Democrats, who now call themselves progressives, used to be known as liberals.  Whatever you called them, they always prided themselves on being tolerant and compassionate.  They preached then, and preach now, acceptance of those who are different than the norm.  Diversity, right?  They saw themselves as the defenders of the downtrodden, and the champions of the working man.  Liberals lived to set wrongs right. Robert F. Kennedy, for all his faults, was a classic liberal in this regard. Those with privilege should help the less fortunate.  His brother Ted summarized his principles succinctly when he eulogized RFK.  “He saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”  As crazy as this may sound, I submit to you that the principles Ted Kennedy voiced in 1968 more closely describe Donald Trump than any of the current leaders of the Left.  Think about it, Trump, a man of privilege, saw that the establishment had the government on the wrong track, and he ran to heal the suffering of the forgotten man at the hands of the elites.  Once elected, he was confronted with the threat of war in Asia, and has tried to stop it.  The Democrats were leaning far Left prior to Trump’s arrival on the scene, but lately, they’ve gone past the left-wing fringe elements, and are teetering on the edge.  Simply put, Trump is working their side of the street, and it’s driving them nuttier than they already were.  Trump has attracted the votes of blue-collar voters who formerly could be counted on to vote Democrat.  Trump has advocated strict enforcement of the immigration laws in very blunt, and sometimes unpleasant terms, and wasn’t swept away by angry Hispanic voters.  Indeed, nearly a third of Hispanics voted for Trump, whereas, Romney, who never insulted anyone, got only 27%.  Even worse, Trump has made inroads, modest inroads to be sure, with black voters, the bedrock of the Democrat electorate.  The Dems hate Trump almost as much as the establishment Republicans hate Trump (e.g., George Will), and they don’t know what to do with him.  They have no policies to run on, other than hate of Trump, which can take them just so far.  But back to the point of this exercise.  Liberals traditionally fought discrimination, and bashed conservatives for standing in the way of progress or turning back the clock.  Liberals were tolerant,  while conservatives were bigoted.  Liberals had love in their hearts for their fellow man, while conservatives exhibited prejudice.  But that stereotype has been reversed.  The great Bob Grant always said, “there’s nothing less liberal than a liberal.”  If he could see them now!  Progressives are imbued with superior knowledge, superior compassion, and are, well, superior to we mere mortals.  Their superiority permits them to advocate for all sorts of groups that are supposedly being discriminated against.  If females think they’re male, that’s OK.  If a boy wakes up singing “I Feel Pretty,” and decides to use your 8 year old daughter’s school bathroom, they’re good with that.  They will tolerate and welcome beings formerly found only in P.T. Barnum’s sideshow, and God help you if you find any of this in any way unusual.  The only diversity progressives won’t accept is an opinion diverse to their own.  They’ve proven this many times in relation to Donald Trump.  When he merely was Candidate Trump, and the progressive experts had declared him a joke who had no chance of winning, they couldn’t tolerate him.  These tolerant, compassionate, lovers of all things diverse, shut down highways to block people from attending his rallies.  They staged an all-out riot in Chicago because Trump dared to try to speak there.  One nut tried to pull him off the stage as he spoke at another rally.  They broke store windows and burned cars on inauguration day.  Another “tolerant” progressive shot five people at a Congressional baseball practice, because they were Republicans.  The Dems shift from one contrived issue to another seeking traction against Trump.  It was Russian collusion.  No good.  Obstruction of justice.  They proved the FBI guilty of it.  Stormy Daniels, who at last report was en route to the Mexican border to feed the children.  And now, it’s separation of children of illegal aliens from their criminal parents, an unfortunate happenstance which didn’t begin with Trump.  It wasn’t mentioned when Obama was President, but under Trump, has been denounced as “child abuse,” “un-American,” the same as Japanese internment, or Nazi death camps.  Commentators on MSNBC are crying (they must have seen the ratings).  The Left flipped a switch and the Crazy Machine went into operation.  Compassionate progressives have:  advocated the kidnapping of Donald Trump’s 4 year old grand-daughter; suggested that Barron Trump should be molested by pedophiles; threatened the lives of the President, and those of the children of a Florida Congressman; called ICE agents terrorists; and published directions for cutting out the hearts of Border Patrol agents.  Meanwhile, the media dutifully blames Trump for pictures of children taken during the 2014 immigration surge, as well as repeating out and out lies, out of compassion, you see.  By far the best example of progressive role reversal has been the protestors who hounded DHS Secretary Nielson out of a Mexican restaurant at which she dared to try to dine.  Sarah Huckabee then was thrown out of a Virginia restaurant because she works for Trump.  Maxine Waters called for more harassment, “No peace, no sleep.  No peace, no sleep.  They won’t be able to go to a restaurant, they won’t be able to stop at a gas station, they’re not going to be able to shop at a department store.”  Consider that these are the same compassionate liberals who rightly protested that all people should be able to use public accommodations.  Maybe the Trump Cabinet should stage a sit in at the lunch counter of a D.C. Chipotle restaurant.  The bottom line is that they think they still personify the ideals of RFK.  They don’t.  Democrats see a law, and tell us we’re terrorists if we enforce it.  They see a Constitution, and they ignore it.  They see a political divide that seems ready to break out into open warfare, and they advocate violence.  Oh yes, progressives want to save America, but as they see it, in order to save it, they first must destroy it.

