As the reality sinks in that the Trump campaign didn’t collude with Russia during the 2016 election – and that no obstruction of justice charges levied against President Trump are forthcoming – Americans are going to start asking why we have been lied to for two years.
In the aftermath of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, many people are missing that the report does include an indictment -- of those who fabricated a horrendous crime to be blamed on the duly elected president of the United States.
Jussie Smollett got a great deal when prosecutors dismissed charges against him.Sadly, if a hate crime hoaxer gets away with it, then there will be more.
To paraphrase the French poet Charles Baudelaire, the greatest trick the deep state ever pulled off was convincing Americans that it didn’t exist. While Baudelaire was, of course, speaking of the devil, it seems an appropriate phrase. It expresses perhaps the most significant aspect of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. There is a deep state, and it just got caught using a lie to try to reverse a presidential election.
I’m confident that if there were another jihadist attack, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., would be right there with his fellow Democrats, demanding more legal rights for enemy combatants while his fellow progressive lawyers queued up from Harvard Yard to Guantanamo Bay to volunteer their services to those who’d been detained. After all, as they’ve told us for years, due process for the enemy is part of “our values” – it’s “who we are.”
Rockland County Executive Ed Day declared a county-wide State of Emergency Tuesday over the ongoing measles outbreak that has reached 153 confirmed cases, the vast majority of whom are under the age of 18 and unvaccinated.
RussiaGate crashed like a lead (or misled) balloon because it was never about anything other than stopping President Donald Trump. The press pushed the Russian Collusion Delusion because they weren’t reporting. They were crafting a narrative.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s finding that President Trump and his campaign didn’t collude with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election shouldn’t have come as a surprise – although it has for many on the left and in the media.
Much like during the process of Kintsugi, where nothing is too broken that can’t be fixed and made whole, we are never too broken, too shattered, too hidden, too much of a misfit for repair, a beautiful restoration, and wholeness.
The outrage over the dismissal and sealing of records in the Jussie Smollett case well illustrates an instance of corruption in the criminal justice system.
On Tuesday, the Senate rejected the nonbinding Green New Deal resolution proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., with 42 Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voting "present" rather than sign their names to what is very likely the most radical, dangerous, destructive policy offered in decades.
Most Americans are now familiar with the so-called “Green New Deal” and its plan to save the world from the evils of atmospheric carbon by restricting cars, airplanes, and bovine flatulence at astronomic cost to the American people.
Jussie Smollett’s story is what the prudish New York Times used to call “a barnyard epithet.” You know and I know it. The Chicago Police Department knows it, and said so. The Chicago mayor knows it, and said so.