We all grasp that, don't we?
And this witch hunt against Donald Trump, the President of the United States, we get that there's still no proof that he did nothing wrong? Or that he colluded with Russia?
Where's the evidence?
Justin Raimondo noted that in February of last year and it remains true, there's no evidence. Margaret Kimberley (BLACK AGENDA REPORT) rightly points out:
Robert Mueller is no different from his prosecutor colleagues across the country. They lie. They over charge and force innocent people to plead guilty. They “squeeze” defendants with threats of draconian sentences and get them to turn on other people or even to tell lies themselves.
Mueller’s indictments of Russian officials is akin to the shady doings that he and the rest of his profession always engage in. After more than one year of investigation Mueller succeeded only in proving that Paul Manafort is a crook and that Donald Trump, Jr. is stupid. The charges against Manafort and Trump attorney Michael Cohen have nothing to do with the Russian collusion story at all. The indictments make a political rather than a criminal case and are a weak effort to prove that the year-long charade was worth carrying out at all.
It's disgusting.
There's no proof. There's no evidence. Yet the 'impartial' media has led a cry to call him a crook and a traitor.
We're not all stupid trash like Katrina vanden Heuvel who went on DEMOCRACY NOW last week and talked up the hysteria while doing her ineffectual best to do otherwise. She's just stupid and ineffecutal (and a lousy wife since she was lashing at all of the hard work her husband had done) and more concerned that she be invited on MSNBC than that she speak truth.
Truth would require that you note the reality that there is no proof, all this time later. Joe Lauria (CONSORTIUM NEWS) explains:
The indictments
did not include any members of Trump’s campaign team for “colluding”
with the alleged Russian hacking effort, which has been a core
allegation throughout the two years of the so-called Russia-gate
scandal. Those allegations are routinely reported in U.S. media as
established fact, though there is still no evidence of collusion.
Trump emphasised that point in the press conference. “There was no collusion at all,” he said forcefully. “Everybody knows it.”
On this point corporate media has been more deluded than normal as they clutch for straws to prove the collusion theory. As one example of many across the media with the same theme, a New York Times story on Friday,
headlined, “Trump Invited the Russians to Hack Clinton. Were They
Listening?,” said Russia may have absurdly responded to Trump’s call at
10:30 a.m. on July 27, 2016 to hack Clinton’s private email server
because it was “on or about” that day that Russia allegedly first made
an attempt to hack Clinton’s personal emails, according to the
indictment, which makes no connection between the two events.
If
Russia is indeed guilty of remotely hacking the emails it would have
had no evident need of assistance from anyone on the Trump team, let
alone a public call from Trump on national TV to commence the operation.
More importantly, as Twitter handle “Representative Press” pointed
out: “Trump’s July 27, 2016 call to find the missing 30,000 emails
could not be a ‘call to hack Clinton’s server’ because at that point it was no longer online. Long before Trump’s statement, Clinton had already turned over her
email server to the U.S. Department of Justice.” Either the indictment
was talking about different servers or it is being intentionally
misleading when it says “on or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators
attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at
a domain hosted by a third party provider and used by Clinton’s
personal office.”
Why won't the Democrats turn over the server? The one they claimed was hacked? If it was hacked, turn it over. That would be the perfect evidence proving Russia hacked the server and turned John Podesta's e-mails over to WIKILEAKS.
There's a disconnect between what so many political and media elites *say* is going on right now -- a treason plot of such extraordinary proportions that it has literally uprooted the foundations of American governance -- and their solution: "elect Democrats"
No proof.
All this time later and no proof.
All this wasted money on an investigation -- that continues when it should be wrapped up. Instead, the media spends non-stop hours on amping up the hysteria and adding 'treason' cries. This is not a functioning media, it is not impartial media.
Bill Van Auken (WSWS) took on THE NEW YORK TIMES playtoy Peter Baker and others last week:
This paranoid style is finding undeniable echoes from within the Democratic Party and the Times itself. Just two days earlier, the newspaper’s ineffable foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman described Trump as “an asset of Russian intelligence,” and issued a similar call to arms: “My fellow Americans, we are in trouble and we have some big decisions to make today.” Last year, the same Friedman used his column to address an open letter appealing to the military officers in the Trump administration to remove the president by means of a palace coup.
The chief authority cited by Baker for his treason article is John Brennan, the former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, whom he describes as “one of Trump’s most vocal critics.” Brennan denounced Trump’s behavior in Helsinki as “nothing short of treasonous.”
The idea that Trump is an agent of the Kremlin has as much credibility as similar charges leveled more than half a century ago by the likes of McCarthy, Stormer and the John Birch Society against Eisenhower and Kennedy.
The fact that the Democratic Party is resurrecting a narrative associated with the most right-wing elements of the American political spectrum has ominous implications. It can only serve to sow political disorientation among the US population and lay the groundwork for an extremely reactionary and dangerous turn by the American capitalist state.
What is the content of Trump’s “treason”? What is the charge endlessly repeated by the television anchors and talking heads in tones of shock and outrage—the same media stooges who either pass over in near silence or provide justifications for the Trump administration’s torture of child refugees on the US-Mexican border, its war crimes in Syria and Iraq and its support for a genocidal war against the people of Yemen?
It is that Trump has failed to accept the word of the American intelligence agencies. Brought forward as authorities on this supposed “high crime” are a trio of ex-intelligence chiefs who are now fattening their bank accounts as “security and intelligence analysts” for the television networks: John Brennan, Michael Hayden and James Clapper.
What unlikely guardians of the truth! As directors of the CIA or director of national intelligence, all of them oversaw torture, “black sites,” “extraordinary rendition” and drone assassinations, as well as other crimes carried out behind the backs of the American people.
Again, Watergate was covered more fairly than this. All these months later and no proof. Hysteria fueled by the media.
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