This is a first: Donald Trump is guilty of an understatement, of making a molehill out of a mountain. He called the Washington furor over Russi🦹an hacking a “witch hunt” when it is actually far more sinister an♋d dangerous.
🍒Witch hunts end. The Washington mob aims to make sure the election never ends and that Trump can never govern.
There are no modern precedents to the scandalous attempts to smear and undermine the president-elect. Nearly nine weeks after his victory and less than t꧅wo weeks before he takes the oath, the voter-n♋ullification plot is growing more vile.
It began when the Clinton campaign and her donors tried to overturn results in key states, then tried to steal the elect🤡ion outright by intimidating electors of the Electoral College.
When all that failed, the establishment force෴s that opposed Trump all along — the Obama White House, members of both parties, the Democratic media and Big Government activists — switched their goal to thwarting his presidency. One example: They aim to deny confirmation to as many as eight Cabinet picks.
This is not me🍒re politics. This is half the country going rogue in a fit of madness.
Most alarming is the newest recruit to the confederacy. The intelligence community, including leaders of the FBI and CIA, is pushing the Russian hacking narrative in unscrupulous ♛ways.
Consider that the same media 🐷organizations that led the campaign assault on Trump were leaked details of the hacking report before Trump saw it.
The leaks came after Trump expressed doubts about Russia’s role and any election impact. Lest the rookie miss the message, Chuck🌌 Schumer, the Dem🦋s’ man in the Senate, made like a Soprano in a TV interview: “Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”
Going public with classified information, which the leakers did, is a crime, but these days it’s ac💫ceptable if it serves 🥂the left’s political purpose.
Is Schumer suggesting CIA analys🔥ts would 🦄stay silent about a terrorist plot? Would they feed Trump misinformation to get back at him?
Going public with classified infor▨mation, which the leakers did, is a crime, but these days it’s acceptable if it serves the left’s political purpose.
As for the report itself, there’s not much there there, at least in the version made public. It is full of assertions that Vladimir Putin wanted to hurt Clinton and help T𓆉rump, but zero evidence is offered. I repeat: zero evidence.
Instead, the 25-page document serves up a dog’s stew of innuendo and anecdotes. Examples include that Russian television operating in Am🍌erica said nice things about Occupy Wall Street.
Well, so did President Obama🌳 and half the Democratic Party. Is Obama a Russian agent?
Another silly example is that Russian TV runs lots of ꦿanti-fracking reports. Well, Gov. Cuomo also opposes fracking. The report cites the fact that Russian TV anchors are required to have social-media accounts as proof of Putin’s evil intent.
Here’s a fact that really𝓀 matters and it’s not in the report: The FBI concluded that Russians hacked the Democraticꩵ National Committee without ever inspecting its computers. The gumshoes say the DNC balked, but party leaders say the FBI never asked. In the end, it let a private firm search the computers for evidence.
None of this is normal. And it’s no excuse that Trump him🃏self often veers outside the lines. He won the election fair and square, pꦬeriod.
Then🎃 again, some Democrats can’t bring themselves to admit that. Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, was spitting fire after she was briefed on the classified report.
Asked if she believed hacking cost Clinton the election, Pelosi declared to reporters: “You were accomplices in this. Every single day you reported there was an e-mail that was embarrassing to the Clinton operation, without saying we know this because of a disruption by a foreign power of our election system. Y꧅ou knew that.ܫ”
Wow, so journalists are “accomplices” when they report embarrassing news. Nothing could beಌ more Putin-like th༒an her view of the media’s job.
To be clear, it may be true that Putin ordered that the e-mails of John Podesta and the DNC be stolen and given to WikiLeaks. But officials also admit that☂ Russia hacked our government and industries for years and ꦓalways pushes negative propaganda about America, including during the 2012 campaign.
So why the sudden DefCon outrage, especially when the intelligence rep🐟ort concludes there was no attempt to change vote tallies?
The 💖furor amounts to sounding five alarms for a dumpster fire. It’s a dumb overreaction, or part of the effort෴ to thwart a president the establishment doesn’t want. Either way, intelligence leaders are proving they are part of the swamp that must be drained.
By all means, America needs better cybersecurity and a retaliation policy to act asℱ a deterrent. The current president has no interest in the issue, so perhaps we’ll get better policies when we get a new president. Assuming꧂, of course, the man who won the election actually makes it to the Oval Office.
Mayor Hill? Thanks but no thanks
Before Hillary Clinton’s embers flicker out, some supporters are urging her to run for mayor of New York. It’s a race she probably could win against Bill de Blasio, but the argument for how༺ she would ไgovern would be better for her than the city.
As a friendly writer suggested, she “could delegate local governance to a strong team of deputy mayors as she used the stage New York affords to become a national leader for Democratic is💎sues and values — while relishing her new role in Trump’s own back yard.”
If that idea sounds familiar, it’s because it is how de Blasio doe🐟s the job. He delegates all substantive work to aides while looking to boost his political profile. As for taking on Trump, de Blasio beat her to that, too.
So if that’s all Clinton offers, no thanks. One dishonest, a🌞bsentee mayor is enough for a lifetime.
Dems in for a Jewish exodus
The 342-80 bipartisan vote in the House to condemn the UN resoluti𝐆on against Israel has no impact — except as a repudiation of President Obama.
His decision to ab🍌stain from the Secur♛ity Council resolution instead of vetoing it abandons Israel to the wolf pack of b🔯oycotts, sanctions and violence.
Although more than 100 Democrats joined nearly🌜 all Republicans in supporting the House measure, which was 🀅co-sponsored by New York’s Rep. Eliot Engel, Dems also supplied nearly all the “no” votes.
Nancy Pelosi was among them, as was Rep. Keith Ellison from Minnesota, who wants to head the Democratic Party. Another “no” vote was Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who told a reporter he objected because “this Congress has allowed our chamber to be used as an Israeli campaign rall♏y.”
Now 💫that the Democratic Pa💙rty is leaving Jews, maybe Jews will leave the party.
Man Claims Uber Driver Knocked Him Out, Left, Charged Him $9.
So his beef is that $9 was too much?