The 2016 election for the next
president of the United States is heating up as Donald Trump and Hillary
Clinton are battling it out and the fight is getting dirty. The sides, however, are not merely Hillary
vs. Donald but the FBI and various other people are heavily involved as battle
lines are clearly drawn. One underhanded
tactic by Hillary’s team is paying a firm named Fusion GPS through a law firm
Perkins Coie to dig up oppositional research on Donald Trump. The owner of
Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, hires a former British MI6 agent Christopher Steele
to aid in his research. Steele then
proceeds to compile a dossier with various memos that paint Donald Trump in a
negative light. Now, he has to
disseminate it to America. At this time,
Steele is a trusted informant for the FBI due to his work on the FIFA
corruption case. This, however, isn’t
good enough as he knows he needs to have his information filtered through the
FBI through a variety of avenues including the Department of Justice, media,
and politicians. As he ponders how to
get the FBI to trust the information so as to not bother verifying it, he
determines that the greatest way to do this is to have a Republican politician
tell the FBI. Given Donald Trump’s blunt talk and unflattering nicknames for
his opponents in the Republican primaries, Steele doesn’t believe this to be
too difficult. The obvious choices seem
to be Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio but Cruz and Trump seem to have put the
primaries behind them. Luckily, his target
is about to reveal himself to Steele with public comments.
As Steele is following American
media, he sees that John McCain has been very vocal about his dislike for
Donald Trump. Steele smiles as this is
much better than Cruz or Rubio since the FBI may think they’re bitter that
Trump got the nomination and they didn’t.
McCain was not in the Republican primary but has won a primary himself
and ran for president. He is a long
standing respected Republican Senator so he seems like the perfect useful idiot
Republican to launder his information to the FBI. He calls the campaign and offers him the
information. John McCain speaks to
Steele and is a little skeptical about the information he is hearing. Many people try to get some time with the
Arizona Senator and they have various outrageous claims. McCain tells Steele, “Tell you what; I’m
going to put you in touch with one of my staffers David Kramer. You can send your information to him and
discuss what you’ve found.”
“Just so you know sir, this is a
very sensitive document. If it gets into
the wrong hands, it could be devastating.
Can I trust Kramer to be discreet?”
“Absolutely, I have complete
faith in his discretion. You have nothing to worry about.”
“Thank you Senator McCain”
“Thank you Mr. Steele.”
McCain gives him Kramer’s
contact information and Steele contacts Kramer.
Kramer is so excited about this information that he travels to London to
meet with Steele. During the meeting,
Steele hands him the dossier and articulates, “Now, this is a very sensitive
document so please only give it to the responsible hands.”
“I understand. I handle sensitive information and documents
all the time and I’ve never had an issue keeping my mouth shut. I am very responsible and I understand that
leaky boats sink ships.”
“Alright, then let me know if
you have any questions. It’s pretty
fascinating stuff I was able to uncover.”
On the flight back to
Washington, Kramer reads through the dossier and is horrified by what he’s
found. The election is coming up and he
begins to lose faith that the FBI would be able to properly verify all the
information in it before Election Day. By the time he lands, he decides that he
must take matters into his own hands. He
calls his contact at Buzzfeed to tell him about what he learned in London. There’s a lot of information in the dossier
and Kramer did tell Steele that he wouldn’t do exactly what he’s doing so he
decides to just send BuzzFeed one memo about when Trump was in Russia for the
Miss Universe pageant. The memo alleges
that he had prostitutes come to his room to watch a golden shower show. Kramer feels this is enough to harm Donald
Trump and leaves the rest of it out.
After Kramer left, Simpson calls
Glenn Simpson. The truth of the matter
is Glenn Simpson wrote most of the dossier.
25 years ago, Steele worked in Russia so he added a little Russian color
to Simpson’s narrative, which is more or less a reprint of an article he wrote
for the Wall Street Journal on April 19, 2007 entitled, “How Lobbyists help
Ex-Soviets Woo Washington.” Steele
informs him that he gave the dossier to McCain’s campaign. Simpson responds, “This is good. Now we have the FBI receiving the information
from bipartisan leadership. They’re
going to have to believe it.”
“Well, the Republicans also paid
you for this oppositional research right?”
“No, the funding was all by
Democrats; specifically Hillary Clinton.
The thing I did with the Republicans was a separate issue that had
nothing to do with this. The funding may
have been exclusively Democrats but the dissemination will not be. This is good.”
“Oh alright”
“Good work, Chris, I can’t thank
you enough for your help in this.”
“No worries old chap; we need to
do our part to stop Donald Trump.”
