This is how the Deep State crushes disobedience by the unwashed
American public. It indicts not only ham sandwiches but,
apparently, political infants in diapers too, if that's what it
takes. Hence the sudden notoriety of Baby George Papadopoulos, who
pled guilty to "lying" about an essentially
immaterial date to the FBI.
Oh, and by all signs and signals that plea came after
this 30 year-old novice had been wearing a wire for several
months.
So here's how this noxious act of bullying by
Robert Mueller's Federally-deputized thugs came down. It seems that during
the early months of 2016, when Trump was winning primary after primary
against all mainstream media expectations, the Donald's establishment
betters began attacking his foreign policy credentials with special malice
aforethought.
That was mainly owing to his sensible
suggestion that it would be better to seek rapprochement
with Russia rather than pursue Hillary's Cold War 2.0 and
that 25 years after the disappearance of the Soviet Union from the pages
of history that NATO was obsolete.
Since this totally plausible (and correct) viewpoint was deeply
offensive to the Imperial City's group think and threatened
the Warfare State's existential need for a
fearsome enemy, Trump's ruminations about making a deal with Putin
were belittled. They were, in fact, attributed not to a fresh look at the
realities abroad or the possibility that homeland security does not require a
global empire, but to the candidate's lack of any pedigreed foreign
policy advisors.
Indeed, when it came to the Republican-oriented foreign
policy establishment---nearly all of which had joined the Never Trump
cause----the Donald added insult to injury. That is, by suggesting he got
his foreign policy views watching TV (like most of Washington) and that he
could do a better job against terrorism than the Pentagon generals (not hard).
At length, however, the "who are your foreign policy
advisors" meme got so relentless that the Donald relented. On March 21,
2016 he announced a group of five advisors that exactly no one who was
anyone in the Imperial City had ever heard of, and for good reason.
The group included two recycled DOD flunkies, an anti-Muslim
fanatic from the Lebanon religious wars and two kids of no accomplishment in
the foreign policy field whatsoever. In a word, the foreign policy
establishment's boycott of the Trump campaign at that stage was 100% effective.
Indeed, under a snarky headline the next day about how the
new Trump foreign policy team "baffles GOP experts", Politico laid on the
disdain good and hard:
“I don’t know any of them,” said Kori Schake, a research fellow
at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a former official in the George
W. Bush State Department. “National security is hard to do well even with
first-rate people. It’s almost impossible to do well with third-rate people.”
One of the five, of course, was Carter Page who had actually
spent time in Moscow years earlier working as a stock broker and didn't exactly
share Hillary's fulminations that Putin was Adolph Hitler incarnate.
So Politico made
very clear that Mr. Page was apparently some kind of Kremlin stooge for
uttering true facts about Russia.
To wit, that Russia had not
"invaded" Ukraine, but to the contrary, the February
2014 coup on the streets of Kiev was fomented, funded, and illegally installed
in power by Washington agents on the ground. Among others, these included the
US Ambassador to Ukraine, Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland ("Yats is
our man"), CIA operatives under embassy cover, the National Endowment for
Democracy and its NGO subalterns and, especially, the War
Party's roving Viceroy, Senator John McCain:
Page, who has worked for Merrill Lynch in Moscow, has accused
the State Department's top official for Ukraine and Russia, Victoria Nuland, of
"fomenting" the 2014 revolution that overthrew Ukraine's government.
That charge is often lodged by pro-Kremlin media outlets but is strongly
disputed by the Obama administration.
In this context, Politico made
short shrift of young Mr. Papadopoulos and properly so. This kid had no more
qualifications to be named among the top five foreign policy advisors to
the then near-presumptive GOP nominee than anyone else in the DC phone
book----although at the time Baby George was called to duty he was
apparently domiciled in London and perhaps listed in its phone book.
Indeed, after rounding up an ex-Pentagon bean counter, a
washed-up general who had "managed" (not well) the US
"occupation" of Baghdad in 2003-2004 and Walid Phares, the
Lebanese war veteran who claimed that the Moslem Brotherhood had
infiltrated the State Department and was fixing to spread "Sharia
law" to the towns and villages of America, you almost have the impression
that the Donald instructed Ivanka and Jared to check out the Mar-A-Logo
sandbox for candidates to round out the rooster.
