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To: POKERSAM who wrote (1005042)

3/9/2017 10:07:10 AM

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The Democrats´ ´Red Scare´ Narrative Is Over

David Ignatius should keep up with The Narrative. In his column today, he speaks ominously of Donald Trump´s "growing difficulty in the Russia investigation." This is of a piece with several other Red Scare pieces by Ignatius and other anti-Trump Democrats with bylines. A couple of weeks ago, responding to Trump´s declaration that the whole Russian Dressing meme was a "ruse," Ignatius wheeled into print insisting that, no, "Russia´s Global Hacking Efforts Are Far from a ´Ruse´." Quoting France´s ambassador to Washington, Ignatius speculated that, "if unchecked," Russia´ disinformation efforts, in which Donald Trump´s presidential campaign was "perhaps" a "tool," "could pose an 'existential threat' to Western democracy."Had any good hypotheticals lately?

The real Russian story is not Donald Trump's "growing difficulty" in the Russia investigation but, as I wrote in this space a couple of days ago, the evaporation of the alleged Trump connection and burgeoning story of the Obama administration's surveillance of people in Trump's circle.

One of the amusing aspects of the story is the extent to which it illustrates the principle articulated crisply by Kurt Schlichter on Monday:

"You Can Tell What Leftists Are Doing By What They Accuse Conservatives Of Doing"

In other words, "if you want to know what the liberals are up to, just listen to the lies they are telling about conservatives." Cavorting with Russians? It wasn't Trump, but how about selling 20% of US uranium interests to Putin? That would be something the Clintons arranged.

Talking to Russian banks about ending sanctions? That would be Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta, Hillary's campaign manager, who took $170K last year from Russia's largest bank to help end one of the sanctions imposed by the Obama administration on Russian financial institutions.

The whole Trump/Russia meme is a tower of groundless insinuation built upon baseless fantasies of malfeasance. What we actually know is almost nothing. Maybe there was a FISA warrant requested by the Obama administration against persons and hardware located at Trump Tower in June that was denied. Maybe a narrower warrant was requested and granted in October. That's what has been reported and repeated endlessly to a chorus of "where there's smoke, there's fire."

But when Trump gets up last Saturday and begins tweeting his outrage at having been "tapped" by the Obama administration, the chihuahuas of the press, together with various Obama spokesmen, yap in unison: "What's your source?"

One source, as was quickly pointed out, was the New York Times. On January 19, under the headline "Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates," the paper told readers:

[I]ntelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House.

This is what Trump meant when he tweeted that his "wires" were "tapped."

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To: POKERSAM who wrote (1005042)	3/9/2017 2:02:40 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574097

That transparent actions of Trump and his campaign over a long period of time. Trump ran as a pro-Russian candidate, hinting to Russia he'd lift sanctions, recognize the Crimean annexation, break defense obligations to NATO and other allies. He went further, resorting to slandering the US in defense of Putin's murders of critics. And he's leaned over backward to defend Russian crimes. Two examples: - A Russian dissident living in London was poisoned with radioactive polonium by Russian agents. British intelligence know it, were able to trace the Russian agents movements while in England by the radioactive trail they left. The only people who deny Putin had Litvinenko murdered are Vladimir Putin, spokespeople for the Russian Federation, and Donald Trump. - Russian forces fighting in Ukraine shot down a Malaysian airliner flying over the Ukraine. The only people who deny Russia's forces shot down the Malaysian airliner are Vladimir Putin, spokespeople for the Russian Federation, and Donald Trump. Trump is more pro-Russian than anyone outside of Russia, N Korea, or Cuba. Giving the nomination to him was an unpatriotic and unAmerican and treasonous act. I am disgusted. Trump deserves to end his wretched life in a cell wearing an orange prison uniform.