Friday, October 4, 2019

Half a Loaf of Russiagate

Another full plate of political hash, starting with the "whistleblower." Apparently someone knows who it is, and as expected SHOCKER:

Really no surprise. A good argument for the spoils system. Paywalled at DaCaller, It’s Looking More And More Like The Whistleblower Issue Was Stage-Managed By Dems And The CIA. Breitbart, Adam Schiff Hid CIA Whistleblower Concerns from Republicans on Intelligence Committee. I can't imagine why, can you? Also Breitbart, Adam Schiff Spox Denies Advance Notice of Deep State Complaint: ‘Regular Occurrence, but then, they've been caught lying so many times I would check if they said the sky was blue. Ace, Adam Schiff Lied Directly to the American Public and To Sam Stein's Face, But Sam Stein Says, It's Okay, Please Continue Believing My Democrat Ally Adam Schiff Anyway Or Else You're a Political "Hack"
But all good liberal operatives masquerading as "journalists" understand fully that this is another put-up job designed to assist with Democrat GOTV, so Sam Stein is saying, nevermind about Adam Schiff having no respect at all for me and lying right into my face. No one has respect for me. I don't have respect for me. I'm a worthless leftwing worm who should be put out to bake on the asphalt in the hot noon sun.
Rushbo,  Schiff Colluded with Leaker, Suggested He Become Whistleblower, well, yes. Capt. Ed at Hot Air, Schiff: Hey, Sorry For Fibbing About Not Being In Contact With The Whistleblower; Update: Pelosi Defends Schiff ‘Parody’
“We try not to confirm when people have come in. I was really thinking along the lines of wanting to get him to come in to testify,” Schiff told The Daily Beast. “I regret that I wasn’t much more clear.”
That wasn't not clear, that was the direct opposite of the truth. Front Page, Schiff’s Deep State Collusion. PJ Media, Donald Trump Jr. Blasts Adam Schiff: He Was Handpicked by George Soros and Should Resign in Disgrace Impeachable offense! DaFed, Americans Have Every Reason To Be Suspicious Of The Whistleblower Complaint
We’re supposed to accept that this is what happened, that what the anti-Trump whistleblower complaint describes is confirmed by the unredacted and publicly released transcript of Trump’s July 25 phone call with Zelensky. We’re not supposed to question the veracity of the whistleblower’s complaint or the purity of the whistleblower’s motives. And we’re definitely not supposed to question why the standards for submitting whistleblower complaints were changed just last month to allow complaints based on secondhand information to be deemed credible.

In other words, we’re not supposed to question whether this whole thing has been a political hit job from the start.
CR, Levin explains why the whistleblower scandal is ‘the biggest nothing on the face of the Earth’



Sundance at CTH, Rudy Giuliani Rips Chairman Schiff and Committee Staff for Manufacturing Impeachment Evidence…



and Devin Nunes Discusses ‘Whistle-blower’ Construction and Manipulation by Adam Schiff…



Althouse, Pelosi wants "the American people to know what that phone call was about," which is, I think she's saying here, all Adam Schiff was doing with his ridiculous paraphrase.
Schiff's insidious satirical paraphrase was concocted out of Trump's Ukraine phone call: "The other thing, there's a lot of talk about Biden's son, Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me."
"The memorandum of Trump’s call with Zelensky appears remarkably different in speed and content from the full transcripts of calls between President Trump and foreign leaders..."
I'm enjoying the minutiae of interpreting this tiny evidence about words and punctuation. It's right in my zone, the kind of thing I'm very comfortable uploading into my head and musing about. But I think I'm not typical and suspect that most Americans — unless they're hellbent on getting Trump — will view this dispute as hopelessly into the the weeds. Trump probably sees that and will call everybody out into the sunlight where we don't have to worry about that fussy nonsense which is all the Dems have after they "died" when he surprised them with the transcript.
If they're objecting to the number of words in the transcript, they've admitted that the transcript has no useful evidence. Instapundit cites the paywalled WSJ, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIALIZES: The Whistleblower Executive. "Norms are for the little people."
The impeachment process is barely underway and already some constitutional norms are being trampled without a note of media notice or political concern. To wit, can a whistleblower inside the intelligence bureaucracy override a President’s right to executive privilege merely with an accusation?
Nice Deb at AmGreat, GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy Signs Resolution Censuring Adam Schiff For Fabricating Ukraine Phone Call. Good luck with that. I like Rudy's suit idea better.

