It is the middle of 2016 and the
presidential election is heating up.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are pulling no punches as they go after
one another. In the Hillary camp, there
is no doubt that she is going to win but she doesn’t believe in a fair fight. She has been colluding with President Barack
Obama and the DOJ to make sure that President Trump never becomes
president.
Since 2008, the DOJ has had one
tactic in attacking their opponents; accuse them of Russian collusion. It started with McCain but given that George
Bush was president, he put a stop to it.
Now that a Democrat is in the White House, underhanded tactics are
copacetic and to be used with reckless abandon.
2014 was when it really picked up when Obama’s National Security advisor
Mike Flynn dared to disagree with President Obama about the Iran deal. After that, he was lured to England at a
dinner in Cambridge where they sat an English citizen who was born in Russia
named Svetlana Lokhova to sit at his table.
Lokhova was CIA spy and Cambridge professor Stefan Halper’s
student. Given this pattern of behavior,
it was not surprising that they would tag Donald Trump with the Russian
collusion label too. Just like with
Lokhova, all they had to do was have a Russian talk to him.
While the upper echelons of the
FBI and CIA were figuring out a way to entrap members of the Trump campaign and
spy on the Republican candidate, the rest of the intelligence community were
doing what they were supposed to do; vet news and intelligence from around the
world and, if credible, present it if it was cause for concern for
America. As CIA director, John Brennan
would be privy to all this information.
As he sits at his desk, he looks through his reports from the five eyes
or the intelligence communities of England, America, Australia, New Zealand and
Canada. What he finds is that Russian
president Vladimir Putin is favoring Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election
because they believe her to be more malleable and predictable than Donald
Trump. Brennan frowns and buries this
information but doesn’t destroy it. This
proves to be a costly mistake when the National Security Council’s Chief of
Staff Frederick Freitz will uncover it four years later. As Freitz would later accurately recount, all
high quality intelligence said that Putin favored Hillary.
As Brennan continues to go
through, he finds report from non-official channels such as the State
department that Putin is favoring Trump to win the presidency. As a long-time intelligence official, John Brennan
knows how to rectify these two pieces of information. Russia is putting things out all over the
place hoping to cause chaos in America.
The reason why their birdies they sent out about Trump never made it to
Brennan’s desk is because they failed the vetting process miserably. Brennan knows that if anything, the Russians
favor Hillary but since he knows his bread is buttered by President Barack
Obama and soon to be Hillary Clinton, he ignores the high quality attention and
only runs with the low quality intelligence in briefings with the President and
politicians on Capitol Hill.
Hillary Clinton has not been
complacent in this process. Through a
law firm named Perkins Coie, she has hired Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Donald
Trump. Glenn Simpson, the owner of
Fusion GPS, calls a former MI6 agent and FBI informant Christopher Steele for
help since he had worked in Russia for a number of years many years ago. As the campaign picks up, Steele can’t
believe his luck. He only has one source
on the dirt on President Trump. He is in
constant communication with Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS via e-mail. Although he tells Kathleen Kavalec of the
state department 10 days before the FBI opens a FISA warrant against Trump
campaign member Carter Page that he has two sources, in later investigations by
the inspector general Michael Horowitz, he can only confirm one source. The two sources he reveals to Kavalec are two
known Russian disinformation artists named Surkov and Trubnikov. Trubnikov coincidentally co-taught a course
at Cambridge with CIA spy Stefan Halper.
Finally the moment everyone has
been waiting for; Election Day 2016
where all the hard work by Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele, Barack Obama, the
DOJ, FBI and CIA will all payoff when Hillary Clinton is revealed as the next
president of the United States. At
around two in the morning that night, these same players will stare
incredulously at their TV sets. Donald
Trump has found a way to thwart all their efforts and defy all the polls in the
nation and wins the election pretty handedly.
It takes about two months for
the shock to wear off and the same players are panicking. On January 5, 2017, Lame Duck Barack Obama
calls a meeting in the Oval Office between he, FBI Director Jim Comey, National
Security Advisor Susan Rice and Attorney General Sally Yates regarding Russian
interference in the 2016 election.
