Update
August 23: Mark Penn writing in The Hill points out that Cohen pleaded guilty
to campaign violations that were not campaign violations. Moreover, Cohen
himself did not make the hush payment to Karen McDougal. He coordinated the
payment made by American Media. The hush payments were not made with campaign
funds and in no way comprise violation of any law. This false plea by Cohen was
apparently made in exchange for light treatment of his apparently very real
income tax evasion. In other words, Cohen “composed” to use Alan Dershowitz’s
phrase.http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/402959-cohens-plea-deal-is-prosecutors-attempt-to-set-up-trump
Russiagate
is an orchestration. It is the response of the military/security complex to
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign statement that he intended to normalize
relations with Russia.
Trump
recognized that the extreme Russiaphobia, which the hegemonic neoconservatives
had whipped up since Vladimir Putin’s statement at the Munich Security
Conference in 2007 that Russia was a sovereign country and intended to act like
one, was a threat to life on earth. The neoconservatives, who have controlled
US foreign policy since the Clinton regime, are unwilling to accept limitations
by any other country on Washington’s ability to act unilaterally.
When
Putin blocked the Obama regime’s invasion of Syria and bombing of Iran, the
neoconservatives paid Putin back by using NGOs and Ukranian politicians
financed by Washington to overthrow the democratically elected government of
Ukraine and to put in office a government hostile to Russia. The intent was to
use Ukraine, a Russian province for more than three centuries, to create
problems for Russia that would absorb Russia’s attention and return a free hand
to Washington and Israel in the Middle East and also to evict Russia from its
Black Sea naval base in Crimea. When Crimeans voted to reunite with Russia,
Washington misrepresented the democratic result of self-determination as a
“Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea.” Such an extraordinary
misrepresentation destroyed any remaining confidence the Russian government might
have had in Washington’s veracity.
From here
relations between the two nuclear powers deteriorated rapidly. As I and Stephen
Cohen have emphasized, the danger of nuclear war is today far higher than ever
during the long Cold War as there is today no trust whatsoever between the two
governments.
Donald
Trump is totally correct that nuclear war would be a terminable event and that
nothing is more important than restoring a cooperative and mutually respectful
relationship between the US and Russia.
The problem
is that the military/security complex sees it differently. After 70 years of
entrenchment the military/security complex is an independent political force.
President Eisenhower warned the American people about this likely outcome in
1961 to no avail. From the standpoint of the military/security complex, the
problem of normalizing relations with Russia is that it downgrades the “Russian
threat” that is so essential to the $1,000 billion annual budget of the
military/security complex and the power that such a massive budget conveys.
Only 16 countries in the world out of 195 countries have a GDP greater than
$1,000 billion. The military/security complex is large enough to be a member of
the G-20 and to have its own currency and military.
Obama’s
CIA director, John Brennan, quickly organized the Russiagate conspiracy against
Trump. Comey, Rosenstein, Clapper, Mueller, McCabe, Peter Strzok and others
were, and are, apparently implicated as active participants in orchestrating an
alleged collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to steal the US
presidential election. Based on deception of the FISA Court, warrants were
illegally obtained that became the basis for appointing Mueller as a special
prosecutor to construct by whatever means possible a case against President
Trump.
After two
years the only evidence we have of Russiagate is that it is a conspiracy
against President Trump and the American people. Indeed, Mueller, fully aware
that there was no Trump-Putin conspiracy, has not bothered to look for any
evidence as there can be no evidence of something that did not happen. He
pulled out of a hat some phony and meaningless indictments of some Russians in
order to make it look like there was a conspiracy without having to prove it,
but his main focus has been on framing Paul Manafort.
Mueller’s
investigation of Manafort has nothing to do with the Russiagate story line.
Manafort’s alleged crimes are far outside Mueller’s mandate and took place, if
they did, years before the alleged events of Russiagate. Manafort’s conviction
by a jury on 8 of the 18 counts is being misrepresented by the Trump-hating
presstitutes as vindication of the Russiagate investigation and as “A dark day
for Trump,” with the presstitutes suggesting a Watergate parallel that will
force Trump from office.
Manafort
was found guilty not of Russiagate, but of income tax evasion and
misrepresenting his financial position on a loan application.
We do not
know if Manafort is guilty or is simply a victim of Mueller’s frameup and an
incompetent jury. American juries are notoriously incompetent, which is why 97%
of felony indictments are settled with a plea bargain. Even the innocent had
rather work out a plea arrangement and admit to something that they did not do
than to face an insouciant American jury. Remember the jury that condemned the
survivors of the FBI’s massacre of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, to be
locked away for many years so that they could not talk and tell of the mass
murder inflicted on a religious group by the FBI.
