On May 21st, Tucker Carlson gave Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell half an hour of air time so that Swalwell could lay out “evidence” of wrongdoing by Donald Trump. Swalwell has been alleging wrongdoing for months, and has constantly maintained that evidence exists which justifies the more than year-long Mueller witch hunt. Suffice to say that Swalwell was unable to put up, so now he ought to shut up. But, of course, he won’t. Swalwell suggested that spying on the Trump campaign would be justified, “if a judge signed off on it.” Swalwell then kept ducking the question of whether there was any judicial authority for the insertion of Justice Department informants into the campaign. Sadly, Swalwell is a lawyer, so perhaps he could be expected to know that the court isn’t involved in investigative decisions to introduce informants into an investigation. And, of course, judicial authority or “probable cause,” a term that Swalwell apparently is familiar with, is not the point. Whether investigators from one party should intrude into the campaign of the candidate of the other party for political purposes is the point. The Congressman is one of those lawyers who never actually practiced law. What was Swalwell’s “evidence”? It was absurd. In 2014 and 2015, the Russians hacked into the DNC server. He didn’t explain how he knows this, and since the DNC refused to let the FBI investigate, how could he know? In 2015, some Russian we never heard of talked to Michael Cohen about building a Trump Tower in Moscow. Nothing was built. The June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Donald Jr. and some woman with a Russian name. Don, Jr. says she promised information on Hillary and instead talked for 5 minutes about Russian adoptions, until they threw her out. The Russian woman has not contradicted Trump’s account and hasn’t even been interviewed by Mueller. But, according to Swalwell, they must be lying about the meeting. How does he know this. He doesn’t. Swalwell’s “smoking gun” was just as ludicrous. At a press conference, when asked about Hillary’s missing 31,000 emails, Trump joked, “Maybe the Russians can find them, and turn them over to the media. I hope they do.” Aha! Aha what? Aha nothing. When Tucker reasonably asked why anybody who was secretly dealing with Russia, would request Russian help on television, Swalwell explained that, well, “Trump is just dumb enough to do it” on television. Then Swalwell offered that, if not a completed crime, “It’s an attempt.” An attempt to do what? He didn’t say. When Tucker inquired why a President in league with the Russians would impose sanctions on and kill hundreds of Russians in Syria, Swalwell claimed that those acts were just a clever ruse by the very dumb Donald Trump. Then Swalwell played his trump card. Trump and company are lying about their involvement with Russians, and that, according Swalwell, constitutes “consciousness of guilt.” You get that? We accuse Trump without any evidence to back it up, and if he doesn’t confess, but actually asserts his innocence, it’s consciousness of guilt. Let me teach you some law, Congressman. Your actions can’t constitute consciousness of guilt if you haven’t committed a crime. Here’s how it works. You rob a bank. A witness identifies you as the robber. Then, before the trial, you threaten the witness to prevent him from testifying. That’s consciousness of guilt. The police are after you after the robbery. You flee to Bolivia. That’s consciousness of guilt. Saying, “I didn’t do it,” is not. But Swalwell did swerve into the truth without realizing it. In recent days, we have been treated to numerous examples of people exhibiting consciousness of their guilt. All of them are former Obama Administration officials. Devin Nunes and others in Congress have been trying to get the Justice Department to turn over documents concerning the 2016 election investigations for nearly two years. Congress created the Justice Department, and is responsible for oversight of the Department (somebody better be). Rod Rosenstein has been fighting the release of the documents tooth and nail. He begged Paul Ryan to withdraw the demands. When Congress threatened to subpoena the documents, or even to impeach Rosenstein, he announced that the Justice Department “will not be extorted” by Congress. What’s Rosenstein hiding? His guilt and that of many others who illegally infiltrated the Trump campaign, and who have been trying to remove him from office before the truth gets out. The President lately has ordered Justice to investigate whether the introduction of spies into his campaign was politically motivated. Real journalists have compiled real evidence of this, including the fact that the British professor who lured three Trump campaign officials was paid $1 million by our government. The President has been denounced. By whom? Well, by the former Obama officials, or should I say co-conspirators, who were complicit in starting the Trump campaign investigation, continuing it, even after Trump was elected, and unmasking the identities of Americans intercepted in the illegal surveillances. Former CIA Director and former communist John Brennan warned that an investigation of the investigators will destroy our democracy. Sally Yates called it an assault on the rule of law. James Clapper was apoplectic. How dare the President, who is, after all, the chief executive, and who has absolute authority to direct the Justice Department to investigate anything, actually exercise his authority while we’re trying to destroy him. He’ll do great damage. Not to the country, or its citizens, who are entitled to know what their government has done, but to the co-conspirators from Justice, the FBI and Barack Obama himself, who had to, at least, be aware of and approve of the intrusions into Trump’s campaign and his presidency, and more likely, ordered the actions. If the truth comes out, Brennan, Clapper, Yates, Rosenstein, Comey, McCabe, Strozk, Page, Loretta Lynch, Susan Rice, Barack Obama, and many others are at risk. Their frenzied attempts to keep the truth from being disclosed demonstrates their consciousness of guilt. Consider their ridiculous argument. By keeping the truth about their actions from being released we are protecting democracy. But if Trump orders all the documents released, and the public learns the truth, that not only will destroy America, but releasing the truth would be obstruction of justice. Who’s acting guilty here? I’ll give you a hint. It’s not Donald Trump.
