March 31, 2018
Ben Rhodes cranks up the smear machine
By Monica Showalter
Not worried in the least about his own credibility, Ben Rhodes and his minions are making wild, outrageous, fact-free, lunatic-fringe claims against incoming national security adviser John Bolton, correctly perceiving that the new national security adviser will be a threat to their self-vaunted Iran deal.
According to an aghast Seth Mandel of the New York Post, who wrote an excellent column:
"John Bolton is at the nexus of Russia's interference in our democracy and the NRA's reckless agenda": The sentence is so bonkers, so pristine in its conspiratorial insanity that it should one day grace a Museum of Natural History exhibit on early-21st-century US politics.
Yet it wasn't from an anonymous troll, or some Hollywood figure with tons of followers but little common sense. It was tweeted by National Security Action – an outfit run by former top Obama officials.
Described by the Washington Post as a "political strike force," this NSA is a coterie of veterans from the Obama White House and Hillary Clinton's campaign, acting as a shadow government to weaponize foreign-policy disputes. It's a fever-swamp-in-exile.
And it exemplifies everything that's wrong with top Democrats' partisan madness in the Age of Trump.
The co-chairs are Ben Rhodes and Jake Sullivan. Rhodes, you'll recall, was the reckless novice Barack Obama made a top adviser who proceeded to create what he called an "echo chamber" of lies, distortions and spin about the Iran nuclear deal for pro-Obama reporters and think-tankers to regurgitate.
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