It is unclear
how much of a crime it can be to misrepresent your financial position on a loan
application when one of the causes of the mortgage-backed derivative crisis was
the misrepresentation of mortgage applicants on the loan documents by the
companies issuing the mortgages. Instead of prosecution, Washington relied on
the Federal Reserve to bail out the banks holding the misrepresented loans.
Income
tax invasion is the purview of the IRS, not of a special prosecutor who is
supposed to be looking for evidence of a Trump-Putin conspiracy.
So, why
did Mueller focus on Manafort? Let Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz tell
you:
“All the
Special Counsel needs, in order to charge a subject of an investigation with
lying to a prosecutor, is a single witnesses willing to contradict the subject.
“The
witness may not only be “singing,” he may also be “composing” — that is, making
up or embellishing a story because he knows that the better his story, the
better the deal.
“Under
federal law, the testimony of such a “flipped witness” need not be corroborated
in order to secure a conviction.
“Even one
question that results in an answer that is contradicted by one witness would be
enough to spring the perjury trap.” https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12896/is-the-truth-the-truth-when-it-comes-to
President
Trump has made various statements disputing the orchestrated Russiagate
accusations that, if Manafort as witness for the Special Prosecutor
contradicted, could send the President of the United States to prison for
perjury.
Knowing
this, Mueller, in my opinion a proven corrupt person, decided to put the
squeeze on Manafort in order to force Manafort to save himself by giving false
testimony against Trump.
This
tactic is used every day by state, local, and federal prosecutors. Americans who
believe the indictments and convictions are unaware that 97% of the time the
convictions rest on self-incrimination in order to avoid worse punishment.
In
Manafort’s case it didn’t, or hasn’t, worked. Yet. Manafort is due for a second
trial, this time for allegely acting as an unregistered foreign agent for
Ukrainian interests and for making false statements not under oath to the US
government. Reportedly, Manafort is being held in solitary confinement, a form
of torture designed to break a person’s spirit.
Like
Manafort’s first trial, his second trial has nothing whatsoever to do with
Russiagate, but you will never learn that from the presstitute media or from
the Democratic Party. Manafort can still be coerced to say something that can
be used to drive Trump from office.
What
about Michael Cohen, a former attorney for Trump? Mueller saw no value in the
Cohen case and passed it off to a regular US attorney to prosecute. Therefore,
it would appear not to be part of the Russiagate investigation.
Cohen
avoided a jury and said he was guilty of five counts of personal income tax
evasion, one count of making a false statement to a financial institution in
order to get a loan, and two counts related to illegal campaign contributions.
With regard to the campagin contributions, he contradicted his previous
statements. He said that on Trump’s instruction, he paid off two women who were
claiming sexual affairs with Trump.
The
intricacies of American laws relating to politics are often unclear.
Apparently, the charge is that Cohen used monies raised for a political
campaign to pay off two women, who saw and capitalized on an opportunity to
extort Trump for money, and this was an illegal use of the money. Why a lawyer
would pay off women, whose stories might or might not be true, in an illegal
way when his client is a multi-billionaire doesn’t make much sense.
But these
are not the kind of questions that the presstitutes are interested in.
Nevertheless,
Cohen’s plea is associated with a case brought by another prosecutor, not by
Special Prosecutor Mueller. I am not sufficiently familiar with US legal
procedures to be able to say how this gets brought back into Mueller’s
investigation.
The facts
are this:
The US
military/security complex will not permit any normalization of relations with
Russia. Period. At some point Putin and Lavrov and the idiot Russian
Atlanticist Integrationists will have to acknowledge this fact, or Russia will
be destroyed.
Trump, by
declaring normalization of relations as one of his two principal goals for his
presidency, earned the emnity of the powerful military/security complex. By
defeating Hillary for the presidency, Trump inflamed the US media’s hatred,
committed as the presstitutes are to Identity Politics and hatred of the “white
male oppressors” who elected Trump. Trump will never be forgiven for preventing
the election of the first female president of the United States, an
unpardonable crime by a misogynist white male who “grabs women by the pussy.”
The
hatred of Trump by the military/security complex and by the white male hating
Identity Politics of the Democratic Party is giving the world the spectacle of
an American democratic presidential election being overthrown by a conspiracy
between the military/security complex, the Democratic Party, and the whores who
constitute the American print and TV media.
President
Trump stands up for himself on Twitter — I am surprised that Tritter hasn’t
suspended his account — but otherwise seems powerless. Whoever advised Trump to
appoint Rosenstein, a person committed to Trump’s destruction, as deputy
attorney general, which is the ruling position in view of the weak and stupid
AG Sessions who recused himself from the Russiagate investigation, intended
Trump’s destruction. A disreputable person committed to Trump’s destruction is
appointed by Trump to destroy Trump. How can a person so unclued survive?
