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BOLTON IS NO OMAROSA

“New evidence and witnesses could emerge, chief among them John Bolton, the former national security adviser Trump fired. Bolton is writing a book on his time in the White House and dropping hints he’s eager to air dirty laundry.”

That’s an excerpt from Micheael Goodwin’s column this week. Goodwin is writing with respect to President Trump’s statements that he wants and looks forward to a Senate impeachment trial.

Goodwin cites a lot of reasons that a trial in the Senate would be a very good thing for the president.

But this reference to John Bolton was a part of the possible downside of a trial, even though, as Goodwin notes, downsides are far outweighed by the upsides.

Because we are occasionally accused of looking for the negative on most things (the “Pessimist Personified”), we feel compelled to give our opinion on the “Bolton business”.

It’s become common assumption inside the beltway, among the ‘Schiffless’, and in most media accounts that John Bolton has become, if not his worst at least, an enemy of President Trump, apparently resentful of his treatment by the president.

Maybe so. But we are skeptical that’s the case and would be very disappointed in Mr. Bolton if he is.

Bolton, his performance as an ambassador (unconfirmed) to the United Nations and also, because of his generally strong conservative views and behaviors, he has been a favorite of ours.

Whether or not John has an issue over his departure (whether by resignation or firing) from the White House, we believe he is not only a staunch conservative but a mature adult as well.

We don’t believe John Bolton is a traitor to the person who has championed and achieved many (if not all) of the ideas and initiatives, he himself has stood for and fought for his entire professional career. He has no doubt had disagreements with some of Mr. Trump’s words and actions (haven’t we all?), but in the end, we believe John Bolton is faithful to his ideals and that the president has supported many of them during his term.

If Bolton were to turn out to be “an insider” hoping to cash in on his time in a key role in the White House, our surprise disappointment ,and disgust would be boundless.

We don’t see John Bolton as an, ugh, Omarosa Manigault Newman!       dlh

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To some of us it  is very disappointing, but also unsurprising.

“Anti-climatic doesn’t begin to describe IG Michael Horowitz’s conclusions regarding the steps the FBI took in the early phases of of its “Russian investigation”.

Despite rumors and bits of apparently solid evidence, as indication of corruption and partisan political motivation by the Bureau’s leadership and at the highest levels of the Justice Dept., Mr. Horowitz reached essentially the same conclusion he did in his earlier investigation of the FBI’s political corruption arising out of the Strzok-Page-McCabe, et al scandal.

In that case, ‘watchdog’ Horowitz concluded that there was some bad behavior but doggone if he could find any “political bias” !

And this is where the analogy to the Sherlock Holmes story comes in.

– For months the nation waited to learn what the IG had found as it related to clear indication that the FBI at its highest levels had defrauded the FISA court in order to obtain authorization to spy on the Trump presidential campaign.

– Also apparent was that the knowledge of (and approval for)  this illegal and very ugly effort to destroy the Trump campaign and assure the election of his political opponent, Hillary Clinton, went to the very top of the government…the Oval Office!

– Although President Obama was very slow in filling Inspector General positions (8 of 33 were vacant going into the last year of his administration), Michael Horowitz was one of Obama’s earliest appointments (2012)…and he’s still there under Trump’s administration!

– Upon completion of his investigation, Horowitz submitted his “draft” report TO THE FBI for ‘vetting’ to ‘insure’ that “confidential information” is identified.

– Under Director Christopher Wray the FBI has shown little inclination to readily respond to requests for information from congress, other agencies, the courts, and the media; it was then given the ‘draft’ report to review for “confidential” information?! What would that bureau consider information that would expose serious wrongdoing by FBI officials. Would that be “confidential”?

– Finally, Where’s the ‘bombshell’ revelations that were expected based on the reporting by “respected” investigative reporters, Sara Carter, and John Solomon?

– The “draft” report had also been submitted to the Attorney General. Famous for saying that much of the information, stories and reports coming out of the FBI, Justice, and other federal agencies “didn’t hang together”, what did Mr. Barr think of this report? Is it OK to change (‘alter”) information submitted with the approval of FBI and Justice officials to the FISA court just “lapses in judgment’???!!

– “Horowitz has been investigating the FBI’s use of a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page. The FISA applications relied on an unverified opposition research dossier that was compiled by former foreign spy Christopher Steele, who was hired by opposition research firm Fusion GPS and funded by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).”

