Theo the Trump Employee Episode 41 Desperation breeds mistakes

                Theo is in the White House where he works.  He thought by now the President would be impeached but as has been true throughout President Trump’s presidency, unprecedented things keep happening.  In this case, the House voted in favor of articles of impeachment but the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi refused to hand the articles over to the Senate, which is what makes the impeachment official.  Every other time a judge or a President had been impeached, the articles were handed over quickly thus not necessitating this fine line.  Pelosi’s reasoning was that she wants to dictate how the Senate trial is run.  Ironically, the person that headed a charge of abuse of power is trying to yield power she doesn’t have.  This isn’t a new thing for Nancy Pelosi as she declared the United States was still in the Paris Accords even though the President pulled the US out of them.  She is not the president so her opinion on whether or not we’re in the Paris accords is the same as a 16-year-old who can’t even vote; none.  Unfortunately, this is the America we live in because the deep state refuses to prosecute Democrats for their blatant abuse of power and illegal activities. 

                Due to the ridiculousness of the past week, Theo decides to go to Christian College as it’s not as liberal as other colleges.  As he sits at the bar, he believes he’s going to be talking about impeachment.  Instead, he hears people talking about the Army vs. Navy football game for all the wrong reasons.  Army vs. Navy is played the week after all the conference championship games and before the bowl games start.  The entire point is that since it’s the only college football game going on, America is watching.  A female states, “Well the military is following Trump because they made a racist symbol.”

                Theo turns around and snaps, “Are you fucking kidding me?”

                The female gives a shocked expression and Theo wishes that he handled it a little differently.  “Umm, it’s a white power symbol”

                “No, it’s not.  It’s the ‘ok’ symbol.  The white power symbol was an online hoax to make fun of liberals.  The fact that they ran with it is pathetic.”

                “Well, even a congresswoman said it.”

                “South Carolina Democrat Mandy Power Norrell.’

                ‘Yea, she called it inexcusable”

                “Yea, and she spoke for the minority navy men around them saying they are uncomfortable to be in that environment and all that bullshit about culture.”
                “Why should they!”

                “They don’t, that’s the point.  It’s’ a game called the ‘circle game.’  You make a circle with your hand and if you look at it, you get hit or something.”

                “So, it’s like a guy version of ‘made ya look.’” She said condescendingly

                  “Pretty much yea”

                She shook her head, “Well, I can understand the confusion.”

                “I can’t, why do you think that symbol is an emoji?”

                This is the first time the female seemed to contemplate what Theo was saying.  Theo thought it funny that she didn’t even need to check her phone to see if it was.  She shook her head and blurted out, “You didn’t have to be so rude about it.”

                Theo smiled at the accusation and the female scoffed and stormed off.  Now, all Theo had to do was wait for a male to try to impress her by coming to her aid.  Sure enough, a college boy came up to Theo and sits next to him.  “Are you a Trump supporter?”

                “Yes, but how would you get that from my knowing that the ‘okay’ symbols isn’t a racist symbol?” 

                “Just a hunch.”

                “Well, you were right.”

                “Do you agree with his paranoia that everyone’s out to get him?

                “It’s not paranoia if it’s real.”

                “You think it’s real?”

                “I don’t even think you can debate that anymore.  Even Kevin McCarthey, who is a congressman in California, stated that this is bigger than Watergate, this is a coup.”

                “Why does it matter that he’s from California?”

                “California is a liberal haven.”

                “Devin Nunes is from California.”

                “Touche, but McCarthy has a point.  They broke into the Trump campaign, sent spies to work for him and then covered it up.  That’s not just Watergate, that’s a coup.  Just like Watergate, we need to know who knew, when did they know and how high up did it go?”

                “It’s getting annoying how we call everything ‘blank gate’  Spygate used to be what Bill Belicheck did when he videotaped the opponents practices.”

                “Yea, but this Spygate is replacing Watergate as the gold standard.  It is the new biggest scandal in American history.”

                “Comey straight up told Trump that he wasn’t investigating him.  He was unsure if the dossier was true or not but he was looking into it.”

                “So why not verify the dossier before making accusations?”

                “They can’t control the media.  It leaked.”

                “Comey’s confidential informant Steele leaked it.”

                “Then they fired Steele.”

                “Then they had Bruce Ohr be a back channel between Steele and the FBI.”

                “I’m just saying Comey may not be as bad as everyone makes him out to be.”

                “When he told President Trump all that on January 7, 2017 according to the IG Report, it was a lie.”

                “What motivation does he have to lie?”

                “Motive doesn’t matter.  It doesn’t even matter in a court case; it’s just an added explanation for what happened but isn’t needed for conviction.  If you want a motive, I’ll tell you it’s just general hatred of the new president.”

