The two year-long special counsel investigation into claims of “collusion” (which is not, in fact, a criminal term) between the Trump Campaign during the 2016 Presidential Election and Russian intelligence continues to drag on. After two years, the investigation has yielded no proof that there was, in fact, a conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and Russian intelligence to steal the election in 2016 away from Hillary Clinton–despite the fact that Mueller has unprecedented investigatory powers to discover the truth.
What has been “discovered” are things that most people who work in politics already knew: the one-time, temporary Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort, had a shady history and likely engaged in financial crimes throughout his decades working as an international political consultant prior to working on the Trump Campaign. Another “discovery” that Roger Stone, Manafort’s one-time business partner and a consultant for President Trump at the start of his campaign, was a gonzo media figure who enjoyed stirring controversy. Still another headline was the fact that young, ambitious, foreign policy “aide” in the early days of the Trump Campaign, George Papadopulous, got himself caught up in a Monty Python-like scheme by the combined intelligence services of Britain and Australia to make Donald Trump look unpalatable to the American voters (since they favored Hillary Clinton).
The best summary of what happened with the Russian investigation is from Dan Bongino and can be seen here:
The young and naïve Papadopoulos was foolish enough to take the bait and get himself thrown in prison for a measly 14 days!
The running absurdity that was the Russia collusion delusion was allowed to continue on, as though there was some big piece of evidence about to be revealed. For his part, President Donald J. Trump allowed the investigation to begin, insisting that he was innocent the entire time. How many guilty men would sign a document allowing for the creation of the Robert Mueller special investigation? Think about it.
Certainly, the “mainstream” media has been a great help to the Mueller investigation. They’ve served as the unofficial mouthpiece for the investigation, consistently leaking unfair and biased details about the investigation, all in an effort to effectively flush out those they want to destroy. Since the investigation–or, rather, the witch hunt as the President calls it–numerous Trump aides have had their reputation destroyed and the finances crippled.
For what? To defend Hillary Clinton’s honor (or lack thereof)?
The entire Mueller investigation is an embarrassment for the intelligence community; it is a living embodiment of the decay that had set in over the course of the Obama Administration since this investigation was nothing more than an Obama Administration attempt to destroy his successor before Trump could even take office.
The recent Paul Manafort indictment memo, written by the Mueller investigation, shows how weak their case is. Mueller, a seasoned prosecutor, chose to release the memo on a late Friday afternoon, when few in Washington (or the country) pay attention to the news. He likely did this for a simple reason: despite the memo being 800 pages long, only 25 pages are worth reading. And, of those 25 pages, they prove only that Manafort was a White-Collar criminal. All of his crimes were perpetrated long before he ever joined the Trump Campaign and most of them would have sent anyone else to a minimum security prison. But, given that Paul Manafort was nominally associated with President Trump, he had to be destroyed.
Now the reputable Michael Cohen is going to recite his Democrat script before Congress in an effort to keep his virgin butthole out of prison. No doubt the bombshells are already racked up and ready to drop!
Almost 4 years and over $30 million, liberals, and NOTHING. GIVE IT UP!
@Deplorable Me: Democrats are like the teen-ager hanging on the fridge door, staring endlessly into the icebox, door wide open, waiting for something they want to eat to suddenly appear.
@ktt: And they’ve been ASSURED it’s in there!
@ktt:
Good analogy. Problem is, if you believe, sometimes miracles DO happen. And if GOD works in mysterious ways that we cannot hope to understand, those teenagers standing before the open fridge doors are simply waiting for the next BIG SURPRISE. (Either that, or they’re waiting for the last hormone avalanche to settle.) Some Democrats “believe.” Who is to say they are wrong?
@George Wells: No, they are just wasting energy and spoiling the food.
@Deplorable Me:
That, too, is a distinct possibility. Me? I don’t believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, or miracles, and I won’t even try to speak for those who do.
@George Wells: Sure the left over chicken or pizza dad packed for lunch will magically materialize. Hint with a teen-age boy in the house a door on the icebox is only there as an armrest, fueling the growth to 6′ 6″ wasnt cheap.
@kitt:
My cat hasn’t noticed the fridge, but the can opener sure has her attention. She can’t yet operate it yet, but she’s figured out how to turn on the cold water for a drink in the tub, so we have to keep our eye on it to avoid a large water bill.
6′ 6″ tells me too much nitrogen in the soil, and maybe not enough sun.
@George Wells: Not enough sun? I can tell you its an awakening when your goofing around and the kid picks you up and chucks you on the couch. Time for a bigger rug beater to hang on the wall. 😉
@George Wells: He didn’t have to, the cans went to the curb.
Kids rarely learn from corporal punishment after 5 or 6(a swat on the back side), let alone teens, its a matter of letting them know certain things are not a choice.
I was a lucky mom even as teens they did what they were told, they knew beyond a shadow of a doubt I would do things they wouldnt like, pull the “fuel pump fuse” in his car,( it was #2 in the box ) make game controllers vanish into the trunk of my car for a couple of days.
@kitt:
My mom was smart, too. When I threw my first temper tantrum – screaming bloody murder and banging my little fists on the floor – she stood over me and LAUGHED! AND LAUGHED! It was supremely humiliating. It was my last temper tantrum.