Trump fires Comey: spin doctors go wild in the swamp
By Jon Rappoport
In the political swamp that is Washington, and in the press
swamp, motor boats began speeding every which way in the wake of Trump's
decision to fire FBI Director Comey.
People in the boats are holding up signs to explain the reason for the firing.
The first sign was: COMEY LIED. Comey lied the other day. He
lied in testimony before Congress, when he said Huma Abedin, Hillary
Clinton's long-time aide, had sent "hundreds and thousands" of emails to
her husband, Anthony Weiner, some of which contained classified
information. The truth was, the FBI says, contradicting Comey, a great
many of those emails were merely "backed up" on Weiner's laptop via
"backup devices." Huh? Does that actually mean something? Weiner
obtained those emails out of the sky, delivered by a chariot, and not
from Huma? Weiner's laptop was serving as a storage device, a personal
little cloud? Somebody not connected to the Hillary campaign was using
the social-medias porn star as a backup for classified data? Who would
that be? Putin? Putin hacked the Hillary/DNC emails, and sent them to
both WikiLeaks and Anthony Weiner? "Hi Anthony. Vlad here. Keep these
thousands of emails for posterity."
The next motor boat running through the swamp featured a sign
that said: COMEY SCREWED UP THE HILLARY INVESTIGATION. This sign can be
interpreted several ways, depending on who is in the boat. One, Comey
didn't press the investigation into Hillary's personal email server far
enough last summer and fall. He stalled it. He didn't ask for an
indictment. That's why Trump fired him yesterday. Trump didn't fire
Comey right after he was elected president, when it would have been a
simple bye bye. No, Trump waited five months and then lowered the boom.
Sure.
The other meaning of COMEY SCREWED UP THE HILLARY
INVESTIGATION is: Comey improperly told the world (last summer) that the
FBI was investigating Hillary. His announcement influenced the
election. The FBI is supposed to keep absolutely quiet about ongoing
investigations. Comey didn't. Then he publicly closed the book on the
investigation, opened it again, and closed it again. That's why Trump
just fired him. Again, Trump waited five months after the election and
then got rid of Comey. And of course, Trump was morally outraged that
Comey exposed Hillary in the first place, when Comey should have
remained silent. Sure. That makes a lot of sense.
The next motor boat speeding across the swamp held up a big
sign that said, TRUMP FIRED COMEY TO STOP THE FBI FROM INVESTIGATING THE
TRUMP-RUSSIA CONNECTION. You see, for five months, Trump happily left
Comey in place, knowing Comey was investigating him, Trump, and
yesterday Trump had enough of that, so he fired the FBI director. Right.
The next motor boat in the swamp held up a sign that said,
THIS IS NIXON ALL OVER AGAIN, THIS IS TRUMP'S WATERGATE. The sign refers
to the last sign, but ups the ante. And there is another sign that
says, in the same vein, NOW WE CAN IMPEACH TRUMP. And another one that
says, APPOINT AN INDEPENDENT COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE THE TRUMP-RUSSIA
CONNECTION.
I'm waiting for Bob Woodward of Watergate fame to step in and
say, "It's all right, folks, I'm on the case. I'll handle it. I was
just eating lunch and sipping a fine wine in my underground parking
garage when a shadowy figure stepped out of the gloom and whispered, 'My
throat is deep, and I'll spoon-feed you secrets for the next year, but
you'll have to dig up the facts. Everybody is involved in the cover-up.
Comey, Sessions, Pence, Bannon, Conway, Ivanka, Putin, Gorbachev,
Yeltsin, Stalin."
So why did Trump fire Comey yesterday?
I don't know, but the short answer might be: Comey's boss,
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, told Trump to get rid of Comey. Sessions
made the call.
Sessions now has a specific plan to make the FBI over in the
image he prefers. Sessions wants to shape the Bureau according to his
agendas. Sessions has looked into the Bureau and he now knows which
people he wants to fire. He wants to get rid of the Obama crowd. He
wants loyalists. He doesn't want a Dept. of Justice that is going in one
direction, while the FBI is going in another. Sessions wants a
predictable FBI. His own.
Joel Pollak, writing at Breitbart, has a simpler answer to the question, why fire Comey now? Pollak writes:
"But why fire Comey now? The answer is simple. The day
before, President Barack Obama's former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper repeated, under oath, what he told NBC News'
Chuck Todd on Meet the Press on March 5 - that he had seen
no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian
government. That gave the Trump administration the breathing room
to dismiss Comey - which it simply did not have before."
In other words, now Trump can't be accused of firing Comey to
stop "the truth" emerging about a Trump-Russia collusion, because there
isn't any collusion.
Theoretically, that might be the case---but the spin machine
doesn't care about the truth or who is right and who is wrong. The
machine keeps running. Those motor boats keep moving across the swamp.
Signs come out. People yell and scream.
Chuck Schumer may soon compare Trump to Benedict Arnold.
For the past 65 years, the CIA has been infiltrating media
and promoting many messages. In certain cases, an op involves promoting
CONFLICTING messages, because the intent is sowing discord, chaos, and
division. In this instance (Comey/Trump), it's a walk in the park (or a
ride in the swamp). All sorts of people on both sides already have steam
coming out of their ears, without any nudging or provocation.
A child could run this spin counter-spin op.
And we're just getting started.
No comments:
Post a Comment