Later, Steele wanders upon the
Buzzfeed release about the golden shower episode with Donald Trump in
Moscow. He stares horrified at the TV in
disbelief. He yells, “I specifically
said repeatedly not to leak this because it was sensitive and they go and tell
the media. What is Kramer thinking?!”
As information is released and
garnered, it becomes increasingly obvious that there is no substance to the
Golden Shower Moscow story and the media drops it without apologizing or
admitting fault. They simply just ignore
the information. There is a lot of heat
on the McCain team and they all keep to the narrative that they wanted to get
the dossier into the hands of the FBI so they can vet the information. They vehemently deny that they ever passed it
off as credible or vouched for its authenticity. Upon questioning, they assert they did the
right thing by giving it to the FBI because it’s their responsibility to take
care of information like this. Critics
are quick to point out that if you give something to the media, then you lose
all credibility when you claim that your only purpose in its dissemination was
verification by the intelligence community.
To show how much this affected
McCain, in a book published prior to his death, he declares he did nothing
wrong with the dossier and anyone that doesn’t agree can go to hell.
During the 2016 election, McCain
and Kramer aren’t the only ones aiding the FBI in investigating a scandal with
a political candidate. The FBI has just
opened an investigation into Hillary Clinton on whether or not she sent
classified information on her personal e-mail address. The investigation is muddied when she white
washed and professionally deletes all her e-mails from her blackberry. The Deputy Director of the FBI, Andy McCabe,
calls his media contacts and alerts them to the status of the e-mail
investigation. He has been working very
diligently with top FBI officials to make sure Hillary Clinton wins but this
investigation was getting a lot of fanfare so they had to pay lip service to
it. After he reads and sees what he had
released to the media, he decides to cover himself by calling the New York FBI
field office and reams them out for leaking the information to the media. The FBI field office in New York assures him
that it wasn’t them but McCabe isn’t hearing it and continues to berate
them. The New York field office looks at
their fellow co-workers and wonders if there is a traitor amongst them and now
has to operate knowing that their communications may not be safe.
After the election, in May,
McCabe is no longer the deputy director as he was fired by President Donald
Trump. In May, an FBI agent that had
worked for McCabe when he was Deputy Director interviews him and asks, “Did you
authorize the story that ran about the status of the Hillary Clinton e-mail
investigation?”
“I gave no authority to share
any information relative to my interaction with the DOJ executive. I don’t remember seeing this information
before.”
The FBI agent frowns at the last
part and decides to give his old boss a chance to correct himself, “Are you
sure?”
“Yup, I’m sure.”
“The reason I’m asking if you’re
sure is that I e-mailed you the information about the leak two or three
times. I did alert you to it.”
“Well, there was a lot going on
then.”
The FBI agent sighs and realizes
he’s not going to get anywhere with this.
He moves on and finished his interview knowing that he is dealing with
someone who has no problem lying to him.
This issue will come up again in December 2019 when the inspector
general Horowitz releases his report.
During an extensive
investigation of the FBI investigation into Donald Trump, the FBI inspector
general Michael Horowitz, who is heading the probe, has called McCabe in for an
interview. McCain is asked the same
question about the Hillary e-mail leak to the media and whether or not he
authorized it. McCabe replies, “Yup, I
did.”
Horowitz is a little surprised
by this so follows up, “So, when you denied it previously to the FBI, you were
lying?”
“Yes, I was. I lied to the FBI when they asked me and I
apologize for lying.”
Horowitz doesn’t see any reason
to pursue this line of questioning. He
got a confession so there was nothing left to do. It isn’t his job to prosecute people so he’ll
just pass on the information to those who are responsible; Christopher Wray’s
FBI. Paradoxically, the same FBI that
has been engaged in a multi-year lawsuit trying to incarcerate Mike Flynn for
lying to the FBI for not remembering a conversation he had six months prior
with Russian Ambassador to the United States Kislyak verbatim. Even the FBI agents that interviewed Flynn
wrote in their 302, or a summary of an interview, that they didn’t believe Mike
Flynn was being deceptive in their interview.
Those agents had the transcript of Flynn’s call but realized that the
inconsistencies were minor and wrote it off to normal fallacy of people’s
memory. The higher ups at the FBI,
however, disagreed and thus a three year lawsuit costing Flynn over a million
dollars in legal fees has ensued. After
Horowitz releases his report, he is perplexed at the contrast between Wray’s
FBI treatment of Mike Flynn and their deciding not to prosecute Andy McCabe for
confessing to doing exactly what Flynn did under no pressure by them. Technically, Flynn did sign a confession but
it was only after the FBI threatened to go after his kids on something they had
on him. Flynn also had to re-mortgage
his house to help with legal fees. It
was only after all this, that Flynn signed the confession as it was crippling
him and his family both financially and spiritually.
