Theo the Trump Employee Episode 49 The Anti-Trump liars

                It was a fun weekend for Theo as the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) was over the weekend.  This was an event where people get to listen to conservative and libertarian speakers and it is all capped off by President Donald Trump delivering a key note speech to rile everyone up.  That, however, was over the weekend.  Now, it is Monday so it’s back to the routine and back to work.  After work, Theo goes to American University and finds a college bar.  He’s especially excited about this visit because he knows how easily college kids panic and now with Americans having died from the Coronavirus, there are going to be a lot of scared college kids.  What do scared college kids do?  They drink.

                Theo orders a drink at the bar and sits and waits.  A girl with glasses is sitting next to him and Theo introduces himself, “Hi, I’m Theo”

                “I’m Taylor”

                Taylor has shoulder length brown hair with a sporty build and big breasts.  Theo declares, “Nice to meet you?  How’s your night going?”

                “Fine for a Monday I guess.  What brings you to a bar on a weekday?”

                “I spent a lot of money today so I’m trying to decompress and get over it?”

                “I hope it was on something good.”

                “It was; I’m going to Romania for EuroCup and I booked my flight.  I’m also going with some friends to Vegas in April so I had to book that flight and hotels.”

                “I love to travel.  That’s definitely a good use of your money.”

                “Yea, it was a little cheaper because my connecting flight is in Rome.”

                “Well yea, I mean, the Coronavirus hit Italy hard.  You don’t really want to go to Rome!”

                “It’s only for a 5.5 hour layover.”

                “Still, it’s highly contagious.  That’s plenty of time to get it.”

                “I’m not worried; I’ll take my discounted ticket and thank China for creating the virus because it gave me a lower price.”

                “I guess you haven’t turned on the news lately.”

                “Oh no, I have.  It’s despicable the way the Democrats are trying to politicize a pandemic.  They really are grotesque awful human beings.”

                “What?!” Taylor exclaimed, “You know, conservatives have brought this up a lot but Chuck Todd asked Mike Pence straight up and he didn’t have one example.”

                “I guess you weren’t listening.  Pence gave an example and then Todd cut him off and interrupted him.”

                “What example did he give?”

                “A NY Times author named Gail Collins wrote an article headlined, ‘Let’s just call it Trump’s virus.”

                “Well, you need to cut people off when they’re spinning.”

                “It’s not spinning.  He answered the question.  He was asked to give an example so he did.  Pence couldn’t remember the author’s name but he got the headline right.  Todd just screamed that it wasn’t helping.”

                “It isn’t though.”

                “And lying about President Trump being responsible for the virus helps?”

                “Well no, but neither does Trump calling it a hoax.”

                “He didn’t call it a hoax.  Politico lied about that.  Even Facebook fact checked it and deemed it false.  You know it’s bad when Trump-hating Facebook calls you a liar when you attack the president.”

                “Was there any truth?”

                “He called the media coverage of it just another ploy or hoax to attack him.  He likened it to Mueller and the impeachment.  He was very clear that the virus should be taken very seriously, which is why he has a task force but the hoax is with the Democrats stirring up hysteria over it.”

                “Well, that’s just one person.  It’s not like she has much pull.”

                “Not to be outdone, another NY Times writer named Maureen Dowd wrote an article called ‘Trump makes us ill.”

                “Was it about Coronavirus?”

                “Yes”

                “Fine, the New York Times hates Trump but you got to admit, he’s not very nice to them either.”

                “Doesn’t make it right to lie about him.  But fine, let’s go to the Washington Post.  They attacked Trump saying he ignored the lessons of the 1918 flu pandemic that killed millions but Trump has referenced that pandemic and started a travel ban for countries affected a month ago.  He’s done anything but ignore it; he even referenced it.”

                “The claim is that Democrats, not journalists, are politicizing it.”

                “Usually during elections a higher percentage of journalists for the Washington Post and New York Times vote Democrat than registered Democrats.”

                “Whatever, it’s not like they’re in charge of shit.  They’re paid to be provocative and raise awareness.  You can only do that by playing on people’s emotions.”