The rabid gun control enthusiasts most often tell us that they are not in favor of confiscation of guns, but merely want “common sense” gun control measures enacted. Last week a dirty little truth slipped from the mouth of California Democrat Congressman Eric Swalwell, who proposed that the government spend $15 billion to buy back “assault weapons,” and to criminally prosecute those who do not voluntarily turn in their guns. Now, first of all, let’s set several things straight. I don’t belong to the NRA, I don’t own a gun, nor do I wish to own a gun, but those things said, I can read the Constitution. Swalwell’s proposal is wrong on so many levels, that I’m not sure where to start. First, there’s no real definition of an “assault firearm.” Here in New Jersey, our statute has a list of named weapons, but models come and go, and model numbers are changed, so what good is the list? Secondly, consider the Congressman’s proposal. In the name of public safety, he’s willing to spend $15 billion to buy back rifles from law-abiding citizens, but he is vehemently opposed to spending even $1 to secure California’s border with Mexico. Swalwell says his buy back proposal is patterned on the program used in Australia, which he hailed as a great success. Of course, as if on cue, days after Swalwell praised the Australian program, there was a mass shooting in Australia. Maybe the Australians didn’t offer enough for the guns. Then of course, Swalwell is going after rifles, when the vast majority of gun crimes are committed with handguns. No matter. Swalwell may have slipped up by admitting that the end game for gun control advocates is confiscation, but there is an even dirtier little secret beneath Swalwell’s dirty little secret. All we ever hear about is gun control’s “assault” on the Second Amendment, which is a real concern. The Second Amendment is the part of the Bill of Rights which makes gun ownership a right of constitutional dimension. The rabid gun control advocates certainly are jeopardizing our Second Amendment rights, but they can’t stop there. Eric Swalwell let that cat out of the bag. When I think of the gun control lobby, I think back to the last scene of that left-wing Michael Douglas movie, The American President. In that scene, Douglas vows to “get the guns, if he has to go door to door to do it.” Here’s a bulletin. If you’re going to “get the guns,” that’s the only way to do it. And that’s why, if you subscribe to the gun control position, you can’t stop with the Second Amendment. You also have to do away with other parts of the Bill of Rights. Let’s preface this with the reality that outlawing guns would represent just another law that a criminal will violate. Simply put, if Mr. Swalwell wants to take guns back, he should start by going door to door on the South side of Chicago. He might make it to 2 or 3 doors before he became a casualty. But I digress, because Swalwell isn’t interested in taking guns away from criminals. He’s looking to take guns from the law-abiding people who are trying to defend themselves from criminals. If a criminal has a gun, the police can get a warrant to legally enter a home to seize it. But, in order to take guns back from the law-abiding citizen, it will be necessary to cancel the Fourth Amendment. That way, Swalwell can just break down the doors in the middle of the night and ransack the house until he finds the rifles. Maybe the government will just pretend we’re all as dangerous as Paul Manafort. This is the most glaring flaw in the Left’s gun control position. The self-righteous Left, that spends so much of its time bashing law enforcement officers, calling them Fascists and racists, is in favor of a policy which can only end wholesale invasions of privacy. You really can’t blame the Leftists though. I mean, you have to keep in mind that liberals don’t think, they feel. If they get their way, let’s see how they feel about having their doors broken down. Anyhow, there goes the Fourth Amendment. And since the Fourth Amendment applies to the States by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment, there goes the Fourteenth Amendment too. But we can’t even stop there. In Swalwell’s brave new world, gun owners must voluntarily turn in their guns. In other words, they must admit that they are in violation of the law. Whoops, there goes the Fifth Amendment, which protects us from self-incrimination. Then there are those pesky States. Leftists either don’t understand or don’t care to admit that the States created the federal government, and not the other way around. The police powers, which include gun laws were supposed to be the province of the States, and not the federal government. That’s why there are