Currently, the 2020 election is
heating up as everything the DOJ, Democrats, FBI, CIA, the media, Fusion GPS,
etc. has done has been unsuccessful in stopping Donald Trump from being and
remaining president of the United States.
While these scandals were going on, Iran has quietly been prodding
America to see what they can get away with as America is distracted by the
turmoil of the people on opposite sides of the lines of being in favor of
Donald Trump or against him. The first
test was when Iran shot down an American drone.
They were threatened and castigated for it by Donald Trump but not much
was done. They then tried isolated
attacks. When Donald Trump successfully
killed ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi and his successor, Iran was given some insight
into just how polarized America was. The
Iranians read in the Washington Post that Trump killed an ‘austere religious
scholar’ referring to Baghdatti. Now,
they knew that the American media hated Donald Trump so much that they would
support Islamic Jihadist over their president.
This made the eyes of the the
head of Quds, an elite Iranian military force, light up and he starts working
on delivering a decisive blow to the United States. His name is Quasem Soleimani and he has been
behind various operations and assassination in places ranging from Lebanon,
Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen, and Iran. He has
been personally involved in killing hundreds of Americas and thousands of
people in general during his over two decade reign of terror. He believes that Donald Trump with the
impeachment fiasco and investigation is weakened and unable to deal with
him. The lack of response to the Iran
drone strike was proof enough. He
arranges an attack on the US embassy in Iraq telling his men to blame it on
President Trump pulling out of the Iran deal that Barack Obama made. He knows this will virtue signal the
anti-Trump Americans because their beloved Barack Obama made the deal. Soleimani knows he’ll get away with it
because those that attacked the US embassy in Benghazi were defended by Hillary
Clinton who blamed it on a video that was released. With 65 million people in America acting as
his apologist, he could raid another US embassy in the Middle East, see it
through and then head back to Iran. He
books his flight out of Iran a couple days after the scheduled attack and
thinks nothing of it.
Unfortunately for Soleimani, the
raid is a failure as they didn’t kill any Americans nor overrun the
embassy. President Donald Trump acted
decisively sending a quick response team, the marines and an air strike that
quickly dispersed the protestors and made them think twice about their mission
as they scurried away like rats. Soleimani
isn’t too discouraged by this and continues with his plan to head back to Iran
in a couple days to regroup. If the raid
was a success, Soleimani had plans to escalate the attacks but now he has to strategize
what his next step is. In the days
before his flight, he reads Donald Trump’s tweet threatening Iran that there
would be consequences. He made the same
threat when they shot down the drone so dismisses this as well. He is encouraged because the supreme leader
of Iran, Al Khamenei, responded to President Trump’s tweet with one of his own
saying, “That guy has tweeted that we
see Iran responsible for the events in Baghdad
& we will respond to Iran. 1st
you can’t do anything and 2nd if you were logical, which you’re not,
you see that your crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan have made nations hate you.”
With that, Soleimani knows that
despite his failure, he still has support from his Supreme leader. It is unknown what would have happened if
Soleimani went back to Iran. Maybe,
privately Khamenei would have scolded him for his failure. As of now, it is all speculation because
Donald Trump didn’t tweet back to Khamenei that he could do something. Instead, he authorized a strike of the
Baghdad airstrip where Soleimani was on a plane fleeing Iraq killing the
international terrorist that had been an enemy of America in every way shape
and form since 1998. This sent a message
to Iran that President Trump is indeed capable of doing something and even though
he didn’t start this war or ask for this, he sure is willing to give the order
to end it.
After the threat at the embassy
was over, President Donald Trump met with his advisors on what should be their
response to Iraq. Many of them
recommended more sanctions but the president didn’t see that as effective. One advisor claimed, “Mr. President, you must
not act impulsively. We can’t rush into
Iran and start World War III. I would
urge you to be patient.”
“I have been patient. I was patient when they attacked the drone
and the other stuff they did. That is
why Soleimani has his guard down and has made it no secret when he is going to
be flying out of Baghdad and where his plane is taking off from. He is travelling with impunity so this is the
time to take out a well known terrorist just like I did with Al-Baghdatti and
his successor.”
An advisor in favor of military
action opined, “Mr. President, they attacked our embassy. This isn’t some military equipment like a
drone. The embassy is American soil
thus this is an attempt to kill Americans on American soils. It is irrelevant that they failed because
they only failed because we acted. What
else are we supposed to do? Concede
power and give up Iraq to the Iranians?”