                “What do you call Biden and Bloomberg attacking President Trump for cutting the CDC and NIH funding?”

                “Well, it looks like a bad idea now doesn’t it?”

                “Except he didn’t.  In the new Congressional budget signed, he increased money to both organizations.”

                “Wait, so why did he say it?”

                “He talked about doing it but Congress vetoed him.”

                “There you go.  Imagine what would have happened if he got his way.”

                “First off, I don’t deal with hypotheticals.  Secondly, they lied.  They said he did cut funding but suggesting to cut funding and actually doing it are two very different things.  Even the associated press called Biden and Bloomberg out for lying.  The problem is, Biden is in congress so he knows he’s lying.  Bloomberg probably does too but at least he wasn’t actually involved in the veto and passing the new budget so he has some plausible deniability.  Biden has none.”

                “Didn’t Trump stop a scientist from talking about it?”

                “Also a Biden lie.  The scientist gave a press conference that he’s never been muzzled and he’s been on administrations since Reagan.  What happened was he cancelled media appearances because Pence was just named as head of the task force so he stepped aside to let Pence announce his plan.  People want to listen from the head of the task force before the scientists.”

                “You just have an answer for everything don’t you?”

                “No, I do not but I do have an answer to everything you brought up.  Now, we did journalists, senators and Democrat nominees for president, I guess we don’t have any House members.  Don’t you worry because Ted Lieu tweeted his outrage that President Trump called the virus a hoax, which we’ve already established is a lie. That’s what we call ‘gas lighting’ when you tell a lie often and accurate enough over and over that people start believing it.”

                “We got a little off topic.  I just think Todd’s point was that it’s not a big deal.”

                “Of course it’s a big deal!  These lies are working because Trump’s approval ratings tanked overnight because of these attacks.”

                “Fine, Todd was wrong but you got to admit; this is a serious problem.  Four people have already died in the United States.”

                “Between October 1, 2019 and February 22, 2020, it is estimated that 18,000 – 46,000 Americans have died from the flu.”

                “That’s a big range.”

                “Different people may classify cause of death as flu or something else.  Like, someone may die of a cold but he had cancer that destroyed his immune system so that’s what allowed the cold to kill him.  One person may take it as the fact that the cold is what killed him so score one for the common cold.  Other people would say he died of cancer because it doesn’t matter what was the final touch, cancer did most of the damage and contributed more to the death.”

                “Well, the epidemic just got started.”

                “Actually, the death rates have declined.  Even with the declining numbers, it’s still inflated because many people got the virus but didn’t seek treatment; they just got over it so they don’t count as a survivor.  The more survivors you don’t count, the higher the percentage of people who died from it is.”

                A large boy approximately 6’4” also with glasses and pale skin with a very broad frame approached, “How do you like that Donald Trump is responsible for the eight largest Dow drops in history?  Does he enjoy that record or win?”

                Theo turned to the man who was much larger than the 6’0” 224 pound Theo.  He smiled and announced, “Excellent, we were just talking about how percentages work so this topic fits right in.  You follow Andrew Junker right?”

                The smug look was off of the large boy’s face.  “Umm, yea.”

                “Notice how she used pure numbers for the decline.”

                “So what?  It’s still true.”

                “Yes, but it’s also misleading.  If she used percentages, then President Trump is nowhere near the top 10.  Andrea is properly named because her data is junk.”

                “What are the largest drops?”

                “The things that actually have names.  You got Black Monday and the 1929 crash that started the Great Depression are the top ones.”

                The boy walked away and Taylor turned to Theo and commented, “Like I said, you got an answer for everything.”

                “And like I said; only the things you college kids bring up.”

                “Us college kids?  I didn’t want to say anything but I had a feeling you looked a little old to be in a college bar.”

                “You would be correct.”

                “Do you go to American?”

                “No, I work at the White House.”

                “Ah, so that’s why you’re so knowledgeable and defend Trump.”

                “This is all public information you can look up yourself.”

                “I might do that.”

                “In the mean time, you’ve finished your drink.  Let me buy you another one.”

                Taylor smiled and Theo ordered two drinks as Theo was empty as well.  She remarked, “Thank you.”

                “Don’t mention it.”

                “I don’t want to be mean, but my friends are here….actually you know what….” Taylor looks off and waves at a couple that walked in. 

                They sit down and Taylor introduces Theo to her friends Victor and Doris.  She then remarks, “Theo is a Trump supporter and actually works at the White House.”

                A grin spreads across Theo’s face but that is why he came to these bars.  He was used to being outnumbered so this was just another day in his mission to lay down truth to college kids.  Victor replied, “Yea, well my guy is out.”

                “I’m guessing Buttigieg.”

                “Yea, how did you know?”

                “You seem upset so that means it just happened and Buttigieg just dropped out.”

                “Oh right, yea. Well it was weird because he sent a message that he was in it till the end and he wasn’t backing down then a couple days later he drops out.”

                “His advisors showed him the polling.  He was about to get destroyed in Super Tuesday tomorrow.”

                “He still could have tried.”           

                “He’s only 38.  He didn’t want to get humiliated.”

                Victor was thinner and short for a guy at 5’8” with tanned skin and buzzed hair.  He responded, “Well, you get right to the point.”

                “Yea, well, that’s the point right?  If he gets embarrassed then that’s what people will remember.  By dropping out now, he can come back in four years and run on winning the Iowa primary and finished well in the other states.  Nobody can point to a horrendous loss. “

                “So, it’s strategic.”

                “Yes, I mean he’ll be 42 in four years so he’s fine in the age department.  Before Corona, President Trump had his highest favorability rating.  I don’t anticipate the market to stay down as it gained 1,000 points today.”

                Taylor cut in, “Didn’t you just yell at someone for using the numbers.”

                “Fine, four percent.”

                “You’re right; it does sound much lower with percentages.”

                “Anyway, Buttiegieg is going to endorse Biden and they’re going to work together to make sure Bernie isn’t the nominee.”

                Victor looks up and concedes, “I hadn’t thought of that.”

                Doris shrugs her shoulders and poses, “What’s wrong with that?   I think with this Coronavirus scare, it just proves we need Medicare for all.”

                Theo retorted, “If that were true, then why is the government calling pharmaceutical companies and private health organizations to help them find a way to combat this?  The government tests haven’t been working and they’re struggling at identifying it so they’re going to private companies.  If we had Medicare for all, there would be no private medical facilities to help them.”

                “Where did you hear this?”

                “Not like it should matter because you should go on the merit of the argument but the Wall Street Journal.”

                Victor announced, “Well, I think that’s a good strategy because Biden has a better chance to beat Trump than Bernie.”

                Theo laughed, “Are you kidding?  With all the gaffes he has?  He told a group of Democrats that if they benefited from the tax cuts, he’s going to raise taxes on them.  Those were his supporters.  President Trump will play that clip every day till the election.  Most people don’t want to hear that you’re going to raise their taxes.”

                Doris fired back, “I just don’t think Trump will win.  I mean, he lost the popular vote before.  You want to talk about gaffes, he has just as many as Biden.  There’s so many scandals and smoke…”

                “All discredited and nothing even close to a conviction.”

                “Still, where there’s smoke there’s fire.”

                “Oh no, if you keep lying about the fire, there’s still no fire.”

                “Whatever, all I’m saying is that I don’t think anyone that didn’t vote for him in 2016 will vote now.”

                “You are sorely mistaken.  People like more money in their 401k’s and in their wallets from the tax cuts.  Before, nobody knew if he could do what he said but he has for the most part.  Now, he actually has a record to run on instead of talk.  Candace Owens, the leader of the blexit movement and one of President Trump’s biggest supporters, didn’t vote for him in 2016.  Now, President Trump is polling between 34-42% amongst black voters.  I credit her movement but other people were involved too.  It used to be that Republicans believed victory was certain if they got 15% but they haven’t really been able to get that number.  According to the polls, President Trump is more than double the number.”

                “He gets attacked by his own party.”

                “The Democrats have been throwing a three year hissy fit that has turned people off of them too.  To the point that a former Never-Trumper like billionaire Paul Singer has decided to buy a large stake of twitter in the hopes to buy a controlling interest later to oust Jack Dorsey as CEO.”