That's apparently where Papadopoulos came from because he
had graduated from college only in 2009, got two
more degrees by 2011 in London, functioned as a junior researcher at
Hudson Institute for several years and then "worked" on Ben
Carson's presidential campaign for three months---- if you consider that an
actual job.
Per Politico at
the time of the announcement:
One of them, George Papadopoulos, is a 2009 college graduate and
an international energy lawyer. Papadopoulos had previously advised Ben
Carson's presidential campaign. According to his LinkedIn page,
he was a researcher at the conservative Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.,
before joining the London Center of International Law Practice, which describes
itself as dedicated to "peace and development through international law
and dispute resolution."
Papadopoulos' LinkedIn page also boasts about his role at the
2012 meeting in Geneva of Model U.N., the student role-playing exercise on
international diplomacy. It adds that he has "had experience lobbying
foreign policy resolutions on Capitol Hill by means of coherent and concise
arguments."
In a word, Baby George's "crime" came about in the
process of trying to put on his Big Boy Pants and get noticed by higher-ups in
the campaign. So doing, he came into contact on about March 14 with a London
professor who claimed to be plugged into Russian sources with "dirt"
about Hillary.
Needless to say, the London professor, one Joseph Mifsud, who
had formerly served in a high ranking government position in his
native land of, well, Malta (as assistant to the Maltese foreign minister),
didn't know anybody in the Kremlin, either. That is, Mifsud was
actually a no count talking to a another no count.
Prior to his appearance on the FBI's fake stage
of international intrigue, in fact, Mifsud had been
a "director" of some sort at the London Academy of
Diplomacy-----a place that grants masters degrees to young people earnestly
endeavoring a career in making diplomacy, not war. That is to say,
by the standards of the Imperial City it's a kind of Quaker Meeting for
idealistic diplomats on the road to Nowhere.
As it turned out, George never made any contact with any
Russian state officials, didn't have any meetings with clandestine Putin
operatives and came up with no anti-Hillary dirt at all----despite months of
trying and sending loads of essentially unanswered emails up the chain of
command at Trump Tower.
In fact, despite sending six emails volunteering his
eagerness to set up a meeting between the Donald and Vlad Putin nothing
happened. Even the government's charging document admits these missives
were based on Papadopoulos' conversations with a "Russian
National" who claimed to be Putin's niece, but wasn't; and someone who
claimed to have contacts at Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), but
also, apparently, didn't.
As it turns out, the latter unnamed go-between was one
Ivan Timofeev, a program director at a Russian government-funded think
tank called the Russian International Affairs Council. The latter was actually
a glorified welcome wagon which hosts public meetings with prominent visiting
politicians and public figures from the U.S. and other countries.
Indeed, one guest speaker at this forum had been none other
than Obama's former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul. The
latter is actually a fire-breathing Russophobe who can hardly be considered a
pal of Putin's.
In any event, the government's charging document makes clear
that Baby George's emails got nowhere. Indeed at one point the zealous
Mr. Papadopoulos got swatted away by Paul Manafort, who---
.... replied to one such request by saying that "Trump is
not doing these trips. It should be someone low-level in the campaign so as not
to send any signal."
So finding no contacts, no meetings, no"collusion" or
anything else validly related to Mueller's mandate, the latter's
legal gunslingers came up with the
usual default "crime" when a
criminal investigations comes up empty. To wit, Papadopoulos
allegedly perjured himself
by telling the FBI early this year that he had met the no
count London professor before beginning his
service as a Trump advisor.
And that was true enough---except by the lights of the
hair-splitting Torquemadas on Team Mueller.
It seems young George met the London Professor on March 14,
about a week before the Trump campaign's official announcement of its
Team of Five. But in the kind of twisted gotcha that only jerks with a badge
and gun can come up with, Papadopoulos stands guilty of perjury by
his own (coerced) plea.