As I
wrote during the presidential campaign, Trump has no idea of Washington and no
idea who to appoint who would support him rather than work against him. Consequently,
he has a government working against him.
Senators
John McCain and Lindsey Graham are working to prevent the Republican Party from
supporting the party’s president. They could easily succeed. The entirety of
the House and Senate of both parties is in thrall to the campaign donations of
the military/security complex.
What can
President Trump do? He could fight, not with words on Twitter, but with the
powers of the presidency. There is far more evidence that Russiagate is a
conspiracy against the President of the United States than there is evidence
that it is a Trump-Putin conspiracy to steal the election from Hillary. If
Mueller can indict on the basis of no evidence, Trump can order the Attorney
General to indict on the basis of massive evidence that Russiagate is a
conspiracy against the President of the United States.
Brennan,
Comey, Clapper, Mueller, Rosenstein, McCabe, Strzok, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR,
the New York Times, Washington Post, et. al., are all members of the conspiracy
to overthrow democracy in America and establish the undisputed rule of the
military/security complex.
The idiot
presstitutes’ hatred of Trump might leave them unaware of the conspiracy in
which they are participating, but there is no doubt that the American presstitutes
are engaged in the overthrow of American democracy, however little of American
democracy still exists.
This
column is not an endorsement of Trump. It is an endorsement of truth, and it is
an endorsement of the American people who in their distress and with the best
information that they could acquire elected Donald Trump their President.
Trump is
wrong on the environment. Environmental protections put in place after years of
struggle are being eviscerated by industry polluters who have gained controll
over the environmental regulatory agencies. This is not a unique happening of
the Trump presidency. It began under VP Dick Cheney, the real president during
the 8 years of the George W. Bush regime. Cheney turned the environmental
protection regulatory agencies over to industry polluters.
Trump is
wrong on Iran. He is in Israel’s hands, hoping that the power of the Israel
Lobby can shield him from the presstitutes and the military/security complex.
What Israel is doing by attempting to use US military force against Iran is
unifying a new alliance that is too powerful for the Washington/Israeli
alliance. Russia, China, Syria, Turkey, Iran, India, and Pakistan are the
locations of populations that massively outnumber Washington’s empire. Each of
these countries are being united by Washington’s stupid and inexplicable
actions against each.
Militarily,
Israel is of no consequence. Twice the vaunted Israeli Army, capable of nothing
but murdering unarmed women and children, were defeated and driven out of
southern Lebanon by a few thousand Hezbollah militia. Israel is too cowardly to
try it a third time, and is relying on the stupid Americans to do the job for
them.
The
entire world looks at America and Israel, and what does the world see? Two
countries, both the result of exterminating the native populations, distrusted
and universally hated, both of which survive by purhasing the governments of
other countries and by endless lies that describe everyone but themselves and
their vassals as evil criminals that must be destroyed.
For
example, the Gaza Strip, the largest concentration camp ever in the world, is
being systematically destroyed along with all life within it by Israel under
cover of the obvious and transparanent lie that all within Gaza are terrorists
outfitted with bomb belts who are committed to the destruction of Israel. Not
only men of fighting age, but also old men, pregnant women, children, all
Palestinians are being murdered by the Israeli military. The United States
Secretary of State agrees with Israel that all Palestinians must be destroyed,
the sooner the better.
The
Chinese are busy taking advantage of the financial opportunities that the idiot
Americans forfeit, but otherwise do not seem to have any strategic sense of how
to proceed in the drama unfolding in front of their eyes. For China, money is
now all.
The
Russians are infected with the American propaganda infused into their veins
during the Yeltsin era when Russia was an American puppet state. Slowly, if not
surely, the Russians are coming to their senses and realizing that they have no
American “partner.”
If Trump
is defeated and moved off the table, what happens when Russia and China finally
realize that there is to be no conciliation with Washington? When all the false
hopes and bets of the Russian and Chinese governments of conciliation on the
basis of mutual economic interests come to naught, what happens?
It will
be the end of life on earth.
The
Russiagate “investigation” appears to be timed to influence the midterm
elections with unsubstantiated accusations made just before the elections in an
attempt to produce a Democratic Congress that would impeach President Trump on
false charges. The presstitutes would cover up the frameup. In other words, the
real election meddling is being done by the Russiagate “investigation.”https://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/americans-should-brace-for-mueller-election-meddling/ See
also: https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/survival/2018/2704912.html
Such an
impeachment would be a coup. The consequence would be deep and permanent
divisions in American political life and more rabid Russiaphobia that would
result in war.
The
danger is real that the Democrats’ Russiagate “investigation” aided and abetted
by the presstitute media will result in nuclear Armageddon.