– “Top FBI and DOJ officials signed off on the FISA application to spy on Page, despite evidence that Steele’s dossier was unverified and that the former British spy was biased against Trump. The FISA application omitted the fact that the Clinton campaign funded the dossier, as well as exculpatory details of Page’s assistance to the FBI.”

– The “draft report” was submitted to the FBI and DOJ in SEPTEMBER. Apparently takes a long time to ‘ferret out’ that “confidential information!

– Maybe we better get Fiona back and get her “impression” of all this…hmm?          dlh

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• Remember dlh, he warned of the deep-states ability to manipulate and otherwise spin matters to protect themselves and their turf
• It will take Trump’s reelection to continue to root them out and de-fang them
• They will be maniacal in opposition

BUZZKILL? The NYT’s latest on the IG report (IF TRUE) is not what Trump supporters were hoping for

I.e.: “In broad terms, the report refutes accusations of a political conspiracy by sr law enforcement officials against the Trump campaign to favor Hillary Clinton, while also knocking the bureau for procedural shortcomings, said the officials.” On balance. “a mixed assessment.”

On the other hand . . . and recognizing the above was a NYT/WaPo  report

‘Mueller’s team would’ve known’: Techno Fog’s thread on FBI official who allegedly altered doc makes Deep State look even worse

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THURSDAY WAS ‘SMUG LITTLE CREEPS’ DAY’ AT THE ADAM SCHITT ‘INQUISITION’

If you missed the ‘testimony’ of Fiona Hill and David Holmes before the House Intelligence Committee Thursday, besides not seeing this pair of Schitt’s “Star Witnesses”, you didn’t miss anything of significance.

Nearly every State Dept. employee who has appeared in this farce has been uniquely smug and surprisingly, not all that bright, or at least, very un-informed. Of course that applies also to the Democratic party members of the committee including the arrogant twit, its Chairman.

Each of Schitt’s handpicked “witnesses” have, of course been critical of the President of the United States ‘dabbling’ in their exclusive bailiwick, foreign policy. After all, what business does the person who more than 60 million Americans elected to be the nation’s chief executive have as far as the work only the geniuses at State have the ‘expertise’ to do.

Aside from his superhuman hearing capability, the creepy Holmes guy didn’t deserve much attention. But, boy, does that guy have an exceptional hearing sense! He can tell you verbatim everything said by a party speaking through a telephone not on speaker from several feet away in a crowded restaurant. (He didn’t claim to but I’d be surprised he wouldn’t have told Schitt’s committee he could ‘read the lips’ of the person on the other end of the phone conversation.)

Anyway, the ‘hit of the show’ was the “Fabulous Fiona”, a UK ‘coal miner’s daughter’ The weird anecdote of the day was offered during Hill’s testimony under the keen questioning by one of the goofier Democrat members.

When she was just a young thing, a pre-teen student, it seems a fellow student set her hair on fire while she was discussing something really important in class. According to the telling, Little Fiona patted the flames out and went on with her commentary.

Right then it was obvious this was a future U.S. ambassador who would set foreign policy for Ukraine, and face down powerful Russian leaders…as well as the President of the United States.

It wasn’t shown on TV but I’m guessing this tale brought tears to the eyes of Congressman Denny Heck (D,WA), who often sobbed while reflecting on the incredible courage he’s seen in the Foreign Service people who appeared before this hearing. (Denny’s a real piece of work…some village in Washington state is missing its ‘idiot’.)

As to the contributions to the purpose for which the Democrats staged this two week farce…that is, to recount all of President’s awful, terrible foreign policy errors, Ms. Hill and Mr. Holmes didn’t bring much, other than the frequent smirk and audible sigh when having to respond to a Republican representative’s question.    dlh

Rudy Giuliani says US diplomats were doing the bidding of George Soros in Ukraine, in interview with Glenn Beck  (picture not in original)

Rudy Giuliani told Glenn Beck during an exclusive interview that U.S. diplomats were doing the bidding of billionaire philanthropist George Soros in Ukraine in a “massive pay-for-play” scheme that included falsifying evidence against President Donald Trump.

Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, spoke to Beck on his program Wednesday about the claims being made against him by Democrats in their ongoing impeachment inquiry.

“The anti-corruption bureau is a contradiction,” said Giuliani about the bureau set up in Ukraine to root out corruption.