Ever since Donald Trump descended the escalator in 2015, Democrats and their handmaidens in the media have been both trying to bring him down, and predicting his imminent defeat.  Trump’s opening speech announcing his candidacy was the start.  Trump mentioned some unwelcome facts about illegal immigration in that speech, specifically about Mexicans.  The Left predicted that was the end of Trump.  They were wrong.  Then, Trump the wrecking ball, swung into the Republican primaries.  “You can’t insult your way to the nomination,” the Left preached.  They were wrong.  We now know that the CIA and FBI were hard at work before the nomination, trying to set up Trump staffers, and trying to stop Trump from being elected, when they weren’t busy clearing Hillary Clinton of her myriad crimes.  After the election, they tried to depose Trump by appointing Mueller for a phony investigation designed to lead to impeachment.  Democrats in the Congress were calling for impeachment even before inauguration day.  To date, Mueller, the CIA, the FBI and congressional investigators have uncovered NO EVIDENCE of wrongdoing by Trump.  On issue after issue, the Left has predicted doom for Trump.  “This is the final straw.  This time Trump has gone too far.”  Simply put, the Democrat Party in 2018 stands for only two things, hypocrisy and defeating Trump.  They have a very simple philosophy – whatever Trump is for, we’re against.  Trump reduced taxes?  They want higher taxes.  Trump eliminated regulations?  They want more regulations.  The economy is booming, with 3.4 million new jobs?  “Uh, Trump didn’t build that,” it was Obama and his merry band of socialists.  Trump is talking to Kim Jong Un, and may be on the brink of enhancing world peace?  They’re against that too.  The Dems hop from issue to issue in hopes that one of them will stop Trump.  Lately, the issue has been the separation of “families” illegally crossing the southern border.  Trump derangement syndrome has driven the Left even crazier than they were before Trump.  They oppose Trump policies, to the detriment of the people they claim to represent.  The Left simply cannot tolerate the very existence of Donald Trump, and they literally have gone nuts.  The immigration issue has come up now for three reasons.  First, Dems see it as a wedge issue for the November election.  Secondly, this issue drowns out the news that the FBI illegally cleared Hillary, then framed Trump.  But more importantly, the issue comes now because, as I write this, the House of Representatives is about to vote on two immigration law proposals.  Democrats favor open borders because they need poor helpless people to become new Democrat voters.  They see an advantage now because the establishment Republicans, which means the House leadership, also favor open borders, to provide abundant cheap labor for their contributors’ businesses.  The bottom line is that neither party is concerned with human rights.  Both parties seek to exploit these people.  Donald Trump is not having it.  He’s ordered prosecutions of people who enter the U.S. illegally, that is, people who sneak across the border at places other than points of entry.  He has been denounced as a tyrant, a heartless dictator.  In truth, all he’s doing is enforcing the laws passed by the Congress, as he is sworn to do.  Separating children from parents has been called child abuse, and the centers housing the children have been compared to Nazi death camps, or World War II Japanese internment camps.  The fact that Democrat FDR imprisoned Japanese who were American citizens is lost on the Left.  “How dare Trump separate over 10,000 children from their parents.”  Truth time – 12,000 children are in custody.  More than 10,000 of them arrived at the border unaccompanied.  So the government hasn’t separated them from their parents.  The parents send them to the U.S., in the company of thieving, murderous Mexican drug gangs.  The parents are concerned though.  They send their young daughters with Plan B medications to prevent pregnancy when they are invariably raped by the criminals transporting them.  Many of the “families” crossing the border consist of an adult, and a child unrelated to the adult.  Some are human traffickers.  Here’s a typical experience.  A 14 year old girl traveled alone atop Mexican freight trains.  She fought off a would-be rapist with the help of the only other woman in the group.  She walked through the South Texas wilderness for four days, trying to steer clear of the assailant.  This didn’t happen this year, it was 2013, under Il Duce Obama.  In 2014, under Obama, 65,541 unaccompanied minors and 65,445 families made illegal crossings.  Children, separated from their “parents,” were housed at military bases, then moved to more permanent housing.  According to liberal Vox media, the children were held in what amounted to juvenile prison camps.  “The children, mostly of high-school age or younger, are housed behind 18-foot-high chain-link fences topped with razor wire… most of the children lie motionless on side-by-side mattresses with looks of intense boredom on their faces.  Inevitably, given the number of people, it smells of feet and sweat and straw.”  No Democrat politician or media outlet complained about those children being separated from their families, and of course, no one dared to criticize Il Duce Obama.  In 2018, the children in the custody of HHS are in clean facilities, are educated, fed and provided entertainment.  This, we are told is child abuse, reminiscent of Nazi Germany.  Trump asked the Congress to pass legislation to fix the problem.  Repugnant Chuck Schumer refused “to pass any legislation,” and invited the President to “use his pen” to order a fix.  On June 20th, Trump signed an executive order to keep “families” together until their immigration claims are processed.  What the Dems want is to release these people into the U.S. where they can disappear, so the Trump order already has been denounced.  The Left is playing a dangerous game.  Their “Nazi” rhetoric is bound to stir up the craziest of the crazies.  Two days ago, the Homeland Security Secretary was run out of a Mexican restaurant by Bernie Sanders/Antifa crazies.  Peter Fonda has called for Barron Trump to be assaulted by pedophiles, and for the public rape of the DHS Secretary.  Other nuts have suggested cutting out the hearts of Border Patrol agents.  And then there’s Auntie Maxine Waters’ solicitation of violence.  We’ll get back to her soon.  Somebody is going to wind up dead.  This has to stop.

Last week marked the historic meeting between President Trump and North Korea’s “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Un.  Predictably, the Left is in an uproar.  Remember what led up to the meeting in Singapore.  Donald Trump was elected in November 2016.  In January 2017, Trump met with Il Duce Obama at the White House.  Obama told Trump that North Korea would be his most urgent problem.  It was damn nice of Obama to mention it, after having ignored the problem for eight years.  Almost immediately after Trump became President, North Korea began threatening the U.S. and the rest of the world with nuclear weapons.  Provocative foreign action at the start of a new administration is nothing new.  Khrushchev decided that JFK was weak at a summit in Vienna, and two months later, started building the Berlin Wall.  In the opening months of the George W. Bush administration, a Chinese fighter plane collided with a Navy spy plane.  There was no need to test Obama for weakness, because he spent the beginning of his presidency roaming the world apologizing for previous U.S. actions.  Thus, it came as no surprise that, when the Iranians seized the crew of a Navy boat, Obama’s response was to pay a $1 billion cash ransom and then blame our Navy.  So, a new President being tested by a foe is pretty routine.  What’s important is how the President responds to the test.  In other words, does the President signal weakness or strength?  Without question, Donald Trump signaled strength, but Trump being Trump, and the Left being the Left, Trump was in for criticism no matter what he did or didn’t do.  The rhetoric between the U.S. and North Korea got pretty heated.  The Norks threatened to fire nuclear missiles at Guam and the U.S.  They shot a missile completely over Japan.  In August 2017, Trump warned that Nork attacks on the U.S. or any U.S. ally would result in “fire and fury.”  In September, at the U.N., Trump called Kim “Little Rocket Man.”  Kim responded in kind, calling Trump a “dotard.” The Left was aghast at this exchange.  Trump the Barbarian was going to insult us into a nuclear war.  No President could use such language about another world leader.  “Experts” warned that what worked in the Iowa primaries could backfire on the global stage, especially when it came to nuclear diplomacy with millions of lives on the line.   Joel Wit, a Korea expert at Columbia University warned, “if there’s something guaranteed to make it worse, it’s hurling personal insults at their leader.”  In short, Trump was going to blunder us into a nuclear war.  Fast forward to 2018.  After imposing strict sanctions on North Korea, encircling the peninsula with Navy carrier groups, and signaling that military operations were imminent, the Norks agreed to a summit, and now have signed a letter in which they agree to completely denuclearize their country.  In a sane world, one might expect that a turn away from imminent nuclear war on the boundaries of China and Russia, which would spare our military from suffering thousands of casualties, and save perhaps millions of lives in North and South Korea, might be regarded as a good thing.  