The Trump Land Mine

[truth_seeker]

The Trump Land Mine

By Victor Davis Hanson   |   May 8, 2018 7:55 AM

Explosives require careful handling. Sometimes they blow up in your face.

After the 2016 election, the so-called deep state was confident that it had the power easily to either stop, remove, or delegitimize the outlier Donald Trump and his presidency.

Give it credit, the Washington apparat quite imaginatively pulled out all the stops: implanting Obama holdover appointees all over the Trump executive branch; filing lawsuits and judge shopping; organizing the Resistance; pursuing impeachment writs; warping the FISA courts; weaponizing the DOJ and FBI; attempting to disrupt the Electoral College; angling for enactment of the 25th Amendment or the emoluments clause; and unleashing Hollywood celebrities, Silicon Valley, and many in Wall Street to suffocate the Trump presidency in its infancy.

But now the administrative state’s multifaceted efforts are starting to unwind, and perhaps even boomerang, on the perpetrators. If a federal judge should end up throwing out most of the indictments of Paul Manafort on the rationale that they have nothing much to do with the original mandate of the special counsel’s office, or if Michael Flynn’s confession to giving false statements is withdrawn successfully because the FBI politicized its investigation and FISA courts were misled in approving the surveillance of Flynn, then the Mueller investigation will implode.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/president-trump-deep-state-critics-risk-blowback/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=bbbcc1e017-HDR&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-bbbcc1e017-73083069

Further excerpted by MOD.

[DCPatriot]

Excellent read, @truth_seeker !

BTTT!   

[Frank Cannon]

Mueller is being exposed for the fraud he is. It's going to be Whitey Bulger and Anthrax embarrassment times 10 for this idiot when all is said and done.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

IF I believed the Trump crowd were playing 4 or 5 dimensional chess I'd think they timed it to go Completely to pieces a month or two before the coming election.



The DNC's bankrupt.

They have done nothing but hound Trump with torches and pitchforks since he was elected.

They're open about raising taxes again.

Kerry's encouraged the Mullahs to acquire nuclear weapons.

Hillary has trashed Trump and his voters on the world stage.

A Federal Judge has accused Mueller and Co. of being Liars, the Process Crime they're try to hang entrap Trump into committing.

They've raided his lawyer, voiding Attorney/Client confidentiality.

And for 2020 they're gonna give us a primary smack down between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?

[GrouchoTex]

In truth, the multiplex world of the establishment is crumbling in a variety of arenas, from entertainment to the workplace. Certainly, the NFL is both bleeding viewers and now seen as an ancillary of the progressive movement. The sports channel ESPN is losing its audience that is tired of being lectured about its supposed ethical shortcomings instead of being enlightened about three-point shots and no-hitters. The century-old White House Correspondents’ Dinner is going the way of the 90-year-old Oscars: It’s an increasingly incestuous night of progressive virtue-signaling, crudity, and mediocrity that permanently turned off millions of former viewers.

Yes, indeed.

[aligncare]

Give it credit, the Washington apparat quite imaginatively pulled out all the stops: implanting Obama holdover appointees all over the Trump executive branch; filing lawsuits and judge shopping; organizing the Resistance; pursuing impeachment writs; warping the FISA courts; weaponizing the DOJ and FBI; attempting to disrupt the Electoral College; angling for enactment of the 25th Amendment or the emoluments clause; and unleashing Hollywood celebrities, Silicon Valley, and many in Wall Street to suffocate the Trump presidency in its infancy.

 

 Sometimes you eat the bear, but sometimes the bear eats you.

[DCPatriot]

 Sometimes you eat the bear, but sometimes the bear eats you.

 

[the_doc]

@Victoria33
@Chosen Daughter
@Quix

The Trump Land Mine

By Victor Davis Hanson   |   May 8, 2018 7:55 AM

Explosives require careful handling. Sometimes they blow up in your face.

After the 2016 election, the so-called deep state was confident that it had the power easily to either stop, remove, or delegitimize the outlier Donald Trump and his presidency.

Give it credit, the Washington apparat quite imaginatively pulled out all the stops: implanting Obama holdover appointees all over the Trump executive branch; filing lawsuits and judge shopping; organizing the Resistance; pursuing impeachment writs; warping the FISA courts; weaponizing the DOJ and FBI; attempting to disrupt the Electoral College; angling for enactment of the 25th Amendment or the emoluments clause; and unleashing Hollywood celebrities, Silicon Valley, and many in Wall Street to suffocate the Trump presidency in its infancy.

