President Joe Biden’s National Security Council [NSC] are busy combing through private conversations 74-year-old President Donald Trump had with 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump was accused by Democrats and the media of having an inappropriate relationship with the Kremlin, something concocted by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in her fabricated opposition research against Trump, hoping it would help her win the 2016 election. Well, when that didn’t happen, the FBI continued its illegal counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s alleged ties with Russia, until former FBI Director James Comey was fired by Trump May 9, 2017. To add insult to injury, Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller to continue Comey’s investigation. All built off Hillary’s fake “Steele dossier,” the investigation wasted $40 million and 22 months.
Democrats and the media milked the Special Counsel investigation as the primary means to impeach Trump, something that happened on the first day he took office. Former President Barack Obama and his Vice President Joe Biden were consumed with investigating Trump and his campaign. Only two weeks before Obama left office, he met in the Oval Office with his entire national security team to discuss wiretapped phone calls of incoming National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice unmasked Flynn’s phone calls with former Russian Amb. Sergey Kislyak. While Obama ordered Comey to entrap Flynn at the White House only four days after Trump’s inauguration, Flynn’s unmasked wiretapped conversations proved he did nothing wrong. Now Biden’s National Security Team wants to comb through Trump’s private phone calls with Putin.
While the NSC reviews Trump’s private phone calls with Putin, the former president faces a partisan witch hunt in the U.S. Senate, facing his second impeachment trial. This time around, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and 9 House managers led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) charged Trump with “incitement of insurrection,” something so preposterous it’s hard to believe an impeachment trial proceeds. Democrats used as their proof of guilt media video of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot which a handful of bad apples stormed the Capitol and vandalized government property. House Democrats and the media have already tried and convicted Trump in the press but now must present a coherent legal case. While opening arguments start tomorrow, Democrats have already revealed their case, accusing Trump of inciting and insurrection of Jan. 6, the day Congress met to certify the Electoral College vote.
Biden’s team wants to comb through Trump’s conversations with Putin to dig up more dirt, hinting that Trump revealed national security secrets. But like the unmasked wiretapped conversations with Flynn, Biden’s National Security is likely to find nothing of substance other than friendly conversations. How ironic that Biden takes office slamming Putin, demanding that he release from prison 44-year-old dissident Alexi Navalny. Biden’s NSC wholeheartedly hopes Trump’s convicted of “incitement of insurrection,” even though there’s no evidence Trump did anything to encourage anyone to break the law. Democrats and the U.S. media have accused Trump of an illicit relationship with the Kremlin. Yet Putin knows the truth that Trump was just acting friendly, trying his best to mend fences with Russia. Obama left U.S.-Russian relations in tatters at Cold War levels.
Now that Biden and his Secretary of State Tony Blinken have ruined any goodwill Trump created, they want to know why Putin and Trump got along so well, assuming there must be something nefarious. Like Flynn, NSC officials will find Trump’s private conversations with Putin, amounted to nothing other than friendly chitchat designed to build rapport. Biden now turns back the clock to the Obama days when he expelled 35 Russian diplomats for alleged meddling in the 2016 election. Biden has already condemned Putin for election meddling, hacking and, most recently, jailing Navalny for violating terms of his probation. European Union [EU] officials have also slammed Putin for Navalny’s arrest prompting Putin to expel EU diplomats from Sweden, Germany and Poland, all meddling in Russia’s internal affairs, demanding Navalny’s release.
Biden’s already driven U.S.-Russian relations to Cold War lows, telling Putin what to do with Navalny, a known Russian dissident who’s been calling for the overthrow of Putin’s government. How ironic that Democrats in the House and Senate treat Trump like he’s a Trotskyite, calling for revolution, something they call “insurrection.” Trump’s attorneys led by Bruce Castor and David Schoen plan to present evidence that the Jan. 6 agitators planned to storm the Capitol before Trump delivered his Jan. 6 speech. House impeachment managers contended today that Trump’s speech “incited an insurrection” when Trump had nothing to do with planning the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and mob scene. Biden would be well-advised to listen to Trump’s phone calls with Putin carefully to figure out how to get along with foreign leaders. Biden and Blinken have already wrecked all of Trump’s goodwill.