However, given the advanced state of Trump Derangement Syndrome among the Left, it became just another chance to bash Donald Trump.  The Left complained:  Trump didn’t prepare enough for the meeting; the Norks may not live up to their agreement; Trump gave up everything and got nothing. That was a funny one.  Trump agreed to suspend joint military exercises with South Korea next Spring.  The Democrats, until 2017 content to allow the military to whither away, all of a sudden are worried about military preparedness.  Then there were the flags.  How dare Trump have the American flag and the North Korean flag side by side?  That’s hilarious, coming from people who are perfectly content with burning the flag.  The biggest hypocrisy, though, was the complaint that Trump treated Kim too politely, by shaking his hand.  Kim is a murdering dictator (and he surely is), how could Trump even meet him face to face?  Uh, remember last year, when you said Trump was being too hard on Kim, and you counseled diplomacy, and not provocation?  But Kim’s a brutal dictator.  Some idiot on MSNBC actually said that any President who held a friendly meeting with a  brutal dictator would be impeached.  Really?  Have these morons ever read a history book?  Granted, Kim Jong Un is a brutal dictator who has imprisoned and killed thousands of his people, who live in abject poverty.  But according to MSNBC, a President who meets such a leader on a friendly basis should be impeached, so I guess we should have impeached quite a few Presidents.  Let’s start with FDR and Truman.  They met with Josef Stalin, made Stalin our ally and provided him billions in food, fuel, planes, tanks, and other weapons.  Of course, Stalin was a brutal dictator who murdered, or starved to death 20 to 30 million of his own people.  And then there was the little matter of Russian troops raping every woman from the Polish border to Berlin, during which time FDR sat down with Stalin at Yalta, and after which, Truman shook hands with Stalin at Potsdam.

They sure were pretty friendly with Stalin.

Then there was Richard Nixon (who they almost impeached anyway).  He met with Mao in China, the same brutal dictator whose “Great Leap Forward” killed more than 30 million Chinese.  That’s more than the total population of North Korea.  Nixon also met with brutal dictator Leonid Brehznev, who imprisoned and killed thousands.

They look too chummy for MSNBC.  But, last, and certainly least, consider the exploits of Il Duce Barack Obama.  He met with brutal Cuban dictators Fidel and Raul Castro.  He normalized relations with Cuba, and got in return -NOTHING from two of the most repugnant, murdering Communist SOB’s who ever lived.

By the way, notice the murdering Communist SOB Cuban flag displayed alongside Old Glory?  And why is Obama sitting in front of the Cuban flag? Nobody on MSNBC complained about that.  They thought it was wonderful.  The bottom line on the Trump-Kim summit is that it represents a good start.  The Norks are not to be trusted, and they may not live up to their agreement, but Trump has gotten further than any of the “responsible” establishment Presidents ever got, and if the Norks renege, Trump will hammer them.

In some circles, principally among local law enforcement officers, the FBI is known by the insulting term “the FIBI’s” or sometimes just as “the Feebs.”  Late this week, we are anticipating the release of a report from the Inspector General of the Justice Department, which is expected to severely criticize the actions of former AG Loretta Lynch, James Comey, Andrew McCabe and other high-ranking members of the FBI with regard to their handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server, or as Obama, Lynch and Comey liked to call it, “the matter” of her illegal private server.  The report, parts of which already have been leaked, is expected to find that Comey was “insubordinate.”  As the report will be hundreds of pages long, it’s unlikely that we will be able to unravel it by the time this edition of F on F is posted, but I can assure you now that whatever the Inspector General reveals will be only the tip of a really dirty iceberg.  You see, the FBI’s swan dive in the Hillary investigation represents only half of the Deep State’s interference in the 2016 election.  Saving Hillary from indictment for the crimes she clearly committed was just one side of the Deep State’s political equation  Save Hillary + Ruin Trump = Continued Deep State Control.  The second half of that equation became the Deep State’s investigation of (spying on) the Trump campaign by means of introducing confidential informants (spies) who, as I have detailed the last two weeks, planted the information used by the government to get the FISA warrants that permitted eavesdropping on Trump campaign officials and appointees, both before and after the election.  