some States, like Illinois, which has some of the most restrictive gun laws (while also having the most shootings), and some States which have more permissive gun laws. The Swalwell program will put an end to the State’s right to enact their own gun laws. So, we’ll also have to say goodbye to the Tenth Amendment, which is not a real sacrifice for the Left, since they barely recognize the Tenth Amendment anyway. We often hear about throwing the baby out with the bath water. The pro-gun control lobby can only succeed if the throw out the bulk of our Bill of Rights in their zeal to “take back the guns.” The bottom line is that, if they respect the Constitution, their plan won’t work, and if the destroy the Constitution, America will cease to exist. But it’s for our own good, right? I’ll pass.
The Justice Department began investigating Donald Trump before he even became the Republican nominee in 2016. There were rumors of collusion with Russians before election day. It mattered not to the Democrats whether the rumors were true, and after election day, it mattered even less, because blaming Russian collusion was convenient. Both Houses of Congress conducted exhaustive investigations into Trump collusion with Russia. No evidence was found, because no evidence exists. Then, double agent James Comey, the front man for the Deep State coup attempt, clumsily engineered the appointment of a Special Counsel to do yet another investigation. Remember the sequence. Trump fires Comey, based on a report from Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein then brings Robert Mueller to Trump as a nominee to replace Comey. The day after Trump refuses to give Mueller the job, Rosenstein appoints Mueller Special Counsel to investigate Trump. Now, a year into the phony Mueller witch hunt, there’s still no evidence of collusion, or of any other offense by Donald Trump. Yet, the Left is unable to move on. Although no investigator has been able to find any evidence of collusion, they still maintain that “there is ample evidence that Trump campaign people colluded with Russians.” They don’t elaborate. It’s not necessary, because the loony Leftists of the Resistance require no facts. They have concluded that Trump is guilty, and must be removed from office. If the economy has to suffer, and our foreign policy will be crippled, at a time when Trump is dealing with the North Koreans and Iranians, and oh yes, if we have to ignore the Constitution to do it, it’s alright with them. The Resistance fighters, suffering as they do from delusions of rectitude, don’t often get it right, but they are right about something here. Trump is guilty of crimes. Not any crime listed in any statute book, mind you, but he remains guilty of two high crimes against the Deep State; Donald Trump proved he was right about the electorate in 2016, and he proved the Establishment was wrong. There can be no more heinous crimes than these. In his march to the nomination, Donald Trump defeated 9 Governors, 5 Senators and 2 others. Trump was the Populist candidate. 2016 was the year of the Populist. Although I never saw Trump coming, I’d like to think I saw this trend coming. In FOF on September 4, 2015, I wrote, “I don’t know how this will end, but the Trump phenomenon proves what I have been saying for some time – 2016 presents a golden opportunity for the emergence of a conservative populist candidate. Such a candidate can be nominated, and can be elected.” The Republicans got this message, so they won. The Democrats did not, so they lost. The Democrats had a Populist candidate, Bernie Sanders. Populism is a political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against a privileged elite. Now, Senator Sanders is a Populist in the mold of Fidel Castro or Huey Long. The evil privileged elite for Communists such as Castro and Sanders is private business, and wealthy private citizens. Trump is a Populist in the mold of Ronald Reagan. “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” The privileged elite for Trump is the entrenched Establishment in the government, the Deep State. Both Parties had Establishment, or legacy candidates. The Republicans had Jeb Bush. In the open and fair Republican primary system, the well financed Jeb lasted about 10 minutes before he was roundly rejected by the voters. Republican primary voters were permitted to choose the Populist candidate. The Democrats legacy candidate was Hillary Clinton. Democrats were not permitted to choose their Populist candidate, because the Clintons had corrupted the primary process, much as they have corrupted everything else they’ve ever touched. Hillary manipulated the rules to her advantage. Super-delegates permitted her to win