                “He’s a professional; he can put aside his personal differences.”

                “Nothing Comey has done since 2016 makes me believe he’s a professional.”

                “What evidence do you have that he lied to Trump?  You generally don’t like Comey?”

                “No, in December 2016, he interviewed Steele’s Russian sources that the dossier was based on.  The source said that everything Steele told him was crap.  The source also relayed that he told him that stuff as jokes over drinks and there was no seriousness to it.”

                “Over drinks is how you find out people’s secrets.  Inhibitions are let down.”

                “You think Russian oligarchs close to Putin got that way by being loose lipped when drinking?  They would have been killed by now.”

                “It’s worth looking into.”

                “My point is that when Comey told the president he hadn’t investigated the dossier, what do you call meeting with the source a month before you made that statement?”

                “Maybe he just meant he hadn’t finished yet.  Like he hasn’t made a decision.”

                “Yes, because the FBI never speaks precisely because it’s not like there are dire consequences if you don’t speak clearly.” Theo fired back sarcastically then continued, “In mid-November 2016, FBI officials travelled abroad and met with people that had professional contacts with Steele and had knowledge of this work.  Again, all this was in the IG report.”

                “Again, why lie?”

                “He desperately wanted something to be true in the dossier.  He failed when investigating Steele’s sources and asking his contacts if he does good work.  When that failed, they needed Trump to let his guard down so he told him President Trump wasn’t under investigation so President Trump wouldn’t demand answers and tell his staff to look into this.  Remember, January 7 is about two weeks before he gets sworn in.  Comey doesn’t want his investigation to be on his radar so he lies about it.”

                “That’s speculation.”

                “Of course it is but you asked me to get into Comey’s head.  I can’t get into someone’s head if they don’t explicit reveal what they’re thinking unless I speculate.”

                “It seems like Comey did his due diligence.  That’s what he’s supposed to do.”

                “Investigate it yes but that’s not what he did.  He had a two way street with Steele.”

                “What do you mean?”

                “There’s a footnote 323 in the IG report about how the FBI furnished Steele election reports to intelligence service of a friendly foreign government.”

                “I don’t know what that means.”

                “Bear with me because this is a little convoluted.”

                “Okay”

                “Steele gave information to the FBI.  The FBI looks into it and tells Steele that he lied and tells them all the things that he was wrong about.  The FBI then sends the Steele information to the other three intelligence agencies; Australia, New Zealand and Canada.  They point out other false things and give it to Steele.  Steele then changes the information to match what he learned and it circles its way back.  Steele is verifying his own story and making it more credible with the help of the FBI.”

                “Isn’t that what the FBI is supposed to do?  Vet information they receive?”

                “Yes, but you don’t tell the person who lied to you how to lie better.  Once you realize he’s full of shit, you give it back to him and say fuck you, you’re full of shit.  You don’t owe him what specifically was wrong and you certainly don’t give it to other intelligence agencies because you know it’s bullshit.  The lead FBI investigator Strzoak helped Steele lie better.”

                “Sorry, I was paying attention but you lost me.”

                “Yea, I know.  Maybe if I give an example.”

                “Yea, that might help.”

                “So, October 11, 2016, a state department official named Kathleen Kavalac meets with Steele.  While he’s talking, she’s taking notes about discrepancies she’s found.  Some of them include Steele told her that they ran payments through the Russian embassy in Miami but there is no Russian embassy in Miami.  The one to explain what I’m talking about is in Kavalec’s handwritten notes. it mentions Michael Cohen and Prague.  If you’re not familiar, the dossier claimed that President Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, went to Prague to collude with Russians to influence the election.  Kavalec checks travel logs and notes that Michael Cohen has never been to Prague.  You with me so far?”

                “Yes”

                “Now, the dossier is a compilation of a bunch of memos.  There’s a memo on October 19, 8 days after Steele talked to Kavelec that claims that the Kremlin insider is unsure which officials met with Cohen in secret or where the meeting took place.  How did Steele know where the meeting was on October 11 when he talked to Kavalec but not eight days later?”

                “He forgot.”

                “Really?”

                “I don’t know; that is weird.”

                “It’s even stranger that the next day, another memo is written saying that it was Prague.  What happened between the 19^th and the 20^th?”

                “Maybe Kavalec found the travel record.”

                “Remember, Mueller concluded Michael Cohen had never been to Prague either.”

                “Maybe Steele didn’t write the dossier.”

                “Yea, I thought of that.  Especially because it reads just like an April 19, 2007 article by Glenn Simpson talking about how Ex-Soviets use Lobbyists to woo Washington.  Now, I think this fits better.”