                “Can he do that?”

                “Yes, because of the type of public company twitter is.”

                “What does Paul Singer do?”

                “No, you want to know why he’s doing it.  He’s doing it because he doesn’t like how twitter bans conservatives and suppresses their content.  By buying the controlling interest, he can fire Dorsey and have twitter be fair and not discriminate against anyone.”

                “I don’t think twitter does that.  Trump tweets all the time.”

                “He does, but he’s not the only conservative.  PragerU has had hundreds of videos banned from twitter.  Laura Loomer has been banned entirely for bringing up the hypocrisy that feminists say nothing about Sharia Law.  Some are more subtle and they just take away their followers or decrease the number of likes and comments so it looks like the post didn’t do as well as it did.”

                “No way”

                “It’s very well documented.  To the point that Singer is acquiring the company in the most expensive and frustrating way.”

                “Not to mention underhanded.  Why even do this?  Trump hates when people attack him.”

                “Actually President Trump tweeted out his praise for Singer.  The president rewards loyalty.  If you defend him, he’ll have your back.”

                “Let’s get back to Medicare for all.”

                “It hasn’t worked in any country it has been tried.  It always leads to rationing medical care, which leads to unnecessary deaths.”

                “Trump went after ObamaCare, he took out the one thing that made it work; the individual mandate.”

                “No, it didn’t work.  It decimated our economy.  I’ll agree that the remnants of it are absolutely retarded but that’s why the Supreme Court is ruling on if it’s even constitutional.  The courts may do what President Trump couldn’t; destroy ObamaCare for good.”

                “You seem excited by this.”

                “I am.  You probably aren’t because you wanted to be on mommy and daddy’s health insurance till your 26.”

                Doris turned to Taylor, “Can we go now?”           

                “Where?”

                “Away from him!” nodding at Theo

                Theo shrugged his shoulders and Victor and Doris got up.  Taylor gave a grimace and offered, “Well, I enjoyed talking to you but I gotta be with my friends since I was scheduled to meet up with them.”

                “I understand, I need to go home anyway.  My body doesn’t recover as quickly as it did when I was your age and I do need to go to work tomorrow.”

                Theo closed his tab and left the bar.  As he got on the train, a man that looked like Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future is on the train with his wife.  He exclaimed, “The Times just told us who Case Agent 1 was.  Some guy named ‘Stephen Somma’”

                “I thought it was Joe Pientka”

                “I did too.  I guess I’m kind of happy because it’s always been the same players.  It’s nice to have some new blood.”

                “Who was Case agent one?”

                “Stefan Halper’s handler.”

                “Yea, the CIA spy at Cambridge.”

                “Yes, but what I don’t understand is why the Times leaked it now.”

                Theo rejoined, “They’re trying to get ahead of the Durham report.”

                Theo didn’t know if he would be reprimanded for interrupting or if they’d let him join the conversation but it was worth a shot.  The man uttered, “So, Somma was involved in the opening of Crossfire Hurricane.”

                “Yea, now that we can decode the IG report and who ‘case agent one’ is, we know that he was all over the opening of Crossfire Hurricane.”

                “I’m a little rusty on my Horowitz report.  How do you figure?”

                “First, you got to ask the right question.”

                “Which is?”

                “Why did Somma push the FBI to open a FISA on Carter Page right after Crossfire Hurricane; August 10 to be exact?”

                “I have wondered that since the FBI insists that it was open because of Papadopoulos but we all know that’s horse shit by now.”

                “Right, but why Page?”

                “That’s the million dollar question.”

                “Well, let me try to answer.  Remember, the best lies have an element of truth so yes the FBI lied but what bits of truth did they stick in there to make it believable or to just cover their asses and claim people misunderstood?”

                “From what I understand, everything in the dossier was a lie.”

                “That is true but the FBI claims they didn’t see the dossier until September 19, 2016.”

                “Yea, but they’re lying.”

                “They are but the truth in the lie is they said that it was seen first by the FBI field office in New York.  Recall that the claim isn’t the FBI didn’t see it; it’s that the agents who opened Crossfire Hurricane didn’t see it.”

