Issuing more Christmas pardons, 74-year-old President Donald Trump slapped 76-year-old former Special Counsel Robert Mueller whose nearly two-year, $40 million dollar prosecution was maybe the biggest hoax in U.S. history. Never before had a politician’s opposition research been used as probable cause to trigger the federal law enforcement and intel investigation of a major party’s nominee. Well it happened in Trump’s case because of an organized conspiracy to prevent him from becoming president in 2016. Former 65-year-old CIA Director John Brennan conspired with the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) to hand 60-year-old former FBI Director James Comey Hillary’s dossier containing wild allegations of Trump’s treason to open up a counterintelligence investigation. Brennan, McCain and Comey knew from Day 1 that Hillary’s “dossier” was pure rubbish.
Yet at the highest levels of the Obama administration, including former President Barack Obama and former Vice President-now-President-elect Joe Biden, all did everything possible to prevent Trump from beating Hillary. All the members of Trump’s campaign targeted by Comey and Mueller were pardoned by Trump, slapping the Obama White House that abused their power to go after Trump and his 2016 campaign. Whatever the latest falling out between Atty. Gen. Bill Barr and Trump, Barr tried but failed to get justice for Trump. Before Barr’s resignation today, he was savaged in the press, branded not as Attorney General but as Trump’s lapdog. Only recently has the media backed Barr when he said he found Dec. 1 no significant election fraud sufficient to change the results. Only then, did the corrupt media give Barr some love, when it looked like he turned on Trump.
So the media continues to slam Trump’s pardons, especially when they involve the Russian hoax narrative, like for instance 68-year-old Washington gadfly Roger Stone. Trump commuted Stone’s sentence July 10 for “lying to FBI agents” regarding his presumed contacts with 49-year-old WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange. Mueller’s team of corrupt prosecutors led by 62-year-old former Department of Justice prosecutor Andrew Weissmann were dirty cops. Weisssmann reviewed emails exchanged between Stone and 75-year-old best-selling conspiracy author Jerome Corsi. Weisssman didn’t know whether the email exchange between the two was just a boast or factual, yet charged Stone with lying to federal investigators. Desperate for any traction in the costly Mueller probe, Weissmann went after anyone connected with Trump, knowing that allegations of Russian conspiracy were entirely bogus.
Take 71-year-old former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, convicted by Mueller of income tax evasion and witness-tampering over consulting work her performed 12 years before Trump ran for president. Mueller and his chief lieutenant Weissmann were desperate to show anything in the $40 million Russian witch hunt investigation. Manafort has been sitting in prison a Pennsylvania prison since April 23, 2019 and under house arrest due to Covid-19 since May 13, 2020. No one was happier with Manfort’s, arrest, conviction and sentencing than the New York Times and Washington Post using his convictions that had nothing to do with Trump’s campaign as proof that Trump colluded with Russia. Pardoning Manafort was Trump’s way of invalidating the Mueller Special Counsel investigation. Trump also pardoned former foreign policy aids George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), one of Trump fiercest critics on Capitol Hill, accused Trump of “doling out pardons, not on the basis of repentance, restitution or interests of justice, but to reward his friends and political allies.” Schiff didn’t want to admit the pardons were designed to slap him in the face for spending nearly four years hyping the Russian conspiracy, when Mueller found after nearly two years and $40 million no Russian collusion March 23, 2019 in his Final Report. Schiff lied through his teeth about Trump’s Russian collusion for nearly four years, using Hillary’s fake dossier to prove Trump’s guilt. Schiff, 80-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and 73-year-old House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) all used Hillary’s dossier to justify prosecuting Trump, until Mueller eventually cleared him of wrongdoing.
Pardoning his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s father Charles Kushner or former Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), was of little consequence to Trump compared with anyone connected with the four-year Russian hoax. Trump never got satisfaction from Barr, hoping he’d announce indictments of Comey and other former Obama administration officials who participated in the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Trump got some satisfaction pardoning Dec. 8 his former National Security Adviser 62-year-old Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Barr recommended May 9 Flynn’s dismissal based on zero probable cause when Comey sent in his agents Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka to interview Flynn only four days after Trump inauguration. Pardoning Flynn and other victims of the illegal Russian hoax gives Trump some small consolation after Barr failed to deliver prosecutions of rogue U.S. officials involved in the scam.