a State primary by a couple of points and build up a big lead in delegates. How did Hillary win the nomination? She cheated. She recently complained that she was disadvantaged because she was forced to admit that she was a capitalist, and not a socialist. Yes, the truth hurts. Hillary was the embodiment of the Establishment and the Deep State. The voters were in no mood for business as usual, but Hillary did not get the message. So what are Trump’s crimes? First, he won the election. He made enemies in both Parties because he is not from the Establishment. He cut the line. Even if he had been part of the Establishment, he ran, he won, and it wasn’t his turn. This sounds crazy, but it is a real thing. Years ago, a 72 year old freshman was elected to the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was asked what made him run for Congress at 72. A bit puzzled by the question, the man answered, “It was my turn.” Trump cut the line, committing a crime against the Deep State. Crime number 2 – Trump proved the “experts” wrong. Suffering as they do from delusions of rectitude, the experts cannot be wrong. In 2016, they not only got the election result wrong, they got almost everything wrong. The experts made the following predictions in 2016, all of them wrong: Trump will not be the nominee; Jeb Bush will be the nominee; Joe Biden will run; Hillary will win the Michigan Democratic primary in a landslide; Republicans will have to embrace comprehensive immigration reform (that’s a good one). As late as election day, November 8, 2016, the New York Times reported that Hillary had an 85% chance of winning. The website 538 gave her a 71% chance of being elected, and an 80% chance of winning Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The Huffington Post put Hillary’s chance of winning at 98%, on election day! Hours later, Donald Trump was elected. Because the experts can never be wrong, it stands to reason that Donald Trump must have done something wrong. He did, he became an enemy of the Deep State, and now he must be punished.
The late radio talk show host, Bob Grant, used to say “There’s nothing less liberal than a Liberal.” The recent flap over Kanye West has again proven that Grant was right. Now, anyone who knows me knows that I am not now, nor have I ever been a fan of rap music. Indeed, I have been known to note, from time to time, that it is no coincidence that rap rhymes with crap, but politics makes for strange bedfellows. Rapper Kanye West, it seems, is a fan of Donald Trump, and vice versa. West recently has come under fire for daring to be photographed in public wearing, dare I say it? Yes, he wore a Trump “Make America Great Again” hat, and actually admitted that … oh, this is so painful … that he actually likes Donald Trump. Now, it’s true that Mr. West is an African-American gentleman, and it’s fair to say that African-Americans ordinarily get cut some slack when they make controversial statements, however it seems we have happened upon the limits of such slack cutting. That limit is reached whenever an African-American expresses support for any Republican. It’s clearly nothing personal. Kanye was a hero when he said George W. Bush didn’t care about black people. But supporting Donald Trump is beyond the pale; it simply cannot be tolerated by our left-wing masters, and they have quite clearly driven home this point to Kanye West. West tweeted, “You don’t have to agree with [Trump] but the mob can’t make me not love him. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don’t agree with everything anyone does. That’s what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought.” On its face, one might argue that simply expressing the proposition that an individual should have the right to independent thought is not a radical idea. Indeed, one would think that it is such a fundamental tenet of our society that it need not be mentioned at all. But apparently, that is not the case in 21st Century America. Kanye was roundly denounced as a race traitor by numerous, alleged celebrities. (I say “alleged” because, as a 63 year old white guy, I never even heard of some of these people). Rosie O’Donnell, no less (and there is no less), called Kanye “a fucking moron,” and told him to “wake from the illusion.” Somebody named James Gunn tweeted, “It’s nice to see black people and white people coming together to be complete freaking lunatics.” Fellow rapper Snoop Dogg said of West’s wearing a Trump hat, “That mighty white of you Kanye.” Even David Crosby got into the act, which was surprising, because I thought he was dead. Over the past few months, Crosby has labelled Kanye an “idiot and poser who’s as dumb as a post” and “can’t write, sing