Trump’s Great Post-Election Offensive

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Trump’s Great Post-Election Offensive
American Spectator, Nov 10, 2018, Dov Fischer

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Beyond that, he got hit with a Mueller investigation, born of a hoax and a leak. Along the way, as the first Trump year progressed, Paul Ryan did not change into combat gear, but Donald Trump did evolve and grow. He became a right-wing conservative ideologue who decided: “That’s it. Time to take care of business.” He got tough on North Korea, tough on NATO penny-pinching, terminated the Iran Deal, moved the Israel embassy to Jerusalem, imposed tariffs to save the American steel and aluminum industries, extended tariff threats to Mexico and Canada that resulted in ending NAFTA and crafting a whole new America-Mexico-Canada agreement. He got $700 billion to rebuild the military in 2018 and $716 billion for 2019. He started building The Wall, offered a DACA deal and then withdrew it when the Democrats played games, and started changing White House personnel and his cabinet to fit his needs.   [...]

By the end of the second year, President Trump had hit his stride. He was hampered by a Republican Congress that included too many fearful politicians clinging for dear life, obstructing representatives like Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan who were ready to promote his agenda. He figured out which GOP players in the Senate he could rely on, and which had to go. With the elections, NeverTrumpers Bob Corker and Jeff Flake will be gone. Marsha Blackburn will replace Corker, and McSally may replace Flake. The President now has his Senate of 53 or 54, with Lisa Murkowski no longer positioned to bother anyone, not even if she drags in Mitt Romney and someone else with a peeve.

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This President now knows the ropes. He knows that the American People forget about Michael Cohen when someone says Omarosa. They forget Omarosa when someone says Stormy. They forget Stormy when someone says Spartacus. They forget Spartacus when someone says Christine Ford. They forget Christine when someone says Kavanaugh. They forget Kavanaugh when someone says Khashoggi. They forget Khashoggi when someone says Caravan. And they will forget the firing of Sessions and the stripping of Acosta’s credentials just as quickly as they all have forgotten that the White House once-upon-a-time stripped the credentials of Obama’s CIA director, John Brennan, who voted for a Communist for President.

Donald Trump now knows the ropes and the rules of the Swamp. As soon as Jerry Nadler, Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, and Nancy Pelosi start playing dirty — and at least some of them will — the President now will have the team and the White House experience to hit back twice as hard.  A Senate investigation of Hillary, the bathroom server, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner and their shared computer. Subpoenas for every email, prosecution of every FBI and DOJ official who played fast and furious with the rules. Subpoena Maxine Waters’s tax returns. Subpoena those of her husband. Subpoena Obama’s college transcripts. Subpoena Richard Blumenthal’s military records. Subpoena the financial records of Dianne Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum. Subpoena records in California regarding the intimate relationship between Kamala Harris and former California political boss Willie Brown, who elevated her as she moved from the bottom to the top. Subpoena records and investigate how Loretta Lynch ended up on the same tarmac at the same time as Bill Clinton. Bring back Lois Lerner and investigate the Obama IRS. Investigate Fast and Furious. Once the Democrats draw “first blood,” there is what to investigate and subpoena back.


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