The plot against the President should be prosecuted
Julie Kelly:
Kelly goes on to demonstrate how the media was complicit in this treachery. The media published thousands of stories in support of the coup attempt. They became co-conspirators with the coup plotters. They daily attack the President's statements saying he makes claims "without evidence," while they were pushing a false narrative for which there was no evidence.
It was a plot hatched by the Clinton campaign and its paid consultants to falsely accuse the President and his campaign. If the media had a wit of integrity they would disclose all the sources that gave them the false stories alleging the collusion hoax and calling the President a Russian agent. It was one of the more shameful episodes in media history. No one complicit in this criminal enterprise should be entitled to remain anonymous.
What is already becoming clear is that many of those who pushed this hoax knew it was a hoax from the beginning. It was never a good faith effort.
...Mueller and his team of angry Democrats should not get a pass on this treachery either. They deliberately manufactured crimes instead of investigating the real culprits trying to overthrow the government.
To describe it as a witch hunt, the president’s preferred term, is too generous. The American public has witnessed a seditious attempt by powerful interests garrisoned throughout our political complex to overthrow a sitting U.S. president. The orchestrated and failed coup has exceeded the routine combat of our two-party system, where out-of-power partisans disrupt and agitate the other side. No, this has been a full scale insurrection that has violated the boundaries of law, normalcy, and civility in an unprecedented way.
Both Democrats and Republicans have been complicit. The national news media have acted as hatchet men. Influential public officials, operating both inside and outside of government, have aided the stratagem. One of the main culprits just revealed—no, bragged—how a handful of corrupt bureaucrats plotted unlawfully to remove the president from the Oval Office based on the fantastical scheme.
It’s the kind of treachery that is supposed to animate banana republics or Soviet-style regimes—not our country.
And now that the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed this week that their two-year investigation—which involved the interrogation of 200 witnesses and a review of 300,000 documents—will find no evidence of collusion, the aftermath of this scandal is coming into view. How it plays out is anyone’s guess at this point, but one thing is evident: There is deep rage at what has happened not just to this president but to this country—and people want answers.
On his show Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson unleashed a tirade that reflected the anger felt by millions of Americans. “In the end, it was all fake, and they knew it wasn’t real, they knew they were lying,” Carlson said after playing a series of clips by Democratic leaders accusing the president of colluding with the Russians. “We’ve spent two years perpetuating a fraud and they are still doing it. What is it? It’s negligence on a stunning scale. Historians will look back on this moment in amazement and sadness. Why didn’t any responsible person in the media say anything about it, why did they collude in the charade?”
Carlson unloaded on House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), one of the key conspirators from the beginning, insisting that Schiff’s grandchildren “will be ashamed of what he did.” Perhaps they will. But only if his progeny have more integrity and decency than Schiff does which, I admit, sets a very low bar.
The cast of villians in this national nightmare is long. At the highest echelon is the Obama White House; to date, no one knows how involved the former president was in executing this scheme because not one journalist has yet confronted Obama about what he knew or when he knew it. Think about that for a moment. Barack Obama’s Justice Department weaponized federal law enforcement and intelligence powers to infiltrate and spy on a rival presidential campaign then leveraged that same authority after the election to raze an incoming administration, yet not one member of the press corps has asked him one question about it.
Former administration officials who pulled all the strings, including ex-FBI Director James Comey, ex-CIA Director John Brennan and ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper continue to attack the president, even accusing Trump of being a traitor and a Russian asset. Members of both the Obama and Bush administrations have become media celebrities by legitimizing the collusion fantasy on cable news shows and opinion pages. NeverTrump Republicans who long ago should have been run out of the public square for their consistently-wrong analysis on nearly every political and policy issue over the past two decades have earned earn rock-star status on social media from Democrats and liberals eager to exploit their nonstop rants about Trump-Russia as proof “even Republicans” are suspicious.
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Kelly goes on to demonstrate how the media was complicit in this treachery. The media published thousands of stories in support of the coup attempt. They became co-conspirators with the coup plotters. They daily attack the President's statements saying he makes claims "without evidence," while they were pushing a false narrative for which there was no evidence.
It was a plot hatched by the Clinton campaign and its paid consultants to falsely accuse the President and his campaign. If the media had a wit of integrity they would disclose all the sources that gave them the false stories alleging the collusion hoax and calling the President a Russian agent. It was one of the more shameful episodes in media history. No one complicit in this criminal enterprise should be entitled to remain anonymous.
What is already becoming clear is that many of those who pushed this hoax knew it was a hoax from the beginning. It was never a good faith effort.
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