Speculation on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe concluding sometime soon gets Democrats nervous, especially if the investigation concludes Trump did not collude with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made Trump’s alleged ties to the Kremlin a key part of her campaign strategy, often calling President Donald Trump a “Putin puppet.” Hillary did everything possible to divert attention away from her email scandal, but, more importantly, the amount of cash she raked in for the Clinton Foundation while Secretary of State. While Mueller has indicted members of Trump’s campaign team, like former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, none of the indictments had anything to do with his Special Counsel mandate to investigate Russian influence and alleged Trump collusion in the 2016 campaign.
Conspicuously absent from Mueller’s investigation is the very real possibility that former President Barack Obama, his Attorney Genera Loretta Lynch, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and former FBI Director James Comey used the national security apparatus under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to wiretap former Trump campaign officials to help Hillary get elected. Mueller’s well aware of former FBI officials Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, working behind the scenes to defeat Trump’s presidential campaign. As Mueller tries to establish ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, he ignores completely Hillary’s opposition researcher former MI6 agent Christopher Steele’s Kremlin contacts, making inflammatory accusations against Trump in the so-called “dossier.” Mueller has indicted no one on spying for the Kremlin.
Trump confirmed Nov. 17 that he had completed answers to questions asked by Mueller regarding any alleged contacts with Russia. Anticipating Trump’s answers, speculation swirled about Mueller finally wrapping up the 18-month long investigation into Russia’s attempted influence in the 2016 election. Democrats on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees point to hacked emails released by Wikileaks that hurt Hillary’s campaign in the months before the Nov. 6, 2016 presidential election. Hillary was embarrassed by emails showing she colluded with the Democratic National Committee to sabotage her campaign rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Hacked emails also showed that former interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile gave Hillary debate questions in advance, when she worked for CNN. Mueller’s trying to figure out if the Trump campaign had anything to do with Wikileaks data dump.
Democrats allege that Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey May 9, 2017 to obstruct the Russian collusion investigation. Yet Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein wrote a detailed letter explaining why Comey was fired for insubordination. Once an enemy of the Democrat Party when Comey opened Hillary email investigation only 10 days before the 2016 election, Comey became Democrats best friend after he was fired. Democrats have nothing to say about Comey’s role in ordering FISA Court wiretaps of Trump part-time foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Neither Comey nor Mueller ever indicted Page for his alleged contacts with the Kremlin, because there was nothing there. Yet if you ask Democrats, Page, former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn and former Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions should have all be indicted for perjury for their contacts with Russia.
Democrats and the media often cite Trump’s criticism of the Mueller investigation as proof that he’s trying to obstruct justice. While there’s zero evidence of Trump interfering with the Mueller probe, there’s plenty of evidence that Democrats and their media friends hope-and-pray Mueller finds collusion. Neither the Democrats nor the media want to deal with the Obama administration ordering the U.S. national security apparatus, including the FBI, to destroy Trump’s presidential campaign. All Democrats and media speculation centers Session’s Nov. 7 resignation and appointment of Acting Atty. Gen. Matt Whitaker. Democrats and the media implicate Whitaker without valid proof of trying to interfere with Mueller’s investigation. Retiring Trump critic Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Az.) tried to advance a bill to protect Mueller’s Russian collusion investigation, without any justification.
Whatever Mueller’s Russian interference and alleged Trump collusion probe finds is anyone’s guess. So far, it’s delivered nothing tying Trump or his campaign to the Kremlin to help get him elected in 2016. Indicting Trump’s former Campaign Chairman on tax evasion or money laundering for work in the Ukraine 12 years before the 2016 campaign has nothing to do with Russian interference or alleged Trump collusion. If Mueller indicts Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen for perjury or anything else, it also has nothing to do with the 2016 campaign. When it comes to payouts to porn star Stormy Daniels or former Playboy centerfold Susan McDougal, it’s also far a field from Russian interference and alleged Russian collusion. Democrats and the media want Mueller to dig into all of Trump’s past-and-current financial dealings, looking for anything possible to get him out of office.
