The mainstream media, otherwise functioning as the opposition party hand in hand with the Democrats, condemns conspiracy theories, unless “journalists” themselves are pushing a conspiracy theory, such as collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. It turns out that the Deep State, i.e., the term describing know-better, Obama and Clinton-supporting entrenched federal bureaucrats who sought (and seek) to undermine the Trump administration, is real. It appears to have been confirmed by ex-FBI official Andrew McCabe in a 60 Minutes interview.
According to The Daily Caller, “McCabe claims that [Deputy Attorney General Rod] Rosenstein brought up the idea of using the Constitution to remove Trump during a meeting of FBI and Justice Department officials on May 16, 2017, around a week after Trump fired James Comey as FBI director. The 25th Amendment allows a majority of cabinet members to remove a sitting president.”
Lindsey Graham 2.0 has vowed to bring both men before the Senate Judiciary Committee to explain themselves. The GOP has proven rather inept in getting to the bottom of Department of Justice corruption so it remains to be seen where this inquiry will go, if anywhere.
McCabe’s PR person subsequently claimed that his remarks were taken out of context.
An Unconstitutional Power Grab
Former Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, a Hillary Clinton supporter who opposes Trump’s use of emergency powers to finish the border wall, points out that the 25th Amendment was a health-related addition to the Constitution:
“The 25th Amendment is about Woodrow Wilson have a stroke; it’s about a president being shot and not being able to preform his office. It’s not about the most fundamental disagreements; it’s not about impeachable offenses. And any Justice Department official who even mentioned the 25th Amendment in the context of President Trump has committed a grievous offense against the constitution. The framers of the constitution had in mind something in very specific and trying to use the 25th Amendment to circumvent the impeachment provisions or to circumvent the election is a despicable act of unconstitutional power-grabbing.”
Imagine just for a second how the media would have reacted if a group of high-level feds tried to force Obama out of office over policy disagreements.
Banana Republic Tactics
Writing in the Spectator, Roger Kimball offered these expert insights about the Deep State:
“Here The New York Times has spent the last three years running interference for the Democratic party, skirling hysterically against candidate Trump, then President Trump, and minimizing every evidence of wrongdoing by the Hillary-Fusion GPS-rogue intelligence and law enforcement contingent while simultaneously coming down like a ton of bricks against anyone associated with the President, from Michael Flynn on down.
“And now we have Andrew McCabe, former Acting Director of the FBI, beginning his book tour with an interview on 60 Minutes in which he admits that he was at the center of a plot to unseat the President of the United States…
“The Times story is cast in their best anodyne prose, carefully tilted to make it seem as if this was perfectly reasonable, business-as-usual stuff. But it wasn’t reasonable, and it is business-as-usual only in a banana republic or a polity that is essentially ruled by hyper-bureaucratized administrative apparatus…
“The FBI didn’t like the President. so they plotted to remove him from office. That is the irreducible minimum, class, that you should take away from this whole sordid lesson….The oozing, engulfing, suffocating metastasis of the administrative state, a bureaucracy drunk on its own prerogatives, fired by a misplaced sense of election (‘higher loyalty,’ remember) conveniently indistinguishable from its own entitlement and quest for power.”
Ex-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a well-meaning but gullible individual, foolishly allowed himself to be talked into a recusal from the Russian investigation, setting the stage for the Meuller probe. While Trump and those in his orbit are subject to this ongoing witch hunt, there appears to implications of collusion elsewhere in the 2016 presidential election, to which Kimball alluded.
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was part of a government committee that gave 20 percent of U.S. uranium to Russia while Russian cash poured into the Clinton Foundation. Moreover, as the Washington Post reported in October 2017, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid millions to a former British spy with Kremlin connections for a fake dossier that the FBI used as a pretext to justify surveillance of the Trump campaign.
Despite actual scandals such as Fast and Furious and IRS harassment of conservative groups, Obama’s AG Eric Holder — who loaded up the Justice Department with far-left, agenda-driven lawyers — never recused himself from anything.
If there is any campaign collusion in play, it seems it would occur between the media — including Silicon Valley platforms — and the Democrats.
