifsud is a Russian agent.”

                “I’m familiar”

                “We now know that Mifsud is most likely tied to friendly intelligence.  That’s why the meeting was in London and not a former Russian bloc country or something.”

                “Like Prague”

                It is now Durham’s turn to laugh.  He gets the reference as the dossier claimed that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen went to Prague to meet with Russians. It is at these meetings, the dossier claims, that the plan to interfere with the election is born.  The only problem was that not only did this meeting never happen but Michael Cohen had never been to the Czech Republic capital (Prague).  He replies, “It seems the FBI wasn’t aware of this though because they asked Papadopoulos to wear a wire when he met with Mifsud.  It seems they wanted to see what this alleged Russian asset had to say and see if they could prosecute him.  In January 2017, right around the time Jacoby was spouting off on Facebook, the FBI meets with Mifsud in D.C.  After that meeting, they interview Papadopoulos again and all of a sudden they don’t care about Mifsud as they never bring him up with Papadopoulos.  It appears the FBI figured out Brennan was using them to entrap Trump without their knowledge.”

                “You may be on to something.  I was going over Lisa Page’s sworn testimony to Mark Meadows on Capitol Hill.  She legitimately seemed shocked when Meadows informed her that Brennan briefed Harry Reid and the other Gang of Eight members on Capitol Hill about information only found in the dossier in the summer of 2016.  Page declares, ‘If they had the documents that we got from our source, then I’m not aware and they didn’t reveal it to us and that would be unusual.’”

                “That would be corroborating evidence If true.”

                “She was under oath and I cleaned it up.  The actual quote is more disorganized and she stammers a little bit as she appears to be trying to make sense of what she just found out.”

                “You think it’s credible?”

                “I do.”

                “Yea, I agree.  Respectfully sir, it’s obviously your decision, but I really hope you’re beside me in this fight till the end.”

                “I haven’t let you down yet.”

                “Glad to hear that sir.”

                The tables have turned.  The Democrats came hard at President Trump and everyone in his orbit.  They did their best to punish anyone from siding with the President.  This wasn’t that good of a strategy since the President has a reputation of being a loner that has stemmed back to high school.  It was now the Republicans’ turn.  The only question is, can the Republicans be just as determined, focused and motivated as the Democrats.  The difference between the Republicans and the Democrats, however, is that the Republicans are basing their accusations on facts and data whereas the Democrats based it on a hoax and a fraudulent document.  The worst part is; they knew it was fraudulent and proceeded anyway with the same amount of zeal as if it was legitimate. 

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