The CIA based coup attempt

Michael Goodwin:

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When it comes to brickbats, Trump is perhaps the most battle-tested occupant the Oval Office has ever known, yet the two incidents demonstrate that the war against him has entered a vicious new phase. Efforts to end his presidency, one way or another, have reached a fever pitch, and Trump would be foolish to assume they will fail. His margin for error is approximately zero.

Leaks to the biased media are a staple of his tenure, and he sporadically tried to plug the holes. Some heads have rolled, most recently that of his personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, after she apparently told a reporter she had a better relationship with the president than his daughters.

But such indiscrete gossip pales in comparison to what’s happening now. Indeed, Trump could be accused of understatement in describing anyone who participated with the so-called whistleblower as “almost a spy.”

There is nothing “almost” about it. The trained CIA officer used his trusted position in the White House to gather secret information from what he claims were “multiple US government officials.”

He retained Democratically connected lawyers and injected his allegations into the political bloodstream with one intent: to get Trump ­removed from office.

Among the hints the officer and his lawyers worked with Dems to shape his complaint are the early leaks to the hysterical anti-Trump media. The goal was to whet appetites and do the most damage despite the agent having no firsthand knowledge of events he described. Mission accomplished.

CIA agents are supposed to spy on foreign adversaries. This one spied on the president, then cloaked himself in whistleblower camouflage. His sources are presumably still at work and perhaps planning another run at the president.

The episode comes with a mountain of irony. The headline-grabbing charge — that Trump sought help from a foreign government — resonates because it is universally ­accepted that interference in our elections is wrong.

That’s why the left tried for two years to pin the false charge of Russia collusion on Trump and, having failed, is now making the same allegation about Ukraine. They believe it’s a kill shot among voters.

Yet they don’t have the same standard for their own party. Not a single Dem cared that Hillary Clinton hired a former British intelligence agent to get dirt from Kremlin-linked Russians on Trump. If that isn’t foreign interference, what is it?

And what would we know about former presidents if CIA officers had leaked the contents of their calls to foreign leaders? Imagine what Barack Obama said to Iranians before he ­secretly shipped $1.4 billion in cash to them.

Where were the whistleblowers then?

Still, for my money, CIA interference in politics is reprehensible.

Yet that is exactly what we are witnessing — for the second time in the Trump era.

Recall that CIA leaders worked with the FBI to spy on and derail Trump’s 2016 campaign. The then-head of the agency, the odious John Brennan, spread the discredited Russian dossier Clinton funded, and continues his anti-Trump jihad from the bunkers of MSNBC. This is the same Brennan who had agents spy on the US Senate, then lied about it before confessing.

While James Comey and other FBI trash were fired, Brennan has escaped even minimal accountability. One result is that some in the agency he headed are still abusing their position to play dirty politics.

Is it mere coincidence that the attack on Trump comes as the administration investigates what Brennan, Comey and others did in 2016?

Democrats, though they will never say so directly, believe that anything is kosher that damages Trump. Their hate for him has blinded them to any destructive consequences, and they already are hailing the CIA agent as a hero.
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Those responsible for this CIA based coup attempt need to be brought to justice and not treated as heroes.  They are the opposite.  They are abusing a position of trust for their own political agenda, Trump needs to defeat this coup attempt and clean house in the intelligence agencies.