                “I’m with you so far.”

                “Stephen Somma worked in the FBI field office in New York in a division that specialized in Russia.”

                The wife inquired, “I got a question.  Why does the FBI even bother to lie about why they opened it up?  They’re the FBI; they can open an investigation for whatever reason they want.”

                “They don’t want to be embarrassed and have to admit that they opened an investigation because Hillary paid them to through Fusion GPS.  It ruins the credibility of the FBI if people think they can just buy an investigation so long as it filters or launders through an oppositional research company.”

                “I hadn’t thought of that.”

                “Anyway, that answers the question because Carter Page is the main target of the dossier and Somma worked in the office that got it, so he’s the one that pushed the FBI to open the FISA into Carter Page because that’s what the dossier told him.”

                The man put up his hands, “Whoa, whoa whoa, hold on.  There has been a lot of connections in England for the dirt.  They didn’t need Somma when they had Pientka, Comey and Strzok.”

                “What if I told you that Somma spoke at an intelligence seminar at Cambridge with Richard Dearlove about Russian illegals?”

                “I would say you found the connection.  Dearlove was Steele’s boss and Halper was a professor at Cambridge who resigned citing too many Russian intelligence but he taught a class with one of the premier Russian intelligence officials.”

                “Trubnikov, who Steele cites as a source of his.”

                “According to the IG report, Somma knew that Halper met the subjects of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”

                “Wow, the no name guy might have been the one who set the whole thing up?”

                “I’m not so sure about that.  The FBI gets duped and played a lot in Spygate.  I think they wanted to be tricked because they hated President Trump but I’m not sure if they knew the whole time then Halper may have been handling Somma instead of the other way around.”

                “That makes more sense since Halper orchestrated the whole thing by bringing Sam Clovis, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Paul Manafort to England.”

                “This is where the IG report gets interesting.”

                “How so?”

                “It says that an investigation was open for Page, Stein and Manafort on August 10.  The next day, Somma and Halper are meeting with the FBI and suddenly the August 10 memo in the dossier has Mike Flynn’s name thrown in there.”

                The wife inquires, “How do you know it was thrown in at the last minute?”

                “It’s in a different format as the other names.  The other names have the full last name in caps but Flynn’s name is written normally.”

                The man pronounces, “Why Flynn?”

                “Exactly.  Somma had no issue with Flynn, he was in the New York field office and got a dossier that’s mostly about Carter Page and Donald Trump.  Mike Flynn is a lower character.  Stefan Halper, however, has been trying to destroy Flynn since 2014 for speaking out to Obama about the Iran deal and how bad of an idea it was.  Halper must have been pissed when they glossed over Flynn and opened an investigation on the other guys because he’d been working on nailing Flynn for two years.  His fury paid off because he and Somma convinced the FBI to open a case against Flynn on August 16, presumably not to make it suspicious.”

                “For someone that never worked in politics, Somma jumped right in huh?”

                “He lied about that.  He’s been heavily involved in politics since the 1970s.”

                “I think you’re right about Halper being the real puppet master.  He was spying on Flynn for a while before his meeting with Carter Page.”

                “And according to Somma, it was serendipitous that Halper had contacts with three of the four Crossfire Hurricane participants and he just happened to fall in his lap.  It was also incredible he knew Mike Flynn too.”

                “Yea, it’s such a big coincidence; it seems completely preposterous it can be true.  Nobody is that stupid but you’d think if he was the master mind, he would have come up with a better explanation.  This makes more sense to me; Somma was involved but Halper was handling him. “

                “Or Steele and Dearlove were handling Halper who was handling Somma by telling Halper to report to the FBI and what to tell Somma and Pientka.”

                “I guess it doesn’t change much.  Either the FBI got duped or Somma knew where the information was coming from and didn’t care that it was based on a salacious and unverified document or from CIA spies that were using England to spy on American citizens.”

                “I’m leaning toward the latter.”

                “Yea me too.”

                They rode in silence and the couple got off first.  A couple stops later, Theo exited the train in Rockville, Maryland where he lived.  He got ready for bed and prepared for another day at the White House tomorrow. 

 

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