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The Russian Collusion Story
E.
Ablorh-Odjidja
August 08, 2017
It seems
the “Russian Collusion” investigation had an answer before it
began: It knew who colluded with the Russians.
And it had to be Trump.
There is
now a special counsel appointed to fill in the details.
It is
hard to understand the logic. Russia interfered in the US
presidential election only in 2016.
So, why would it be to aid Trump and not Hillary? But as
things stand now, the Russians, it seems, could only have wanted
to help Trump.
The
Russians, we are to believe, were so astute and magical at
electoral espionage in 2016 that they could pick the winner of
the US presidential election without fail.
Except
the Russians never did this in the past, we are again asked to
believe!
They did
it only in 2016 when they could pull off this bold, demeaning
deed on Americans.
But wait, this dastardly act was to happen only when American
elections could be deemed vulnerable – on the watch of the first
historic Black president, Barrack Obama!
Same
President Obama won elections in 2008 and 2012 with no Russian
meddling or help. The losers of those elections, McCain and
Romney, respectively, just faded away. Russian meddling was not
raised.
In 2016,
we heard about Hillary’s private mail server. No charge for
obstruction of justice followed her, even though she wiped clean
36,000 files off that server, which was under subpoena.
Many had
suspected that the server had traces of “pay to play” schemes,
an alleged uranium deal with Russia, and donations from dubious
sources that went to the Clinton Foundation.
Yet, these raised no problem for her.
Misdeeds
that many believed were obvious were glossed over during the
2016 campaign by compliant media, while the entire eyes of the
U.S. justice system were turned aggressively on Trump and the
Russians!
When
Hillary was defeated in 2016, the entire attention of the
Justice Department and the media suddenly got energized in an
all-out attempt to get Trump, an outsider who had pulled out a
marvelous electoral victory.
The premise for the attention Trump won because of one
hell of a hoax by Russians.
And the
effort to taint Trump’s victory began.
Then began the need to break his young administration in
a sinister and unjust manner.
The odd part of this effort was coming from both sides of
the political aisle.
Trump, the man they predicted couldn't win and, therefore,
shouldn't have won the presidency.
But this
view couldn’t be fair for Trump.
He had defeated 16 Republican scions in the primary
before defeating Hillary, off the crown princess of liberal
Democrat America. And so, some Republicans and the Democrats
had the common cause to de-legitimize him.
To stop
Trump, they used the courts in three vital Democrat states
(Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania) to force ballot recounts
hoping it would reverse the 2016 outcome. Pressured electoral
college electors, the only and constitutional determinant for
electing a US president, to defect.
And they failed each step of the way.
So, now
the Russian hoax, glaringly a lie but dangerous in intent, is
being used to seek Trump’s removal from office through
impeachment, all contradictions notwithstanding.
The
attempt to get Trump at all costs is blatantly clear.
Even, the political color of the Special Counsels
appointed and the list of his legal investigators did not raise
concern among the anti-Trumpers.
Of the
sixteen lawyers appointed to the investigatory team, eight have
acknowledged contributions to Clinton and Obama's campaigns.
One even served as a counsel for Hillary and the Clinton
Foundation.
All told,
not a single lawyer on Mueller’s team of lawyers was known as a
Republican sympathizer, much less a supporter of Trump!
Worst,
the bias exhibited in the selection of this legal team
suspiciously extended to the Grand Jury impaneled for the trial
of the Trump campaign associates.
The
jurors all came from the populace of the District of Columbia,
where Trump had less than 5% of the presidential votes in 2016.
Yet, the
trial went on. What
if Trump did not collude with the Russians?
Democrats, at least, had openly declared that Trump did.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, for whom fairness for Trump
has never been an afterthought, continues to be the flagbearer
for the theme. She
has bipartisan support.
Currently
on the other side is Senator John McCain, a Republican.
Long
before Hillary's “deplorable” tribute, McCain had offered
similar to Trump’s followers, which caused Trump to say that
McCain, the prisoner of war and acclaimed war hero, was no hero
at all. Trump added
that he preferred heroes who were not caught as prisoners of
war.
Some said
McCain never forgave Trump for this remark and also added
another reason: a
charge of presidential envy.
McCain, the seasoned politician had lost the presidency
in 2008 to Obama.
And Trump, the outsider, and novice, easily won it in 2016.
No
surprise then that Senator McCain was the one reputed to have
eagerly sought and brought the supposedly incriminating
document, the
“Russian Dossier” from the UK and handed it to the FBI. McCain
said he “turned over the document out of civic duty,” according
to Reason magazine.
Every
legislative act in the Senate that McCain made since the
"Dossier," had gone against Trump’s policy position as
president. He said
he did it as a “civic duty.”
Strangely, the “Russian dossier” has since been debunked.
But this McCain “civic duty” has not kicked in yet to
condemn the glaring lies in the collusion charge.
Additionally, the “civic duty” claim by McCain has not
questioned why the FBI never inspected the DNC computers, which
were said to have been broken into by the Russians - a charge
that has to some extent been part of the investigation into the
Trump campaign. McCain
also has preferred to be silent on several of Trump’s
achievements in office so far.
Trump has
put down markers of success in several areas of his new
administration. The
bounce in GDP in July 2017, increases in job creation to date,
Dow Jones Industrial Average record highs, and foreign policy
wins; the unanimous, historic vote against North Korea at the UN
Security Council last week.
All these achievements probably have caused McCain to
become more hostile.
At
questioning of FBI Director Comey at the Senate Intelligence
Committee hearing on matters concerning Russian Collusion,
Senator McCain’s hostility toward Trump probably caused him to
be very incomprehensible.
"The
strangest moment of the nearly three-hour Senate intelligence
committee hearing featuring testimony from fired FBI Director
James Comey came at the very end. And it came courtesy of a
somewhat-unlikely source: Arizona Sen. John McCain." Said CNN.
Some said
the confusion noted in McCain's questioning could be a tell-tale
sign of guilt or caused by his animosity towards Trump.
It was
the lone McCain vote that sank Trump's attempt to defeat
Obamacare in the Senate.
Until
Trump came into office, McCain was all for the defeat of
Obamacare. The
duplicitous move here cannot be the result of “civic duty.”
It rather underscored the animosity McCain had for Trump.
Like
McCain, the Russian Collusion investigators would look for any
reason to damage Trump.
The truth or falsity wouldn't matter, just as the proffer
of the fabricated “Russian Dossier,” didn't for the Justice
Department and the media.
E.
Ablorh-Odjidja, Publisher, www.ghanadot.com, Washington, DC,
August 08, 2017.
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