Real Characters episode 37 Durham Sets His Sights on Brennan

                Barack Obama is furious.  Even though the media has done a good job in covering up his massive scandals from giving boatloads of money to Iran so they can develop nuclear capabilities to better be able to attack the United States and Italy, to giving the Mexican cartels numerous guns and weapons so they can further intimidate and rule their smuggling routes to helping Russia set up a Silicon Valley in Russia only to find out it was a scheme to steal intellectual property from America so they can develop more sophisticated missiles, a thorn in his side, Donald J Trump, who harassed him for years about whether or not he’s an American citizen, is now running for President of the United States.  Given his moment of rage, he calls his CIA director John Brennan and barks at him complaining about Donald Trump.  Brennan responds, “Mr. President, I doubt he’ll win.  He has a long history of getting bored.  He’ll have some rallies and cause some excitement but then he’ll fizzle out.  I don’t think he’s anything to worry about.”

                “I’ve been hearing that for months now.  I want him crushed now that he’s still a citizen.  Make sure he never reaches this office.”

                “Yes sir.  Though I’m not sure what you’ll have me do.”

                “The same thing you’ve always done.”

                “Mr. President, I’m afraid if we keep going to the well of Russian collusion, the people will become wise to it.  We’ve been doing it for two years now.  When we did it to Mike Flynn, he didn’t go away; he’s in position to be National Security Director.  It is true we did it to John McCain but he’s still a prominent Senator so it didn’t really destroy him.  Even Svelana Lokhova, some nothing college student in London, wasn’t really ruined by it.”

                “None of those people ever became president and now know their place…beneath me.  I will not have the leader of the birthers become President.”

                “Understood Mr. President, I’ll see what I can do.”

                Brennan hangs up the phone and rubs his eyes.  These calls are getting more and more frequent.  Bill Clinton was the first one to sick the intelligence community and the IRS against his political opponents and Barack Obama is following in that tradition.  Brennan decides he needs to just accept that when Democrats control the office of the presidency; his CIA along with the FBI, DOJ, IRS and other three-letter organizations will be the president’s personal law enforcement and punishment brigade.  Brennan picks up the phone and calls his good friend Richard Dearlove.  While the phone is ringing, he looks at his watch and adds five hours to compensate for the time difference between Washington D.C. and London, England.  Dearlove answers the phone, “Hey Richard, it’s John.”

                “Hey John, how have you been?”

                “You know, living the dream.” He remarked casually

                Richard Dearlove is the head of GCHQ, which is the British CIA equivalent.  He is in charge of MI5 and MI6, the latter made famous by the James Bond series.  He replies, “I’m guessing you’re not calling to catch up.”

                “No, I need a favor.”

                “Sure, anything for you old chap.”

                “I need you to spy on Donald Trump’s campaign.  I’m limited to my capabilities here because of our privacy laws.  Also, some clown at the NSA decided to audit the about queries in our database and has shut them down for obvious reasons.”

                “Ah yes, Americans aren’t as accommodating at being spied upon as Englishmen.”

                “Right, so anyway, can you help me?”

                “Of course.  How do you want to sell this though?”

                “Make it seem like England discovered the information and then passed it to us.  It shouldn’t be too hard with the five eyes agreement.”

                The Five Eyes Agreement is the coordination between England, America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia’s intelligence departments to vet information to determine if it’s credible.  It is an intelligence community assessment on a global scale among English speaking countries.  Dearlove responds, “Where should I start?”

                “We’ll send you information that we gathered.  It’s going to be run by a man named Glenn Simpson who owns a company called ‘Fusion GPS.’  It won’t mean much coming from him especially since there’s a paper trail that Hillary Clinton paid him to do it.  He’ll give you the information and then you give it back to us and we’ll pretend it came from you.”

                “You mean to tell me you do all the work for me and England gets to take credit for it?”

                “That’s exactly what I’m telling you.”

                “Then, I believe you just, how do you Americans say it, ‘gave me an offer I can’t refuse.’  I couldn’t possibly turn down such an opportunity.  You got yourself a deal.”

                “That expression normally implies I’m threatening you but I saw it as very beneficial for England as well.  For all intents and purposes, yes I am giving you a deal that’s too good to pass up.”

                “Alright, just have Mr. Simpson send over the information.”

                “Consider it done.”

