Hillary Clinton’s Greatest Masterpiece; Left Obsesses Over Trump

 Victor Davis Hanson

Will the people ever learn how false information was seeded throughout the government and media in a conspiratorial effort to destroy a sitting president?

"Hillary Clinton’s never-ending shenanigans in 2015-2016 could be summarized as an attempted slow-motion coup. 

"Four years of national hysteria, a divided nation, and dangerous new tensions with Russia were some of the wages of Clinton’s machinations.

"Clinton hired a British national and ex-spy, Christopher Steele, to compile dirt on her election opponent, Trump. She hid her likely illegal campaign payments to him through at least three paywalls—the Democratic National Committee, the Perkins Coie law firm, and the opposition research firm Fusion GPS. 

"Partisans in the FBI helped her, by variously spying on minor officials affiliated with the Trump campaign, like George Papadopoulos and Carter Page. To expedite its improper surveillance, a corrupt FBI hierarchy presented fraudulent documents to a FISA court that authorized the illicit surveillance.

"Clinton’s orbit of former subordinates and friends seeded the lies in the dossier throughout the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA. 

"During the Trump transition, the FBI also tapped into the communications of national security advisor designate General Michael Flynn. The illegally leaked surveillance put an end to his service to the Trump Administration and ruined his life. 

"The country went through 22 months and $40 million in legal expenses under special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the Clinton-inspired Russian collusion hoax.

"When it was all over, Mueller’s “dream team” found no such actionable Trump-Russian collusion. 

"Mueller himself ended up nearly humiliated, preposterously claiming under oath no knowledge about the Steele dossier or Fusion GPS—the twin pillars of deceit that prompted his own investigation.

"But Clinton was undaunted. 

"According to a recent affidavit filed by Special Counsel John Durham, Clinton furthermore had previously hired members of the Perkins Coie law firm to contract with tech experts to leverage their own existing access to the White House and Trump servers—and tap into the top-secret communications data of candidate and then President Trump.". . . 

Don Surber: Media obsession with Trump kills Democrats   . . ."The media's obsession with Trump a year after he left reflects the DNC's obsession with President Trump. I have never seen a party talk about its predecessor like this. A successful party makes their new president the topic. JFK shook Ike's had at the inauguration and moved on. Nixon didn't talk about LBJ after taking office, and neither did the press. Carter moved on from Ford. Reagan moved on from Carter. Clinton moved on from Bush. And so on.

"The only reason Trump mentioned Obama was to point out he spied on him.

Of all the stories about President Trump, that is the one the press overlooks,

The Wall Street Journal editorialized today:. . .

Tucker: Trump was right about this - YouTube  

The San Francisco School Board Elections Suggest America May Have Passed Peak Crazy

 San Francisco School Board Recall: Far-Left Progressives Ousted | National Review

. . ."Voters in the City by the Bay, the mecca of modern American progressivism, threw out three members of the San Francisco school board in recall elections on Tuesday. And the results weren’t close: 75 percent voted to recall board president Gabriela López, 73 percent voted to recall vice president Faauuga Moliga, and 79 percent voted to recall board member Alison Collins.

"Their reason for doing so: Progressivism run amok. Ryan Mills reported on the two parents who led the recall effort, Siva Raj and Autumn Looijen, last March. Raj was frustrated his children’s schools were not opened, so he attended a school-board meeting. There he found members arguing about identity politics instead of working to reopen schools. Reopening was at the bottom of the agenda, and discussion of it didn’t begin until almost midnight.". . .

PJ Media  "The school board recall election results in San Francisco on Tuesday came as a shock to many on the left. Three perfectly diverse, perfectly woke school board members apparently never knew what hit them.

"It wasn’t even close. Indeed, the electoral massacre of the radical left was part of a trend that has seen victories for normalcy over craziness in Seattle, Minneapolis, Virginia, and New York.

• In Seattle, voters elected Ann Davison city attorney. Davison resigned from the Democratic Party because it had veered “so far left.” She defeated a candidate who wanted to abolish the Seattle police.
• In Minneapolis, the radical city council cut the number of police by one-third and then complained when violent crime skyrocketed. Voters there defeated a measure to replace most of the city’s armed officers with social workers.
• In New York, voters elected Eric Adams, a former police officer who just presented a budget to the city council that slashed every single department—except the police department.
• Glenn Youngkin’s big win in Virginia was heavy with portent for the radical left, signaling that suburban parents are finished with social experiments and overly-controlling teacher’s unions. Worrisome for Democrats, these are exactly the kinds of voters who put Joe Biden in office and could lead a GOP revival in the big-city suburbs.

"All of the above has taken place since the first of the year. Pollsters are telling us that voters are tired of COVID restrictions. What they’re missing is the quiet revolution being carried out by quiet people in the quiet corners of America.". . .