“They took all the corruption cases away from the prosecutor general, they gave it to the anti-corruption bureau, and they got rid of all the cases that offended Soros, and they included all the cases against Soros’ enemies,” he explained.

“One of the first cases they dismissed was a case in which his NGO, AntAC, was supposed to have embezzled a lot of money, but not only that, collected dirty information on Republicans to be transmitted, gotten by Ukrainians, to be transmitted to this woman Alexandra Chalupa and other people who worked for the Democratic National Committee,” Giuliani continued.

“The first case that [former prosecutor Yuri] Lutsenko tanked was that case at the request of the ambassador,” he added.

Elsewhere in the interview, Giuliani described his reaction when he discovered the Ukrainian collusion that undermined the accusations of the Democrats made against the president.

“Hallelujah! I now have what a defense lawyer always wants: I can go prove somebody else committed this crime!” Giuliani said.

Giuliani explained to Beck that he had gone to Ukraine seeking exculpatory evidence, that which would exonerate his client, the president, in the special counsel Robert Mueller investigation.

When Giuliani was asked directly about the identity of the whistleblower, he said that he could not speak about the matter publicly, and could not indicate if he knew the identity or not.

He also claimed that there were several prosecutors in Ukraine currently who were willing to testify about the collusion, but they were being blocked by the U.S. State Department. When prompted by Beck, he said he would provide for him the names of those individuals off air.

“The case is a massive pay-for-play multimillion-dollar scheme, and it is an absolute travesty of justice,” Giuliani said.

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These first two were sponsored by a Lt Col — Army SF who was deployed and saw action:

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• And yet it continues . . . tormentors oblivious to law, logic, facts – only hatred and survival fuel it
• We can hope these maniacal people will be repudiated on election day, cast out from their positions of trust and sinecures
• But soberly we know our election efforts could fail, will be close, and not near enough complete even in victory
• But to not find our tongue and not respond to leftists consistently will ensure failure (“MAGA hangs by a threat” see linked article)

Here are some articles that relate to the latest Trump impeachment inquiry focus and which serve to destroy the Trump haters narratives.

Impeachment Day 4: Rep. Mike Turner Shuts Down Sondland, Shreds Democrats’ Entire Case

The press made a lot up leading to Ambassador Sondlund’s testimony and similarly afterwords.  The American Greatness article relates the good-guys exposing the truth and embarrassing the perps and useful idiots.

Related:

Rep Mike Turner Gets Witness To Admit Bombshell, Debunks CNN Headline In Real Time

Pence, Perry, Pompeo All Reject Sondland’s Claims During Impeachment Testimony

More articles:

Morning Greatness: Lt. Col. Polly PrissyPants Speaks His Truth 

(exposes the duplicity of one of the other star chamber star witnesses)

How President Trump Loses in 2020  (Sebastian Gorka)

That the GOP (and Trump supporters must carry the fight aggressively)

This  item via HJP relates to the entrenched power of the deep state

Impeachment Theater Allows Americans a Glimpse of the Unseen Unelected Who Actually Rule Over Us, Instead of Just the Minor Functionaries We Get to Vote For

American voters have been introduced to the idea that the elected President of the United States can be accused of “undermining” foreign policy determined by the permanent bureaucracy, which spends billions of our tax dollars but is not even slightly interested in our input.

We’ve been told top bureaucrats who supposedly serve at the pleasure of the president are actually entitled to their jobs and firing them is a crime, with the president presumed guilty unless he can prove he had an acceptable reason for terminating or reassigning them.

We’ve learned that Made Men of the bureaucratic empire and its political wing, the Democrat Party, cannot be investigated for corruption unless the most exquisite preliminary rituals are followed and the investigators can demonstrate the absolute purity of their intentions.

Outside of Impeachment Theater, we’ve been told it’s heroic for the bureaucracy to organize “resistance” against the elected president and congressional representatives, if the Washington empire disapproves of the voters’ choices.

We’ve discovered obscure lower-court judges can hijack entire segments of national policy on a whim. Some of these imperial proclamations have been expressly premised on the notion that American citizens have less to say about their own government than foreign nationals do.

We’ve learned a president the imperial bureaucracy likes can issue executive orders that cannot be reversed by presidents it disapproves of.  The people are belatedly informed that some matters are settled forever on the “one man, one vote, one time” principle. The essence of self-government, the true right that matters above all others, is the right to say “no.”

