'We Lied the Last 1,000 Times, Trust Us Now'
By Daniel Greenfield
DanielGreenfield.org
Remember the time the media justified the feds investigating, entrapping, eavesdropping and arresting Trump associates based on a bunch of nonsense assembled by a former British secret agent working for the Clinton campaign? Don’t worry, this time it’ll be different.
Or how about when a senile former FBI boss was
dragged out of retirement to serve as the public
face of a team of Democrat prosecutors who ran an
“independent” investigation of Trump for two years
that turned up absolutely nothing? Probably not this
time.
This time there are nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago
which actually turned out to be a pardon agreement,
expired passports and Melania’s unmentionables. Who
could have seen that coming after this long history
of entirely trustworthy political hit jobs disguised
as investigations?
Democrats, their media and their media’s contracted
experts tell us we should trust the DOJ, the FBI and
the same folks who have been pulling some variation
of this scam for the last six years to know what
they’re doing when they set out with a search
warrant empowering them to grab every single box at
Mar-a-Lago, every administration record and anything
else they want.
In America, the public is supposed to distrust the
government and the government is supposed to trust
the people. In D.C., the government doesn’t trust
the public, but tells the public to trust the
government. And who wouldn’t trust an investigation
based on a secret affidavit that can’t be released
because then the public might find out it’s as legit
as Steele and Mueller?
If you can’t trust hacks pulling a political hit job
before an election, whom can you trust?
Peter Strzok, the former FBI agent who was fired for
attacking Trump even while he was supposed to be
investigating him, told MSNBC that, "the American
public should trust what the FBI is doing." If you
can’t trust a disgraced former FBI agent obsessed
with destroying Trump to assure you that his
compadres are running an honest investigation, whom
can you trust?
Last year, Strzok also insisted that,
"there was never an FBI investigation of the Trump
campaign". A year of investigations, informants,
FISA warrants never happened. Much like Strzok’s
affair with a colleague, his political biases, and
his post-disgrace career as a professor at
Georgetown University teaching counterintelligence
theory also never happened.
Not only did we lie to you a thousand times over,
but we’re still lying to you right now.
Trust us.
The media, which is trusted by 11% of
Americans, tells them that they ought to have faith
that Joe Biden, whom even 75% of Democrats don’t
want to see in office anymore, and his political
appointee, AG Merrick Garland, who got the job as a
consolation prize for not getting a SCOTUS seat,
probably know what they’re doing by going after a
potential 2024 opponent.
They do. What they’re doing has nothing to do with
the words coming out of their lying mouths.
But we have to focus on what really matters.
Rep. Adam Schiff wants to replace Pelosi. A whole
bunch of retired Obama appointees who ran the CIA,
FBI, NSA and some other three-letter words into the
ground need CNN contracts. The media has lost
millions of readers and billions of dollars. It’s
shedding jobs faster than Chinese mask makers and
CNN’s entire viewing audience can fit in the back
room of a 7-11.
Only Trump can save them now. Or at least another
Trump investigation.
We’ve all been through this. The Trump
investigations are the Marvel movie franchise of
politics. They’ve been around forever and after all
that time and energy, they never go anywhere. The
purpose of the investigation is the investigation.
The changing charges are a pretext for perpetuating
a political witch hunt. The promises of a takedown
flicker out like the old Mueller votive candles. And
yet the true believers are still convinced that this
time it’ll be different.
Trust us. That message isn’t there for Republicans
who haven’t trusted the media since 1972. It’s not
there for the independents who never trusted the
media. It’s there for the Democrats who still
believe what CNN tells them. And they’re holding on
for the endgame that never comes.
Children born when the Democrats first began
investigating Trump on various charges that have all
since fallen apart are now first graders. An entire
generation was born and is now being groomed by woke
preschool teachers to think that they’re the
opposite of whatever sex they were born while the
Steele dossier and the Mueller investigation added
up to nothing.
They will at this rate grow up, go to worthless
colleges that will saddle them with seven-figure
debts, get jobs installing solar panels or teaching
equity to squirrels, and grow old while the
Democrats conduct another investigation and another
FBI raid on Trump’s tomb.
There’s never going to be a trial because those
require evidence. Court cases have much higher
standards than impeachment proceedings where Jamie
Raskin can pound the pulpit, wave his arms and know
that it doesn’t matter because the vote will split
down party lines.
Unlike his associates who lack the resources to
spend years fighting a federal investigation, and
plead out to end the torture, Trump has the money
and the lawyers to play the game. And that’s why
there can’t be an actual trial. There will only be
the perpetual investigation. Interlocking teams of
Democrats at the federal and state levels will
generate and juggle investigations.
The only thing any of those investigations will do
is generate more investigations.
Like generals still refighting the Vietnam War,
Democrats have tried to ‘Nixon’ every single
Republican president and haven’t brought one single
one down since 1974. The investigations of Reagan,
two Bushes, and Trump wasted enough money to clone
Biden some real hair. Impeachment resolutions have
been introduced against every single Republican
president since. Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, who spent
almost 40 years in Congress, launched impeachment
proceedings against Reagan and Bush. If he were
still around, he’d be thrilled.
The difference is that the investigations are now
permanent. They begin before a candidate even runs,
follow him through his time in office, and hound him
after he leaves. Trump was the first target of the
permanent investigation. He won’t be the last. The
permanent investigation is government opposition
research. It interlocks directly with political
campaigns, whether those of Hillary or Biden, and
feeds material back and forth between government
investigators and campaign hacks. It takes out their
allies and aides to weaken them.
This isn’t a criminal case. It can be a
counterintelligence investigation, a fishing
expedition for process crimes and procedural
violations that never finds a justifiable original
crime. The one thing it can’t produce is an original
crime that justifies the original investigation.
That’s also why the investigation has to be
permanent. If it were to ever end, there would have
to be a reckoning. An endless investigation however
always holds out the promise that one day there will
be something. The fraudulence of the endless
Trumpgate is why it can never end.
“Trust us. This time it will be different. It can’t
all have been a bunch of lies. Right?”