Barack Obama has recovered from the blow and calmly tells Jim Comey,
“Jim, we need to take care of this.”
“Yes sir, I have a cleaning crew
gathered right now.”
“Send them out and have them
give the same treatment as you did for Hillary Clinton.”
“Yes, it will be a deep clean
Mr. President.”
Despite speaking in code, all
members in the Oval Office know what they’re talking about. Hillary Clinton bleach bit her e-mails on her
blackberry so that investigators wouldn’t know what type of information she was
sending on an unsecured server. They
know that she was talking to Barack Obama but the contents are lost. As one intelligence official looking at the
damage would opine, ‘Even God couldn’t retrieve those e-mails.’
Obama turns to Susan Rice and
states, “Susan, this is a very delicate matter so I want the investigation
handled by the book.”
This is a gross departure from
what they have been doing for the past few months but Susan Rice is perfectly
aware. This is one instance where the
movies get close to reality. In A Few Good Men Jack Nicholson’s
character calls a meeting with various marines and high ranking officials and
tells them that a marine that is being dishonorably discharged named Sanchez
will not be touched. As soon as everyone
leaves, he asks two marines to stay behind and orders them to give Sanchez a
code red to punish him. The first
meeting was so that if it ever came out what they were doing, he could testify
under oath that he told everyone that Sanchez was not to be touched and he
wouldn’t be perjuring himself. When
Susan Rice leaves the oval office, she sends an e-mail to herself saying that
the president told her to investigate Russian collusion with Donald Trump and
do to do it by the book.
Susan Rice is not the only one
that took action after the meeting. Jim
Comey calls his informant Christopher Steele, whom he has since fired for
leaking his information to the media and elsewhere when his agreement was that
his information was to be exclusively for the FBI. Steele answers the phone, “Yes sir, Jim, what
can I do for you.”
“We’re going to have
company. I want to make sure the place
is clean for their arrival.”
“Understood”
Steele hangs up the phone and
scrubs all communication with Fusion GPS.
Five days after this date, Buzzfeed will publish the information that he
just destroyed. Steele will also bleach
and permanently destroy all documents and any relevant correspondence with his
exclusive and lone source that his infamous dossier was based on.
A week later, Senator Chuck
Grassley will be reviewing this chain of events and find the e-mails Susan Rice
writes to herself that President Obama wants the investigation to be done
exclusively by the intelligence community and done by the book. He looks up from the screen with a confused
look on his face. He asks himself, “Why
would anyone write an e-mail to themselves about that?”
He had a pretty good idea he knows
the answer but he runs it by his staff to ensure he’s not being biased. They all come up with the same
conclusion. You only write an e-mail
like that to cover yourself for not doing everything by the book and not
letting the intelligence community handle everything. In a way, the e-mail exposes what Susan Rice
and everyone in that room was up to because it should go without saying and if
it needs to be said, it probably means you weren’t doing it.
Four years later, Christopher
Steele, who is supposed to be an expert on Russia, would get a lesson into just
how serious the Russians were about creating chaos. Bob Mueller was the first to figure this out
when he indicted some Russian nationals for made up crimes. Mueller thought that the Russians would never
show up and Putin would protect them.
Instead, they showed up in court and, as is their right in the American
justice system, asked for the evidence against them. Mueller refused to show it citing sources and
methods and confidential information and the judge castigated and berated him
for bringing a case that he wasn’t willing to even try to defend. The Russians weren’t done with the charade
caused by the Anti-Trump people in America.
In Steele’s dossier, he wrote that a server in Trump Tower was pinging
to a Russian bank named Alfa Bank in Russia.