We’ve learned over the past three years that the American people no longer have that right in most cases, but their nominal employees in the federal government do.  If the imperial bureaucracy makes a demand of you, good luck with trying to work up a “resistance” movement.  Good luck getting any favorable attention from the media that has fused with that bureaucracy and enjoys a revolving door of employment with it.  But if you, the Little People, cast votes the imperial bureaucracy doesn’t like… well, watch out.  They’ll fight you every step of the way and spend untold millions of YOUR dollars against you.  Then they’ll get in front of cameras and expect you to applaud them as heroes.  It was always a swindle to convince the American people that democracy serves as a failsafe check against authoritarian power.

We were fooled into thinking our government could never become dictatorial, no matter how much power it claims, because we can always vote the bums out.  Guess what, kids?  As we’ve seen since 2017,  most of the power and money is controlled by people you never get to vote against. You learn that the people you don’t vote for are very capable of defending their privileges against the people who DO.  And you learn that far more issues than you ever suspected are considered “settled.”

* Compiled from a Thread Reader Compilation of Tweets by John Hayward.

Thank You   diogenesmiddlefinger.com,  WHATFINGER NEWS and   Larwyn’s Linx@ Doug Ross Journal for the Linkage!

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• Any “news aggregator”  that highlighted it, other than to denigrate it, ought to be ashamed as well

This the story Mediate ran with.  It is by their reporter Colby Hall posted yesterday morning.  It has yet to be corrected at the time of our posting  on an important false identification made in the text.  That is one thing, but even more outrageous is that they would give any credence to such a bizarre matter of ethical malpractice by a physician.  The journalistic malpractice is just as egregious.  Our time-stamp appears in the upper right of the two screen grabs set forth below comprising the Mediate story.  Our comments and research follows.

Former White House Physician on Trump’s Health: There’s a ‘Neurological Issue’ Not Being Addressed 

There are a lot of sick people in Washington and Chicago …and most of them are Democrats. This former Obama “doctor” seems to need ‘help’ himself. This is “professionalism!!??!!  Making such outrageous conclusions so remote from anything to do with the schedule, preferences or the condition of the “patient” should instigate a peer review and admonishment.

But if Dr Scheiner is insistent on diagnosing neurological problems from nothing more than biased reporting and a few media clips he might consider offering his services to Nancy Pelosi and go on from there. How about Adam Schitt? Hillary Clinton?    dlh

About the Mediaite reporting:

Their report says: Scheiner has some expertise in White House medical protocol as the Chicago-based medical doctor served as primary physician to President Barack Obama during his two terms. 

In fact Dr Scheiner was never a White House physician. He was Obama’s personal physician prior to 2008 while Obama resided in Chicago. He would not know of White House physician protocols in an environment where you are the personal physician to the President and make your schedule around his.

His claim to fame in the presidential sphere is that he did not like Obama’s health care plan – he thought it would have runaway costs and advocated single payer instead (of course that means even more direct government control than Obama proceeded with).  Consider these links and excerpts from articles referring to Dr Scheiner. In these he refers to an actual patient of his (Obama) whom he has examined. We also see that Dr Schneider is bit full of himself. Physician heal thyself.

From Human Events, 5/11/2012

President Obama’s former doctor claims that the president lacks passion, feeling and humanity   In a new book, Dr. David Scheiner says the president’s perception of himself is little short of Messianic.

In a revealing new book, The Amateur, author Edward Klein interviews President Barack Obama’s physician, Dr. David Scheiner, MD, who blasts the president’s health care plan and says that President Obama has an “academic detachment” that he could never break through.

The doctor fears that if the health care plan is “the failure” he believes it will be, because of runaway costs and other problems, then any health reform will be set back for years to come.

These are only a few of many reveals in Klein’s book, which makes the case that President Obama is not the political machine that people fear, but an amateur with a messianic complex who is completely out of his depth.

In an exclusive preview of The Amateur by Human Events, Obama’s longtime physician reveals the lack of humanity in Obama’s character and carelessness with which he enacted the entirely politicized health insurance reform, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often called ObamaCare.

Scheiner said that he believes the president miscalculated politically and that the health reform is ultimately doomed to fail. Worse, Scheiner doubts the character of a man who holds the highest and most influential office in America: “I think there is too much of the University of Chicago in him. By which I mean he’s academic, lacks passion and feeling, and doesn’t have the sense of humanity that I expected.”