The San Francisco Recall BLOWOUT Ought to Shock the Wokesters to Their Rotten Cores – PJ Media  Behind a pay wall.

"Congenital Liar*" Hillary Clinton Finally Comments on the Durham Probe and Adds Fuel to the Fire

 RedState

Talk about projection. She allegedly cooked up the Russia smear to distract from her own scandal. She’s once again accusing Trump of what she’s alleged to have done. She just can’t stop. She is, even now, stuck in spreading the “vast right-wing conspiracy” mode to deflect from her scandal.

As we previously reported, Hillary Clinton ducked questions the other day about the Durham probe. A recent filing from the probe said people working for her campaign worked with a tech executive to collect “derogatory” information on Donald Trump by looking into DNS look-ups in various servers including Trump Tower and the White House. The purpose was to support a “narrative” about a Trump connection to Russia. That was on top of information that had already been alleged about intel in a CIA memo that Clinton wanted to do that to distract from the investigation into her own private server scandal that was exploding at that time.

But when she was approached by a Daily Mail reporter, she rushed as quickly as she could into the building she was entering.". . .

45 mentions of “Clinton” in the original criminal indictment and 19 mentions in the latest filing.
Hillary’s response is to attack Trump. https://t.co/cLEVumkrsk pic.twitter.com/Wdh6rbZ4vG

— Svetlana Lokhova (@RealSLokhova) February 16, 2022

. . ."By commenting on it, she feeds the story more, doing herself no favors. Plus it’s never good to talk when you don’t know what legal actions might be pending and might involve you. But you notice what you don’t see her do? Deny the plot to smear Trump. What’s the explanation for the indictment of people working for her? Notice she’s silent on those questions.

"Jonathan Turley had a few things to say about Hillary’s response." . . .

*2016: William Safire justified: Hillary Clinton is a congenital liar - American Thinker  "In a notorious 1996 New York Times essay, pundit William Safire famously said this of Hillary Clinton:

Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady – a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation – is a congenital liar.

Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.

"Could anyone who has followed her political activities since make any sensible rebuttal to Safire's observation?  As many of her critics have noted, Hillary Clinton will lie when she'd be far better served by the truth.  Now here we are just days away from an election that could put this woman into the most powerful political position in the world, and apparently she's still at it.". . .

Hillary Clinton is, quite clearly, a congenital liar.  But here's the sobering thought to take away from this: if she can't separate truth from lies, is she also incapable of distinguishing between honest and dishonest behavior?  Her behavior as secretary of state would seem to indicate the answer is no, she can't. 

Opinion | Essay;Blizzard of Lies - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Therefore, ask not "Why didn't she just come clean at the beginning?" She had good reasons to lie; she is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends.

Spying Isn’t Spying If Democrats Do It

 They reacted with arrogance to the latest John Durham report.

Tony Branco

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   "Democrats howled in protest when Richard Nixon absolved himself of wrongdoing in the Watergate scandal by saying, “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” But today’s Democrats, caught out in a political dirty trick far greater than Watergate, adopt the same arrogant posture. Spying isn’t spying if Democrats do it, they have implicitly said in response to the investigation by Department of Justice special counsel John Durham. He is establishing that it was the Obama administration and the Hillary Clinton campaign, not the Trump campaign and Putin, that colluded during the 2016 election.

"It is laughable to hear all the villains in this saga — from Hillary Clinton to John Brennan to Christopher Steele — prattle on about the purity of democracy after they assaulted it so egregiously in 2016. The Obama administration’s investigation into Trump-Russia collusion was a dirty trick from beginning to end. Its genesis traces to John Brennan, a virulent anti-Trump partisan who had no business running the CIA. He turned it into something approaching a branch office of Hillary’s campaign. It is no wonder, as Durham tells us in a recent legal filing, that one of her lawyers felt comfortable pitching anti-Trump propaganda to CIA officials.

"The FBI liaison to Brennan was Peter Strzok, the agent who infamously told his mistress that he was going to “stop” Trump. That Brennan and Strzok spearheaded the investigation into Trump-Russia collusion tells you all you need to know about its partisan origins. They would later solemnly spin their partisan fishing expedition as a “counterintelligence probe” into foreign interference in the election. Former FBI director James Comey even tried to spin it as an investigation into the campaign, not Trump — an obviously bogus explanation given that he never tipped Trump off to his alleged fears.

"Even at this late date, the media, to the extent that it acknowledges the Durham investigation, still casts the Obama administration’s blatant spying on the Trump campaign as proper and dutiful. The chutzpah of it all is breathtaking. Reporters continue to treat Trump as the villain, not the victim, in the story. Never mind that Durham’s findings show the spying on Trump to be even more extensive than anyone realized.