It was alleged that through this back channel is how President Trump was
colluding with Russia. Upon further
review, it turned out that the ping was actually spam. Alfa Bank, however, wasn’t going to let this
opportunity go to waste and they sued Christopher Steele for defamation. That is when Senator Grassley heard the
second part of the nefarious events that occurred on January 5, 2017. When asked by the English court to produce
his evidence that Alfa Bank colluded with President Trump, Steele told them
that he didn’t happen because he destroyed it all on January 5, 2017.
As Grassley hears about this in
Washington, he again wonders aloud, “Wouldn’t by the book mean not destroying
all the evidence and to keep it on hand so you can back it up if asked to in
court or otherwise? Grassley continues
to read the transcript of the court case of Alfa Bank V. Christopher
Steele. He reaffirms that he wiped his
e-mails with the primary sub-source clean and that was the only person he spoke
to. Grassley concludes that means he
lied to Kavalec when he told her that he had two sources. The judge asks him for any documents backing
up his allegations and Steele again tells him that he is telling him, under oath,
that he destroyed them all and can’t back up his meetings or sources. When he is done, he calls a meeting with his
chief of staff, “You’re not going to believe this?”
“Nothing really surprises me
sir.”
“Steele is in court in England
because Alfa Bank is suing him over his allegations about them in the dossier.”
“I’m aware sir.”
“He destroyed all the
evidence. Then the judge tries asking
him about communications about the dossier and Fusion GPS.”
“What was the response?”
“That he wiped them all clean in
December 2016 and January 2017. There
were still open FISAs then that would be renewed. Since the FISA’s relied solely on his
dossier, you’d think he would keep them on hand.”
“Unless he knew they were
false.”
“That’s exactly what I’m getting
at.”.
“Did the judge ask specifically
about the memos about Alfa Bank?”
“Yea, that’s report 112”
“I’m guessing he destroyed those
too.”
“Sure did.”
“Any reason why or how Steele
would pick Alfa Bank as his scapegoat?”
“Yes, there’s an old Wall Street
Journal piece written on April 17, 2007 called How Lobbyists Help Ex-Soviets
Woo Washington. It was written by Glenn
Simpson and Mary Jacoby.”
“The same Glenn Simpson that
owns Fusion GPS and is married to Mary Jacoby?”
“Same ones.”
“That may be why he destroyed
all the communications between them. It
may not have been Steele telling Simpson but the other way around.”
“That’s what I was
thinking. That would be a big problem
since the FBI swore in court that Steele wrote the dossier.”
“Given the powerful people
involved, I could see why Steele wouldn’t want to come clean.”
“Steele’s company Orbis is
paying his source between $3,000 and $ 5,000 a month to this day.”
“Hush money.”
“Yea, I would think that Glenn
Simpson is the source but he hasn’t been hushing at all. He wrote a book and is writing articles in
England accusing Boris Johnson of colluding with the Russians.”
“I got to hand it to him. That’s pretty ballsy.”
“I would agree. Either that or incredibly stupid.”
“There’s not a very big line
between those two.”
“Don’t I know it.”
The chief of staff leaves
Grassley’s office. His phone rings and
it’s David Laufman, the chief of the National Security Divisions
Counter-intelligence and Expert Control Section. Grassley is in the mood for some comic relief
and he answers, “David my friend with the longest title known to man.”
Laufman laughs, “How are you
doing Senator?”
“I’ve been better to be honest
but what can I do for you?”
“I have some information that
you may find interesting.”
“I’m listening”
“I interviewed Steele’s
sub-source back in 2017 and I negotiated with his lawyer to facilitate an FBI’s
interview to build a cooperative relationship because it could result in the
FBI being in a position to assess the validity of the information in Steele’s
reporting resulting from his activities.”
“Are we in confession here
David?”
“Take it for what it is.”
“You warned him to get a lawyer
to protect him from saying anything that could cause him to end up in jail.”
“Yes I did”
“Did you extend the same
courtesy to Mike Flynn and George Papadopoulos?”
“No, I did not sir. They were called in for a friendly chat.”
“A friendly chat that ended up
in their arrest even though there was a plethora of exculpatory evidence and
the FBI agents that interviewed Flynn claimed they didn’t think he was being
deceptive.”