The author, Klein, later in the book, compares Obama’s personality to early the 20th Century progressive president, Woodrow Wilson. By quoting the historian Forrest McDonald, who called Wilson’s perception of himself, “little short of Messianic,” Klein says that McDonald’s description of Wilson “fits Obama to a T.”

The Amateur is set to be released Tuesday, May 15. It is published by Regnery Publishing, owned by Eagle Publishing, which also owns Human Events.

In the chapter titled, “Hollow at the Core,” Obama’s former physician, who is a liberal, blasts the president for being uncaring, and perhaps worse, incompetent.

“He has no cost control. There would be no effective cost control,” said Scheiner. “The [Congressional Budget Office] said it’s going to be incredibly expensive… and the thing that I’m incredibly worried about is, if it is a failure that I think it will be, then health reform will be set back a long, long time.”

Scheiner said that the Obama administration neglected the advice of real physicians and instead decided to let political operatives craft Obama’s signature health care law. People like Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, were the kinds of medical people that the White House consulted.

“Ezekiel is a medical oncologist, not a general physician,” said Scheiner.

The point that Scheiner was trying to make is that President Obama lacks the ability to understand the critical role of the doctor to patient interaction just as he fails to connect to people personally.

“My main objection to Barack Obama is that he is a great speaker and a lousy communicator. He isn’t getting his message across to people. He isn’t showing that he really cares. To this day he hasn’t communicated with members of Congress.”

Scheiner and other interviewees in The Amateur believe that President Obama has been a failure as a president, that he has failed to live up to the hype and has left a trail of betrayals in his wake.

Although Obama and Scheiner did not have a close relationship, Scheiner was clearly upset by how he was cut off when Obama became president.

“Obama invited his barber to his inauguration—his barber! But I wasn’t invited. Believe me, that hurt.”

A real White House physician who was physician to both Obama and Trump might have been consulted by Mediate, if they were interested in something other than Trump bashing.

Now Rear Admiral (lower half) Ronny Jackson served as White House physician from July of 2013 through March of 2018.  Remember this:

Former Obama officials are defending the White House doctor as he takes heat for saying Trump is in ‘excellent’ health

“Dr. Jackson is a phenomenal doctor and a really great guy,” tweeted Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser to Obama. “He and his team took great care of all of us for many years.”

Former officials from President Barack Obama’s administration spoke up to defend White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson as he took heat over the results of President Donald Trump’s physical Tuesday.

Jackson came under fire for saying that Trump is in “excellent” health while some of the numbers provided by the White House in the summary of Trump’s physical told a different story. Meanwhile, a “girther” conspiracy over the height and weight numbers provided by Jackson about Trump quickly spread online.

But Jackson, who served as the White House physician since 2013, found allies in former Obama officials who called him a “saint” and “a phenomenal doctor.”

“Dr. Jackson is a phenomenal doctor and a really great guy,” tweeted Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser to Obama. “He and his team took great care of all of us for many years.”

Others quickly joined in.

—David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) January 16, 2018

—alyssa mastromonaco (@AlyssaMastro44) January 16, 2018

—Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) January 17, 2018

Perhaps Mediate might ask of Dr Schneider to use his diagnostic skills to enlighten us on Hillary Clinton’s inability to negotiate stairs, or Joe Biden’s slurred speech and memory problems; Nancy Pelosi stammering and oblique facial sags or Obama’s inability to put together sentences without a teleprompter.

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Democrat debate on tap tonight with Quid Pro Joe center stage

It would be the courteous thing to do as President Trump has already done.

Son Hunter, true to Democrat instincts, lied – denying sexual relations

A stop on Maury Povitch show would have offered more drama

Via Arkansas Democrat

DNA test shows Hunter Biden is father of Arkansas woman’s baby  

DNA testing has established, “with scientific certainty,” that Hunter Biden is the father of an Arkansas baby, according to a motion filed Wednesday in Independence County on behalf of the child’s mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts.

Biden, son of former vice president Joe Biden, “is not expected to challenge the results of the DNA test or the testing process,” the filing states.  . . .

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette posted a story early this afternoon about the DNA test-related court filing. Soon after, the Trump campaign tweeted out a link to the article, adding three words of its own: “Congratulations, Joe Biden!”

Hunter Biden, who initially denied having sexual relations with Roberts, eventually agreed to take a DNA test, according to documents filed by Roberts’ attorney, Clint Lancaster.

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