                A little while later, Dearlove has all the information from Fusion GPS.  He makes a visit to a former MI6 agent named Christopher Steele.  Steele greets him warmly as they were close when Dearlove was his boss but now they are friends.  “Richard, great to see you.”

                “I’m afraid I’m going to have to just get down to business.”

                “Is it something I can help with?”

                “Yes, we’ve received some intelligence that Donald Trump’s campaign is colluding with Russians in order to undermine the American election.  We believe Trump to be a Russian puppet.  Do you still have a good relationship with the FBI?”

                “I do”

                “Jolly good.  I want you to start coordinating with the CIA to find out more information.  Since the CIA has no prosecutorial power, I need you to feed that information to the CIA.”

                “I’m confused, why can’t the CIA just tell the FBI?”

                “They will but if they get it from multiple fronts, they will be more inclined to believe it.”

                “Will you be aiding in this.”

                “Oh no, I’m retired.  I don’t want to press the matter further.  It’s probably nothing.  Just rattle some trees and see what you find.”

                When Dearlove leaves, he feels no remorse in lying and blatantly contradicting himself to Steele.  He just told him to press the matter and feed it to the FBI but then tells Steele that it’s not something Dearlove wants to press further personally.  Dearlove takes a deep breath as it’s time to put the plan in motion.  He calls John Brennan on an unsecure line knowing that various British organizations will intercept this call.  This is a rehearsed conversation.  Dearlove makes sure to speak loudly and clearly, “John, I’m afraid I have some troubling information.  We have intercepted some communications between Americans and Russia.  We believe that there’s going to be collusion between Russia and an American candidate campaign to rig the 2016 election.”

                Brennan feigns shock, “That is a serious accusation!  Do you have a name for who the American is and what campaign?  There are a lot of Republicans vying to become the next nominee, hopefully it’s one of the ones that don’t win the nomination.”

                “Yes, his name is Carter Page and he’s affiliated with the Donald Trump campaign.”

                Brennan takes a theatrical deep breath.  “I can confirm he is an American.  There’s not much I can do here because it does involve an American.  Thank you for telling me.  I need to get this to the FBI right away.”

                “Yes, please do so.  Let me know if they can corroborate or verify it.  Just know that England is your most trusted ally and let us know if there’s any way we can aid you in stopping this troubling matter.”

                “I will and I thank you for your continued support. You are a gentleman and a scholar.”

                With that, the phone ends and various people that heard it or furiously leaking it to media outlets on both sides of the pond.  Dearlove goes into a more secure location and shakes his head.  He mutters to himself, ‘I know that people are gullible and believe whatever they read on the internet and TV but come on! They really think we have the capability to filter through the millions of calls from America to Russia to find one guy?  There are countless Russians in America who still have family in Russia that they correspond with all the time!’  Being in his line of work, it’s hard to have faith in humanity.  He just does what he always does and decides that Machiavelli was on to something; it’s better to be feared than loved.  It is better for the public to think that they had that capability to scare them straight. 

                Meanwhile back at the White House, Barack Obama did not believe in a fair fight and didn’t want just one man responsible for something so important.  What Democrat presidents like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama do with people they don’t like is they unleash the entire awesome force of the government upon them.  Obama may have unleashed the archers, but now it was time to send the cavalry.  He called a little known division of the Pentagon called the ‘Office of Net Assessment.’  The recipient of the phone call clicks the button to connect the call, “Yes Mr. President.”

                “I need you.”

                “What is it you would have me do?”

                “Donald Trump just released his campaign list.  Get any member on that list to London any way you can.”

                “I know just the person.”

                “Thank You”

                After the phone call, the Office of Net Assessment man calls Stefan Halper, who is a professor and spy for the CIA on the Cambridge campus in London.  He was instrumental in framing Mike Flynn in 2014 for colluding with Russia and is being used for the same reason.    Halper readily agrees and reaches out to everyone on the list that the Pentagon’s office of net assessment gave him.  As he reached out, he manages to get George Papadopoulos, Carter Page and Sam Clovis to come to London, where the awesome spying freedoms of the British government can entrap and monitor their every move.  This is just temporary until the FBI can convince the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to issue a warrant (FISA) to spy themselves.  

                Despite Steele doing as good as job as he could by telling every media outlet and FBI agent that would listen about how the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, Donald Trump still becomes president of the United States.  Shortly thereafter, Brennan is no longer the CIA director.  He breathes a sigh of relief.  It was really annoying being the hit man and hired gun of the thin skinned Barack Obama. Given that he’s a counter-intelligence man, he had formulated a plan in the event that they failed.  He calls Chuck Todd of CNN and declares, “Hey Chuck, how are things?”

