A Party in Disarray

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

The political establishment is in trouble.  This is why the Democrats and establishment Republicans hate Trump, so much.  He is exposing them, and there is pretty much nothing legal or moral they can do about it, and aside from putting a hit out on him, there's nothing illegal they seem to be able to do to stop him, either.

If any other Republican had won the presidency, the GOP president would have been able to be bought, coerced, blackmailed or nudged with ease because the liberal left has something on pretty much all of them, or at least they are all complicit with each other in a manner of speaking.  Trump is outside the system.  He not only can't be bought, coerced, blackmailed or nudged, he's anti-establishment.  The more they push him, the more he takes it as a challenge to bring them down.  He's a bull in a china shop, and they literally don't know what to do regarding his presidency.  The harder they push, the harder he pushes back.  The more they attack, the more popular he gets.

Over the last year, for example, while under a constant barrage of accusations of being racist, Trump's popularity among black voters has doubled, while at the same time the black unemployment rate has dropped to the lowest level ever recorded.

Now, their whole world, thanks to Trump, is beginning to unravel, and they are in disarray because they have never been under this kind of threat before.  They've got a memo suggesting they used a falsified dossier full of false information paid for by the DNC and the Clinton Crime Family as a basis for FISA warrants to spy on Trump, his associates, and any other American they thought might be caught up in their alleged Russia, Russia, Russia narrative.  The memo also says the deep-state-controlled FBI paid for it, too.  We are being told that the signatories on the FISA applications are James Comey (who was Obama's director of the FBI), Andrew McCabe (who was the deputy director of the FBI), Sally Yates (who was the U.S. Deputy Attorney General), Rod Rosenstein (who was the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, and is now the United States Deputy Attorney General), and Dana Boente (who was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia).  In an even bigger twist is the fact that according to the memo, the origins of the dossier, and the funding of it, was not not disclosed to the FISA court, which means the signers purposely mislead and misinformed the FISA court. The facts surrounding the dossier were legally necessary components in obtaining the warrant, as established according to the legal industry by the Supreme Court in Aguilar v. Texas, 378 U.S. 108 (1964), which calls for all facts necessary for probable cause to be presented from an informant.  In short, the applicant must state why the informant is reliable.  If the dossier was the information, then the question should have been related to what makes the dossier reliable, and the facts surrounding that ... which would include who paid for it, who authorized payment, and how the dissier was constructed.

The application was dishonest and misleading.  The FISA Court was mislead.  The Democrats, however, in the wake of the release of Nunes' memo are trying to do what they can to suppress the evidence, and hide the criminality attached to what they have done.

The reality is, based on the fact that the dossier was a false document, there was no probable cause for any of the FISA warrants

The Democrats, however, are lashing out, accusing the memo of being what they, themselves, are guilty of.  Comey tweeted:

“Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.”

Former CIA counterterrorism official Phil Mudd went so far as to threaten Trump and the Republicans for daring to take on the intelligence community, claiming the intelligence community "are ticked" about President Trump's decision to release the FISA abuse memo prepared by House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes.  Directing his anger at the President, Mudd exclaimed while on CNN, "The president is talking about basically corruption at the FBI today, but we oppose the leadership.  The workforce is going to look at this and say, this is an attack on our ability to conduct an investigation with integrity. There are hundreds of agents and analysts working on this investigation. It’s not just Christopher Wray, the FBI Director.  So, the FBI people -- I’m going to tell you -- are ticked, and they’re going to be saying, I guarantee it, you think you could push us off this because you can try to intimidate the director, you’d better think again, Mr. President.  You’ve been around for 13 months; we’ve been around since 1908. I know how this game is going to be played, and we’re going to win."

Trump and the Memo may have indeed destroyed the relationship between the FBI and the Democrats with the FISA Court because now the Court knows it was misled by the Obama FBI and Obama Department of Justice.  While it may not have “wrecked” the Intelligence Community, it has exposed the fact that mixed into agencies like the FBI and the CIA is a deep state of hardcore leftist ideologues who are willing to betray the law, and the American People, to protect and futher the Democrat Party's Marxist agenda.  They are afraid because as they keep up the deceptive narrative that Trump “colluded” with Russia, it's turning out they are the ones who are being dishonest, and the "Russia Russia Russia" lies are actually only about diverting attention away from the criminal and treasonous activities of the Democrat Party.

The fact is, the FBI, through Comey, approved an application for a FISA warrant when the tool in the form of a dossier being used to get the warrant was unverified.  Former FBI Director Comey testified before Congress on June 8, 2017 that he briefed President-Elect Trump on January 6, 2017 about the Dossier, which includes an unverified allegation about Trump with Russian hookers.

Comey knew it was all false.  The Democrats know their game is a game of lies.  It's all false, based on false information, and the deception was illegally used to secure the FISA warrants ... and now we all know about it.  We know that the Democrats have been acting in a very unAmerican fashion.  The whole thing is coming apart, and while the Democrats are trying not to reveal the truth, the truth is the whole party is in disarray and realize that the 2018 mid-term might very well be a make-or-break election for the continuance of the existence of the party, itself.

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