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Title: Russiagate: Law in the Service of Partisan Politics By Andrew C. McCarthy
Post by: mystery-ak on May 11, 2019, 03:13:38 pm

   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.”

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.”

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/trump-russia-investigation-partisan-politics/ (https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/trump-russia-investigation-partisan-politics/)