                “It’s kind of crazy having that uncouth asshole as president.”

                “I’d like you to have me on your show.”

                “Of course, I love having you on but just so I can prepare, what do you want to talk about?”

                “I need to put to rest what conservative media has been saying about the dossier and it being a hoax.  Not so much that, but the idea that it was the only thing we used.  We had a mosaic of information and the dossier was a tiny part and I think your viewers would like to know that.”

                “Of course they would.  What other information did you have?”

                “I can’t discuss that.”

                “Of course, right.  Sorry, but I have to ask.”

                “I understand but you also understand my position as well.”

                “Of course.”

                Chuck Todd starts the segment introducing John Brennan as the man who investigated the dossier.  Brennan frowns and realizes that in the pre-interview he should have been clearer.  It wasn’t important though, Todd knew that his boss, CNN was the propaganda arm for the Democrat party and whatever John Brennan told him he wasn’t to challenge.  Brennan immediately responds, “I need to correct you, I didn’t investigate the dossier.”

                Todd nods and agrees with no follow up question and asks a tee ball question because he realizes he was wrong in why he thought Brennan wanted to be on his show.  It was better for Brennan to just explain it himself.  Brennan proceeds to admit that he knew that US citizens were talking to Russians and that he passed that information to the FBI so that they could open their investigation.  He tells Todd that it’s beyond his mandate to investigate US citizens because that’s the FBI’s job.  That is why he told the FBI so they could vet it. 

                Todd quickly understands that this media appearance is not to explain the actions of the intelligence community but just good old-fashioned intra-intelligence fighting.  The CIA is throwing the FBI under the bus and making them take the fall for the scandal.  The reality is that Glenn Simpson fed the information to Dearlove and Steele, they in turn called Brennan and told him.  Brennan then told the FBI but Steele was also telling the FBI since he was already their informant.  That was how the circular information train went.  Todd sticks to the script and asks, “Was the dossier the only thing you had about Russian collusion with Donald Trump?”

                Brennan replies, “No, I hadn’t seen the dossier until December 2016, months after the investigation started.  The investigation was due to a corpus of intelligence.”

                If Todd had any journalistic integrity, he would pose, “Like what?” but after messing up once, he doesn’t want to ask anything that could be construed as an attacking question. 

 

                Years after Brennan’s CNN appearance, Attorney General of Connecticut John Durham is investigating the origins of the 2016 investigation of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign.  At this point, he knows that it didn’t happen as Bob Mueller spent two and half years looking into it and despite arranging a team loyal to former FBI director Jim Comey that desperately wanted to cover for Comey and exonerate him, they ended up exonerating Donald Trump because they could find no collusion.  So embarrassed by their failure, Mueller decided not to rule on this second item he was looking into; obstruction.  Fortunately for him, newly hired Attorney General Bill Barr had no qualms of stating the obvious that there was no obstruction either.

                Durham is meeting with his staffers and he starts, “We now know that Donald Trump didn’t collude with the Russians to influence the 2016 election.  Now, we have to figure out where all the sources that claimed it came from.  That is a very broad statement, so let’s just start with John Brennan.”

                Staffer 1 chimes in, “Brennan told the FBI that he knew of US citizens talking to Russians to hurt the election.  The FBI used that to open an investigation…”

                Durham interrupts, “We know this, advance the narrative.”

                “Of course.  Brennan says he didn’t see the dossier until December 2016, long after the investigation was open.”

                “Right”

                “Steele is largely believed to have written the dossier.  Steele worked for Richard Dearlove, who is a close confidant of John Brennan.  Brennan may be right that he didn’t see the dossier itself till December but he didn’t need to because he was in direct communication with the author of the dossier and it is he, either Dearlove or Steele, that told Brennan what was in the dossier.”

                “So Brennan got the information from the British?”

                “Yes, that’s why when President Trump threatened to declassify all the FISAs and relevant documents, it was England that made the loudest noise in opposition.  It exposes them more than anyone.”

                “Just to be clear, Brennan was lying when he claimed that the dossier wasn’t the only piece of evidence he had.”

                Staffer 2 replied, “Yes, he lied.  After everything we reviewed, the only place that alleges President Trump or his campaign colluded with Russians is in the dossier.  If Brennan had information that the Russians were working with US persons, then it has to be from the dossier or directly from the authors as Staffer 1 explained.”

