Saturday, October 26, 2019

GOP Has a Choice: Fight Anti-Trump Coup Effort or Surrender . . .

By A Friend
Sat, Oct 26, 2019 5:32 p.m.
"GOP Has a Choice: Fight Anti-Trump Coup Effort or Surrender . . ."

[Another friend] sent an article my way with this assessment: "a good review of the lethal absurdity we've been subject to since before Trump's inauguration."  That seems right.  I'm taking the liberty of sharing it:

"GOP Has A Choice: Fight Anti-Trump Coup Effort Or Surrender Government To Democrats," by Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist:
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/25/gop-has-a-choice-fight-anti-trump-coup-effort-or-surrender-government-to-democrats/

But reality may be still uglier.  Independent reporter Lee Smith has has been a guest of Fox's prime time hosts on several occasions.  Threats of lawsuits have tried to block publication of his new book, "The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S." But it's set for release Tuesday.

In the book Smith argues that General Flynn --- Trump's intended National Security Adviser until a set-up interview with the FBI --- was the target of a "very, very large operation" BEFORE Trump was inaugurated.  Why?

Flynn planned to "get the entire senior intelligence service to hand in their resignations. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean he was going to fire everyone. What it means, though, is he wanted everyone to prove what they were doing, that they were doing their jobs, they were doing good for the country, they weren't wasting money, they weren't wasting time, and they weren't running operations like the one they ran against General Flynn."

"The intelligence community, at that point . . . rose nearly as one and they realized that General Flynn was an existential threat. He was actually going to start looking at their budgets and start looking at what they did. They had to find a way to fight him."

Discoveries of Flynn's new defense attorney, Sydney Powell, a former federal prosecutor, also figure in the story. Smith believes the Ukraine impeachment push is  similar but also different from the Russia collusion hoax. "The defensive purpose of this [Ukraine] is much more significant.  I really believe that what we're seeing here is a lot of panic.  Worry about what Barr and Durham are finding":  

There is a 26-minute audio of Lee Smith talking with a Breitbart editor at the BB link:

"Lee Smith: Deep State Used 'Criminal Conspiracy' to Stop Flynn's Audit of Intelligence Agencies," BREITBART, Oct 2019:

An oddity:  Roseanne is closely following the Flynn/Sydney Powell situation: 38s video:


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