It was inevitable. After the Democrats failed to evict Donald Trump from office through the Mueller investigation and then the ridiculous impeachment over the Zelensky telephone call, they would have to try something else to ruin him before the November election. Rush Limbaugh was the first to predict that they’d go back to the “Russia collusion” narrative, and they have.
It began with a briefing by then-acting Director of National Intelligence Joe Maguire and one of his aides to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). The briefing, given to both Democrats and Republicans, reportedly informed them that the Russians are interfering in the 2020 election to help President Trump get reelected. In reaction, Trump gave Maguire hell and then removed him, naming one of Trump’s staunchest supporters — U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell — to serve as acting director of national intelligence while remaining in his ambassadorial post.
Grenell is a bad choice for DNI for reasons we’ll get to in a minute. The important question is what intelligence information and analysis justified this politically explosive and possibly destabilizing briefing.
When some of the HPSCI members pressed the briefers for evidence to support the claim, there was none to be had. National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said he has not been informed of any intelligence that justified the claim.
Stop there for a moment. O’Brien and the HPSCI members are entitled to know what support there is for such a politically destabilizing allegation. If there were no supporting facts, what justified the briefing?
How gullible and, frankly, stupid did the intel crew have to be to represent the supposed plot to interfere as fact? Putin is a lot of things, but dumb isn’t one of them. He’d love to have Bernie or Liz or Mike or any of the fungible Dem candidates replace Trump. Putin would, if anything, be moving heaven and earth — and tons of disinformation — to make that happen. To say that helping Trump isn’t in Putin’s interests is to demonstrate a powerful command of the obvious.
The list of Democrats seeking to oppose Trump makes it impossible to believe that the Russians would like to help Trump.
First is socialist Bernie Sanders (who in 1972 said he didn’t object to being called a communist), who would wreck both our military and our economy.
The rest — Mike Bloomberg, Liz Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, and Amy Klobuchar — agree with everything Bernie proposes with minor modifications. Foreign policy, military matters, and national security are all issues to which these people bring beliefs contrary to our national security. Any of them would devastate our national security and wreck our booming economy.
Various other news reports are bumping around to the effect that Maguire’s staffer, Shelby Pierson, exaggerated the claim of Russian interference to benefit Trump. That doesn’t matter. As acting DNI, Maguire had the responsibility to only present facts and credible analysis, not guesswork and exaggerations.
Make no mistake about this. The HPSCI briefing alleging Russia intends to interfere in the 2020 election in Trump’s behalf is an attempt to prevent Trump’s reelection, discredit the entire election, and start another hoax impeachment against Trump. It is precisely what Putin would want our intelligence agencies to do.
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