Russiagate: Law in the Service of Partisan Politics
By Andrew C. McCarthy
May 11, 2019 5:30 AM
This is an exquisitely planned political campaign.
Russiagate has always been a political narrative masquerading as a federal investigation. Its objective, plain and simple, has been twofold: first, to hamstring Donald Trump’s capacity to press the agenda on which he ran (immigration enforcement, conservative judicial nominees, deregulation, and a military build-up, along with skepticism about military interventions, free trade, and NATO); and ultimately, to render him unelectable come autumn 2020.
That’s it. That’s what FBI agent Peter Strzok so aptly called the “insurance policy.â€
Yes, of course, if some grievous misconduct had emerged, something so egregious that Beltway Republicans could chance the wrath of the Trump base by hopping aboard the impeachment train, Democrats might take a shot at removing the president. But that, as they say in the Green New Deal biz, was just “aspirational.â€
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