or play, creates nothing and helps no one.” That would be strong medicine, but for the fact that it comes from a nearly brain-dead former dope fiend, who famously reported freebasing cocaine under his coat while flying first-class, who gave his drug dealer a job on his management team, and spent a year in a Texas prison for gun and drug possession, leading to multiple heart attacks, and a liver transplant. But I digress. A Los Angeles rapper named Daz Dillinger, has even called upon the Crips gang to “fuck Kanye up.” (I reiterate my “rap is crap” sentiment). I’m not sure if Daz was wearing a brown shirt when he said it, but such conduct was common in Nazi Germany. Sean Fennessey of something called, The Ringer tweeted, “No one wants to deal with this,” as though West had just praised the Holocaust. “In the days since he returned to Twitter . . . Kanye has clipped the barbed wire around his mind and begun espousing the empty phraseology of alt-right thinkers who rallied around President Trump.” Whoever Mr. Fennessey may be, he unwittingly swerved into the truth with his rant against Kanye. He accused Kanye of clipping “the barbed wire around his mind,” which allowed him to have unleft-wing thoughts. In the Progressive gulag, such conduct cannot be tolerated. Progressives, you see, are at their core, fascists. The Progressive fascists have declared Donald Trump to be persona non grata, and have launched “the Resistance,” which thereby requires all who are leftists, and more importantly, all persons from identity groups which the Left considers in thrall to the Left, to espouse no position, and to entertain no thought contrary to the Resistance. Trump must be opposed, at all costs, on any and every issue, and no African-American may dare to express any unapproved opinion. An expression of support for this President by an African-American is considered blatant race treason (a term that Joseph Goebbels would have embraced), and cannot be tolerated. It’s even been suggested that Kanye West must be insane. That’s a tactic right out of the Nazi and Stalinist playbooks too. This is not an isolated incident. It’s no coincidence that African-American Trump supporters Diamond and Lace had their Facebook page declared “unsafe for the community” by the propaganda ministers at Facebook. Sean Fennessey stated an unintentional truth, when he mentioned clipping the barbed wire. The fact is that the Left would prefer to have all of us behind barbed wire, to keep our impure thoughts from infecting the unsuspecting masses. I have a lot of respect for Kanye West, who is standing up for his right to have an independent mind, irrespective of skin pigmentation. I may have to reassess my aversion to rap music. Kanye does have a way with words. Consider one of his lyrics, “And what’s a black Beatle anyway, a fucking roach.
I guess that’s why they got me sitting in fucking coach.” A man that eloquent deserves our support.
FRANK ON FRIDAY – Spy vs. Spy
I’ve long suspected that the Justice Department would not be defying Congressional demands for information unless they were covering up unprecedented wrongdoing by government agencies. We now know Donald Trump and his campaign were the targets of a multi-agency investigation which included the use of government informants. And what’s worse, it appears that these informants (a/k/a “spies”) planted the information that the government used to start the investigation. The Democrats and the media deny the “spy” allegation as outrageous. Democrat Congressman Adam (Bull) Schiff, says there’s no evidence spies were planted in the Trump campaign. Based upon the Bull Schiff declaration, we can be confident that more than one spy was used. Remember how this scandal has unfolded. The Dems have denied everything, every step of the way. When Donald Trump said he was wiretapped in Trump Tower, the media was outraged. “It never happened,” they told us. Consider the carefully chosen words of Obama ‘s National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, as reported in FonF on April 14, 2017, “There was no collection or surveillance on Trump Tower or Trump individuals, and by that I mean directed by the White House or targeted at Trump individuals.” Remember those twisted words. But Trump was right. There were wiretaps. And now another part of the story was leaked to the New York Times, exposing more of the government coverup. Spies were used to invade Trump world. (Democrats prefer “confidential informants”) Having utilized confidential informants on hundreds of investigations myself, I can attest that what they do is spy.) These revelations would be comical were they not so dangerous. In the Spring of 2016, before Trump even was