                Durham removes his glasses and rubs his eyes.  “Brennan was getting the information from foreign intelligence through the five eye partners at the same time they were giving it to Steele.”  The staffers look towards each other unsure if their boss just asked a question.  His tone suggested that it was a statement but given he didn’t look at them expectantly; they decide it is a statement.  Durham turns to a third staffer, “I asked you to take a look at the congressional testimony of the FBI.  Did you find anything?”

                “Yes sir, it appears from their testimony that Strzok and Page thought Steele was corroborating the information they had already heard from John Brennan and the CIA.  We believe they didn’t realize that Brennan was working with Steele so it wasn’t corroboration at all but the same information from the same source.”

                “There seems to be a fine line between those two.   How did you distinguish one from the other?”

                “When Mark Meadows suggests to Page that Steele was a CIA source, she seemed genuinely confused.  Her exact statement, taking out her trying to process things in her head, is “If the CIA had Mr. Steele open as a source, I would not know that.’  She goes on to say that it would be unusual for the CIA and FBI to have the same source and not have the CIA tell them that.”

                “I can corroborate that with their text messages.  After the election, (FBI lawyer) Page and (Lead Investigator) Strzok texted each other to scrub the list of confidential informants and compare it with the FBI.  That is code to stop using code words for confidential informants and identify them for comparative purposes.  I don’t know why they would send those texts if they knew Steele was a CIA Source too.”

                “Yea, so that response I read was in response to Mark Meadows asking “was Steele exclusively your source?”

                “Mark Meadows knows that he wasn’t.  He has access to confidential information for this.  It was a good question.  It’s just so hard to unravel this to find out the progression of events.”

                Staffer one thought the last comment was rhetorical but offered anyway, “We may not have to.”

                “How do you mean?”

                “The main British newspaper, the Guardian, just published an article written by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch alleging that Boris Johnson, the recent winner in the British election, colluded with Russia to win.”

                “They own Fusion GPS.  Are you telling me they’re trying this again?”

                “Yes, now we can monitor how it progresses knowing that it’s a hoax so not getting caught up in vetting and corroborating the evidence but seeing what they do and how they do it.  That will shed light on what they did and how they did what they did to us.”

                “That is a very good idea.  I’m tasking you with monitoring the Guardian and Glenn Simpson’s influence on Boris Johnson across the pond.  I’ll alert the president so he can warn Johsnon……” Durham trailed off.

                Staffer one smiled, “Yes sir, I think we just figured out what happened.  Except instead of warning England, Barack Obama asked for their help.”

                “This had to be done at the highest level. That’s the chain of command.  That’s how these things work.”  Durham shook his head, “I don’t want to entertain speculation right now.  The question is that now that we know that President Trump didn’t collude with Russia, who told Dearlove that he did?  Also, what information did he hear?”

                Staffer two declares, “According to CNN press reporting at the time, Britain intercepted communications between President Trump’s campaign and Russia and passed on the communication to American counterparts.  The information was about Carter Page and the British claimed that it was incidental and they picked it up accidentally in a wide net of surveillance that just happened to pick this up.”

                “That is very difficult to believe.  There are probably over a million Russians in America and most of them still have family in Russia.  Americans talk to Russia all the time and you’re suggesting that they picked Carter Page out of the haystack without any prompting?  Unlikely.”

                “I would agree sir.”

                Durham takes a deep breath, “Okay, since the US side of this seems to start with John Brennan, I want all of his e-mails, correspondence, call logs that he used during his tenure at the CIA.  I specifically want to see his communications with Comey.  I want to know what he said to him and when.”

                Staffer two articulates, “Yes Sir, I’ll make the requests from the proper authorities.  Do you want to start with December 2016 when Brennan said he saw the dossier?”

                “No, I think we already established that he was aware of the dossier’s information much before that.”

                “They may ask me why I’m asking if Brennan never saw the dossier till December 2016.”

                “Then tell them the truth.  We believe him to be lying.”

                “Now for the question that we have all been tasked to answer.  How did this investigation start?”

                Staffer one takes this one, “It was not the FISA;  It was the CIA telling the FBI about the information contained in the dossier because they wanted information on Barack Obama’s political opponents.”

                Durham nods, “I don’t think I could have said it better myself.  We have a lot of powerful enemies so let’s put together an ironclad case.  That, however, is our thesis.”