Breitbart, State Department IG Has Been Sitting on ‘Urgent’ Ukraine Matter for 4 Months
The inspector general (IG) at the U.S. Department of State has requested to provide an “urgent” briefing related to Ukraine to congressional staffers on Wednesday afternoon on a matter that he was made aware of four months ago, Breitbart News has learned.

A Trump administration official told Breitbart News that Steve Linick, the IG at the State Department who began his tenure under former President Barack Obama in 2013, “has been sitting on the alleged ‘urgent’ matter for four months.”
. . .
Echoing ABC News, the administration official identified the subject of the briefing as Rudy Giuliani, U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, and Ukraine.
Depends on your definition of "urgent" I suppose. So now, onto the Russiagate mess. Stacy McCain, ‘DEEP STATE’ BOMBSHELL: Rosenstein Was Part of Anti-Trump Coup Plot "What was widely suspected is now conclusively proven:" EBL, echos Deep State's Mole Rod Rosenstein. Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.03.19 (Evening Edition), Nice Deb at AmGreat, Newly Released Judicial Watch Docs Paint Rosenstein as Active Participant in Deep State Coup. I'm still inclined to give Rod the benefit of the doubt. After all, Mueller tried hard, but he could find or create a crime by Trump.

Ace, John Brennan: I Don't Understand Why People Would Want to Investigate My Attempted Coup

also, Rush Limbaugh: FoxNews is just the "Fake News NeverTrumper Network" I do think Fox has schizophrenia over this.
He started by pointing out that virtually no one on Fox would just say that Trump is permitted to ask Ukraine to investigate a matter -- "Russia interference" -- which the leftwing media and also leftwing NeverTrumpers told us was literally the most important scandal in all of human history.

But it was only important enough for Democrats and Bill Kristol's allies to collect information from corrupt Ukrainian operatives. It's not important enough to investigate the connections between the DNC and corrupt Ukrainian operatives.
Thomas Farnan at AmGreat, Trump’s Worldwide Dragnet to Catch the Hoaxers
Buried somewhere in recent impeachment reporting was the real news that federal prosecutors are conducting an international dragnet to find the perpetrators of the Russia hoax. Last week, the Justice Department issued a statement. . .
PJ Media, Trump Pondering 'Major Lawsuit' in Response to Mueller Investigation
“We’ve been investigating on a personal basis, through Rudy [Giuliani] and others, lawyers, corruption in the 2016 election. We’ve been investigating corruption because I probably will, I was going to definitely, but I probably will be bringing a lot of litigation against a lot of people having to do with the corrupt investigation having to do with the 2016 election,” Trump said during a press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö.

“I’ve been looking at that long and hard for a long period of time, how it started, why it started, it should never happen to another president, ever, but I’ve been talking about it from the standpoint of bringing a major lawsuit, and I’ve been talking about it for a long time,” he added.
Take it out in trade. But make sure you declare it on your taxes. John Sexton, Hot Air  Michael Avenatti: Stormy Daniels Owes Me $2 Million For My Excellent Legal Work
Avenatti never complained about the money back when he was appearing on CNN and MSNBC once or twice a day for months on end. If you could add up the value of all that media time it would surely exceed $2 million. But, alas, Avenatti has fallen on hard times. In March he was arrested and charged with attempting to extort $25 million from Nike. Then in April he was hit with a 36-count indictment in California which accused him of embezzling money from a settlement paid to a disabled client. In May there were reports that he was about to be charged for embezzling $300k from Stormy Daniels. And in June the California State Bar moved to suspend his law license.

As a result of all of this, the poor man has lost his Ferrari and his private jet. This is really a sad story, I guess. And yet, somehow I don’t feel bad about any of it.
Ima gonna stop here, and finish with Biden/Ukraine and Impeachment follies later.
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