{"id":744,"date":"2019-09-20T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=744"},"modified":"2019-09-20T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T17:01:17","slug":"whistlestop-trumps-crimes-may-have-caught-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Whistlestop – Trump\u2019s crimes may have caught up"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 19th<\/sup> 2019<\/i><\/p>\n

That big mushroom cloud over Washington, DC? Oh, that\u2019s just the Whistleblower scandal. A still unidentified person with close access to the President overheard him making promises that were described as \u201cdisturbing and alarming\u201d to parties on the phone unnamed but include a short list that includes Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and the President of the Ukraine. The informant went to the Inspector-General, who found the allegations \u201ccredible and troubling enough to be considered a matter of urgent concern.\u201d That finding mandated that within seven days, the Director of National Intelligence must turn the matter over to the intelligence committees of Congress. There is no latitude in the matter; the law is very specific about this. Further, under whistle blower laws, no other agency of government other than the DNI and Congress have any say on the matter, parties who may be the subjects of the whistleblower\u2019s report may not discuss or take any action in the proceedings, and any attempt at retaliation against the whistleblower is a felony.<\/p>\n

Only there is no Director of National Intelligence. Dan Coats quit about two months ago, and Trump promptly tried to circumvent the seniority of the organization by appointing a hack Congressman with no intelligence experience and whose only qualification seemed to be that he was an avid and staunch supporter of Trump. He was so unqualified even the Republicans in Congress couldn\u2019t take it, and he had to withdraw from his nomination. Sue Gordon, a careerist in the organization and the second-in-command, became acting DNI. But several days after that, Dan Coats did something very peculiar; he approached his former number two and close professional associate at a meeting and told her she had to resign immediately. Chances are he didn\u2019t even have to explain why he would make such a request so unimaginable under any other circumstance: their duties stood to cross paths with the vicious and corrupt Donald Trump, and his equally vicious and corrupt slug of an Attorney-General, Bob Barr. Trump then named some navy officer, a Joseph Maguire, to be acting DNI. Maguire has no qualifications, but due to either cowardice or corruption\u2014or both\u2014is steadfastly loyal to the criminal Trump.<\/p>\n

And surprise surprise: Maguire is refusing to hand over the report to Congress, making the Kafkaesque argument that the whistleblower rules don\u2019t pertain because the whistleblower isn\u2019t actually a whistleblower. Bob Barr has inserted his flabby and spotted carcass into the struggle, quite illegally, making the same argument.<\/p>\n

But the scandal itself continues to mushroom. It wasn\u2019t a single incident, although the only one we know anything at all about is a claim that Trump promised the president of Ukraine unspecified favors if he would dig up dirt on the doings of Joe Biden\u2019s son, Hunter.<\/p>\n

That rings true. Last May it came out that Guiliani was planning to go to the Ukraine to make the same offer. I wrote about it at the time: \u201cGiuliani planned to go to the Ukraine in hopes the present Ukraine government could dig up some dirt on Joe Biden. It\u2019s illegal to solicit campaign interference from a foreign government, but Giuliani probably looked at Trump and figured that if the President does it, it must be legal, and blabbed his intentions to the press.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guiliani went on to describe Barr as \u201cindependent, brilliant and honest,\u201d a description so outlandishly false that I figured he had to be lying about a lot else besides.<\/p>\n

At the time, I wrote of Guiliani, \u201cafter about five minutes of speaking, Giuliani\u2019s 32 kilobits of RAM is depleted, his buffer is empty, and the inadvertent truths start tumbling out. His eyes go blank, he starts sweating profusely, and Fauxnews suddenly has to go to commercial.\u201d<\/i> The only thing I got wrong there is that Guiliani\u2019s meltdown occurred on CNN, rather than Faux. Chris Cuomo grilled the hapless halfwit of 9\/11 thusly:<\/p>\n

After CNN host Chris Cuomo questioned whether Giuliani had asked Ukraine to investigate Biden, Giuliani said, “No, actually I didn’t. I asked the Ukraine to investigate the allegations that there was interference in the election of 2016 by the Ukrainians for the benefit of Hillary Clinton.”<\/i><\/p>\n

“You never asked anything about Hunter Biden? You never asked anything about Joe Biden?” Cuomo followed up.<\/i><\/p>\n

“The only thing I asked about Joe Biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that Lutsenko … dismissed the case against AntAC,” Giuliani said, referring to former Ukrainian prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko and the Ukrainian-based Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).<\/i><\/p>\n

“So you did ask Ukraine to look into Joe Biden,” Cuomo said.<\/i><\/p>\n

“Of course I did,” Giuliani replied.<\/i><\/p>\n

“You just said you didn’t,” Cuomo responded.<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>If it was anyone other than Guiliani, I would have cringed in sympathetic embarrassment. But Rudy is about as likable as a Plantar wart, so to hell with him.<\/p>\n

Trump tried to defend himself by Tweet, and didn\u2019t do much better. \u201c…anytime I speak on the phone to a foreign leader, I understand that there may be many people listening from various U.S. agencies, not to mention those from the other country itself. No problem! \u2026Knowing all of this, is anybody dumb enough to believe that I would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially \u201cheavily populated\u201d call. I would only do what is right anyway, and only do good for the USA!\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

So let\u2019s see: Donald is arguing that he would only be appropriate and loyal because people were listening, and if he wasn\u2019t appropriate or loyal, they might file a report. He\u2019s saying this in response to a report that he said something inappropriate and disloyal on the phone to foreign leaders on multiple occasions. I see, Mister President. Do go on.<\/p>\n

The Ukraine is the only one we know anything about, mostly because of Rabid Rudy. But phone calls in that time frame did include Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, two of Donald\u2019s favorite dictators.<\/p>\n

The plot thickens, nay, sets.<\/p>\n

Trump must be in a full-blown panic right now. This is the smoking gun, the scandal that will take him down, and we\u2019re just learning about it; it\u2019s been brewing since at least last spring, when Rudy thought enlisting foreign aid to smear a opposing candidate in the election was a good idea.<\/p>\n

This is going to be massive. It may end Trump and his criminal regime. Pay attention, now.<\/p>\n

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