Russiagate Comeuppance

First, it was Russia-gate, the claim that Russia had influenced Trump's 2016 electoral success and that Trump was in cahoots with Russia. It spawned two years of investigations costing millions of dollars and sabotaging the first two years of Trump's presidency. After this was exposed as a hoax, the Democrats did their best to forget it ever happened. But,  a re-elected Trump and his committed team, many of whom suffered from the weaponisation of the justice system under Biden, are now looking for justice. 

So what’s the real story behind the Russia-gate madness? Matt Taibbi dropped some serious truth bombs in the video “Alleged Obama ‘Treason’ EXPLAINED, and the Key Russia-gate ‘Smoking Gun’.” And it’s not pretty.

Here's the deal:

• Following direct instruction from Obama, the FBI and CIA fabricated the claim that Russia interfered with the US Presidential election in 2016 in favour of Trump, effectively delegitimising his election

• For three years, the FBI and CIA ran a full-blown narrative framing Trump as traitorous. Taibbi calls it either the biggest setup or the most significant espionage scandal ever, and it was entirely fabricated.

• A whistleblower confirms leaks: A former State Department official, Steven Schrage, taped conversations that show people like Halper (who liaised between spies and Trump aides) had inside information about Flynn’s FBI bust before it went public. That suggests co-ordination, not coincidence.

• There are at least allegations that Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence under Biden, orchestrated leaks to reporters—“pull the kill shot”—leading to Flynn’s downfall. That’s not oversight; that’s political sabotage.

Why it matters:

This wasn’t a minor screw-up. It was intelligence agencies weaponising leaks and pushing a false narrative that drove an entire media frenzy—and nearly tanked a presidency.

Make no mistake: even though it's a scandal of historic proportions, you're not hearing this in your mainstream feed. The fallout from these leaks destroyed careers, eroded trust, and set a precedent for intelligence abuse.

So yeah, the “secret smoking gun” was just smoke and mirrors. And the real emergency? Not foreign interference—it was lies coming from within.

Here is the video

https://youtu.be/w7H6R2SV3LM?si=UmAnCQOiseGDFhC3

Obama Corruption and Collusion

The current serial brouhaha by the democrat/media alliance against Trump is given another perspective in Andrew Klavan's post "Corruption and Collusion: Obama, Comey, and the Press" on PJ Media. In summary ; -

"My point is simply this: when you are listening to Comey, and when you are listening to the news media sanctifying Comey or indeed demonizing Trump, just remember who it is you are listening to: unindicted co-conspirators in an administration that was rotten to the core."

It is hard to separate the wheat from the chaff in the rampant political posturing.  Perhaps we will tell after the froth of outrage calms in a decade or so.

In the meantime, the democrats and their media supporters should think hard. They are trashing democratic conventions with their rabid, one-sided attacks on the office of President.

Trump in stormy seas, bearing right

Despite the continuous outrage at his every tweet squeezing out anything else from our main stream media, we are starting to see some hints of change in the world order.

Trump is an enigmatic change agent in a bull-in-the china-shop sort of a way. His influence outside his inane tweets barely get mention let alone recognition. But little by little we are seeing a change in the comfortable world order. That comfortable world order that saw gradual decline of the USA under Obama. The loss of face, the guilt for Western nation affluence, the loss of relevance due to inaction, and the soul destroying acceptance of the unacceptable rise of rogue states with nuclear weapons and ICBMs.

The new man, unpalatable as he is to many, has taken a strong if unpredictable stance on issues that were long ignored.

In but a few short months he has; -

• re-established a red-line on chemical weapons with a few cruise missile and at the same time put Russia on notice that this he was no Obama
• put China on notice that is ongoing support for North Korea was not conducive to its role as an avowed supported of world order
• confronted Saudi Arabia and its brethren that the ISIS is their child. They need to drive out the terrorist from their own midst. They cannot expect the rest of the world to do it for them.
• called out the Paris Climate change accord as having been a capitulation by the US and Europe to China and the third world. After all China has per capita emissions equal to that of Europe so why should it be allowed to increase emissions till 2030, 
• put China on notice for its actions in the South China sea
• met with Israeli and Palestinian leaders to set sound groundwork for negotiations and in contrast to Obama did not set any boundaries or preconceptions
• and dismantled Obamacare, but is yet to come up with an acceptable replacement

Some of these steps have started reaping results. China is making moves to redress its all out support for North Korea, and most dramatically Saudi Arabia, together with its neighbours, has cut diplomatic relations with terrorist supporting Qatar. No doubt Trump has helped create these effects. 

For many who have watched Obama's handiwork with horror, these are moves in the right direction. They hold out hope for a stronger America and a better world. Yes the rhetoric from the mainstream media will not say this, nor will the many he has put offside; the EU, Climate change advocates, Liberals in general, Mexicans who want to enter the US illegally, Muslim refugees, and many more. 

It is early days, and many stormy seas yet to sail with an inexperienced captain, but it seems to be heading in the right direction.