The American public is so polarized that yesterday's irony was lost on them.
On April 10 Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in Congress after it was revealed that tens of millions of subscribers had their personal information harvested and sold by Facebook, not only for targeted ads but for nefarious political ends.
Just hours earlier it was revealed that the FBI - at the instigation of Bob Mueller - had raided the office and home of the President of the United States' private lawyer.
The general public was directly victimized by Facebook, a deceitful social medium.
The US president and the office of the president itself were victimized by an outrageous act that is part of an ongoing campaign to topple him from office. This campaign is headed by Democrats and Never-Trumpers, and abetted by Swamp Republicans.
Following is the opinion of one of the best lawyers in the country, Alan Dershowitz.
He says that with this FBI raid, the long-held right to confidentiality between lawyer and client has been irretrievably damaged. Anyone could be next.
By the way, the FBI was not looking for signs or treason or major crimes against the nation. They were looking for salacious information regarding Trump's extramarital affairs and his efforts to cover them up. That's their official story, anyway. Unofficially, they will be looking for ANYTHING whatsoever that can be used to throw Trump out of office.
You can say that along with the loss of lawyer-client privilege, democracy itself and the right of citizens to elect the president of their choice have also suffered a blow. It is the swamp and Deepstate using all kinds of dirty tricks that continue to be in charge. Your vote is a mere symbolic gesture meaning nothing.
VIDEO - SEAN HANNITY INTERVIEWS LAWYER ALAN DERSHOWITZ ON FBI RAID ON MICHAEL COHEN'S OFFICE
Many TV pundits are telling viewers not to worry about the government’s intrusion into possible lawyer-client privileged communications between President Trump and his lawyer, Michael Cohen.
The pundits say that since prosecutors won’t get to see or use any privileged material taken when FBI agents raided and searched Cohen’s law office, home and hotel room Monday the intrusion will not be a problem. This is because prosecutors and FBI agents create firewalls and taint teams to preclude privileged information from being used against the client in a criminal case.
But this analysis completely misses the point and ignores the distinction between the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution on the one hand, and the Fourth and Sixth Amendments on the other.
The Fifth Amendment is an exclusionary rule. By its terms, it prevents material obtained in violation of the privilege of self-incrimination from being used to incriminate a defendant – that is, to convict him or her of a crime.
But the Fourth and Sixth Amendments provide far broader protections: they prohibit government officials from in any way intruding on the privacy of lawyer-client confidential rights of citizens.
In other words, if the government improperly seizes private or privileged material, the violation has already occurred, even if the government never uses the material from the person from whom it was seized.
Given enough time and enough rope, Democrats and Swamp Republicans will find a way to hang themselves.
As the probe into possible links between Trump and the Russians drags on without producing any evidence, other inappropriate and even illegal activities by anti-Trump present and Obama-era government officials are being uncovered. From rumor we now go into facts.
On this 7 minute video Judge Jeanine Pirro exposes the plot against Trump. Please watch it and read further on this subject.
Even if you hate Trump, you must realize that violations of YOUR right to elect the country's president by hidden and illegal actions of power-hungry and ideologically-driven government officials could operate next time against the candidate YOU want. This corruption must be exposed and rooted out.
There is another twist in this plot. Suspicion grows that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is compromised.
Although a strong Trump supporter during the campaign, once appointed as Attorney General he has been quietly sabotaging his agenda.
He has refused to investigate Hillary Clinton and the Uranium scandal, and now he uses everything within his means to block further Congressional investigations into DOJ and FBI anti-Trump misconduct.
It was his recusal from the Russian investigation that unleashed the Rob Mueller probe. Calls for Jeff Sessions' resignation are getting louder. See more references further on this page.
THE FBI PLOT AGAINST TRUMP - By Matthew Vadum How anti-Trump government officials in high places plotted to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president of the USA .
Two Trump-hating FBI gumshoes investigating Hillary Clinton’s email treachery and alleged Russian interference in last year’s election traded crude, caustic barbs about President Trump while they plotted to undermine him, congressional overseers have heard.
MAGA supporters burn hats online in protest against Trump's DACA deal
The Trump administration is an ongoing civics lesson for all of us, regardless of our political views. Any US president could encounter similar obstacles to fulfilling his duties, and unless some drastic changes are implemented, democracy itself is at serious risk.
One of the most significant issues is how individuals from the Deep State have managed to slither into White House key posts, and then proceeded to fire almost all staff loyal to the president. In this way they have isolated Trump from influence from his base. They have his full attention to feed him Deep State propaganda all day long.
