Hillary Clinton’s never-ending shenanigans in 2015 to 2016 could be summarized as an attempted slow-motion coup.
Four years of national hysteria, a divided nation, and dangerous new tensions with Russia were some of the wages of Clinton’s machinations.
Christopher Steele (a British national who was also an ex-spy) was hired by Clinton in order to compile dirt information on Donald Trump. She hid her likely illegal campaign payments to him through at least three paywalls—the Democratic National Committee, the Perkins Coie law firm, and the opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
She was assisted by partisans in the FBI, who spied on minor Trump campaign officials like Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. In order to expedite their improper surveillance, a corrupt FBI hierarchy presented fraudulent documentation to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court which authorized the illegal surveillance.
Clinton’s orbit of former subordinates and friends seeded the lies in the dossier throughout the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA.
During the Trump transition, FBI also tapped into communications of General Michael Flynn, national security advisor designate. His service to the Trump administration was ended by illegally leaked surveillance, which ruined his life.
The country was subject to 22 months of legal expenses and $40 million in legal costs under Robert Mueller, special counsel for Russia. Mueller was investigating the Clinton-inspired Russian collusion hoax.
When it was all over, Mueller’s “dream team” found no such actionable Trump-Russian collusion.
Mueller himself ended up nearly humiliated, preposterously claiming under oath no knowledge about the Steele dossier or Fusion GPS—the twin pillars of deceit that prompted his own investigation.
Clinton was unaffected.
According to a recent affidavit filed by Special Counsel John Durham, Clinton furthermore had previously hired members of the Perkins Coie law firm to contract with tech experts to leverage their own existing access to the White House and Trump servers—and tap into the top-secret communications data of candidate and then-President Donald Trump.
Their apparent desperate goal was to find dirt that the Steele dossier hadn’t discovered.
As a result, Clinton’s tech hirelings helped promulgate another “collusion” lie that Trump Tower computers were communicating back and forth with the Russian Alfa Bank.
This additional Clinton investment in ruining Trump succeeded, as planned, in provoking media “collusion” hysteria that further paralyzed the Trump presidency.
Even after the Russian collusion hoax, Nightly News still covered the fake Steele dossier. Trump should be removed from office because of the additional fake Alfa Bank smear.
Clinton’s efforts created the general background landscape of hysteria and untruth that greenlighted the first Trump impeachment over a phone call to the Ukrainian president.
“Collusion” helped prompt efforts to remove or discredit him through possible invocation of the 25th Amendment.
This skullduggery helped to make possible the once impossible scenario of a military coup. Retired generals often referred to their commander-in-chief as Hitler-like and Mussolini like in the Clinton-created climate. An ex-Obama Pentagon official even envisioned a military coup to remove him.
Trump still managed to achieve solid results in border security, energy production and full employment without inflation. He also deregulated and pursued a deterrent but not interventionist foreign policy.
Trump believed that the Washington establishment and media were out for him. This was his chief criticism. He raged non-stop about how the left conspired against him to monitor his communications, and to break the law to ruin them.
But, this paranoia is becoming an unpleasant reality.
What would Trump’s presidency have been like had opponents like Clinton kept to normal adversarial politics? What if they hadn’t spun conspiracies often in violation federal laws? They could have just opposed him, or sought to destroy him.
One of the reasons why American-Russian relations are poor, aside from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggressive efforts to reclaim the borders of the old Soviet Union, was the nonstop and politicized demonization of “Russia.”
Americans were repeatedly and falsely told that “the Russians” had tried to destroy the Clinton campaign to partner with the traitor Trump and betray the United States. It was a libelous lie.
Former CIA director John Brennan fed such hysteria by libeling Trump as “treasonous.” The retired director of National Intelligence James Clapper smeared Trump as a “Russian asset.”
Will the nation ever demand an investigation to find out how and to what extent Hillary Clinton’s subordinates and contractors infiltrated the private communications of the president of the United States?
Will the public ever find out how such false information was spread throughout the government and media in an attempt to depose a sitting president
Hillary Clinton is a master of scandals. Her lifelong oeuvre is vast—the cattle futures scam, Rose law firm missing documents, Travelgate, Uranium One shenanigans, missing emails, and the Steele dossier.
Her greatest feat of deceit will be the continued effort of her paid associates, to tap into the top secret communications of a presidential candidate to further misuse such illicit information to ruin America’s presidency.
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