“Yes, that is how that ended
up.”
“Well, I appreciate you telling
me but I’m sorry that it happened.”
“Me too sir. You have a good night.”
“You as well.”
Senator Grassley looks in the
direction of the White House even though you can’t see it from Capitol
Hill. The White House is designed to be
obscured from view in the air and by peripheral locations. He hasn’t seen eye to eye with the chief
resident in the White House but Grassley is a fair man and he knows that nobody
deserves what was done to the president the last four years.
In the White House that Grassley
is glancing over at, President Trump is being briefed by a staffer, “Mr.
President, it appears that a Rick Bright of the FDA is mouthing off that he was
terminated because he spoke against Hydroxychloroquine.”
“Didn’t he tweet out in March
that the FDA needed to allow emergency use for it?”
“Yes, but now he’s saying that
he warned you all along and that’s why he was terminated.”
“There’s a lot of that going
around now.”
“Unfortunately, sir, that’s
true.”
“Why is he doing this?”
“Well, we’ve been working to
oust Bright for a year now because of questions of management and leadership.”
“And incompetence.”
“Yes sir.”
“Are we able to defend
ourselves?”
“Yes sir, we have internal memos
of him praising and promoting Hydroxychloroquine.”
“Are they classified?”
“No sir, they’re circulating on
twitter as we speak.”
“I would say we have nothing to
worry about but you can always count on the media to run with everything no
matter how thoroughly discredited it is as long as it attacks me.”
“I’m hoping one of these days they
prove that premise wrong.”
“That day is not today though
right?” he asks with a smile
“No sir.”
He nods his head and goes into
the briefing room. Even if these attacks
rattled him when they first started, by now, he would have grown accustomed to
it. As he faces the room full of
journalists that hate him and want nothing more than to trap him, he prepares
for their questions and the verbal sparring.
One journalist asks him about Joe Biden.
President Trump responds, “He’s a sleepy guy who’s not moving much. He won’t do any debates because of Covid and
they’re keeping him sheltered in a basement.”
All over America, people are
laughing. Many old-school Republicans
hate when the president speaks this way because they deem it ‘unpresidential’
the liberals and democrats hate it because it works to endear him to their
base. They are so accustomed to
Republicans backing down and taking the high road that they still don’t know
what to do with the fighter that President Trump is. That is why the rest of the population is
cheering him and entertained by his little monikers for his political opponents. Just like ‘lying Ted.’ ‘little Marco,’
‘little Mike’ and ‘crooked Hillary, ‘sleepy Joe’ will stick.
The press conference goes the
way they always go. The president
insinuating that the governors need to start opening the economy but do it
safely and the media accusing him of murder for saying it. As he exits, he is briefed on the latest
about the pandemic. Ideally, this would
have happened before the conference but as it is no longer informative, this is
the order or events now. He sits with his
task force and is given reports from New York.
“I see that New York has started antibody tests.”
“Yes Sir”
“13.9% of the 3,000 people they
tested were positive for the virus.”
“Yes”
“Just like everywhere else they
tested, that would mean that it may be more contagious than we thought but not
as lethal.”
“That’s not how governor Cuomo
is portraying it.”
“Of course not. How is the governor portraying it?”
“That it wasn’t a random
sample. Since it was done at a
supermarket, it’s people who are going outside.
The only people who go outside are the ones who feel healthy and not
sheltering in place.”
“Does he suggest that people go
door to door and do the tests in their homes?”
“Given the high prevalence of
thieves ringing buzzers and knocking on doors in order to scam or steal from
people, that may not be a good idea.”
“Then what is Cuomo suggesting.”
“That we should bail out New
York.”
“Ah, so just like the other blue
states, he’s holding us hostage. Either
he continues to destroy the economy I built by instilling socialism in his
state or I give him money that we don’t have.”
“Yes, his contention is that New
York gives more to the federal government than any other state.”
