The political winds have shifted in
Washington.
All this means is that since William Barr has now taken over the DOJ, all cases against Trump or Trump associates have been fixed or are in the process of being fixed. He is of a character that was willing to send Michael Cohen back to prison unless Cohen agreed to stay silent and not say anything about his experiences with Trump in any book or interview. He is not adverse to protecting Trump's political image even if it's against the law.
The law enforcers who abused their badges to launch a political inquisition targeting
Donald Trump are themselves now exposed to the furies they unleashed. It’s poetic justice — without the poetry. The process may be painful, but the nation is less likely to suffer a coup redo if the instigators have their cover-up blown.
All this means is that Trump is seeking retribution against those who rightfully investigated Russia's intentions to interfere on Trump's behalf, by perceiving it as a coup. It neglects to mention that Russia's interference was the initial instigator of all the events that followed, including Trump's understandable desire that it would all go away.
See Clint, when people believe a lie they become possessed by the dark spirit that the lie fosters. It therefore should be understood that if Trump did not believe the lie, he would be enabled to say in his innocence that the FBI had a difficult job to do in that situation and that he doesn't take it personally. But because he believes the lie, instead he is possessed of a vindictive spirit which appears as justified by the lie.
How ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ blew it: Russia collusion hoax was built on thin air
In the article below: A picture is starting to emerge about the abuse of power against the incoming
Trump administration orchestrated by a cabal of outgoing Obama administration officials, House Democrats, the intelligence community and their allies in the media.
All this means is that the FBI and the outgoing administration found themselves in a circumstance where they knew Russia was trying to help Trump win but they didn't know whether Trump was complicit in some degree or even whether he might be an agent working in Russia's interests. So just before Trump took over the Presidency, they buried the information/evidence that had been gathered in crossfire hurricane, by spreading it around a bureaucratic maze. This was a precaution against the worst case scenario that Trump was working with Putin and upon taking power he would make the evidence disappear. And it was also a way to leave a trail of bread crumbs that any legitimate investigative reporter could follow when it was leaked out, so at least the public would know what had been found. This was all explained years ago by Ms. Ellen Farkas. This is why we needed a thorough and complete investigation.
Please note that the link above is stipulating the "collusion" aspect to qualify 'hoax', and thereby making exempt from consideration the fact that the FBI had a legitimate obligation to investigate the Russian interference to help Trump win despite their not knowing why Russia wanted Trump to win and/or whether there was any collusion at the time. In other words, it's propaganda. You can tell because those composing the propaganda inevitably will claim that the investigators from the beginning knew there was no evidence of collusion at the time the investigation began, which should be common sense since they didn't announce it nor try to stop Trump's campaign. The difference is that the propagandist intends to imply that it was for a nefarious purpose that any investigation even happened to begin with, albeit without directly saying so.
According to Attorney General
William Barr, “What happened to the president in the 2016 election and throughout the first two years of his administration was abhorrent. It was a grave injustice and it was unprecedented in American history.”
William Barr has a fair point here. Of course it was unprecedented. It was unprecedented that Russia interfered on the level that they were able to. It was unprecedented that the incoming NSA would be found lying to the FBI about what was discussed with the Russian ambassador, the very same day Obama put forth sanctions for Russia's meddling in the election. It was unprecedented that Trump would ask Comey to let Flynn go while implying his job was on the line if he wasn't loyal to Trump. It was unprecedented that the incoming President who was willing to make a deal with Russia to remove sanctions for invading Crimea, would fire the head of the FBI and state publicly that it was because the Russian story was a story made up by the Democrats for losing, and only after Trump had tried to get Rosenstein to lie and say it was his idea to fire Comey.
Turns out the entire Russian investigation was a sham, and
Obama administration officials knew it from the get-go. Senior intelligence officials testified before closed-door congressional hearings that there was NO collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
All this means is that Senior intelligence officials had stated that there was no evidence of a conspiracy between Trump and Russia when Trump was campaigning for president. They only knew of Russia trying to help Trump win by hacking the DNC and releasing damaging aspects of the emails that were stolen.
And no, this does not prove that the entire Russian investigation was a sham since we found out that Russia was in fact trying to help Trump win, the various means they used to do so, and that the Trump campaign had met with the Russians to discuss removing sanctions and getting help against Hillary.
KT McFarland: Russia hoax – Obama team's shocking abuse of power. Here's what we know so far
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
Lindsey Graham revealed in an interview with Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that in 2018 Congress investigated Christoper Steele's Russian dossier, and that the FBI lied to lawmakers about it.
Graham: FBI lied to FISA court, lied to Congress about dossier
This is unsurprising. The Russia hoax is crumbling and people can’t run away fast enough. We’ve seen signs from the very beginning that many of the people who promoted the Trump-Russia collusion smear have always known it was a hoax. These signs have been in plain sight. Here is an incomplete list.
As The Russia Hoax Begins To Unravel, The Gaslighting Begins
The looming hole with this propaganda is that the investigation was never predicated on the dossier or the surveillance of Carter Paige, according to the Mueller report and the IG Horowitz report. So all of this is a logical fallacy known in sophistry as a red herring. As such it never addresses the following relevant facts.
Believing that there was no legitimate purpose for any investigations into Trump's ties with Russia and/or Russia's endeavor to help the Trump campaign, is believing a lie.
This is the evidence that this gossip that is spread about others is untrue (I have shown it many times to you):
All the official reports have stated unequivocally that the Russians did in fact interfere on Trump's behalf in a "broad and sweeping way".
Even Trump himself acknowledged the reality of the Russians meeting at Trump Tower to help his campaign against Hillary Clinton.
Roger Stone was found guilty of lying to the FBI by not divulging the contact giving the Trump campaign inside knowledge about WikiLeaks dumps of Russian hacked information.
This is all evidence that shows Russia interfered on behalf of Trump. This necessarily means there was a legitimate purpose being served in investigating the Trump Russia issue which Trump was calling a hoax. Subsequently it was a lie being said about the Democrats and MSM claiming that they made up a fake story about Russia helping Trump and his campaign.
Here is the evidence of Trump saying that lie:
May 9, 2017(NBC News) Trump explaining why he fired Comey:
“When I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. … So everybody was thinking, they should have won the election. This was an excuse for having lost an election.”
Feb. 16, 2017 Trump tweet:
The Democrats had to come up with a story as to why they lost the election, and so badly (306), so they made up a story - RUSSIA. Fake news!