                “Still don’t know what ‘this’ is.”

                “He took out the information about Prague because Kavalec wasn’t telling the FBI that he lied so don’t believe him.  She was telling Steele to take that part out because it’s easily disproved.  Then someone came up with another way to check that isn’t travel logs and confirmed it so told him to put it back in.”
                “You’re saying the US government worked with Steele to make the dossier more believable because it was so wrong before?”

                “Exactly”

                “Do you have any idea what the other information was?”

                “Mcclatchy had a piece that talked about Michael Cohen’s cell phone pinging in Prague.  Where did that come from?”

                “So, that’s the other way to check.  How was that disproven?”

                “I’m glad you asked.  I have to be careful to constantly remind you that everything in the dossier is a lie.”

                “Duly noted.”

                “Michael Cohen is a very common name.  I think it was the wrong Michael Cohen.”

                “That would explain why there was no travel log and why there was a ping.  Unless they had the wrong cell phone.  I don’t know that was a weak argument.”

                “Mueller spent 30 Million dollars and 2.5 years and decided that Cohen had never been to Prague.”
                “I didn’t think you’d like the Mueller report.”
                “I don’t.  When he was appointed to head the special counsel, all of this already happened so he knew it was garbage but he never told the world.  He just wasted tax payer money and time.  He should have told the world the dossier was false on day one because everyone, including the FBI, knew that when it started.”

                “He was looking at Russian collusion.”

                “Which existed only in the dossier.”

                “I thought it was others.”

                “They made vague statement like ‘corpus of information’ and ‘mosaic of facts’ but I wish you were as skeptical of them as you are me.  They never gave examples.  Would you have given me credence if I never gave you examples?”

                “Well, I know you don’t like motive but what was Mueller’s motive for continuing it if he knew the dossier was a hoax?”

                “He needed to save the reputation of the FBI so he desperately wanted to find one key thing that turned out to be true.  After all, the greatest lies have an element of truth.  This, however, didn’t qualify.  It wasn’t a very good lie but the deep state was so desperate to stop President Trump from being president that they believed anything.”

                The boy shook his head, “I don’t know, this is a little too deep for a bar conversation.  I got to think about this.  Do you come here often?”

                “Like once a month.”

                “Well, I’m here a lot.  Hopefully I see you again.  For now, I got to think about this shit and process it through my head. Preferably when I’m more sober.”

                “If you’re drunk, chances are you won’t remember.”

                “I’m not drunk; I’ve just had some drinks.  I need a clear head.  I’ll remember, don’t worry.

                “I hope so.  I got to get home too.  I’ll buy you a drink.  Merry Christmas”

                “Sounds good.”

                Theo buys a drink and closes his tab.  He hands it to the boy and then leaves the bar.  He gets on the train and sees someone around his age with a big smile on his face.  Theo smiles back, “Well you look happy.”

                “I am, my boss just told me I’m getting a raise and my Christmas bonus was $1,000 more this year than last year.”

                “Yea, that tax cut keeps trickling down.”

                “Well, most went to the rich, but I got mine even though I’m in the middle class.”

                “Perhaps you should rethink if you’ve been told the right thing based on your own experience.”

                “Ummm, I don’t think my boss lied about giving me a raise.  Even if he did, how would you know that?”

                “I’m not.  I just know the statistics.  Nominal wages for the lowest 10% of income earners has gone up 7%.  Those without a high school diploma is up 9%.  The Middle Class follows them and dead last as far as wage growth is the upper class.”

                “Then why is the income disparity increasing?”

                “It’s not, that’s fake news.  Look it up yourself.  It doesn’t matter what graph from which organization you look at, you’ll see lowest incomes rising faster than the higher incomes.”

                “Well lower has more to go up.”

                “That’s not what you said when you thought rich got a higher increase.”

                “That’s true.  What time period? Because a lot of it was Obama.”

                “This is from May 2017 – September 2019.  Obama era had ended and President Trump reversed almost every economic thing Obama did.  You can’t argue it followed the same trend because when you do the opposite, you can’t expect the same trends to continue.”
                “Did the opposite happen under Obama?”

                “Yes, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer.”

                “Well, I hadn’t gotten a raise in years.”

                “Thank President Trump.  He put more money in your employer’s pocket.”

                “Look, I don’t know who’s to credit but I’m just happy.”

                “As you should be.  I wish you knew who to credit so you would know who to vote for to increase the likelihood that it happens more often.”

                The guy responded with a smile.  Theo shook his head and rode in silence.  When he got to his stop, he got out and went home.  He sat down to watch the NBA until it was time to go to bed and start his day all over again the next day, which was Christmas Eve.  Unfortunately, he was never really the Christmas spirit type.”

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