Tuesday, June 4, 2019

It's Public Corruption Stupid!

Post 29/29 - February 21, 2018

 This past Friday (2/16/18), a grand jury, at the request of Special Counsel Robert Meuller, indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for meddling in the past presidential election through the use of social media.Those indictments appears to be nothing more than a political statement and publicity stunt that's meant to distract attention from the many scandals now plaguing the FBI and DOJ. There is a very slim chance that the Russians will be brought to trial on any of the charges in the indictments because it is unlikely they will be extradited to this country. Yet, many members of Congress and the media were pleased to learn about the indictments. It's unbelievable that many of them continue to express outrage at Russia's meddling into our election when all of the evidence presented so far shows that it had little to no impact on the outcome of the election. Their support of Meuller's investigation is based on the belief that we were attacked by the Russians when they interfered in our election. There is also support by some because it puts Trump in the hot seat. As for me, I'm highly suspicious about the Meuller investigation. It was started when fired FBI director James Comey leaked a memo to the media suggesting that Trump tried to shut down the investigation into fired NSA director Michael Flynn. Comey even admits that he leaked the memo in order that a special counsel would be appointed. Had Comey not been fired, there would be no special counsel investigation into possible Trump-Russia collusion. Because the investigation appears to be in retaliation for the Comey firing, it does not excite me at all, even though I believe that Comey should not have been fired. The big question for me is why was there no concern from politicians and the media about Trump colluding with the Russians prior to him firing Comey?

To me, it has always been dubious that Russia's meddling posed such a great threat to our democracy. I wrote a post on July 31, 2017 and another one on August 26, 2017 explaining my position that this scandal might be overblown and that there were other threats to our democracy greater than Russia's interference in our past presidential election. Some of you might remember the slogan from one of former president Bill Clinton's campaigns stating "t's the economy stupid." So if you ask me what is a greater threat to our democracy than the Russian interference in our past election, "It's public corruption stupid."

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