“They also spend a lot more than
any other state.”
“He naturally left that part
out. Blue states are contending that
they subsidize red states and they just want their money back.”
“We’ve already distributed
almost as much as all the states combined gave us in the last three months of
2019.”
“With the recent bill that passed,
it exceeds that number Mr. President.”
“Then we already did give them
back their money.”
“I’m afraid they don’t see it
that way.”
“Of course they don’t see it
that way. If they looked at facts and
knew how to read statistics, they’d be Republicans.”
“Sir, it is true that the
percentage of state budgets that come from the federal government is higher for
red states than blue states.”
“That is a meaningless statistic
because red states spend less than blue states.
If we give $10,000 to a state who’s budget is $80 Million, that’s a
higher percentage than a state with $200 Million. You really want to reward people for being
fiscally irresponsible?”
“How do we correct for that?”
“Do it based on per capita”
“I can do that.”
Another staffer spoke up, “No
need, I already have.”
President Trump inquires, “And
does that change anything?”
“Yes sir, red states are given $
1,879 dollars per person from the government whereas Blue states are given
$2,125 from the government.”
“Ah, it appears it inversed.”
“Not exactly”
“How do you mean?”
“Well, when you do it as a
percentage of the budget, purple states are in the middle and almost identical
to the national average. When you do it
per capita, purple states actually have the lowest as they only get $1,771 per
person.”
“Seems like loyalty to one party
is rewarded.”
“Well yea, but much more
rewarded by Democrats.”
“Excellent, so if you do the
numbers responsibly, Cuomo doesn’t have a leg to stand on.”
“Yes sir.”
The meeting adjourns and the president’s
economic advisor comes into the Oval Office.
“What can I do for you?” asks the President.
“With this new bill we just
passed, I need to talk to you about all the money we’re spending on the pandemic;
this is going to cause massive inflation.”
“I’m aware of that. Do we know the extent?”
“Well, the supply of money has
increased 7.7% and the economy is shut down so we’re not producing anything. By my calculations, in 18-24 months, we’re
going to have triple digit inflation.”
“It looks like I need to talk to
the Fed.”
“Yea, after slashing interest
rates before this crisis, they’re going to have to reverse that.”
“I told them not to lower
interest rates but they didn’t listen to me.”
“Then we are in agreement. It’s time for a Volker Shock?”
“You want interest rates to go
up 16-20%”
“That is the only way we can
stop hyperinflation.”
“You seem relieved that we’re on
the same page on this. What did you
think I would say?’
“Well sir, some may advise that
if the dollar is weak, than our national debt is much less. It’s easier to pay it off with a weak dollar
so long as we have foreign currency reserves.
If we raise interest rates, we help all the savers in the economy but we
hurt the federal government because that’s just that much more debt we’re
piling on and we’re almost off the fiscal cliff as it is.”
“Ah, so the decision the Fed has
is to screw the citizens to help the federal government or screw the federal
government to help the citizens.”
“Going off the fiscal cliff will
hurt our citizens too sir.”
“But we don’t know what number
the tipping point is.”
“That is true Mr. President but
it’s better not to find out.”
“You’re missing the point. We don’t know where the tipping point is on
the debt but we do know that all this printing of money will lead to triple
digit inflation in 18-24 months. Which
is more concrete?”
“The triple digit inflation.”
“Of course there’s one thing
that can solve both problems simultaneously”
“Growing the economy.”
“Correct. 18-24 months is a short amount of time so it
may be a better bet to have the fed raise interest rates, we’ll take a hit on
the debt while I grow the economy, which would allow the Fed to lower interest
rates. The productivity will catch up to the money we printed and the GDP to
debt ratio will decrease making our debt not look as bad.”
“I admit that it was a little
difficult to see that option from our current state.”
“You’re saying I need a magic
wand?”