nominated, the CIA began an investigation of Trump’s campaign. When it was announced that Carter Page and George Papadopolous were to be Trump foreign policy advisors, CIA Director John Brennan sprang into action. The American Spectator has pieced together the sordid timeline. We were led to believe that the investigation began in May 2016, when Papadopolous told Australian envoy Alexander Downer Russia “had dirt” on Hillary Clinton, including her emails. Now we know the truth. In March 2016, the CIA arranged for one of their informants, British academic, Joseph Mifsud, to meet with Papadopolous. In April 2016, Mifsud fed Papadopolous information that Russia had dirt on Hillary and her emails. We know Mifsud was a CIA spy because Papadopolous pled guilty to lying about this meeting with Mifsud. There would be no prosecution unless Mifsud was working for the government. Coincidentally, Mifsud went missing last Fall. In May 2016, Downer sought out Papadopolous in a bar, and a drunken Papadopolous repeated to Downer what he learned from Mifsud . Downer, who has connections to the Clinton Foundation, dutifully reported his words to the U.S. government. Having entrapped Papadopolous into repeating information planted by the CIA, Brennan used the information he planted to launch the investigation into Trump world. Brennan shared the information with James Comey, and the FBI launched Operation Crossfire/Hurricane, which was controlled by “the Langley Working Group,” a government task force including CIA, FBI, Treasury, Justice, the DNI (James Clapper) and the NSA. Papadopolous later was introduced to a second CIA spy, Stefan Halper, who also passed on the “Russian dirt on Hillary” information to Papadopolous. The CIA also sent an informant to meet with Carter Page in London, perhaps the same professor Halper. The evidence that the CIA engineered the collusion narrative by itself planting the information, proved I was right last July, when I mused in FonF, “So try this one on for size. Trump is nominated, and Hillary buys the Trump dossier information from Fusion (GPS). Now that the Democrats have retained the services of Fusion, they send lawyer Veselnitskaya to meet with Donald, Jr., she tells Junior nothing of value, and then the fact of the meeting is leaked to create a false Trump/Russia collusion story, permitting the Democrats to wiretap the Trump campaign. In this scenario, Hillary’s henchpersons created the original fake Russian collusion news, gave it to the Obama Justice Dept., which used it to spy on the Republicans, and fueled the continual fake news being peddled for truth by the fake news media. That’s not so farfetched.” The Crossfire/Hurricane revelations demonstrate that the CIA had put the fix in long before the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting. John Brennan leaked the fact of the ongoing investigation of Trump to Harry Reid, and Reid made it public. In addition to Donald Trump, it seems that Brennan also hated Trump’s National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn. Brennan is so pro-Muslim that he refused to be sworn in as CIA Director on a Bible. Flynn was dedicated to undoing the Obama/Ben Rhodes/ Brennan/Clapper reset of the Islamic world. Brennan and Clapper decided to take Flynn out, and look what happened to Flynn. In the face of all the Democrat denials of spying on Trump, James Clapper admitted to spying, but not on Trump, on those rascally Russians. Spymaster Clapper comically declared that he doesn’t like the term “spying.” Clearly, Brennan and his Crossfire/Hurricane co-conspirators conducted an outrageous spy campaign on an opposition presidential candidate. If they really were doing it only to surveil Russians, Mueller wouldn’t be using the fruits of the spying to try to depose this President. The coup attempt on Donald Trump implicates the entirety of the leadership of the Obama Administration, up to and including Obama himself. How do we know this. Back to Susan Rice. On the day of Trump’s inauguration, Rice wrote a self-serving (and Obama serving) Memo to herself, documenting a January 5, 2017 meeting, “President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book’. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.” The Democrats like to compare the Russian collusion hoax to Watergate. Now we know they’re right. The Susan Rice, after the fact, attempt to exonerate Obama is reminiscent of Nixon’s March 21, 1973 Watergate tape. In it, John Dean says it would take $1 million to keep the defendants quiet. Nixon says, “we could get $1 million. But it would be wrong.” The Rice Memo is tantamount to an admission that Obama was part of the conspiracy. The fish does stink from the head.