However this plays out, one thing is certain, the FBI’s reputation for honesty and integrity has been destroyed.  This is so because the revelations to date have made it clear that there are but two conclusions which may be reached, neither one of them flattering.  Either the FBI, acting on the orders of Il Duce Obama, knowingly and willingly embarked on what it knew was a bogus investigation of Trump world, based on phony “evidence” planted either by the FBI itself or by the CIA, or the FBI was provided phony “evidence” by the CIA, namely by John Brennan and his henchmen, and blindly took it at face value, launched its investigation, and never noticed that the bulk of the “evidence” they served up to the FISA court came from the Fusion GPS, Steele Dossier, paid for by Hillary Clinton, derived from Russian intelligence sources, and none of it verified by the FBI, or anybody else.  I’m not sure which result is worse for the FBI.  What’s clear is that the FBI won’t be able to talk (or lie) their way out of this one.  The FBI timeline simply doesn’t work.  According to the FIBI’s they started their Trump campaign investigation in late July of 2016.  However, numerous newspaper reports, obviously the result of leaks to the media, reported that the Justice Department applied for and was denied a warrant to intercept Trump’s communications in June 2016.  That suggests the July date can’t be right.  And, of course, we now know that the CIA was hard at work sending its covert operatives to meet with George Papadopolous, Carter Page and other Trump campaign officials, as early as March of 2016.   Given these facts, the FBI either was complicit in the illicit investigation of a presidential candidate for political purposes, or is so thoroughly incompetent that it allowed itself to be duped.  Once again, pick your poison.  The magnitude of the damaging revelations coming in the Inspector General’s report may be inferred from the lengths to which the FBI and Justice Dept. have gone to deny the Congress the documents they requested, and then subpoenaed long ago.  Congress has an absolute right to the documents.  The actions of Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General who is in charge of the Russia/collusion investigation because he, the FBI and the CIA maneuvered Jeff Sessions into his needless recusal, are instructive on this point.  In fact, it’s fair to say that the nasty odor emanating from this whole mess is wafting off of Rosenstein.  Rosenstein, it must be recalled, is the guy who wrote a Memo to President Trump which recommended that James Comey be fired, and once Comey was fired, first tried to get Robert Mueller installed as his replacement, and when that gambit failed, the very next day, appointed Mueller to investigate Trump.  Rosenstein has deceived, delayed, cajoled, threatened, begged and obfuscated every step of the way.  Rosenstein has characterized the Congressional requests and subpoenas as “extortion.”  Earlier this week, we learned that, in a meeting with a House Intelligence Committee staffer, Rosenstein threatened to subpoena the phone records of Congressmen and their employees in retaliation for their legitimate requests.  Such conduct can only mean that Rod Rosenstein is implicated in the multiple scandals surrounding the 2016 election up to his skinny neck.  It means that the wrongdoing can’t be confined only to some rogue agents in the FBI, but must also implicate the Justice Department, higher officials in the Obama Administration, and, of course, Rosenstein himself.  If the facts were otherwise, and career bureaucrat Rosenstein could save himself by throwing under the bus the already fired or implicated Justice Department and FBI employees, he surely would do so.  Because he hasn’t blamed the others, he’s got to be blameworthy himself.  No matter what the Inspector General reveals, one thing is certain.  The media will blame Donald Trump.  After all, had Trump not decided to run for President, there would have been no need to spy on his campaign, and no need for all these diligent public servants to get themselves into trouble.  It’s really all because of Trump.  Maybe mental midget Congressman Al Green can add that to his list of impeachable offenses, “Donald J. Trump did purposely, and with malice aforethought run for office, thereby causing public servants to violate the law trying to defeat him.”

They say the more things change, the more they stay the same. The turn of recent events keeps bringing me back to my time working for Branch Motors Express.  It was a trucking company, where the union employees routinely told their non-union supervisors, “I was here when you came, and I’ll be here when you go.”  Such is the attitude of the Deep State as regards Presidents in general and President Trump in particular.  No matter who gets elected, the Deep State swamp creatures continue to operate the levers of power.