The anti-military advisor countered,
“Sir, I’d advise you of the old expression that you should never go to war
alone, never go to war for a long time and never go to war unless you
absolutely have to.”
The president replies, “Given
the attack on our embassy, I do believe our allies will aid us so we won’t be
alone. I am not interested in invading
Iran so I don’t anticipate it being a prolonged war and I agree that we need a
response. Right now, I am not starting a
war but if the Iranians don’t get the message, then the third part of that may
be fulfilled. As you know, I was against
invading Iraq but we are there and we need to see it through. Even with all the bad intelligence we had
back then, I still opined it was not absolutely necessary to invade Iraq. I am
the same person and I will utilize the same discretion now that it is my
decision in invading Iran. It will not
be done unless absolutely necessary. You
have my word.”
“What do you have in mind as a
response then sir?”
“Perhaps we can talk about a
different response. Remember, six months
ago, Soleimani was our ally when we were battling ISIS in Syria. He helped us out then so if we kill him now
then others will be less likely to help us in the future.”
“He was not doing that to help
us. He was doing that to take out a
political rival so he could more easily garner control in the Middle East. He hasn’t been our friend since 1998.”
The war-hawk advisor added, “He
has been killing innocent people for the last 22 years, and you think he’s our
friend? Keep in mind the tribal nature
of Islamic Jihadists. It is similar to
the Native Americans when we came here.
There was never a conflict between the settlers and the Native American
tribes in which the settlers didn’t have some tribes fighting on their
side. Do you really thing they fought
Assad and ISIS in Syria to help us?”
“Yes, and now there are sports
teams named after some of those tribes.”
“What’s your point?”
“That these decisions need to be
made with extreme caution.”
“Look, our foreign policy may
change every four to eight years depending on who the Commander in Chief is but
Iran’s foreign policy hasn’t changed since the fall of the Shah. They have been very consistent that their
mission is death to America so nothing they have done has ever been to help us. It was always in their mission and they feel
no gratitude towards us.”
The President sits straighter
and declares, “I appreciate your advice but I’m going to authorize the strike
on Soleimani. The Iranians won’t be
happy but they only respond to force as condemning them for the small stuff
they’ve pulled lately has clearly not worked.
Before it gets any worse, we need to respond with strength. I give the order to kill Quasem Soleimani.”
After the successful mission,
Soleimani was proven right about one thing.
They could count on the media to defend them against their common enemy
Donald Trump. The Washington Post again
ignores the fact the Soleimani had been killing innocent people since 1998 and
writes the headline referring to Soleimani as a ‘most revered military
leader.’ It may not be as bad as
referring to international terrorists as ‘austere scholars’ but it definitively
shows where their loyalties lie. Even
Fox News isn’t immune to this as Geraldo Rivera repeats the same argument as
the anti-military advisor calling Soleimani our friend six months ago and
blaming everything on President Trump pulling out of the Iran deal.”
Other news outlets are doing the
inevitable reflection on the past few years.
This is a natural occurrence toward the end of the year and the Russian
collusion hoax is prevalent on their minds.
Glenn Simpson is meeting with his partner Peter Fritsch. Simpson proposes writing a book and then promoting
it in London. He wants to re-litigate
the Russian collusion hoax but, this time, go after new British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson. Simpson has decided to use the same information and insert
Johnson’s name for Donald Trump’s. This
isn’t a new strategy as the dossier was merely replacing Bob Dole’s name with
Donald Trump so it doesn’t matter what name you used, his efforts have been
effective in sowing discord in a country.
The publicity of the Trump Russian collusion narrative is hurting his
credibility so he has to do something to minimize the damage. Fritsch asks him, “I don’t know. Most people know about what we did in 2016. What
makes you think we’re going to get away with it if we try again?”
“Same way we got away with it in
2016; exploit the current make up of the media.”
“What would that be?”
“The first things that media
outlets like newspapers lost when people started getting their news from social
media thus ending their subscriptions were their foreign news rooms. Instead of wasting money on that, they hire
people like us to tell them what is going on internationally but they have
fewer resources to check it.”
“I get that but I’m not sure if
they’re going to give us much credibility.”
“That’s why we write a
book. People believe something they read
in a book over what they read in an article.”
“That is true but how is that
going to give us credibility?”
“If nobody is talking about how
bad our credibility is, then we won’t have a problem. We need to make sure nobody discredits the
book the way they discredited the dossier.”
“How do you suppose we do that?”
“The IG Report and the Mueller
report have embarrassed the American media but we were largely kept out of the
Mueller report and nobody is talking about us in the IG report. It does, however, make the media look bad. We will discredit the IG report and the
Durham report as that is probably not going to be too kind either as a favor to
the media.”
