LOS ANGELES (OC).–Democrats and the fake news are all in on the sordid Jeffrey Epstein files all because they divert attention away from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s new referral to the Justice Department in the 2016 Russian hoax. How ironic that Democrats and the fake news say just the opposite, that Trump’s team diverts attention away from Epstein on to the unsolved Russian hoax story that went on for years to plague President Donald Trump’s first term. Democrats and the fake news accuse Gabbard of doing Trump’s bidding, when the Russian hoax has been long ignored by Democrats and the fake news. They cite an intel assessment where some 17 intel agencies say that Russia tried to meddle in the 2016 election. Well, apparently that was enough for former President Barack Obama to order a counterintelligence investigation into Trump and his 2016 presidential campaign.
Gabbard called the Obama White House engaged in a “treasonous conspiracy,” using the nation’s intel and law enforcement agencies to go after at GOP presidential candidate. Whether Russia meddled in any way in the 2016 presidential election, does that mean Obama should have ordered the CIA and FBI to investigate Trump? Democrats and the fake news would have you believe there was legitimate probable cause to investigate Trump and his campaign. But the fact remains that the probable cause used by former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey was former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA The Steele Dossier. Brennan and Comey knew the Steele Dossier was worthless, fraudulent documents used only to discredit Trump in the 2016 campaign. Brennan and Comey used it as probable cause.
All the fake news organizations in including the New York Times, Washington Post and the Associated Press were all in on the Russian hoax, writing countless articles tying Trump to the Kremlin. Not one article was every retracted or not one outlet apologized for fake news reporting. “It is sadly not surprising the DNI Gabbard, who promised to depoliticize the intelligence community, is once again weaponizing her position to amplify the president’s election conspiracy theories,” said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee. Gabbard is actually doing exactly what she promised to stop the weaponization of government agencies. Warner is a partisan Democrat hack committed to the Obama administration conspiracy to use federal intel and law enforcement to go after a GOP presidential nominee, then president.
What’s Warner talking about Trump’s election conspiracy theories? Does Warner forget that not long after Trump was inaugurated, the Department of Justice appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate Trump and his 2016 campaign? Where’s the real conspiracy theory? Did Trump deserve to have the CIA and FBI launch a counterintelligence investigation during the 2016 campaign? Then, five months after his inauguration, the DOJ appoints a Special Counsel to determine whether or not Trump conspired with the Kremlin to win the 2016 election. How is Gabbard weaponizing the intel agencies when she’s calling out the Obama administration for authorizing the use of federal intel and law enforcement agencies to investigate Trump? Warner defends the fake news reporting about Trump’s alleged ties to the Kremlin.
Democrats and the fake news contend that Gabbard has used her office to divert attention away from really important matters like the Epstein files. Democrats think they have another smoking gun with Trump and the Epstein files. But even if Democrats get Ghilsaine Maxwell immunity to testify before Congress, what’s she going to say that Trump can’t refute? Democrats and the fake news want a sordid creep like Epstein, long dead since Aug. 10, 2019, to dominate the headlines. “I don’t follow that too much,” Trump said. “It’s sort of a witch hunt, a continuation of the [Russian] witch hunt,” dismissing Democrats latest efforts to put Maxwell to sing like a canary on the witness stand. Whatever Maxwell says, it’s self-serving testimony hoping to get her out of prison for sex trafficking. Epstein had many friends not just Donald Trump, throwing around his cash.
When it comes to the Russian hoax started with Hillary and morphed all the way to the highest levels of the Obama White House, there never was any probable cause for the CIA and FBI counterintelligence investigation of Trump and his campaign. Gabbard raises the painful truth about the 2016 campaign, that Democrats and the fake news would say and do anything to get Hillary elected president. Investigating Trump on bogus probable cause, Hillary’s Steele Dossier, showed just how flimsy the government’s case against Trump. Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey violated every known principle of intel and law enforcement to go after Trump politically. Whether Obama was named at the time, it’s obvious everything ran through the White House. Calling it “treasonous conspiracy,” Gabbard has ruffled a lot of feathers.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
