Trump won ‘so he musta cheated’ – right?

Some true believers in left-wing/socialist political theory possibly really do believe that President Trump committed some illegal act during the 2016 presidential election.

Normal people believe he just ran a smart campaign and won the election.

President Trump defeated the left’s supposed shoo-in for the office – so he must have cheated, according to left-wing theory.

Stanford University professor and columnist Victor Davis Hanson calls the Mueller investigation into the supposed Trump campaign collusion “left-wing pious hypocrisy.”

The problem with the Mueller investigation, and with former Washington Swamp officials such as John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey and Andrew McCabe, is pious hypocrisy. Those who have lectured America on Trump’s unproven crimes have written books and appeared on TV to publicize their own superior virtue.

Yet they themselves have engaged in all sorts of unethical and illegal behavior, Hanson asserts.

Fired FBI Director James Comey wrote a memoir, “A Higher Loyalty,” but he may well have misled the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court and possibly lied under oath to a House committee, Hanson wrote.

Comey also leaked confidential and classified government memos.

Another former FBI director, Andrew McCabe, also wrote a memoir, ‘The Threat,” arguing that FBI kingpins (such as himself) protected America from dangers, such as President Trump.

Yet McCabe is under a criminal referral for lying to federal investigators, Hanson reports.

“His sworn congressional testimony cannot be reconciled with Comey’s, Hanson wrote. McCabe also likely misled the FISA court. And he apparently contemplated staging a near-coup to remove an elected president through the deliberate misuse of the 25th Amendment.

Former CIA Director John Brennan is a paid analyst for MSNBC who often railed about Trump’s “treason” and predicted his indictment, Hanson points out. Yet Brennan himself has lied under oath to Congress on two occasions. He likely misled Congress about his role in trafficking in the Steele dossiers. And Brennan’s CIA may well have helped the FBI use informants abroad to entrap Trump campaign aides in efforts to find dirt on Trump.

James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence, is a CNN analyst who predicted indictment for the supposedly treasonous President Trump.

Clapper, too, has lied to Congress under oath. He once denied and then admitted to leaking confidential documents.

Maybe – just maybe – the accusers are using the old ruse of blaming others for their own sins.

Mueller obviously knew early on in his investigation there was no collusion, the supposed reason for the probe, but continued right on, possibly because it was a good-paying gig.

Besides, it prompted some rambunctious “tweets” from the president, who obviously did not like the efforts to undermine him.

Hanson cites three key points regarding the fatuousness of the Mueller witch hunt:

One: there was never a crime of collusion. It’s nearly impossible to prove the obstruction of nothing.

Two: Trump cooperated with the investigation, waiving executive privilege and turning over more than one million pages of administrative documents. He allowed then-White House counsel Don McGahn to submit to over 30 hours of questioning by Mueller’s lawyers.

Three: Trump’s antagonism is understandable. Anyone who is targeted by a massive investigation who knows he is innocent of an alleged crime is bound to become frustrated over a seemingly endless inquisition.

Hanson also makes this telling point:

Some of the collusion narrative Mueller examined was based on FBI informants’ unverified stories. Yet strangely, the Mueller team did not investigate whether it was legal in the first place for the FBI, possibly with CIA help, to use informants to spy on a presidential campaign.

The entire episode has earmarks of a cabal of government insiders attempting to cover their backsides.

If Hillary Clinton had been elected they would have been in the clear of any criminal or unethical actions.

The election of President Trump created terror in the ranks.

The left’s course of action at this point is to continue the same narrative aided by an unethical national media and hope they can defeat President Trump in 2020 by hook or by crook.

This whole episode reminds us of the book loaned to us by Dr. James Gerber, “I Chose Freedom,” an account of life in the old Soviet Union, by Victor Kravchenko, a former Soviet bigwig who, sickened by what he observed first-hand, defected and stayed in America when assigned on a government mission to the U.S.

The Russian people threw off czarist rule in the hope of gaining freedom.

Instead, the communists gained power using the mantra of making everyone equal.

The communist government was much worse than what the people had suffered under previously.

Kravchenko reported that during World War II when Russia teamed up with the U.S. to defeat Nazi Germany, there were 20 million political prisoners in Russia –  those who had broken the rules by not toeing the communist party line. These people comprised practically the entire workforce.

He said the prisoners were fed so little they often died while working.

He reported others could find little food and that the stores maintained for the government elite were stocked primarily with lend-lease items provided by America.

Before Germany attacked Russia Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and German dictator Adolf Hitler had signed a friendship pact.

Germany broke the agreement and Russia had to ally with the U.S., which it had previously denigrated as the capitalistic Satan, to survive.

Kravchenko wrote that if the Germans had shown the least humanity to the Russians, the Russian people likely would have joined them to overthrow the communist government.

Evil is often cloaked with piety and presumed good intentions.

It is important to teach history accurately so that we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past.

Hanson concludes his column regarding the Mueller investigation:

“The only mystery left is whether our elite investigators actually believe their own delusions. Or were they constantly broadcasting their virtue as a preventive defense against growing evidence of their own moral lapses?”