They even fired his bodyguard and friend of many decades. Now, we have to ask ourselves what kind of man is Trump to put up with all this? Is it weakness? Is he being blackmailed? Is it a craving for media and Congress approval that will make him betray his base? As they say, CHARACTER IS FATE.
Trump was elected not for who he is - a very flawed individual - but in spite of it. He was the only Republican candidate who dared to articulate the views of America First voters. Trump tuned in to this sentiment and won the presidency. His supporters crossed their fingers hoping he would at least fulfill his top five or six promises.
Curtailing immigration from terrorist countries and building a wall were at the top of the agenda. The first one has been a struggle, with politicians and the courts placing obstacles and conditions along the way. The second one depends on Congress' for funding approval. But having elected the Great Negotiator, Trump's base hoped he could manage this one way or another.
However, only a few months into its presidency, Donald Trump appears to have caved in in a big way. He approved in principle the legalization of 800,000 DACA illegal migrants, which will result in many more millions once each of them gets his relatives legalized as well.
Who wins in Trump's deal? Democrats, 100%, as they will ensure their majority in future elections. Each of those legalized migrants and their descendants is a sure vote for the Democratic party.
In an indirect way, Trump - the former Democrat and now Republican - has ensured that Republicans will remain forever a minority party, struggling in the wilderness.
Who loses? Those who put their faith on Donald Trump. Millions of them, now embittered and burning MAGA hats online. Visit http://www.breitbart.com/ to get the true feeling of rising disgust and apprehension among his base.
Deporting DACA youth would be fully exploited by the media. A possible compromise - in exchange for Congress full funding for the wall - would be to give legal residence but no citizenship to DACA youth, as long as they have no criminal record. They would be able to study, work and stay in the USA, but would not tip the scales politically or with social benefits demands.
Tucker Carlson barely contains his anger while lashing out at Donald Trump's plan for DACA. Put in simple words, he says, the president gave much to the Democrats, and got NOTHING in return. Don't miss his excellent analysis in the first 5 minutes. Then comes an interview with a pro-DACA legislator.
VIDEO - Tucker: Trump gets nothing with Democrats' DACA deal
MICHAEL SAVAGE: "The left-wing mob, caught up in mass hysteria did not defeat Nazism. These self-righteous anti-nationalists defeated free speech itself. Let me remind them, the First Amendment was not written to protect polite speech; it was written to defend offensive speech.”
Fired by Trump, Steve Bannon was back at his home base at Breitbart News for only a few hours before he launched his promised offensive against globalists and liberals in the White House.
Breitbart News has ramped up its reporting exposing the machinations around the president, including not only National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster but now the Kushners as well, and it couldn't be too soon.
The Kushners have been spared the right wing's wrath so far in deference to the fact that Ivanka is Trump's daughter, but it's no secret that Jared Kushner and his wife and Ivanka are life-long Democrats pushing for a globalist agenda inside the White House contrary to the one that got Trump elected.
The Kushners, McMaster, and hundreds of Obama holdovers in positions of influence all over the administration, are trying to implement another Democrat administration.
Trump himself is to blame for his failure to fulfill his agenda, mainly because of (1) bringing in establishment Republicans and globalists into his inner circle; and (2) for grossly underestimating the dark powers of the Deep State, or the Swamp, as he used to call it.
Also, he never realized that his casual way of talking about controversial issues could be seized upon by his enemies and turned into a deadly weapon against his presidency.
Now Trump is all alone in the White House, without a true ally beside him. The Democrats, the Republicans, the intelligence agencies, the media, his cabinet, the Obama holdovers at the administration, the politically correct establishment, they have all ganged up against him and the voters who elected him, and actively trying to kill his agenda.
How long will he be able to stand up to the relentless barrage of personal attacks? He is a 70 year old man. He did not sign up for relentless harassment and bullying. At some point he will have to say The hell with it, and then resign to enjoy the years he still has ahead of him. His supporters were hoping that he would never stop fighting, but his now increasing instances of surrender to the Swamp do not bode well.
If Trump fails to fulfill his agenda, the USA will become the demographic and security disaster that the globalist and terminally-politically-correct European Union already is, with its out-of-control immigration, and increasing acts of crime, violence, rape, and terror. That's what Hillary and the Democrats had promised to America: open borders, and catering to terrorists and criminals out of political correctness.
