Oh dear . . . The "fake news" just keeps on getting worse for Team Drumpf:
President Donald Trump pressed senior aides last June to devise and carry out a campaign to discredit senior FBI officials after learning that those specific employees were likely to be witnesses against him as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, according to two people directly familiar with the matter.
In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, recently fired FBI Director James Comey disclosed that he spoke contemporaneously with other senior bureau officials about potentially improper efforts by the president to curtail the FBI’s investigation of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Mueller is investigating whether Trump’s efforts constituted obstruction of justice.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/26/trump-launched-campaign-to-discredit-potential-fbi-witnesses/
In politics, they say that the coverup is always worse than the original crime. So if that is the case, then a coverup of the coverup would be, for all intent and purpose, something really, truly atrocious.
Listen - The Gadfly would be a more than willing party to the argument that the intelligence agencies in this country have not always capably served America's best interests, especially when it comes to our fabulous military intervention escapades abroad, but to just issue blanket condemnations and charges of corruption and conspiracy like Trump and the GOP are doing right now is the height of irresponsibility and malfeasance and it smacks of desperation with a wafting hint of collusion in the underlying misconduct.
Trump and his supporter's phony shtick of labeling the media enemies of the state has been kind of cute in a repulsive, oh look at the cranky dictator wannabe kind of way, but The Gadfly is fairly confident that they all (including the GOP lawmaker toadies who have hitched their teabagger cabooses to Drumpf's suicide train) are going to rue the day when they consciously chose to snidely j'accuse the FBI and the intelligence agencies of orchestrating a partisan political conspiracy to depose a sitting American president.
The vast majority of the people in those law enforcement and intelligence agencies who Trump and some Republicans are actively smearing put their lives on the line for American's and America's national and international security every goddamn day. Also - let's keep in mind here that the CIA, FBI, NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence publicly issued a rare, joint statement confirming that their collective intelligence assessments demonstrating that the Russian government, at the direction of Vladimir Putin, did indeed deliberately, and with malice aforethought, attempt to influence the outcome of the 2016 United States presidential election - and - that they did so with the primary goal of getting Donald Trump elected.
Being that as it may, The Gadfly, as does every American citizen, has a right to ask for, no - demand - that we find out the truth (yes, The Gadfly can handle the truth) as to the level of Donald Trump's and his aide's complicity in that treachery.
However, by all the presently available evidence, there appears to be a very coordinated, underhanded and possibly even criminal effort under way to subvert and/or outright sabotage the special counsel investigation that is seeking that truth in this matter, and Donald J. Trump is the head ratfucker in those efforts. The Gadfly is certain that that fact is not lost on the very serious people who are diligently and fairly working on uncovering that truth.
And to have an amoral, arrogant, two-bit, chest thumping, "reality" tv show con-artist with delusions of totalitarian grandeur come along and take a steaming pile of shit on their nicely manicured lawn is the ultimate insult to the FBI, the DOJ and the intelligence community and it has only stiffened the resolve of Robert Mueller and his team to investigate every last line of inquiry in to Drumpf's playing of hide the treason salami with Putin and the Russians.
Robert Mueller is going to turn over every rock, scour every nook and cranny, and follow every credible lead - even if those leads take him right up and into Donald Trumps's tighty whities covered sphincter and he takes up permanent residence in Drumpf's lower colon. And The Gadfly can almost guarantee you dear readers, that when the dust settles and the smoke clears and it's all done and said, little lord Donnie's high priced real estate and mafia attorneys will, in the end, have become nothing more than sacrificial cannon fodder for Mueller's onslaught and there is a fair chance Trump will be trading in his tighty whities for drab gray, prison issue boxers shorts.
That anticipatory end cannot happen soon enough for The Gadfly's impatient pleasure.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
----TFG
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