“They know it’ll be a
self-serving endeavor.”
“Of course they will but we will
remind them why they need to be actively engaged in promoting everything we
tell them both in the past and in the future.”
“How do we do that?”
“The book will threaten them by
identifying expendable journalists who used our product but aren’t major
players or big high profile media types.
This will send a message to the high profile media types that if they
don’t toe the line and keep promoting what we say, then we’ll bring them down
with us. Let them know that our success
is in their best interest because we identify everyone that aided us with the
dossier and ruin careers and, probably, many huge network conglomerates.”
“I’m beginning to think we have
no choice. Our survival depends on them
getting that message. I agree; let’s write the book.”
Other media outlets are doing
the same end of the year reflections.
They are horrified that a list has just been made by Matt Palumbo
listing 109 fake stories about Donald Trump.
One executive retorts, “What evidence does he have that they’re
fake? It’s just his opinion.”
“One of them was that Donald
Trump didn’t pay his taxes for 18 years.
There’s really no debating that one as his returns were released and it
turned out that he paid more in taxes than Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders.”
“He also changes his address to
Florida so that New York State wouldn’t release more so I’m not sure how
convincing that is.”
“It still points to the
hypocrisy since it was more than Sanders and Obama.”
“The average American won’t put
much stock in that.”
“They have small claims like
when we vilified Trump for referring to ‘black history’ month as ‘African
American’ history month.”
“We lie and change what’s
politically correct all the time to make him look bad.”
“Yes, but usually it’s targeted
specifically for one person. This change indicted every President since Clinton
since they all referred to February as ‘African-American’ history month at some
point in time.”
“Yea, but who really cares about
that lie?”
“It gets to more serious
allegations like the Trump campaign colluded with Senior Russian intelligence
officials.”
“That was a little
hyperbolic. Even Jim Comey called us out
on that one. It just felt like with how
much the President exaggerates, we can exaggerate too.”
“Then there are all the times
where the media apparently can’t read the word ‘not’”
“Oh like when Meghan Kelly said
that Putin told her that he did have compromising information on Donald Trump
but, in reality, he told her that he did not have compromising information on
Donald Trump?”
“Or, with the whistleblower in
the office of net assessment at the Pentagon saying that the whistleblower did
leak sensitive information to the media when the real quote was that they said
that he did not leak it.”
“Yea, and that whistleblower was
suspended without pay for revealing how we paid Stefan Halper a million dollars
for four reports that he never did. That
was the laundering of money so he would help spy on Donald Trump and the
whistleblower was punished for it in violation of US law.”
“Then we contradicted ourselves
in the impeachment inquiry saying that nothing should happen to Eric Ciaramella
for his Trump phone call.”
“Yea, relying on fourth hand
information but he wasn’t to be criticized or even have his identity
revealed. The double standard is so
obvious, it’s palpable.”
“The world is going to hell.”
“Not really. If you bring this up to 10,000 feet, we had
the best decade in human history. Child
mortality, pollution and international poverty rates have plummeted, economies
around the world surged. Not to mention
that Malaria and other diseases are on a sharp decline and all the Malthus
doomsday people have been proven wrong because our agricultural productivity is
expanding exponentially. We now use 65%
less land than we did 50 years ago and we can still feed everyone and there are
a lot more people now than 50 years ago.
It’s been so efficient that forests are beginning to expand in wealthy
countries causing eagles, wolves, lynxes, tigers and other threatened species
to increase their numbers. Even seals
and polar bears have been multiplying their numbers. It’s really quite remarkable.”
“Nobody likes reading good
news.”
“I know. That’s why we never
talked about it but in this constant battling, I find looking at the bright
side is the only thing that keeps you sane.”
“Perhaps you should find another
profession if that’s the case. We deal
with horrifying the public and giving them the Schadenfreude that they crave so
much. People love reading about how
everything is going to hell in a hand basket.”
“I agree. On that note, maybe we
should follow what’s going on in Virginia with Governor Nothum’s 18 person, $
4.5 million task force to confiscate guns.”
“That was a pretty idiotic
response to all but nine of their counties, 91% of them, declaring themselves
gun sanctuary counties. When the National
Guard and local law enforcement says they won’t enforce it, finding 18 people
to do it might not be the best idea.”
“True but it sends a message to
the rest of the country that the government may be raiding them next. People love things that fuel their paranoia
that someone, whether it be the government or some psycho killer, is coming to
get them and they’re going to break into their house destroying the safety and
security of their own home.”
“Now, that’s a story I can get
behind!”
With the constant need for
people to send threatening messages and shows of strength, it’s no wonder that
a majority of people have no idea how great the world really is.
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