I have never regarded Trump as an honorable man.  That's why I didn't vote in 2016.  But our POTUS is fiercely patriotic and a saint compared to the people who have worked tirelessly to take him down.  That makes it my patriotic spiritual duty to support him whenever I can.

Victor Davis Hanson is an honorable man who happens to support Trump.  The article is well worth reading.  The only deficiency of the article is the peculiar but important fact that, as bad as the revelations are about the Deep State, the still-unrevealed stuff about the evils of the Global Socialists and the Deep State is likely a hundred times worse than what Hanson discusses.

[Chosen Daughter]

@Victoria33
@Chosen Daughter
@Quix

I have never regarded Trump as an honorable man.  That's why I didn't vote in 2016.  But our POTUS is fiercely patriotic and a saint compared to the people who have worked tirelessly to take him down.  That makes it my patriotic spiritual duty to support him whenever I can.

Victor Davis Hanson is an honorable man who happens to support Trump.  The article is well worth reading.  The only deficiency of the article is the peculiar but important fact that, as bad as the revelations are about the Deep State, the still-unrevealed stuff about the evils of the Global Socialists and the Deep State is likely a hundred times worse than what Hanson discusses.

You are correct.  I am going to continue to be true about what I think is positives and negatives of the Trump Administration.  I have posted many times when he was doing good things and I would agree that the GOP has not made it easy for his agenda.  I have also been very critical (extremely).  Certainly the judicial branch of government is in an all out fight against the good things Trump could do for this country. 

I didn't like him.  I voted my conscious because I believed that being the President is reserved for men and women  of good moral character.  I also did not believe he could or would deliver all the campaign rhetoric.  We will see.  But I will be faithful to pray for him.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

I am not surprised that President Trump makes landmines.  LANDMINES ARE TERRIBLE!!!
If you don't know what landmines are, they put them under the earth, and when you step on them they blow you up.

I often protest against landmines, and I have a sign that reads "No More Land Mines!," and what's fun about it is there are very few counter protesters....Sure, there's a couple guys out there, but you know these guys are in the pockets of the big landmine companies in this country.

I don't mean to get all Bill Maher on you or anything but if you think the land mine companies in this country care about you...the little person...THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU!  THEY CARE ABOUT BLOWING YOU UP WHEN YOU'RE NOT EXPECTING IT!  That's how they make their money.

[DCPatriot]

I am not surprised that President Trump makes landmines.  LANDMINES ARE TERRIBLE!!!
If you don't know what landmines are, they put them under the earth, and when you step on them they blow you up.

I often protest against landmines, and I have a sign that reads "No More Land Mines!," and what's fun about it is there are very few counter protesters....Sure, there's a couple guys out there, but you know these guys are in the pockets of the big landmine companies in this country.

I don't mean to get all Bill Maher on you or anything but if you think the land mine companies in this country care about you...the little person...THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU!  THEY CARE ABOUT BLOWING YOU UP WHEN YOU'RE NOT EXPECTING IT!  That's how they make their money.

Man!  That's some good sh*t you're smoking there!  Cherry Haze??     

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Man!  That's some good sh*t you're smoking there!  Cherry Haze??     

Norm MacDonald bit.

[DCPatriot]

Norm MacDonald bit.

Ahhh......  ^-^

[Emjay]

In truth, the multiplex world of the establishment is crumbling in a variety of arenas, from entertainment to the workplace. Certainly, the NFL is both bleeding viewers and now seen as an ancillary of the progressive movement. The sports channel ESPN is losing its audience that is tired of being lectured about its supposed ethical shortcomings instead of being enlightened about three-point shots and no-hitters. The century-old White House Correspondents’ Dinner is going the way of the 90-year-old Oscars: It’s an increasingly incestuous night of progressive virtue-signaling, crudity, and mediocrity that permanently turned off millions of former viewers.

Yes, indeed.

Says it all.  Or at least most of it.

[Emjay]

Man!  That's some good sh*t you're smoking there!  Cherry Haze??     

Yep.  I'd ask for a puff but it might make me crazy also.

Land mines?  Little people.?