That's because at the time of the meeting he had
already been recruited from the sandbox and "knew" he would be
appointed to an advisory committee.
So what!
Trump apparently met with the Five only once and that was
for a phot0 op, and no one running the campaign paid much attention to
them, either.
Still, Baby George's carelessness about the exact dates and
sequences of utterly irrelevant and inconsequential events is enough to
get him time in one of Uncle Sam's hospitality suites:
Defendant PAPADOPOULOS acknowledged that the professor had told
him about the Russians possessing "dirt" on then-candidate Hillary
Clinton in the forms of "thousands of emails", but stated multiple
times that he learned the information prior to joining the Campaign. In
truth and fact, however, defendant PAPADOPOULOS learned he would be an advisor
to the campaign in early March, and met the professor on or about March 14,
2016......
That's all she wrote. This damning nugget appears on page 2
of the "Statement of Offense" and the balance of the 14 pages
is a complete farcical joke. Papadopoulos' failure to get anywhere with
the Russians in his digging for dirt on Hillary would make for a
worthy episode starring the rascals of South Park, but that's
about all.
Anyone not involved in the campaign to reverse the 2106 election
and remove the Donald from office should be forgiven for splitting a gut
laughing when reading this hideous and utterly bogus case against
Baby George Papadopoulos.
Every single player in the cast of characters identified by Team
Mueller---mostly unnamed by the prosecutors but already sussed out by the
press---had no ability to influence anything, let alone 139 million voters in a
US election bombarded with upwards of $20 billion worth of reported and unreported campaign
expenses, and the mainstream media's free nonstop campaign in behalf of
Hillary.
Yet the document and Monday morning's announcement are also
cause for alarm. The "crime", if there was any, was the $10 million that the DNC and
Clinton campaign spent on the Trump Dossier. Those scurrilous
documents were actually purchased for real money on the back streets of Moscow
and do cite actual, live Russian MFA sources, not allegedly
"MFA-connected" people, who apparently weren't.
But, of course, that's not what's coming down. The
self-righteous Mueller, who turned a blind eye to the massive stench of
corruption coming out of the Uranium One deal in 2009/2010 when he was FBI
director, has only one mission in mind: To mug the American electorate for its
audacity in electing Donald Trump President, thereby disturbing the equanimity
of the Deep State's untethered rule.
The truth of the matter, however, is nearly the opposite.
Prosecuting anyone---one either side of the partisan aisle----for marginal and
tangential contacts with a Russian government purportedly wishing to
"influence" the US election amounts to the height of hypocrisy.
Meddling in the political
life, elections and governance of virtually every nation on planet earth----enemy,
foe, rival, neutral and friend, alike---is what Imperial Washington does.
It spends more than $1 billion per year on propaganda operations
by the NED and the various agencies of the Board for International
Broadcasting. And that's to say nothing of the tens of billions spent by the
CIA, NSA and other elements of the $75 billion per year intelligence community
hacking and stealing virtually all communications that course through the
worldwide web.
But all of this is lost on the beltway media brats who front for
the Deep State. Here is what one of the worst of these scolds and toadies,
a "journalist" named Mike Allen, had to say about
the Baby George case on his pretentious Axios platform this
AM:
Be smart: There is zero doubt — and piles of new evidence — that
Russia manipulated our election. This next phase will show if Trump himself was
aware or involved, or has any interest in doing anything about it — and how
extensively America's most powerful companies enabled the mass manipulation.
Is this guy kidding?
If there is any evidence of Russia meddling or of hacking
the Podesta and DNC emails, it lies right there in the
massive NSA server farms which capture all incoming
communications to the US and outgoing, too. It is retrievable in an
instant, but hasn't been because it's not there.
We didn't need Mueller's bully boys to bushwhack Baby George to
find that out.
Then again, if you don't recognize that the Deep State and
its minions in the press and both party establishments in Washington are
pushing the nation to an extra-constitutional removal of a sitting President,
you simply aren't paying attention.
So at least stay out of the casino. That's where the
temblors will hit first.
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