"Now we know why the denials of spying on Trump Tower were so lawyerly. Both the Obama administration and Hillary’s dirt-diggers targeted it for surveillance. Comey, who never directly denied Trump’s complaint, was able to intercept communications at Trump Tower through FISA warrants based on nothing more than Hillary’s campaign smears.

"Walter Duranty, the New York Times correspondent famous for his defense of Stalin, won prizes for overlooking the transgressions of Russian leaders. . ." 

‘He’s Really Good At Holding His Breath’: Cruz Drags LA Mayor Garcetti Going Maskless At Super Bowl

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

You knew the BEE wouldn't let this pass, didn't you?

Mayor Garcetti Institutes 'Hold-Your-Breath' Mandate In Los Angeles | The Babylon Bee

"As the Super Bowl approaches, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has instituted a citywide

"hold-your-breath" order to keep people safe during the big game.

" 'As I said earlier this week when reporters asked me why I wasn't wearing a mask at the NFC Championship game, I was holding my breath, so it was ok," said the Mayor to reporters. "There is a zero percent chance of infection if you're holding your breath. That's just science. That's why today I'm issuing a 'hold-your-breath' mandate. If everyone just holds their breath for 15 days, we'll get through this thing. We're all in this together!"

" 'Now 3... 2... 1... HOLD YOUR BREATH!' " . . .

‘He’s Really Good At Holding His Breath’: Cruz Drags LA Mayor Garcetti Going Maskless At Super Bowl | The Daily Wire

Last Wednesday, asked about photos of him maskless with Los Angeles Lakers icon Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Garcetti stated, “I’ll take personal responsibility, and if it makes you and everyone else happy — or even the photographs with people where literally I’m holding my breath for two seconds — I won’t even do that,” Deadline reported.

“I wore my mask the entire game,” Garcetti protested. “When people ask for a photograph, I hold my breath and I put it here and people can see that. There is a zero percent chance of infection from that.”

He added, “I won’t pull it down for two seconds anymore — that’s easy. But to me, it is crystal clear that nobody has been endangered by that and I’m trying to model the good behavior of making sure we wear this (for the) entire game,” The Daily Mail noted.

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

This isn't hypocrisy. This keeps happening because the politicians who impose all these COVID rules and restrictions on everyone else see them as a useless joke, and that's why they ignore them in their own lives and end up saying darkly hilarious things like this to justify it:

Putin, Joe will make you just another "Corn Pop"

 

The genius of Rich Terrell

Putin will say, "Just kidding!" and Biden will be honored un-skeptically by himself and networks with an "N" in their name as being a world leader in the mold of JFK and FDR.

FLASHBACK: Biden NSA Pushed Collusion Hoax Using Misleading Info Got By Spying On Trump

 Weasel Zippers

Have At 'Em, Antifa! The New Free Speech

Ann Coulter

...So I guess we can forget that sonorous horse crap about the First Amendment protecting ideas that "society finds ... offensive or disagreeable." The left's new model is a public-private partnership to prohibit speech unacceptable to Joy Ann Reid....

"In 2017, as fear and loathing of Donald Trump seized the nation, a U.S. mayor got a four-star resort to cancel a conservative conference by threatening to withdraw police and fire protection. 

"With all the media blubbering about "attempts to DESTROY our democracy" and violations of "constitutional norms, " it's remarkable that this Howitzer blast to the First Amendment has received barely any attention, much less the front-page coverage it deserves, not even from the conservative press. 

"The banned conference, you see, was about immigration. 

"Wow, our elites really don't want Americans thinking about immigration! (Remember, kids: It's a right-wing conspiracy theory -- and racist, to boot! -- to think that liberals are using mass immigration to change the country.) 

"The sponsor of the conference was VDARE, a long-standing immigration website espousing ideas that are basically identical to Trump's 2016 immigration promises -- both before he made them and after he broke them. The main difference is that the arguments on VDARE are expressed in proper English, and the writers actually believe what they say.

" As the 2016 election demonstrated, these ideas are quite popular with a certain segment of voters. Not everyone, just enough to elect a president no one thought could ever be elected, who was loathed by the media, and who was outspent 2-to-1. 

"Named for Virginia Dare, the first European born on U.S soil, VDARE promotes the novel idea that U.S. immigration policy should benefit Americans. (Obviously, that includes white, Hispanic, Asian and black Americans -- whom, by the way, mass immigration hurts the most.) Naturally, therefore, it has been designated a "white supremacist" website by the country's largest hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center.". . .

Tulsi Gabbard: 'Power Elite' Will 'Silence & Cancel Anyone Who Dares Question' Biden

 Neon Nettle

"Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has warned that America's "power elite" will "silence and cancel" anybody "who dares challenge or question" the agenda of Joe Biden and the Democrats.

"Speaking to USA Today, Gabbard blasted the Biden administration for its attack on podcaster Joe Rogan.