                Staffer two excuses himself and starts making the requests of the CIA and other organizations responsible for providing the information Durham requested.  He knows that there are a lot of moles who love leaking things to the press but he is unconcerned.  For one, everyone will attack his boss, John Durham.  Secondly, he enjoyed watching the media scramble to spin things and humiliate themselves.  They’ve been doing it for three years.  The third reason was many of the mainstream media was too occupied with the near impeachment of Donald Trump. 

                It doesn’t take long after staffer two asks for the information, that someone in the office of the body responsible for the information hears it and calls their contact at the New York Times to tell them what’s happened.  The New York Times editor listens in and calls a meeting of her writers.  She announces, “Bill Barr and Durham are looking into John Brennan trying to find out what he knew and when he knew it.  We need to get ahead of this and start promoting damage control to discredit them so by the time they release their report in the spring, we would have inculcated our narrative into the American people and they won’t realize what the report actually says.  Who wants the story?”

                The practice of getting ahead to frame a narrative of a less than favorable event is something the mainstream media had been doing for decades. It is precisely what they did with the IG Horowitz report and given the celebrating from the media and Democrats, it worked.  A writer named Katie Benner raises her hand, “I’ll take it.”

                “Fine, go for it.”

                Another writer Julian Barnes calls out, “Do you mind if I help you write it?”

                Katie shrugs her shoulders, “No, I don’t care.”

                Katie and Julian go into an office and Katie sounds bored when she pronounces, “Basic shit right?  We spin the story to accuse Trump of doing what President Obama did by claiming Trump’s weaponizing the government and Justice department against his political enemies.”

                “Yea, we should make it a little more discrediting though.  We should explicitly, but vaguely, state that Trump is being accused of this.”

                “Yea, like ‘accusations are that Trump is using the American justice department as his own personal law enforcement brigade.”

                “I would insert ‘add to the accusation.’  You know, make it seem like the accusations have already been levied.”

                “Yea, that’s good.  We can’t be discredited because we never tell people that we’re the ones who made the accusations before.  By keeping the verbiage vague and not implying whom is doing the accusing, it’s a story that can’t be refuted.”

                “Standard procedure.”

                “Yea, I don’t know why she (the editor) has to be all dramatic.  We know what we’re doing.”

                Back at the Durham staff meeting.  Durham switches gears.  He turns to a fourth staffer, “Alright, so you were responsible for figuring out the angle from the other agencies.  What have you found?”

                “Well, there are 15 of them sir but we’re still going through it.  The Democrats keep claiming that 17 agencies agree that Russia was meddling in the 2016 election in order to help President Trump.  We know from the climate change ‘concession’ that 97% doesn’t always mean 97%.  If people don’t take a position, they don’t count it.  It’s possible that only the CIA and FBI took a position, 14 agencies didn’t give an opinion and the NSA didn’t agree.”

                “And what has your research led you to believe at this time?”

                “The Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) is nothing more than a cover up document.  We don’t think it was really produced by intelligence organizations.”

                “Who did produce it then?”

                “The Obama White House said they wanted it out so it happened by opinion people inside the Obama administration.”

                “That’s a pretty serious accusation.”

                “I’m aware sir, so I’m gathering all the evidence I can for a rock solid case.”

                “There’s something that has been bothering me.” Durham turns back to the group at large, “Is there any significance to Brennan insisting that he didn’t see the dossier till December 2016?  Why December 2016?”

                Staffer four voiced, “I can answer that sir.  The ICA document was in December 2016.  Brennan is sticking with that story so as to add credibility to it.”

                “You’re doubting the ICA?”

                “Yes, how could you not?  When have you known 17 agencies to agree on anything?”

                Durham allows a hint of a smile, “That’s true.”

                Outside the office, staffer two is still making calls when someone in the office blurts out, “You know, with the President being impeached, do you think that all this work is too little too late?”

                “The President wasn’t impeached yet.”

                “But they voted.”

                “It’s not official until the House passes the articles to the Senate.  In fact, that is what POTUS (President of the United States) should be screaming from the roof tops to pressure Pelosi to hand them over.”

                “I always thought it would be better to just have McConnell consider it null and void since she refused.”
                “There’s a debate for that.  Right now, Pelosi looks horrible.  Even Bloomberg wrote a piece saying that she’s wrong about the president being impeached.  Bloomberg news talks about how impeachment is a process not a vote.  It usually doesn’t matter because once you vote, you give the articles over but since she’s the first speaker to ever impeach and not do that, this technicality needs to be mentioned.”