If Trump fails, so does America. Supporting Donald Trump is not something Americans do because they like him personally - he is a very flawed individual, after all. What they see in him is their last chance to save the United States of America.
BREITBART EXCLUSIVE – Michael Savage Scolds Trump, Blasts Boston Leftists: ‘Trump Has Buckled to the Mob’
Author and radio host Michael Savage scolded President Trump and left-wing “Antifa” protesters in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News Sunday — accusing President Trump of having “buckled to the mob” in Boston and warning that if Trump keeps kowtowing to Antifa and other leftist groups, “it’s all over.”
Savage was referring to a tweet from Trump sent Saturday, in which the president said he “applauds” the Antifa counter-protesters who showed up in the thousands to protest a free speech march of a few hundred people. The left-wing protesters are reported to have thrown rocks, and Boston police requested they not throw bottles of urine at officers.
Even if you hate Donald Trump, you should be profoundly disturbed at the way the Deep State is subverting the democratic process by obstructing and undermining the Trump's presidency.
The jackals are circling ever closer to Trump, and some of them are ensconced within his inner circle in the White House itself.
This situation is alarming, no matter what political party you support. If it happens to Trump, it can happen to future presidents of either party.
The real threat to American democracy does not come from Russia but from the depths of the Washington Swamp.
General McMaster, head of the National Security Council, is purging the NSC from staff who support Trump's agenda, while keeping Obama holdovers.
The Trump's base is on an all out war against General McMaster after he fired several key pro-Trump people from his staff. This general is known to be essentially a Deep State infiltrator in Trump's White House. His immediate aim is to obstruct Trump's agenda. His long-term goal is unstated. One other element corroding Trump's agenda is the influence of his daughter Ivanka and her husband, both of them life-long Democrat supporters. Their advice runs contrary to Trump's philosophy and goals. However, the ultimate culprit in the possible downfall of the Trump presidency will turn out to be Trump himself, who so far has been too weak to assert himself and keep his enemies out of the White House. He has hired people who he knows will undermine his administration, and allowed them in turn to keep Obama holdovers, fire Trump supporters, and hire more anti-Trump staffers. This is a self-defeating, even suicidal formula. Here is a summary of key issues where Trump has already surrendered to the Deep State: Signing sanctions against Russia, approval of the flawed and dangerous Iran deal, hiring and supporting McMaster, empowering Kelly to control flow of information and access to Oval Office, and allowing AG Sessions to avoid issues that could hurt the Democrats, such as Obama, Clinton, Lynn, and Wasserman. When Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation, he opened the gates for attack that will end Trump's tenure. Mueller is now the Deep State tool for destroying the Trump presidency. The general picture now is one of a besieged and fearful president, barely hanging on to power, immersing himself in a delusional 2020 campaign mode with political rallies, while his White House sinks ever deeper into the swamp.
General McMaster has disturbing ties to foreign governments and globalist puppet master, billionaire George Soros.
National Security Advisor Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster’s past affiliation with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) has created fresh concerns after research revealed that the British think tank has taken funding from multiple governments in the Middle East and organizations tied to George Soros. McMaster’s former position with the IISS indicates a potential conflict of interest given the think tanks’ financial ties to sponsors who are anti-American and in some cases, states sponsors of terrorism.
A reference of the IISS’ Sources of Funding Statement page reveals that the think tank also receives funds from a shocking list of special interest groups, including the Bahraini royal family, the Carnegie Corporation New York, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman, Executive Affairs Authority – Abu Dhabi, The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense, the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), the embassies of China, Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and the High Commission for Pakistan.
The IISS also accepted donations from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and the Ploughshares Fund.
The Ploughshares Fund is financed by George Soros' Open Society Foundation. A May 5, 2016 article by the New York Times revealed that the Ploughshares Fund was a major player in efforts to sell the Iranian nuclear deal to the American public. The deal has been generally criticized as a foreign policy failure, resulted in the transfer of hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran without any concessions in return and has failed to prevent Iran from continuing to illegally test long range ICBM missiles in violation of both the deal and international sanctions.
George Soros has faced backlash internationally in Eastern Europe, after his organizations were banned from Hungary and placed under audit in Macedonia amid accusations that he was meddling in the countries’ political processes and improperly seeking to influence public opinion. The media have exposed Soros’ financial support for anti-democracy movements in the United States who seek to undermine democratic institutions and pursue regime change.