"Gabbard warned that the Democrats' effort pointed "to a bigger issue," which is “the power elite trying to silence and cancel people who dare to question the establishment narrative.”

"Gabbard stated:". . .

[RELATED] Tulsi Gabbard Warns of 'Dictatorship' If Elites Continue Propaganda and Censorship

Wondering about Durham and Hillary?

This first is an in-depth commentary by Andrea Widberg:

Two intriguing points about the Durham allegations - American Thinker  . . ." 

However, with the Durham revelations, my guess is that the Democrats will offer Hillary up as a sacrificial lamb for the party.  She'll be asked to take responsibility with the promise that she'll get no prison time.  Instead, she'll just retire from the public eye, having taken one for the party and protected both the Sainted Barack Obama and the current White House occupant.

"The problem with this theory is that it's hard to see Hillary going down quietly.  There's a
meme circulating that quotes Hillary saying that if she goes down, she'll take everyone else down with her.  In fact, she never said that, but it's just the kind of thing she'd do.

"What I'm reminded of when I look at the potential fight between Hillary and Obama over culpability is the divorce of a power couple I knew.  They were very, very rich, and if they'd cut the marital estate in half, each of them would still have been very, very rich.  However, by the time of the divorce, they hated each other.  Therefore, each was willing to risk having exposed horrible secrets about him- or herself if it meant he or she could publicize horrible secrets about the other.  You can read about the divorce here." . . .

Donald Trump Was Right All Along: Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Was Behind the Russian Collusion Hoax. (substack.com)  . . ."Durham’s report must be considered if Hillary Clinton is indeed making another run at the Presidency in 2024.

"Word has leaked out that considering Biden’s dismal performance as President and his equally dismal ratings; there’s no chance that Biden will run for reelection in 2024.

"Since Biden’s VP Kamala Harris is even more unpopular and more incompetent than Biden, Hillary sees a gigantic hole to the Democratic nomination in 2024 that she could run a freight train through.

"And if Trump is looking to enter the 2024 Presidential race, and it sure looks like that’s his plan, the fireworks will visibly be on display during their respective 2024 presidential campaigns.". . .

Left-Wing Espionage: Trump Was Right - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics Read or listen to the article.

THEY KNEW!!! Former Nat Intelligence Director: Barack Obama AND Joe Biden Were Briefed On Hillary Clinton's Dirty Plan To Falsely Accuse Trump Of Ties To Russia (100percentfedup.com)

Flashback: 2019 Media Chant ‘There Was No Spying’ on Trump...to music (well done!) - Choice Clips (whatfinger.com)

Ex-Director of National Intelligence claims Biden and Obama KNEW ABOUT Hillary campaign plot to hack Trump servers: 'Enough evidence in Durham's Russia probe to indict MULTIPLE people'

 Daily Mail Online

• John Ratcliffe told Special Counsel John Durham that there is 'enough evidence' to indict 'multiple people' connected to the origins of the Trump-Russia probe 
• The former Director of National Intelligence met with Durham more than once
• Ratcliffe's pointed Durham to a declassified CIA memo of Clinton approving looking into Trump's Russia ties as a way of distracting from her email scandal
• The report was sent directly to then FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok
• New bombshell reports now reveal Clinton paid people to hack servers at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign and White House servers following the election
• A poll taken before those reports came out show that now even Democrats want Clinton questioned over her role in the Russian secret server scandal   
• 44% of party loyalists believed she should be interrogated last October, but the number jumped to 66% in a January polling

"From Bill Barr's confirmation hearing to indictments and the crumbling of the Steele dossier: The timeline of Durham's investigation leading up to bombshell Hillary claims"

California's problems jump out after a road trip

I am not surprised at all how many have already pulled up stakes from California.  History will look back on this time with a clearer lens than those living through the morass.  I'm waiting for trucker power to get here and force us back to life.  I hope it comes soon.  They just need to watch out for all the potholes

 American Thinker  "I just returned from a solo trip that gave me a break from California's mask and vaccine mandates.  I drove a lot through both Nevada and Idaho, spent five days in Idaho, and then made the return trip home.  Leaving hadn't solved any problems, but I had been too angry to stay in the San Francisco Bay Area.  The trip was illuminating — not just because it showed me a better world outside California, but because merely crossing into California reminded me how bad things are here.". . .

. . ."Driving further after that awful experience, I couldn't help contrast the consistently poor quality of the roadbeds with the 1,500 well tended out-of-state miles I drove.  There was also the ubiquitous roadside garbage.  Welcome home to California grunge — and this in a state where we pay a $0.70-a-gallon gas tax for highway maintenance, on top of high sales (10% or so depending on county) and income (top rate 12.3%) taxes.  Is there anything this high tax state does right?  Does all our tax money get sunk into teaching CRT, abetting homelessness, and promoting green energy?" . . .