                “What’s the debate?”

                “Well, the day of the vote on impeachment, the trump campaign raised $5 Million.  The RNC had a record hull of $20.6 Million.  They are breaking fund raising records every time congress mentions impeachment.  Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad thing for them if it went on.  The RNC has more money on hand than it has since 2012.”

                “Keep in mind they did lose the election in 2012.”

                “I know but look at his opposition.  You have Joe Biden who’s leading the polls right now.  At the most recent debate, the moderator asked him if he was willing to sacrifice economic growth and displacing hundreds of thousands of workers in oil and natural gas industries in order to transition to cleaner energy.  Biden responded, “The answer’s yes.”

                “Nobody watched those debates so he won’t be held accountable.”

                “Social media is going crazy about it.  If he’s the nominee, I think POTUS will remind the public repeatedly that he said it; especially Pennsylvania, which is a huge swing state and has been growing like crazy because of the natural gas industry.  The comment may lose him Pennsylvania and that was the state that put the nail in the coffin for Hillary.  The Democrats just never learn.”

                “The debate had a lot of lies and things that I’m sure were only done because nobody was watching.  The moderator made a statement disguised as a question, ‘wage growth is doing well, not as well as we’d like but about as well as the Obama era’ to talk about how they’re going to combat the Trump economy.”

                “Well, that’s just ridiculous.  The stock market is up 70% from when POTUS took office.”

                “I know, and even if we’re just talking about wages, POTUS has averaged 3.1% growth.  It’s higher in lower incomes as the upper middle class and upper class bring the average down.  Obama’s wage growth only hit 3.1% in a month three times.  Three times out of 96 tries they reached the number that Trump has averaged in 36 months.”

                “They’re all full of shit that’s why nobody is watching.”

                “Oh I know!  To your point, Warren and Sanders keep talking about raising taxes on the rich and cutting taxes on the Middle Class.  Now, they’re pushing a bill to do the exact opposite.”

                “They want to lower taxes for the rich?”

                “Yes, by deleting the SALT deductions”

                “Oh right, one of most brilliant additions by President Trump in the tax code.”

                “Yea, New York and California liberals are always the ones claiming that they have so much money they don’t care if they’re taxed more. President Trump introduces the SALT deductions that only affect people that pay over $10,000 in property tax, which basically only means rich people in New York and California.  It’s shocking that they’re using their money and influence to get Sanders and Warren to overturn that” The last sentence was riddled with sarcasm.

                “Yea, harm rich people in states that will never vote for you and leave the rest of the country unaffected.”

                “For the most part that’s true but accuracy matters.  The top 1% that liberals keep vilifying even though they supply the money for the infrastructure and banks to lend to them, get 56% of the benefits from no SALT.”

                “Yea over half.”

                “The top 5% get 80% of the benefits.”

                “Like I said, you affect the uber-rich and leave the middle class alone.”

                “Technically, 3% of the benefits would be felt by middle-income quintiles.”

                “Alright so 97% of the people that benefit are not in the middle quintile.”

                “Yea, and 80% are in the top 5, or what you call, ‘uber-rich.’”

                “Still seems very hypocritical for the two admitted socialists.”

                “Oh, that’s not even a debatable point.”

                “So, what are we even talking about here?”

                “I don’t know, I just don’t like to see our country in this crisis.”

                “Me neither that’s why we need to expose these people for the frauds they are to kick them back to the fringes where they belong.  They’re not going to just go away if we ignore them, we have to mock, belittle, and destroy them politically and ideologically to wake up the rest of the country.  The other side isn’t going to stop and neither should we.”

                “Yea, I’m on board.  Let’s just hope we win because the stakes are high.”

                “We won in the 60s”

                “I shutter what it would mean if they win the rematch.  They’ll keep trying but what happens if they ever do win?”

                “Hopefully that remains a hypothetical question.”

                “We got close with Obama so it’s no longer out of the realm of possibility.”

                “Try not to focus on what could happen if we fail.  Just focus on the fight at hand and address anything that arises from it as it comes up.”

                “Yea, that may be a good idea.”

                The door into the meeting opens and everyone that was in the meeting goes back to work.  The country is counting on them to take people away in handcuffs but that bar may be too high.  After all, they are dealing with career politicians and an extremely powerful deep state that has been building its power and influence for about 25 years. 

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