TRUMP’S PATIENCE AND OURS
What impresses me most about the very stable genius in the White House isn’t the brilliance and thoroughness of his strategic planning, his boldness in going where no political leader has gone before, or his determination to drain the swamp.
It’s Trump’s patience. He’s holding fire until as many Swamp Things as possible are in the kill zone, the cases against them are airtight, and their exposure will have the most effect on the midterm elections.
Many conservatives think we know more about what’s going on in FBI/DOJ than in fact we do. Some think they know more about that than President Trump does.
We don’t know what’s happening behind closed doors. All warfare is deception. The president can’t fool our enemies without also misleading us.
Many of us demand the evil deeds of the evildoers be exposed right now, sulk because it hasn’t happened yet.
What some of us want – mass arrests of prominent Democrats, to be transported to Gitmo for trial by military tribunals — isn’t going to happen, because it would tear the country apart.
As discussed in Jack Wheeler’s The Brittleness of the Left last week (6/28), the only way to restore civility in the public square is to crush Democrats at the polls so severely leftist moonbats move rapidly through the five stages of grief from anger to acceptance (or at least to immobilized depression).
The president knows when the midterm elections will be held. The pace of disclosures is being made with that in mind.
I don’t know whether Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is a white hat, a black hat, or a black hat who’s been flipped. But I’m pretty sure President Trump does.
“Either RR is clean and Trump wants him exactly where he is & Democrats supporting him, or RR is dirty & Trump wants him exactly where he is and Democrats supporting him,” said DawsonSField.
The only other possibility is Trump is unaware Rosenstein is conspiring to sabotage his presidency, or feels helpless to stop it. How likely is that?
Not very, say Rex and Sentinel, who illustrates well the enormity of the task of draining the swamp.
Doubtless some in the cabal still lurk in FBI and DOJ. But there has been a profound change in management.
Could there be reasons other than covering up FBI/DOJ wrongdoing for Rosenstein to slow roll Congressional requests for documents?
Congress leaks like a sieve. Leaks jeopardize prosecutions, alert targets of investigations they are in the crosshairs.
There are 27 active leak investigations, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said. We know of only one. James Wolfe, security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee, was indicted June 7. It’s likely most targets of the 26 other leak investigations also are Members of Congress or their staffs.
Rosenstein’s dogged pursuit of Obama’s favorite general (who alerted the mullahs to the Stuxnet virus) suggests he is determined to plug leaks and punish leakers.
If Rosenstein were part of the cabal, would the New York Times have written this hit piece about him? Shem Horne read it, so you don’t have to.
“Now that they know their anonymous leaking sources are about to be rolled up, the fake news DNC media begin trying to sabotage Rosenstein as unreliable, manic, and a toady of Trump,” said Brian Cates.
The NYT hit piece was written after Rosenstein and FBI Director Robert Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee June 28.
For most conservatives, the big takeaway was GOP Reps. Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz and John Ratcliffe banging on Rosenstein for stiffing Congress. So intent were they on making their talking points the import of Rosenstein’s responses flew past them.
Jeff Carlson of The Markets Work summarizes here what they missed.
*Democrats were terrified Rosenstein, or Wray, would disclose something that would devastate them. That didn’t happen. But now we know they know that DOJ has a MOAB, like the sword of Damocles, hanging over their heads.
*Rosenstein promised to turn over all the documents Congress seeks. That suggests he is less concerned now than earlier that leaks could jeopardize prosecutions.
*Rosenstein and Wray confirmed multiple criminal investigations are ongoing. In particular, CIA “asset”/FBI “informant” Stefan Halper and Fusion GPS honcho Glenn Simpson should worry.
*Rosenstein’s remark about former FBI Agent Peter Strzok’s (lack of) credibility suggests Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is fatally compromised.
*News reports about the FISA application he renewed are false, Rosenstein said. This means the FBI agent who briefed him lied about what was in it, or the leaker(s) lied, or there were more FISA applications than we have been made aware of. Jeff Carlson dives deep into the implications here.
I don’t know why Rosenstein, or Wray, didn’t drop at the hearing the MOAB that terrifies Democrats so. I suspect it’s because it concerns the seditious conspiracy to frame President Trump.
No overt actions are likely to be taken against the conspirators until after the report of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz on FISA abuse drops, which isn’t expected before August.
If Horowitz finds FBI 302s (summaries of interviews) on former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn were altered, the Special Counsel’s investigation crashes and burns.
Flynn’s sentencing was postponed (again) until Aug. 24, I think either because Mueller knows the 302s were altered, or because Mueller wants to see Horowitz’s hand before he does something that could get him disbarred.
If the 302s were altered, Mueller would want to dismiss the charge against Flynn himself, because if Flynn is sentenced, and then it is learned the evidence against him was fabricated by a member of Mueller’s team, his reputation is toast.
Judge Emmet Sullivan, who has zero tolerance for prosecutorial misconduct, is really peeved about this delay. He’s ordered a hearing July 10 that could put an end to the Flynn charade.
It may be Rosenstein and Wray held fire because investigations are yet to be completed, or because more must be done to prepare the public for disclosures so horrific many will find them hard to believe.
What if, Kyle wonders, the Obama administration really was trying to destroy the United States? What if very prominent Dems are pedophiles involved in human trafficking? You can’t lay something like that on Americans without gradually preparing them for the shock.
Maybe the president wants the really big disclosures to come closer to the midterms, when they will have more impact. The emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop are the Big Kahuna. Some sickened the NYPD detectives who reviewed them, said Erik Prince.
Could those emails be the MOAB that so terrifies Dems? The trial of the leaders of the NXIVM sex cult begins in September. Could we learn more about the Weiner laptop emails then?
Even if there are no really big disclosures before the DOJ IG FISA report drops, July should be entertaining.
*As noted above, Judge Sullivan may bring the Mueller probe to an ignominious end next week.
*Imran Awan made a plea bargain, according to Fox’s Lou Dobbs, that is due today (7/03).
Usually a defendant has to rat out felons higher up the food chain to get a plea deal. What might Awan have to say about former DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and dozens of other House Dems for whom the Awan clan worked?
Or is the plea deal a deep state coverup? (The prosecutor is Wasserman-Schultz’s brother, the judge an especially odious Obama appointee.)
What might be Trump’s countermove? A new prosecutor has been added to the case.
*These Democrats really really really don’t want Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to be given immunity to testify about how he got the DNC/Podesta emails.
Neither does former FBI Director James Comey. They fear Assange can prove he got the emails from Bernie bro Seth Rich, not from a Russian hacker. The number of people who believe John Podesta ordered the murder of Seth Rich for leaking his emails is legion.
I don’t know how much will be disclosed when. But I’m confident President Trump has got this. Be patient. Stock up on popcorn. Enjoy the show.
Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret, and was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force during the Reagan Administration. Until his retirement in January 2017, he was the national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette