If we’re talking about the people who are trying to take down the current, legally elected President, we have a lot of people to pick from.
But none, it seems, as front-and-center as former CIA Director john brennan.
Here, excerpted from a somewhat hyperbolic, but nonetheless highly informational, commentary by frontpagemag.com’s Joseph Klein, is why:
John Brennan, director of the CIA during the Obama administration, is running for cover. He could be facing criminal charges for his role in the Deep State cabal that sought to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and then to undermine the legitimacy of the duly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump. Acting in desperation as the noose tightens around him, Brennan tweeted a warning to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, claiming they will “bear the majority of the responsibility of the harm done to our democracy” if they don’t stop President Trump from continuing along his “disastrous path.” The “disastrous path” to which Brennan took such umbrage was the president’s own tweet on Sunday, in response to news reports that an FBI informant was hovering around members of Mr. Trump’s campaign and asking them questions under false pretenses. President Trump demanded “that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes – and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!”
Brennan is evidently unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution. Here is a simple explanation for the man who once voted for the Communist Party candidate for president, Gus Hall, even though Hall by then had been a long-time enthusiastic supporter of the Communist Soviet Union’s hardline expansionist policies. The Department of Justice is part of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. Under Article II of the Constitution, Mr. Brennan, the president of the United States is the head of the Executive Branch. The president, therefore, is acting within his constitutional authority to order the Department of Justice to undertake an investigation of possible abuse of power for political purposes within the Executive Branch over which he now presides.
President Trump believes, for good reason, that Brennan was at the center of the cabal seeking to take him down. Borrowing from the sentiments of a former Secret Service agent and conservative commentator, Dan Bongino, President Trump tweeted on Monday morning that Brennan was the “one man who is largely responsible for the destruction of American’s faith in the Intelligence Community and in some people at the top of the FBI. Brennan started this entire debacle about President Trump.”
Brennan, it seems clear, has been the go-to guy for this attempt to exorcise (as he and his pals see it) Donald Trump from the Oval Office – the 2016 election notwithstanding.
Little wonder, then, that he is making the most severe threats against anyone who dares to investigate the who, what and why of this scandal. He has the most to lose.
Personally, I hope the investigation starts ASAP and leaves no stone unturned. Heck, even before it begins there is massively more evidence than there is that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to cheat Hillary Clinton out of what the brennans of the world evidently think is her birthright.
Get going, guys.