H.R. McMaster was appointed to the position of National Security Advisor after the resignation of Michael Flynn in February 2017. McMaster was widely praised by the mainstream media after he steered away from Flynn’s hardline stance towards terrorism, stating that the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” was “not helpful.”
Although McMaster has extensive counterinsurgency experience from his years in Iraq, his legacy there has been criticized by the Asia Times as having utilized vast amounts of U.S. funds and resources only to leave behind an Iraqi government that was brittle and at risk of collapse, while failing to quell sectarian tensions that have allowed Iran to leverage interests throughout the Middle East and expand their influence through Hamas and Hezbollah.
Trump interviewed McMaster at Mara Lago for a half an hour. He was under terrible pressure after firing Flynn to find someone. And who recommended McMaster? You won’t believe this. Senator John McCain. That’s right. The NSA got his job on the basis of a recommendation from the man who just saved Obamacare.
McMaster purges NSC staffer for warning about “globalists and Islamists”
John Guandolo, a former FBI agent and graduate of the Ranger School, who has investigated the domestic Islamist threat and founded Understanding the Threat, an organization to bring awareness of the threat of Islamic terrorism into the mainstream, warned that, in particular, the McMaster firing of Higgins, undermines our ability to fight Islamic terrorism by preventing us from identifying the threat.
WATCH VIDEOof Mr Guandolo discussing the dismissal of Richard Higgins by General McMaster:
Richard Higgins, a top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics to defeat President Trump’s nationalist agenda.
“Globalists and Islamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed,” the memo warns. It argues that this has led “Islamists [to] ally with cultural Marxists,” but that in the long run, “Islamists will co-opt the movement in its entirety.”
“Because the left is aligned with Islamist organizations at local, national, and international levels, recognition should be given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate through coordinated synchronized interactive narratives … These attack narratives are pervasive, full spectrum, and institutionalized at all levels. They operate in social media, television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media and are entrenched at the upper levels of the bureaucracies.”
McMaster’s NSC Coup Against Trump Purges Critics of Islam and Obama - The National Security Council is becoming a national security threat.
President Trump promised a reset from Obama’s anti-Israel policies. McMaster picked Kris Bauman as the NSC’s point man on Israel. Bauman had defended Islamic terrorists and blamed Israel for the violence. He had urged pressure on Israel as the solution. Ideas like that fit in at McMaster’s NSC.
When Adam Lovinger urged that “more attention be given to the threat of Iran and Islamic extremism,” his security clearance was revoked. Robin Townley was forced out in the same way.
Meanwhile Derek Harvey (right), who had tried to halt Obama’s $221 million terror funding prize to the Palestinian Authority, was forced out. This too is part of the pattern. As Caroline Glick has pointed out, the personnel being purged in the McMaster coup “are pro-Israel and oppose the Iran nuclear deal.”
Harvey has experience as an intelligence officer, as an analyst at military commands, American embassies, and in the Defense Intelligence Agency. He’s viewed as an out-of-the-box thinker who has shown a keen knack for identifying threats before they’ve matured. Harvey has also published articles and analyses, many of them critical of the Obama administration’s foreign policy in the Middle East.
Harvey shares Trump’s belief that in order for the United States to prevail in its fight against the self-declared Islamic State, al-Qaida, their various offshoots and a variety of other groups, American officials need to declare that the country is at war with “radical Islamic extremism” or the “radical jihadist agenda” or “militant Islam” — all of which he uses interchangeably.
Meanwhile, McMaster sent a letter to Susan Rice, Obama’s former National Security Adviser, assuring her that the NSC would work with her to “allow you access to classified information.” He claimed that Rice's continued access to classified information is "consistent with the national security interests of the United States."
Steve Bannon is also in General McMaster's crosshairs because of Bannon's America First and anti-globalist philosophy
Why does Susan Rice, who is alleged to have participated in the Obama eavesdropping on Trump people, need access to classified information? What national security purpose is served by it?
The same national security purpose that is served by McMaster’s purge of anyone at the NSC who dares to name Islamic terrorism, who wants a tougher stance on Iran, and who asks tough questions.
And the purge of reformers and original thinkers is only beginning.
The latest reports say that McMaster has a list of enemies who will be ousted from the NSC. And when that is done, the NSC will be a purely Obama-Bush operation. The consensus will be that the Iran Deal must stay, that Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism, that we need to find ways to work with the aspirations of the Muslim Brotherhood, and that Israel must make concessions to terrorists.
