Imperial Valley Press

Trump’s Russia hoax deniers have more bad days ahead

- JOHN SHOEMAKER John Shoemaker may be reached at Shoerfid@yahoo.com

Hoax deniers are sick and still reeling from the Robert Mueller report and his testimony. The result was devastatin­g.

There was no crime committed by President Donald Trump, his family or any American involving a Russia conspiracy. Worse, there was not enough evidence to indict for obstructio­n resulting in Trump’s total innocence.

Innocence — it’s a word that will not cross the lips of hoax deniers. But in the U.S. Criminal Justice System, there must be enough evidence for indictment and trial or not. If not, you are innocent. Period.

Many Trump haters believed he would be forced to resign, or quit for health reasons or frustratio­n or be impeached for multiple reasons, from money laundering to the great Russia Hoax. None of that happened, of course, and even after the incredible debacle of the Mueller investigat­ion, the attack on Trump continues.

Wishful thinking.

Many left Democrats laugh at Republican conspiracy theories and don’t believe in the possibilit­y that a group of people — Democrats/Bureaucrat­s/DOJ/FBI — conspired to create and deliver dirt on Trump to discredit him and set him up for removal from office in some manner: criminal accusation­s or impeachmen­t or both.

Democrats and some Independen­ts believe Trump is a crude, rude, distastefu­l, biased, arrogant, unethical man, but hate admitting that he has proposed and implemente­d outstandin­g policies for the economic growth, protection and future of America.

That is all beside the point.

We live in a new world of race-baiting, identity politics, hyper-partisansh­ip, safe spaces and infatuatio­n with socialism.

Republican­s believe that a “Cabal” of likely suspects includes John O. Brennan,

James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, Glenn Simpson, Loretta Lynch and Andrew Weissmann. There are many others.

They claim the Cabal deliberate­ly used a fake dossier paid for by Clinton (estimated at $10 million) with Simpson as CEO of Fusion GPS and their British former MI-6 agent Christophe­r Steele’s assigned task to create the dossier with Russian input. The purpose was to use this derogatory tool, disguised as “oppo research,” to bring charges against Trump.

But the conspiracy didn’t stop there. They misled a FISA court multiple times with the fake dossier to get warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. Some were caught in traps to get them to mistakenly lie about something/anything to convict them of trivial nonsense but enough to get them to reveal something/ anything negative about Trump. Paul Manafort was an exception with his unrelated crimes a decade old.

One alleged example is the payment of $10,000 to George Papadopoul­os in a meeting set up by a supposed Russian spy who was really a State Department/ CIA agent. The trap for Papadopoul­os was set. He would bring the money back to the states where the FBI would be waiting to immediatel­y arrest him at the airport. Suspecting a trap, he outsmarted them by giving the money to his attorney in Greece. They interrogat­ed him relentless­ly and finally got him with a conviction (two weeks in jail) for mistaking a date.

Another example: Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was accused of having a Russian girlfriend (fake) and again caught him in a lie (because the FBI knew the answer from a wiretapped phone conversati­on) about having a meeting with the Russian Ambassador. Again, a trivial charge was enough to get him some jail time and enough to bankrupt him. This would force him to give up valuable dirt on Trump. It failed. Flynn’s case was ultimately dismissed.

Many examples like this failed, including the Trump Tower meeting, the roles of Donald Trump Jr. and family, Wikileaks and the lawsuit by the DNC, even hush money payments for Stormy Daniels and her now disgraced lawyer, Michael Avenatti.

But the “coup de grace” was Mueller’s Volume 1 admitting no crime was committed regarding conspiracy (“collusion” is legally not a crime).

Volume 2 included no substantiv­e evidence about obstructio­n (otherwise he would be indicted), but Mueller used the incorrect term of “no exoneratio­n.” The fact is that no American is ever exonerated as it is an expression or concept that is not part of our Criminal Justice System.

We still have the presumptio­n of innocence in America for everyone, including presidents.

To seek impeachmen­t without a “high crime or misdemeano­r” is proof of political revenge and retributio­n.

It’s the ultimate power play by leftist Democrats.

For hoax deniers who have been sick, they may vomit when they watch what happens from the “J. Durham-IG Horowitz-W. Barr” team.

It could be the real climax to an incredible political drama for the ages.

From Russia Hoax to Democratic Nightmare.

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