This comes in the wake of the latest Media frenzy over President Trump.  The Media is shocked, shocked, that the President has alleged that his campaign was infiltrated by U.S. government spies.  “How dare he say such a thing without any real evidence?  He made it up.”  Of course, Trump is only commenting on things published in the New York Times and Washington Post, and acknowledged by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, so there may be no real evidence.  Chuck Todd of MSNBC no less (and there is no less), found the spy allegation to be incredible.  Someone named Charlie Savage, of the aforementioned New York Times, wallowing in his own ignorance, bemoaned that by ordering an investigation of the investigators, Trump “is actually asserting control over the apparatus of law enforcement.  That is new.  That is a line he is crossing.”  No Charlie, as the Chief Executive, the President is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.  When wrongdoing is alleged, it is the duty of the President to assert control over the Justice Department.   That’s his job.  The controversy was fanned by Trey Gowdy, who, without having been shown any of the documents the FBI has been withholding from Congress for two years, declared that the FBI conducted its investigation “by the book.”  The relevant question is “by what book?”  The answer seems to be, George Orwell’s 1984. Think of the Deep State as Orwell’s Big Brother, whose Ministry of Truth (represented by the Media) existed to rectify historical records to coincide with Big Brother’s current pronouncements so that everything the Deep State says is true.  The Media is playing its role to perfection, even translating its pronouncements into Orwell’s “Newspeak.”  Newspeak changes the language by eliminating undesirable words, and changing word meanings as a means of mind control.  In 1984, something bad is “ungood.” Thus, the Media bleats  of the investigation into Trump world, “it’s not a wiretap, it’s just surveillance,” and “it wasn’t a spy, it was just a confidential informant.”  Susan Rice wrote a Memo to herself on January 20, 2017, swearing that Barack Obama told her to conduct the illegal surveillance “by the book,” therefore whatever the government did to Trump must have been legitimate.  In this, the Media is indulging in Orwell’s “duckspeak,” the voicing of political orthodoxy without thinking.  “Nothing to see here, move along!”  As detailed in last week’s F on F, the CIA framed George Papadopolous with a story about Russia having Hillary’s emails, then sicced the FBI on him and Trump world for repeating what the CIA had told him.  Consider the timing.  When CIA, or MI6, or Russian FSB (or all of the above) operative, Joseph Mifsud, told Papadopolous about Hillary’s hacked emails in April 2016, that information was hardly a secret.  Our government knew Hillary’s State Department server was hacked as early as 2013.  In July 2015, the State Dept. Inspector General found classified documents on Hillary’s illegal private server, and turned the evidence over to the FBI’s Office of Counterintelligence.  Not coincidentally, that Office was run by one Peter Strozk, the FBI’s conduit to CIA Director Brennan, the same agent who interviewed General Flynn, and Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton.  Strozk  then was tasked to go to London to interview Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, to whom a drunken Papadopolous repeated what he had been told by Mifsud.  So the CIA and FBI planted the story it used to begin the Trump investigation.  “By the book,” right?  In the Orwellian world of the Deep State, whatever Big Brother does must be good.  Thus, the Leftists’ delusions of rectitude, render them unable to comprehend why Donald Trump is complaining about being spied on.  James Clapper even said last week that Trump should have been grateful for the spying, “It was only to protect him.”  Now, this is the same James Clapper who has called Donald Trump “a Russian asset” whose case agent is Vladimir Putin.  Clapper later amended these comments, explaining that he was “only speaking figuratively.”  So, let’s see, Trump is a traitor, but only figuratively.  That makes it alright.  This is also the same James Clapper who, on May 30, 2018 admitted he saw no “smoking gun evidence” of Trump collusion with Russia while in office, or since he left office.  How he could have seen any evidence after he left the government was not explained.  The point of this exercise is that the Deep State has been in business, and never goes out of business regardless of who we vote for.  Trump is wrong about one thing.  He said that we have never seen such spying by the government before.  In fact we have.  In 1964, Lyndon Johnson enlisted the CIA and FBI to spy on Barry Goldwater’s campaign.  The FBI conducted illegal wiretaps on Goldwater’s phones.  Sound familiar?  The CIA implanted its operative E. Howard Hunt, in the Goldwater campaign.  Yes, the same E. Howard Hunt who later became famous as a Watergate burglar.  This proves one thing – the Deep State is not partisan.  Johnson was a Democrat who used the Deep State to spy on Republicans, and Nixon was a Republican whose operatives used it to spy on their Democrat foes.  Why would law enforcement people do things that are patently illegal?     J. Edgar Hoover explained it to Watergate figure Robert Mardian, “You do what the President tells you to do.”  That’s what Comey and Brennan and Clapper were doing for Barack Obama.  Why do dirty-work for both Parties?  Job security.  Once the FBI has performed the illegal activities,  the President knows crossing the FBI may see the dirty-work exposed.  The Justice Department’s Inspector General is about to release a report detailing only a small portion of the wrongdoing.  It’s getting interesting.