If you loved the foreign policy that brought us 9/11, ISIS, and billions in funding to terrorists from Syria to Libya to the West Bank, you won’t be able to get enough of McMaster’s brand new NSC. And neither will America’s enemies. The swamp is overflowing. The National Security Council is becoming a national security threat.
There is a concerted effort by Democrats and establishment Republicans - most of them in the pockets of globalist enterprises and sinister agitators such as George Soros - to bring down the Trump presidency.
Aside from whether we like Trump or not, the alarming fact is that Republican and Democrat men and women elected to Congress are collaborating in a plot to topple the US president.
The following video and others on this page outline the choreography of the coup d'etat, and the background of those associated with bringing down the president through endless innuendo, attacks, and sordid investigations. The most eloquent video is this one by Judge Jeanine Pirro.
VIDEO - Judge Jeanine: Where is GOP establishment support of Trump?
The United States appears to be turning into a banana republic. Disrespect for the rule of law and for the democratic electoral process, Congress corruption, and political mob violence on the streets are just a few of the symptoms indicating a much deeper malaise that has clear counterparts in banana republics. Add to that an opposition actively working for the forced removal of the president.
The Democrats refuse to accept the results of the last presidential election, and along with powerful GOP Never-Trumpers they are openly plotting to get rid of the president through impeachment.
In the meantime the media, celebrities, educators, and members of the general public speak or write about the urgent need to assassinate Trump - all this with complete impunity.
This is a scenario never seen in the history of the United States. The fact that these treasonous activities are tolerated indicates that something has fundamentally changed in this society and they represent ominous signs for the future.
Trump's supporters observe with dismay how his White House inner circle is full of people whose ideology makes them natural adversaries of his agenda. They regularly leak information damaging to the president, and try to sabotage his agenda.
There has never been a president so alone confronting a hostile media and members of his own political party, a politically-motivated judiciary, and Obama loyalists still in office - all of whom are part of an army dedicated to undermine his agenda.
The level of scrutiny and hostility towards the president makes it the equivalent of a case of intensely malicious bullying aimed at breaking his spirit and demoralizing his constituency. While previous presidents have gotten away with a lot in their personal and political lives, in the eyes of the media and his adversaries Trump is always wrong.
One recent case in point is the firing of FBI Director James Comey. The Democrats have been relentlessly calling for his firing, but as soon as Trump did just that, they questioned his motives and launched another attack.
From day one the media and Trump's enemies have been building up the notion that the president is unfit for office, due to psychological and ethical reasons, and that he needs to be impeached.
Even former president Obama has installed himself in a walled mansion in the nation's capital to direct "the resistance" against the new president.
All this is unprecedented.
Trump's lack of political experience, his sometimes impulsive and unthinking written and oral statements, and an agenda that threatens the Democrat and GOP establishments - the swamp, as he calls it - may be his undoing. He just does not have enough support in Washington to confront his enemies. His supporters are voters all over the country who placed their trust in him, but they are helpless to battle the swamp by themselves.
Trump supporters often specify that they are not cheering for the man, but for his agenda. Protecting Trump is imperative if they are going to salvage his agenda.
The following article by Evan Osnos of the New Yorker, someone unsympathetic to the president, is downright chilling but it needs to be read to understand how the opposition is gathering ammunition to impeach the president.
Excerpts:
Trump’s critics are actively exploring the path to impeachment or the invocation of the Twenty-fifth Amendment, which allows for the replacement of a President who is judged to be mentally unfit. During the past few months, I interviewed several dozen people about the prospects of cutting short Trump’s Presidency. I spoke to his friends and advisers; to lawmakers and attorneys who have conducted impeachments; to physicians and historians; and to current members of the Senate, the House, and the intelligence services.
... nothing about Trump is normal. Although some of my sources maintained that laws and politics protect the President to a degree that his critics underestimate, others argued that he has already set in motion a process of his undoing.
In the months since Trump took office, several members of Congress have cited concern about Trump's mental health
Hours after Donald Trump’s Inauguration, a post appeared on the official White House petitions page, demanding that he release his tax returns. In only a few days, it gathered more signatures than any previous White House petition.
The success of the Women’s March had shown that themed protests could both mobilize huge numbers of people and hit a nerve with the President. On Easter weekend, roughly a hundred and twenty thousand people protested in two hundred cities, calling for him to release his tax returns and sell his businesses. On Capitol Hill, protesters chanted “Impeach Forty-five!” Continue reading and see more political cartoons