The advisor smiled getting the
reference to when Obama told Trump that to do what he said he would with the
economy, he would need a magic wand. It
turns out Trump was right about what he could do and Obama was already on
record saying it was magical if he pulled it off. Of course, Obama didn’t admit Trump was
right. Instead, he tried to take credit
despite his previous comments. The
advisor kept the smile as he responded, “Mr. President. If anyone can pull a Harry Potter, it’s you
but you need to get re-elected first.”
“I did it once and I’ll do it
again. You’re right though, that is only
if I get re-elected but I’ve done that before too. Things seem much more possible when you’ve
already done them.”
“Just make sure it doesn’t make
you complacent.”
“Have you experienced anything
about me that leads you to believe I’m complacent?”
“No Sir. You run on like three hours of sleep and
you’re a work horse. To be honest sir,
I’m not quite sure how you do it?”
“Decades of practice my friend.”
“I believe it.”
The advisor leaves his office
and President Trump starts tweeting his endorsement of various allies running for office in spots across the
nation. Not only does he need to win re-election
but it is crucial that the Republicans keep the Senate and take back the House
so he can work without the albatross of hoax investigations. Already the same cabal that brought you
Russian Collusion, Ukrainian quid pro quo impeachment is now formally
investigating him for his handling of the Wuhan Virus. He would ask them to help but he has long
realized the Democrats are looking to capitalize on this crisis to fund their
liberal agendas and turn America into a socialist country. President Trump is a little disappointed in
himself that he fell for this trap. Now,
he hopes that the American people can rise up and force their hand but it
doesn’t appear to be working as the Democrats just dig their heels in
deeper. President Trump does not
advocate violence but he couldn’t blame citizens in Michigan and elsewhere from
rising up violently against their tyrannical governors. He prays that the governors come to their
senses before it gets to that point. A
federal bailout wouldn’t work because people who have nothing are also likely
to violently rebel and when their hard earned money becomes worthless because
they paid the ransom by the blue states, it’s not the blue states they’re going
to blame but him.
As all this is transpiring,
Democrat congressman Vernon Jones is sitting in his office. It has taken four years, but the success and
leadership of President Trump is undeniable to him. As he looks at the Democrat nominee Joe
Biden, he is not filled with any sense of confidence. He sighs and breaks with his party and
publicly endorses President Trump for re-election. That is when Congressman Jones would find out
who the real intolerant racists are in America as the left viciously and
brutally assaults him. The pressure gets
so intense that he does something that several Republicans and right-leaning
people have done in the past and give in to the mob. He announces he will resign. It is at this time, that Jones realized that
the people that he has long been told as a black man were the racists; the
Republicans are welcoming him with open arms.
Through all the vial, disgusting, gutter talk of the left, he sees the
words of encouragement and support from his district and Republicans. Candace Owens had started the blexit movement
years ago and Vernon Jones is just the latest black person to have the
blindfold taken off his eyes and realize that the Democrats and liberals are
responsible for keeping black people down and they are the real racists while
the Republicans couldn’t care less about the color of your skin as they only
care about the content of your character.
Emboldened by the support springing from his previous hate, Vernon Jones
sits in his office and announces that he is not going to let his constituents
down. He is going to finish his term and
he is still endorsing Donald Trump for president.
He is applauded by thousands, if
not millions, of fair minded independents, Republicans and conservatives
alike. The reaction to the Wuhan Virus
is on course to wreak immense economic havoc on America. The American people and the federal
government need to figure out a way to get the blue states to open their
economy. There are 16 states that have
come up with a plan. This adds to the
already six states that never shut down.
Although 22 is still less than half, the more states that provide a
control or test group against the states still shut down, the more they can
convince America that the shutdown was pointless and an overreaction. This will give the blue states no leg to
stand on and they may have no choice but to give in. It’s the equivalent of a Mexican stand-off
and the future security of America hangs in the balance. The stakes couldn’t be higher but the
commander and chief lays in wait for if the gets full opening, then he can show
that the last four years was not a fluke.
He can pull his magic wand out of his cloak one more time and show what
the Trump economy can do when it’s allowed to run wild.
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