Suppose you had reason to believe you were being being spied on. Suppose you found out that someone was watching you against your will. That this person was following you to the places you go, and camping out in front of your house at night looking towards your windows, for who knows what?
Would you go to the police? And, if you did, would you expect them to check into it, or attack you for asking them to do so?
While you’re thinking about that, please read this excerpt from Steven Collinson’s article at CNN.com:
President Donald Trump has wrenched the United States back to the brink of a constitutional showdown after a weekend of rage culminated in his demand for an investigation into claims that the Obama administration inserted a spy in his 2016 campaign.
Trump’s power play injected fresh intensity into his escalating political offensive against the Justice Department and renewed worries he is barging across long-held boundaries between the judicial system and the Oval Office.
It also raised potential scenarios that would threaten the integrity of US governance: first, that Trump could use his power to go after a political opponent and, second, that he means to derail or even end a criminal probe into his own conduct.
His gambit Sunday also fits into an effort by the White House, Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill and conservative media cheerleaders to muddy the reputations and any eventual findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team as well as to cement the President’s political base.
Do you find this as remarkable as I do?
It is being reported all over mainstream media that, under Barack Obama’s administration, the FBI inserted a spy into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
President Trump is demanding that this be investigated.
And, from this, CNN’s Steven Collinson derives the following:
-Mr. Trump is wrenching the country toward a constitutional showdown;
-His request that a possible act of political espionage be investigated is a power play;
-It escalates a war between Trump and the DOJ;
-It is breaching boundaries between the Justice Department and the Oval Office;
-It threatens the integrity of US governance;
– It might mean (no way of knowing) that he intends to derail or end the mueller “investigation”;
-It is an attempt, in conspiracy with conservative media, to muddy the reputations of the mueller team (comprised of 13 Democrats and no Republicans) while pleasing his base.
All of the above, let’s remember, is what Donald Trump is supposed to be doing if he dares to demand that the possibility of a spy, planted by the supposedly neutral FBI, should be investigated.
A question to Steven Collinson and his CNN enablers: why stop there? Why not tar Trump, feather him, run him out of town on a rail, then string him up from the nearest tree? After all, he had the unmitigated temerity to ask that something be investigated, didn’t he? Isn’t that a capital crime?
And, while I’m in a question-asking mood, here’s another one for Mr. Collinson and those nice, wholly neutral folks at CNN: if the Watergate burglary – a single attempt to steal campaign information from one office of candidate George McGovern – was enough to take down the President of the United States, what should the punishment be for planting a spy in a political opponent’s campaign, to ongoingly collect information for months?
Oh, wait. Never mind. The question is meaningless. For a moment I forgot that, according to Collinson and CNN, the real villain here is the guy who thinks the possibility of an FBI-planted spy in his campaign should be investigated.
CNN has gone from a news source to a partisan venue to a bad joke to a pathetic shell….and is still heading straight downward. Along with its ratings.
And, if this is the, er, quality it provides, CNN has no one to blame but itself
Bye bye. You’ve made sure you won’t be missed.
In the 1990’s CNN was the go to place for up to the minute news. Now they are what they are.